Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Favorite films

  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
  • Sully

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  • Avatar: Fire and Ash

  • Ella McCay

  • Honey Don't!

  • The Living Daylights

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Avatar: Fire and Ash
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We went back to Pandora and we all fell in love with a very special lady. She’s a bit prickly. A bit unconventional. But boy, is she something! Join us as we chat Avatar: Fire and Ash, aka VARANG: THE AWAKENING, the third installment in Big Jim’s Sully family saga. Yes, this movie’s a bit messier than the previous ones. Yes, it repeats many of the same beats as The Way of Water. No, we do not care. We are…

Ella McCay
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It’s pretty hard being the governor of an unnamed state when you’re a 34-year-old woman with a husband who’s the heir to a local pizza empire and you’ve got a brother who has agoraphobia and your sleazy dad keeps leaving you weird voicemails and Julie Kavner is narrating your entire life story! Wooo, that was a lot. James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay is A LOT. Richard Lawson joins us to chat about this very strange movie that feels like a…

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Jurassic Park
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God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg makes 1993’s Jurassic Park and changes movie history. The Big Picture’s Sean Fennessey joins us to talk about this totemic blockbuster, and we’re spending three hours talking about the bad boys of the Jurassic era (velociraptors), the bad boys of ILM (Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams and Mark Dippe), and the bad boy of movie scientists (Dr. Ian Malcolm).

Note: this episode was recorded last fall, so some of the takes you’ll hear are a bit…frozen in amber. Yup, you guessed it. Hawk Tuah Talk again.

Our episode is available here : blankcheck.podcastpage.io/episode/jurassic-parkwith-sean-fennessey

Galaxy Quest
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It’s time to get serious, this is a very serious episode, possible the most serious in our entire Picard Trek series. As such, we are striking a serious tone as we go down periscope and discuss Dean Parisot’s 1999 film Galaxy Quest.
Topics include: Sarah McLachlan traveling, Snape and Spade, Just Shoot Me, our alien listenership, celebrity podcasts and more.

Our Patreon commentary is available here : www.patreon.com/posts/galaxy-quest-125216027