The Revisitors

Send us Fan Mail Was Paul Haggis' Oscar triumph, Crash , really that triumphant? Or does it just make moderate-progressive white folks feel open-minded without really challenging their worldview? 

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Diego discuss Ridley Scott's 2000 best picture winner Gladiator.

Send us Fan Mail Our count down to Oscar continues with Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs . Frank says it might be the most influential movie of the last forty years, will Diego agree?

Send us Fan Mail This week we get in the WABAC machine and travel to a time when James Cameron had only directed one highest-grossing film of all time...

Send us Fan Mail Should Forrest Gump have defeated Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption in the much-discussed race for the 1995 Oscar for Best Picture? No, Quiz Show should have. But has it earned its place as a new classic? a pop culture touchstone? iconic American cinema? One thing's for sure: We had some microphone issues during our "What did Frank watch this week segment?"...

Send us Fan Mail In the final episode of "Bluth-uary," Diego and Frank review 1991's Rock-a-Doodle to determine whether or not it lives up to its reputation as the greatest adaptation of French dramatist Edmond Rostand's  beloved 1910 play Chantacler ever set to celluloid.

Send us Fan Mail We're in the fourth week of Bluth-uary with one of Don Bluth's most enduring films , All Dogs Go to Heaven , a fascinating contemplation of the immortal canine soul and the "Good Dog" and "Bad Dog" within every dog.

Send us Fan Mail Dinosaurs are cool! Frank would like it if these dinosaurs were a little less chatty, but, you know, it's for kids.

Send us Fan Mail Bluth-uary continues as Frank and Diego discuss Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg's first collaboration, the much-loved coming-to-America story An American Tail .  

Send us Fan Mail It's the first of Bluth-uary! Celebrate with The Revisitors!

Send us Fan Mail Spoiler alert! This movie is great and we both just really, really like it.

Send us Fan Mail The much-loved tv special Rudolph the Red -Nosed  is doubly daring  in being an ahead-of-its-time LGBTQ narrative and its portrayal of Santa Claus as a complete prick, but is it good?

Send us Fan Mail Frank and Diego begrudgingly admit that Tim Allen is a skilled comic performer, but is the Tim Allen of yuletide staple The Santa Clause closer to the Tim Allen of Toy Story  and Galaxy Quest or to the Tim Allen of  Last Man Standing ,  Jungle 2 Jungle , Joe Somebody , Wild Hogs , Big Trouble, and Christmas With the Kranks ?

Send us Fan Mail It's the Holiday Season and Frank and Diego are discussing Rankin-Bass' Christmas classic (apparently) The Year Without a Santa Claus and welcoming return guest, Diego's loud-ass refrigerator!

Send us Fan Mail At the insistence of unapologetic 007 nerd, Frank, we watched Pierce Brosnan's debut as James Bond, 1995's Goldeneye and welcomed our first-ever guests... Laura Sieling-Gaylord and Danny Gaylord, co-hosts of the podcast Film is Lit ! 

Send us Fan Mail Can a lonely a billionaire boy teach a motley band of street toughs to love the rich?

Send us Fan Mail Is The Mighty Ducks a triumph of kids sports comedy or a pale imitation of The Bad News Bears ? One thing is for sure: We don't know very much about hockey.

Send us Fan Mail What if a precocious pre-teen were given one million dollars to spend as they saw fit? Wouldn't that be interesting? Or shouldn't it?

Send us Fan Mail Who is Devon Graham?

Send us Fan Mail Diego and Frank discuss the theological underpinnings of Linus' belief in The Great Pumpkin and consider the misery of Charlie Brown's existence.

Send us Fan Mail Diego watches director Kenny Ortega's Hocus Pocus multiple times a year, Frank has barely given it a thought since the mid-nineties. Can Frank Be convinces that this Cult Classic has earned it's cult status?

Send us Fan Mail "A serial killer uses voodoo to transfer his soul into a doll." Is this barely enough  premise  to support a  90 minute horror film? Or would it be better suited to a 90 minute horror film, six sequels, a reboot and television series?

Send us Fan Mail Director Taylor Hackford's ( Ray , An Officer and a Gentleman ) The Devil's Advocate provides Hollywood icon Al Pacino the opportunity to absolutely devour some beautiful New York City scenery while speechifying about the relationship between God and The Devil and their respective  relationships with mankind.  Even pretty weird and very horny and Keanu Reeve's south...

Send us Fan Mail In 1998 marked the return of Gremlins and The "Burbs director Joe Dante to the world of cartoonishly violent dark comedy with his Small Soldiers .... It's not as good as Gremlins .

Send us Fan Mail While a film adaptation of a literary work need not religiously adhere to its source material to be a good movie, might the creators of a film, ostensibly, for kids want to maintain some to the elements of the book that appeal to kids? Like talking animals, for example?