The Movie Hour

We have the director for best short film under $500 budget at the Utah Film Festival & Awards Chaz Evans in studio. We talk about his film "Night of Adventure" and what exactly got him into directing.

We then go into our flashback movie reviews: Mississippi Burning vs. No Way Out

We close out the show with a recap of the X-Men movie universe, and what it meant to us. Our movie challenge for this week is Ex Machina and Toy Story.

Jim and Braden will be seeing Toy Story 4 this upcoming Monday, so we will discuss the movie next week.

Intro: 00:00 - 04:00
Chaz Interview: 04:01 - 15:20
Flashback Movie Review: Mississippi Burning 15:21 - 26:00
Flashback Movie Review: No Way Out 26:00 - 30:00
Movie News: 30:01 - 43:00
X-Men Franchise Recap 43:01 - 48:00
Braden leaves the desk! 48:01 - 50:20
Movie Challenges 50:21 -54:10
Outtro 54:11 - 57:25

A duo special guest for today's show! Todd Nukem from X96, and Jarrod Phillips from Hereditary are in studio!
We talk about Jerrod's career in film, certain movies that he really enjoyed working on, and what it's like to work on a successful film like Hereditary.
We then talk about the movie Rocketman and go into our Movie Challenge of Prospect and The Night Comes for Us.

Intro: 00:00 - 7:30
Jerrod Phillips Interview: 7:31 - 14:00
What it's like to work on Hereditary: 14:01 - 16:40
Acting and how they got into the gig: 16:40 - 24:47
Rocketman review: 24:48 - 40:00
Flashback Movie Review The Night Comes for Us: 40:01 - 45:00
Flashback Movie Review Prospect: 45:01 - 48:30
What are we watching?: 48:31 - 1:05:00
Movie Challenge: 1:05:01 - 1:11:00
Close Out: 1:11:00 - 1:21:29

What an amazing episode! I say this a lot, but Rachelle and Dave give great insights to the passion of acting, writing and directing. Exactly how someone would get into the movie business, what it's like if you don't "make it".

We then review the movies Cool Hand Luke and Memento

Braden reviews Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Movie Challenge: Prospect vs. The Night Comes For Us

00:00 - 14:12 Introduction
14:13 - 22:04 Rachelle Career Interview
22:05 - 29:40 How you can chase your dreams
29:41 - 37:48 What drives you?
37:49 - 40:05 Braden is a professional actor? Kinda? Ok... not at all, but still cool segment here.
40:06 - 49:53 Cool Hand Luke Review
49:54 - 55:21 Memento Review
55:22 - 57:44 Godzilla: King of the Monsters review
57:45 - 01:01:42 Movie Challenges/What's Next
01:01:43 - 01:02:40 DJ's Story
01:02:41 - 01:03:53 Close Out

On the eighth episode of the Movie Hour we welcomed in Derrek Mellus from the Utah Film Commission. On this episode we broke down what exactly is the Utah Film Commission, and how you can get involved. We also learned a little bit about Dave Stevens, and his background in film.

We then dove right into our Flashback Movie Reviews: Snatch vs. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to lead up to our big review of the Disney re-imagining of Aladdin.

Derek Mellus Interview 00:00 - 23:10
Dave Stevens Interview 23:11 - 35:00
Fear No Film Festival 35:01 - 43:30
Flashback Movie Reviews 43:31 - 49:46
Aladdin Review 49:47 - 1:07:13
Movie Challenges/Close Out 1:07:14 - 1:15:27

Our seventh episode we had Darren Dalton call in from California to talk to us about life as an actor, what it's like to make it big out of high school, acting alongside Patrick Swayze and so much more.

Along with this, our guest host for the week Dave Stevens makes his debut on the show. Dave and Braden reviewed John Wick 3 Parabellum, and recalled a familiar story from one of the earlier shows.

Movie Challenge for this week is Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (Netflix)

Upcoming movies: Aladdin, Brightburn and Booksmart

Darren Dalton Interview 00:00 - 00:15 (Child stardom)
Darren Dalton The Outsiders/Red Dawn 00:16 - 00:38
Darren Dalton on writing 00:38 - 00:43
John Wick 3 Review 00:43 - 00:56
What's Next 00:56 - 00:58
Movie Challenge 00:58 - 00:59
Close Out 00:59 - 1:04:00

While Jim is on an important project, Emily Fox takes her seat in the co-host chair. The Movie Hour's sixth episode of the Movie Hour welcomes Lenni Uitto into the studio and the second Clark to the studio. Tambi Clark makes her debut on the show as the shows producer.

In our interview we talked about Lenni's path as an actor and what he's currently working on. Lenni and people like him, are currently trailblazing for the state of Utah in acting and directing.

We discussed recently released movies like Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, and The Long Shot.

Our Flashback Movie Reviews Phantom Thread and Mr. Nobody led to some fun conversation on expectation and reality in movies.

