To the '90s and Beyond! Film Podcast
324 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings“To the 90’s and Beyond” offers concise deep-dives into the origin, making, production, and legacy for movies of the 1990s, as well as looks at newer films that were influenced by the films that came out in the 1980s/1990s. It also serves as a companion podcast to “Around the World in 80s Movies”.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) Nia Vardalos Movie Reviews
March 27, 2016 15:18 - 4.64 MBNow happily married (though the romantic spark has largely gone), Toula and Ian have a 17-year-old daughter, Paris, who is already getting pressure from Toula's father, Gus, to find a boyfriend, get married and start having Greek babies. Toula is more concerned with a different life milestone for Paris, college, and the family desperately hopes that the young woman will choose to stay near family in Chicago by attending Northwestern University. As the family generally gives hugs until suffo...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) – Movie Reviews
March 25, 2016 18:54 - 8.53 MBDC decides to expand its cinematic universe to catch up with the Marvel films with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Batman feels Supes is a danger to humanity, and Superman view Batman as a threat. Taking advantage of the separation comes Lex Luthor, who pits them together in an effort to rid the world of those who could stop his quest for domination.
Rams (2015) Grimur Hakonarson – Movie reviews
March 25, 2016 00:24 - 4.24 MBWe mostly follow the film from the perspective of mild-mannered Gummi (Sigurjonsson), who beams with pride on his stock of sheep, entering his ram into a local competition for the best example of good breeding. We see him narrowly losing the latest competition to his neighbor and estranged alcoholic and temperamental brother Kiddi, which leaves a bitter taste in Gummi's mouth not only for the loss, but it's a loss to the man he most detests in this world. During the aftermath, Gummi decid...
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (2016) Netflix Movie – Pee-wee Herman
March 22, 2016 02:21 - 4.05 MBPee-wee Herman has never left his hometown of Fairville to see anything beyond its city limits, save for a harrowing botched attempt to go to Salt Lake City that nipped his wanderlust in the bud. While at work as a cook in a local diner, Pee-wee meets and hits it off with Joe Manganiello, playing a comic version of himself, who encourages the perpetual man-child to get out and see what's out there by inviting him to attend his swanky birthday party in a few days in New York City.
Allegiant (2016) Divergent Series – Movie Reviews
March 19, 2016 15:54 - 5.44 MBThe futuristic film opens with Naomi Watts' character, Evelyn, now in charge of walled-in Chicago after the demise of Jeanine, and she's trying to provide 'justice' for past sins against the members of Erudite by conducting public trials in which they're put to death at the whim of angry mobs. Those who think that Evelyn is merely a replacement for Jeanine in Machiavellian tactics splinter off into their own group, the Allegiant, led by Johanna (Spencer), and civil war is about to break out ...
The Young Messiah (2016) Sean Bean – Movie Reviews
March 14, 2016 01:11 - 4.58 MBThe film starts with young Jesus with his family, having fled to Egypt due to a decree by Herod the Great to find the child that had managed to escape slaughter as a babe seven years back. At this point in his life, Jesus isn't yet aware of his divine identity, having recently been able to resurrect a dead bird. While there, Jesus has his first run-in with a crafty Demon who is trying to alter events against the young Son of God, resulting in circumstances that cause Jesus to employ his abili...
The Brothers Grimsby (2016) Sacha Baron Cohen – Movie Review
March 12, 2016 16:22 - 5.5 MBSacha Baron Cohen stars as Norman 'Nobby' Butcher, a who lives in Grimsby with his lusty wife Dawn (Wilson) and eleven hooligan children (two who are his grandchildren) in the working-class town of the film's title. Despite the large family, deadbeat welfare-scammer Nobby still yearns for one more person in his life, his younger brother Sebastian, who he was separated from as a young boy when they were left as orphans and adopted into different circumstances. After learning of the whereabout...
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) John Goodman – Movie Reviews
March 12, 2016 01:41 - 5.68 MBMary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Michelle, who is leaving her fiancé, Ben voiced by Bradley Cooper), after an apparent deal-breaking disagreement that he must feel sorry for, given that he is persistently calling as she's on the rural Louisiana road heading out of town. That's the last thing she remembers, as Michelle end up in a car accident that sees her roll off the road and take a nasty tumble. When Michelle awakens, she finds herself in a strange bed with an IV in her, chained to the w...
