Original post can be found at Renegade Cinema Listen to my Back to the Movies Podcast Discussion Since the runaway success of Harry Potter, young adult novel adaptions have been the cash of the crop for Hollywood and few attempts have been as successful as Katniss Everdeen and The Hunger Games series. After two entries…
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Back To The Movies #3: A Spectre-cular Letdown
Original post can be found at Shout Engine DOWNLOAD HERE In this week’s Back to the Movies we review Daniel Craig’s fourth Bond outing Spectre featuring special guest host Alexandra Bohannon from our parent podcast, The Good Trash Genrecast. Spectre has the near impossible task of following up 2012’s spectacular outing Skyfall. With Sam Mendes back in…
Steve Jobs Presents the iSteve of Biopics
Original post can be found at Renegade Cinema Listen to my thoughts on the Back the Movies Podcast The 20th century saw the rise of many successful American icons, but none of them changed the world in quite the same way Steve Jobs did. The former Apple CEO invented the notion of a user friendly interface…
Crimson Peak Champions Gothic Romance
Original Post can be found at Renegade Cinema Listen to Caleb’s thoughts on the Good Trash Genrecast No matter how niche or ridiculous some of his film pitches, fan-boy favorite auteur Guillermo del Toro continues to make some of the most imaginative films in Hollywood. After venturing off into the likes of the superhero genre with Hellboy…
Everest Review: Go Everest Big or Go Home
Original Post can be found at Renegade Cinema Listen to my thoughts and brief analysis on the Good Trash Genrecast It seems like it’s been moment since Mother Nature was the big bad in pop culture. The 90s was littered with man vs nature stories with box office hits like Dante’s Peak, Twister, and Armageddon but…
Straight Outta Compton Review
Original Post can be found at Renegade Cinema It’s been more than twenty years since N.W.A. revolutionized music with the introduction of gangsta rap back in the late 80s and despite more than twenty years of progress, the band’s history remains as crucial as ever. These rappers are remembered for their thuggish tactics, relentlessly angry lyrics, and none too…
Southpaw Review: Not Exactly A One-Two Gut Punch
Original post can be found at Renegade Cinema It wasn’t long ago in the history of American cinema when high caliber boxing movies seemed to be a dime a dozen. Things have slowed down in recent decades and Hollywood just doesn’t seem to be as interested in retelling the tried and true story of Raging Bull or Rocky…
Ant-Man Review: The Bite Sized Superhero Who Could
We’re living in a post-Avengers sequel world and at this point it seems like the Marvel Machine can do no wrong. Like last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man takes a much needed break from the larger story in the Marvel universe in favor of a more personal story about redemption. Given the direction Marvel…
DCFF 2015: Anesthesia Delivers Hope Among the Hurting
Last weekend’s deadCenter Film Festival featured a number of upcoming high profile releases like The Overnight and The Stanford Prison Experiment, but none were as exclusive as native Oklahoman actor/writer/director Tim Blake Nelson‘s Anesthesia. The film has far only screened at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival before reaching the packed out theater in the Oklahoma Museum of Art…
dCFF 2015: The Overnight Delivers the Sleepover From Hell
The deadCenter Film Festival continues to deliver a wide variety of local and high profile projects, but few films playing this week have had talent as famous as The Overnight‘s Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Taylor Schilling(Orange is the New Black), Jason Schwartzman(Scott Pilgrim vs the World), and Judith Godrèche(Stoker). This is definitely an A-list team of comedic masterminds,…
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