On this episode of The Binge Movie Podcast, we’ve got just one movie on our minds. PICK OF THE WEEK! Ghostbusters | cast: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey | writers: Katie Dippold, Paul Feig… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about people clashing with institutions. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (5:25—14:42) | cast: Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Adam Devine, Aubrey Plaza, Stephen Root, Sugar Lyn Beard, Kumail… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review four new releases about unlikely friendships and, uh…travel? The BFG (6:31—20:46) | cast: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall | screenplay: Melissa Mathison | director: Steven Spielberg… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about rebels who challenge fearsome, powerful institutions. The Neon Demon (4:12—19:39) | cast: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman, Christina Hendricks | writers:… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we take a break from summer blockbusters to focus on three new indies about vulnerable individuals operating within oppressive patriarchal systems, and also ONE OF THEM HAS A BONER IN IT. JASON’S PICK:… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about complicated, difficult men—the Mad Hatter, Anthony Weiner, and Erik “Magneto” Lehnsherr—and the coordinated team efforts required to mollify and contain them. Alice Through the Looking Glass (8:53—25:19)… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review four new releases about unwanted intruders and defending one’s way of life. PICK OF THE WEEK | The Lobster (6:33—26:51) | cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly, Ben Whishaw,… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review two new releases about idealized identities and interpersonal conflict. PICK OF THE WEEK | Captain America: Civil War (7:46—27:28) | cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy… Continue Reading
This week on a very special episode of The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about…deteriorating conditions? I don’t know, this is a hard one. In addition to a fevered circlejerk about Beyoncé‘s Lemonade visual album, Rebecca and I also switch… Continue Reading
There are surface aspects of writer/director Lorene Scafaria‘s superb new comedy The Meddler that almost dare you to underestimate it. The name, for one, is admittedly adorable. Then you watch the trailer and see what appears to be a sitcom-ready scenario: Lori… Continue Reading
