Let’s go back to: In honor of Yvonne Strahovski's birthday today, let's remember Chuck!

Why it means something to you or to our podcast: I've always loved the show, but I finally convinced Kelly to watch it on Netflix.  I told her she'd love it and I was right!  The show is fun, charming, and perfect suited to our nerdy interests.  Even if it weren't for his other pursuits, this show would firmly place Zachary Levi as a leader amongst nerds.  Plus bonus Matt Bomer!

Where can you find it now?: Netflix!

The Band: Disclosure feat. Sam Smith

The Song: "Omen"

The YouTube Link:

Where you heard it first: I literally just heard this song for the first time on the radio this morning.

Why it’s been stuck in your head: It's a catching song, but we'll have to wait and see if Disclosure and Sam Smith have captured the magic of their previous collaboration ("Latch").

Why you recommend it to our listeners: I love hearing Sam Smith's beautiful vocals over something besides a slow melodramatic ballad for a change.

TV News

• Emily Swallow (The Mentalist) has been cast in Supernatural Season 11 
• The Flash will be suiting up in a new costume for Season 2 
• As this round of The Bachelorette comes to an end, rumors fly about the next Bachelor: possibly fan-favorite Ben Higgins?
• Get ready for the trainwreck known as Bachelor in Paradise! 
• Echo Kellum and Alexander Calvert are cast as Mr. Terrific and Anarky, two recurring characters for Arrow Season 4 
• That’s right, America.  Miley Cyrus is the host of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards 
• NBC to reboot Xena: Warrior Princess  
• Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose join The X-Files as agents 
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan wants to return to Supernatural after a decade.  Other fan favorites set to return in Season 11  
• Khloe Kardashian gets her own talk show.  Because that’s what we need on television.  More Kardashians.  
• Watch Jon Stewart’s final Daily Show interview with President Barack Obama 
• Watch the pilot for ABC’s reboot of The Muppet Show 
• Disney Channel’s original movie The Descendants covers and butchers Beauty and the Beast classic “Be Our Guest” 
• Arrow casts Sons of Liberty's Jimmy Akingbola as Baron Blitzkrieg for Season 4
• Naomi Campbell joins the cast of American Horror Story: Hotel 
• Teen Wolf’s Papa Argent, J.R. Bourne, and Star Trek: Voyager alum Jeri Ryan join the cast of Arrow Season 4 as a new villains  

Movie News 

• Benicio del Toro is in talks to play Star Wars: Episode VIII’s villain  
• Disney is planning a live-action Sword in the Stone film from the writer of Game of Thrones 
• Chris Columbus is interested in directing more Harry Potter films that are set after the events of The Deathly Hallows 
• Check out the first full-length Mockingjay: Part 2 trailer!  
• Kevin Feige discusses the plot of Captain America: Civil War 
• Disney to tease Captain America: Civil War, The Force Awakens, and, most importantly, Finding Dory at D23 Expo 
• James Horner’s final film score will be The Magnificent Seven 
• These are your Magnificent Seven: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Lee Byung-hun, Luke Grimes, Wagner Moura, and Matt Bomer 
• Enter to win a role in the next Star Trek movie (which Idris Elba was finally confirmed to be in via dance off) 
• Rumors swirl that 50 Shades Darker has cast Charlize Theron and Henry Cavill 
• We’ve reached a new low: Sony has an Emoji movie is in the works 
• Jaimie Alexander spills that Lady Sif plays an important role in Thor: Ragnorok, and that there will be references to the film in Captain America: Civil War 
• The new trailer for The Scorch Trials gives you a glimpse of The Cranks and Janson 
• Jurassic World sets its sequel for June 2018 
• Space Jam 2 could finally happen with basketball star LeBron James  
• Take a look at Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as King Arthur in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming film  

 Misc News

• Country star and coach of The Voice Blake Shelton announces his divorce from Miranda Lambert 
• Daniel Radcliffe proves he can rap in this video taken of him at a karaoke barin California
• Amy Heckerling, the original director of the 90’s classic Clueless, is developing a jukebox musical version of the beloved movie 
• Daniel Radcliffe tries his hand at a “normal” job and acts as receptionist for Nylon Magazine 
• Caitlyn Jenner takes home the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs and everyone complaining needs to listen to her speech and stop talking  
• Rob Gronkowski refuses to name something that can be deflated on Celebrity Family Feud 
• Surfing champion Mick Fanning fights off a shark during competition.  Seriously. 
• Nicki Minaj uses her Twitter to point out racial inequality at the VMAs and Taylor Swift takes it personally. Then the media blows it out of proportion. 
• Joey Fatone, Nick Carter, and AJ McLean team up for a film that could just be a continuation of the music video for "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" 
• Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars start a fake Twitter war mirroring Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift 
• 6-year-old Avery Huffman received a very special phone call from Princess Anna of Arendelle after Kristen Bell learned the little girl had an inoperable brain tumor. 

