*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 Indiana Jones Masterclass – Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
linktr.ee/CatchingUpOnCinema This month is “Masterclass Month” at Catching Up On Cinema!All through September, we’ll be doing a deep dive on the Indiana Jones film series! Created by George Lucas, directed by Steven Spielberg, scored by John Williams, and starring the inimitable Harrison Ford, the films (with the exception of the 4th entry in the series)…

The Batman Masterclass – The Zack Snyder Era
In the final installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s Batman Masterclass, Trevor reviews the Zack Snyder Era of the Bat saga! The most recent chapter of Batman’s silver screen exploits, as well as the first that has presented the character as a member of the Justice League and element of greater DC universe, this era…

The Batman Masterclass – The Christopher Nolan Era, Part Two
In this installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s Batman Masterclass, we review the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Featuring the same cast and crew as the first two films in the series, the final chapter would see Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway and Marion Cotillard join the main…

The Batman Masterclass – The Christopher Nolan Era, Part One
In this week’s installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s Batman Masterclass, we review the Christopher Nolan era of the franchise! With Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin (1997) representing a critical low point for the series (and the superhero film genre in general), any potential for Schumacher having a third at-bat with the franchise was tossed…

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…

The Batman Masterclass – The Tim Burton Era
It’s September, so it must be Masterclass Month at Catching Up On Cinema! This month we’ll be taking a deep dive into the entirety of the live-action Batman film series, one era at a time. In the first installment of this Masterclass, we review the Tim Burton era of the franchise, consisting of the groundbreaking…

The Alien Masterclass – Part 1: Alien (1979)
In celebration of Catching Up On Cinema’s 1st year anniversary of programming, Kyle and Trevor take it upon themselves to revisit the show format that kicked off the entire series: The Masterclass! Seeing as the Predator franchise served as the inaugural Masterclass episode, it only seems fitting that we follow things up with a deep…