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) Chloe Zhao – Movie Reviews
March 11, 2016 03:13 - 4.89 MBSet in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Songs My Brothers Taught Me primarily revolves around seventeen-year-old brother Johnny Winters and his eleven-year-old sister Jashaun, living with their alcoholic single mother Lisa below the poverty line. With local jobs in very short supply, John makes a few bucks here and there delivering bootleg alcohol and weed to his Oglala Lakota brethren in a place plagued by alcoholism and a lack of easy roads in life. Meanwhile, their biolo...
The Boy and the Beast (2015) Anime Movie Reviews
March 08, 2016 03:09 - 3.21 MBThe story involves a nine-year-old boy named Ren, who, after the untimely death of his mother after a bitter divorce, ends up filled with despair and rage, roaming the streets of Tokyo rather than live with his distant relatives. That's when Ren is spotted by a Kumatetsu, a hot-tempered ursine beast from another dimension where animal-men rule supreme, Jutengai. Ren ends up following Kumatetsu into an alley that serves as a portal back to the a supernatural place where shape-shifting humano...
Mustang (2015) Deniz Gamze Erguven – Movie Reviews
March 07, 2016 04:02 - 5.06 MBFive orphaned, loving, and seemingly carefree sisters living in a very conservative town in Turkey are growing up fast -- so fast that when they're spotted engaging in a bit of innocent horseplay with some local boys, they're immediately disciplined, and the home in which they reside takes to locking down the girls, placing a virtual 'chastity belt' around the home of bars and high walls, before they go out and bring shame to the family and village they're in. Their day-to-day existence also ...
London Has Fallen (2016) Gerard Butler – Movie Reviews
March 06, 2016 01:27 - 5.86 MBThe story begins in Pakistan, with an American drone strike on the abode of terrorist-supplying arms dealer Aamir Barkawi, where a wedding appears to be taking place. Two years later, the unfortunate death of the British prime minister has many world leaders converging on London to attend his funeral. That's when the enemies of the Western world, led by Barkawi (who somehow managed not to die in the drone strike), decide to strike back, with an elaborate plot to assassinate all of the heads...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) Tina Fey – Movie Reviews
March 05, 2016 04:37 - 6.02 MBTina Fey stars as Kim Baker, a journalist stuck in a life rut while working in television news as a copy-editor in New York, who ends up taking on an assignment to cover the war in Afghanistan beginning in 2003. What initially had been intended as a three-month gig end up being much longer (we immediately know she's still there in 2006, based on the film's prologue), much to the chagrin of her boyfriend back home. In Kabul, she's immediately a fish out of water, dealing with the many macho ...
Gods of Egypt (2016) Gerard Butler – Fantasy Movie Reviews
March 01, 2016 05:29 - 4.74 MBThe film is set in Ancient Egypt, at a time when gods and human co-existed in the lands. The gods were like humans, mortal and fallible, but were twice as tall and their veins coursed with gold instead of blood. Each of them also had unique superhuman abilities like flight. Our main protagonist is Horus, the god of the air, who is set to ascend to take over Egypt from his father Osiris. However, those plans are soon foiled when Set, the arrogant and ambitious younger brother of Osiris, mou...
Eddie the Eagle (2016) Taron Egerton – Movie Reviews
February 28, 2016 01:48 - 4.45 MBDirected by Dexter Fletcher, Eddie the Eagle tells the story of Michael "Eddie" Edwards, who would find fifteen minutes of fame as an Olympic ski jumper for Great Britain at the 1988 Winter Games. Taron Egerton stars as Edwards, an awkward lad growing up with poor vision and a leg brace who dreamed a seemingly impossible dream of one day representing his country at the Olympics. Failing to be coordinated enough to master anything to do with track and field without busting up his ill-fitting...
Triple 9 (2016) – Chiwetel Ejiofor – Movie Review
February 27, 2016 02:01 - 4.05 MBA group of five ex-special ops guys now working in Atlanta as criminals, but most novel about the situation is that some of them are also cops. The film opens with the group perpetrating an elaborate bank heist in order to get the contents of a specific safety deposit box for a powerful Russian/Israeli mafia. The men are told that this is the last operation they're indebted to do, but its apparently not enough for what that mafia needs, and they coerce the men to put their lives on the line...
