Cinema Royale

It only took, what, a decade and about a dozen different directors and two dozen different stars but Sony’s Uncharted is finally here! On this latest episode of Cinema Royale, Joey Magidson of Awards Radar joins in to talk the video game flick starring some dudes named Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. What have they ever done?

Plus, Channing Tatum is a soldier who hits the road with an angry canine in the feel-good (?) road trip film, Dog!

And since we have Joey here, it seems like a good time to talk about the Academy’s new #OscarsFanFavorite movie award, voted on through social media by the fans! An pitiful act of desperation? A clever way to attract casual moviegoers to watch the broadcast?

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The 2022 Oscar nominations were this morning! Are you okay? There were some big surprises, a few “snubs” (we hate that term around here), and some that came out of nowhere. Or did they? One person would know who were the true frontrunners, the dark horses, and the never-had-a-chance contenders really were. Cinema Royale is joined by Karen Peterson, awards editor at WeLiveEntertainment.com, to break down everything that happened in all 23 Academy Awards categories.

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Disasters on massively different scales in this episode of Cinema Royale! Travis Hopson (@punchycritic) is joined by Eddie Pasa (@EddiePasa) of DCFilmdom.com and Matt Razak @MatthewRazak) of Flixist.com and Escapist Magazine to talk about Roland Emmerich’s latest earth-shattering disaster flick, Moonfall, starring Patrick Wilson and Halle Berry! Can Emmerich possibly top himself at this point or does Moonfall crash out of orbit?

And what’s worse? Total planetary annihilation or a pogo stick to the balls? Johnny Knoxville and the crew are back for Jackass Forever, and this time they’ve brought some new recruits. Does this Jackass live up to its hilariously brutal predecessors?

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We are back from Park City! Okay, not really. This year’s Sundance Film Festival was virtual, just like last year, meaning the furthest anybody went was to the kitchen for more popcorn. That’s okay, though. There were still a lot of movies and nobody had to stand in line in the cold to see them.

Special guest and fellow Punch Drunk Critic writer Cortland Jacoby gives her thoughts on her first Sundance. What were the break-out films of the festival? Were there any that could be this year’s CODA? Any potential Oscar contenders in the mix? And did any films disappoint? Also, what were some of the major themes that Sundance ran with this year?

We’re game-planning and previewing the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on this episode of Cinema Royale! Chris Bumbray of Joblo.com and Danielle Solzman of Solzy at the Movies look ahead to the most anticipated films, talk about Sundances past, and what we’re missing out on by the festival going virtual for the second year in a row.

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On the latest Cinema Royale, Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi joins to give her thoughts on action flick THE 355 and how it fails all of its female cast including Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong’o.

Plus, we talk about the latest masterfully complex drama Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, A HERO, and discuss where it ranks on the list of his many classics.

Marvel’s Eternals is the lowest-ranked movie on Rotten Tomatoes and the only MCU film to get a “Rotten” score. But is that really fair? Or is something else going on here? Is bias against Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao a factor? Or did the film simply fail in its grand ambitions?

On this episode, Travis is joined by film critic Cortland Jacoby and Samuel Leggett of TeamJVS to talk about Eternals and where it really stands in the MCU! It isn’t really worse than Thor: The Dark World, right? Come on!

On the latest episode of Cinema Royale, Tim Gordon of TheFilmGordon.com goes down the rabbit hole with us for, what else, The Matrix Resurrections! Is Neo still THE ONE? Does Bullet Time still matter? Was this sequel worth the wait or is it all just another nostalgia trap?

Plus, you knew we couldn’t go without talking about Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent coming-of-age film Licorice Pizza! Is this the return to form Travis has been hoping for from PTA?

And before we can get off the air, a discussion breaks out about Denzel Washington and how he’s been a constant thorn in Will Smith’s side during Oscars season. Could it happen again with The Tragedy of Macbeth over King Richard?

Well, is it? On this episode of Cinema Royale, Travis Hopson is joined by Joblo.com‘s Chris Bumbray and film critic Cortland Jacoby to compare SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME to the webhead’s other movies.

Plus, reviews of Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY, complete with shade towards Ansel Elgort, and we argue over Adam McKay’s star-studded DON’T LOOK UP!

How long has it been since the last episode of Cinema Royale? Pretty sure the last thing we talked about was No Time to Die. But now we’re back and playing catch up, talking everything from Dune to Ghostbusters: Afterlife! Plus, we discuss this awards season and why critics suck, an annual conversation to be fair, along with reviews of Bruised, House of Gucci, and Encanto!