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We're back to round out our Musketeer series with two more entries: "The Musketeer" (2001) dir. Peter Hyams "The Three Musketeers" (2011) dir. Paul W.S. Anderson That's right, the martial arts one and the one with the blimps. Join us as we continue to cover the ever-repeating adventures of Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

We've got another mega-series for you all (despite telling us to stop). Connor, Matt, Peter and Frank are all coming together to discuss four film adapations of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure novel "The Three Musketeers". In this episode we'll be talking about the following versions: "The Three Musketeers" (1973) dir. Richard Lester "The Three Musketeers" (1993) dir. Stephen Herek Join us as we cover the romances of Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they both swash and buckle their way through the evil Cardinal's clutches. We've got Tim Curry. We've got Christopher Lee. We've got a hungover Oliver Reed. What more need you?!

We close out this holiday season with a great one. Matt bequeaths Connor with one of the only gifts he knows how to give: science fiction. Do we think this over-memed Nolan holds up after a decade? Listen in between your last minute shopping and figgy pudding boiling to find out! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Gargantua Bless Us, Everyone!

It's Frank's turn to be visited by Santa (this time played by Connor), who's brought a little bit of the old dusty trail to our holiday celebration. Frank and Connor are joined by Matt while they discuss 1985's "Silverado!" It's a a classic Western about four unlikely heroes—a calm gunfighter (Scott Glenn), a charming drifter (Kevin Kline), a sharpshooting Black cowboy (Danny Glover), and an energetic young gun (Kevin Costner)—who form a bond and team up to fight corruption and tyranny in the frontier town of Silverado, run by a greedy rancher, crooked sheriff, and somehow Jeff Goldblum as a gambling drifter with a wrist gun. It starts with a gunfight. It ends with a gunfight. There are a bunch of gunfights in between. It's a Holiday Classic!

Peter's opening the next holiday gift this season, unwrapping a lovely little 90s adventure film given to him by Frank. Join the two boys as they discuss Stephen Sommers' 1994 live action (and we mean live action) The Jungle Book. That's right. It's Christmas in India! The film is based on the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) by Rudyard Kipling, but mostly focuses on the plotline of the second book.[5] Unlike the books and Walt Disney's 1967 animated adaptation, the animal characters in this film do not talk (a fact we apparently have mixed opinions about).

Let the Great Gifting of 2025 begin! Peter and Matt are holed up by the fire to talk about a cult classic from their youth that, somehow, Matt never caught. Peter's got Lucky Number Slevin all wrapped up and tied with a bow today on No Flicks Given!

It's the most wonderful time of the year again! This time, we're trying something a little different. Over the next few weeks, you'll be hearing us discuss the greatest gifts we could receive: movies we haven't seen before. Heat up the cocoa, shake the nog, and settle in for a long winter's nap...so long as you leave us playing.

We're back for another James Bond retrospective! This time Matt & Frank are joined by Connor, who brought us the OG Bond mission, Dr. No, to talk about. Join us as we tackle 3 films that span decades of espionage! Dr. No (14:40) James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon. The Spy Who Loved Me (49:49) The storyline involves a reclusive megalomaniac named Karl Stromberg who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilisation under the sea. Bond teams up with Soviet agent Anya Amasova to stop Stromberg all while being hunted by Stromberg’s powerful henchman Jaws. Spectre (1:23:30) Bond battles Spectre, an international crime organisation led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld

We wrap up our Halloween series with Frank's pick: 1996's The Ghost and the Darkness, where two man-eating lions terrorize workers building a railroad bridge in Kenya in 1898. Is it local? No. Is it a cryptid? Not even a little. But here we are. At least it's something palatable, which in 2025 is basically a delicacy. Enjoy Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas shooting at lions in Africa for two hours. And Happy Halloween!

Let me sing you a song boys of fire and flame, A SyFy Original Movie, Carny '09 was it's name, And how Frank's rage was sated on this cryptid film, 'cause the Jersey Devil fits the bill.

Welcome back to the fire campers. We had chills and spills last week with Lake Michigan Monster. This week we have... something else... entirely: 2011's The Bunnyman. We'll be honest. Don't watch Bunnyman. You'll miss nothing. It's a mean, incompetent, and worst of all... boring movie. That said, there is a great tale behind the scenes that Connor tells us all about. Listen as the boys try to make sense of the nonsense, Frank crashes out, and Connor tells us all about why Northern Virginia is the center of the world.

