The Uncultured Podcast

Upcoming Entertainment 2025

Lucille, Danlock, Ruth, Calarious and Pickles discuss the upcoming movies and tv shows  and books in 2025. Link to https://www.firstshowing.net/schedule2025/
which the hosts use to look over the movies and tv shows coming out monthly in 2025.
 
Here is the promised link to the Bollywood movie mentioned by Pickles No Time for Love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadhalikka_Neramillai_(2025_film).

Top 2024 Entertainment

Danlock, Ruth, and Lucille discuss the Top media of 2024. Spoilers for anything in 2024.

Worst 2024 Entertainment

Danlock, Ruth, and Lucille discuss the worst media of 2024. Spoilers for anything in 2024.

Uncultured Podcast //December edition/ Netflix Christmas movies Review

Lucille Browne, Danlock,and Pickles and guest star Mama Llama discuss Netflix Christmas Movies for this year. Meet me Next Christmas, Hot and Frosty, Merry Gentlemen, and Our Little Secret are all discussed and rated spoilers for all movies. Carry On is mentioned but not really spoiled. The Little Women 's Christmas by Great American Family is mentioned but not rated or thoroughly discussed.

Uncultured Podcast //December edition/ Wicked and Bonhoeffer movies Review

Lucille Browne, Danlock, Ruth, Calarious, Pickles, and a new guest star, Brandi discuss Wicked the new musical movie of the Wicked Play (a play based on a fan fiction book series about The Wizard of Oz ) starring Arianna Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
Later Lucille,. Danlock, and Ruth discuss Bonhoeffer the brand new historical drama thriller film about the German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer, written, produced and directed by Todd Komarnicki. It stars Jonas Dassler, August Diehl, David Jonsson, Flula Borg, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Clarke Peters. 
Here are some links to a review of the best biographies for Bonhoeffer:
https://www.lutheranforum.com/blog/a-readers-guide-to-bonhoeffer-biographies
Here is a link to the page on Tubi to find the other Bonhoeffer movies that are more accurate and less confusing:https://tubitv.com/search/bonhoeffer
The first 4 movies are on Bonhoeffer.

Uncultured Podcast //Cinderella series part 3 / Ever After and The Slipper and The Rose movies Review

Lucille, Danlock, and Ruth discuss Ever After And The Slipper and the Rose in the 3rd part of their Cinderella movie series. Ever After is a 1998 American romantic period drama film inspired by the Charles Perrault fairy tale "Cinderella". It is directed by Andy Tennant and stars Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott and Jeanne Moreau. 
The Slipper and the Rose is a 1976 British musical retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976.
Directed by Bryan Forbes, the film stars Gemma Craven as the heroine, Richard Chamberlain as the prince, and features a supporting cast led by Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Edith Evans, and Annette Crosbie. The film's Academy Award-nominated songs were written by the Sherman Brothers – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman – who also shared scripting duties with Forbes. Spoilers for each of  the movies and clips from the songs in The Slipper and the Rose.

Uncultured Podcast //Christmas // The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Movies Review

Danlock, Ruth, Calarious, and Lucille compare the 1983 Tv Movie The Best Christmas Pageant Ever with the new 2024 movie The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Dallas Jenkins based on the 1972 novel by Barbara Robinson. Starring Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, and Lauren Graham, the plot centers around the Herdmans, a group of juvenile delinquent siblings who have inadvertently found themselves starring in their small town's Christmas pageant. 
Link to the 1983 Tv Movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icZwm6Aact8&t=1s
Link to the audio book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VccrAYNSMb8
 
Spoilers for book movies and occasional mention of the book.
Link to the play script:https://idoc.pub/documents/the-best-christmas-pageant-ever-nov-17-script-3no7d5ydjyld
There is also a musical version of this play, link to playlist: https://broadwaylicensing.com/shows/holiday/the-best-christmas-pageant-ever-the-musical/

Uncultured Podcast //Fantasy// 100 Cupboards Book Review

Danlock, Lucille and Pickles discuss 100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson. The first book in the 100 Cupboards Trilogy, it is followed by Dandelion Fire and The Chestnut King.Henry York, a boy who moves to Henry, Kansas with his aunt and uncle after his parents are kidnapped during a bike expedition in South America. One night, Henry and his adventurous cousin, Henrietta, discover a key to their deceased grandfather's locked bedroom; inside, they uncover a network of cupboards that each open into a different, fantastical world. Spoilers for the 1st book.

Uncultured Podcast //Disaster // Twisters Movie Review

Lucille Browne, Danlock, Ruth and sometimes Calarious discuss the Disaster movie Twisters and how it relates to Pride and Prejudice. Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on a story by Joseph Kosinski. Serving as a standalone sequel to Twister (1996), it stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane. It follows clashing groups of storm chasers who investigate a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. Also a mild update on movies they have watched and movies they will review.

Uncultured Podcast //Cinderella series part 2 / Rodger and Hammerstein's movies Review

Danlock, Ruth, Lucille, and Calarious discuss the three Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella movies: 1957, 1965, amd 1997. Color pictures from the orignial 1957 Cinderella in this link:https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rodger+and+hammerstein+1957+movie+julia+andrews&iax=images&ia=images
It was originally broadcast live in color on CBS on March 31, 1957, as a vehicle for Julie Andrews, who played the title role. The broadcast was viewed by more than 100 million people. It was subsequently remade for television twice, in 1965 and 1997. The 1965 version starred Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon. The 1997 version starred Brandy Norwood in the title role, with Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother. Both remakes add songs from other Richard Rodgers musicals.