Nick Nack Goes To The Movies

It's been a long time coming, but another horror franchise was looming large in my to do bin for episode content.  I've tackled some of the modern classics, and with The Conjuring franchise in the rearview mirror, it dawns upon me to take on the other Patrick Wilson spooky multi-movie series.  So Insidious o'clock, here we are. If you like hauntings and family dramas with emotional...

2023 and the holiday season may be coming to a close, those things are true and time is relative.  But before that all takes place, I want to look back at the latest and potentially greatest season horror movie to come out.  Thanksgiving is not a very movie-laden holiday outside of Spider-Man, Black Friday, and not this spooky slasher named aptly for the same holiday, Thanksgiving.   So if you lik...

It may not be a stellar entry for the DCEU.  But somehow it encapsulate the ups and downs and the best and worst of the not so long-standing franchise.  If nothing else, the Flash movie exists.  This is a movie that has been long expected and gone through multiple ideas and revisions as the future looked bright-ish for this latest cinematic universe and now it looks dead in the water.  The hype go...

It is another catchup episode of Nick Nack Goes to the Movies, and thank goodness they say good things come to those who wait.  It may not be as new to theaters, but we have a jam packed triple feature here.  Timely considering I just did a double feature of back to back movie viewings at Marcus Theaters.  Not the Barbenheimer cinematic event, this is something more casual. So you wanna know what...

Well hey you, long time no chat?  But now is the time to get reacquainted with one another as well as some of the movies that have been around the theater scene.  If you like video game adaptations and want to see another Jack Black musical bop, well good, we are talking about The Super Mario Bros. Movie .  If you like nerdy things, Chris Pine, and nerdy adaptations, we got Dungeons & Dragons:...

The Scream franchise has a special place in my heart.  It may not be the scariest franchise out there, in fact, I can almost guarantee it is not, but it does something nothing else has really come close to.  It takes a genre in slashers that people love and it plays with that notion of film lovers, it puts them in the movie.  It has fun with the tropes of the genre without outright mocking them. ...

After every non life-threatening medical issue ever to start off 2023 and some work travel, we are back baby.  Back on your podcast airwaves, back with season 4, and Nick Nack is indeed back to theater for some movies.  We ended last season with a Marvel movie so now we have to start this one with, you guessed it, another Marvel and specifically MCU movie.  A ton of fun movies came out at the end...

It is time to say goodbye to the MCU, well Phase 4 at least.  Let's be real, we know of at least 2 more phases in the works.  But Black Panther: Wakanda, or Black Panther 2 is the end cap of big screen movie entries for this phase, of course we have Disney Plus shows and a few seasonal specials.  So this is the perfect time to recap one of the more highly anticipated entries of this phase.  W...

There is a lot of change afoot for DC Comics in regards to their live-action presence.  First the DCEU now just the DC Universe.  That "The World Needs Heroes" trailer that had one independent project and 3 DCEU projects  was quickly short-changed to just the well-received The Batman movie and only this one movie, Black Adam, came out in this year.  The last of these DCEU, now just DCU m...

Another episode is here just in time to ring in and close out the greatest time of the year, this Halloween eve you can celebrate the season in 2 unique ways with 2 franchises.  Want some family friendly fun?  Check out the sequel almost 30 years later, Hocus Pocus 2 and all the bewitching fun that may or may not bring.  And after that, for a nightcap for something a bit scarier, you can hear how...

Another spooky vampire or otherwise horror movie out and about, and here I and this podcast are to talk all about it!  Will you accept this invitation to this episode about the newest thing to sink your teeth into, The Invitation?  This episode has everything you could want.  Horror things, references to gothic architecture and Hallmark movies, romance, and a debate about the multiple portrayals o...

While August and all of the summer blockbusters are mostly behind us, I wanted to take one long overdue look at some of the early August movies to grace theaters everywhere, especially my default one, Marcus Theaters.  So  this episode, it is time for you to catch a ride on the Bullet Train and hope you don't leave a trail of too many Bodies, Bodies, Bodies along the way.  On one hand, you ha...

