This month is Action April at Catching Up On Cinema! Every week we’ll be taking a look a blockbuster action flick from the filmographies of some of the greatest stars in action cinema. To kick things off, Trevor and his brother Matt review George P. Cosmatos’ mid-80’s action classic, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985)!…
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Episode 57 – Flash Point (2007)
In this episode of the podcast, Trevor and Kyle review another Donnie Yen and Wilson collaboration, the cop drama/martial arts actioner, Flash Point (2007)! A prequel to last week’s SPL: Sha Po Lang (2005), the film is a briskly paced and largely succeeds in upping the ante in terms of spectacle in it’s fight choreography,…
Episode 41 – Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
This July is “Movies About Making Movies” month at Catching Up On Cinema! Kyle’s first pick for this month is the critically acclaimed documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)! Telling the tale of Francis Ford Coppola’s infamously troubled production of Apocalypse Now (1979), the documentary is often cited as an example of a…