I Don’t Want to Go Out – Week of January 30
A likely Oscar winner drives its Tesla of Justice into your living room this week. Well, it does if you’re smart, but The Square is not the only outstanding movie…read more →
Archive For January, 2018
Fright Club: Best PG-13 Horror
Who wants to scare your kids? Because there is ample opportunity to do so without breaking any laws. Yes, year after year the cinemas are lousy with God-awful PG-13 horror…read more →
The Screening Room: Endurance Tests
We air some minor grievances with the Oscar nominations as we talk through the merits of this week’s new releases: Hostiles and Maze Runner: The Death Cure. We also run…read more →
The Running Dead
Maze Runner: The Death Cure by George Wolf As if the YA heroes in The Maze Runner films haven’t been through enough, here come the zombies! OK, they’re really zombie-like, after…read more →
Still Searching
Hostiles by Hope Madden Hey, Christian Bale and Ben Foster are in another Western. Remember how fun 3:10 to Yuma was?! Well, writer/director Scott Cooper is a very serious man.…read more →
Oscars 2018: Nom Nom Nom
by Hope Madden and George Wolf 2017 was year marked by independents: original screenplays, original ideas, low-budgets, big returns. How beautiful is that? Bearing his most intimate vision yet, Guillermo…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out – Week of January 22
There are so many movies being made available for our pajama-wearing asses this week, it’s as if the fates are begging us to be lazy. So let’s do it! We’ll…read more →
Exchange Students, Potato Chips and those Red Wings Fans!
by Hope Madden It’s Blue Jacket season, which always makes me a little nostalgic for Brazil. Not that I’ve ever been there, but watching early Jackets’ history through the eyes of…read more →
The Screening Room: Action and Oscar Contenders
Busy week! Loads covered on this week’s podcast: 12 Strong, Den of Thieves, Phantom Thread, Call Me By Your Name, Mom and Dad, The Road Movie, The Final Year and…read more →
There Will Be Stickpins
Phantom Thread by Hope Madden Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) sews little treasures into the gowns he makes for the most upper of crusts in 1950s London: little notes, wishes, secrets.…read more →