Catching Up On Cinema

February is Sports Movie Month at Catching Up On Cinema! This month we'll reviewing films that center around some of our favorite sports. First up, Kyle introduces Trevor to the sport of wrestling via Harold Becker's Vision Quest (1985)! Starring a young Matt Modine as standout varsity wrestler (from Spokane, WA!) Louden Swain, the film is a coming of age tale based on a novel by the same name. Wh...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Catching Up On Blu-Ray episode! This time around, Trevor is once again joined by his good friend Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast in reviewing the month's physical media releases. Check out Brad's podcast, Cinema Speak on Libsyn at Cinema Speak , or on Twitter and Instagram . Find us online at catchinguponcinema.com Follow us on Instagram...

In the final installment of Catching Up On Cinema's Video Game Movie Month, Kyle and Trevor once again invite Kyle's brother Nik to assist them in reviewing John R. Leonetti's, Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997)! Featuring Robin Shou and Talisa Soto as the only 2 returning cast members from the first film, MK Annihilation is a lackluster sequel that utterly fails to measure up to the charm and visu...

In this installment of Catching Up On Cinema's Video Game Movie Month, Kyle and Trevor are joined by SteampunkLink and Emmy Zero from the SNEScapades podcast in reviewing Super Mario Bros. (1993)! Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, the film is the first live-action video game feature film. A historically troubled production, resulting in most of the cast and crew having nothing but awful...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Tales From the Shelf episode! In this installment, the first of 2021, Trevor is once again joined by Brad of the Cinema Speak podcast for a segment the latter has dubbed: The DVDumpster. Potentially Brad's least favorite physical media format, the 2 collectors spend roughly an hour and a half going back and forth sharing some of the WORST DV...

In this week's installment of Catching Up On Cinema's Video Game Movie Month, Kyle and Trevor are once again joined by Matt in reviewing Steven E. de Souza's Street Fighter (1994)! An energetic, albeit loose; adaptation of the wildly popular Capcom fighting game series, the film often bears a stronger resemblance to Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise rather than it's source material. A fairly handsome an...

January 2021 is "Video Game Movie Month" at Catching Up On Cinema! First up this month, Kyle and Trevor are joined by Orion in reviewing Christophe Gans', Silent Hill (2006)! A passion project for the French director, the film is a live-action adaptation of the Konami video game series of the same name. Featuring cinematography, design elements, and even music lifted directly from many of the game...

In this, the final installment of Catching Up On Cinema's "Kyle's Brutal Christmas" event month, Trevor and Kyle are joined by the latter's brother Nick in reviewing the gold standard of 80's action cinema, Die Hard (1988)! Directed by John McTiernan, the film is one of the most popular and well known action films in the history of the genre, such that it has received a whole host of sequels and l...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Catching Up On Blu-Ray episode! This time around, Trevor is once again joined by his good friend Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast in reviewing the month's physical media releases. Check out Brad's podcast, Cinema Speak on Libsyn at Cinema Speak , or on Twitter and Instagram . Find us online at catchinguponcinema.com Follow us on Instagram...

*WARNING!* THIS EPISODE INCLUDES FULL SPOILERS FOR THE FILM! *WARNING!* In this episode of Catching Up On Cinema's "Kyle's Brutal Christmas" event month, Kyle and Trevor review Jim Cumming's thoroughly enjoyable sophomore feature film, The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)! Written, directed by, and starring Jim Cummings, the film is a pitch black comedy centered around a high strung sheriff's deputy gra...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Tales From the Shelf episode! In this installment, "Fave Filmmakers," Trevor and his good buddy Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast spotlight a director that they have a particular affinity for. This time around, Trevor selected veteran Hong Kong filmmaker, Dante Lam. Starting out as a director of both lowbrow screwball comedies, and hardboil...

In this week's installment of Catching Up On Cinema's Kyle's Brutal Christmas event month, we hop across the Atlantic to review Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's French horror thriller, Inside (2007)! Starring Beatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis, the film is one of the most critically acclaimed of the "new wave" of gory French horror flicks from the late 2000's. A particularly brutal home invas...

