Movie Madness

It’s a funny week for physical media. In that there are some tremendously funny movies in the mix but also some landmarks to put in your library. Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski guide you through the work of Charles Burnett and the singular film by Kerry Conran. They take you through the multiple versions of a Ridley Scott epic, perhaps the best of the Musketeers films and the weird backstory of an SNL sequel. Warner Archive has a couple of biopics named after songs as well as Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning role. A collection of Audie Murphy titles are followed up with a conversation of one of the 1980s’ cable staples re-written by John Hughes. Finally, two of the best comedies of the past 30 years should be a double feature that everyone listening should want to make an evening out of.

1:35 - Criterion (Killer of Sheep 4K, The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers 4K)

18:16 - Disney (Kingdom of Heaven 4K)

28:06 - Warner Archive (Lean on Me, La Vie en Rose)

40:39 - IFC (Love Crime)

44:22 - Shout (Scent of a Woman 4K, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 4K)

1:02:22 - Kino (Audie Murphy Collection IV, Nate & Hayes, Wayne’s World 2 4K, Kingpin 4K, Bottoms)

1:58:29 - New TV on Blu-ray (Outlander Season 7, Yellowstone Season 5)

1:59:56 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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It’s a funny week for physical media. In that there are some tremendously funny movies in the mix but also some landmarks to put in your library. Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski guide you through the work of Charles Burnett and the singular film by Kerry Conran. They take you through the multiple versions of a Ridley Scott epic, perhaps the best of the Musketeers films and the weird backstory of an SNL sequel. Warner Archive has a couple of biopics named after songs as well as Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning role. A collection of Audie Murphy titles are followed up with a conversation of one of the 1980s’ cable staples re-written by John Hughes. Finally, two of the best comedies of the past 30 years should be a double feature that everyone listening should want to make an evening out of.

1:35 - Criterion (Killer of Sheep 4K, The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers 4K)

18:16 - Disney (Kingdom of Heaven 4K)

28:06 - Warner Archive (Lean on Me, La Vie en Rose)

40:39 - IFC (Love Crime)

44:22 - Shout Factory (Scent of a Woman 4K, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 4K)

1:02:22 - Kino (Audie Murphy Collection IV, Nate & Hayes, Wayne’s World 2 4K, Kingpin 4K, Bottoms)

1:58:29 - New TV on Blu-ray (Outlander Season 7, Yellowstone Season 5)

1:59:56 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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Memorial Day weekend offers a variety of options, some of them even good both in theaters and at home. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are here to talk you through nine of them. They include Cate Blanchett as a nun who may have discovered the second coming (The New Boy) and another film about resurrecting the dead (The Surrender). A musician you may have missed gets the documentary treatment (Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted), Netflix returns to the world of R.L. Stine (Fear Street: Prom Queen) and a writer may or may not find romance on a retreat (Jane Austen Wrecked My Life). Guy Ritchie takes an all-star cast in pursuit of life’s treasure (Fountain of Youth) while Paul Reubens tells the story of his life (Pee-Wee As Himself). Disney tries another live-action remake (Lilo & Stitch) and Tom Cruise puts the last chapter on one of the great action franchises of all-time (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning).

1:16 - The New Boy

10:02 - The Surrender

19:07 - Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

25:09 - Fear Street: Prom Queen

37:45 - Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

46:08 - Fountain of Youth

56:02 - Pee-Wee As Himself

1:08:42 - Lilo & Stitch

1:22:12 - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

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Memorial Day weekend offers a variety of options, some of them even good both in theaters and at home. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are here to talk you through nine of them. They include Cate Blanchett as a nun who may have discovered the second coming (The New Boy) and another film about resurrecting the dead (The Surrender). A musician you may have missed gets the documentary treatment (Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted), Netflix returns to the world of R.L. Stine (Fear Street: Prom Queen) and a writer may or may not find romance on a retreat (Jane Austen Wrecked My Life). Guy Ritchie takes an all-star cast in pursuit of life’s treasure (Fountain of Youth) while Paul Reubens tells the story of his life (Pee-Wee As Himself). Disney tries another live-action remake (Lilo & Stitch) and Tom Cruise puts the last chapter on one of the great action franchises of all-time (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning)

1:16 - The New Boy

10:02 - The Surrender

19:07 - Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

25:09 - Fear Street: Prom Queen

37:45 - Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

46:08 - Fountain of Youth

56:02 - Pee-Wee As Himself

1:08:42 - Lilo & Stitch

1:22:12 - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

 

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This week in physical media may be appealing to the cults out there. Whichever you belong to, Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are here to guide you towards your particular following. Perhaps you are in the Richard E. Grant & Bruce Robinson cult. Or stay on that side of the pond with an Oscar-winning musical and a film that was the Bridgerton of its time in the way it uses music. Maybe you’re in the late Friday the 13th cult and enjoy its post-Paramount days. Or you have a taste for a marathon of Blaxploitation. Whether you love movie doggies or mutated bears, its best to just avoid the sleeping bags this week.

1:38 - Criterion (Withnail & I 4K, How to Get Ahead in Advertising 4K)

14:36 - Sony (Oliver 4K, A Knight’s Tale 4K)

26:29 - Arrow (Jason Goes to Hell 4K, Jason X 4K)

47:09 - Shout (Blaxploitation Classics Vol 1)

1:02:43 - Kino (Wonder Dogs, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, Prophecy 4K)

1:23:01 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (The Quiet Ones, Presence 4K)

1:24:15 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy return to the review beat after a couple weeks off at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. Erik looks at a bunch of influencers terrorized by feral dogs (A Breed Apart) and the story that inspired a cult body horror film (The Darkside of Society). Steve looks at an influential moment for the hearing impaired (Deaf President Now) and The Weeknd’s self-indulgent vanity project (Hurry Up Tomorrow). They also offer thoughts on a pair of films chosen for their festival including the strange transformation of a woman in an arranged marriage (Sister Midnight) and Tim Robinson trying to get a little too close to Paul Rudd (Friendship). Finally its been 14 years since Death has come-a-callin’. Could Final Destination: Bloodlines be the best of the franchise?

