Dec 28, 2021

As a holiday treat, we’re taking a break from our usual format and laying down a commentary track for one of our favorite movies! In the wake of Spider-Man: No Way Home becoming the highest-grossing film since 2019 and the biggest Sony release of all time, we’re celebrating the dawn of the Spider-Verse with a...

Dec 22, 2021

Bob Clark’s 1983 film A Christmas Story has become a holiday classic, but for most kids born in the ‘80s, a Red Ryder BB gun was not at the top of their wish lists. We wanted something a little more high-tech - the Nintendo Entertainment System. HBO Max’s latest original film, from Goon director Michael Dowse and...

Dec 15, 2021

The Christmas rom-com movie genre got a much-needed update in 2020 from Hulu with the release of Clea DuVall’s semi-autobiographical coming-out comedy-of-Yuletide-errors. Filmed earlier that year just prior to the Covid shutdown, the Pittsburgh-shot holiday flick starred Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as the lead...

Dec 8, 2021

J.R.R. Tolkien’s massively popular fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, was long thought to be unfilmable due to the size and scope of the story and the technology limitations of the times. Kiwi director Peter Jackson proved them all wrong by shooting all three movies back-to-back in sixteen months at 150 locations...

Dec 1, 2021

Director Joe Carnahan has given us intense action before in films like Smokin’ Aces and The Grey, but he takes it to the next level in this 2021 Hulu original film. Actor Frank Grillo is a guy who knows how to beat ‘em up - he’s even gone toe-to-toe with Captain America - but he brings his A-game to this...