BACK 2 THE BALCONY

This week we cover the 1993 action classic - CLIFFHANGER! A former mountain rescuer is pitted against a group of criminals who have lost their $100 million stash during a plane crash in the Rocky Mountains. After being persuaded to help rescue a group of stranded hikers, he discovers that they are in fact a gang of violent robbers who need help to locate their missing loot. Hear our take on the fi...

This week we celebrate FATHER'S DAY by reviewing a double bill of "Dad Movies" - with FOLKS (1992) and DAD (1989). Hear our take on the films and on the critiques of SISKEL AND EBERT! SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Visit thecultworthy.com Visit https://www.themoviewire.com Video: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

This week we are discussing the misunderstood classic - SUPER MARIO BROS! Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi get the shock of their lives when they discover a parallel world populated by the intelligent descendants of dinosaurs. It seems they weren't destroyed by a meteor millions of years ago but hurled into another dimension and, now, they have plans to rule our world. It's up to our unlikely her...

This week we cover the Michael J Fox comedy - LIFE WITH MIKEY. He’s a talent agent. She’s a thief. Looks like they’ve already got something in common. Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing. SUBSC...

This week we cover the 1998 film, LITTLE VOICE! A shy girl rarely ventures outside her bedroom and when her mother's boyfriend, a corrupt local promoter, spots her talent for mimicking famous singers, she is swept away by his promises of fame and fortune. However, the local hoodlums have other ideas. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Visit thecultworthy.com Visit https://www.themoviewire.com Video: https://www.you...

A drifter chooses to stop in the wrong town when his beloved Mustang develops engine trouble. Things seem to pick up when sultry Grace McKenna asks him home to help fix her curtains - until her husband Jake finds out. Jake then asks Cooper to kill Grace, but she has her own plans for Jake. Cooper, caught in the middle, had better choose the right side, or he risks losing his life. Hear our take on...

This week we discuss the subversive thriller - BLUE VELVET! College student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns home after his father has a stroke. When he discovers a severed ear in an abandoned field, Beaumont teams up with detective's daughter Sandy Williams (Laura Dern) to solve the mystery. They believe beautiful lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) may be connected with...

This week we tackle the 80's bomb - HOWARD THE DUCK! Howard the Duck is suddenly beamed from Duckworld, a planet of intelligent ducks with arms and legs, to Earth, where he lands in Cleveland. There he saves rocker Beverly from thugs and forms a friendship with her. She introduces him to Phil, who works at a lab with scientist Dr. Jenning. When the doctor attempts to return Howard to his world, Je...

This week we cover the classic arm-wrestling drama - OVER THE TOP! A tale in which a truck driver with a lucrative sideline in arm-wrestling takes his estranged 12-year-old son on the road after the boy's mother falls seriously ill. The trucker is beginning to reach out to the boy as the pair head for Vegas and the arm wrestling world championships, but the lad's wealthy, unfeeling grandfather sen...

This week we cover Mel Brook's - LIFE STINKS! Affluent and arrogant businessman Goddard Bolt (Mel Brooks), feuding with rival Vance Crasswell (Jeffrey Tambor) over a land deal, makes a bet with Crasswell that he has the wits and street smarts to live penniless and anonymous on the rough streets of Los Angeles for 30 days. But Bolt has a rude awakening when the reality of homelessness hits him. Sti...

This week on the show - we cover the 1991 comedy, OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. Larry the Liquidator Garfield (Danny DeVito) is a corporate raider, deconstructing companies and selling off the parts for a profit. His new target is a small-town cable company that employs the majority of the town's residents. With everyone's livelihood depending on him, company chairman Andrew Jorgenson (Gregory Peck) hires...

THIS WEEK we cover the 1990 blockbuster film DICK TRACY! Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse Big Boy Caprice is the city's most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crime lord's illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an enigmatic barroom singer who has witnessed some of Caprice's crimes firsthand. How...

