Movie Madness
488 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 25 ratingsMovie Madness is a weekly podcast hosted by Chicago film critic Erik Childress presenting movie reviews, interviews, film festival coverage, DVDs, awards, box office and much more!
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Episode 388: Indiana Jones vs. Rick O’Connell
June 06, 2023 13:02 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBWhile streaming companies get tax write-offs for dropping content, physical media lives on and Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to tell you what you can pick up this week. They include a classic of French cinema from Criterion, another Sammo Hung title, a recent Nicolas Cage film as well as a good Nicolas Cage film. A pair of 60s & 70s era horror films of questionable tastes are here for you. Finally, show your age and your varying love for each chapter of the adventure films starring ...
Episode 387: Past Lives Across The Reality-Verse
June 04, 2023 12:36 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBSteve Prokopy joins Erik Childress to review six new movies; many of which are worth your attention. Steve handles a new teenage friendship from actress-turned-director Charlotte LeBon (Falcon Lake) and the origin story of LeBron James (Shooting Stars). Another true story gets a riveting treatment from director Tina Satter and star Sydney Sweeney (Reality) while Rob Savage uses Stephen King to try and shock scare us again (The Boogeyman). Celine Song delivers one of the more masterful big s...
Episode 386: The First & Only Hunter and The Last Starfighter
May 30, 2023 19:05 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBSome genuine classics on physical media this week getting the 4K treatment. And others that are not. Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to get you caught up on your libraries including Memorial Day releases from 1991 and 1993. One of the great singular directorial efforts of all-time arrives in 4K as does one of the classics from a comic legend. One of the best from Wes Craven gets the polish and there are also plenty of other titles from Alan Rudolph, Sidney Lumet, Peter Greenaway and L...
Episode 385: You Hurt My Feelings Under The Sea
May 28, 2023 13:12 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy have nine movies to review on the show and the best one may be the one they told you about in January at Sundance from Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (You Hurt My Feelings). A couple of harrowing documentaries come close involving how police turn the tables on survivors of sexual assault (Victim/Suspect) and a tale of domestic assault, opioids and ultimately justice (The Fire That Took Her). A pair of stand-up comedians have made movies about thei...
Episode 384: Goodbye To Streaming And Hello To Rarities
May 23, 2023 14:21 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBIf ever there was a week to talk about the importance of physical media it is this one. Especially with the number of oddball titles you will probably never see on a streaming service. Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk some of these rare titles including Alan Ladd as Jay Gatsby, a Paris cat man, Michael Parks in love with Ann-Margret, an old Jane Fonda film recently making headlines and a film written by Ruby Dee. There are also your general weird titles like perhaps a couple of...
Episode 383: X Doesn’t Always Hit The Spot
May 20, 2023 22:45 - 2 hours - 82.6 MBSteve Prokopy returns to review ten new films with Erik Childress including documentaries on an 18-time MLB all-star (It Ain’t Over) and an infamous Playboy playmate (Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me). Penelope Cruz speaks Italian (L’Immensita) and Kenya Barris loses everything in translation for a remake (White Men Can’t Jump). Steve looks at the co-winner of the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes (The Eight Mountains) and they go back to the mountains to check out the directorial debut ...
Episode 382: Hoyt Axton Is In Danger!
May 16, 2023 14:14 - 54 minutes - 36.9 MBPeter Sobczynski returns to update all the streamers on what is available on disc this week. They include a sadly all-too-timely Peter Bogdanovich film with Boris Karloff and early work from John Woo, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. Peter discusses one of his all-time favorite musicals and Erik recalls a disturbing scene he used to see on cable all the time in a film from an unlikely director. Meg Ryan is cast against type and there is some overlap between Mark Wahlberg and Jason Statham in som...
Episode 381: It’s a Comet! It’s an Alien! It’s a Bruno Ganz!
May 03, 2023 17:29 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBPeter Sobczynski is here for your weekly dive into physical media. They include films with early appearances from Ricardo Montalban and Marilyn Monroe. A comeback was touted for John Travolta in a late ‘80s oddity and in the early ‘90s footballer Brian Bosworth started his career with a bit of a bang. Peter shares his thoughts on a trio of new theatrical titles from Universal. But 4K this week should have everyone looking up from probing aliens to Bruno Ganz with wings, a giant comet headed...