Let’s go back to: Clueless
Released on July 21, 1995, Clueless was a modern-day retelling of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma.  The movie told the story of 16-year-old Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) growing up in posh Beverly Hills with her huge mansion, her best friend Dionne (Stacey Dash), and trying to "save the world" one makeover at a time.  The movie also starred the late Brittany Murphy as Cher's pet-project makeover and friend Tai Fraser and Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd as Cher's step-brother Josh.

Why it means something to you or to our podcast:  It's been 20 years since the movie has been released and it still means a lot to those of us in our 20's and 30's.  Clueless became famous for its ridiculous outlook on life in Beverly Hills and for its interesting take on vocabulary.  We will always remember words like "as if", "Baldwin", "buggin", and so many other original words said by Cher and her friends.  I recently told my 24-year-old cousin about this movie telling her, "It's like Mean Girls for the 90's".  For those of us who remember and love Clueless, that's what we compared Mean Girls to.  Even 20 years later, we still remember that Cher is a "virgin who can't drive" and when you see a stop sign, you "totally pause".  And we will always remember our first time driving on the freeway, hoping that it will be far less traumatic than when Dionne's boyfriend Murray (Scrubs' Donald Faison) helped her drive on the freeway for the first time.  My point is, that for those of us who grew up in the 1990's, this movie is iconic -- a piece of movie history.  

Where can you find it now?: Clueless can be found streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.  You can also see Paul Rudd as Ant-Man in his first solo film, which is out now, and in next year's Captain America: Civil War.  Check out the movie's original trailer right here!

We want to thank all of you who participated in our raffle over Comic-Con Weekend in order to win tickets to Disneyland.  We're proud to say that 100% of the proceeds have gone to CHOC Children's Hospital in Orange County.  At the end of the weekend, we picked two winners:

Lisa Mazzanti of South San Francisco, California
and
Kerry Mormello of Newark, Delaware

Congratulations, ladies!  You will each be receiving 2 One-Day Park Hopper tickets to the Disneyland Resort to be used any time in 2016!  Have a great time at The Happiest Place on Earth and thank you so much for supporting our little podcast and CHOC Children's Hospital's annual fundraiser CHOC Walk in the Park presented by The Disneyland Resort.

What Is It: Ant-Man is the origin story of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) as Ant-Man as well as the final film in Phase II of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  The film also includes the original Ant-Man, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), as well as his daughter Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly).

My experience: I saw the film opening weekend and was disappointed to see how empty the theater was.  A lot of the easter eggs Marvel slipped in seemed largely ignored by the audience, and even half the people there left before the mid- and post-credits scenes had come up.  I myself found the film to be enjoyable even though it clearly isn't one of the stronger MCU films.  I actually liked it more than Age of Ultron due in large part to Paul Rudd's performance and scene stealers Michael Peña, T.I., and David Dastmalchian.

Why You Should See It: This film does a good job of tying itself into MCU, thanks to a few significant cameos.  And you should DEFINITELY stay for the post-credits scene featuring some early footage from Captain America: Civil War.

The Future: Paul Rudd will be portraying Ant-Man in the next MCU film Captain America: Civil War, due out May 16, 2016.

The Artist: One Direction

The Song: "Happily"

Where you heard it first: Ever since my lovely co-host Christina left Orange County, I've been on a One Direction kick and finally started to listen to their albums all the way through.  This song was one of the ones I've never heard before that popped out at me.

Why it’s been stuck in your head: While I do not consider myself a Directioner at all, I do occasionally like their music.  That being said, I pretty much only enjoy their more upbeat songs and this song is definitely one of those.  It makes the listener smile and want to sing along to it, even if, like me, you don't know the words.

Why you recommend it to our listeners: Even if you're only the occasional One Direction listener like I am, I think you'll like this song.  As far as I know, it was never a big single for the band, but it certainly has the potential to be.  One Direction is one of those groups that reminds me of the good old days of 90's boy bands and that makes me happy.  Even though I'm almost 30, I still like listening to their fun, upbeat sound from time to time.

Let’s go back to: To Kill A Mockingbird

Why it means something to you or to our podcast: This is one of my favorite books ever, as well as one of the greatest films in American cinema.  There's been a lot of hoopla about it lately to bring it back into the public eye.

Where can you find it now?: The recently released Go Set a Watchman could technically be considered an early draft of To Kill A Mockingbird, featuring an adult Scout twenty years later.  There's been some controversy about the release concerning both the intentions of the publishers as well as the fact the Atticus Finch, one of the great all time American fictional heroes, is portrayed in a much darker light than the classic novel.

Will you be reading the new book?


-C