Movie Madness
464 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★ - 24 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 314: Looking For Trouble? You Came To The Right Place
June 24, 2022 22:07 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBSix new movies get six new reviews from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy this week. They include one about a group of friends playing adult Jumanji (Gatlopp) and a documentary about the government playing games after a disaster (Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes). Kevin Hart gets mistaken for hitman Woody Harrelson (The Man From Toronto) while two old friends return to bring out the best in stupid (Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe). A boy has to escape the clutches of a kidnapper played by Ethan...
Episode 313: Go Infinity Or Go Home
June 17, 2022 21:05 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBThe two big sellers at this year’s Sundance film festival come home for everyone this week. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy revisit both Good Luck To You, Leo Grande and Cha Cha Real Smooth along with six other fresh reviews this week. They include another Sundance film about a man and his robot (Brian and Charles) as well as Phil Tippett’s thirty-year journey to bring his stop-motion feature to life (Mad God). Jennifer Lopez has a film about her and some Super Bowl thing she did while chas...
Episode 312: When Legends Become Fact
June 14, 2022 21:55 - 2 hours - 86.5 MBNever say die when it comes to physical media! Erik Childress and Sergio Mims have the latest and greatest here from jackasses to ordinary people. Jekylls, Hydes, Frankensteins, Werewolves and W.C. Fields. In particular there are a lot of great titles coming out in 4K including a John Landis classic and even an argument for an underrated Kenneth Branagh film. One of the greatest musicals of all time gets the treatment as does one of the greatest westerns of all time. If that’s not fact, its ...
Episode 311: First Loves, Basketball and Dino Droppings
June 11, 2022 18:01 - 1 hour - 55 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy have a half-dozen movie reviews this week that actually touch upon two franchises, an important documentary and even a couple of unexpected surprises. If you want to know more about the pre-Ghostbusters era of Ray Parker Jr. there is now a film about that (Who You Gonna Call?). Henry Czerny is a former priest is visited by a stranger with a connection to his past (The Righteous). A shy teen desperately seeks out his first kiss to finally get that dang electro...
Episode 310: Terminate With Extreme Prejudice
June 07, 2022 14:05 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBThe latest and greatest in Blu-rays returns to the podcast with Sergio Mims and a lot to catch up on. There is late era Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen not to mention some early-era Kevin Costner and perhaps inspiration for a young Alfonso Cuaron. Criterion 4Ks one of the greatest of all noirs and space documentaries. Kino gives the same treatment to Clint Eastwood and Sidney Poitier. And finally – yes, FINALLY! – one of the great Walter Hill films Sergio and Erik have been begging to get an...
Episode 309: Long Live The Old Flesh
June 04, 2022 01:41 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy saw a lot of different movies this week. But that means you get 11 reviews from them even if its not a great lineup. Erik finds one big positive at the center of Sean Patrick Flanery’s directorial debut (Frank & Penelope) and Steve has a few non-negative things to say about the latest with Bruce Willis (White Elephant). There are fantastical narratives about the missing minutes of the Nixon tapes (18 ½) and the creation of a famous tower (Eiffel). Erik gets c...
Episode 308: Hold Your Fire, Top Gun
May 29, 2022 14:27 - 2 hours - 87.6 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy return after a week off to catch-up on reviewing 12 new movies for you. They include a baseball documentary that premiered at SXSW this year (Facing Nolan), a new film written by Paul Schrader (There Are No Saints) and the great Haley Lu Richardson stars in a film about revisiting family trauma (Montana Story). They also revisit a Sundance comedy about two black friends trying not to get blamed when a white girl passes out in their house (Emergency) and one o...
Episode 307: Burn It All Down, Firestarter!
May 15, 2022 14:53 - 1 hour - 70 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy will be at the Chicago Critics Film Festival this week, but they still managed to find time for ten new movie reviews. Well, one old one as they reviewed Ninja Thyberg’s powerful film about the porn industry at last year’s Sundance (Pleasure). This week did have a lot of other ickiness to it though including an erotic thriller no-show with Ashley Benson (Private Property) and the documentary about Dr. Religious Wacko who personally inseminated his patients (O...