Episode 380: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
May 02, 2023 19:26 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBComic book expert, Erik Laws, returns to the show to discuss James Gunn’s swan song from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as he closes the book on the beloved Guardians. But will they be so beloved this time around with a more somber, less goofy finale? The Eriks certainly are not on board with it. Wondering why Gunn did not just do the Rocket origin tale on its own, the duo contemplate an elongated pit stop early in the film. The handling of Adam Warlock is a complete mystery and does the cen...
Episode 379: Are You There God? Or Peter Pan? I’ll Take What I Can Get
May 01, 2023 12:27 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back on the review beat this week with another nine movies to check out. They include a documentary on the rise and fall of the G4 network and its flagship show (Attack of the Doc!) as well as the latest from Francois Ozon (Everything Went Fine). Dianna Agron’s biological clock is ticking or is it (Clock) while a new AI is created to track down those that would harm children (The Artifice Girl). Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal dance around (Carmen), Priy...
Episode 378: Backtrack to the Small Axe
April 29, 2023 16:46 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBPeter Sobczynski is back to talk the latest and greatest in physical media. They range from the highs of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series to the lows (in Peter’s estimation) of Ruben Ostlund’s latest. Indies you may have missed like Holy Spider and Return to Seoul. Both him and Erik Childress reflect on the world of one of television’s greatest sitcoms as well as a new Jackie Chan collection and a 4K of sci-fi David Bowie. They also take an extended look at some oddball offerings from Kino ...
Episode 377: Deadites, Dracula, Exorcists and Beau
April 26, 2023 17:51 - 2 hours - 122 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy owe it to the listeners to play a little catch-up. So they do. With 17 movies covering the past week they missed. They include four documentaries about nature (Wild Life), the culture of Chicago stand-up comedy (Out of the Loop), the fight to take back offensive mascots (Imagining the Indian) and a tribute to a beloved author (Judy Blume Forever). Michelle Williams makes art (Showing Up), Virginie Efira becomes stepmotherly (Other People’s Children), Shailen...
Episode 376: Angry Marked Men
April 20, 2023 14:42 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBWe take another look at Blu-rays this week with Peter Sobczynski who along with Erik Childress do not have a lot of nice things to say about some recent theatrical offerings coming to physical media. But there are kind words to be found. Just not for William Goldman. However on the positive front there is a terrific everyday kind of thriller about being a working mom and some choice offerings from Kino with Irene Dunne, Buster Crabbe, Lon Chaney and Basil Rathbone. Plus new 4K offerings fro...
Episode 375: F For Feeling
April 11, 2023 14:07 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBPeter Sobczynski returns to get you up to speed on what to add to your physical media collection. You may want to skip some of the bad horror on the show but there are also war movies and westerns featuring Steve McQueen, Gary Cooper and Bob Newhart! There’s a musical from Jacques Revette, a film from Patrice Leconte and a new 4K edition of one of Terry Gilliam’s best. Peter also certainly wants you to know about a film with Lea Seydoux that flew under the radar at the end of last year and ...
Episode 374: Plumbers, Pipes and Hot Air
April 08, 2023 14:55 - 2 hours - 90.8 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy cover another dozen films for you this week. Or at least 11 films and one powerful docuseries they revisit from Sundance (Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields). The films include a pair of crime capers (One Day as a Lion, The Innocent), an action film with one of the John Wick henchmen (The Fist of the Condor) and a documentary about the Child’s Play franchise (Living With Chucky). There is also a bizarro Cast Away Lifetime-esque romance (One True Loves), a bizarre c...
Episode 373: It’s a Big Easy Midnight Run
April 05, 2023 19:09 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBErik Childress and Peter Sobczynski look at this week’s Blu-ray releases including a rather dour but excellent film with Damian Lewis and a flavorful, sexy, pulpy thriller making its debut on Blu. Peter recalls one of the weirder titles in Kino’s new Film Noir collection and they also go through the run of Star Trek’s Next Generation films as well as Jon Hamm as the new Fletch. A trio of new 4K’s from Warner Bros. gives us some of the best from Humphrey Bogart, James Dean and Paul Newman. F...
