Cinema File Podcast

Does the poor critical and audience response to Paramount Animation's "Wonder Park" say more about our attitudes towards what kinds of family movies have permission to address the subject of trauma than it does about the film itself? Take a ride in the car with OnlineAthens film critic Andrew Shearer for a free-form meditation on the successes and failings of modern family entertainment.

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Andrew and Sam deliver an intergalactic power punch of new movie reviews including Captain Marvel, Madea Family Funeral, Border, Greta, Fighting With My Family, Period End of Sentence, Horror Noire and many more.

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Do acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers always need to make highbrow cinema, or is it okay for them to sometimes have fun camping it up in the commercial realm? With "Greta," Neil Jordan, Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz might have just created a piece of modern grindhouse gold (or the goriest Lifetime movie ever, which is okay too).

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OnlineAthens film critic Andrew Shearer was invited to speak to Betina Kaplan's Latin American Film Studies class at the University of Georgia on February 19th, 2019. With no journalism degree or formal training, Andrew details how he ended up covering film for the Banner-Herald over the past decade as well as his filmmaking adventures with local stars.

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A year before "Scream" was credited with breathing new life (death?) into the horror genre, longtime Spike Lee director of photography Ernest Dickerson broke new ground by casting Jada Pinkett as the hero of his underrated special fx monster fest "Demon Knight," released in 1995 under the "Tales From the Crypt" banner.

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Let's not forget that despite the prestige and fanfare, the Oscars are a television show, and even people who haven't seen any of the nominees tune in to see what the American royalty (celebrities) are wearing to the event. But for movie fans, will there be any surprises? 2018 was an exciting year for film no matter what, but anytime the Academy breaks from tradition sends shock waves through the industry.

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The only people who would feel safe putting their arm inside a giant chrome sphere are people who never saw a "Phantasm" movie, and they'd deserve whatever happened to them for not having seen a "Phantasm" movie. This episode incluses reviews of "Velvet Buzzsaw," "Piercing," "I/O," "Destroyer," "Fyre Festival," "If Beale Street Could Talk" and more. IG/Twitter @cinemandrew

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Nicole Kidman got Theron'd up to 11 for her Oscar-nominated performance in Karyn Kusama's new crime thriller "Destroyer." She's just as good as you;d imagine but how's the rest of the movie? Hear Andrew and Xtina's SPOILERY notes after they leave the theatre.

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1985's "Return of the Living Dead" basically wrote the template for the modern horror comedy and added brains to the now-commonplace mythology seen in pretty much all zombie-related entertainment. In this episode, Andrew talks to Kate right after she watched the cult classic film for the first time. (Contains excerpts from "Burn the Flames" by Roky Erickson and "Trioxin Theme" by Francis Haines)

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Can M. Night Shyamalan's "Glass" cut it in today's superhero movie universe?