Our challenges this week are: God's Must Be Crazy (YouTube); Eighth Grade (Amazon); Prospect (Amazon)

What's next: John Wick 3; Detective Pikachu

Lenni Interview: 00:00 - 00:20
Movie Reviews: Extremely Wicked Shockingly Evil and Vile 00:21 - 00:26
Movie Reviews: Long Shot: 00:26 - 00:30
Flashback Movie Reviews: Phantom Thread 00:30 - 00:38
Flashback Movie Reviews: Mr. Nobody 00:38 - 00:43
Movie Challenges: 00:43 - 00:55
Movie News: 00:55 - 01:04:00
Close Out: 01:04:00 - 01:07:00

On this week's episode of the movie hour we welcome Utah Film Festival & Awards, Warren Workman. Jim brings up a question to Warren that has been bugging him for years. We go over a lot of the ins and outs of the film festival business, local talent, and some projects Warren and Jim have worked on.

In our Flashback movie reviews, we go in on the movie Locke with Tom Hardy, The End of the Tour with Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segal, and finally Drive with Ryan Gosling.

Emily gives us her quick review on her screening of Detective Pikachu.

For our Flashback movie reviews for next week: Jim challenged Braden to watch Phantom Thread; Braden challenged Jim to watch Mr. Nobody.

Warren Workman interview 00:00 - 20:29
Avengers Endgame Non-Spoiler review 20:30 - 25:00
Flashback Movie Review: Locke 25:01 - 33:00
Flashback Movie Review: The End of the Tour 33:01 - 38:35
Flashback Movie Review: Drive 38:36 - 43:55
Braden's challenge: Mr. Nobody 43:56 - 46:40
Jim's challenge: Phantom Thread 46:41 - 49:50
Movie News: 49:51 - 51:17
Emily reviews Detective Pikachu 51:18 - 53:25
What's Next 53:26 - 1:01:50
Tags 1:01:51 - 1:03:30

Do not listen to this if you haven't seen Avengers: Endgame.
Braden Clark welcomes two guests to this spoiler discussion/review of Avengers, the first recurring guest Nick Perez, and Braden's best friend Jacob Buckner makes his appearance.
We take a deep nerdy dive into the Avengers: Endgame this one and a half hour review/discussion of the biggest movie of our lifetime.
Come take a walk with us while we talk about something we truly love talking about.

This week's episode of the Move Hour, we welcome in Nick Perez. Nick is the current promotions director for X96 and the Eagle 101.5. However, Nick has spent time in the film realm as well. He just released the short film "Spectacular" and we go into the makings of being a good director, and how he got into the business.
Braden was given the movie "Sunshine" to watch this week, and he wonders why every movie Jim enjoys has to be so deep. On the contrary, Braden gave Jim the assignment to watch "Swiss Army Man" and... well you'll just have to watch this one for yourself.
We go into the first two episodes of Game of Thrones.
Our teammate Emily Fox also was on duty seeing the movie Detective Pikachu tonight, but we give our expectations for the movie.
The movies to watch for this next week is "Drive" and "The End of the Tour" and Nick gave us extra credit to watch the movie "Locke"
You can watch "The End of the Tour" on Netlix.
You can rent "Drive" on Amazon Prime.
You can watch "Locke" on Netflix.

00:00 - 21:46 Nick Perez Interview
21:47 - 39:10 Flashback Movie Review: Sunshine
39:11 - 45:40 Flashback Movie Review: Swiss Army Man
45:41 - 54:32 Movie/TV recommendations
54:33 - 59:59 Game of Thrones Recap
1:00:00 - 1:06:38 Detective Pikachu/Ryan Reynolds recap
1:06:39 - 1:09:30 Movie Challenges: The End of the Tour/Drive EC: Locke
1:09:31 - 1:12:34 Close out

For this week's episode we bring in the second of the four Stevens brothers. Mike D. Stevens gave a fun rundown memory lane and how he prepared to punch Adam Sandler in the face in the movie Punch Drunk Love.
Taking us back to 2003, Jim and Mike talk behind the scenes about Adam Sandler the person, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and the ins and outs of the acting world.
For our flashback movie review Braden reviews Annihilation and Jim reviews the Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
We are 1/4 of the way done with the year, and we give our rundown on the movies who have the best odds to be nominated for best picture.
Go see Dear Lord this Thursday at 8:00 p.m. in Valley Fair Mall for $10.

Mike Stevens Interview 00:00 - 23:58
Flashback Movie Reviews: Annihilation 23:59 - 33:33
Flashback Movie Reviews: Ballad of Buster Scruggs 33:34 - 43:09
Top Movies of 2019 43:10 - 1:04:10
Flashback Movie Sunshine vs. Swiss Army Man 1:04:11 - 1:05:37
Close Out 1:05:38 - 1:06:44