Episode 372: (Dis)Honor Among Gamers
April 01, 2023 16:03 - 2 hours - 81.3 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy discuss 13 movies this week. Well, Erik listens a lot as Steve saw a lot this week including a religious documentary (In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis), Bruce Willis in a virtual Possessor remake (Assassin), Thomas Haden Church looking for aliens (Acidman) and horror films based around sound (The Unheard) and as little sound as possible (Enys Men). Steve also tackles the bizarre Casablanca Records biopic (Spinning Gold) and the latest bizarro from Que...
Episode 371: Leaving You Breathless (And Probably Speechless)
March 29, 2023 13:49 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBErik Childress and Peter Sobczynski look at this week’s new Blu-ray releases and it is quite the deep dive into eclectic taste. Criterion has one of the early films of a pioneering female director. Terrorists are trying to blow up the Super Bowl, kids battle aliens, a teenager searches for her mom and Natasha Lyonne goes up against Vincent Gallo. There are films with John Barrymore and Van Heflin, Parker Posey’s first starring vehicle, a stylized actioner that could have been The Boys but f...
Episode 370: John Wick Explodes People. ‘Nuff Said?
March 25, 2023 18:07 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy have a shortened week of movie reviews focusing on just five for the time being. They include a dark fable starring Adèle Exarchopoulos (The Five Devils) and a documentary on a European rock tour that had implications back home (What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat and Tears). Zach Braff directs Florence Pugh in a tale of addition (A Good Person) and Sally Hawkins goes looking for Richard III (The Lost King). Finally, Keanu Reeves is back in the rare franc...
Episode 369: Streets of Dragonfire
March 23, 2023 13:01 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBCatching you up on the latest in Blu-rays, Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski look at offerings from John Woo, David Lynch, Bob Hope, Laurence Olivier and Dario Argento. That is just for starters. Peter gets to weigh in on some of his least favorite films from 2022 and one that pleasantly surprised him in 2023. They look back on a new edition from softcore master, Zalman King, as well as a barrage of new 4K releases that include a real gem from horror maestro, Wes Craven, working a bit out...
Episode 368: SHAZAM!!! OK, Don’t Scream!
March 18, 2023 16:57 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy return to catch you up on two weeks of movies including Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche in a disaster film (Supercell) and a new animated film on Netflix (The Magician’s Elephant). One of the Farrelly Bros. reunited with Woody Harrelson coaching an intellectually-challenged basketball team (Champions) and Kiernan Shipka grows up with an intellectually-challenged parent (Wildflower). Adam Driver is stranded on a planet with dinosaurs (65) and Willem Dafoe is an a...
Episode 367: The Running Man and the Reverse Cyrano
March 09, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBErik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are back to get you caught up on your physical media and it runs the gamut from the 1930s up until the Oscars this weekend including one Oscar for Joan Crawford and another hopefully for Sarah Polley. There is also Greta Garbo, Susan Hayward and Shirley Temple. A film about making the perfect man and another teen comedy about hoping to romance the perfect woman. Sony has some 4K editions of late ‘90s action and the pair fondly remember some 1980s Schwarze...
Episode 366: The 2023 SXSW Film Festival (Curtain Raiser)
March 08, 2023 18:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBFor the better part of the last 20 years covering film festivals, I used to do a preview piece for eFilmCritic about South by Southwest called “10 Films To See.” Now that the site is no more I am bringing it to the Movie Madness podcast and offering those attending my suggestions to get on their schedule. They include a number of terrific documentaries about television and music, films where women take control, scary (and hopeful) films about technology and THE horror film to see where one ...
Episode 365: Can You Take Me Lower?
March 04, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBThe weekly movie reviews come at you quick this week with five new titles. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have opinions on all five including an uncomfortable tale of grooming that was chosen for the Chicago Critics Film Festival in 2022 (Palm Trees and Power Lines). Michael Shannon pretends to be an infamous author (A Little White Lie) and Stephen King’s evil kids get a prequel of sorts (Children of the Corn). Guy Ritchie is is inexplicably back with another action comedy (Operation Fort...
Episode 364: An Adventure 27 Years In The Making
March 01, 2023 19:02 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBSome great new blu-rays this week to bulk up your physical media collections, especially in 4K. Criterion delivers one of the seminal comedies of the 1980s, Denzel Washington wins another Oscar and Peter Sobczynski reveals which film he would be happy to see win an Oscar this year. Francis Ford Coppola finally puts out an authentic cut, Indiana Jones gets an origin story and Dustin Hoffman has an awful time in the dentist chair. A pair of horror classics get their due in 4K and if you missi...
