Movie Madness

Another light week for physical media but a fun one – especially for those nostalgic for the early ‘90s. Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk about Criterion’s upgrade of a multi-part French masterpiece from the ‘80s. They share thoughts on The Most Dangerous Game riff that got snakebit by real-world tragedies and Covid. Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase try to prevent the assassination of the pope. No, not that one. One of the late Val Kilmer’s most iconic performances gets the 4K upgrade. The duo also share their fondness for one of the most entertaining comic thriller team-ups of the era and discuss the history of the movie John Hughes tried to take his name off while Erik lent his name to the commentary track on the Blu-ray.

1:55 - Criterion (Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring 4K)

8:41 - Shout (The Hunt 4K)

13:54 - Kino (Foul Play 4K, Sneakers 4K, Career Opportunities 4K)

53:08 - Disney (Tombstone 4K)

1:06:03 - New TV On Blu-ray (Cheyenne: The Complete Series, Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise, Hysteria: Season One) 

1:09:15 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have eight movie reviews this week including revisiting one of their favorites from Sundance, a twisted alternate version of Cinderella (The Ugly Stepsister). Steve looks at another cabin-in-the-woods-horror (Call of the Void), a documentary about drummers (Count Me In) and Catherine Deneuve as Beradette Chirac (The President’s Wife). Erik looks at Severance’s Britt Lower as a lonely librarian (Darkest Miriam) and Steve checks out the four-year art project of a group of squatters (Secret Mall Apartment). Ang Lee’s landmark LBGTQ film gets a 21st century remake (The Wedding Banquet) and Ryan Coogler blends the Jim Crow south with vampires (Sinners).

0:00 - Intro

2:22 - The Ugly Stepsister

12:11 - Call of the Void

18:16 - Count Me In

24:07 - Darkest Miriam

30:22 - The President's Wife

36:11 - The Wedding Banquet

47:05 - Secret Mall Apartment

57:24 - Sinners

1:20:36 - Outro

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It’s been a little light out there for titles in physical media world but this week has no shortage of interesting ones and Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress to talk you through them. They include one of Wong-Kar Wai’s most remembered films and John Sayles’ foray into studio filmmaking in the ‘80s. John Wayne goes to war and then later goofs off with John Ford. There are new 4K editions of two of Steven Soderbergh’s films plus one of Abel Ferrara’s more treasured crime dramas. Then the pair wade into the controversies and legacy of Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct.

1:49 - Criterion (Chungking Express 4K)

7:57 - Kino (Sands of Iwo Jima 4K, Donovan’s Reef 4K)

18:33 - Fun City (Baby, It’s You)

27:21 – Lions Gate (King of New York 4K, Basic Instinct 4K)

56:04 – Warner Bros. (The Good German 4K, The Informant 4K)

1:14:19 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Heart Eyes)

1:16:53 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have seven movies to talk about this week. They range from a documentary about one of the music world’s most talked about relationships (One to One: John & Yoko) and an animated story of Jesus told through the mouth of Dickens (The King of Kings). The Michaels – Cera & Angarano – go on a road trip (Sacramento) and Stephen Dorff tries to go legit in the Old West (Gunslingers). The director of Happy Death Day presents the world’s worst first date (Drop) and CIA analyst Rami Malek tries to avenge his wife (The Amateur). Finally, Alex Garland takes us back into war in real time along with Ray Mendoza who lived it (Warfare). 

0:00 - Intro

3:27 - One to One: John & Yoko

12:25 – The King of Kings

25:59 - Sacramento

36:14 - Gunslingers

46:11 - Drop

56:39 – The Amateur

1:09:07 – Warfare

1:20:19 - Outro

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Another light week for physical media but Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski have you covered with one of the greatest comedies of all time and one of Peter Sellers’ overlooked gems. There is film noir, a sorority massacre and a pair of films covered on The Friendship Dilemma podcast. They include Ryan Reynolds in the friend zone with Amy Smart and Shane Black getting paid to make Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson his mismatched mystery partners. 

0:00 - Intro

3:59 - Criterion (Some Like It Hot 4K)

15:06 - Kino (I’m All Right, Jack / Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXV)

33:01 - Shout (Sorority House Massacre 4K)

39:50 - Warner Archive (Just Friends)

48:04 - Arrow (The Long Kiss Goodnight 4K)

1:03:44 – New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have reviews of eight new movies this week. They revisit one of the best films they saw at Sundance this year (The Ballad of Wallis Island) while Erik handles this week’s latest video game adaptation (A Minecraft Movie). Public domain puts Steamboat Willie into horror (Screamboat) and how do they like dem apple on dat head (William Tell). Michael Shannon directs the aftermath of a school shooting (Eric Larue) and Paul Walter Hauser plays the infamous Press Your Luck champion (The Luckiest Man In America). The directors of Half Nelson and Captain Marvel make an ‘80s anthology (Freaky Tales) and, finally, Naomi Watts and a Great Dane grieve over the loss of Bill Murray (The Friend). 

