*WARNING!* FULL THIS EPISODE CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS FOR THE BATMAN! *WARNING!* This May is “Masterclass Revisited” month at Catching Up On Cinema! All month long, we’ll be revisiting the subjects of Masterclass months we’ve done over the years to review films that may have slipped through the cracks. This week, we’re once again hitting the…
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The Batman Masterclass – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
This May is “Masterclass Revisited” month at Catching Up On Cinema! All month long, we’ll be revisiting the subjects of Masterclass months we’ve done over the years to review films that may have slipped through the cracks. First up this month is another tour of Gotham City, as we sit down to review Bruce Timm…
The Batman Masterclass – The Joel Schumacher Era
In this week’s installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s Batman Masterclass, we review the Joel Schumacher era of the franchise! In the wake of thee critical and public dissatisfaction with unsettling imagery and tone of Tim Burton’s Batman Returns (1992), Warner Bros took steps to ensure that the mid-90’s represent a kinder, gentler era in…
Episode 72 – St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)
In the last episode of Catching Up On Cinema’s “Guilty Pleasures” month, Kyle and Trevor take a deep breath and dive headfirst into Joel Schumacher’s vapid and intensely wrongheaded coming-of-age drama, St. Elmo’s Fire (1985)! Featuring roughly 1/3rd of the brat pack, as well as a very young, saxophone toting Rob Lowe, the film is…
Episode 20 – 8MM (1999)
CATCHING UP ON CAGE continues as Kyle makes his first selection of the month, Joel Schumacher’s misguided comeback film, 8MM (1999)! Peter Stormare, James Gandolfini and Anthony Heald competing to see who can be the greasiest, sleaziest bad guy in a movie full of greasy sleazy bad guys! George Costanza as the gimp masked killer!…