Episode 306: It’s All Happening
May 08, 2022 14:06 - 55 minutes - 37.2 MBWhile Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy prepare for the upcoming Chicago Critics Film Festival, they got in a little time for a short show of reviews. This week the discussion steers to just four titles including a horror film involving an island and supernatural elements (Shepherd) and a documentary takes a shot at redemption for the man who clubbed Nancy Kerrigan’s knee (My Hero the Hitman). To go along with the discussion with Erik Laws on episode 305, Steve gets his chance to weigh in on ...
Episode 305: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
May 06, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBSam Raimi returns to the world of Marvel for his first directorial effort since 2013 and comic book expert Erik Laws returns to join Erik Childress to breakdown this sequel to Doctor Strange. Or sequel to Wandavision? Whatever it is it is a lot and the Eriks may recognize the very specific Raimi touches he brings to the Cinematic Universe, but is it enough to overcome what Childress believes is a big problem for Marvel going forward. Does their own multiverse interfere with the storytelling ...
Episode 304: The 2022 Chicago Critics Film Festival
May 02, 2022 20:55 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBIt is that time of year again. Actually the first time since 2019 that the Chicago Critics Film Festival has hosted an entire week at the Music Box Theatre. Their return for a weekend in 2021 was a success but the festival co-produced by Erik Childress returns to full glory May 13-19 and along with Sergio Mims they breakdown, day by day, every film selected for the event. Two very special film festival events are discussed during this episode. Along with the CCFF which remains in its 9th year...
Episode 303: I Don’t Recall…Memory
April 30, 2022 18:05 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at eight movies this week including a couple festival titles, some streaming and some new titles in theaters. Steve looks at people trying to put a cult behind them (The Aviary) and a gay romance during Communist Russia (Firebird). Erik looks at a documentary about an additional horror of the Michigan water crisis (Flint: Who Can You Trust?) and Barry Levinson’s film about Holocaust-era boxer Harry Haft (The Survivor). Then both of them see if there’s an...
Episode 302: The Unbearable Weight of The Northman
April 24, 2022 21:59 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBOne of the best movies of the year…2021…may just come around to one of the best movies of 2022 on this episode. At least according to one of the Movie Madness critics during the round of seven reviews on this episode. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy do indeed agree on Celine Sciamma’s tale of childhood grief (Petite Maman). The kids in that movie certainly have it better than the documentary of a ‘90s clothing giant (White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch) and even they may have ...
Episode 301: Choose Or Fantastic Beasts Will Die
April 19, 2022 22:32 - 1 hour - 58 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy have seen six movies for the show this week. All six of them and they are here to share their thoughts on films from Sundance, SXSW and in theaters. Elisha Cuthbert tries to save her family from the wrong house (The Cellar). A pair of evil online games take center stage on Netflix (Choose or Die) and from the perspective of internet isolation (We’re All Going To The World’s Fair). Karen Gillan takes on a dual role in a black comic sci-fi tale with a double mea...
Episode 300: The Dragonslayer Commentary
April 19, 2022 19:17 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBFor the Movie Madness’ 300th episode, Erik Childress and Sergio Mims decided to undertake something they have talked about for some time. Matthew Robbins’ 1981 film, Dragonslayer, is a film they have preached and pleaded for years to finally get a Blu-ray release (hell, let’s go 4K at this point!) Sergio has turned into quite the commentary machine in recent years and Erik even still has one out there climbing the charts. And for this episode all you will need is your own copy of Dragonslaye...
Episode 299: Everything Everywhere By The Bay
April 10, 2022 22:04 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBNo rest for Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy who take on nine new films this week. They include a trio of documentaries ranging from skateboarding (Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off) to SpaceX (Return to Space) to a bovine with her own movie (Cow). Steve looks at a comedy about wannabe high school metalheads (Metal Lords) and Erik looks at an unintentional comedy based on the life of Celine Dion (Aline). Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton are former CIA partners on a mole hunt (All the Old Kn...
Episode 298: Sink Your Teeth Into The Automat
April 03, 2022 15:58 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBAfter a short week, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy double-up on the movie reviews this week with eight titles. They include a documentary about a “ballhawk” (Zack Hample vs. the World) and one about a type of restaurant that does not exist anymore (The Automat). Justin Kurzel’s new film gets to the root of mental illness in a real-life Australian tragedy (Nitram) and a witch learns about life wearing the skins of different people (You Won’t Be Alone). Richard Linklater explores life (notab...
