On the week of its release in July of 2019, Griffin and David discussed The Lion King. Together they examine the photorealism angle, Disney’s legacy, as well as, the recent Cats trailer and the dawn of digital fur technology.
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Aug 9
Who's That Knocking at My Door / Boxcar Bertha
Knock knock! Who's there? MARTY, THAT'S WHO! Welcome to the first installment in PODCASTFELLAS - our supersized series on the films of short king and Italian-American asthmatic Martin Scorsese. This guy made some pretty good movies, huh. This week, Griffin, David, and Ben discuss ... Show More
2h 26m
Aug 6
A Conversation with Andrew Stanton
Surprise! In a first for Blank Check, we’re dropping a bonus main-feed episode featuring a conversation with the Academy Award-winning director of the films we just covered. The great Andrew Stanton joins us for a delightful conversation about Pixar, what happened to scatting, an ... Show More
1h 30m
Sep 2021
A Preview of What A Cartoon Movie for The Lion King
The Talking Simpsons Network ends its summer of Disney Renaissance films in stirring fashion with the biggest film of that era, The Lion King. In this extended preview, we dig into how this film came to be over a veeeerry complicated development, how it is entwined with the caree ... Show More
47m 43s
Jul 2019
The Lion King: Original Vs. Remake - Which is Better?
Website | Merch | Twitter We watched The Lion King (1994) and The Lion King (2019) to see how the remake holds up to the original. With a stellar voice cast, and a tragic history of previous Disney remakes, The Lion King has a lot of hype to live up to, while still having the opp ... Show More
51m 16s
Jan 2025
Mufasa: The Lion King with Barry Jenkins and Ben Affleck (Ep. 525)
<p class="p1">Director Barry Jenkins discusses his new film, Mufasa: The Lion King, with fellow Director Ben Affleck in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses employing the VFX team from the Avatar films to create the world, working with bo ... Show More
34m 42s
<p>A Patreon shout out, gas station candy ranking, an argument about the taste of water, but the main event is still our review of the 2019 remake: The Lion King!</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6105098/">The Lion King (2019)</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be ... Show More
