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Hollywood Phonies

Ben Vernel, Adam Knox & Tommy Dassalo

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The podcast where the fake movies in real movies become real movies from fake moviemakers. Hosted by Australian screen legends and comedians Ben Vernel, Adam Knox & Tommy Dassalo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We've shadow dropped this episode into your podcast feed in order to let you know about the following news items: there's a remaster of Oblivion out now, a new season of Playdate games is releasing soon and you'll be able to play as Mario in Mario Kart World which we learned from a recent Direct. We've also got our first impressions of the awesome …
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Special guest GREG LARSEN joins us once again to chat about a massive episode of The Last of Us, featuring an event that anyone who's played the game has been anticipating and dreading. There's a snowstorm, a horde of infected, some golf clubs and one of the most brutal episodes of television in a long time. We're breaking it all down and then doin…
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It's been a long time since we've spent an entire episode talking about one game but it's been a long time since one game has grabbed our attention to such an extent. The new indie puzzle game BLUE PRINCE seemingly came out of nowhere (to us, at least) but man oh man is it good. We're fairly vague in our chat but we do talk about a couple of little…
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Hey folks! We're back doing recaps for The Last Of Us with our friend Greg Larsen but now the show is going to live over on VIDEODRONE - a sister recap podcast that we've started on the Filthy Casuals feed. They'll be up every Tuesday evening (Australian time) on there. Here's episode one, if you enjoy it and want to continue listening each week, h…
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THE LAST OF US is back on our screens and so of course that means that we are back recapping every episode here on Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN! If you listened to our sister podcast 'Clicker? I Barely Know Her' during season one, then you know what to expect: a full breakdown of the episode, focusing only on what we've seen in the epi…
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This week we're chatting about our favourite new 3D action adventure game set in a bayou, and our favourite new interpretation of 'What If A 3D Sonic Game Was Actually Good?' We've also had a week to process the Switch 2 Direct and dig into a lot of the hands-on coverage as well as discussing a lot of the online reactions we've seen! Get Exclusive …
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We've had a great few weeks whacking each other off, blackmailing strangers, and tracking down shady figures from our past but It's finally time to check out of The White Lotus for another year! We're recapping the movie length season 3 finale episode. Who dies, what are our thoughts on the season as a whole, and what would we like to see from the …
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Good lord, it's finally happened. After years of rumours, leaks and speculation, we've FINALLY got ANDREW LEVINS to use his microphone properly! The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct has now happened and we've seen our launch title Mario Kart World, a new Donkey Kong 3D platformer, updates to Switch 1 games, a massive third party library, a new From Softwar…
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This week, Ben has checked out the new Steven Soderbergh crime thriller 'Black Bag' PLUS we are nearing the end of season three of The White Lotus! The girls have imploded, The Ratliffs are in freefall, and Rick finally has his long-awaited confrontation. We wrap it all up and give our predictions for the finale next week! Hosted on Acast. See acas…
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The boys sit down for definitely the last ever Nintendo Switch 2 speculation they'll ever do they definitely promise we're so sorry. They also chat about somes of the games shown at GDC 2025 including to a T, Take Us North, Phantom Blade Zero, Wheel World and more, and Ben talks about the first few hours of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. It's one of th…
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We're IRL for the first time on Videodrone for an all TV recaps episode! We dive straight in to The White Lotus and the fallout from those grubby Ratliff boys at the Full Moon party, before getting in to the season 2 finale of Severance! (from 56:17). Did they stick the landing? What did we think of this season as a whole, and what do we think is i…
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You've made it through the harsh forest and into a peaceful clearing where a little troll and a cranky warrior are working together at a... podcast studio? As you get closer, you can hear them talking about Sony refusing to let Jonah Hill's character even TOUCH a Playstation in Superbad, The horrendous AI-generated trailer for Ark: Aquatica, the hi…
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This week GEN FRICKER is back to tell us about the short film 'Joey Earns Rewards Using the McDonald's Mobile App & Megh and Clev Discuss Their Future Together'. We're recapping everything about this weeks White Lotus including one of the all-time great guest spots and monologues (00:13:28 - 1:05:00) And our thoughts on this seasons penultimate epi…