Another scary movie, and you know what that means?  Yes, I had to talk about it, especially with the Jordan Peele name on it, that is like the seal of approval for the genre these days.  And with it comes the movie trip to see the latest of these, Nope, with a few friends on the show as fellow Nopers to give not only their Letterboxd ratings, but also, all of us try and come up with the moral or m...

On this episode of Nick Nack Goes To The Movies, we have another mixed bag of horror and super hero content.  And likewise, the mix not only includes genres, albeit ones you loyal listeners are super familiar with, the blend of scares and supes.  The big mix is once again expectations.  A big budget MCU movie, the juggernaut of movies and now shows with Disney Plus, versus a short story adaptation...

Welcome to another episode of Nick Nack Goes To The Movies.  With nothing crazy coming out that I was dying to dedicate to a whole episode.  I wanted to tackle a longstanding horror franchise that had been on my desk for ages, in the early inception of this podcast.  And with the day that it was, I was curious for a 4th themed horror something or another too.  And we did I Know What You Did Last S...

This episode of Nick Nack Goes to the Movies takes one the newest entries in some late 80's and early 90's classics.  The 6th and potentially final movie end-capping the second dynamic dinosaur trilogy, Jurassic World: Dominion, and the sequel that nobody anticipated ever coming, Top Gun: Maverick.   So, the theme of this episode quickly became how different franchise have come back to m...

It is time loyal listener for another super-stuffed episode of this pop-culture podcast.  This episode of Nick Nack Goes to the Movies is all about the Black Mirror franchise.  In the spirit of long lasting franchise marathon binges, we have given this the American Horror Story treatment.  I got through all 22 movies/episodes in two weeks and here we are.  If you want to be horrified by technology...

The latest from Marvel and the Cinematic Universe is here!  And while that could also be applied to Moon Knight on Disney Plus.  I am actually referencing the latest MCU movie to come out, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.  The latest of these movies to hopefully provide more clear concrete direction for the MCU, spoiler alert, it does not.  But what it does do is blend the horror and s...

It is time for another magical episode about a film franchise, albeit not as long standing or even particular sturdy one.  While we all want to talk about multiverses and strange doctor men, first I gotta get my notes out there to you on not only the latest Fantastic Beasts film, Secrets of Dumbledore, but also the middle less than stellar entry, The Crimes of Grindelwald, and of course the origin...

On the latest episode of this movie review podcast, I am not gonna recommend this one.  I like super hero things, and I like horror things.  Hypothetically this sounds like it would be a power blend of both genres with the latest Marvel adaptation, Morbius.  That being said, this movie was not it.  And honestly, kind of what you expected from the trailers.  There is a dance scene that tries to riv...

It's time for another super hero movie, and you know I had to get my The Batman fix on ASAP!  Is it the best of the caped crusader's live-action representations?  If not, it sure has one of the most intriguing casts for one of these with the likes of Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell to name a few.  This gritty and dark version, those words may...

Hello loyal listeners, after a slight hiatus we are back and busier than ever.  It feels like we are always playing catchup these days and episodes, this is no exception, but hopefully the last of these for a bit.  The February movie haul is here with the latest in a beautiful looking adaptation series of the amazing author Agatha Christie.  First we had Murder on the Orient Express in 2017 and in...

The first guest of the year for this latest entry in a classic scary movie franchise.  Scream is an iconic horror generation spanning decades with 5 fairly strong entries.  Some may be better than others, but this latest iteration from 2022 is the strongest since the first one, but let's not forget that Scream 2 is pretty quality as well.  This is also my first guest for season 3 of Nick Nack...

While this is not the horror trauma exploration and therapy session from the latest Scream film, yet, this episode will tackle some of those same emotional emotions, in the way that only a Disney movie can.  The latest big animated film, Encanto, is now available on Disney+, so now is the time to watch it!  If you want sentient furniture like Beauty and the Beast, amazing music like Coco, a unique...

The final film look back is here.  It has been a long time coming but here we put the final bow on 2021 movies and look ahead to all that 2022 has in store for us like more Marvel things, another video game adaptation, Scream 5, and of course, the latest version of live-action Batman.  So before we can do that, we have the resurrection of The Matrix, for better or worse, it's for worse.  We a...