It’s once again time for Catching Up On Cinema’s monthly, “Tales From the Shelf” episode! In this installment, Trevor and Brad from the Cinema Speak podcast are joined by Brian and Michele from the Movies For Life podcast to discuss some “Extreme Editions” from their movie collections! Brian’s Picks: King Kong (Special Edition DVD, 1933)…
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Episode 143 – The Square (2017)
linktr.ee/CatchingUpOnCinema “The Month of Moss” continues at Catching Up On Cinema, as Trevor conducts a solo review of Ruben Ostlund’s, The Square (2017)! Featuring Elisabeth Moss in a small but memorable supporting role, the film is a Swedish production headlined by fast rising Danish actor Claes Bang. A dense production, both in terms of run…
Catching Up On Cinema: Theatrical Edition – Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
In this very special, “theatrical” edition of Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor review Adam Wingard’s eagerly anticipated daikaiju blockbuster, Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)! The equivalent of The Avengers for Legendary studios’ Monsterverse franchise, the film is a briskly paced, crowd pleasing affair that wisely delivers no more or less than it’s almost comically…
Episode 124 – Shin Gojira (2016)
In this week’s installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s March of the Monsters event month, we review Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s modern monster classic, Shin Gojira (2016)! Produced only a few short years after the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, the film boldly reinstates Godzilla’s status as the living…
Episode 123 – King Kong (1976)
Catching Up On Cinema’s March of the Monsters event month continues with a review of John Guillermin’s King Kong (1976)! The brainchild of prolific Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, the film is a tepid remake of the 1933 original, swapping stop-motion for suitmation, and the premise of a film project gone wrong to an…
Episode 122 – King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
March of the Monsters continues at Catching Up On Cinema with a review of the original Japanese cut of Ishiro Honda’s, King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)! The first Godzilla film to be shot in color, as well as the first to debut many of composer Akira Ifukube’s most iconic theme musics for the Big G,…
Episode 121 – Gojira (1954)
March of the Monsters month at Catching Up On Cinema continues with a review of Ishiro Honda’s groundbreaking daikaiju masterpiece, Gojira (1954)! A grim, allegorical tale of the horrors of nuclear weapons from a uniquely Japanese perspective, the film is often mistakenly thought of as just another dime a dozen atomic age B-movie, largely due…
Episode 120 – King Kong (1933)
This March is “March of the Monsters” month at Catching Up On Cinema! In celebration of the imminent release of Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Trevor and Kyle will be reviewing the titular monster’s films all month long. To start things off, the boys sit down to review the earliest film in the chronology of both…
Catching Up On Cinema: Theatrical Edition – Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
*WARNING!* Total spoilers for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! *WARNING!* In this special Theatrical Edition of Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor head out to the theater to check out the 3rd entry in Legendary’s “Monsterverse” franchise, Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)! Featuring the heaviest of heavy hitters in the long…