Missing Real with Mike D'Arrigo

Who's the coolest comic book character of all time?  I don't want to start a geek battle royale here, but it's safe to say Batman is a likely contender.  Comics...oh, excuse me...Graphic Novels...gave us a brooding vigilante who lurks in the shadows and strikes like a ninja.  Then came Adam West...and the progressively more cheesy Hollywood take on Batman.  Fortunately, the Batman m...

Imagine the hit musical Grease, except that everyone dropped out of Rydell High School and became biker gangs or losers.  Now reduce the number of catchy, memorable hit songs for your drunken karaoke fests and set it entirely at night in a crime-infested city with not a trace of Batman.  Sounds like a blast, don't it?  Well, it's actually a pretty cool film by the director of The Warrior...

The year was 1984, and while Big Brother may have been watching you, in his spare time he might have also watched this excellent movie adapted from a Stephen King novel, starring a cute 8-year-old Drew Barrymore.  No ordinary kid, of course.  She's got the pyrokinesis thing going, so any time she throws a tantrum, things burn down.  She can generate the greatest balls of fire Jerry Lee Lewis...

Know what an event horizon is?  Hint: it is NOT a sunset at a destination wedding.  As far as I know, it's some fancy science slang for a thing black holes do.  In this case, it's a lost space vessel and the doomed mission to recover it.  This 1997 movie, starring Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus!) and Sam Neill (Damien! OK, you might need to have been born in the 70's to get that refer...

Sound...the final frontier.  Because, really, once you've heard this podcast, what more is there to experience?  In this galaxy-spanning comedy supernova, we will explore the classic Kirk/Spock/McCoy era of the Star Trek movies, spanning over a decade of cinema in just under an hour.  Relive all your favorite moments, encounter all the intergalactic villains, learn some surprising trivia, chu...

Long movies with short characters.  We must be back in Middle Earth again!  After 8 years, Peter Jackson brought more Tolkien tales to the big screen and another epic trilogy arrived.  These Hobbit adventures were almost as awesome at the previous Lord of the Rings movies, and some of our old familiar characters show up here, but it's all top-notch action and CGI beasts done properly.  Sweepi...