Episode 297: Blu-ray Upgrades You Can’t Refuse
March 30, 2022 19:02 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBSergio Mims is back with the latest and greatest in Blu-rays and he focuses on three different studios with Erik Childress. Kino has a pair of great thrillers newly available in 4K as well as one from the ‘80s that may be more memorable for a promise of a single shot. Warner Archive puts James Cagney in an early version of Top Gun, one of the original versions of A Star Is Born and a stunning upgrade of a Cinerama cult classic. Finally, is the new 4K set of The Godfather Trilogy live up to t...
Episode 296: The Lost City of Browntown
March 26, 2022 20:50 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBThe weekly movie review edition of the show went light to close out the month and it led to two agreements, one split decision and a whole other kind of split. Unintentional double entendres were on the docket for Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy as one of them reviewed a “family Butt!@#*ing comedy” (Win a Trip to Browntown). Naomi Watts is getting in her exercise with her projects again as a hiker who turns into a rescuer (Infinite Storm). A couple on a first date get stuck together when th...
Episode 295: The 2022 South By Southwest Film Festival
March 23, 2022 16:25 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBSouth by Southwest returned to live festivities for the first time since 2019. Erik Childress has been covering since 2003 and hopes to return soon. Along with Steve Prokopy they discuss the pleasures of attending in person even as they covered virtually at least one more time. 18 titles they bring up from this year including music documentaries about Sheryl Crow, Tanya Tucker and Nick Cave, non-music docs about Nolan Ryan, Gabby Giffords and The Kids in the Hall. They discuss the latest fro...
Episode 294: X Marks The Spot In Deep Water
March 20, 2022 16:59 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy tackle seven new films this week. They include a couple from Sundance they have not talked about yet from the 2-part documentary on HBO MAX from Amy Berg about Evan Rachel Wood’s traumatic relationship with Marilyn Manson (Phoenix Rising) and Regina Hall in a ghost story about racial dynamics on a college campus (Master). Steve reviews about a Buddy Guy apprenticeship (The Torch) and Erik handles an odd hostage comic thriller with Jason Segel, Lily Collins an...
Episode 293: The Turning Red Notice Project
March 12, 2022 18:22 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBSix movie reviews this week from Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy, mostly available on the streaming services. Three women on a photoshoot weekend for their instas encounter a stinky alien (The Seed). The Herzogs document the theory of leaving our dying planet for another (Last Exit: Space). A car breakdown turns into oddball terror (Ultrasound) and Zac Efron is left alone in an apocalyptic landscape guarding a precious metal (Gold). Finally, Pixar head exclusively again to Disney Plus in a ...
Episode 292: I Love Lucy And Yang
March 05, 2022 20:40 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy reviewed two of this week’s big movies during Sundance, so in case you missed them talk enthusiastically about Kogonada’s sci-fi meditation on life and connection (After Yang) or less so about Sebastian Stan as a human butcher in Fresh, you get another chance. But then they have five new films to talk about as well including two available on Netflix – an explorer survival tale (Against the Ice) and vacationing Leighton Meester trying to see if her missing gir...
Episode 291: The Batman?
March 03, 2022 19:51 - 2 hours - 82.3 MBComic book expert and host of the AintThisTheFun show on YouTube, Erik Laws, joins Erik Childress to go through Matt Reeves’ The Batman. There is a lot to unpack from the casting to how it distinguishes itself from the other versions of the character. They look at all the casting decisions, is anyone having any fun during this one and, of course, that score from Michael Giacchino. Do Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz bring something new to the Batman/Catwoman dynamic or are they treading over...
Episode 290: What’s The Blu-Ray Rumpus?
March 02, 2022 23:30 - 2 hours - 93.2 MBSergio Mims joins Erik Childress for another round in the latest and greatest in Blu-rays. Criterion has got the Coens and the Beatles. Paramount has Beavis & Butt-Head and Wayne & Garth. Universal has James Bond and Paul Schrader. Kino has another commentary with Sergio, they agree on a Burt Reynolds gem and whether a certain Billy Wilder classic now available in 4K is even amongst his strongest works. They are also particularly happy to see three of their choices from their Why Is This Not...
