Regal Movie Masters Unlimited

Disney's "Haunted Mansion" [00:01:13] kicks off this episode. With a star-studded cast featuring Rosario Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Hadish, Owen Wilson, Dan Levy, Danny DeVito, Winona Ryder, and more, could a nine minute theme park ride translate to a two hour and five minute theatrical release? Australian thriller/horror "Talk To Me" [00:22:09] is up next. In year...

The big day finally came in the form of the simultaneous release of "Barbie" [00:13:54] and "Oppenheimer" [00:37:14]. After over a year of hype, anticipation, excitement, and speculation, did these movies deliver the goods? The gang discusses. A new game called "Tubi Or Not Tubi" [01:09:05] debuts. Some of the craziest ideas you could ever have for movies... well, the...

Did you know that Tom Cruise does his own stunts? Well, then he definitely does his own stunts in "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1" [00:04:40], featuring Tom Cruise doing his own stunts. The most glaring aspect of the "Sound of Freedom" [00:33:02] cultural phenomenon is that not much of the constant jibber jabber surrounds actually reviewing it as a film. Two of you...

BOO! "Insidious: The Red Door" [00:01:14] kicks off this episode, the fifth and "final" installment of the mainline narrative for the franchise. Did it go out with a bang, a whimper, or something somewhere in between? Up next: "Joy Ride [00:26:10], a comedy featuring an almost all-Asian cast, and leaving the unintended effect of at least one Movie Master crying during part...

Fresh off the midway point of the 2023 wrap-up, the gang dives right back into the fray. First up: "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" [00:01:15], at the time of publication, one of the most expensive films ever made. Did all of money being tossed at an 80-year old action hero in the form of Harrison Ford yield anything even remotely close to the early installments of this storied fr...

It's been a rough summer for quality cinema... will a couple of non-tentpoles be the answer the gang has been looking for? "No Hard Feelings" [00:02:21] is a Jennifer Lawrence vehicle about a ride share driver losing... well, her vehicle. In spite of the myriad of avenues to initially explore in a town where apparently most everything is in walking/rollerblading distance, Lawrence&#3...

"The Flash" [00:01:04] is the final installment of the current DC Universe ... era(?). Either way, the decision was made to hop on the multiverse train and go out with a film that summons Batmans and other superheroes throughout time and mash them all into the latest summer blockbuster. Find out if the everything, everywhere, all at once method of telling this particular story worked out...

It's tentpole szn and this week's representation is "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" [00:02:27]. The gang went in with mixed exposure to the franchise, as some have seen all installments and others have maybe seen one or two at most. Given a fresh shakeup of the creative team and a new approach toward the battle scenes, could the more indifferent Movie Masters be won over in th...

Another week, another blockbuster, this time in the form of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" [00:07:25]. The sequel to perhaps the most groundbreaking animated feature of all time, this film had a near-impossible task of topping its predecessor. Did it? Once touted as the next "GUY" in horror following 2020's "Host," director Rob Savage followed it up with th...

After what felt like an eternity of promotion and absurd "controversy," Disney's dark and gritty live action remake of "The Little Mermaid" [00:01:42]finally hit theaters. Encapsulated by a wide range of experience and expertise with the franchise heading into the screening, hear the varied reactions from the gang surrounding all of the choices made in this 2023 retelling....

Movies never sleep and, on weeks where there's 5+ new theatricals to cover, your Movie Masters only rarely do. First up, it's the tenth installment of the "Fast & Furious" franchise in the form of "Fast X" [00:09:52]. Half of the gang watched the first nine movies for the first time in the days before the screening, one member was current and had seen most in the th...

It's no secret that "Book Club" is a top favorite franchise for one of your Movie Masters in particular, so the release of "Book Club: The Next Chapter" [00:06:04] came with a very high degree of anticipation and excitement. With the ladies of Book Club taking their squad over to Rome immediately after a couple years of enduring the blues of the pandemic, could they find jo...

The gang takes a strategic approach this week, balancing out the glut of movies coming out at the same time as "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" against the sheer lack of new releases going up against "Fast X." Thus, "only" three movies are discussed. First up, a listener asks what films each Movie Master has seen multiple times at the theater and all have multiple ans...