Happy Halloween, dear listeners. We've relit the fire just in time for Peter to join us for another year of the Campfire Series. This year's theme: movies about our hometown cryptids. Watch how quickly we go off-theme. Our first entry is a Peter pick: 2018's Lake Michigan Monster, a comedy horror film written, produced and directed by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. It stars Tews, Erick West, Beulah Peters, Daniel Long, and Wayne Tews, and centers on an eccentric alcoholic who assembles a team to track down and kill the titular monster to avenge the death of his father.

Well, it's Star Trek Day...again. Matt's cousin Mike has been brought out from stasis to talk about the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at long last. The world, and Trek, have already considerably changed since it first aired, but is it worth watching and does it have the right message for our trying times? Only one way to find out. Hailing Frequencies are open on this special episode of No Flicks Given!

It's the head to head nobody was asking for in 2025. Once again our cultural timing is spot on. This week the boys revisit Antz and A Bug's Life to see which truly is the quintessential CGI-bug movie of the late 90s. Antz is a 1998 American animated adventure comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson from a screenplay written by Todd Alcott and the writing team of Chris and Paul Weitz. Produced by DreamWorks Pictures, the film stars the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. A Bug's Life (stylized in all lowercase) is a 1998 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's second feature-length film, following Toy Story (1995). The film was directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Andrew Stanton, from a screenplay written by Stanton. It stars the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Hayden Panettiere.

Someone once asked, "Why is Horizon?" And that's exactly what Connor, Matt and Frank are here to...also ask. Welcome back to our Kevin Costner series for Part 2, where we cover Chapter 1. Today we get revenge on Matt for making everyone watched the Postman to bring him Costner's opus: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, the first 3 glorious hours of what is expected to be a 12 hour, 4-movie franchise (I hear in part 3 we're going to meet the Fire Navi). The first installment in the titular film series, it features an ensemble cast of Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, and Giovanni Ribisi, with Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt, and Jamie Campbell Bower in supporting roles. The film follows several characters navigating life in the Midwestern territories amid the American Civil War.

First of a Costner Double Feature! Civilization has fallen. The last vestiges of humanity cling to their fief-like cities. Roving gangs of white supremacists abduct people from their homes and steal their resources. No, this isn't your daily news feed, it's the "far flung future" of 2013 in Kevin Costner's post-apocalyptic epic: The Postman. Hey, he was only off by a few years. The real question is: why is he so sleepy during sex?

May the Fourth be with you. (And also with you.) Lift up your horns. (We lift them up to the Force.) Yes, it's Star Wars Day. Frank and Matt have lost all sense of copyright reason and have treated us all to a packed episode all about one of the greats. Throw your over-the-ear headphones, pour a glass of wine, and revel in the leitmotifs. It's the music of the Star Wars Saga this week on No Flicks Given.

WE PROMISE WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP TO A SCHEDULE. Delaying for a few days on this occasion warranted a slight delay. Are you excited? 'cause we are.

" It was just a colour—but not any color of our earth or heavens. And because Ammi recognized that color, and knew that this last faint remnant must still lurk down there in the well, he has never been quite right since." Picture this. It's early March 2020. The boys have gathered in Austin, Texas to celebrate Peter's imminent wedding. There is booze. There are tacos. There are Bird scooters. There is a film. A strange film. A Nicholas Cage film, directed by Richard Stanley. A film that will change everything for the boys, and herald the change that is coming for the world beyond. That film is 2020's "Color Out of Space", a totally bonkers adaptation of a totally bonkers H.P. Lovecraft story. There are scares, Tommy Chong, and.... alpacas. My god are there alpacas. Join us as we dive deep, finally come up for air, and are forever.... changed. Alpacas.

The Rocketeer is a 1991 American superhero film from Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Joe Johnston, it stars Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, and Tiny Ron Taylor. It is based on the character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens. Set in 1938 Los Angeles, California, The Rocketeer tells the story of stunt pilot Cliff Secord, who discovers a hidden rocket pack that he thereafter uses to fly without the need of an aircraft. His heroic deeds soon attract the attention of Howard Hughes and the FBI, who are hunting for the missing rocket pack, as well as the Nazi operatives who stole it from Hughes. What's not to love? We've got a packed house for this episode in Hollywoodland. Connor, Frank, Matt and Peter all made sure to clear their schedules to talk about what's become something of a hidden gem. Accompanied by a stellar score by James Horner, join the boys as we go back to the early days of the super hero genre. You can watch The Rocketeer on Disney+. Be sure to follow us on Instagram.