Afleveringen
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Some great titles in physical media this week and Erik Childress is joined by Peter Sobczynski to convince you to pick them up. They include a great modern con artist noir from Criterion and a lost film from Paul Bartel. The ‘70s bring us some sexploitation horror and Sherlock Holmes hunts Jack the Ripper while the ’80s gave us one of the most unique and divisive slasher films. Peter goes to bat for a pair of 4K upgrades from John Carpenter and Tarsem. Finally, there is a trio of new 4Ks from Quentin Tarantino that includes one of Peter’s favorite films and one of Erik’s favorite music cues.
0:00 - Intro
2:16 – Criterion (The Grifters 4K)
15:30 - Liberation Hall (Shelf Life)
26:29 - Kino (Fade-In, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Murder by Decree 4K, April Fool’s Day 4K)
58:57 - Shout Factory (John Carpenter’s Vampires 4K)
1:06:57 - Arrow (The Cell 4K)
1:19:45 - Lionsgate (Jackie Brown 4K, Kill Bill Vol. 1 4K, Kill Bill Vol 2 4K)
1:39:44 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Here, The Return, Rumours, Smile 2, The Substance, Venom: The Last Dance)
1:44:00 – New Blu-ray Announcements
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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at eight new movies this week including a unique documentary that combines a video game with Shakespeare (Grand Theft Hamlet). Julia Stiles makes her directorial debut with a romantic weepie (Wish You Were Here) and a locksmith goes on a wild evening (Night Call). Scott Eastwood and Willa Fitzgerald play spies who go off the grid and are sucked back into duty (Alarum) while Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz play spies who go off the grid and are sucked back into duty (Back in Action). There is the tale of the newsroom covering the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics (September 5) and a raunchy hangout film with Keke Palmer and SZA (One Of Them Days). Finally, Leigh Whannell continues the alterna-Dark Universe with a new take on a classic Universal monster (Wolf Man).
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Grand Theft Hamlet
10:01 - Wish You Were Here
17:08 - Night Call
22:38 - Alarum
29:58 - Back In Action
42:07 - September 5
52:31 - One of Them Days
1:00:30 - Wolf Man
1:18:39 - Outro
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The final pieces are in place as BAFTA and the Producers/Writers Guilds have unveiled their nominations. That means its time to give it a whirl at what the final Oscar lists are going to look like. Just how much did the BAFTAs influence the acting categories. Did the Writer’s Guild really make a difference in predicting screenplays when half of them were disqualified? If the Producers Guild holds about an 80% predictability rate, which two films get left off? Erik Childress looks at no less than eight films that could be vying for one final Best Picture slot. While he feels confident in the other nine nominees, there is also the potential for an epic bunch of so-called snubbing in all the categories.
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Physical media is still here in 2025! Like every other year. Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are back to run through the new releases with you. They include a pair of upgraded Kurosawas and Richard Pryor examining his life. John Turturro directs a musical, William Shatner does a horror film in Esperanto and the pair share some fondness for John Frankenheimer’s final film. You will hear about the film that was literally like pulling teeth for Erik while two of Brad Pitt’s best films get fantastic new packages.
0:00 - Intro
3:39 - Criterion (Yojimbo/Sanjuro 4K, The Mother and the Whore 4K, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling 4K)
21:55 - MGM (Romance and Cigarettes)
29:03 - Kino (That Funny Feeling, Reindeer Games 4K)
38:27 - Shout (Sanctum 4K)
45:49 - Arrow (Incubus 4K, Inglourious Basterds 4K)
1:06:56 - Warner (Seven 4K)
1:22:07 – New Theatrical Titles on Blu-ray (Saturday Night, We Live in Time, Armor, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Sometimes I Think About Dying, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock)
1:25:34 – New Blu-ray Announcements
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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back to start 2025 with reviews…of a lot of 2024 movies. Albeit ones opening wider across the country now. But there are also some brand new releases including documentaries on a film that never was (George A. Romero’s Resident Evil) and the songwriter who never wins an Oscar (Diane Warren: Relentless). Then a family is trapped amidst a pole reversal (Survive) and Adrien Brody tries to build a life in America (The Brutalist). Robbie Williams gets the musical biopic treatment as a chimpanzee (Better Man) while Julianne Moore & Tilda Swinton face a tough life together in Pedro Almodovar’s latest (The Room Next Door). Pamela Anderson finds herself aging out in Vegas (The Last Showgirl) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives one of the year’s best performances in the new film from Mike Leigh (Hard Truths). Finally, Gerard Butler returns as Big Nick to get the mastermind robber he lost the first time (Den of Thieves : Pantera).