Episode 363: Jesus Freaks And A Lot Of Cocaine
February 27, 2023 13:44 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at six new movies this week. They include an acclaimed film from Ireland you may have heard about on our best-of-2022 show (The Quiet Girl) and a feature version of Idris Elba’s BBC series (Luther: The Fallen Sun). The star of Sex Education brings the author of Wuthering Heights to life (Emily) and hippies become Jesus freaks (Jesus Revolution). Finally, David Harbour is a silent apparition in a new family’s home (We Have a Ghost) and you may have heard...
Episode 362: Dazed, Confused And In Love With Emma Thompson
February 21, 2023 13:08 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBFind out what you can get on Blu-ray this week with an update from Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski. They take a remembrance on the first time each of them saw Dazed and Confused, now in a new edition from Criterion. Blue Underground has a pair of Jess Franco titles newly minted in 4K. Jean Reno hunts a serial killer, Dean Stockwell is a werewolf and Steve McQueen magnificently fights Eli Wallach and throws a car from the Marina Towers in Chicago. There is also Catherine Deneuve’s only O...
Episode 361: Small Men And Such Tiny Little Men
February 18, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 40 MBThe weekly movie edition goes lite this week as Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look over five new movies. They include one of the best horror films Steve saw at a film festival last year (Huesera: The Bone Woman) and a darkly comic thriller about proving one’s manliness that is one of the best films of the early year (The Integrity of Joseph Chambers). Steve looks at the second film from a quickly rising filmmaker (Of An Age) and the pair look at a detective yarn from an older master (Mar...
Episode 360: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
February 17, 2023 00:25 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBComic book expert, Erik Laws, returns to talk with Erik Childress about the third Ant-Man film and the beginning of Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Phase 4 did not close out well by either of their standards so they were certainly in the mood for a good palette cleanser. Unfortunately, this one did not go down nearly as smoothly as the previous films with Paul Rudd. They wonder if Kevin Feige has checked himself out more than imagined and why the latest entries have been so bad at...
Episode 359: Truffaut, Redford and The Fabelmans
February 15, 2023 13:45 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBPeter Sobczynski returns for an update on the Blu-ray scene with Erik Childress. Between cylindrical objects in the sky and noxious chemicals causing evacuations you might think Kino was marketing its collection of new Francois Truffaut films. Criterion puts out what may be the definitive version of a Shakespeare classic and Shout Factory has your martial arts covered. There are also more recent standouts of Asian cinema, a Rolling Stones concert and a tribute to a favorite movie of Peter’s...
Episode 358: Everybody’s Last Anniversary Dance
February 12, 2023 13:25 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBSeven new movies and a modern classic release this week. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are here to tell you what to check out, if anything. They reflect a bit on James Cameron’s Titanic back in theaters for its 25th anniversary and then Erik tackles a new romcom with shades of a film in its 23rd anniversary (At Midnight). Steve looks at a pair of horror films about getting lost in the desert (The Outwaters) and getting lost in religion (Consecration). Then its back to “romcoms” including...
Episode 357: The Wonderfully Weird With Campbell & Paxton
February 08, 2023 21:08 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBThere’s a little something for everyone this week on the Blu-ray scene. Especially if you like it weird. Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress again to talk about Criterion’s release of one of the landmarks of international cinema. Barbara Hershey takes on apartheid and Rory Calhoun explores as Marco Polo. Peter chimes in on the Black Panther sequel while there are also new 4K releases of an Oscar-winning musical and a charming zombie romcom. Then it gets weirder with a campy sequel getting...
Episode 356: Good Daddies And Bad Mommies
February 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back with the weekly movie reviews and they certainly have a lot in common. Maybe not with Pamela Anderson who is the subject of a new Netflix documentary (Pamela, A Love Story). Haley Bennett and Sam Riley are the latest exes to end up with the same booking (She Is Love). Noemie Merlant begins to unravel as a new mother (Baby Ruby) while Michelle Monaghan will do anything for her zombie son (Blood). A man tries to get across town to meet his movie partne...
