Posts Tagged ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Film Review – Wicked: For Good
The continuation of the Wicked musical adaptation – Wicked: For Good (2025) – arrives in theaters riding the success of the first film. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, Wicked (2024) was a massive success, appeasing fans of the stage show and garnering a…
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Episode 63 – Nomadland
For this episode of the podcast, we review Hulu‘s realist drama, Nomadland, starring Francis McDormand as a house-less traveler. We also propose our own dream casts for the imminent Wizard of Oz remake, and at the end of the episode, we discuss the 1984 cult-film,…
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Film Review – Mank
It’s one thing to make a movie about a movie, it’s a whole other thing to make a movie about Citizen Kane (1941). It’s one of the most written about, analyzed, and debated films ever. Many consider it “The Greatest Film Ever Made,” and is often…
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Film Review – The Nutcracker and The Four Realms
How to create a fairly generic preteen holiday fantasy: Start with a base of a cost effective public domain property, slather in copious amounts of CGI, pepper using the money you saved on originality to hire several talented actors who should know better, stir with…
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Film Review – A Wrinkle in Time
What A Wrinkle in Time (2018) gets right is understanding the intelligence, strength, and resiliency of children. They are far keener to the world around them as some would suspect, and aware of the circumstances they are placed into. Kids are often neglected as too…
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SXSW Film Review – The Slippers
Morgan White’s documentary, The Slippers (2016) tells the tale of the infamous ruby slippers that adorned Judy Garland’s feet in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Known to be one of the most prized treasures of cinematic memorabilia, White traces the history of the slippers throughout…
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An Appreciation – The Wizard of Oz
Unlike most people, I did not see The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a child. In fact, I didn’t see it in its entirety until I was nearing young adulthood. But even before then, I felt like there was already a familiarity. This benchmark of…
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DVD Rundown 10-1-2013 – Video Podcast #278
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for October 1st, 2013. In this episode they discuss The Croods, The Wizard of Oz, Magnum P.I. and This Is The End.
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