Zootopia (2016) Disney Zootropolis – Movie Reviews
February 25, 2016 12:39 - 4.36 MBJudy Hopps is a bunny rabbit from farm country who always wanted to be a police officer in the big mammal-filled metropolis of Zootopia, where all of the animals have given up their predator/prey ways in order to live in harmony and can be what they really dram to be in life -- at least, that's the ideal they strive to achieve. She ends up getting her wish when she's hired as the first rabbit in the new-look ZPD (Zootropia Police Department). Not being a large or sturdy mammal, she isn't ta...
Race (2016) Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis – Movie Reviews
February 23, 2016 02:31 - 6.79 MBJesse Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, became a track star at his alma mater of Ohio State University, where Larry Snyder, a former promising track star himself, is head coach of the track team. Coach Snyder sees raw talent in the young man, and knowing that the 1936 Olympics isn't too far in the distance, he thinks that Owens is just the diamond in the rough the country needs to win Olympic Gold, showing him how to work on a proper start to the race, and adding the long...
Son of Saul (2015) Laszlo Nemes – Movie Reviews
February 21, 2016 15:05 - 4.61 MBThe film showcases a special type of prisoner in the death camps known as the 'sonderkommandos', who would, under penalty of death, assist with the rounding up of other prisoners to put into the gas chambers, sift through their clothing for valuables, and also dispose of their bodies, which are subsequently burned into ashes. We follow one sondercommando called Saul, a Hungarian of Jewish descent, who is tasked with the nightmarish responsibility that will likely only grant him a few extra m...
The Witch (2015) Robert Eggers – Horror Movie Reviews
February 20, 2016 05:37 - 5.67 MBSet in New England in the early 1630s, six decades before the infamous Salem Witch trials, we find a family of devout Puritans vacating the tight-knit community they could not see eye to eye with, relocating to a small farm on the border of the untamed woods. Ralph Ineson plays the patriarch, William, who finds it a struggle to raise crops in the area, forcing him to go out into the woods to hunt with son Caleb for sustenance until they can grow enough to feed themselves, and sell the rest. ...
Where to Invade Next – Michael Moore – Movie reviews
February 17, 2016 23:24 - 6.98 MBThe basic premise involves Michael Moore "invading" other countries, not for oil or to prop up our own dictators, but to steal away ideas that he feels would actually benefit his native United States to be the kind of society that could only exist in his most idealistic of dreams, were we to implement them. From Italy to Iceland to Tunisia, Moore looks at such things as the educational system, government structure, fight for gender equality, the prison systems, and the treatment of the worke...
How to Be Single (2016) Dakota Johnson – Movie Review
February 16, 2016 00:09 - 6.01 MBDakota Johnson gets the lead role as Alice, who decides that she and her long-term college boyfriend Josh should break up for a while in order to experience what being single is actually like before they proceed through the rest of their lives together. She takes up a job as a paralegal in a law firm, where she meets the boisterous Robin, who shows her the ropes of the life of a single girl in New York City -- important things like never paying for drinks and not using an Emoji before return...
Zoolander 2 (2016) Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson – Movie Review
February 14, 2016 01:37 - 5.31 MBDerek Zoolander is back, the eternally daft and narcissistic male supermodel, now retired and reclusive, who has been persuaded by a 'fashion police' agent working for Interpol, Valentina Valencia, to help find the killers of a growing list of celebrities who've struck what appears to be Zoolander's signature "Blue Steel" pose for an Instagram selfie done right before their moment of death. His wife deceased and his child taken away by protective services, Derek has a chance of getting Derek...
Deadpool (2016) Ryan Reynolds, Marvel – Movie Review
February 12, 2016 15:17 - 6.26 MBThe origin of Deadpool is told in an extended flashback sequence in the middle of the film, pushing forward a relatively improbable story of a rebellious ex-special ops, mercenary type named Wade Wilson who meets his "soulmate" in the equally deviant spitfire named Vanessa. Just as strongly as their bond of love begins to take hold, it's all about to come to an end, when Wilson is diagnosed with late-stage cancer. With seemingly no real cure in sight, Wilson reluctantly agrees to be a guine...