In this installment of our "Catching Up On Movies About Making Movies" month, Trevor introduces Kyle to the delightfully shocking Canadian documentary, Kung Fu Elliot (2014)!

Following the exploits of one Elliot "White Lightning" Scott and his attempts to make no budget action films and become "Canada's first action star", the documentary begins as a story about a wide-eyed dreamer, only to become something much darker and more compelling than most would expect.

Directed by Matthew Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau, Kung Fu Elliot is one of Trevor's favorite documentaries, and one we here at Catching Up On Cinema feel is criminally overlooked.

Do yourself and look it up on Amazon Prime if you haven't already:

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In second installment of our "Catching Up On Movies About Movies" month, Trevor has Kyle watch one of his favorite documentaries of all time, Chris Smith's intimate portrait of a struggling filmmaker, American Movie (1999)!

Following the exploits of wannabe filmmaker Mark Borchardt, the film is an intimate portrait of a frustrated and struggling artist and his efforts to eke out a living, ply his craft, and grapple with his own personal demons.

Shot between 1995 and 1997, the film is a precious time capsule of the human condition in middle America.

Serious question: Is peppermint schnapps with Sprite a good drink?

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It's that time of the month again, as Kyle and Trevor sit down for the July 2019 edition of "Catching Up On Blu-Ray".

Some highlights of this month's physical media releases:

Putney Swope (1969)

Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Chronicle of the Loum Battlefield (2015 - 2018)

Mothra (1961)

Hulk (4k, 2003)

Waterworld (4k, 1995)

Pet Sematary (4k, 2019)

High Life (2018)

The BRD Trilogy (Criterion, 1978 - 1982)

Europa Europa (Criterion, 1990)

Peter Pan (Kino, 1924)

Transit (2018)

Shazam! (4k, 2019

Klute (Criterion, 1971)

Moon (4k, 2009)

The Baker's Wife (Criterion, 1938)

Fast Color (2019)

Breakthrough (4k, 2019)

Abduction (Scott Adkins!, 2018)

Alita: Battle Angel (4k, 3D, 2019)

Weird Science (Arrow, 1985)

Do the Right Thing (Criterion, 1989)

1984 (Criterion, 1984)

The Doors (4k, 1991)

Hellboy (4k, 2019)

Missing Link (2019)

The Loveless (Arrow, 1981)

Critters Attack! (2019)

Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018)

Glory (4k, 1989)

Long Shot (2019)

The Big-O: Complete Collection (1999 - 2003)

El Chicano (2018)

And many more!

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This July is "Movies About Making Movies" month at Catching Up On Cinema!

Kyle's first pick for this month is the critically acclaimed documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)!

Telling the tale of Francis Ford Coppola's infamously troubled production of Apocalypse Now (1979), the documentary is often cited as an example of a behind-the-scenes tale that may potentially eclipse the film it's based around in terms of entertainment value.

Featuring interviews with most of the major players involved in the production of the film, including Coppola and his wife, Martin Sheen, and Dennis Hopper, the documentary is easily one of the best movies about the making of a movie that you'll ever see.

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In the last episode of our very loose, "Most Recent Entry in a Long-Lived Franchise" series of episodes, Kyle has Trevor sit down with him to discuss Ridley Scott's 2017 return to the Alien franchise proper, Alien: Covenant (2017)!

Building on the themes and characters first introduced in the director's earlier film, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant is a beautiful, but often misguided and silly entry in the series.

Michael Fassbender, committing to the role and delivering a stellar performance despite the "fingering" scene!

Katherine Waterston, bearing one of the worst hairdos in recent memory and developing a potty mouth in the closing act!

Billy Crudup REALLY believes in Jesus, and he needs to remind you of that in every scene he's in!

Danny McBride, stuck in space with 2 hot young people, and somehow he's upset about it!

And guest starring James Franco as a burning CGI corpse!

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We're a bit late this month, but it's time for Catching Up On Cinema's monthly Catching Up On Blu-Ray episode for the month of June 2019!

Notable releases this month:

Viy (1967)

Batman (1989) - Batman and Robin (1997), now on 4k!

Toy Story (1995) - Toy Story 3 (2010), now on 4k!

Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)

The Andromeda Strain (1971, Arrow)

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

The Kid (2019)

Captain Marvel (2019, 4k)

Leprechaun Returns (2018)

The Entity (1982)

Swing Time (1936, Criterion)

Captive State (2019)

Five Feet Apart (2019)

T-34 (2018)

Us (2019, 4k)

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Beach Bum (2018)

 L'humanité (1999, Criterion)

 La vie de Jésus (1997, Criterion)

Lost Highway (1997)

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, Criterion)

Dumbo (2019, 4k)

Night Killer (1990)

Double Face (1969, Arrow)

Robowar (1988)

Furie (2019)

And many more!

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*WARNING!* Total spoilers for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! *WARNING!*

In this special Theatrical Edition of Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor head out to the theater to check out the 3rd entry in Legendary's "Monsterverse" franchise, Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)!

Featuring the heaviest of heavy hitters in the long lived Godzilla franchise, the movie is an unapologetic love letter to the older generation Godzilla films.

While the human aspect of the story and plot is both problematic and unintentionally silly, the monster action is solid, and as Trevor mentions early on in the episode, most of the film's weaker aspects can actually be interpreted as the filmmaker's remaining true to the source material.

Kyle Chandler, beating off to the sounds of wolves eating!

Vera Farmiga as perhaps the most unstable and unforgivable character in recent film history!

Millie Bobby Brown as the "Kenny" of the film!

Ken Watanabe, sacrificing himself for to enhance the film's Chinese box office earnings! 

Zhang Ziyi as 2 different characters! How the Hell did I miss that!?

Charles Dance, somehow failing to go "full evil" over the course of a 2 hour+ movie!

And Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah, delivering the goods on the few occasions the editor sees fit to let them!

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In the 2nd installment in Catching Up On Cinema's "Franchise Month," Trevor forces Kyle to subject himself to Sam Mendes' 2nd go 'round at the James Bond franchise: Spectre (2015)!

Boasting a strong cast and truly magnificent cinematography, the film is dragged down by a clumsy, lackluster script, and is regarded by many as one of the lesser Bond films of the modern era.

It needs to be said upfront, Trevor is an avid Bond fan, while Kyle is a casual viewer at best.

Daniel Craig, looking for a way out of the franchise since 2008!

Lea Seydoux, not nearly as hot if you take away the accent!

Christoph Waltz, as "Totally Not Blofeld"!

Dave Bautista, denied a speaking role, but here to save the movie anyway!

Special guest appearance by Gary Busey!

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It's the first week of June, so naturally the boys are reviewing... David Gordon Green's Halloween (2018)?

This month's reviews will be part of something we're casually referring to as "Franchise Month." 

Essentially, the idea this month is to tackle the most recent films in long lived franchises. 

Streamlining the franchise canon by disregarding the events of all the Halloween films aside from the 1978 original, Halloween 2018 is a slick and pleasantly restrained entry in the series that pulls double duty as both a satisfying capstone to the series, as well as (very likely) the kickoff point for a future films.

Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, badass grannie!

Judy Greer as a mom! Of course!

John Carpenter, returning as composer and truly fuckin' bringing it!

Michael Meyers, finding time for arts and crafts in between murdering folks!

"It's not a cage... It's a trey-ahp."

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Catching Up On Keanu month draws to a close as Kyle has Trevor sit down to watch Carl Rinsch's universally reviled pseudo-Japanese fantasy action flick, 47 Ronin (2013)!

A troubled production that saw the woefully inexperienced director removed from the project in it's post-production stages, the film represents the perfect storm of a bad script, given to painfully untalented director gifted with far too generous a budget.

Keanu as a hapa samurai that is generally kind of a dick and has the superpower of being able to move at slightly above average speeds!

Hiroyuki Sanada as the coolest person in the movie that gets far too little screentime!

Tadanobu Asano and Rinko Kikuchi as the 2nd and 3rd coolest people in the movie with nothing to do!

Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa as a lord presiding over a tournament, and he DOESN'T yell "YOUR SOUL, IS MINE!"???

Silver Samurai! Tattoo Man that was ALL OVER the marketing and appears in one scene! Gedde "Long Duk Dong" Watanabe!?

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