0:00 - Intro
1:41 - George A. Romero’s Resident Evil
9:35 - Diane Warren: Relentless
18:26 - Survive
24:29 – The Brutalist
40:50 - Better Man
57:19 – The Room Next Door
1:06:20 – The Last Showgirl
1:20:06 - Hard Truths
1:28:18 - Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
1:44:45 - Outro
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An annual tradition that goes back to the days of WHPK Radio at the University of Chicago where Erik Childress joined Sergio Mims to discuss all things movies and certainly physical media, Erik is now joined by Peter Sobczynski for it to endure. Each of them has chosen ten films that to this day remain only on DVD (or not at all) that they believe deserve the upgrade. There are films about the circus, about priests and prostitution, love triangles and the dark side of Hollywood. There is politics and courtrooms, games of skill, concerts and debuts in front of and behind the camera. Even if they kinda know the answer to the main question, this is a time for everyone to work together to bring these works of art (and even some lesser art) to a proper format so they can be preserved, protected and enjoyed for generations to come.
0:00 – Intro
3:14 – Peter’s 1st Title
12:03 – Erik’s 1st Title
18:56 – Peter’s 2nd Title
30:02 – Erik’s 2nd Title
36:07 – Peter’s 3rd Title
45:50 – Erik’s 3rd Title
50:55 – Peter’s 4th Title
1:02:05 – Erik’s 4th Title
1:09:15 – Peter’s 5th Title
1:20:05 – Erik’s 5th Title
1:26:33 – Peter’s 6th Title
1:35:56 – Erik’s 6th Title
1:45:20 – Peter’s 7th Title
1:59:31 – Erik’s 7th Title
2:07:27 – Peter’s 8th Title
2:19:15 – Erik’s 8th Title
2:27:56 – Peter’s 9th Title
2:36:06 – Erik’s 9th Title
2:43:05 – Peter’s 10th Title
2:56:38 – Erik’s 10th Title
3:01:52 - Outro
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Oscar voting has begun and the week before the unveiling of the nominations is jam-packed with implications. Various guilds to impact the Best Picture race from Producers to Directors to Writers. All that on top of the Screen Actors Guild announcement and how the BAFTA shortlists put the best case scenarios forwards for many in the acting categories. Did the Golden Globes impact the races (or at least people’s viewing preferences)? The Best Actress could become a Thunderdome right up to the nominations on Jan. 17. Which performances have the most to gain and lose down the stretch and how many films are fighting for the final two or three Best Picture slots? All this on a penultimate bonus episode before final predictions next week.
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What better way to kickoff 2025 than a look back at the some of the greatness of 2024. On this annual show, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy invite back Collin Souter so they can condense the entire year into the absolute best in their individual opinions. Only three films cracked all of their lists so there is a wide swath of analysis in a year that demanded it. Where is the common ground? What are the outliers? This is a great way to make your own lists on what to catch up on before we start doing it all again in the new year.
0:00 - Intro
4:01 – The Runners-up
17:09 – The Top Ten
1:19:45 – More Great Documentaries of 2024
1:23:26 – Special Best (and Worst) Categories for 2024
1:57:32 - Outro
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On the final show of 2024, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy check out eight new movies that include a Danish serial killer from 1919 (The Girl with the Needle) and Nicole Kidman as a CEO who enters into an affair with an intern (Babygirl). Tyler Perry tells the story of undelivered mail during wartime (The Six Triple Eight) and the Sega Genesis hero returns to battle Jim Carrey (Sonic the Hedgehog 3). Robert Eggers offers his take on the Dracula legend (Nosferatu) and James Mangold tells another story of a musical artist (A Complete Unknown). Finally, Barry Jenkins helps tell a pair of wildly different tales. He writes Rachel Morrison’s directorial debut of an Olympic female boxer (The Fire Inside) and then he takes the reins himself of Disney’s prequel to one of their biggest stories (Mufasa: The Lion King).
