Posts Tagged ‘Jason Bateman’
Episode 136 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Air
For this podcast episode, we review the fantasy-comedy blockbuster Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Ben Affleck‘s Nike biopic, Air. We also talk about HBOMax‘s future plans, and for our streaming homework, we review the 1964 Beatles movie, A Hard Day’s Night. Download the…
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Episode 40 – Extraction
For this week’s podcast, we review the Chris Hemsworth action rescue movie, Extraction, recently released directly to Netflix. Also on Netflix, we review the 2015 psychological thriller, The Gift, starring Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall. We also discuss more good movies made by bad…
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Film Review – Zootopia
Disney’s Zootopia (2016) is about as middle of the road as you can get with an animated film. It doesn’t reach the stars, nor is it a unmitigated disaster. We get a nice story about chasing your dreams and being more than what society deemed…
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Interview – Kira Lehtomaki – Zootopia
Spencer interviews animation supervisor Kira Lehtomaki from the animated adventure Zootopia.
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Film Review – The Gift
Whoa. Joel Edgerton’s debut feature The Gift (2015) is good. Actually, it’s really good. Really really good. This might be one of the finest first efforts of an actor turned writer/director since Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone (2007). Edgerton has made a tense psychological drama…
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Interview – Joel Edgerton – The Gift
Sarah interviews writer/director/actor Joel Edgerton from the thriller The Gift.
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Film Review – Horrible Bosses 2
I don’t recall what my initial reaction to Horrible Bosses was way back in 2011, but its recent and constant rotation on HBO has convinced me it’s a perfectly serviceable comedy that works great as background noise while you’re cleaning your oven. That might not…
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