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The original Beauty and the Beast is considered to be a classic not just in the realm of animation but films in general. It was met with widespread critical acclaim and was even the first animated film to garner a nomination for Best Picture. Jumping on the craze that Alice and Wonderland started in 2010 Disney decided to remake Beauty and the Beast in live action. The film debuted in March of 201...

50 years ago, just 4 years after their last collaboration, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill collaborated once again on the 1973 smash hit The Sting. The crime caper won over critics, and audiences alike and even went on to win several Oscars including Best Picture. Still regarded as one of the best films of the 70s what is it about The Sting that won over so many and how d...

It's fitting that we decided to start a new tradition of reviewing the Best Picture winner just as we got maybe the craziest Bets Picture winner.............ever? Everything Everywhere All At Once blew both critics and audiences away with it's originality, themes, direction, and acting. It won h=just about every major Academy Award it was nominated for which is even more impressive conside...

Closing out Movie March this year we got the 2022 hit that captivated audiences and critics alike Top Gun: Maverick. Coming out a mere 36 years after the first film Top Gun: Maverick was a pleasant surprise to anyone who saw it. The film was a box office juggernaut, becoming the highest grossing film of Cruise's career, a critical darling, being one of the best reviewed films of the year, and...

The foundational idea of legacy sequels are all about coming back to a property and saying "yeah I still got it." Sometimes it works, other times it REALLY doesn't. Case in point today's movie Blues Brothers 2000. A desperate attempt by Dan Akyroyd and Jon Landis to recapture the magic of the first Blues Brothers 2000 fails to realize what made the first movie special. What exact...

Movie March continues on! Next up on the docket is a movie that is widely regarded as one of the biggest disappointments in cinematic history. Nearly 20 years after the last Indiana Jones adventure Steven Spielberg and company decided to bring the character back to the big screen for a whole new audience. Despite a strong box office and surprisingly decent critical reviews (seriously look it up it...

Welcome to another installment of Movie March. We usually theme these around a franchise but since they're the big thing right now the theme of this year's March is Legacy Sequels. Basically movies that came out way way WAY later than it's predecessor. Sometimes they go great, sometimes they go not great, here we have a movie that kinda does a bit of both. TRON: Legacy came out in 2010 that's 28 y...

You wanna see us experience confusion in real time? Well look no further than  this commentary. This was the first time either of us had seen Southland Tales, and boy does it show. Come watch along with us as we try to figure out what the hell is going on

Southland Tales came out in 2006 and was the ambitious second outing of Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly. The film had an absolutely insane cast of actors and plot that many found too confusing to follows. Following a disastrous screening at the Cannes Film Festival it got a pretty significant overhaul for it's.........which was also disastrous. This often cited as one of the biggest cinematic...

This is a topic we like to tackle every single year (the question of when is a different story but we always do at some point), it's our Top 20 Performances of the year 2022. Keep in mind while we each did see a lot we didn't see everything, like every year films release in different places at different times, so this is our Top 20 as of right now. We have a great year of content planned for you a...

Happy Holidays everybody! This Christmas we decided to throw it way back to the 1940's to talk about one of the all time classic Christmas films: It's A Wonderful Life. This film has been entertaining and moving people for nearly 80 years and today we're here to discuss what makes it such a classic. We're talking that as well as latest trailers like Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse, latest news...

This week marks our look into one of the biggest blockbusters of all time from the guy who practically invented the term. We're looking at E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year. To say movie was a big hit would be an understatement, ET was a box office juggernaut having one of the longest theatrical runs in history. So why was this film such a monumental h...

A year of podcasting wouldn't feel right if we didn't look at a Stephen King film, and one got one of the crowning achievements of trash to look at this week with 1996's Thinner. Very rarely do we look at a film where absolutely nothing goes right. What is ti about this film that makes it so maligned? We talk about that plus latest trailers like Elemental , latest news like the massive shake-up at...

This episode is late because it marks a special occasion, for the first time in our show's history we're gonna be looking at one of our all time favorite movies, like we're talking #1. So we needed to bring in some big guns, enter fellow Ghostbusters mega-fans Robert and Vanessa of Late to the Party. The original Ghostbusters went from being a movie that was thought to be unfilmable to a global ph...

We're kicking real old school with this week's film as we take a look at the oldest movie we've reviewed so far. The Wolfman came out off the back of the far less successful Werewolf of London and became a cultural touchstone for Universal. What is it about this film that makes it a horror classic? We find out! We talk the movie plus latest trailers like Creed 3 and Ant-Man 3, latest news like Jam...

CRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER.............Once you see this movie that is literally all you'll be singing. Welcome to our 5th Annual SCARE FEST. This year's theme is The Monster Mash where every episode will be themed around a particular kind of monster this week's monster Vampires, the movie: 1987's The Lost Boys. This was Schumacher's biggest step into genre filmmaking, and The Lost Boys ended...

And with this our Direc-tember this year has concluded, but we're going out with a bang as we talk about 1960's The Apartment. This is regarded as the last great Wilder film due to the fact that his efforts after this never really reached the success of his prior film. This movie was lauded at the time for it's performances and once again for Wilder's propensity to tackle subjects that were consid...

You know the phrase going on right now that "Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood"? Well this is one of if not THE film that started that. Sunset Boulevard came out n 1950 and once again cemented Wilder's case as one of the best directors working. This film garnered critical acclaim, 11 Oscar Nominations, and often cited as one of the greatest films of all time. So how relevant is it over 70 yea...

Finally we are starting our Direc-tember Deep Dive on Billy Wilder, starting with the movie that put him on the map 1944's Double Indemnity. Often cited as one of the first real Film Noirs, Double Indemnity is considered not only as one of the best of that genre but as one of the best of that era. So what is it about this film that caught the attention of so many? We find out! We talk the movie pl...

Prep your grits and get re-acquainted with you knowledge of cars as this week we're looking at 1992's My Cousin Vinny. This legal comedy gave us a different side of usual wiseguy Joe Pesci by making him the hero. Upon release 30 years ago the film received critical acclaim, and even garnered an Oscar win for costar Marissa Tomei. So what is it about this film that makes it stand out? That's the ca...

The subject of what is going to be our final episode of Action Star Summer is none other than the Master of Woah himself Keanu Reeves, and the film we're looking at is the film that ignited his comeback 2014's John Wick. Being the global phenomenon that it is now people forget that the first John Wick didn't have a lot fanfare before it's release. But word spread and word spread fast about the com...

Because we haven't done one in a while and because this movie is perfect for it (especially if you're like Russell and you haven't seen it) here is our commentary for Sleepaway Camp. Watch-along with us!

Summer is wrapping up, kids are returning from camp so this seemed like the perfect time to talk about 1983's Sleepaway Camp. This movie came out at the height of the teen slasher genre, and gained notoriety for it's memorable twist. Was this film ahead of it's time? How does it compare to other slashers of the same era. We talk about that plus latest trailers like Black Panther Wakanda Forever, l...

At long last we're back to our regularly scheduled programming as we take a look at Boogie Nights which will be celebrating it's 25th Anniversary this year. This is the film that is credited for putting a lot of people on the map mainly it's director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson, and it's star Mark Wahlberg. It garnered a lot of acclaim with some even today referring to it as career bests for both...

It's another Host's Choice episode and Chance decided to throw it WAY back with 1959's Some Like It Hot. Directed by the great Billy Wilder this film is regarded as not only one of the great comedies but one of the greatest films of all time. AFI ranked it at 22 on their Top 100 Movies and all the way at NUMBER 1 on their Top 100 Comedies. So wat about this film has stood to make generations laugh...