This week, we’re prepping for Tomb Raider by revisiting one of our earliest Bitching About Movies topics  - video game movies. Join us as we try to find some - or ANY- value in this genre. Films discussed include Super Mario Bros., Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, Assassin’s Creed, Warcraft, and a fresh review of Tomb Raider, which is currently  in theaters.

DescriptionWhat To Watch This Week 3/12/18-3/18/18, plus our reaction to the 2018 Oscar winners.

Trailers - Mary Poppins Returns, Christopher Robin, Submergence, Most Likely to Murder, The Grinch

Tuesday 3/13 - Ricky Gervais: Humanity (Netflix), Call Me By Your Name (VIOD/disc), I, Tonya (VOD/disc), Ferdinand (VOD/disc), Justice League (VOD/disc)

Thursday 3/15 - Blade of the Immortal (Hulu)

Friday 3/16 - Tomb Raider (theaters), Flower (theaters), Love, Simon (theaters), Wild Wild Country (Netflix), The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (Netflix)

What We Watched: Frank - Jaws 2, Red Sparrow, Thoroughbreds, The Hurricane HeistWhat We Watched: Matt - Jessica Jones Season 2, Game Night, The Avengers, Iron Man III, Thor: The Dark World

Trailers

Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (Theaters Nov. 21) 

Faranheit 451 (HBO, May) 

The Endless (Theaters, April 16th)

In Theaters Friday 3/9

A Wrinkle in Time 

The Hurricane Heist

Gringo 

The Strangers: Prey at Night 

Thoroughbreds

Streaming

Netflix

Voltron: Legendary Defender: Season 5 (3/5 - Netflix original)

Jessica Jones: Season 2 (3/8 - Netflix original)

Love: Season 3 (3/9 - Netflix original)

The Outsider (3/9 - Netflix original) 

Amazon Prime

Power Rangers (3/8) (also on Hulu 3/9)

November Criminials (3/10) 

Hulu

90th Oscars (3/5)

Fantasia 2000 (3/6)

Knock Knock (3/8)

HBO

Live by Night (3/8)

My Cousin Rachel (3/10)

VOD/ Disc (Tues. 3/6) - Same day VOD and disc releases unless otherwise noted.

Wonder Wheel

Lady Bird

Thor: Ragnarok (Blu-Ray release)

What We Watched

Frank Wind River, Atlanta S2 E1

 

Matt - Thor, Brigsby Bear, The House, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale

Part 1: Where to watch the nominees

Netflix

 

Mudbound (3 noms, best adapted screenplay)

Beauty & The Beast (costume design & producion design)

Guardians of The Galaxy Vol.2 (visual effects)

Last Men In Aleppo (foreign doc)

On Body and Soul (foreign language film)

Strong Island (best doc)

Icarus (best doc)

Boss Baby (animated feature)

 

HBO Go

 

Get Out (Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Actor)

Logan (Best Adapted Screenplay)

 

Amazon Prime

 

The Big Sick (Best Original Screenplay)

 

VOD

 

Darkest Hour (6 noms including best actor, best picture)

Dunkirk (8 noms best picture, best director)

Ladybird (5 noms, best picture, best actor)

Three Billboards (7 noms, best actress, best picture)

Roman J. Israel Esq (best actor)

The Florida Project (best supporting actor)

The Disaster Artist (best adapted screenplay)

Baby Driver (3 for mixing & editing)

Blade Runner 2049 (5 including best cinematography)

Coco (best animated feature)

I Tonya (March 2nd) (3, Best Actress)

 

Theaters

 

Shape of Water (13 nominations including best picture)

Call Me By Your Name (4 noms including best actor, best picture)

Phantom Thread ( 6 noms best picture, actor & director)

The Post (best picture, actor)

 

Part 2: We discuss the nominees

A day after the nominees were annouced we sat down and reviewed them, made our predictions & revealed our hopefuls.

Part 3: Reviewing the Animated Short Film Nominees

We saw each of the animated short films that were nominated this year: Dear Basketball, Garden Party, Lou, Negative Space & Revolting Rhymes

Trailers

The Last O.G. (TBS April 3rd)

Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (Theaters May 4)

Birthmarked (Theaters 3/30)

Best F(r)iends (coming soon)

In Theaters Friday 3/2

Red Sparrow - Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to “Sparrow School” - a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon.  But her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.  Stars jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Irons.  Directed by Francis Lawrence (dir. I Am Legend, Constantine, The Hunger Games 2, 3, and 4, a shitload of music videos)

Death Wish -  When his wife and daughter are viciously attacked in their own home, a surgeon decides to take the law into his own hands and become a lethal vigilante.  Stars Bruce Willis, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dean Norris.  Directed by Eli Roth.

