That’ll Do
Pig by Hope Madden A quick plot synopsis of co-writer/director Michael Sarnoski’s Pig suggests a very specific image. Nicolas Cage plays a hermetic truffle hunter whose beloved pig is kidnapped.…read more →
Nicolas Cage
Search for Tomorrow
The Croods: A New Age by George Wolf At least two things have happened since we met The Croods seven years ago. One, we’ve forgotten about the Croods, and two,…read more →
Rite Here, Right Now
Color Out of Space by Hope Madden HP Lovecraft has influenced horror cinema in ways too varied and numerous to really articulate. But true Lovecraft is tough to bring to…read more →
Pace that Kills
Running with the Devil by Hope Madden A tale told in bathrooms, Running with the Devil travels with The Cook (Nicolas Cage), a high ranking jefe in an international cocaine…read more →
Across the Universe
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by George Wolf Should we really be surprised a spider-based franchise has so many legs? It wasn’t that many years ago when Spider-Man 2 was the conventional…read more →
Surrender Mandy
Mandy by Hope Madden and George Wolf A hallucinogenic fever dream of social, political and pop-culture subtexts layered with good old, blood-soaked revenge, Mandy throws enough visionary strangeness on the…read more →
Holding Out for a Hero
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies by Hope Madden Teen Titans was a beloved, fairly-serious, sometimes thematically challenging Cartoon Network program based on Glen Murakami’s comics. Teen Titans Go! was…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 →
My Roof, My Rules
Mom and Dad by Hope Madden I brought you into this world, I can take you out of it. It’s a joke, of course, an idle threat. Right? Maybe so,…read more →
Write it Down, Nic Cage Acts
Joe by Hope Madden After seven years of exploring the big budget, big star world of Hollywood, filmmaker David Gordon Green revisits his ultra indie roots. He hasn’t returned alone,…read more →