There is so much that can be said about the movie “Women Talking.” Not only did it win an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay this past weekend, it also sent out mind spinning when we watched it on Blu-ray…. Read More ›
Jonathan Majors is an actor having a moment. He not only has two big movies in theaters at this second, he has one from last year arriving on Blu-ray. He continually delivers fascinating characters and is just so incredibly watchable…. Read More ›
Perhaps you can have too much of a good thing. Perhaps it is possible. Out this month on Blu-ray are both “The Fabelmans” and “Empire of Light.” The former is from Steven Spielberg and a semi-autobiographical work, while the latter… Read More ›
A new movie written and directed by Frances O’Connor opens this week. Based on the life of Emily Brontë, the movie is titled, quite simply, “Emily.” What is nowhere near as simple is the notion of the truth as it… Read More ›
Transitions are difficult, but we are transitioning all the time. We are always moving forward, it never stops. The question, really, is how we move forward while still honoring (when appropriate) the past. Today on thepodcast we’re looking a t… Read More ›
It is unquestionably true that we cannot expect our children to always want to follow in our footsteps. Sure, we may want them to at some points, but at some point they are going to have to go off and… Read More ›
As we have previously discussed on the podcast, we care not for Awards Season. We care not for the endless, useless, punditry. We care about watching a movie and enjoying the experience and out today on Blu-ray is one of… Read More ›
What if one of the answers to why “Ticket to Paradise” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” succeed while “Amsterdam” does not lies in clothing? Could that be the case? In this last episode of 2022 we look at these two… Read More ›
Last week, as you may recall, we spent our time discussing just how much “Amsterdam” doesn’t work. It’s a drag to spend time on the negative though. It just makes one feel sad. We would rather be happy. Consequently, this… Read More ›
Last time on the podcast, we discussed how some films know exactly what they are and are content with that; these films don’t push to be bigger or better or more grandiose or more important. There is something wonderful to… Read More ›
Movies like to advertise themselves as the biggest and best thing you’ve ever seen. They are the funniest or the scariest or the loudest or the one with the most special effects or… whatever. Sometimes that’s just too much though,… Read More ›
Sometimes there is a movie that is chock full of good ideas and led by great performances. There is a genius at the heart of such efforts. And yet, as we all know, making a movie requires more than that…. Read More ›
After seeing “The Mousetrap” in London this past summer with my children, my nephew, and their grandparents, there was no way I was going to miss “See How They Run.” The film, now available on digital, is not an adaptation… Read More ›
Now out on digital is Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian.” A thriller, “Barbarian” is one of those movies which can easily be described as consisting of two distinct halves. When the switch from the first of these halves to the second takes… Read More ›
The fourth MCU “Thor” movie is out today on Blu-ray and DVD. That makes this the perfect moment to discuss not just this film, but the series and maybe a little bit of the MCU at large. We firmly believe… Read More ›
It is not true that we cannot tell a lie. In fact, we will announce right now that Josh does indeed lie in this week’s podcast episode. Oh, no, he doesn’t lie about anything important–when he says that now is… Read More ›
While other individuals out there might be sick and tired of the Minions, what with their goggles and yellow skin and affection for denim, that is not the case here. No, here we still love the guys — we love… Read More ›
There are weeks when we feel optimistic, maybe not about the outcome of a movie, but about the endeavor as a whole. These are the weeks where we do our best to look past faults, to ascribe nothing but the… Read More ›
One of the cardinal sins of storytelling (for me) is having characters who are allegedly smart act dumb. It becomes impossible to tell whether the filmmakers don’t think much of the audience or just don’t realize what they are creating… Read More ›
Perhaps the most important thing to note about writer-director Andrew Semans’s new film, “Resurrection,” is not that it is horrifying, but rather that it is grippingly horrifying. It may be described as a “psychological thriller,” and while those words are… Read More ›
If you are familiar with “Romancing the Stone,” your view of “The Lost City” may be one thing. If you’re unaware of the Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner movie, your opinion of this Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum one may be wholly different. Does… Read More ›
Regularly listeners to this podcast may well remember previous episodes in which we’ve wondered how it would hit someone to drop into a franchise somewhere in the middle; what happens when you watch something for which you have little background?… Read More ›
Currently out on Blu-ray and digital is the second “Downton Abbey” movie, “Downton Abbey: A New Era.” Of course, if you watch the movie, you’ll be hard-pressed to find out what’s so new about it. Here’s the deal… we love… Read More ›
With every new entry in the MCU, the questions about how to understand and interact with the franchise grow. Are we now at the point where the barrier to entry is too high? Or, maybe because the MCU is everywhere… Read More ›
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