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Split Fiction is out which means that we've taken a break from sitting next to each other on a couch and talking about video games at the same time in order to sit next to each other on a couch and talk about video games at the same time. We've played through the first part of Hazelight's new couch co-op platformer and have all manner of thoughts a…
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This week on VIDEODRONE it's a Boys Only episode as they lose Gen to illness, and it's a TV Only episode too because there's just too much content for one week. The fellas spend the entire podcast discussing Tim hanging dong in The White Lotus, so strap in! Nah jk, it's a big episode of The White Lotus as the boat party ends up revealing more than …
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We thought we were going to be doing this weeks episode in a world where a remake of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 & 4 hadn't been announced but we were DEAD WRONG! Tommy's stayed up until 1am to watch the Pokemon Presents which gave us our first look at Pokemon Legends A-Z. How do we feel about the shift into a more modern setting? Who cares, because w…
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We've got that post Oscars clarity this week as GEN FRICKER joins us for a brief wrap up of the big night! We've also hit the Vega strip for the razzle dazzle of The Last Showgirl, and we're going deep on the symbolism and theories for The White Lotus S03E03 and losing our minds trying to work out what's going on in Severance S02E07! WHITE LOTUS SP…
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Ahoy, landlubbers! Filthy bilge rats Tommy and Ben have been sailing the high seas of the Steam Next Fest, making some WB executives walk the plank after their recent studio closures and also some other pirate metaphor used to connote that they've been playing Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii. It may be a spin-off of the main series but have …
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This week, GEN FRICKER joins us once again as we discuss: The Brutalist (Spoiler-Free), MAFS and Airline Hacks (00:01:25 - 00:25:00) The White Lotus Season 3, Episode 2 (00:25:00 - 01:01:00) Severance Season 2, Episode 6 (01:01:00 - ) Two horny episodes of television in two very different ways! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform…
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Last week we visited a shady figure on the outskirts of town and re-specced ourselves as podcasters and so here we are: two fellas on the mics talking about the forty thousand dollar Switch 2 that's on sale on the dark web, the massive failure of whatever that Funko Pop game was, the Donkey Kong Nike Air Max, and reviews of Obsidian's new fantasy a…
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The White Lotus is back this week and so we've gone full recap mode for this episode. It's a new resort, a new locale and a whole new batch of freaky rich people to discuss. What's going on with the Ratliff family? What's The Gogg up to? Will we see Tommy in the background of any shots? Meanwhile, on Severance, we're dealing with the aftermath of t…
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There's nothing quite like waking up, making a fresh pot of java and jumping straight onto Youtube in order to watch fifty minutes worth of trailers for WWE and Five Nights At Freddies, and that's exactly what we've done this week. We're breaking down all of the announcements from today's Sony State of Play, including our first look at the new game…
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This week we're loaded up on wings and cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon with GEN FRICKER, ready to bring you our extensive Super Bowl coverage! Or at the very least, a bit of chat about Kendrick Lamar's half-time show. We're also reviewing the filme Nickel Boys, the continuing saga of Emilia Perez and the surreal goings-on of Severance season 2, episode 4…
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Woolworths? Coles? IGA? Aldi? NO THANKS. At Filthy Casuals, we choose to do all of our grocery shopping at the Costa Rican Super Mario supermarket chain, which this week has had a landmark victory against the famously litigious Big N. We also chat about Dragon Age: The Veilguard not living up to certain expectations, the pressures on smaller studio…
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We've managed to tear ourselves away from Cine2Nerdle just long enough this week to wrap up Luca Guadagnino's surreal William S. Burroughs adaptation 'Queer', starring Daniel Craig. GEN FRICKER takes us through the new science fiction horror 'Companion' and we visit the Goat Room in episode three of season two of Severance! filthycasuals.com.au Hos…
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Name me a single other podcast that would be brave enough to feature the following topics on the one episode: Bizarre Perth architecture. The Xbox Developer Direct, including a new look at the gameplay for South of Midnight, Doom The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and an announcement of Ninja Gaiden 4. Reviews of new indie games Keep Dr…
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