0:00 - Intro

1:37 - The Ballad of Wallis Island

10:44 - A Minecraft Movie

21:11 - Screamboat

32:11 - William Tell

39:53 - Eric Larue

53:40 - The Luckiest Man in America

1:10:14 - Freaky Tales

1:18:29 - The Friend

1:30:30 - Outro

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If you missed a number of recent films in theaters then this is really the Blu-ray week for you. Beyond those, Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski still have some titles for you to consider if you can’t get enough of Nicholas Hoult in vampire films or you really like those new digital shorts on SNL. There’s also the tale of graverobbers that took their work a little too far, an obscure relationship melodrama from the 1940s and an influential ghost story set against the backdrop of the Japanese Civil Wars.

0:00 - Intro

1:50 - Criterion (Ugetsu 4K)

8:22 - Film Masters (Lighthouse)

16:38 - Kino (Burke and Hare (1972))

22:07 - Shout (Renfield 4K, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain)

33:54 - TV (Superman and Lois: The Complete Series)

34:26 - NEW (Companion, A Complete Unknown, Mufasa: The Lion King, Dog Man, Flight Risk, Into the Deep, Love Me, Love Hurts, One of Them Days,)

49:36 – New Blu-ray Announcements

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Blu-rays, 4Ks, physical media galore this week as Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski guide you through another week. They include upgrades of a great Gene Hackman film and another from Alan Rudolph by Criterion. There’s early work from Rudolph Valentino and the late George Armitage. Horror goes from brain-inhabiting slugs to a black mamba, child murders, cannibalism and eating the rich. There’s also a pair of Chris Farley/David Spade films and a trio of deadly women including Ursula Andress, Kathleen Hughes and the immortal Lynda Carter.

0:00 - Intro

1:54 - Criterion (Night Moves 4K, Choose Me 4K)

21:23 - Warner Archive (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Hit Man)

32:05 - Shout Factory (Shaw Brothers Vol. 6, Night of the Creeps 4K)

41:19 - Blue Underground (Venom 4K)

50:56 - Arrow (Don’t Torture a Duckling 4K)

58:36 - Severin (Delicatessen 4K, Antiviral 4K)

1:09:48 - Paramount (Tommy Boy 4K)

1:15:42 - Kino (Black Sheep 4K, The Glass Web 3D, The 10th Victim, Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw)

1:33:55 – New TV on Blu-ray (Magilla Gorilla: The Complete Series, Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Complete Series)

1:35:18 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (The Brutalist 4K, Babygirl 4K, Memoir of a Snail)

1:37:38 – New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress & Steve Prokopy have nine movies for you this week. It all starts by hitting the way back machine for their 2023 review of a Sundance film delayed by the controversy over its star (Magazine Dreams). There is also an apocalyptic musical fantasy (O’Dessa) and Bill Skarsgard is trapped in Anthony Hopkins’ fancy car (Locked). Sci-fi goes two ways with the bloody aftermath of an astronaut colony (Ash) and the process future couples go through to have a baby (The Assessment). Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo form a surrogate parental friendship (Bob Trevino Likes It). One of the great baseball movies is out there just in time for the season (Eephus). Robert DeNiro plays dual roles as real-life mobsters for Barry Levinson (The Alto Knights) and the Disney live-action remake machine churns out its latest (Snow White). 

0:00 - Intro

1:46 - Magazine Dreams

18:06 - O'Dessa

26:09 - Locked

36:49 - Eephus

48:56 - Bob Trevino Likes It

59:18 - Ash

1:09:06 - The Assessment

1:22:00 - The Alto Knights

1:32:26 - Snow White

1:51:28 - Outro

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Erik Childress has been traveling to Austin for over 20 years for the annual South by Southwest Film Festival. He is back to tell you all about 19 films that he saw this year. Among the films you can see soon are the return of Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively to the world of simple favor. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega trying to survive the revenge of a unicorn and Nicolas Cage battles some territorial Australians. Hopefully audiences won’t have to wait too long to see the solo directorial debut of Jay Duplass or the latest from Matt Johnson that pays homage to the world of Robert Zemeckis and Rosamund Pike & Matthew Rhys desperately try to get to the scene of their daughter’s accident, Daisy Ridley has to dodge zombies and a pair of brothers take a leisurely stroll through San Francisco with their guitars in a single take. There are documentaries about Curtis Mayfield, Marc Maron, the horrors and fascism in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting and what to do when an A.I. Pioneer won’t answer your questions. Erik reviews all that plus Michael Bay’s parkour documentary in this recap of one of his favorite festivals.

0:00 – Intro

2:02 – Another Simple Favor

5:08 – Hallow Road

8:27 – Brother Verses Brother

11:19 – The Dutchman

14:03 – Death of a Unicorn

18:51 – American Sweatshop

22:18 – Uvalde Mom

25:22 – Forge

28:10 – We Bury the Dead

31:25 – Nirvanna the Band the Show – The Movie

35:59 – Deepfaking Sam Altman

39:40 – The Baltimorons

45:02 – For Worse

49:21 – The Surfer

53:14 – The Makings of Curtis Mayfield

54:27 – Make It Look Real

57:07 – Caper

59:50 – We Are Storror

1:03:59 – Are We Good?

1:07:02 - Outro

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