In this week's installment of Catching Up On Cinema's "Kyle's Brutal Christmas" event month, Kyle and Trevor review Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974)! An early entry in the slasher subgenre of horror films, the movie is certainly profane at times, but is otherwise fairly quaint and subdued in terms explicit content when compared to later examples of the genre. Starring the likes of Olivia Hussey,...

This month is Kyle's BRUTAL Christmas at Catching Up On Cinema! All month long, Kyle is going to be in charge of the movie selections, and from the sound of the title for this month's theme, I have a feeling we're in for a bloody good time. First up this December is our review of Martin McDonagh's In Bruges (2008)! Starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as Irish hitmen hiding out in the Belgia...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Catching Up On Blu-Ray episode! This time around, Trevor is once again joined by his good friend Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast in reviewing the month's physical media releases. Check out Brad's podcast, Cinema Speak on Libsyn at Cinema Speak , or on Twitter and Instagram . Find us online at catchinguponcinema.com Follow us on Instagram...

In the final installment of Catching Up On Cinema's No Theme November event month, Trevor subjects he and Kyle to Stephen Norrington's writing and directorial debut, Death Machine (1994)! A low budget, but largely competent sci-fi horror flick from the man that later helm Wesley Snipes' Blade (1998), the film serves as an enjoyable slice of cyberpunk nostalgia. Packed to the gills with veteran cha...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Tales From the Shelf episode! This month, Trevor is joined by Brad of the Cinema Speak podcast, this time to review some films from their collections featuring some "Stupendous Scores"! Movies and composers highlighted in this discussion: A Cure For Wellness (2013) - Benjamin Walfisch Signs (2002) - James Newton Howard Glory (1989) and Alien...

Catching Up On Cinema's "No Theme November" event month continues, this time with a review of Byron Haskin's The War of the Worlds (1953)! Based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name, the film is the first film version of the oft adapted sci-fi classic. Boasting Academy Award winning visual effects and masterful sound design, the film is one of the most iconic of the "invaders from outer space"...

In this week's installment of Catching Up On Cinema's No Theme November event, Trevor is once against joined by his brother Matt in reviewing Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi action classic, Total Recall (1990)! Headlined by a prime Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film is a wildly inventive tale that pulls double duty as both a simple blood and guts action thriller, and a thought provoking study in multi-layere...

This month is "No Theme November" at Catching Up On Cinema! All throughout the month of November, we'll be reviewing anything and everything that we feel like from week to week. To kick things off, Trevor is joined by his brother Matt in reviewing Damien Chazelle's critically acclaimed drama, Whiplash (2014)! Starring Miles Teller as a drummer that will stop at nothing to achieve greatness, and th...

It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Catching Up On Blu-Ray episode! This time around, Trevor is once again joined by his good friend Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast in reviewing the month's physical media releases. Check out Brad's podcast, Cinema Speak on Libsyn at Cinema Speak , or on Twitter and Instagram . Find us online at catchinguponcinema.com Follow us on Instagram...

In the final installment of "Kyle's Killer October", Kyle serves us a heaping mound of Danish arthouse in the form of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009)! Officially classified as "experimental psychological horror", the film represents a deliberate attempt on the part of the enigmatic filmmaker to create a true horror film. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a married couple that ha...

CAUTION: THIS PODCAST CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS FOR BEN WHEATLEY'S KILL LIST! In this week's installment of Catching Up On Cinema's "Kyle's Killer October" event month, Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast stops by to review Ben Wheatley's Kill List (2011)! A gripping and utterly unpredictable experience, the film is somehow at once a modern horror classic, and something not at all horror related as we...

It's once again time for some more Tales From the Shelf! In this month's episode, Trevor is once again joined by Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast for what the duo are calling, "The Steelbook Showdown". As the name implies, this episode of Tales From the Shelf sees Trevor and Brad sharing some stories about the steelbooks in their respective movie collections. A niche collecting practice amid a s...

This week we celebrate the 100th episode of Catching Up On Cinema! In the past 2 years we've had a ton of fun exploring reviewing movies that were a bit off the beaten path, but to celebrate this historic milestone for the show, we've decided to give ourselves a victory lap in the form of a review of the 90's sci-fi classic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)! Directed by James Cameron and starring...