They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for March, 2018
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018)
I could write long essays about all of the things that are fundamentally wrong with God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness but the issue that would most likely rise to the top would be its bizarre outlook on violent crime. The fact that it gets legal procedures completely wrong is not surprising if you’re […]
Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One credits itself as being based on the 2011 book by Ernest Cline and, in fact, it lovingly retrofits the book’s overstuffed narrative to a visual style that is so overcrowded with nostalgic tentpoles that it asks – practically begs – that you see it twice to take it all in. Home video […]
The Pod Bay Doors Podcast, Episode #37: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
This episode, in our second Easter tribute, Jerry and Doug get serious and discuss Martin Scorsese’s highly controversial The Last Temptation of Christ, a movie that dares to explore the mystery of Jesus’ duality. Is it blasphemy? Is it devout? Is it both? We are going to open up the discussion and let you decide.
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
As I enter into my positive comments on Pacific Rim Uprising, I do so with the realization that I’m kind of a lone wolf here. Nearly all of my fellow critics seem to deride this sequel with a hate and vitriol that, given the fact that Guillermo del Toro isn’t at the helm, might have […]
The Pod Bay Doors Podcast, Episode #36: Life of Brian (1979)
This week, Doug and Jerry bless the cheese makers and celebrate Easter by talking about one of the paragons of Christian controversy (despite the fact that it really has nothing to do with Jesus). It’s . . . Monty Python’s Life of Brian!
Tomb Raider (2018)
The new reboot of Tomb Raider is 118 minutes of “Who Could Care?” Seriously, there’s nothing here. It gathers points for looking appropriately grungy and having stuff move around on the screen but ultimately it leaves you empty and dissatisfied. Here is a movie that is passionless, joyless, unoriginal and drags a perfectly good Oscar-winning […]
The Pod Bay Doors, Episode #35: Saturday Night Fever (1977) and unfortunately Staying Alive (1983)
Pull on your leisure suit and slap on that funky beat, we’re going to the disco! Just don’t touch the hair! This week, Jerry and Doug catch the Saturday Night Fever on the dance floor with the movie that made John Travolta a star. And then, we yuck it up over the chuck-it-up sequel Staying […]
