Category: Podcast

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.

It’s a very special Christmas podcast this week and our last podcast of 2018. We’ll resume in January. Thanks for listening!

New in Theaters

• Mary Poppins Returns
• Aquaman
• Bumblebee
• Second Act
• Welcome to Marwen
• Holmes and Watson
• Destroyer
• On the Basis of Sex
• Vice

Reviews

The Christmas classics series continues with The Bishop’s Wife (1947). Also reviewed are Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

Classic Cinema Corner

Christmas Day is going to be a delight on TCM with an evening full of comedies. Check tcm.com/schedule for the latest details. Also, TCM is playing six films starring Burt Reynolds on December 26 to honor his passing last September.

I often like to have a movie challenge/project during any given year, so for 2019, I’m going to watch all 52 films listed in Jeremy Arnold‘s outstanding TCM book The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter. Many films I’ve already seen, some I haven’t. I hope you’ll consider joining in, too!

Recommendations

I hope to see a bunch of movies over the Christmas holiday, but for now, I still recommend Ralph Breaks the Internet, along with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Mary Poppins Returns.

Here’s the podcast as well as the notes for the December 13, 2018 podcast. Thanks for tuning in!

New in Theaters

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018, Sony Pictures Animation)
• Mortal Engines (2018, Universal)
• The Mule (2018, Warner Bros.)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, Annapurna)

Reviews

It’s another film in this month’s Christmas series–one of my personal holiday favorites, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (1954, Paramount).

Classic Cinema Corner

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Recommendations

Go see Ralph Breaks the Internet if you haven’t already! Good stuff.