In this week’s installment of Catching Up On Cinema’s “Drinking Movies Month” event, Kyle and Trevor review Joe Wright’s biopic, Darkest Hour (2017). Starring Gary Oldman in an Academy Award winning performance as Winston Churchill during the early days of his time as Prime Minister of the UK, the film is a stylish and dazzling…
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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 17 – Ip Man (2008)
In this installment of Catching Up On Cinema, Trevor has Kyle catch up on the modern Hong Kong martial arts classic, Ip Man (2008)! Directed by Wilson Yip, and starring the inimitable Donnie Yen (with fight choreography by the legendary Sammo Hung) the film is a personal favorite of Trevor’s. Full disclosure, this episode is…