Category: Podcast

Happy Valentine’s Day week and welcome to this week’s podcast!

New Movie Roundup

• Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount)
• Downhill (Searchlight)
• Fantasy Island (Columbia)
• The Photograph (Universal)

Reviews and Commentary

The happy and triumphant return of the modest-budget Disney family film is happening on Disney+ with films like Noelle, Togo, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, and next month’s Stargirl. You should totally get Disney+ if you like this genre of films. Sign up at disneyplus.com.

Classic Cinema Corner

• Flight of the Navigator (Disney; 1986; available on Disney+)
• Galaxy Quest (DreamWorks, 1999)

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Welcome to this week’s podcast! And happy Oscars week!

New Movie Roundup

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros.)

Also of Note in Theaters

Love Story (1970), part of the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Big Screen Classics series, February 9 and 12 in select theaters. Visit fathomevents.com/tcm for showtimes and to find a theater near

2020 Oscar Best Picture Showcase at Cinemark Theatres February 3-9

All Things Oscars

Global Movie Day is February 8. Learn more here. #GlobalMovieDay

Download a printable Oscar ballot here.

Here are links to all of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences social media feeds:
Twitter 
Instagram
Facebook 
YouTube

Must-See Sci-Fi Project

I’m having fun and am on target with watching the 50 science fiction films listed in the cool Turner Classic Movies (TCM) book called Must-See Sci-Fi: 50 Movies that Are Out of This World by Sloan De Forest (Running Press, 2018; available at Amazon.com and Shop TCM). (And I said that I’ve watched five of the films but I’ve actually watched six so far…my bad.) More details about the book and movie watching project are on this blog post.

Here are the films I’ve watched so far:

1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
2. Metropolis (1927)
3. Frankenstein (1931)
4. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
5. The Invisible Man (1933)
6. Things to Come (1936)

Feel free to follow along on the Movies Past and Present Instagram feed.

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Happy New Year and welcome to the first Movies Past and Present podcast of 2020!

New Movie Roundup

New in Theaters This Weekend

• Just Mercy (Warner Bros.)
• Underwater (20th Century Fox)
• Like a Boss (Paramount)
• 1917 (Universal) – wide release

Worth Checking Out

• Little Women (Sony)
• Uncut Gems (A24)
• Bombshell (Lionsgate)
• Dark Waters (Focus Features) – reviewed on today’s podcast
• Frozen 2 (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
• Knives Out (Lionsgate)

Reviews

Both of these films are still in theaters (at least in my market).

• Dark Waters (Lionsgate)
• Parasite (Neon)

Movies I’m Excited to See in 2020

• Downhill (Fox Searchlight) – February 14
• The Call of the Wild (20th Century Fox) – February 21
• Onward (Pixar Animation Studios) – March 6
• No Time to Die (Universal) – April 8
• Black Widow (Marvel Studios) – May 1
• Fast & Furious 9 (Universal) – May 22
• Soul (Pixar Animation Studios) – June 19
• In the Heights (Warner Bros.) – June 26
• Free Guy (20th Century Fox) – July 3
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Sony) – July 10
• Tenet (Warner Bros.) – July 17
• Eternals (Marvel Studios) – November 6
• Raya and the Last Dragon (Walt Disney Animation Studios) – November 25
• Dune (Warner Bros.) – December 18
• West Side Story (20th Century Fox) – December 18

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Welcome to this week’s podcast! And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

New Movie Roundup

New in theaters this week:

• Bombshell
• Cats
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Opening next week:

• Spies in Disguise
• 1917
• Little Women
• Uncut Gems

Still in theaters (and definitely worth seeing):

• Frozen 2
• Ford v Ferrari
• Knives Out
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Reviews

I recently rewatched all eight Star Wars Skywalker saga episodes. More info and rankings are here. And here’s my written review of Episode IX, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Classic Cinema Corner

2020 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Big Screen Classic series lineup

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New in Theaters

• Frozen 2 (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
• 21 Bridges (STX Entertainment)
• The Irishman (Netflix)

Reviews

• Ford v Ferrari (also see my written review on the blog)
• Frozen 2 (also see my written review on the blog)

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New in Theaters

• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Disney)
• Zombieland: Double Tap (Columbia)

Reviews

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (I’ve also done a written review of the film on the blog.)

Classic Cinema Corner

I have been loving the TCM Essentials project this year! Watching 52 classic movies, one a week as listed in the great book from TCM (or almost one film a week…I’ll get there by the end of the year). Here’s a link to my original blog post and here’s where you can get the book.

This week, I discuss my recent viewings of Roman Holiday (Paramount, 1953), Seven Samurai (Toho Studios, 1954), and On the Waterfront (Columbia, 1954)–all on the TCM Essentials list in the book.

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New in Theaters

Opening this weekend:

• Gemini Man (Paramount)
• The Addams Family (MGM)
• Jexi (Lionsgate)
• Lucy in the Sky (Fox Searchlight)

Recently Opened:

• Joker (Warner Bros.)
• Abominable (DreamWorks Animation/Pearl Studios)

Classic Cinema Corner

There are four more Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Big Screen Classics films left in 2019. Go see them! For the latest information and to find a theater near you, visit the Fathom Events website at fathomevents.com/tcm. Here’s the schedule.

• Alien (1979) – 40th Anniversary — October 13, 15, and 16
• The Godfather, Part II (1974) — November 10, 12, and 13
• When Harry Met Sally (1989) – 30th Anniversary — December 1 and 3
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) – 75th Anniversary — December 8 and 11

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New in Theaters

• Downton Abbey
• Ad Astra
• Rambo: Last Blood

Classic Cinema Corner

Saw the 40th anniversary screening of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) on the big screen this week courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Fathom Events.

Check out this interesting interview with special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull about the making of the film from the official Star Trek website.

I also thought this interview with composer Jerry Goldsmith was interesting, too.

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Welcome to this week’s podcast! Hope you all had a great end to your summer.

New in Theaters

It Chapter Two (Warner Bros.)

Reviews and Commentary

I talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2019 D23 Expo, held in Anaheim, California on August 23-25, 2019.

Make sure to check out the cool D23 sizzle reel of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Here’s the trailer for Pixar Animation Studios’ Onward.

Disney+ launches on November 12. Looks great, can’t wait!

(And I meant to say Fess Parker as the star of Davy Crockett…my bad.)

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New in Theaters

• Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Paramount)
• The Art of Racing in Rain (20th Century Fox)
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Lionsgate/CBS Films)
• The Kitchen (New Line/Warner Bros.)

Reviews

In today’s podcast, I share my thoughts about Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (Universal, 2019). Also, I discuss the past, present, and future of the Fast and Furious film series.

Ludacris, who stars in many of the Fast and Furious movies, recently posted this to his Instagram feed.

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A post shared by @ ludacris on Aug 7, 2019 at 9:27am PDT

Vin Diesel has been posting pics from the FF9 set on Instagram, too. Here’s one of them.

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Day 16! Grateful, Blessed and Inspired. #Fast92020

A post shared by Vin Diesel (@vindiesel) on Jul 15, 2019 at 12:44pm PDT

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