0:00 - Intro
1:34 - The Girl with the Needle
7:30 - Babygirl
18:12 – The Six Triple Eight
26:55 - Nosferatu
38:58 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3
46:01 – The Fire Inside
57:27 – A Complete Unknown,
1:15:00 - Mufasa: The Lion King
1:32:25 - Outro
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There will not be a lot of movement in the rankings through the end of the year. Not until we get into January when many of the major guilds and BAFTA add to the chorus of voices this awards season. So on this episode we look at why its unfortunate we have to consider the Critics Choice Association as one of those voices. For better or worse the numbers do factor in as many of the major races begin to take some shape. We will not be without surprises but Erik Childress offers some hope over worries that Marianne Jean-Baptiste might still be passed over for a nomination and he looks at the Oscar shortlists that were announced.
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One last physical media show for 2024 and still time to get those last-minute Christmas gifts. Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski take you through a bundle that includes two of the all-time masterpieces by John Ford and Francis Ford Coppola. Land is very much in the conversation from films by Ron Howard and Michael Winterbottom. There are aliens in the water, in the womb and something else aboard a submarine from WWII. We’ve got conspiracies, punks and missing thumbs plus the films of Steve De Jarnatt. John Wayne and Cary Grant in 4K plus a couple of solid Sylvester Stallone films including one from 50 years ago and another set in the future. Finally, one of the greatest TV shows of all-time gets the 4K upgrade it deserves as the duo recount some of their favorite episodes and moments from Seinfeld.
0:55 - Criterion (Evil Does Not Exist)
5:08 – Studio Canal (The Conversation 4K)
11:33 - Warner Archive (The Tall Target, Black Eye, Heavy Traffic)
20:33 - Sandpiper (The Lords of Flatbush, The Pope of Greenwich Village)
31:10 - Sony (The Talk of the Town 4K)
34:50 - Warner Bros. (The Searchers 4K)
43:33 - Kino (Hatari 4K, Cherry 2000, Miracle Mile, Internal Affairs 4K, Snake Eyes 4K, The Claim, The Beast Within, Below 4K)
1:38:42 - Shout Factory (Far and Away 4K, The Faculty 4K)
1:56:02 - Arrow (Demolition Man 4K)
2:09:46 – Seinfeld 4K
2:16:40 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray/DVD (Transformers One, Joker: Folie A Deux, Terrifier 3, Apartment 7A, Absolution, Piece by Piece, Sleep)
2:19:30 – New Blu-ray Announcements
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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy continue to wade into December’s offerings with nine new films on the slate. They include the directorial debut of Jack Huston (Day of the Fight) and Eva Green leading a team of female operatives against ISIS (Dirty Angels). The director of The Act of Killing does an apocalyptic musical (The End) while the daughter of a synthesizer inventor takes a joyous and complicated journey learning about her deceased father (Resynator). Paul Schrader takes his own trip through the life of a dying Richard Gere (Oh, Canada) while Angelina Jolie takes us through that of opera’s Callas (Maria). 46 years after Ralph Bakshi, Tolkien gets animated again (The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim) or you can stay home and watch TSA agent Taron Egerton face off against terrorist Jason Bateman in an airport (Carry On). Finally, Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff anti-hero line of Marvel movies supposedly comes to an end (Kraven the Hunter).
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Day of the Fight
9:40 - Dirty Angels
16:40 - The End
24:31 - Resynator
32:35 - Oh, Canada
41:26 - Maria
53:09 - The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
59:47 - Carry On
1:12:01 - Kraven the Hunter
1:26:51 - Outro
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We continue our march through awards season madness as we look at a fresh batch of nominations and announcements that have started to part the clouds a little on how its all playing out. Thanks to LA, Chicago and even lesser on-the-level groups like the Golden Globes and the National Board of Review (whose statistics can nevertheless not be entirely denied) Erik Childress runs you down the current depth charts on the Big 8 categories which can certainly change week-to-week.
