Cinema Royale

This week we’re joined by special guest Scott Menzel of We Live Entertainment as we look forward to our most anticipated films of 2021! Don’t worry, we still make time to talk about all of this week’s new releases including Outside the Wire, One Night in Miami, American Skin, The Marksman and the first new dose of Marvel we’ve had in a year, the Disney+ series WandaVision.

SYLVIE'S LOVE director Eugene Ashe talks with Travis Hopson about his 1950s romance starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha.

SYLVIE'S LOVE director Eugene Ashe talks with Travis Hopson about his 1950s romance starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha.

2020 may have been a complete disaster that only Roland Emmerich could love, but it wasn’t all bad. There was quite a lot of good out there in the movie world, and while it wasn’t enough to make everything better, there was enough to at least fill an hour of our show. Since we did the Worst of 2020 last week, Cinema Royale is back with the Best Movies of 2020. And for the first time ever, we didn’...

Can you really appreciate the best without acknowledging the worst? On this week’s episode of Cinema Royale, we look with shame at the movies that made an already-horrible year just that much worse. No highs on this list, nothing but hilariously dreadful lows. Some aspired to greatness, others reached for the lowbrow and grabbed it a little too effectively. However they got here, they’re here now...

Merry Christmas! This holiday season our gift to you is…less of us! Well, by about 20 minutes. We’ve still got a full bunch of reviews that you can listen to while sitting by the fire with your cup of cocoa and plate of Christmas cookies. The big one, of course, is WONDER WOMAN 1984! Does it live up to the previous movie and do well enough at the box office to warrant a third? Plus, reviews of Reg...

On this week’s Cinema Royale we’ve got a full lineup to get through before we can do what we really wanna do, which is gush about THE MANDALORIAN’s season 2 finale! How fast can get everything else done? Well, you know us, not too fast at all. We’re talking about the Carey Mulligan thriller PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a film everyone is buzzing about. The late Chadwick Boseman has been winning awards l...

Disney dominates this week's show as we talk about the jaw-dropping blitz of announcements from their Investor Day conference. More Star Wars movies and TV shows, trailers and reveals of Marvel's upcoming slate, and more!

This week on Cinema Royale we talk about a likely awards winner in Frances McDormand’s new NOMADLAND, then it’s on to something more colorful in Ryan Murphy’s THE PROM. That’s not the big news though, the bombshell that Warner Bros is moving their entire 2021 slate to HBOMax for simultaneous VOD and Theatrical premier, that’s the big news, and Travis and John jump deep into what this means for the...

This week on Cinema Royale we tried for a shortened show and somehow end up with a regular length episode. Movies on the slate for this week are Riz Ahmed’s powerful THE SOUND OF METAL, the Predator-esque JIU JITSU and Jackie Chan’s VANGUARD. Then it’s onto news where the WONDER WOMAN 1984 release news hits big and, of course, we cover the latest episode of THE MANDALORIAN. All this and more! Foll...

This week on Cinema Royale, the coffers are full with reviews and plenty of news. We’ve got on the slate, FREAKY the serial killer body swap film with Vince Vaughn, HILLBILLY ELEGY which is hoping for awards notice….will it get some? Then it’s on to FATMAN with Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins playing Santa and the assassin looking for him, respectively of course. Of course that’s not all. We have ne...

This week on Cinema Royale we climb aboard the Razor Crest in search of a new bounty with The Mandalorian‘s first episodes of season two! Then we check in with Ma and Pa Kent in the dramatic thriller Let Him Go, and prepare to soar into space with Eva Green in Proxima. Plus, Johnny Depp went and got his ass fired from Fantastic Beasts! We’ll talk about what’s next for him, if anything, and look at...

This week on Cinema Royale we check in on the controversial BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, then it’s B-Horror goodness with BAD HAIR and a classic remake in THE WITCHES. Of course, the hour wouldn’t be complete without a round up of all the news that hit this week including the latest to ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE, the possibility of NO TIME TO DIE going to streaming, and the latest on THE MEG 2! A...

On this week’s Cinema Royale, Travis has been kicked to the curb and replaced. Good fucking riddance. Nah, with Travis away at the Middleburg Film Festival, John is joined by fellow PDCer Khalil to talk about Liam Neeson’s latest, HONEST THIEF, and the finales of THE BOYS and LOVECRAFT COUNTRY! All this and more! Follow the Punch Drunk Critics and Cinema Royale! www. PunchDrunkCritics.com twitter....

No matter who wins we all lose this week as it’s two Adam Sandler and Netflix’s HUBIE HALLOWEEN vs. Robert De Niro’s WAR ON GRANDPA. One of these flicks is like a flaming bag of dog poo left on your front porch. The other like someone just egged your car. Plus news on what’s left of the movie business, which ain’t a lot. Regal has shut down theaters, every movie you were looking forward to has fle...

Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott on the challenges of playing the same role in Brandon Cronenberg's POSSESSOR.

SAVE YOURSELVES! stars Sunita Mani and John Paul Reynolds on being invades by alien pouffes in the breakout sci-fi comedy

SAVE YOURSELVES! writers/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson join Punch Drunk Critics to talk their breakout sci-fi comedy, tech obsession, and alien invasion!

Brandon Cronenberg joins Travis Hopson to discuss his body-swapping spy film POSSESSOR starring Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott.

On the latest episode of Cinema Royale, we rave over Netflix’s ENOLA HOLMES starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, and Helena Bonham Carter. It might be the best movie Netflix has done all year, although we sorta disagree on that. Plus, updates on BLACK ADAM, ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE, and BLACK WIDOW! All this and more! Follow the Punch Drunk Critics and Cinema Royale! www. Pu...

WWE Superstar John Hennigan (John Morrison) talks with Travis Hopson about the blisteringly fun sci-fi action flick THE SPEED OF TIME.

Damn, it's kind of a grim week as all of the movies center on the worst of humanity. First up, we review Netflix's star-studded The Devil All the Time, with Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and more. Then the revenge thriller The Secrets We Keep with Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnnaman, plus Janelle Monae in Antebellum! Finally, Alexandra Daddario lets her freak flag fly in Lost Girls & Love Hotels! We'...

Travis Hopson talks with THE SECRETS WE KEEP stars Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman about their new revenge thriller, open on September 18th!

On the latest Cinema Royale, we look ahead to the future of Marvel's BLACK PANTHER following the loss of Chadwick Boseman. Of course, there are also reviews of Christopher Nolan's anticipated TENET, the Disney+ release of MULAN, the second season of THE BOYS, and somehow we went on a tangent about BLUE CRUSH director John Stockwell. How'd that happen??

On this week’s Cinema Royale, we’re remembering Chadwick Boseman for the man he was on and off the screen. Travis talks about returning to movie theaters for TENET and THE NEW MUTANTS, and whether he feels safe enough to keep going back. Plus, we review BILL & TED: FACE THE MUSIC, and talk about the whitewashing controversy surrounding THE NEW MUTANTS’ casting of Sunspot. All this and more! Follow...