Thank God For Movies

Oh you want to watch a movie with some fantastic beasts and secrets? Great news, we're reviewing RRR this week, one of the best action blockbusters to come out in years. Seriously! This Tollywood film came out a few weeks ago, and we chat about the hype and what this director, S.S. Rajamouli, might do next. We open this week's show with some brief thoughts on the Fantastic Beasts franchise, plus w...

Ambulance , the newest action crime thriller from Michael Bay, isn't a video game movie like Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , but it might as well be. We begin this week's show with this runaway GTA-inspired Bayhem heist, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Eiza Gonzáles. Then we spend some quality time with Sonic and the gang in this superpowered sequel to the 2020 box office hit...

Special guest  Cory Woodroof  joins the show to review The Bubble , a new Judd Apatow satirical comedy that just hit Netflix and stars a massive cast. Karen Gillan, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Kate McKinnon, Pedro Pascal, David Duchovny, Fred Armisen, Maria Bakalova, and Iris Apatow. It’s a who’s who of big-name actors who made a bubble movie about the pandemic, and you...

Talk about a multiverse of madness. This week, we're diving into A24's surreal and cerebral Everything Everywhere All at Once from the Daniels, directors of Swiss Army Man . Starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, and Jamie Lee Curtis, this sprawling and manic action fantasy is definitely one we won't forget anytime soon. We also review the nostalgic Apollo 10½: A Space Age Chil...

Oscars 2022 really slapped this year. That's right, we're discussing Will Smith and Chris Rock's exchange of hard-hitting ideas at this year's ceremony, but we of course comment on the awards themselves and our thoughts on who won. Our first main review is The Los t City , a swashbuckling romantic comedy adventure blockbuster starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. Then we slow things down for...

It's time for our annual Oscars episode, in which we take a cue from Siskel and Ebert's classic approach in picking our own winners for the Academy Awards. From The Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza to Dune and CODA , we run down our favorite films, performances, and technical achievements covered by the 2022 Oscars, which airs officially on March 27. Links : Follow us on Twitter:  Jon Negr...

Special guest Cory Woodroof joins the show for a mother of an episode. That's right, we're excavating the Madea franchise, fixing in specifically on the latest straight-to-Netflix feature starring Tyler Perry as the caricature who's been around since...1999? Wow. Intro Music: “Les Pieds Dans Le Sable” by Clément Matras, Soul Food Horns & Birocratic Links : Follow us on...

Let's talk about X . And Deep Water ! Two movies that are doing it. One is an original 70s-based slasher horror in theaters from director Ti West starring Mia Goth and Jenna Ortega. The other is a psychological erotic thriller on Hulu from director Adrian Lyne starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. Don't worry, this episode of Cinemaholics gets more, ahem, heated than that movie. We also finish ou...

Heads have been turning for Turning Red , the newest Pixar film directed by Domee Shi. But do the Cinemaholics have warm and fuzzy feelings for this fantastical coming-of-age movie set in the most fantastical setting of all time? Canada circa 2002? We also discuss The Adam Project , a new Netflix sci-fi action movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, and Mark Ruffalo. Show Notes...

The Batman is demolishing the box office right now, but the real bat signal is that notification on your phone telling you it's time for a new episode of Cinemaholics. That's right, we're reviewing Matt Reeves' reboot of the Batman franchise, now starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, and plenty more familiar (and unfamiliar?) faces. Later in the show we also discuss the love...

We're not singing our thoughts on Cyrano , but we probably should be. That's right, we're reviewing Joe Wright's new musical starring Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett, who also starred in the stage musical written by Erica Schmidt, who writes the screenplay for this adaption of the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac . Later in the show, we also talk about No Exit , a new Hulu thriller...not much else to...

Special guest Charlie Ridgely of Comicbook.com joins us for a bonus review of Dog , which stars Channing Tatum as, well, our best friend. This is Tatum's first time directing, with his longtime collaborator Reid Carolin as co-director. And the film, coming to us from United Artists Releasing and MGM, is about an army ranger who escorts the dog of a fallen commander to their funeral. The cast inclu...