Episode 355: Virgins, Flesh and Timpano
February 03, 2023 22:24 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBPeter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to catch up on a couple weeks of Blu-rays. Udo Kier’s a vampire, Timothee Chalamat is a cannibal and Vinegar Syndrome is serving up some Flesh and Fantasy. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz go for a long drive, Mel Gibson goes to war as does Gene Hackman for the French. The pair look back on an ‘80s teen relic and its growing popularity over the years and remember their own fondness for one of the great food movies of all-time. That title is just one of a coup...
Episode 354: The 2023 Sundance Film Festival
January 31, 2023 21:48 - 2 hours - 97.4 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy once again experienced this year’s Sundance from the comfort of their domiciles, but that in no way affected their viewing numbers. In just a sampling of what they saw, they discuss over 25 films including documentaries about Michael J. Fox, Brooke Shields, freediving, our evolvement with the camera and the strange saga of a bootleg video store. They talk about some of their favorite midnight selections along with divisive tales of dating, bodybuilding and wo...
Episode 353: Missing You, Darling
January 22, 2023 13:21 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBSundance is on the horizon but Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are still checking in with nine movies you can see right now; one of them from last year’s Sundance (When You Finish Saving The World) and another from ten years ago finally making its debut (Virtually Heroes). Steve catches up with Jafar Panahi’s latest (No Bears) and Erik watched a documentary about the Laemmle family business from home (Only In Theaters). There’s a string of horror films involving children including a party g...
Episode 352: They Still Live And They Still Rule
January 19, 2023 17:05 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBThe weekly Blu-ray edition of the show is here with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski going through a number of titles from overseas distributor Powerhouse Films which includes John Huston doing Freud, Rita Moreno slapping Marlon Brando, George C. Scott as Sherlock Holmes and the debut of a controversial “director.” They get into the unique history of Chuck Norris’ Missing In Action films and get Peter’s thoughts on a couple releases from last Fall. They defer in what may be the best Guy R...
Episode 351: A Man Called Otto & A Doll Called M3GAN
January 15, 2023 14:54 - 2 hours - 96.6 MBThe first batch of movie reviews for 2023 from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy arrives with quite the show. 14 reviews in all ranging from some late acclaimed 2022 catch-ups from the international scene (Broker, Saint Omer) and another mystery with Edgar Allan Poe as a participant (The Pale Blue Eye). Erik describes what could be the nuttiest plotline of the new year (The Devil Conspiracy) and Steve looks at a new horror film drawing both ecstatic praise and hatred (Skinamarink). Speaking o...
Episode 350: Avoid The Sandpit, It’s A Doozy!
January 11, 2023 18:12 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThe first Blu-ray show of 2023 with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski brings about a variety of age-old classics to films fresh out of theaters. In-between there are films with early work from Joan Crawford, Matt Damon, Brendan Fraser, Diane Lane and Laura Dern. TV episodes are turned into movies, the bullied let their tormentors be setup for murder and Sonny Chiba is an executioner. Brandi Carlile gets an assist in bringing Tanya Tucker back to the mainstream and then there is a trio of e...
Episode 349: The Best Films Of 2022
January 06, 2023 15:27 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBFor the year-end show spotlighting their choices for the best films of 2022, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are joined by Collin Souter from the Christmas Movies Actually podcast to offer his selections as well. It was a year where the funny often came with the sad. A transition period through the pandemic where filmmakers were forced to adjust or find new commentary on a society that has drifted into disharmony where friends are lost and accountability is right around the corner. Only a f...
Episode 348: From Babylon To Pandora
December 19, 2022 23:24 - 2 hours - 103 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy have done one final review show for 2022 and close it out with some biggies. It was quite a year for documentaries and they finish with four new ones including the story of a natural disaster tragedy (The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari), the face of the Psychic Readers Network (Call Me Miss Cleo), a relationship between author and editor (Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb) and Laura Poitras’ new film on artist and activist Nan...
Episode 347: Shall We Play A Blu-ray?
December 17, 2022 15:09 - 2 hours - 82.3 MBPeter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to close out the Blu-ray & DVD book for 2022 with a number of new titles for your Christmas lists. They include Criterion editions of a Todd Haynes music doc and the Chicago-set inspiration for a memorable TV show. A lot of horror for the holidays recently in theaters along with women warriors and a singing crocodile. Peter looks at a misguided gang film starring, well, you’ll find out. Sony releases a David Cronenberg film in time for its 20th anniversa...
