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Marie Antoinette (2006)
Living for the Cinema - March 05, 2024 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsKicking off Women's History Month, here is a truly unique take on one of the most famous (or infamous) monarchs in the history of French royalty. Kirsten Dunst stars as the eponymous Queen married to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) - their reign lasted from 1774 through 1793 and happened to ...
Dune Part II (2024)
Living for the Cinema - March 01, 2024 01:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsSince we are apparently still several years away from the next Star Wars or Star Trek movie on the big screen, director Denis Villeneuve has given us the next best thing....or maybe something even better? :) This long-awaited sequel to the Oscar nominated sci-fi blockbuster Part 1 picks up EXA...
Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
Living for the Cinema - February 27, 2024 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsThe Coen Brothers are back! Well actually just one of them (Ethan Coen) but he's here to direct while also co-writing and co-producing with his wife and long-term Coen's collaborator Tricia Cooke. And what they have collaborated to deliver is an ambling, quirky, violent crime drama/comedy in t...
The Road Warrior (1981) - "Living For The Max" Series
Living for the Cinema - February 23, 2024 23:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsWelcome to the Living for the Max series. Over the past 45 years, there has been no other film franchise QUITE as inventive nor as consistently exciting as The Mad Max Saga….four films mostly chronicling the post-apocalyptic adventures of lone wolf Max Roxatansky played three times by Mel Gibso...
Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
Living for the Cinema - February 21, 2024 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsConsidering that he was one of the most influential musical performers of the 20th Century pioneering an entire genre (reggae) of music, it was only a matter of time before we were to see a big budget studio of biopic of the late, great Robert Nesta Marley hailing from Nine Mile, Jamaica. His l...
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE (2024)
Living for the Cinema - February 21, 2024 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsConsidering that he was one of the most influential musical performers of the 2st Century pioneering an entire genre (reggae) of music, it was only a matter of time before we were to see a big budget studio of biopic of the late, great Robert Nesta Marley hailing from Nine Mile, Jamaica. His li...
THE LAST DRAGON (1985)
Living for the Cinema - February 16, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsProbably the best way to describe this movie would be as a "Kung Fu Musical Comedy" but that MIGHT not do it justice! Produced by the founder of Motown Records (Berry Gordy) and directed by one of the early pioneers of African American cinema (Michael Schultz), it was a tale as old as time....o...
The Last Dragon (1985)
Living for the Cinema - February 16, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsProbably the best way to describe this movie would be as a "Kung Fu Musical Comedy" but that MIGHT not do it justice! Produced by the founder of Motown Records (Berry Gordy) and directed by one of the early pioneers of African American cinema (Michael Schultz), it was a tale as old as time....o...
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Living for the Cinema - February 13, 2024 06:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsJust a couple of years before the breakout success of his seminal horror classic, John Carpenter directed this low-budget action thriller focusing on the siege of a soon-to-be-closing LA police station by a some local gangs who are trying to take down a rival gang-leader being held in custody by...
Poor Things (2023) & Showgirls (1995)
Living for the Cinema - February 09, 2024 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsPoor Things is a high-brow steam-punk fantasy which just garnered the second largest number of Oscar nominations for 2023 including BEST PICTURE and has received universal acclaim for this surrealist tale of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone, also nominated for Best Actress), a young woman in Victorian E...
Duplicity (2009)
Living for the Cinema - February 06, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsOnce the Queen of Rom-Com's, Julia Roberts returned to the genre which made her a household name fifteen years ago and she also reuinited with Clive Owen, her co-star of Closer, their acclaimed drama about about five years prior. And they were both being directed by Tony Gilroy who just about 1...
Purple Rain (1984)
Living for the Cinema - February 01, 2024 23:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsForty years ago this summer, we saw the release of this seminal biopic/concert movie from first-time director Albert Magnoli. It was the feature film debut of Prince who was a rising rock and pop phenomenon at the time and it featured wall-to-wall new songs from Prince and his band at the time,...
Taken (2009)
Living for the Cinema - January 30, 2024 03:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFifteen years ago, we saw the release of one of THE most surprising word-of-mouth hits of the 21st Century and that was this straightforward action thriller directed by Pierre Morel. It starred Oscar Nominee Liam Neeson as Brian Mills, an ex-spy/assassin with a "particular set of skills" who ha...
Mad Max (1979) - "Living For The Max" Series
Living for the Cinema - January 26, 2024 02:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsWelcome to the Living for the Max series. Over the past 45 years, there has been no other film franchise QUITE as inventive nor as consistently exciting as The Mad Max Saga….four films mostly chronicling the post-apocalyptic adventures of lone wolf Max Roxatansky played three times by Mel Gibso...
