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Dante's Peak (1997)
Matinee Manatees - February 19, 2024 02:14 - 5 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're back and we're checking out another Patreon poll winner: the 1997 disaster movie Dante's Peak! Directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton, Dante's Peak was one of two big volcano movies to come out in 1997, but the only one to take a scientific eye and reall...
Elf (2003)
Matinee Manatees - December 19, 2023 01:43 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy Holidays everybody! This year the manatees are going a little more recent for the 20th birthday of a modern classic Christmas movie, 2003's Elf! Directed by Jon Favreau and starring Will Ferrell and James Caan, Elf is a colorful little modern-day fairy tale that's pretty much appropriate f...
Jingle All The Way (1996)
Matinee Manatees - November 22, 2023 01:59 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy Black Friday week everybody. In the spirit of the holidays (consumerism) we're rewatching the widely reviled but oddly charming holiday flop Jingle All the Way, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad, and directed by Brian Levant. It's almost thirty years old! You've probably heard of t...
The Thing (1982)
Matinee Manatees - October 25, 2023 22:35 - 5 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy Halloween, everyone! We're taking a look John Carpenter's 1982 classic, The Thing! Starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, and a bunch of other guys in parkas. While it was a flop at its release, The Thing has become a cult classic since and appears on just about every top 10...
Conan The Barbarian (1982)
Matinee Manatees - September 27, 2023 20:45 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsAt long last, the manatees are covering the famous story beloved around the world about a long-haired bronze age man who was crucified by an evil empire and then rose from the dead to save us all from the serpent... Conan the Barbarian! The 1982 version, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl B...
Troll 2 (1990)
Matinee Manatees - July 30, 2023 01:27 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsIt had to happen. We finally check out the infamous, the legendary, the nigh-on-indescribable work that defined a generation, 1990's Troll 2. Directed by Claudio Fragasso and starring Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, and Deborah Reed, Troll 2 has exactly zero connection to the movie Troll ...
Twister (1996)
Matinee Manatees - June 21, 2023 23:54 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're returning to the 90's well with 1996's "Twister", directed by Jan de Bont and starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. Twister is an interesting attempt at making a natural disaster movie by making a slasher movie and replacing the slasher with a twister. But does it work? Well... that's deba...
Mars Attacks (1996)
Matinee Manatees - April 30, 2023 21:23 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsThere are two movies out there based on Topps trading card limited series from the 60's, and of those two, 1996's Mars Attacks is our personal favorite. Directed by Tim Burton and starring pretty much everyone who's ever been in another Burton movie, Mars Attacks has the extreme honor of being t...
Avatar (2009)
Matinee Manatees - March 13, 2023 23:58 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're back after an unplanned month off (sorry!) and checking out the suddenly-sequeled 2009 cgi spectacle "Avatar"! Written and directed by our old pal James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, Avatar famously leans style over substance, but that doesn't mean it can't have bo...
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Matinee Manatees - January 26, 2023 00:40 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're going back to the 80's for another movie with puppets with 1984's cult classic The NeverEnding Story, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based (contentiously) on the book by Michael Ende. Famously one of the most expensive movies ever made outside of the US at the time, The NeverEnding Sto...
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Matinee Manatees - December 25, 2022 03:05 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsSeasons Greetings and Happy Holidays and so forth and so on! We're staying in the sort of spooky sort of holiday spirit with the 1990 Christmas classic(?) Edward Scissorhands! The first of a long line of collaborations between Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, and Johnny Depp (Helena Bonham Carter had...
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Matinee Manatees - November 28, 2022 21:19 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're starting the holiday season early with the famously saccharine Christmas romance, The Mothman Prophecies (alternate title: Mothman Saves Christmas). Richard Gere plays a grumpy widower from the big city who doesn't want to do anything on Christmas but sit at home and play with his phone, ...
Leprechaun (1993)
Matinee Manatees - October 13, 2022 02:04 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're revisiting some beloved Matinee Manatee alumni with Leprechaun, the 1993 comedy-horror starring Jennifer Aniston and Warwick Davis, our old friends from Office Space and Willow. Written and directed by Mark Jones, Leprechaun would go on to spawn seven sequels to date, so it must be doing ...
Office Space (1999)
Matinee Manatees - September 23, 2022 01:16 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsJust in time for being way too late for labor day, the Manatees are revisiting the 1999 Mike Judge classic Office Space, supposedly starring Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston but actually starring Gary Cole and Stephen Root, and also featuring Matinee Manatee alums Orlando Jones and Michale Mc...
Bloodsport (1988)
Matinee Manatees - August 03, 2022 22:02 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWhat can we say, we missed Mortal Kombat so much we decided to go after its dad: 1988's cult classic Bloodsport! Directed by Newt Arnold and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bloodsport is about a guy who goes to Hong Kong and fights a bunch of people. Somehow, Forest Whitaker is there. That's ...