Episode 289: Overcome With Cyrano And Batman
March 01, 2022 22:54 - 2 hours - 80 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back to their old ways, reviewing ten new movies on this week’s show including a little early preview. The rest include a tale of obesity and bullying (Butter) and a family hooks up on Zoom to grieve grandma (Family Squares). More pandemic cinema takes Naomi Watts on a jog of social terror (The Desperate Hour) and Havana Rose Liu ends up at the worst rest stop (No Exit). There is also the story about record label head Alan McGee (Creation Stories) and And...
Episode 288: Leatherface, Werewolves and The Unabomber Uncharted
February 19, 2022 20:31 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBErik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back with seven new movie reviews and if you thought murder was on the table last week, wait until you hear this. Boeing killed a bunch and you can learn all about it in a new Netflix documentary (Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.) The Unabomber killed a few and there is a new movie with Sharlto Copley as that lunatic (Ted K). When rich landowners kill off a group of gypsies they fight back with werewolves (The Cursed). Leatherface is back in a new film ...
Episode 287: Murder On The Everywhere
February 13, 2022 19:26 - 2 hours - 80.7 MBMovie reviews. Nine of them. We do it every week here on the show with Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy. It all starts with a little psychological horror (Alone With You) and emotional revenge (Catch the Fair One). Then it’s a whirlwind of grief from director Josephine Decker (The Sky is Everywhere) and the search for love from Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World). Liam Neeson plays another guy with special skills but does the movie have any (Blacklight)? Charlie Day and Jenny Slate...
Episode 286: The 2022 Sundance Film Festival
February 10, 2022 23:20 - 2 hours - 101 MBThe Movie Madness Podcast goes back to Sundance (virtually) with Erik Childress, Steve Prokopy and Sergio Mims going through what they saw on their weeklong trip through the at-home app for a second straight year. More than 20 titles are discussed including new films from Kogonada, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead and Cooper Raiff. There are debuts from Jesse Eisenberg and Tig Notaro, and even a remake of Ikiru will Bill Nighy. Not to mention a group of incredible performances from Emma Thomp...
Episode 285: To The Moon With You Jackass
February 06, 2022 20:11 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThe weekly movie reviews return to the podcast with Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy talking about eight new movies and the 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper’s 1980 film, Out of the Blue. Flash-forward to 1984 for the new documentary about David Lynch’s sci-fi adaptation (The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune) or back to post-Civil War for a little western horror (Ghosts of the Ozarks). Steve tells you where you can see baby animals (The Wolf and the Lion) or take a train for one of this year’s ...
Episode 284: Remembering Poitier & Bogdanovich
January 31, 2022 23:48 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBSergio Mims joins Erik Childress to take a look back on the careers of two men who became legends in their own time. Director Peter Bogdanovich came out of the gate with three films that established a legacy, but whose ego and crave of the spotlight began to take a toll. Though he continued working up until nearly his passing, his films never achieved the level of acclaim he did in the early ‘70s. Sidney Poitier, on the other hand, is one of the few to claim the title of trailblazer and it n...
Episode 283: Cobra Kai’s Moment of Truth
January 14, 2022 18:27 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBOn this special episode of the podcast, Erik Childress is joined by Morgan Gire to delve into season four of Netflix’s popular continuation of The Karate Kid saga. After a new high achieved by the third season, does the latest represent a turning point forward, backward or sideways for its characters? Erik & Morgan delve into the constant switching sides and whether this season does justice for its teenage characters? Did the creators write themselves into a corner when its protagonists fina...
Episode 282: The Best Films of 2021
January 13, 2022 22:18 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBOne last look at the films of 2021 is the focus of this episode with Erik Childress, Steve Prokopy and Collin Souter unveiling their lists of the best 15 films of the year. There may not have been a lot of “fun” movies, they each manage to agree on one that makes their lists. There are also foreign films, documentaries and musicals of all kinds. Films of grief and mortality and the one that Erik thinks is just “fine.” Do not let the subject matter of the films throw you though, this is a liv...
Episode 281: 2022 Begins With A January Movie
January 12, 2022 15:50 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBMovie Madness begins 2022 with its weekly review show and a few holdovers from 2021 that are only beginning to open wider. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy catch up on the latest collaboration from Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers), George Clooney directs Ben Affleck in a coming-of-age memoir (The Tender Bar) and Asghar Farhadi pushes everyone into another moral conundrum (A Hero). There is also a cat-and-mouse game between a blind girl and a group of thieves not called Wa...