Streaming

Netflix

3/1 Movie Dump - (Matt’s)Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Up in the Air, Wet Hot American Summer (Frank) Moon, The Descent

Amazon Prime

3/1 Movie Dump - Amelie, Chaplin, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, lots of classic James Bond movies (Frank) Amelie, Chaplin, , Kingpin

Brad’s Status (3/2) - A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.

Hulu

3/1 Movie Dump - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hesher & Young Adult

The Square (3/1) A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

HBO

i. Movie Dump- Die Hard Trilogy, She’s Out Of My League, Where The Wild Things Are.

ii. Alien Covenant (3/3)

VOD/ Disc (Tues. 2/27) - Same day VOD and disc releases unless otherwise noted.

Coco

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Murder on the Orient Express

I, Tonya

What We Watched

Frank

Ash Vs. Evil Dead Season 1 (Netflix)

Game Night (Theaters)

Annihilation (Theaters)

Matt

The Tick - 1st 2 episodes of the new batch

Annihilation

There happened to be three big release that had something in common so we decided to do a themed episode around heist films. We review the following: Italian Job (1969) (Starz), Before The Devil Knows Your Dead (Netflix), A Fish Called Wanda (Amazon PRime), Good Time (Amazon Prime), Lucky Logan (Amazon Prime) & Den of Thieves (Theaters). Enjoy!

2/19 - 2/25

 

Trailers

Venom (Theaters, October 5th)

Incredibles 2 (Theaters, June 15th)

Cobra Kai (Youtube Red Series, 2018)

Love Season 3 (Netflix Series, March 9th)

Outside In (Theaters, March 30th)

The Last Movie Star (In Theaters, March 30th)

 

 

 

In Theaters Friday 2/23

Annihilation -

Game Night 

Streaming

Netflix

Fullmetal Alchemist (2/19)

Lincoln (2012) (2/21)

Mute (2/23)

Jeepers Creepers 3 (2/24) (Really???)

Amazon Prime

The Tick: Season 1B  - 

Hulu

Detroit  (2/23)

HBO - Nothing to report

VOD

Mom & Dad (2/20)

Thor: Ragnarok (2/20)

Daddy’s Home 2 (2/20)

The Cured (2/23)

What We Watched

Frank

Black Panther

The Ritual

Chris Rock: Tambourine

Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Episode 1)

Matt -

Altered Carbon (episode 1)

The Incredible Hulk

2/12 - 2/18

 

Trailers

Solo (Theaters May 25th) 

Skyscraper (Theaters July 13th)

Mission Impossible: The Fallout (Theaters July 27th) 

Westworld Season 2 (HBO April 22nd) 

In Theaters Friday 2/16

Black Panther 

Early Man 

Nostalgia 

           Streaming

Netflix

Re: Mind [Series] (2/15) 

Everything Sucks [Series] (2/16)

Irreplaceable You (2/16)

The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale [Series] (2/18) -

Amazon Prime

Logan Lucky (2/16) 

HBO

The House (2/17) 

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Season 5 Premiere (2/18)

Hulu

Nothing….

Video On Demand/ Disc

Blade of the Immortal (2/13) 

Hellraiser: Judgment (2/13) 

Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2/13)

The Florida Project (2/13)

Looking Glass (2/16) nge, mysterious events occur.

Reviews & Recommendations

Frank

The Polka King (Netflix)

Matt

Iron Man 2 (MCU Check-In

The Cloverfield Paradox (Netflix)

*Special Valentine's Day Picks & Reviews:

  1. The War of the Roses (HBO GO, Frank) 

  2. Michael Bolton's Big Sexy Valentine's Day Special (Netflix, Matt)

  3. When We First Met (Netflix, Frank)

In anticipation of the release of "Black Panther' the guys looks at Hollywood's history with Black Action Hereos. Films reviewed: Blade, Blade II, Black Dynamite, Hancock & BaadAsssss!