Double Dragon (1994)
Matinee Manatees - June 27, 2022 00:30 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWhat do you get when you combine the setting from Escape From La, the costumes from Siegfried and Roy, the car from Back To The Future, the half locket from Annie, and the prosthetics from the Garbage Pail Kids? Why, Double Dragon, of course, the movie based on the game that had none of those t...
Over The Top (1987)
Matinee Manatees - May 23, 2022 07:04 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWe're back in the weird 80's genre with 1987's Over The Top, directed by Menahem Golan and starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert Loggia. We both thought this was a movie about arm wrestling, but it's actually more like two separate movies, one about arm wrestling and one about an awkward fathe...
Felix The Cat (1988)
Matinee Manatees - March 31, 2022 22:00 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsIt's a patron request month! This month we're checking out 1988's Felix The Cat animated feature, aptly described to us as "an acid trip box office flop". If you haven't heard of it, that's probably because almost nobody saw it. But why? We've all heard of Felix The Cat, seen the clocks, mig...
Episode 9 - Chib Chat Culture Catch Up
Chib Chat - March 11, 2022 19:22 - 1 hourChib Chat is back! And there's an awful lot to catch up on. This week we delve into all the latest scandals involving the British Royal Family, and talk about which TV shows have been bringing us joy recently. Topics include: - The Book of Boba Fett (John Bartnicki, Lucas Films, 2021) availab...
Batman and Robin (1997)
Matinee Manatees - February 26, 2022 21:35 - 6 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsWelcome back Batmanatees! Anthony drags Sam across the finish line of their Batman journey with 1997's notorious Batman and Robin, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Matinee Manatee alums Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, and John Glover, and also newcomers George Clo...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Matinee Manatees - January 20, 2022 02:02 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy 2022 everybody! We're still on our 90's kick with 1991's legendary Terminator 2: Judgment Day, directed by James Cameron and starring Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Robert Patrick. Can you believe it took us this long to get to a Schwarzenegger movie? The sec...
Home Alone (1990)
Matinee Manatees - December 12, 2021 23:42 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy holidays everybody! To get in the mood for the season, we're revisiting the famous 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone, directed by Chris Columbus and starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. The classic story of a child being able to do whatever he wants in his house and a ric...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Matinee Manatees - November 26, 2021 00:55 - 5 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy turkey day everybody! In celebration, we went back to one of our favorite movies about dinosaurs which are kind of sort of birds, and then watched the sequel instead: 1997's The Lost World (Jurassic Park 2) directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore! The L...
28 Days Later (2002)
Matinee Manatees - October 18, 2021 23:28 - 5 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHappy Scary-tober everybody! This month the manatees checked out 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris! This one was a patreon poll, and honestly we're pretty glad it turned out the way it did. The movie that arguably kicked off the zombie resurg...
Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
Matinee Manatees - August 31, 2021 22:40 - 3 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsTom Hanks once said that Jason And The Argonauts was the greatest film ever made. But was he right? I mean, yeah, probably. Directed by Don Chaffey, starring Todd Armstrong and Honor Blackman, and featuring an original score by the fantastic Bernard Herrmann, Jason And The Argonauts is perhap...
Waterworld (1995)
Matinee Manatees - July 09, 2021 00:32 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsThis month we're watching another collaboration by the Kevins Reynolds and Costner with 1995's Waterworld! Also featuring the triumphant return of Dennis Hopper and the podcast's first appearance of Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino. The most expensive movie ever made at the time of its rel...
S3E41: Longmire
Circle of Cinema Podcast - June 26, 2021 23:19 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin us for this review of Longmire, an American modern Western crime drama television series that premiered on June 3, 2012 on the A&E network, developed by John Coveny and Hunt Baldwin. The series is based on the Walt Longmire Mysteries series of novels by Craig Johnson. It centers on Walt Lon...
S3E40: Casino Royale
Circle of Cinema Podcast - June 19, 2021 22:06 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin us for this fun review of James Bond's Casino Royale, a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name. Tune in for amazing, fun & entertaining movie reviews over the last 100 years!
S3E39: Crazy Rich Asians
Circle of Cinema Podcast - June 10, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCrazy Rich Asians is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Join us for this review of the very entertaining film adaptation of the novel that was released on August 15, 2018. And as always, please tune in for amazing, fun & entertaining movie reviews over the last 100 years!
Highlander (1986)
Matinee Manatees - May 26, 2021 22:25 - 4 hours ★★★★ - 75 ratingsHEEEEERE WE ARE! It's one of the 80's most notorious cult classics and every mall samurai's fever dream, 1986's Highlander, which made no money but somehow spawned half a dozen sequels and four TV series! Directed by our old friend Russell Mulcahy and starring Matinee Manatee alumni Christophe...
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