Category: Podcast

Welcome to the 77th episode of the Movies Past and Present podcast!

New in Theaters

Opening Friday, December 17

• Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)
• American Underdog (Lionsgate)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (Columbia/Marvel Studios)

Opening Wednesday, December 22

• Sing 2 (Illunimation/Universal)
• The King’s Man (20th Century Studios)
• The Matrix Resurrections (Warner Bros.)

Reviews

• West Side Story
• Spider-Man: No Way Home

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Welcome to episode 76 of the Movies Past and Present podcast!

New on Streaming

• Red Notice (Netflix)
• Finch (Apple TV+)

Also, Disney+ is celebrating its second anniversary on November 12 with a fun set of “Disney+Day” programming and promotions. Learn more here.

Reviews

• The Last Duel
• Dune
• The French Dispatch
• Eternals

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Welcome to episode 75 of the Movies Past and Present podcast.

New in Theaters

The Last Duel (20th Century Studios)

(More about Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon is here.)

Reviews

No Time to Die (MGM)

Check out my ranking of the previous 24 James Bond 007 films.

Mindy Johnson Interview

I had the distinct honor and privilege of interviewing animation historian and author Mindy Johnson. Mindy is giving a presentation at Film Forum about her Pencils, Pens & Brutshes: A Great Girls’ Guide to Disney Animation book this Sunday, October 17 in New York City. Learn more here.

Buy Mindy’s books:

• Pencils, Pens & Brushes: A Great Girls’ Guide to Disney Animation
• Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation
• Tinker Bell: An Evolution

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Welcome of episode 74 of the Movies Past and Present podcast.

New in Theaters

• Cry Macho (Warner Bros.)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)

Review

• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings (Marvel Studios)

Check out this featurette about the film.

Three Recent TCM “Must-See Musicals” Picks

I am watching all 50 movies listed in the great book from Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can’t Forget by Richard Barrios (Running Press, 2017; available on Amazon.com, on the Shop TCM website, and, hopefully, from your favorite bookseller). More information about the book and my viewing project this year is here.

Three recent musicals of note are:

• The Pajama Game (1957)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

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Welcome to episode 73 of the Movies Past and Present podcast.

New in Theaters

• The Green Knight (A24)
• Jungle Cruise (Disney)
• Stillwater (Focus Features)

Reviews

• Black Widow (Marvel Studios)
• Space Jam: A New Legacy (Warner Bros.)
• Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (Paramount)
• Jungle Cruise (Disney)

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Welcome to the 72nd episode of the Movies Past and Present podcast.

New in Theaters

• F9 (Universal)

Classic Cinema Corner

The Birdcage (United Artists, 1996) returns to the big screen on June 27, 28, and 30 as part of the Turner Classic Movies Big Screen Classics series. Visit the Fathom Events webpage to find a screening near you.

Reviews

• In the Heights (Warner Bros.)
• Luca (Disney/Pixar)

Fast & Furious “Fast Friday” Screenings and F9 Review

The first Fast & Furious film, The Fast and the Furious, opened on June 22, 2001 and celebrated its 20th anniversary this week. Now, the ninth film of the series, F9, makes its long awaited debut in the U.S.A. this weekend. Universal Pictures did free screenings of all eight Fast & Furious films, one per week, on what they termed as “Fast Friday” screenings. I went to all eight screenings, as well as saw F9 yesterday, and lived to tell (barely).

More info about the films is at thefastsaga.com.

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Welcome to the 71st episode of the podcast!

New in Theaters on June 4

• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (New Line Cinema; also on HBO Max)
• Spirit Untamed (DreamWorks Animation)

Review

• Cruella (Walt Disney Studios; now in theaters and on Disney+ with extra-fee Premier Access)

Three by…

This month’s “Three by” director is Yasujirō Ozu. I watched these films on The Criterion Channel streaming service.

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Welcome to episode 69 of the Movies Past and Present podcast! Glad you’re here!

Now in Theaters and Streaming

• Mortal Kombat; now playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max
• The Mitchells vs. The Machines; coming to Netflix on April 30

TCM Classic Film Festival on May 6-9

This year’s TCM Classic Film Festival is another virtual affair, with the addition of streaming content being added to HBO Max.

Three By…

This month’s “Three by” director is Brad Bird.

Movie of the Week

Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures, 2020)

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Welcome to the 68th episode of the Movies Past and Present podcast!

New in Theaters

• Voyagers (Lionsgate); well, it was new last week…opened on April 9
• La Bamba (Columbia; 1987); part of the TCM Big Screen Classics series; in theaters April 18, 21, and 22

Review

Godzilla vs. Kong (Warner Bros., 2021)

Best Picture Nominations

I finally saw all of the films nominated for an Academy Award®️ for Best Picture:

• The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
• Mank (Netflix)
• Minari (A24)
• Nomadland (Searchlight)
• Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
• Sound of Metal (Amazon Prime)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

A list of all of this year’s Oscars nominations is here. A downloadable PDF ballot for your Oscars party is here. Watch the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 5PT/8ET on ABC.

Movie of the Week

Speed (20th Century Fox, 1994)

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