Cinema Royale

On a special episode, award-winner Djimon Hounsou stops by to talk about this weekend's high-flying sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2! Plus he'll discuss his upcoming role as Korvath in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, reflect on his career, and more!

Jenny Slate and writer/director GIllian Robespierre join Cinema Royale to discuss their controversial hit comedy, Obvious Child. Slate brings her raw brand of stand-up comedy to the film about an upstart comedian who loses her boyfriend, her job, and discovers she's pregnant all just in time for Valentine's Day.

Cinema Royale's Travis Hopson reviews Trust Me, written, directed, and starring Clark Gregg of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and The Avengers. The film also stars Saxon Sharbino, Amanda Peet, Sam Rockwell, Felicity Huffman, Allison Janney, Molly Shannon, and Paul Sparks.

PLOT: A struggling agent for child actors and former child star himself, Howard Holloway spends years losing his most talented clients to his slick, arch-nemesis Aldo Shocklee. Until the day that Howard encounters the brilliant and unsigned 13 year-old Lydia who is on the brink of securing the lead in a new Twilight-style franchise. Howard tries desperately to close the deal of a lifetime and make his precocious young client a star while managing her drunk, volatile father, Aldo's relentless poaching attempts, and the hostile machinations of the project's casting director and mega producer, who both despise him. But the closer he gets to achieving the Hollywood score he has chased all his life, the more he develops a growing suspicion that his innocent young starlet may not be at all what she seems.

Get ready for a show of extremes as Cinema Royale is joined by Christopher Bumbray of Joblo.com to talk Tom Cruise's action-packed Edge of Tomorrow! Then get the Kleenex ready and prepare to wallow in some tears for Shailene Woodley's heart-wrenching cancer drama, The Fault In Our Stars.

Plus, Words & Pictures director Fred Schepisi stops by to talk about his upcoming rom-com starring Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen.

On this week's Cinema Royale, Angelina Jolie shows her villainous side in Disney's Maleficent! Leslie "The Cinema Siren" Combemale will join us to talk about Jolie's performance as the infamous Disney villain. Also, we'll take a look at Seth MacFarlane's comedy-western, A Million Ways to Die in the West, starring Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried.

On the indie front, Jason Ritter calls in to discuss his new ensemble dramedy, The Big Ask, starring David Krumholtz and Melanie Lynskey.

All this plus news on Marvel's Ant-Man, Daredevil, Justice League, and much more!

Cinema Royale's loyal listeners know host Travis Hopson as the ultimate X-men fanatic, so you know this episode will be ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST! Okay, not entirely, but you get the picture. We'll also take a look at the latest Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore comedy, Blended.

Plus, we'll be joined by director Jim Mickle, whose credits include the horrors We Are What We Are and Stakeland, to talk about his throwback revenge flick, Cold in July. The film was a smash at Sundance and stars Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, and Don Johnson.

Cinema Royale's Travis Hopson reviews The Angriest Man in Brooklyn starring Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, and Melissa Leo.

PLOT: A curmudgeonly man is mistakenly told that he has 90 minutes to live by his doctor and promptly sets out to reconcile with his wife, brother and friends in the short time he believes he has left.

Dan Fogler joins Cinema Royale to talk about his psychedelic new stoner comedy, Don Peyote, which co-stars Anne Hathaway, Jay Baruchel, Josh Duhamel, and more!

It's GODZILLA!!!! The King of All Monster deserves the biggest of summer movies, and on this week's show we'll see if Godzilla lives up to all of the incredible anticipation! Plus, Godzilla director Gareth Edwards joins the show to talk about the challenges of bringing the movie monster to the big screen!

Jack Giroux of Film School Rejects joins us to talk Godzilla and the Disney baseball dramedy Million Dollar Arm starrng Jon Hamm.

A review of the indie drama, God's Pocket, directed by John Slattery (Mad Men) and featuring one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final performances. The film also stars Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Eddie Marsan, and Richard Jenkins.

PLOT: When Mickey's crazy step-son Leon is killed in a construction 'accident', nobody in the working class neighborhood of God's Pocket is sorry he's gone. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy's mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle between a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please and a debt he can't pay.