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Nope – Jordan Peele's Don't Look Up Jul 26, 2022

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Hold your horses. Special Guest Adonis Gonzalez rides into the show on the internet equivalent of horseback this week to talk with us about Nope, a new sci-fi horror film directed and written by Jordan Peele. Is it as good as Get Out and Us? We'll have to discuss. Don't worry, we open the show with a spoiler-free conversation about the film, then we play the Rotten Tomatoes Game and finish things out with a special spoiler section.

Intro Music: “Truly Another Classic (feat. Yasper)” by Glimlip, Søren Søstrom & Soul Food Horns

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Synopsis for Nope

WHAT'S A BAD MIRACLE? Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery. [Source: Letterboxd]

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Where the Crawdads Sing – A Bogged Down Adaptation Jul 19, 2022

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Special guest Trisha Ashton joins us for the first time to help us review Where the Crawdads Sing, which is the film adaptation of the bestselling novel by Delia Owens. Trisha doesn't just boast being related to cohost Will Ashton, she is also an expert on the book, so she helps us unpack the differences and expectations between the two formats. The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya, a recluse in the Carolina marshes who gets caught up in a murder mystery during the late 1960s.

Intro Music: “Walking Together (feat. Zmeyev)” by Sineg

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Thor: Love and Thunder – Why are Critics Love and Hate? Jul 12, 2022

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Special guest Bryan Young (/Film, Full of Sith) rainbow bridges their way to the show this week to help us stormbreak new ground on Thor: Love and Thunder, the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and fourth Thor film (amazingly). Chris Hemsworth is still Thor, no surprise there, but we do see the return of some other familiar faces — Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, Taika Waititi as Korg, and Jane Foster as...the Mighty Thor?! Plus some new faces include Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher and Russel Crowe as Zeus. Is Love and Thunder as good or better than Thor: Ragnarok? Let's find out. We open the show with some general thoughts on the MCU's Phase 4, then dive right into the spoiler-free movie review. Then we of course play the Rotten Tomatoes game and do a quick spoiler-filled section at the very end. It's...thundering time? Hammer time? Eat our hammers.

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Marvel's "Phase 4"
00:10:35 – Thor: Love and Thunder review

Intro Music: “Limited Time Only (feat. Yasper)” by Glimlip, Søren Søstrom & Soul Food Horns

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Minions: The Rise of Gru – The One Where Minions Reproduce Jul 05, 2022

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Special guests Matt Serafini and Chris Sheridan join us for Vol. 2 of this week's episode of Cinemaholics. No, they're not speaking gibberish, they're just tying to contain their excitement for Minions: The Rise of Gru, the Illumination sequel to the Minions movie from 2015, which itself was a prequel within the Despicable Me franchise. Well, our despicable three begin the show with an impromptu discussion of Lightyear, which is tanking at the box office while the Minions are cleaning house. So suit up, call your Gentleminions, and we'll see you at the cinema event of Summer 2022.

Intro Music: “Seaweed” by brass.beats & Emotionally Fragile

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Stranger Things 4 – Running Up that Bill Jul 04, 2022

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Special guest Aaron Dicer checks in from the podcast equivalent of the Upside Down to talk all things Stranger Things. We open this week’s show with some kitchen table chit chat about the future of podcasting and audio content, then break down our general thoughts on why Stranger Things has been such a cultural phenomenon. With all that out of the way, we finally dig into Season 4 spoiler-free, talk about Vol. 2, and discuss the future of Stranger Things with Season 5 on the far-off horizon. Looking for our Minions: The Rise of Gru review and/or Will Ashton? Don’t worry, Will is off assembling a crack team of experts (the Ogre crew) to handle that episode which will be out shortly.

Intro Music: “running up that hill (stranger things lofi)” by kuto

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Why does podcasting exist
00:10:35 – Stranger Things 4 review

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Synopsis for Stranger Things 4

WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRANGER. What if television shows decided, you know what? Eff it. Our episodes are over two hours long now. What are you going to do about it? Not watch? Hilarious. Enjoy our movie show, nerds. [Source: Anonymous]

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Elvis and The Black Phone – Only a Few Hangups Jun 29, 2022

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The Cinemaholics are in the building. Metaphorically. We've got two big films to cover this week, starting with Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, a super long, super glam biopic covering the life of the king of rock and roll with Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in lead roles. Next, Scott Derrickson's latest horror in quite a while just came out, and we're answering the call for The Black Phone, which stars Ethan Hawke and is based on a short story by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King). We also open up the show with some box office catchup and how summer blockbusters from the last month or so are faring as we move into July.

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Summer box office catchup
00:11:00 – Elvis review
01:00:25 – The Black Phone review

Intro Music: “Coco” by brass.beats & Willytrumpet

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Spiderhead – But also Cha Cha Real Smooth and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande! Jun 22, 2022

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It's been a while since we did a "counter programming" episode, covering the three movies released this weekend outside of theaters. We opened the show with a topical discussion about Lightyear's weak box office weekend and the overall direction of streaming releases as alternatives to theatrical event movies. Then we slide into our discussion of Spiderhead, a sci-fi thriller starring Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller, which is now streaming on Netflix. After that, we head over to Apple TV+ for our full review of Cha Cha Real Smooth, which stars Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson. And we finish things out with Good Luck to You Leo Grande, which is now on Hulu and stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack.

Intro Music: “Inner Sparkle” by Lenny B & Second Harbor

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Ligthyear's weak opening weekend
00:12:10 – Spiderhead review
00:44:00 – Cha Cha Real Smooth review
01:10:00 – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande review

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Synopsis for Spiderhead

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Lightyear – Pixar's Star Trek Jun 17, 2022

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Special guest and honorary space ranger Charlie Ridgely joins use on the show for a review of Lightyear, the latest Pixar movie and first one to hit theaters since Onward in March 2020. Does the movie go to infinity, or is this franchise beyond its previous luck? Chris Evans stars as the voice of Buzz in this pseudo-origin story of the movie character that inspired the toy, and don't worry, we'll try to explain it.

Intro Music: “I Will Go Sailing No More” by Randy Newman

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Jurassic World Dominion, plus an obligatory Jurassic Park ranking Jun 14, 2022

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What, you expect us to just review Jurassic World Dominion without spending half the episode talking about the other movies instead? In addition to our ranking of the Jurassic Park film franchise and review of the latest film from Colin Trevorrow, we discuss Adam Sandler's latest Happy Madison film on Netflix, Hustle, a basketball dramedy with professional basketball players in it.

Intro Music: “Generic” by bennya, One million flowers & Chill Moon Music

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Ranking the Jurassic Park movies
00:35:50 – Jurassic World Dominion review
01:11:50 – Hustle review

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Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg, back in the flesh! Jun 10, 2022

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Somehow, David Cronenberg returned. Along with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and plenty other lovable weirdos in this near-future body horror where "surgery is the new sex." Don't worry, we'll get to that. After premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, critics and audiences are definitely trying to process Cronenberg's latest sci-fi drama, and so are we. Is it this year's Titane? Does it measure up to Possessor, the film Brandon Cronenberg (son of David Cronenberg) released two years ago? Let's dig in. Scalpel.

Intro Music: “Polysiphonia” by DYVN & UKDD

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