Episode 280: WHY IS THIS NOT ON BLU-RAY? (Chapter 8)
December 28, 2021 18:30 - 3 hours - 136 MBThe bi-annual series with Erik Childress and Sergio Mims closes out 2021 with a giant three-plus hour show dedicated to 20 films that have yet to find their way beyond DVD and, at least in one case, out of VHS if you can even find that. Ten choices each spanning a variety of eras include film noirs, comedies, television adaptations and even a television series. Blaxploitation and musicals, a satire of one era and a whole other era that many would rather forget but Sergio is here to remind yo...
Episode 279: Back to the Matrix with Pizza
December 20, 2021 18:46 - 2 hours - 111 MBThe last movie review edition of the podcast for 2021 is an epic one. Over two-and-a-half hours discussing 11 films including three that were chosen to be a part of this year’s Chicago Critics Film Festival. They include Isabelle Fuhrmann trying to do for rowing what Whiplash did from drumming (The Novice), Olivia Colman having an introspective vacation in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut (The Lost Daughter) and the latest from the director of The Florida Project (Red Rocket). Science-f...
Episode 279: Spider-Man: No Way Home
December 20, 2021 18:46 - 2 hours - 111 MBThe last movie review edition of the podcast for 2021 is an epic one. Over two-and-a-half hours discussing 11 films including three that were chosen to be a part of this year’s Chicago Critics Film Festival. They include Isabelle Fuhrmann trying to do for rowing what Whiplash did from drumming (The Novice), Olivia Colman having an introspective vacation in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut (The Lost Daughter) and the latest from the director of The Florida Project (Red Rocket). Science-f...
Episode 278: Spider-Man: No Way Home
December 17, 2021 18:11 - 2 hours - 87.2 MBThe final Marvel film of 2021 is about to become the biggest movie of the year. Erik Childress is joined by comic book expert, Erik Laws, to share their thoughts on the film. Spoilers are abound so be sure to listen after you have seen it. But when you do you will find out if they are as stoked as everyone else. They get into the previous Spider-Man films and discuss if this one hits the emotional beats it is clearly chasing. Are we allowed to be surprised anymore as so much has already ...
Episode 277: Blu-Rays For Your Christmas List
December 16, 2021 22:37 - 2 hours - 101 MBErik Childress and Sergio Mims deliver one last Blu-ray show for 2021 with an impressive group of titles just in time to make your film lovers merry for Christmas. From Criterion they talk about one of the greatest films of all-time and one of their choices for the best film of 2020. Paramount delivers on a couple of Warren Beatty classics while also fulfilling another from the hosts’ Not-On-Blu-Ray lists. As does Warner Archive with a timely delivered mystery given the passing of one of its...
Episode 276: Spielberg, Chaplin, Lucy and a Couple Disasters
December 13, 2021 19:33 - 1 hour - 77.2 MBSix new movies are covered on the weekly movie review edition of the show with Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy looking at a new documentary about a film legend (The Real Charlie Chaplin) and the week from hell of a TV legend (Being the Ricardos). A film dramatizes the debate over compensating student athletes (National Champions) but who will compensate us for the latest from Sandra Bullock (The Unforgivable) and Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up). Then if you missed the full show with Sergio Mims,...
Episode 275: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story
December 09, 2021 20:28 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBThe title of the episode almost says it all but it turns out both Erik Childress and Sergio Mims have a lot to say about Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Oscar-winning 1961 musical. Sergio, who also hosts a classical music show on WHPK Radio in Chicago, takes us through the choreographers, Leonard Bernstein and his thoughts both positive and negative on the original. Erik also shares his thoughts on how the 1961 film shaped his perspective on musicals at an early age and how the new film has...
Episode 274: C’mon C’mon And Listen For Adrienne And Benedetta
December 06, 2021 20:22 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBMovie theaters tend to slow down the week after Thanksgiving but Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy still have seven movies you can see there or at home. They catch up on the latest from Mike Mills with Joaquin Phoenix (C’mon C’mon). Sci-fi takes some questionable turns in an apocalyptic “comedy” (Silent Night) and a kidnapping drama that is questionably referred to as “science fiction” (Encounter). Surprisingly there is no such label on the story of people who believe they are animals (Wolf)....
