This February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month! All month long we’ll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes. First up is a Kyle pick in the form of Michael Haneke’s, Funny Games (1997)! An Austrian film that was remade and shot in English by director Haneke in…
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Episode 144 – Her Smell (2018)
linktr.ee/CatchingUpOnCinema “The Month of Moss” continues at Catching Up On Cinema, as Trevor and Kyle review Alex Ross Perry’s, Her Smell (2018)! Starring Elisabeth Moss as the self-destructive front woman of a 90’s femme punk band, the film is a scummy and delirious descent into and out of the depths of madness. Segmented into 5…
Episode 136 – Trainspotting (1996)
linktr.ee/CatchingUpOnCinema In this installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s “Drinking Movie Month,” Kyle introduces Trevor to Danny Boyle’s, Trainspotting (1996)! Based on a novel by Irvine Welsh, the film is a charismatic and high energy tale about a gang of troubled Scottish youths and their misadventures in navigating drug abuse in the modern world. Headlined…
Episode 80 – Doomsday (2008)
Catching Up On Cinema continues to “Stay the F@ck Inside”, as Kyle and Trevor sit down for a review of Neil Marshall’s gory post-apocalyptic action flick, Doomsday (2008)! Starring Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, and Malcolm MacDowell, the film is essentially “Mad Max in Scotland”… with knights. Heavily inspired by classic films such as Escape from…
Episode 64 – Green Room (2015)
This January at Catching Up On Cinema is “F*cked Up Sh!t” Month! Being as this is a show about expanding our horizons and pushing boundaries, we felt it would be appropriate to use this month to take a deep dive into the world of twisted and/or brutal cinema, AKA “F*cked Up Sh!t”. Our first F*cked…
Episode 33 – SLC Punk (1998)
In this episode, Kyle introduces Trevor to James Merendino’s punk rock drama, SLC Punk! (1998) Starring the largely underappreciated Matthew Lillard, the film explores the journey into adulthood of a young wannabe punk rocker in mid-80’s Salt Lake City, Utah. Michael A. Goorjian as “Heroin” Bob, who at no point in the film ever uses…