Catching Up On Cinema

Catching Up On Cinema's "Moving On March" event month continues with a celebration the life and career of the late Kirk Douglas via a review of Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)!

Starring the aforementioned Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre, the film is a colorful and charming adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel.

A favorite of Trevor's early childhood, the movie features Academy Award winning special effects, as well as several iconic performances and sequences that should be seen by any film connoisseur.

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Catching Up On Cinema's "Moving On March" event continues with a look at Sidney Lumet's brutal family drama, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)!

Directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, and Albert Finney, the film is a detailed and skillfully constructed look at the utter destruction of a family.

The film carries an off-kilter, Coen-esque atmosphere that gives the proceedings a feeling of grim, inevitable, weight, that is not for the faint of heart.

An excellent film, crafted by an expert director working with some of the best actors of their respective generations.

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It's a new month, which means it's time for a new event here at Catching Up On Cinema!

This month is "Moving On March," an event wherein the guys will be taking a look at films starring actors and/or directors that have recently, and unfortunately, passed away.

This week we reviewed Cory Finley's darkly comedic directorial debut, Thoroughbreds (2017).

A uniquely twisted tale of teenage sociopaths, the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke, as well as features the final performance of the late Anton Yelchin.

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It's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly "Catching Up On Blu-Ray" special!

In this edition, we take a look at the physical media releases for the month of February 2020.

Some highlights among this months releases include:

Doctor Sleep (4k, Director's Cut, 2019)

Waves (2019)

The Nightingale (Director of The Babadook, 2018)

Boyz in the Hood (4k, 1991)

The House that Jack Built (2018)

Rabid (2019)

FLCL: Progressive/Alternative (2018)

Grand Isle (Nic Cage and Kelsey Grammar! 2019)

Brain Damage (Arrow, 1988)

My Bloody Valentine (Shout Factory, 1981)

Ford v Ferrari (4k, 2019)

First Love (2019)

Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

Robocop (Arrow, 1987)

In Fabric (2018)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (2017)

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (Documentary, 2019)

Jojo Rabbit (4k, 2019)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (4k, 2019)

Midway (4k, 2019)

21 Bridges (2019)

Teorema (Criterion, 1968)

Antonio Gaudi (Criterion, 1984)

Knives Out (4k, 2019)

Color Out of Space (Nic Cage! 4k, 2019)

Frozen II (4k, 2019)

Pet Sematary Two (Shout Factory, 1992)

Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (Criterion, 1955 - 1961)

The Hunt for Red October (4k, 1990)

Paris is Burning (Criterion, 1990)

The Return of Ultraman (1971 - 1972)

Not for Resale: A Retro Game Store Documentary (Documentary, 2019)

And many more!

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In the last episode of Catching Up On Cinema's "Guilty Pleasures" month, Kyle and Trevor take a deep breath and dive headfirst into Joel Schumacher's vapid and intensely wrongheaded coming-of-age drama, St. Elmo's Fire (1985)!

Featuring roughly 1/3rd of the brat pack, as well as a very young, saxophone toting Rob Lowe, the film is one of those rare, special films that fits snugly into the category of "fascinatingly bad."

In spite of it's flaws, St. Elmo's Fire is a cozy watch, and one that both Kyle and Trevor find immensely rewatchable in the "so bad it's good" sort of way.

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For this week's episode in Catching Up On Cinema's "Guilty Pleasures" event month, Trevor has Kyle check out Robert Zemeckis' heavy handed drama, Flight (2012)!

Starring Denzel Washington as an alcoholic pilot that performs a miraculous act of heroism while drunk on the job, is a clunky and somewhat tame character study that nevertheless earned it's star a Best Actor nomination.

While Trevor concedes that the film is fairly plain and not the best work of anyone involved, for whatever reason, he finds it very watchable, and thus, considers it a personal Guilty Pleasure film in his collection.

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In this week's installment of Catching Up On Cinema's "Guilty Pleasures" event month, Kyle has Trevor sit down to take a look back at Jan De Bont's computer effects showcase, Twister (1996)!

Starring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman and a veritable who's who of 90's character actors, the film is a briskly paced natural disaster flick that boasted some of the finest and most ambitious CGI effects of it's day.

Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Michael Crichton and Joss Whedon, and scored by Marc Mancina, Twister was a massive event film that stands as one of the standouts of the modern disaster movie subgenre.

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February is "Guilty Pleasures" month at Catching Up On Cinema!

For the next 4 weeks, Kyle and Trevor will be reviewing movies that most people hate, but they secretly love.

First up this month is Paul W.S. Anderson's video game adaptation, Mortal Kombat (1995)!

Starring Robin Shou, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa and Christopher Lambert, the film is one of the earliest (and best) video game movies.

While heavily inspired by the concept and structure of Enter the Dragon (1973), the film's strongest asset is it's lighting and production design rather than it's somewhat lackluster martial arts sequences.

Despite this, Mortal Kombat manages to be a fun nostalgia trip for fans of the video game series and high concept action movies of the 90's.

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It's once again time for our monthly Catching Up On Blu-Ray episode!

In this edition, the first of the new year, we take a look at the major physical media releases for the month of January.

Some highlights this month:

Joker (4k, 2019)

The Lighthouse (2019)

Holiday (Criterion, 1938)

Gemini Man (4k, 2019)

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (4k, 2019)

The Fugitive Kind (Criterion, 1960)

Running with the Devil (Nic Cage! 2019)

Pirahnas (2019)

Beyond the Law (Steven Seagal and DMX! 2019)

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)

Zombieland: Double Tap (4k, 2019)

The Addams Family (2019)

Pain and Glory (2019)

Le Petit Soldat (Criterion, 1963)

Countdown (2019)

Black and Blue (2019)

In Search of the Last Action Heroes (Oliver Harper, 2019)

Parasite (2019)

Terminator: Dark Fate (4k, 2019)

Tammy and the T-Rex (4k, 1994)

Fail Safe (Criterion, 1964)

All About My Mother (Criterion, 1999)

Body Parts (1991)

Edge of the Axe (Arrow, 1988)

Harriet (2019)

Berserker (Vinegar Syndrom, 1987)

Beyond the Door III (Vinegar Syndrome, 1989)

And many more!

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This week we bring our F*cked Up Sh!t event month to a close with a double-header review of 2 dramatically different and (unfortunately) not-especially-f*cked up movies: Highway to Hell (1991) and Audition (1999)! 

Directed by Ate De Jong, Highway to Hell (1991) is a fairly tame screwball adventure comedy that features some charming effects work and sadly very little else. 

In stark contrast to that, Audition (1999) is an early work masterpiece from the filmography of Japanese director Takashi Miike. Brilliantly edited, and tightly scripted, the film feels a bit tame by today's standards in terms of horror content, however this does little to detract from it's status as a bonafide modern classic of Japanese cinema.

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