SMART-POPcast Episode 11

Recorded a day early...  Presented to you late, as usual!  SMART-POPCORN.com's own Evan Ramirez ("iv3rdawG" on the boards) joins us, and Mitch leaves us for greener pastures.  (Fortunately, he's still grazing on our territory.)

Cast: Thom Stricklin, Mitch Goossen, Evan Ramirez

Topics:

• Movie Review: The Ice Harvest
• Evan was hoping for a Bad Santa-style comedy...  no such luck.
• Are there really mobsters in Wichita?
• Thom waxes unnecessarily scientific over the ratio of strip clubs to police officers in the movie versus real life.
• Here's some existentialism for you: the movie sucks, and then the credits roll.  Don't bother.
• Movie Review: Rent
• Thom rants about STDs, heroin junkies, and depressed people singing in major keys.
• Anthony Rapp (the "other" dork from Dazed & Confused) has the most interesting character, and all he does is get a job while everyone else mooches off him.
• Insert obligatory joke related to "525,600 minutes".
• Industry News
• Rest in peace, Pat Morita.  You'll forever wax on in our hearts.
• BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen pledges to remove links to bootlegs.
• Peter Jackson butts heads with the Directors' Guild over King Kong animators' credits.
• A high school teacher is sacked for showing Elizabeth without parental consent.
• Mel Gibson takes on Ray Lines' CleanFlix for distributing an edited copy of Passion.