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The Movie Madness Podcast presents this bonus extension of the show with a dive into the 2024-25 awards season. A breakdown of the various groups with their victories and nominations in an effort to present an ongoing State-of-the-Race up until the final Oscar nominations on Jan. 17, 2025. Statistics, commentary and a running scoreboard are in store for you starting with announcements from the Gothams and the New York Film Critics. Strap in cause its going to be a ride.
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Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski continue to add to your Christmas carts with a variety of great gift ideas for the movie lovers in your life. They talk about the Coen Bros. big Oscar winner and Fellini’s most beloved film now both in 4K. Peter goes to bat for Abel Ferrara’s vampire tale and a Henry James adaptation from this year. Erik talks the 10th Anniversary of a Christopher Nolan film and offers some defense of Ron Howard’s collaboration with Geoge Lucas and Seth MacFarlane’s debut. A Martha Coolidge film that was part of the Why-Is-This-Not-On-Blu-Ray series finally gets its due and a controversial 1980s horror film gets an upgrade. Finally Peter shows love to a rockin’ high school movie as well the Cracking Collection of Wallace & Gromit.
0:00 - Intro
1:25 - Criterion (No Country for Old Men 4K, 8 1/2 4K, The Beast)
24:30 - Arrow (The Addiction 4K)
35:28 - Disney (Willow 4K)
46:39 - Paramount (Interstellar 4K)
1:00:11 - Kino (Rambling Rose, Daytime Revolution)
1:16:55 - Shout (Rock n Roll High School 4K, Ted 4K, Riddick 4K, Wallace and Gromit The Complete Cracking Collection 4K, Silent Night Deadly Night 4K)
2:11:25 – New Blu-ray Announcements
2:14:05 - Outro
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For just $1 a month (with the current first episode available for free) The Movie Madness Podcast presents this bonus extension of the show with a dive into the 2024-25 awards season. A breakdown of the various groups with their victories and nominations in an effort to present an ongoing State-of-the-Race up until the final Oscar nominations on Jan. 17, 2025. Statistics, commentary and a running scoreboard are in store for you starting with announcements from the Gothams and the New York Film Critics. Strap in cause its going to be a ride.
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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have nine films to talk about this week. They include Kyle Mooney’s take on the computer glitch of 1999 (Y2K) and what happens when a supermoon infects the world (Werewolves). Ralph Fiennes completes Homer’s odyssey (The Return) while Nick Frost just wants to take his family on vacation to see a scary Swedish tradition (Get Away). There is the true story of one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles (Unstoppable) and the drug-fueled scribblings of William Burroughs through the eyes of Daniel Craig (Queer). Jude Law gruffly goes after white supremacists in the 1980s (The Order).The potential end of the world is told without words and through animated animals (Flow) while Amy Adams may be turning into an animal in a film that tries to use all the words to define motherhood (Nightbitch).
