Cinema 5000

Warning: There’s a bunch of rambling in this episode to avoid spoiling everything, ha. Evil Does Not Exist, Massacre at Central High, Running on Empty, and I Saw the TV Glow

Three movies about three men who are lovers and fighters (in their own ways). Oscars Best Picture 1996 winner Braveheart, Oscars Best Picture 1996 Nominee The Postman (Il Postino), and the new action/comedy/romance feature The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling. The count: 5,507

Some real variety in this episode… The Dark Backward, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, Green Border and a visit to the Independent Film Festival of Boston, Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts Anyway?, Cutting Class, and A Beautiful Mind.

Let’s close out April with some fun films: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Challengers, The Bodyguard (1992), Ms .45, and Late Night with the Devil.

We’re back … some new movies, some old: The First Omen, Immaculate, The Italian Job (1969), Valhalla Rising, Night Swim, Men At Work, Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troigros, and The Beast.

Hey! New year, new rewatches! Featuring appearances from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, a couple Oscar nominated/winning films from 2023, Little Women, Cecil B. Demented, Bill & Ted, and More! Don’t forget to visit Cinema5000.com!

Spring has sprung! Backdraft, Lady in the Water, What Planet Are You From?, Memory (2023), Problemista, Stopmotion, and The Boy Friend (1971).

Post-Oscars, we go back to the movies- The Burning (1981), American Symphony, Nimona (2023), Society of the Snow, Perfect Days, Four Daughters, Love Lies Bleeding, Irish Jam, The Crow (1994), Sometimes I Think About Dying, and Imaginary (2024). *Correction* yes, I accidentally introduced American Symphony as American Fiction. Film Watching Note: I mentioned a CONTENT WARNING for Sometimes I Think...

The 96th annual Academy Awards are done! Lets talk about the ceremony. Winners, losers, and Ken.

Docs and Dune! Featuring: Another Body, 20 Days in Mariupol, Bottoms (2023), and Dune: Part Two. PLUS a pre-Oscars Best Picture special (fizzy!) - error: the central “subject” of Another Body has the name Taylor, not Hannah.

As we close out February, I gave some horror, some action, some comedy, and some Oscar Nominated shorts a look. The Films: Enys Men, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Piranha, Cherry 2000, Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Subject films, Madame Web, Thank God It’s Friday, and Drive-Away Dolls.

Oh boy, a huge catchup for films seen in late January and February. Only 18 films! Sorry, I said 19 on the podcast in error. What movies are they? Miller’s Girl, The Portrait of a Lady, Meet Me in the Bathroom, The Zone of Interest, The Ward, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Morvern Callar, Surviving Desire, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Love Jones, Freejack, Lisa...

Hello! A number of films, new and old- The Bye Bye Man, Truly Madly Deeply, Drowning by Numbers, Movie 43, All Of Us Strangers. Plus from the Sundance Film Festival, reviews of films from their online screenings: Handling the Undead, Between the Temples, Dig! XX, In the Summers, and Ibelin.

A somewhat long, delirious look at all the nominees and films from 2023 that are now going for Oscar gold. To see the full list, visit oscar.com. The Oscars 2024 will air LIVE SUNDAY MARCH 10 7e/4p on ABC. I apologize for any misspoken titles.

Eight films! Rotting in the Sun, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Poor Things, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Everybody Loves Jeanne, Fallen Leaves, Savage Streets, and American Fiction

Its 2024… so lets get caught up with everything left from 2023 that I saw for the first time, plus what I started watching to be begin the year! (I apologize, I recorded this very late at night so my faculties weren’t so sharp) The movies: Johnny Dangerously, The Color Purple (2023), Body Parts, Afire, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (sorry but the Nightmare band was not good!!), Moonage Daydream...

Howdy, Happy New Year! Lets talk about how I saw Barbie FIVE TIMES. And some other films. Plus the Coolidge Corner Horror Marathon was attended back in October, so I talk about all the witchery that was had!

Happy Holidays!!! Loads of films to close out 2023 … Maestro, Wonka, Playing with Fire (1975), Showing Up, Reality (2023), Godzilla Minus One, and Deck The Halls. PLUS Movie gifts (recommendations for you to enjoy!!) Michael Caine Acting special: https://youtu.be/bZPLVDwEr7Y?si=LUMawV4B3TnoNVgj *Correction: I saw Boogie Nights on 35mm at the Somerville Theater in 2019.*

A quickie of all 2023 movies! The Boy and the Heron, Napoleon, The Royal Hotel, and The Boys in the Boat

Happy Holidays! Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, May December, Home for the Holidays, Heaven’s Gate, Once Around, and Cat Person - plus a couple announcements!

Hope you all had a nice holiday! For me there was indeed some turkey, just not on my plate - Rustin, Saltburn, An American Werewolf in London, Baby It’s You, Corpse Bride, Jagged, No Hard Feelings

Happy Thanksgiving! Not much in the way of Turkeys in this episode for me, thankfully! Reviews of… The Marvels, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Duets, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Steel Magnolias, The Holdovers, and Lynch/Oz.

Loads to talk about this episode! Including Mania Cop, Fleshtone, The Rapture, Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Priscilla, I Madman, Stepfather 3, Anatomy of a Fall, Thinner, Charlie’s Angels; Full Throttle, Fingernails, and The Killer (2023) - plus the Coolidge Corner Halloween Horror Marathon 2023!

Five films! The 90s comedy Trial and Error, the action-adventure 80s film Romancing the Stone, demons in Demons 2, Leonardo DiCaprio is a dumb boy in Killers of the Flower Moon, and an angel of death runs wild in It’s A Wonderful Knife

Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour gets a look from a non-Swifty, plus the sexy Cemetery Man, the horrifying Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, the odd story of The Baby (1973), and we get messy with Passages (2023)