Top 5 Film

In Episode 92 Top 5 Film dissect Marvel Studios 12th feature film "Ant-Man."

Show Notes:

00:31 - Are You Ready? and Intros

02:19 - Get Your Attention Business

09:26 - Become the Hero

13:01 - Multi-Generational

15:55 - Holding Back or Building Up?

19:47 - Silver Age in Marvel Studios

26:28 - Creative Differences

32:18 - Who Dies in Marvel Movies?

35:17 - Marvel Knows How to Cast

42:33 - Undercut the Big Moment

48:20 - Why's the Other Guy Russian?

53:30 - Folded into the Avengers

60:00 - Work to Do and Outros

In episode 91 Top 5 Film digs in and discusses "Jurassic World" and the rest of Universal Pictures' Jurassic Park franchise.

Show Notes:

00:31 - Intros and a 14-year Drought

05:48 - Redundant Beats and Paper Thin

11:40 - A New Generation

17:06 - The "Best" Sequel to Jurassic Park

21:07 - The Park is Open?

26:23 - Jurassic World the Theme Park Sucks

33:08 - Chris Pratt is Perfect

39:20 - A Family Vacation

49:12 - Two Sides of a Seesaw

55:24 - Transition is Painful

62:00 - Alchemy

65:36 - We Don't Want Rinse and Repeat

78:10 - Franchise on a Pedestal and Outros

It has been 30 years since director George Miller last gave fans a Mad Max film, but despite the drought, the mastermind filmmaker is back behind the camera with a new installment of the apocalyptic franchise titled "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Top 5 Film just had to discuss it.

Show Notes:

00:39 - Intros and A Delightful Mainstream Release

02:56 - First Three Films Fully Realized

10:00 - Bread Crumbs and Focus on Action

19:25 - How Fury Road Came to Be

22:30 - Nothing is Practical

26:44 - Feminism, More like Equality

41:08 - Repetition

47:53 - IMAX Laser 3D vs. Dolby Atmos

61:53 - Tom Hardy or Mel Gibson

63:54 - "The Bass Bin"

67:17 - Outros

In Episode 89 Top 5 Film decides to tackle two recent science fiction releases with artificial intelligence at the center of their story; "Ex Machina" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron."

Show Notes: 00:31 - Intros 02:33 - "Ex Machina" 04:24 - Things Aren't Right 06:49 - Switching Alliances 08:09 - Smokescreen 12:17 - The Interview 15:24 - That's How That Works 27:35 - "Avengers: Age of Ultron" 29:58 - One and Done 32:55 - The Marvel Universe is Weighing Down the Movies 39:12 - Not Enough Time 43:27 - Hulk in South Africa 47:01 - New Avengers 50:29 - Hawkeye is the Glue 58:20 - Bad Action 62:37 - All so Muted 66:00 - Marvel's Cinematic Future 75:14 - Outros

Episode 88 has Top 5 Film discuss the latest installment in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise, "Furious 7." Originally slated for 2014, Furious 7 was delayed after the untimely death Paul Walker only for Universal to regroup and finish the film in Paul's memory. On top of discussing how much Paul Walker meant to the franchise, Top 5 Film reviews the 7th film and discusses their concerns for the future of the 'Fast & Furious' franchise.

Show Notes:

00:31 - Intros and Nostalgia

05:00 - Chronological Order vs. Release Order

20:14 - They Couldn't Fix This

25:46 - Street Cred'

32:36 - The Final Ride

37:10 - Trajectory of Franchise

51:35 - Missing like 50% of the Charisma

60:46 - Ranking the Fast & Furious Franchise

66:25 - They Can Add Anybody and Outros

In Episode 87 Top 5 Film tackle Neil Blomkamp's third scifi feature film "Chappie."

Show Notes:

00:32 - Intros

00:45 - Future Alien Director

08:07 - When You Put it That Way

12:37 - Die Antwoord

19:08 - Animation of CHAPPiE

22:30 - A Childhood Movie That's Rated R

32:27 - Hugh Jackman's Haircut

39:39 - Dolby Atmos

44:28 - Consciousness

51:45 - They Only Have PS4's in the Future

56:45 - Outros

Episode 86 has Top 5 Film discussing director Matthew Vaughn's latest effort "Kingsman: The Secret Service." An R-rated action adapted from a comic created by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.

Show Notes: 00:32 - Intros 02:35 - Review "Kingsman: The Secret Service" 05:19 - Samuel L. Jackson 07:52 - Ultra Violent 12:50 - The 1% 18:09 - Merlin's About Face 22:05 - CGI 24:36 - Poking fun at James Bond 37:52 - Outros

Our first .5 episode of 2015 is reactions to the 87th Annual Academy Awards nominations. There were some unforgivable snubs this year and Top 5 Film felt it necessary to go on the record over the Academy's weak nomination class from 2014; a year with an outrageous number of exceptional films.

Show Notes:

00:31 - intros and set-up

01:40 - effectiveness of Academy Awards

05:10 - "Selma" has a stigma?

10:17 - fact checking "Selma"

15:26 - "American Sniper" reception

18:04 - the most offensive snub

24:00 - the most absurd snub

32:04 - sound editing / sound mixing and visual effects

35:57 - open discussion (actress and supporting actress, foreign language, supporting actor)

43:26 - character actors in real roles

46:10 - wrap-up and outros

Episode 85 is Top 5 Film's year end episode. Your hosts each rundown their individual Top 10 Films in 2014. Then collaboratively the duo debate a number of titles from 2014 and come up with Top 5's Top 5 of 2014. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

00:31 - intros and set-up

05:15 - Trevor's Top 10

14:45 - Jon's Top 10

26:10 - debate on "Snowpiercer" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

29:31- discussion on "Inherent Vice"

34:36 - debate on "The Lego Movie" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

40:18 - debate on "Nightcrawler" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

41:46 - debate on "It Follows" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

44:01 - debate on "Boyhood" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

50:36 - debate on "Guardians of the Galaxy"for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

54:36 - debate on "Selma"for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

60:45- open debate for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

65:15 - "John Wick" vs. "The Guest"

68:35 - debate on "The Grand Budapest Hotel" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

78:31 - debate on "Whiplash" and "American Sniper" for Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

84:13 - Top 5's Top 5 of 2014

85:07 - outros

Christopher Nolan has a new movie out titled "Interstellar" starring Matthew McConaughey. Being the enormous Nolan fans that we are at Top 5 Film, we just had to review it. To do so we decided to bring on the first respectable gentlemen critic who hated it, Mr. James Rocchi.

Show Notes:

- 00:30 Intros

- 01:40 Review "Interstellar"

- 30:24 IMAX and the money side of "Interstellar"

- 76:23 A short story about Michael Caine, Wrap-up and Outros