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Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’

“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” is the fifth in this film series started in the mid-90’s and based on a television show from the 60’s and 70’s, and it is kind of surprising how long this particular piece of spy-based entertainment has stuck around, and by most accounts, continues to age like fine wine. Cool gadgets and effects, great stunts and action scenes, fun stories with interesting outcomes, the M:I movies have come along way since dangling Tom Cruise on a rope in an all white room almost twenty years ago, and have become a reliable source of serialized, big screen entertainment.Continue Reading …

Spoiler Bonus Episode – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

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In this SPOILER bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about everything that happens in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Everything.

Who dies.

Who doesn’t die.

Who dies but gets brought back to life.

All of it.

So enjoy the spoilery goodness, rogue style.

Netflix pick for 8/3/15 – ‘The Killer’

From 1989, “The Killer” is a hugely influential Hong Kong action movie, itself influenced by master filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Jean Pierre-Melville and their respective films “Mean Streets” and “Le Samourai,” and not only did this movie establish John Woo as a director of note, but it also went on to inspire people like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino to push the action movie genre as far as it would go.

Starring Chow Yun Fat, “The Killer” is the story of a professional hitman who accidentally blinded a girl in a public shoot out, and develops a serious sense of remorse for his actions. So he helps this girl as she grows up without ever letting on that he was the one responsible for her blindness. And when she has the opportunity to undergo a procedure that would restore her sight, he takes on “one last job” in order to secure the money needed for this surgery.Continue Reading …

#134 – Ghost Nation Protocol

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In episode 134, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn review Vacation and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

Also discussed:

Bale vs Affleck in the Crespodome.

How much CGI is in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?

Tommy Lee Jones is joining the Bourne franchise.

Michael Moore’s new movie.

A streaming service for horror films.

And much more!

Review: ‘Vacation’

Well they have been threatening to make this movie for years, so it was inevitable that it was about to happen whether we asked for it or not. “Vacation” picks up where the previous “National Lampoon’s Vacation” movies have left off, picking up and continuing the story of one of America’s most hapless families, this time getting into the not-so-great family life of the next generation of Griswolds.

When “Vegas Vacation” ended 17 years ago in that dark theater you were sitting in, did you immediately wonder what would it be like if Clark’s son Rusty grew up, had a shitty family, and went on his own family vacation? No, you didn’t? Well here you go anyway.

Rusty started out as skinny Anthony Michael Hall in 1983 and is now middle-aged Ed Helms. His oldest son James is a passive dork and a bit of a sensitive weirdo and his youngest son Kevin is a little foul mouthed shit with serious issued with giving respect. And his wife Debbie (the always delightful Christina Applegate) is bored with the marriage to the point of apathy. To get his family out of this rut, Rusty unilaterally decided to amend their summer vacation plans to a road trip from Illinois to California to visit the theme park Wally World a.k.a. the same road trip his dad Clark took his family on all those years ago. And of course things go wrong every step of the way because that’s the point of the movie even existing, to watch a family go through shit, sometimes literally, to get to where they need to be.Continue Reading …

Review: ‘Southpaw’

Every couple of years we get a new boxing movie, usually a tale of a book-dumb but street-wise hustler who is either trying to claw his (or her) way out of poverty or already got out of poverty and claimed fortune and fame only to lose it all and have to work back up from the bottom again. Either it’s achieving the American Dream or seeking redemption for losing that Dream. Usually our lead pugilist has a family to provide for or a life partner to lean on, and usually these things are taken away in some capacity so our hero can, ahem, fight for them. Throw in a training montage or two, some punch-drunk pseudo philosophy, and a few gallons of red-dyed corn syrup, and you have yourself an honest-to-god boxing movie. And in 2015, that movie is called “Southpaw.”Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 7/27/15 – ‘Mission: Impossible’

The series of films based on the popular 1960’s television series “Mission: Impossible” might be best known for two things: first off, this was the series that got Tom Cruise doing his own stunts in action movies in earnest, as his performed most of his own stunts in this movie in order to save money and also because everyone recognized that the scenes just looked better with the actual main actor in there instead of shooting around stuntmen. And secondly, being produced by Cruise himself, this franchise of films has the distinction of being the series of movies with the best directors possible. John Woo, J.J. Abrams, Brad Bird, Tom Cruise always goes after the best to help make his movies a reality. And that started with the very first “Mission: Impossible,” which was directed by the one and only Brian De Palma.Continue Reading …

#133 – Dark Daze and Dark Knights

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In episode 133, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn review Southpaw, and also review Slow West and Lost River.

Also discussed in this episode:

Who was the Thing at the end of The Thing?

Movie adaptations of young adult dystopian future novels.

The Office of the Vamps.

Dark Was The Night.

An EMOJI movie.

A Nintendo-based theme park.Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 7/21/15 – ‘A Most Wanted Man’

In 2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman was the lead in what would turn out to be one of the last films of his frustratingly shortened career, and it also turned out to be one of his finer performances.

In “A Most Wanted Man,” we get a wonderfully disheveled and world weary Hoffman as a German intelligence officer tasked with making inroads in the battle against Islamic-based terrorism, and it is a pleasure to watch him navigate the tricky waters of international espionage and global terrorism.Continue Reading …