We've decided to mess with Texas Chainsaw Massacre . On a special bonus episode of the Cinemaholics Podcast, we review the new Netflix horror film directed by David Blue Garcia ( Tejano ) and produced by Fede Álvarez ( Don't Breathe ,  Evil Dead ). The film, which is a direct sequel to the 1974 original classic (and direct copy of 2018's Halloween ) stars Elsie Fisher ( Eighth Gra...

Special guest and gaming editor Evan Griffin joins us for a playful review of Sony's Uncharted , the feature film adaptation of the hit video games from Naughty Dog. Starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, Uncharted is a franchise long in the making. Well, development hell, let's be honest. But what do we think of this summer blockbuster adventure hitting theaters in...Febraury? Show Notes: 00:00:...

We said yes to the mess. In this special bonus episode of Cinemaholics, we tackle two romantic comedies that just hit two different streaming services. First up is Marry Me (on Peacock), which stars Jennifer Lopez as a superstar who spontaneously marries a random guy, played by Owen Wilson, in the crowd of her concert. Then we get into I Want You Back (on Prime Video), which stars Charlie Day and...

Now available to stream on HBO Max,  Kimi is a new paranoia thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by David Koepp. It stars Zoë Kravitz, Derek DelGaudio, and Rita Wilson. This review is an excerpt from Episode #259 of the Cinemaholics Podcast. Our intro music for this week is “Seeping” by Sinnr. Links: Find more of our movie reviews on Cinemaholics.com Follow us o...

Who's dead wrong about Death on the Nile ? That's right, Kenneth Branagh is back as Agatha Christie's acclaimed Hercule Poirot, and he's also back as director of this star-studded cast featuring Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Annette Bening, and plenty more. We open this week's show with some brief catchup on films like Blacklight , I Want You Back , and Marry Me . And we finish things out with a review...

We're over the moon to talk about...the Oscars 2022 nominations! That's right, we open this week's show with a brief reaction to the Academy's nominations, including all the snubs and nice surprises. We then blast off for our review of Moonfall , Roland Emmerich's new space disaster movie starring Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, John Bradley, and other actors who probably regretted showing up to the...

Special guest Cory Woodroof is here to help Will review Jackass Forever , and you better believe they do their own stunts. This is fourth (and maybe final?) Jackass movie, once again directed by Jeff Tremaine and featuring the sheer, outright balls of Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man, and plenty more. Jackass Forever is now playing in theaters through Paramount Pictu...

Sundance 2022 went real smooth. Or Cha Cha Real Smooth , we should say. That's right, this week we discussed the best films we saw at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. We start the show with an overview of the festival itself, our experience with the films, and what we should expect from the coming year when it comes to indie filmmaking. Which films disappointed us? Which ones do we think the other...

Now playing in limited release,  The Pink Cloud ( A Nuvem Rosa ) is a Brazilian pandemic thriller drama directed and written by luli Gerbase in her feature film debut. The film, which actually seriously made before our current pandemic happened, stars Renata de Lélis, Eduardo Mendonça, and Kaya Rodrigues. This review is an excerpt from Episode #256 of the Cinemaholics Podcast. O...

Now playing in limited release,  The Worst Person in the World is a Norwegian dark romantic comedy from director Joachim Trier (the third in his "Oslo Trilogy"). It stars Renate Reinsve and is currently on the shortlist for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming Academy Awards. This review is an excerpt from Episode #256 of the Cinemaholics Podcast. Our intro music for this week is &...

In this house, we review The House , a new stop-motion animated dark anthology film from Nexus Studio, which is now available on Netflix. Afterward, we do a deeper dive into Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World , a dark romantic dramedy we both selected as one of our favorite films of 2021, which is now hitting limited release in North America. Last, we settle in for The Pink Cloud...

We’re sharpening our knives this week for our long-anticipated review of the latest Scream film, or Scream 5 unofficially. This is the first of the franchise to not be directed by Wes Craven, as we instead of the filmmakers behind Ready or Not . Is this meta slasher whodunnit as much of a scream ? And afterward, we discuss George Clooney’s latest directorial effort, The Tender Bar , wh...

This was a big year for us Cinemaholics. We watched more movies in 2021 than ever before, and as always we reviewed them in earnest for you lovely listeners on a weekly basis. But what are our absolute favorite films of the entire year? That's right, it's time for our annual Top 10 Movies episode, and this one's certainly a milestone in several respects. We kick the show off this week with our gen...