Episode 346: Meanies, Loudmouths And A Donkey
December 12, 2022 13:05 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBOn the penultimate review episode of 2022, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at nine new movies. They include documentaries about the theater after Covid (Broadway Rising) and the life of Al Sharpton (Loudmouth). Someone made a bloody horror film about The Grinch (The Mean One) and another Oscar-winning director again tries to turn a wooden boy into a good boy (Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio). Lea Seydoux has to juggle an affair and her ailing father (One Fine Morning) while Jim Parsons ...
Episode 345: Walter Hill, Meta Blues, Bombs And A Shower
December 08, 2022 13:23 - 1 hour - 77 MBThings get weird on the show this week with a vast array of new Blu-rays to talk about. Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress again to talk perfect films for the holiday by Bob Clark and Michael Haneke? Things get meta with both Kevin Smith and Nicolas Cage. New Tarantino in 4K and Walter Hill as well gives Peter an opportunity to talk about how he first encountered Roger Ebert. Erik gets to discuss his connection to Dawson’s Creek and you also get a pair of cult comedy classics and a pair o...
Episode 344: White Noise Going Through My Mind
December 06, 2022 00:49 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy have eight reviews for you to kick off the final month of 2022. They begin with an author recalling his activist patriarch (Memories Of My Father) and Robert Downey Jr. paying tribute to the indie cinema legend that he grew up with as well (Sr.) The director of Jakob’s Wife is back with a twisted serial killer trip (A Wounded Fawn) and there is a new adaptation of the infamous D.H. Lawrence novel (Lady Chatterley’s Lover). Can Will Smith find an audience on A...
Episode 343: The Evil That Men And Women Do
December 01, 2022 19:22 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBPeter Sobczynski returns to look at this week’s editions to the physical media calendar with Erik Childress. There’s a film that played at their Chicago Critics Film Festival this year and the one that beat out Reservoir Dogs at Sundance. Kirk Douglas as a detective and Esther Williams out of water. A pair of gory horror entries from Vinegar Syndrome about a guy killing Santa Clauses and a new 4K edition of an infamous horror sequel. Not even a Train To Busan is more horrific than the Charle...
Episode 342: Peeling Back The Layers
November 27, 2022 14:28 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBOn this holiday week edition, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at the films in theaters (if briefly) for Thanksgiving. One that you can catch on Shudder is Noan Segan’s Paper Moon-like vampire tale (Blood Relatives), then you can go to theaters if you choose to see Luca Guadagino’s tale of young love and cannibalism (Bones and All). If you don’t want to wait for Amazon Prime, check out this year’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner (Nanny) and if you can’t wait a month for Netflix, get ou...
Episode 341: Blu-Ray Black Friday
November 24, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBIt’s the Blu-ray time of the week and Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress again to talk a whole bunch of 4Ks for your Black Friday shopping. Take advantage of the Barnes and Noble Criterion sale to grab one of the best films from Pixar and one of the best from Spike Lee. Shout Factory has new editions of genre cult classics from Neil Jordan and Norman Jewison while Vinegar syndrome delivers a 4K of maybe the ultimate cult film. Kino has another Eastwood in 4K and a comic book parody before...
Episode 340: She Said To Call Stutz
November 21, 2022 18:53 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back on the movie review beat with nine new titles this week. On the Disney Plus front Steve looks at a new doc on an animated icon (Mickey: The Story of a Mouse) and Erik checks out a sequel 15 years in the making (Disenchanted). Russell Crowe directs a film not about poker (Poker Face) and Frank Grillo stars in a film that is barely about a car (Lamborghini: The Man Behind The Legend). Steve looks at the new pandemic-era film from Andrew Bujalski (There...
Episode 339: The Return Of The Blu-Rays
November 19, 2022 03:30 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBSergio Mims and Erik Childress discussed DVDs and Blu-rays for two decades on the radio and on this podcast. To honor his recent untimely passing, we wanted to continue this tradition and shine a light on the world of physical media that he was so passionate in preserving. For that, Erik is joined by Peter Sobczynski of RogerEbert.com to once again bring you all the latest and greatest for your home collection and holiday shopping needs. They talk a number of new 4K releases including an ear...