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Y2K
8:24 - Werewolves
18:22 – The Return
23:54 - Get Away
30:55 - Flow
38:32 - Unstoppable
50:48 - Queer
1:00:50 – The Order
1:12:19 - Nightbitch
1:23:02 – Next Week’s Movie
1:25:32 – Outro & Special Announcement
MOVIE MADNESS BONUS EPISODES NOW AVAILABLE ON PATREON
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For just $1 a month (with the current first episode available for free) The Movie Madness Podcast presents this bonus extension of the show with a dive into the 2024-25 awards season. A breakdown of the various groups with their victories and nominations in an effort to present an ongoing State-of-the-Race up until the final Oscar nominations on Jan. 17, 2025. Statistics, commentary and a running scoreboard are in store for you starting with announcements from the Gothams and the New York Film Critics. Strap in cause its going to be a ride.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be gone but the physical media buying season is in full effect for the movie lovers in your life. Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski go through the week’s offerings. Sure they include the infamous later films of Ed Wood have been unearthed along with a “Reefer Madness for the Sexual Revolution” plus a goofy Michael Crichton adaptation. But there are also masterpieces from Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog plus a pair of beloved horror and sci-fi comedies. Not to mention an overlooked film from Sam Raimi and the great pre-South Park musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Criterion (Paris, Texas 4K)
10:28 - Shout Factory (Aguirre: The Wrath of God 4K, The Gift 4K)
22:04 - Kino (The Visit 4K)
30:05 - Sony (Legends of the Fall 4K)
34:43 - Paramount (Galaxy Quest 4K)
45:05 - Universal (Shaun of the Dead 4K Steelbook)
56:04 - Severin (Hard Wood, Scala)
1:07:38 - Vinegar Syndrome (Looking for Mr Goodbar 4K, Cannibal: The Musical 4K, Congo 4K)
1:29:38 – New TV & Theatrical On Blu-ray
1:33:16 – New Blu-ray Announcements
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It’s Thanksgiving week and the pickings are slim on the movie front. But Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy may have something for you to watch with the family. Hint that it involves a pair of music documentaries focusing on the arrival of Liverpool’s finest to the States (Beatles ’64) to the soothing sounds of the ‘70s and ‘80s (Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary). You can also hear about the latest from David Gordon Green as Ben Stiller attends to his ill-behaved nephews (Nutcrackers) and the new film from the Farrelly Bros. involving Jack Black answering a young boy’s Christmas call as Satan (Dear Santa). Finally, Disney turns one of their beloved films into a series and then back into a theatrical sequel (Moana 2).
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Beatles '64
8:25 - Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary
17:32 - Nutcrackers
29:20 - Dear Santa
38:07 - Moana 2
45:53 - Outro
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Just in time for Black Friday, Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski takes you through a swath of new physical media and collections. They include two of the best films in the careers of Peter Bogdanovich and Guillermo Del Toro (and yes the best from Rob Cohen too.) There’s a pair of underrated films from the great William Friedkin and martial arts collections from Stephen Chow and the Shaw Brothers. Go on the road with Hope and Crosby and take a journey with an underseen adventure story. Not to mention dancing, the Thin Man, a whole bunch of Looney Tunes and one of the most infamous box office tales ever.
0:00 - Intro
1:08 - Criterion (Paper Moon 4K, The Shape of Water 4K)
16:33 - Vinegar Syndrome (The Tenant 4K, Fear Dot Com)
27:48 - MVD (Zyzzyx Road 4K)
39:43 - Arrow (Shawscope V. 3)
44:52 - Shout (Stephen Chow Collection, Dragon 4K, Bones and All 4K)
59:04 - Kino (Revenge of the Zombies, The Martian Chronicles, Mountains of the Moon, The Hunted 4K, Bug 4K, On the Road with Hope and Crosby)
1:33:51 - Warner Archive (The Complete Thin Man, Looney Tunes Collectors Choice Vol 1-4, That’s Entertainment)
1:50:57 – New Blu-ray Announcements
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It’s the week before Thanksgiving and there are some heavy-hitters in theaters and trio of new Netflix titles for those stay-at-home viewers. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy cover eight movies for you this week including a fascinating documentary on a woman who may have crafted the soundtrack to your life (The World According to Allee Willis) and another about a unique love affair involving music and mascots (Adrianne and the Castle). Sylvester Stallone tries to take Jason Patric’s armored car (Armor) while Thomasin McKenzie and Bill Nighy show you who the true mother and father of IVF were (Joy). Denzel Washington’s family adapts August Wilson (The Piano Lesson) and Alan Menken returns to score an all-star cast in a nifty Netflix animated film (Spellbound). Finally, it may not be Barbenheimer but Ridley Scott returns to Rome with a new vengeance (Gladiator II) and the first act of a Broadway sensation finally makes it to the big screen (Wicked: Part One).
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - The World According to Allee Willis
15:49 - Armor
23:03 - Adrianne and the Castle
32:40 - Joy
46:50 - The Piano Lesson
55:44 - Spellbound
1:03:04 - Gladiator II
1:19:04 – Wicked: Part One
1:41:31 - Outro
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