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Hollywood Phonies

Ben Vernel, Adam Knox & Tommy Dassalo

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The podcast where the fake movies in real movies become real movies from fake moviemakers. Hosted by Australian screen legends and comedians Ben Vernel, Adam Knox & Tommy Dassalo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Are you tired of lame and boring video games podcasts that DON'T talk about the new advertisement for Sonic Racing Crossworlds, patents in video games, hidden bosses in Silksong as well as reviews of Cronos: The New Dawn and the very, very beginning of Trails In The Sky 1st Chapter? Well, you've come to the right place because on this cool podcast …
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It's Mario's 40th birthday and what better way to celebrate than with a bunch of farming sims and Dynasty Warriors spin-offs! We're wrapping up everything featured in the big Nintendo Direct from last week including the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie announcement, Metroid Prime 4 release date, and the Virtual Boy resurrection! We've also got more tho…
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The Loveable Lads from 'Laide, Team Cherry, are finally back with Hollow Knight Silksong. The game broke every digital storefront when it launch, but what are our early impressions of it? We've also got our first look at 007 First Light through an extensive State of Play, we've been wined and dined at a Playstation Playmakers event, and Ben reviews…
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Two big remasters this week - one of them featuring a deadly, highly skilled soldier who is able to seamlessly blend in to his surroundings in order to ruthlessly execute his targets, and the other one featuring Solid Snake. YES! We're also chatting about Resident Evil being too scary, games being too pornographic, and the failed experiment of an N…
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It was starting to feel like it wold never happen but the wait is over: there's finally a new episode of Filthy Casuals! We discuss the release date trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong and how the developers took their sweet time because they were having too much fun working on it. Plus, the strange case of developers struggling to get Switch 2 dev…
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LIVE (not really) from GAMESCOM (not really) this week we're bringing you a round up of a bunch of news and updates (yes really), including Hollow Knight: Silksong, a Black Myth sequel, a new Bubsy, and DLC for Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. We're also wrapping up the Kirby Air Riders Direct which gave us our first proper look at the racing, C…
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Tommy's back from Vietnam and there's a bunch of Nintendo presentation news to catch up on! A new Katamari Damacy, a few indies on the horizon, and a campfire to chill next to. We've also been playing some new games: Ben tackles the bicycle adventure Wheel World and the FF7 knock-off Fantasian, while Tommy's taken on the early stages of Ninja Gaide…
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Special guest DILRUK JAYASINHA joins us this week to take us through his personal history of gaming! We cover a tonne of ground in this loose and silly episode including: growing up in Colombo in Sri Lanka, what was the most coveted game console at the time? Why did his dad's work colleague buy him a Sega Game Gear? And what is the best video game …
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Let's be honest, the gaming industry is in a pretty rotten place. In the last few months alone we've seen layoffs, cancellations, and price hikes - just to name a few. So this week, we're putting our heads together and brainstorming a few ideas for Fixing The Games Industry - all of which are totally serious and genuine and which we wholeheartedly …
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You know him from the movies, theme parks, and kart racing games and now, after all these years, he's finally in his own video game: DONKEY KONG BANANZA is here and we've spent a tonne of time ripping, smashing and pummelling our way through this glorious 3D platformer that begs the question: what if apes real life? And speaking of real life: The G…
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We've decided to drop a little preview of what we do every week on our Patreon podcast. From weird stories from our lives to movie reviews, TV recaps and other recommendations, every single week we release a full episode of a Bonus podcast for Patrons at patreon.com/filthycasualspod. Here we've compiled our discussions on Squid Game across two week…
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This week we're wrapping up all of the new details from last weeks Ghost Of Yotei State of Play, as well as reviewing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 (because we're aging millennials), Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (because we're massive weebs) and some of the newly added levels in Astro Bot (because we love freaky little robot men). Get an e…
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It's another rough week of news over at Microsoft with the announcement that a bunch of games have been cancelled and more people laid off. What does this mean for the future of the platform and more broadly - how do you navigate being a fan of an art form that is governed purely by corporate interests and rife with attitudes that are so removed fr…
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The popular survival game The Alters has been found to have been using Generative AI. Is this a big deal? What does the spread of AI mean for the future of game development? And what does the mass layoffs at Xbox mean for the future of hardware development? Big questions that we do our best to wildly speculate on! Meanwhile, we're still sinking ton…
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It’s time for another big episode of one of the best comedy and video games podcasts available on the chiral network. DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is finally here and The Great Man has done it again. We’ve played roughly the first half-a-dozen or so hours of the new blockbuster from Hideo Kojima so we’re wrapping up our initial thoughts on the i…
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Tommy's come down with what seems like a common cold but may in fact be DONKEY KONG FEVER because we watched the Donkey Kong Bananza Direct overnight and we're still reeling from some of the new revelations. Pauline! Ostrich Bananza! DK Artist Mode! A confusing Kong family timeline! We also discuss our trip to Sydney to see two of The Great Men: Hi…
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Wow is it really Not E3 again already!? Summer Games Fest has rolled around and we're wrapping up all of the big announcements from the week: some wild characters are showing up in the new Sonic racing game, there's freaky boxing puppets, surprise DLC for Lies of P, Game Freak making something that looks like it runs properly, a new detective story…
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We've been burning the midnight and 7am oils and as a result we're now the proud owners of a Switch 2! We each have a Switch 2, I mean. We're not sharing custody of one Switch 2. We've been hammering Mario Kart World all day so we've got some early first day impressions PLUS a big round-up of everything announced in Sony's State of Play and Ben rev…
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Episode 500! Can you believe it? We've gone this long without kicking ourselves off the air. To celebrate, we're reminiscing a little bit on the history of the show and then doing something that neither we, or any other show, has dared to do before (possibly for good reason): delivering our definitive list of the Top 10 Video Game Characters To Hos…
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We've made it to the season finale of The Last of Us and the season finale of Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN. Ellie's still on the hunt for Abby, there's a cliffhanger, there's a weird creepy island, and (thankfully) there's no Skellingtons. How did we feel about this episode, the season as a whole, what are our predictions for the next …
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It's the final week of Ben's Japan trip and he's fresh from a visit to the new Donkey Kong Country addition to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Osaka! We hear all about the new area: the food, the costumes, the music and of course the new immersive mine cart ride! On the other end of the spectrum, Tommy's been decapitating demons in the aw…
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One day we'll be fondly flashing back to this weeks episode of Videodrone with guest GREG LARSEN but for now, we're in the present, recording this episode of Videodrone where we recap the penultimate episode of season 2 of The Last of Us. Pedro is back, the great Joey Pants makes an appearance, and we're wondering how much they're going to cram int…
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While the Ben's away, the mice will play... with a Nintendo Switch 2, with mouse controls. This week, Tommy is joined by ANDREW LEVINS to recap their big day at the Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience! We got to try out all of the big announced games so far: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, Welcome Tour, and Drag X Drive, a…
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We're coming to you live from the Tullamarine airport car park with special guest GREG LARSEN to discuss episode five of season 2 of The Last of Us, including the coolest graffiti we've ever seen, which bits of this episode we were scared of, and which Festival we think the executives in at HBO are attending. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Ben's in Japan and despite the Government's best efforts to keep us from podcasting with dodgy internet, we are logging on for a huge dose of news: rumours of an Xbox handheld, a playable demo of Hollow Knight Silksong and of course, the new cinematic trailer for a little game called Grand Theft Auto 6! Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nor…
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