This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss the perils of adaptation without a clear vision with 2005’s AEON FLUX. On paper AEON FLUX looks like it had a chance. Charlize Theron had recently won an Oscar for MONSTER. Frances McDormand was at the height of her popularity. Johnny Lee Miller had made a bit of […]
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This spooky month, Nat, Cody, and Robert dust off their singing voices for Frank Oz’s adaptation of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Based on writer Howard Ashman’s and composer Alan Menken’s off-broadway musical (itself adapted from Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith’s 1960 cult flick THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS), LITTLE SHOP tells the story of perennial
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Nat, Cody, and Robert are joined by Angela Fabbrini to take a look at four movies from the 80s that are both interesting to discuss and highlight Disney’s identity crisis in the post-Walt era with THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, THE BLACK CAULDRON, and RETURN TO OZ. First up is
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Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by Paul Hermann of The Comic Binge to explore grief, memory, family, and identity in Kogonada’s AFTER YANG. Before A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY and after COLUMBUS, Kogonada directed a science fiction film essentially about the inner life of an artificial being, among other things. Following the breakdown of
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Nat, Cody, and Robert take a trip to the sun and perhaps touch the face of God with Danny Boyle’s SUNSHINE. Following up on the success of 28 DAYS LATER, with the low budget MILLIONS in between, Alex Garland and Danny Boyle reteamed for a much more ambitious science fiction film in SUNSHINE. This one
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Robert, Nat, and Cody take time off from our summer to bring you a special bonus episode. 50 years ago, JAWS swam into theaters and changed Hollywood. With that in mind, what better time to look at the ups and downs of the film and franchise that stated the summer movie season. Just to make
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