Screening Room: Naughty and Nice
Welcome back! This week on the podcast we disagree on Sicario: Day of the Soldado, but our thinking is more aligned on Uncle Drew, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hearts…read more →
Archive For June, 2018
WWFRD?
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? by Hope Madden The world did not deserve Fred Rogers. A loving and tender soul if ever there was one, Fred Rogers saw children not…read more →
I’ve Got the Music in Me
Hearts Beat Loud by Rachel Lewis Director Brett Haley and co-writer Marc Basch have crafted a tender story of a father and daughter who spend a last summer together bridging…read more →
Dia de los Muertos
Sicario: Day of the Soldado by Hope Madden How’s your summer going? It may be good, but I bet it’s not Josh Brolin good. He’s having a one-of-a-kind summer. The…read more →
Real and Spectacular
Mountain by George Wolf “How big a screen ya got?” That’s what you need to be asking for Mountain, a nature documentary that puts the breathtake in breathtaking. Director and…read more →
The Grommets of Oz
Breath by Hope Madden Quiet poetry is hardly what we’ve come to expect from a surf movie. But actor-turned-director Simon Baker offers exactly that in his elegantly familiar coming-of-age story,…read more →
Senior Buckets
Uncle Drew by George Wolf So Kyrie Irving has parlayed his Pepsi commercial into a full-length Uncle Drew feature? As a Cleveland sports fan I’m conflicted, I ain’t even gonna…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of June 25
Well, not a lot to boast about in home entertainment this week. What we recommend is binging all the films of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead: Resolution, Spring and—available to…read more →
Screening Room: Nice to Eat You
Hey! We’re back with a look at the latest in the dino-series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. We don’t like it. We much prefer The Catcher Was a Spy, American Animals…read more →
Take Me Out to the Spy Game
The Catcher Was a Spy by George Wolf The Catcher Was a Spy features a surprisingly impressive lead performance from Paul Rudd. It’s not his talent that surprises, but rather…read more →