Whiplash (2014)
Living for the Cinema - January 23, 2024 02:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsTen years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, every one who saw it was just dazzled by this low-budget music drama directed by then up-and-comer Damian Chazelle. And as the year progressed, so did more buzz before it was eventually released worldwide later that year to much acclaim and lots of a...
WHIPLASH (2014)
Living for the Cinema - January 23, 2024 02:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsTen years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, every one who saw it was just dazzled by this low-budget music drama directed by then up-and-comer Damian Chazelle. And as the year progressed, so did more buzz before it was eventually released worldwide later that year to much acclaim and lots of a...
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
Living for the Cinema - January 20, 2024 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsNAVAL WEEK concludes with a highly acclaimed period seafaring adventure which just turned 20! Adapted from a series of beloved historical fiction novels from Patrick O'Brian, this film chronicles the journey of the HMS Surprise, a British seafaring vessel sailing across the Southern Hemisphere ...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Living for the Cinema - January 20, 2024 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsNAVAL WEEK concludes with a highly acclaimed period seafaring adventure which just turned 20! Adapted from a series of beloved historical fiction novels from Patrick O'Brian, this film chronicles the journey of the HMS Surprise, a British seafaring vessel sailing across the Southern Hemisphere ...
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990)
Living for the Cinema - January 17, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsNAVAL WEEK kicks off with what might be The LAST Great Cold War Thriller?? Could be as this adaptation of Tom Clancy's best-selling novel was released literally just a few months after the fall of the Soviet Union. It all takes place during the height of the Cold War back in the early 1980's....
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Living for the Cinema - January 17, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsNAVAL WEEK kicks off with what might be The LAST Great Cold War Thriller?? Could be as this adaptation of Tom Clancy's best-selling novel was released literally just a few months after the fall of the Soviet Union. It all takes place during the height of the Cold War back in the early 1980's....
Capricorn One (1977)
Living for the Cinema - January 12, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsWhat's this, a well-regarded science fiction conspiracy thriller which featured an all-star cast and yet no one remembers it?? Well yeah if this film happens to come out the same year as Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind....two BEHEMETHS from this era directed by master filmmakers...
CAPRICORN ONE (1977)
Living for the Cinema - January 12, 2024 07:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsWhat's this, a well-regarded science fiction conspiracy thriller which featured an all-star cast and yet no one remembers it?? Well yeah if this film happens to come out the same year as Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind....two BEHEMETHS from this era directed by master filmmakers...
Footloose (1984)
Living for the Cinema - January 09, 2024 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsForty years ago amidst a crop of various pop music-driven movies (Flashdance, Breakin), this Herbert Ross-directed teen musical drama hit the world by storm and made a star of its lead performer, the legendary Kevin Bacon. Beyond that, it also had a one of the most memorable soundtracks of the ...
FOOTLOOSE (1984)
Living for the Cinema - January 09, 2024 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsForty years ago amidst a crop of various pop music-driven movies (Flashdance, Breakin), this Herbert Ross-directed teen musical drama hit the world by storm and made a star of its lead performer, the legendary Kevin Bacon. Beyond that, it also had a one of the most memorable soundtracks of the ...
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (1985)
Living for the Cinema - January 05, 2024 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFrom the director of The French Connection, The Exorcist, and.....Cruising :o....this was somewhat of a comeback vehicle for the late, great William Friedkin in the mid '80's after a series of highly publicized flops and commercial disappointments. It's a hard-edged LA-based crime story revolvi...
To Live and Die In LA (1985)
Living for the Cinema - January 05, 2024 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFrom the director of The French Connection, The Exorcist, and.....Cruising :o....this was somewhat of a comeback vehicle for the late, great William Friedkin in the mid '80's after a series of highly publicized flops and commercial disappointments. It's a hard-edged LA-based crime story revolvi...
FERRARI (2023)
Living for the Cinema - January 02, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFor the first time in more then eight years, the legendary Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans) has returned to the director's chair with a project which he has been developing for more than two decades. This is the epic story of Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) the Italian race...
Ferrari (2023)
Living for the Cinema - January 02, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFor the first time in more then eight years, the legendary Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans) has returned to the director's chair with a project which he has been developing for more than two decades. This is the epic story of Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) the Italian race...
The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Living for the Cinema - December 29, 2023 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsMany would consider Denzel Washington to be our Greatest Living Actor....Period and as part of this podcast's year tradition to celebrate his birthday (December 29), we will revisit one of the lesser-known starring vehicles from early in his career which is this Jamaica-based mystery thriller di...
American Fiction (2023)
Living for the Cinema - December 25, 2023 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFirst-director Cordell Jefferson helms this highly acclaimed new comedy/drama starring Jeffrey Wright as a veteran author struggling to find success and also coping with some upheaval within his family back home in Boston - his siblings are played by Sterling K. Brown and Tracee Ellis Ross. His...
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