This week we cover the 80's scif-fi classic, THE LAST STARFIGHTER!! After finally achieving the high score on Starfighter, his favorite arcade game, everyday teenager Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) meets the game's designer, Centauri (Robert Preston) -- who reveals that he created Starfighter as a training ground for developing and recruiting actual pilots to help fight a war in space. Hear our take on...

This week we cover the 1990 classic. GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH! The magical collectibles store that Gizmo calls home has just been destroyed, and the tiny monster finds his way into a newly erected skyscraper. Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) and his bride-to-be, Kate (Phoebe Cates), who have previously dealt with Gremlins run amok, discover that Gizmo and an impish legion of reptilian pals are inhab...

This week we cover the 1995 sci-fi thriller - VIRTUOSITY! A former cop who has been imprisoned for murdering the psychopath who killed his family, Parker Barnes (Denzel Washington) is recruited to test out a new virtual-reality program where the goal is to apprehend a computer-generated being called SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe), who has been modeled on hundreds of deranged criminals. When SID manages t...

This week we discuss the 1997 sci-fi action flick STARSHIP TROOPERS! In the distant future, the Earth is at war with a race of giant alien insects. Little is known about the Bugs except that they are intent on the eradication of all human life. But there was a time before the war... A Mobile Infantry travels to distant alien planets to take the war to the Bugs. They are a ruthless enemy with only...

This week we cover 1995's OUTBREAK! A dangerous airborne virus threatens civilization in this tense thriller. After an African monkey carrying a lethal virus is smuggled into the U.S., an outbreak occurs in a California town. To control the spread of the disease, a team of doctors is brought in that includes a contagious disease expert (Dustin Hoffman) and his ex-wife (Rene Russo). Once the Army i...

This week on the show - we are covering the film HOOP DREAMS with special guest: MICHAEL BURGETT of the SCREEN NERDS PODCAST! Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. G...

This week we cover the 1995 adventure classic - FAR FROM HOME: THE ADVENTURES OF YELLOW DOG. While sailing off the shore of British Columbia, John McCormick (Bruce Davison), his son, Angus (Jesse Bradford), and the boy's Labrador retriever, Yellow, encounter severe weather. When Angus and Jesse are knocked overboard, John struggles to rescue them, but to no avail. After washing up on the coast of...

This week we cover the 1989 film - THE ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS. Milo is one lucky cat. He’s got nine lives and a best friend. When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with one another. We cover the film, our childhood memories of it, the animal cruelty controversy -...

This week we cover the 1997 film HOME ALONE 3! When an inept group of criminals tries to get a stolen top-secret computer chip through airport security, it ends up in a toy car in the luggage of the elderly Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes). Unable to promptly retrieve the chip, the felons follow Hess and the car to her neighborhood. After she gives the toy to young Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz), who is home...

This week we cover Siskel an Ebert's appearance on the Nickelodeon program - RATED K FOR KIDS, BY KIDS. Running in the latter half of the 1980's , the show featured film reviews done by kids - and in this very special episode they were joined by ROGER AND GENE! Check it out! SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Visit thecultworthy.com Visit https://www.themoviewire.com Video: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

This week we cover the 1996 adventure film - ALASKA! Jake Barnes moves his daughter and son to Alaska and earns money by ferrying supplies to locations throughout the state. His daughter loves it, but her brother doesn't, and he can't wait to leave. However, they join forces to look for their father when they learn that he has gone down in an airplane accident. The official search party is called...

This week we take a break from movie reviews and pay tribute to the late, great Rob Reiner. We discuss his films that were released during the time of Siskel and Ebert's TV run, as well as the critiques given. We Miss You Rob! SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Visit thecultworthy.com Visit https://www.themoviewire.com Video: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony

This week we continue our annual tradition of awarding our favorite and least favorite films, performers, directors and critiques of season 2! Thanks to all our listeners and supporters for another great year! See you in season 3! SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Visit thecultworthy.com Visit https://www.themoviewire.com Video: https://www.youtube.com/@back2thebalcony