Episode 273: From Super Mario To Not-So-Super Gucci
November 29, 2021 21:21 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBThe weekly movie review edition of the podcast adds seven titles from the Thanksgiving holiday. Erik Childress checks out the 1980s hi-jinks of trying to obtain a Nintendo (8-Bit Christmas) while Steve Prokopy delves into the new Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) and the stylings of classic songwriters of old (The Beatles: Get Back) and new (Encanto). The pair debate whether the directorial debut of Halle Berry is worth your time (Bruised) and try to decipher just what anybody sees in Stephen...
Episode 272: Open Sesame For Laika, Labyrinth and Keaton
November 24, 2021 17:17 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBBlack Friday and Christmas are coming up, so what better time to talk up some Blu-rays you may want to add to your wish lists. Erik Childress and Sergio Mims discuss a great documentary that should be on everyone’s shelves about one of the greatest television shows ever produced. For the kids Shout Factory has a whole lineup of new Laika packages and the pair also get into who is a Labyrinth guy and who is a Dark Crystal guy. Paramount has some great 4K titles including two-thirds of the ori...
Episode 271: The Power of Doth Protestin’ Too Much
November 21, 2021 18:03 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBThe weekly review edition of the show with Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy never plans out a theme but sometimes they just appear. Post-Thanksgiving shopping is never quite as bad in this week’s horror film (Black Friday) and the same might be said for Abel Ferrara’s new work (Zeros and Ones). Why is Alanis Morrissette complaining about her documentary (Jagged) when a teacher has a more serious beef when her sex tape goes public (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn). Andrew Garfield is a wannabe...
Episode 270: Ghostbusters – Answer the Criticism
November 19, 2021 20:51 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBErik Laws normally joins the show to talk comic book adaptations, but a certain 1984 film is a favorite to many of us so he joins Erik Childress for a discussion of Jason Reitman’s modern follow-up to his father’s classic. Ghostbusters: Afterlife has drawn quite the division between those nostalgic for the original and critics who believe the fan service has reached a fever pitch. Has Reitman filled the film with so many easter eggs that it is nothing but a soulless trip down memory lane or ...
Episode 269: The Everlasting Love Of Rocky, Food & Family
November 17, 2021 21:13 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBThe weekly movie review edition of the show arrives with nine new films. In documentaries, Steve Prokopy looks at one about the current Secretary of Transportation (Mayor Pete) while Erik Childress looks at how Juggalo culture became synonymous with gangs by the government (The United States of Insanity) and both dig in to the life of The French Chef (Julia). Steve covers a film about human trafficking (7 Prisoners) while Erik suffers a franchise re-imagined by SNL’s Mikey Day (Home Sweet Ho...
Episode 268: Get Busy Living Or Make That Three Hard-Boiled Eggs
November 11, 2021 17:56 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBMovies never stop and neither do the Blu-rays which is why Erik Childress and Sergio Mims continue to talk about them so you can build your physical media collection. It may only be on DVD but any cornucopia of Richard Pryor material is a gift and they discuss a new one from Time-Life. Sergio digs into the Arrow release of Ridley Scott’s Legend and Criterion’s The Damned. They go through a variety of titles from Kino and a pair of major 4K releases from Warner Bros. that bring both praise an...
Episode 267: Everyone On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
November 08, 2021 21:02 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBEight new movies are after your attention on the weekly review episode with Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy and it’s a pretty solid lineup with at least one big exception. Erik reminds you of Stanley Nelson’s terrific documentary on the infamous prison standoff (Attica) and Steve looks at a new breed of vampire film (Dead & Beautiful). There’s a voice inside Olivia Munn’s head and its not pleasant (Violet) and Jim Cummings faces the consequences of an anonymous Hollywood sexual encounter (T...
Episode 266: If Someone Asks If You’re An Eternal, You Say Yes!
November 04, 2021 18:14 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBThe Marvel Cinematic Universe enters the next phase of its current phase with Eternals, Chloe Zhao’s now follow-up to her Oscar-winning Nomadland. Erik Childress brings back comic book expert, Erik Laws, to dive into the comic’s history as well as the film which has drawn quite the discourse from critics. Has Marvel fatigue reached an apex where even the only second woman to ever win Best Director can’t satisfy the longing for something different? Childress leans into this part of the discus...