Talking Trailers: Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy and Transformers 4

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The best part about going to the movies in the months leading up to the summer season? All the trailers for the big summer blockbusters. These are usually movies that are heavy on spectacle and have a lot of visual excitement going for them, which almost always makes for at the very least…a good trailer. But sometimes these trailers promise more than just big blockbuster excitement, and even rarer still is the big movie that delivers on these promises made by marketers and advertisers. But still, a movie trailer is like an unscratched lotto ticket…as long as there is hope, we’re good to go, and it’s worth something. So what are these trailers worth?Continue Reading …

Review: ‘Non-Stop’

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Here we go. Another Liam Neeson action movie. If anyone told me ten years ago that Liam Neeson would soon be one of the biggest and most bankable action stars of the 2000s and 2010s, I woulda told you…that would be an interesting possibility. Though not likely. Sure he was okay in Star Wars. But as a stand alone action star? Naaaaaah.Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 3/3/14 – ‘Prince Avalanche’

Prince_Avalanche_QUADBefore he was the director behind the studio-produced comedies “Pineapple Express,” “Your Highness” and “The Sitter,” writer/director David Gordon Green was a critical darling and the maker of tiny little coming-of-age Southern-set indie movies like “George Washington” and “All The Real Girls,” small movies based heavily on the characters and their development, and with his latest movie “Prince Avalanche,” Green has returned to those indie roots with a film that fits the first half of his filmography much better than it fits in with the second half.Continue Reading …

#60 – Taken on a Plane

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In episode 60, Chris and Drew review Non-Stop, the Netflix Pick of the Week is Prince Avalanche, Chris and Drew break in the new studio, and Chris tries to figure out what the show title will be…which you already know by now.Continue Reading …

Review: ‘3 Days to Kill’

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Oh boy. “3 Days to Kill.” Ugh. Let’s get this over with.

Kevin Costner plays Ethan, a dad estranged from his daughter and wife due to his commitment to work, and when he finds out he has three months to live thanks to some brain tumors that somehow spread to his lungs, he tries to reconnect with his family, who are currently living in Paris. His daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) calls him Ethan and prefers to hang out on her own, but of course slowly yet surely Ethan wins her over, despite also regularly screwing up by always being late. He’s gruff but means well and he promises his wife that he’s done with work and he just wants to be there for them and the whole movie is him trying to get to a point where his daughter will actually call him “dad.”

Oh by the way he’s a CIA field operative and a super deadly and effective hitman.Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 2/24/14 – ‘The Untouchables’

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Written by David Mamet. Directed by Brian De Palma. Scored by Ennio Morricone. Starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. You need more reasons to watch the fantastic 1987 crime drama “The Untouchables?”

“The Untouchables” may be best known for its famous shoot-out on the steps sequence, featuring a baby carriage bouncing down the stairs while cops and gangsters shoot at each other in super dramatic slow motion. This is a fine example of the whole “amateurs create, professionals steal,” as this is De Palma’s great call back to the 1925 silent movie “Battleship Potemkin,” and much like most of De Palma’s career, this movie is just as much an ode to cinema in general as it is a telling of the Eliot Ness – Al Capone story. This movie is fun, epic and definitely worth watching if you have not seen it already.Continue Reading …

#59 – Florida Film Forever

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In episode 59, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about their favorite Florida-shot movies, Christiansploitation films in 2014 and much more.

Discussed in this episode:

The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is The Untouchables.

The box office recap for the weekend.

America as the bad guy in RoboCop.

Pompeii and Paul W.S. Anderson movies.

Chris and Drew review 3 Days to Kill, and Chris rails against the rampant stereotyping throughout the film.Continue Reading …

Dr. Drew’s Two Cents – Nothingness

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Review: ‘RoboCop’ (2014)

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Well it wasn’t the complete piece of shit that I was actually expecting, but that does not mean that this new “RoboCop” movie is actually good. Just because a movie brings up some ideas doesn’t mean it is actually smart or even tried to do anything, especially if nothing is actually said by the movie. Anyone can stand on a street corner and yell about how “drone warfare is bad!” But that doesn’t mean people would want to stand around and listen to this person yelling for two hours. We get it. Drones can be bad. So what?

Taking the movie as its own thing, ignoring the fact that it is a remake of a beloved classic, “RoboCop” at least has a couple things going for. Set about 15 or so years in the future, the movie starts with some television pundit blowhard named Novak (Samuel L. Jackson) just going on and on and on about the use of drones and droids in other countries for reasons of forced pacification, and bemoaning how Americans are against the use of drones here in America*. And here during the beginning segment of the movie, we get some decent ideas about drone warfare and modern American imperialism, and an interesting and daring sequence in which these drones (including ED-209s) get attacked by suicide bombers, determined to make this attack unfold on a live television, and we even get to see a young kid, inspired by his suicide bombing father, pick up a weapon and go at the drones himself (which was pretty stupid on the kids part). So the movie starts with a literal bang and actually for a second seems like it might go to some interesting places.Continue Reading …