SEVEN, yes SEVEN movies to cover this week: SISU [4:20] is, for at least one Movie Master, a hotly anticipated movie about seeking solace and peace via mining for gold in solitude, only to be forcibly drawn back into the business of killing ever last Nazi possible. Hear about all the inventive ways to go about it. POLITE SOCIETY [23:48], an English-Pakastani powerhouse of a film, came in and unive...

It's psychotic to have almost typed "there's only four movies to cover this week," but that's an unfortunate side effect of being in the heart of multiple weeks where five to seven theatrical releases has become the norm. Now eleven months into "the experiment," the gang has long forgotten that the average human statistically reports only "rarely" walking...

It's apparently the megadump season, as the studios and Regal have conspired to unleash no less than six-seven titles each week for the foreseeable future. Rest assured that your Movie Masters are holding to the creed of "every single god damned movie that comes to the local theater," even if they must divide and conquer in order to get the job done. Your SEVEN new release titles cov...

WASSUP GAMERS? Want to argue about "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" [00:01:12]? Well, you've probably come to the wrong place, as the gang had a great time. With the MCU and Warner Bros. Discovery constantly being in the news for all the wrong reasons, are we at the precipice of video game movies usurping comic book movies? Hear the Movie Masters' hit list for what should come next....

Was it bold or just utterly ill-advised to open "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" less than one week before "The Super Mario Bros. Movie?" D&D cost over $150,000,000 to make and still hasn't recouped its production costs. Released just five days later, TSMBM cost around $100,000,000 and grossed over $374,000,000 its opening week while dropping D&D to a d...

Well, two outta three ain't bad... This week: "John Wick: Chapter 4" [00:01:42] hit theaters and the gang was there on opening night. You know this franchise, it's very likely that you love it. Hear everyone's favorite parts , performances, and larger questions for the Wick Universe. "The Lost King" [00:35:40] is up next and, if it's under your radar, the gang h...

Overtime was definitely logged for this episode, as some of the gang journeyed out to the decommissioned Escondido Regal to catch some niché flicks on top of the regular agenda. But first, your emails! Topics include: the recent Regal Movie Masters Unlimited Oscars Special, what everyone does for a living, and how the podcast came to be. To probe further on future episodes, send your comments, sug...

Let's not bury the lead: the most impressive Maltin Movie Masters performance of all time happens at the end of this episode (01:05:49). If you think you've got what it takes, challengers to the undisputed Maltin Movie Masters Sci-Fi championship throne can email moviemasters760@gmail.com and make their presence known. This week in movies: the gang covers Guy Ritchie's "Operation...

The gang is somewhat split on if modern Creed/Rocky-affiliated movies should be held to the "good movie" standards of the inceptive 1976 work or if they should simply be regarded and celebrated as cash-grab punch-hit spectacles. A friendly debate ensues. One Movie Master got duped into thinking that "Jesus Revolution" was going to be a secular telling of the Southern California hippie/Jesus Freak...

The gang got all dressed up to cover the 95th Annual Academy Awards (aka The Oscars). Whether you're already familiar with the winners or still have no clue who won, relive all of the big moments in every single category: • Best Picture • Best Director • Best Actress • Best Actor • Best Supporting Actress • Best Supporting Actor • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Original Screenplay • Best Cine...

It's SPEEDBALL CINEMA™, as the gang unintentionally watched three period pieces involving drugs that go in completely different directions. But first: a rather stern email from a listener finds its way to the moviemasters760@gmail.com inbox and it's directed at one Movie Master in particular. How does the target of such sharp critique respond? On to the movies: " Of An Age " (00:09:04) is a small...

It's at least a four-fer, as the gang had a bevy of new releases to cover, plus extra credit in the form of two Movie Masters' morbid curiosity toward what previous installments of the Magic Mike franchise could possibly be like. First up this week (00:01:20): " She Came From The Woods ," another retro-slasher (this one taking place in 1987). Unlike a lot of contemporary retro slasher fare, there...