The Uncultured Podcast

Danlock,Ruth, and Lucille Brown discuss Like a Dragon: Yakuza a Japanese-language American crime action television series produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Wild Sheep Content, and 1212 Entertainment. It is a live-action adaptation of Sega's Like a Dragon video game series, and the first since the 2007 film Like a Dragon. The story is a loose adaptation and follows an original plot, though some major plot-points are retained. Plot Spo...

Danlock, Pickles, Ruth, and Lucille Brown discuss the Minecraft Movie for Video game month. Minecraft is an American fantasy adventure comedy film based on the 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios. It was directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, from a story by Allison Schroeder, Bowman, and Palmer. The film stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brook...

Danlock, Ruth, and Lucille Discuss Three Wishes for Cinderella, also called Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella movies the 1973 version and the 2021 version. These are Czech-German movies. One is the original, one is a remake. Cinderella lives with her cruel stepmother and stepsister, doing chores and being treated unfairly. Unlike the classic version, this Cinderella is bold, skilled, and clever. She secretly meets the prince while in ...

Danlock and Lucille Browne and Pickles discuss the book Red Rising for SciFi month.Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown. It is the first book and eponym of the series. The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds. Spoilers for the first book.

In February 2021, Stonemaier Games announced their Red Rising board game.[1...

Danlock, Ruth and Lucille Browne and Calarious discuss the scifi tv show Dune: Prophecy Season 1. This tv show is based on the book: Sisterhood of Dune. developed by Diane Ademu-John and Alison Schapker for HBO. Set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, the series focuses on the origins of the Bene Gesserit, a powerful social, religious, and political force whose members possess superhuman powers and abilities after undergoing years of...

Lucille Brown, Danlock and a new guest Choco Goat joins the podcast to discuss the new Robert Patterson movie: Mickey 17. Mickey 17 is a 2025 science fiction comedy film written, produced, and directed by Bong Joon Ho, based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The film stars Robert Pattinson in the title role, alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Set in the year 2054, the plot follows a man w...

Lucille, Danlock, and Ruth and sometimes Calarious discuss the Kdrama Love Scout for February 2025. Love Scout is an office Kdrama where a successful and confident woman (Han Ji-Min, actress) is the CEO of a head-hunting company. To survive in the fiercely competitive headhunting field, she puts everything she has into her work. Outside of her job, she doesn't know how to do anything. She has a secretary (Lee Jun-Hyuk, actor) who t...

Lucille, Danlock, and Ruth discuss in a rather short episode Love Hurts the new violent Action comedy Romance Valentine's Day movie, Love Hurts with Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose. This movie was directed by Jonathan Eusebio, in his directorial debut, and written by Matthew Murray, Josh Stoddard, and Luke Passmore. The film stars Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Marshawn Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Rhys Darby, André Eri...

In our month of romance, Danlock, Lucille and Pickles discuss Entwined by Heather Dixon. It is based on the fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses". Entwined tells the story of Princess Azalea and her eleven younger sisters, and the magic they discover while mourning the death of their mother. Heather Dixon Wallwork has been a story artist for Disney, a writer for HarperCollins, and currently works as an animation director in Sa...

Lucille, Danlock, and Ruth discuss the first three movies in the A Cinderella Story series: A Cinderella story starring

 Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray ,Another Cinderella Story starring Selena Gomez and Drew Seeley, and lastly but not least A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song starring Lucy Hale and Freddie Stroma.

 These movies are an American anthology series of films created by Leigh Dunlap and based on the Cinderella fair...

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...

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 ...

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'...

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; insi...

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 chas...