Category: Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast!

New in Theaters

• The Beach Bum (NEON)
• Hotel Mumbai (Bleecker Street)
• Dumbo (Walt Disney Studios)

Classic Cinema Corner

Loved seeing To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) on the big screen, this month’s entry in the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Big Screen Classics series. It also was this week’s selection in my TCM Essentials quest.

The Criterion Channel launches on April 8! It’s not too late to sign up for a charter membership and enjoy their “Movie of the Week” via your browser on your computer or smartphone. Last week’s “Movie of the Week” was the classic film noir Detour (1945). This week’s film is the bonkers Czechoslovak film The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962).

Thanks for tuning in! Listen to the podcast below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. Have fun at the movies this week and we’ll see you next time.

Welcome to this week’s podcast! (And sorry that we weren’t able to record one last week.)

New in Theaters

(Including two releases from last week)

• Wonder Park (Paramount)
• Five Feet Apart (Lionsgate)
• Us (Universal)

Classic Cinema Corner

• TCM Essentials Update (It Happened One Night and Singin’ in the Rain)
• Tribute to Stanley Donen on TCM
  • “Alter Ego” dance sequence from Cover Girl (1944)
  • Dance with Jerry Mouse from Anchors Aweigh (1945)
  • Stanley Donen’s acceptance speech for his honorary Academy Award in 1997

Don’t miss To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) on the big screen March 24 and 27, this month’s TCM Big Screen Classics film.

Thanks for tuning in! Listen to the podcast below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. Have fun at the movies this week and we’ll see you next time.

Welcome to this week’s podcast!

New in Theaters

• Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral (Lionsgate; sorry I missed this one last week).
• Captain Marvel (Marvel Studios). Read my review here.

Classic Cinema Corner

• Casablanca in Concert with the great Utah Symphony was amazing. It was also a wonderful way to knock another film off of my TCM Essentials list. (FYI, the Utah Symphony is doing Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in Concert this May.) Look for this type of experience with your local symphony!
• A tribute to 20th Century Fox is happening at this year’s Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Classic Film Festival. Additional 35mm nitrate screenings have been announced for the festival as well.

Thanks for tuning in! Listen to the podcast below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. Have fun at the movies this week and we’ll see you next time.

Welcome to this week’s podcast!

New in Theaters

Since I didn’t record a podcast last week, here are the main releases for the last couple of weeks.

• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (DreamWorks Animation)
• Apollo 11 (Neon)
• Greta (Focus Features)

Reviews and Classic Cinema Corner

I’m combining these two segments this week.

• Did you watch the Oscars? What did you think?
• This week’s TCM Essentials films–Grand Hotel (1932), King Kong (1933), and Duck Soup (1933).
• Sleeping Beauty(1959) on the Disney lot. More about Eyvind Earle is here. And join D23 at D23.com.
• Stanley Donen tribute March 18 on TCM.

Recommendations

Gone with the Wind 80th Anniversary. More details at FathomEvents.com.

Thanks for tuning in! Listen below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. Have fun at the movies this week and we’ll see you next time.

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

New in Theaters

• Alita: Battle Angel (20th Century Fox)
• Happy Death Day 2U (Universal)
• Isn’t It Romantic (New Line Cinema)
• Fighting with My Family (MGM/WWE)

Reviews

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros./Warner Animation Group)

Classic Cinema Corner

• This week’s TCM Essentials film is the Charlie Chaplin classic City Lights (1931).
• This week’s “Movie of the Week” bonus for early/charter subscribers to the upcoming Criterion Channel streaming service was the challenging and fascinating Chungking Express (1994). Criterion Channel launches April 8.

Recommendations

• February’s TCM Big Screen Classics film is the film adaptation of the Broadway musical smash My Fair Lady (1964). The film screens on two days only–February 17 and 20. Details are at FathomEvents.com. Go see it! (And here’s an interesting story about Audrey Hepburn’s singing voice, Marni Nixon.)
• The Oscars are happening on February 24 on ABC. Select movie theater chains across the country are offering special discounted passes to see all eight of the Best Picture nominees, including Megaplex Theatres, Cinemark, and AMC. It’s a great deal to see some great movies on the big screen.

Thanks for tuning in! Listen below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. Have fun at the movies this week and we’ll see you next time.

Welcome to this week’s podcast!

New in Theaters

• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros. Pictures/Warner Animation Group)
• What Men Want (Paramount)
• The Prodigy (Orion)
• Cold Pursuit (Summit Entertainment)

Reviews

Destroyer (Annapurna Pictures, 2018)

Classic Cinema Corner

Subscribe to the Criterion Channel streaming service! More details at criterionchannel.com.

Last week’s “Movie of the Week” bonus feature that you get when you are a charter subscriber to the Criterion Channel was Elaine May’s crime drama Mikey and Nicky (1976).

Recommendations

They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2018)

Thanks for tuning in! Listen below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. See you at the movies!

Welcome to this week’s podcast!

New in Theatres

Gina Rodriguez is Miss Bala (Columbia, 2019).

Back in Theatres

The Academy Award-nominated documentary Free Solo is back in IMAX theaters for one week starting February 1. More info at imax.com/freesolo.

Reviews

Stan & Ollie (Sony Pictures Classics, 2018). Based on the book Laurel & Hardy: The British Tours by A.J. Marriot (1993).

Classic Cinema Corner

• This week’s TCM Essentials film is the delightful musical comedy Swing Time (RKO, 1935).
• See the 80th anniversary screening of The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) on the big screen Feb 3 and 5. More info at fathomevents.com/tcm.
• The Criterion Channel streaming service launches April 8. Sign up now at criterionchannel.com.

Thanks for tuning in! Listen below or subscribe to the podcast on Apple iTunes. See you at the movies!

Double episode this week!

New in Theaters

• Glass (opens January 18)
• Serenity (opens January 25)
• The Kid Who Would Be King (and I meant to say “Lady of the Lake”😀🗡; also opens January 25)

Reviews

I discuss my top 10 films of 2018 and 10 most anticipated films of 2019.

Classic Cinema Corner

My TCM Essentials movie watching project is off to a good start! I’ve watched two more of the films:

• Now, Voyager (1942)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Recommendations

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I’d recommend seeing Green Book, Mary Poppins Returns, and Ralph Breaks in the Internet while they are still in theaters.

Thanks again for tuning in! Talk with you in a couple of weeks.

It’s our first podcast of 2019!

New in Theaters

• A Dog’s Way Home (Columbia Pictures, 2019)
• The Upside (STX Entertainment, 2019)
• Escape Room (Columbia Pictures, 2019)
• Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-A-Long Version! (20th Century Fox, 2018)

Reviews

Vice (Annapurna Pictures, 2018)

Classic Cinema Corner

Metropolis (UFA, 1927), the first film in my TCM Essentials quest (film is available on Blu-ray and on Apple iTunes).

TCM The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter by Jeremy Arnold is available at Amazon and other fine booksellers.

Recommendations

• Green Book (Universal/DreamWorks, 2018)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Animation, 2018)
• Ralph Breaks the Internet (Walt Disney Animation Studios, 2018)

Make sure to follow the Movies Past and Present Twitter feed (@moviespap) for the latest reviews.