Cinematic Savants

We're back from Holiday break and it's time to release our Top 5 movies of 2023. Did Barbenheimer make an impact of us? Was Godzilla: Minus One crack the top 5? Was Super Mario that good? Did any Marvel movie make the list? Listen and find out!

We're wrapping up 2023 with some of the top stories of the year, which includes Johnathan Majors, Marvels down year, Jada Pinkett-Smith, divorce/breakups, Barbenheimer, and a little trivia from Shawn. Merry New Year from Cinematic Savants!

Standing Ovation (19:42) Julia Roberts, Macaulay Culkin, Devon Sawa. Trivia Time! (50:50). New Releases (1:04:20) Rap Shit, Leave The World Behind,

Standing Ovation (8:36) Matthew Broderick, Alysia Rogers, and Ryan Winters. Binge Worthy (52:45) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, HBO Hard Knocks. New Releases (58:49) Candy Cane Lane and Godzilla: Minus One. Ryan gives us some Movie Trivia (16:56) and we do another deep dive on why Eddie Murphy keeps putting out crappy movies.

Standing Ovation (16:15) Jim Marrs, Lil Rel Howery, Randy Quad. Binge Worthy (41:32) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, HBO Hard Knocks. New Releases (52:53) Dampyr, Napoleon.

Happy Thanksgiving from Cinematic Savants! Standing Ovation (11:09) Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Carpenter, Alan Ritchson. Binge Worthy (44:48) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and The After Party. New Releases (1:04:32) The Killer, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Marvel Trivia! (1:31:15). Also, this week we give our thoughts on the sexual assault allegations against Diddy from his fo...

Standing Ovation (8:30) Nia Decosta, Iman Vallani, Brad Dourif. Binge Worthy (29:44) Goosebumps. New Releases (37:40) The Killer, The Marvels. Name That Movie Trivia (1:39:35).

We're back from our Halloween break and we've got a lot of reviews to catch up on. Binge Worthy (13:29) Gen V, Loki, and Icons on Earth. New Releases (49:22) Five Nights at Freddy's, A Haunting in Venice, Haunted Mansion, and The Burial.

Stand Ovation (12:39) Tupac, Donald Pleasence, Clifton Powell. Binge Worthy (37:53) Gen V, Loki, The Continental. New Releases (51:00) Reptile, Killers of the Flower Moon. Word on the Streets (1:11:13) Jada Pinkett-Smiths book tour. Shawn's Halloween Trivia (1:43:36). Cinematic Savants does a deep dive into the First Date List that has been making its rounds on the internet (1:54:08).

Halloween is approaching and Shawn came up with an idea of having a Horror Draft....BRILLIANT IDEA! So, with a special guest this week, Jake (Not from State Farm), we drafted who will feel are the best horror legends in cinema, the best horror movie, and best horror director.

Standing Ovation (4:35) Park Chan-wook (Director of Oldboy), Eric Kripke, Scott Bakula. Binge Worthy (30:40) American Horror Story and Gen V. New Releases (56:34) Saw X, Strays, and The Exorcist: Believer.

Standing Ovation (7:04) John Woo, Marton Csokas, Garrett Morrison. Binge Worthy (41:27) Suits. New Releases (45:07) BS High, Expendables 4, Saw X, and The Creator. Future Projects (1:56:32) Loki Season 2 and The Exorcist: Believer.

The Cinematic Savant group chat sparked an idea for this weeks episode, an Actor Verses Actor episode. Round 1. Denzel Washington vs Samuel L Jackson (5:09) Round 2. Jim Carrey vs Robin Williams (51:58) Round 3. Robert Downey Jr. vs Johnny Depp (1:08:32) Round 4. Jamie Foxx vs Will Smith (1:28:20 Round 5. Wesley Snipes vs Steven Segal (1:44:18) Bonus Round! Leonardo Decaprio vs Brad Pitt (1:49:26)

The Cinematic Trinity is back and ready to go! Standing Ovation (10:35) Brian De Palma, Kim Fields, and Taissa Farmiga. Binge Worthy (38:45) Suits, Winning Time, Glow Up, and Ashoka. New Releases (53:41) The Equalizer 3 and The Nun 2. Tommy revisits his conversation from last week about white shows getting more second runs over black shows. With the news of Frasier coming back Tommy gives himself...

Standing Ovation (11:12) Gina Torres and Steve Martin. Binge Worthy (30:18) Suits and Killing It Season 2 on Peacock. New Releases (38:30) The Equalizer 3 and BS High. Cinematic News (1:08:49)

With the WGA strike still ongoing we wanted to shine some light on the issues being brought up (9:15), along with that we discussed where does A.I. fit into the future plans of cinema and television? (40:48) The Savants answer some questions for the future of cinema, with a little fan service as well (1:06:00). Tommy gives Ryan and Shawn some theme song trivia (1:42:02). Shawn takes Ryan to Savant...

Standing Ovation (13:46) Quincy Isaiah, Lucas Black, Alicia Silverstone. Binge Worthy (38:23) Johnny Depp Vs. Amber Heard and Swamp Kings on Netflix, Harley Quinn (Max), Ted Lasso (Apple+). New Releases (1:01:57) TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Talk to Me, and Blue Beetle.

We've crossed the half-way point of 2023 for movie releases so it's time for the Top 5 list from yours truly.

It was a crazy week in Montgomery, Al with the Riverboat Brawl (24:23), but we're here for cinema! Stand Ovations (8:32) including the citizens of Alabama and World-Famous Cartoonist Floyd Norman. Bingeworthy (49:09) Winning Time season 2 on HBO Max and Ted Lasso. New Releases (58:51) Barbie and Oppenheimer, along with The Meg 2.

Standing Ovation (14:18) goes to the legendary Paul Ruebens aka Pee Wee Herman and Jamie Foxx. Binge Worthy (46:55) we're covering Twisted Metal on Peacock, Secret Invasion on Disney+, and Pee Wee's Playhouse. New Releases (1:02:57) Barbie, They Cloned Tyrone, and Infinity Pool.

Reviews for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 this week. Shawn and Ryan give high praise for the latest Tom Cruise release, but Tommy has some harsh critiques for the storyline.

We're back from pod-cation ready for the release of Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. We're here to get you caught up on Binge Worthy (42:42) with Secret Invasion and for those we missed our review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, along with New Release (1:06:08) No Hard Feelings, we're here for you fellow savants.

In celebration on Independence Day, we're dedicating this weeks episode to 4th of July/ American themed movies with our top 5 picks. Happy 4th of July from Cinematic Savants!

It was a very eventful week for The Savants so this episode will be reviews only. We have reviews for The Blackening, Elementals, Extraction 2, and The Flash. 2 of the 4 had positive reviews......can you guess which 2 were positive?

Another great cinema week is ahead of us and the Savants are ready! This week Tommy gives an update on his Binge Worthy (37:13) with the Netflix Documentary Arnold. For New Releases this week (44:45) Shawn finally gets to Renfield, Tommy doubles up with Flamin' Hot and Susi, and we all review Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Ryan and Tommy hit on a topic of "Eye Candy" and ask ourse...