1:32 – A Breed Apart

9:28 - Deaf President Now!

15:23 – The Darkside of Society

22:58 - Hurry Up Tomorrow

33:37 - Sister Midnight

41:11 - Friendship

54:59 - Final Destination: Bloodlines

1:07:03 - Outro

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After a week off for The Chicago Critics Film Festival, Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski return to get you up to date on the latest in physical media world. They include one of the great musicals and a landmark in 60s cinema. Disney upgrades one of their animated hits before its live-action counterpart hits theater. See the film Robert Zemeckis made in-between shooting Cast Away. There is plenty of sleaze thanks to Pete Walker and Wings Hauser and a reunion of Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep. There is disaster sci-fi and upgrades for two of the all-time great horror films, one of them you may still have never gotten around to seeing.

1:53 - Criterion (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4K, In the Heat of the Night 4K, Room 666/999)

16:25 - Disney (Lilo and Stitch 4K)

19:49 - Fun City (Falling in Love)

24:09 - Shout Factory (What Lies Beneath 4K)

30:36 - MVD (Tunnel Vision)

36:52 - Kino (Crack in the World, Pete Walker Crime Collection, Vice Squad)

 58:18 - Arrow (The Andromeda Strain 4K)

1:06:39 - Lionsgate (May)

1:16:22 - Ignite (Re-Animator 4K)

1:33:02 - New TV & Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Dune Prophecy 4K, Landman: Season One, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Captain America: Brave New World, Mickey 17, Black Bag, Better Man, The End, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy)

1:35:38 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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Adventures of Antoine Doinel, The (4K) All We Imagine as Light Anora (4K) Barry Lyndon (4K) Basquiat (4K) Big Heat, The (4K) Brazil (4K) Carnal Knowledge (4K) Chungking Express (4K) How To Get Ahead In Advertising (4K) In the Heat of the Night (4K) Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring: Two Films by Claude Berri Killer of Sheep (4K) Midnight Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (4K) Prince of Broadway Room 666 / Room 999 Some Like It Hot (4K) Sorcerer (4K) Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (4K) Three Musketeers, The / The Four Musketeers (4K) Ugetsu (4K) Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (4K) Wind Will Carry Us, The Withnail and I (4K) Wiz, The (4K) You Can Count On Me (4K)

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Marvel is hoping for both a critical and financial reboot with their latest summer opener and Erik Childress is joined once again by comic book expert, Erik Laws, to discuss. Laws delves into the history of the Thunderbolts and various incarnations in the comics. They talk about what they enjoyed about the film as well as elements that fell flat. A lot of credit goes to a pair of key performances in the film as Marvel banks on audiences responding to themes of alienation and depression in place of just the usual comic book action. Is that enough to make the film a cut above the post-Endgame era?

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After weeks of light lineups in the physical media world, the end of April explores with a variety of titles that Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are here to guide you through. They include Sean Baker bookends from Criterion, blaxploitation and films from Russ Meyer. You got journeys to the Bermuda triangle and the gates of hell not to mention bullets and betrayal. Bill Murray enters the army and Michael Keaton goes to rehab. Plus Clint Eastwood has a trio of his films get the 4K upgrade. 

1:52 - Criterion (Basquiat 4K, Prince of Broadway, Anora 4K)

18:09 – Warner Archive (Lili, Three the Hard Way, Clean and Sober)

33:23 - Arrow (V-Cinema Essentials)

36:53 - Grindhouse (The Beyond 4K)

45:10 - Severin (Night Train Murders 4K, Motorpsycho 4K, Up! 4K)

1:07:32 - Kino (The Bermuda Triangle, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead)

1:21:47 - Shout (Timecop 4K)

1:27:44 - Sony (Stripes 4K, Gandhi 4K)

1:39:44 - Warner (Dirty Harry 4K, The Outlaw Josey Wales 4K, Pale Rider 4K)

2:02:36 – New TV on Blu-ray (The Wacky Races: The Complete Series, Star Trek: Section 31, Rick and Morty: The Anime)

2:04:07 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Birth/Rebirth, Last Breath, Paddington in Peru, The Visitor)

2:06:09 – New Blu-Ray Announcements

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Before taking off for the upcoming Chicago Critics Film Festival (May 2-8) which they program, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy review nine movies this week. They include the latest from Francois Ozon (When Fall Is Coming) and a Jim Henson-like fantasy from A24 (The Legend of Ochi). Jack Quaid and Jeffrey Dean Morgan make for unique investigators of a kidnapping (Neighborhood Watch) and a new video game adaptation is decidedly less unique (Until Dawn). Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi have secrets in the 1950s (On Swift Horses) and we take a trip through the careers of one of the most famous comedy teams of all-time (Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie). David Cronenberg takes us on a conspiratorial meditation on grief and death (The Shrouds) while Gareth Evans has Tom Hardy deliver so much death (Havoc) and, nine years later, Ben Affleck’s lethal autistic numbers cruncher returns with bro Jon Bernthal  (The Accountant 2). 

2:56 - When Fall Is Coming

9:44 - Neighborhood Watch

15:08 – The Legend of Ochi

19:42 - Havoc

33:46 - Until Dawn

41:19 - On Swift Horses

52:58 - Cheech & Chong's Last Movie

1:06:30 - The Shrouds

1:19:35 - The Accountant 2

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