Movie Madness

It is a busy, wild week at the movies as Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy review 11 of the best and worst of them in quite the divide in the lineup. They replay their thoughts on a recovery drama from Sundance (Union County). A kidnapped woman is told she is infected with something deadly (Hellcat). Kids took a road trip believing their band is going to open for Green Day (Nimrods) while Kristen Stewart & Alia Shawkat are in a stoner comedy (The Wrong Girls). Willem Dafoe is a Greek billionaire with family issues (The Birthday Party) plus Jeff Daniels & Jared Harris have their own issues as Reagan and Gorbachev (The Brink of War). Sunny Sandler handles the pressure of a school musical and an ill mother (Don’t Say Good Luck) while Jane Schoenbrun humorously connects sex and violence through reality and fantasy (Teenage Sex and Death At Camp Miasma). Matt Johnson directs a coming-of-age version of Anthony Bourdain (Tony) and Matthew McConaughey is a beekeeper reconnecting with his foster child in the unique new film from the director of The Vast of Night (The Rivals of Amziah King). Finally, Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor’s neighborhood is connected to prehistoric times in the Amblin-coded tribute from the director of It Follows (The End of Oak Street).

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3:17 - Review Catch Up

15:49 - Union County

24:21 - Hellcat

33:03 – Ad Break (00:31:33.22)

35:03 - Nimrods

49:38 - The Birthday Party

55:30 - The Wrong Girls

1:08:32 - Ad Break (01:05:02.55)

1:10:32 - Don't Say Good Luck

1:28:04 - Teenage Sex and Death At Camp Miasma

1:40:38 - The Brink of War

1:56:17 - Ad Break (01:50:47.77)

1:58:17 - Tony

2:11:17 - The Rivals of Amziah King

2:30:52 - The End of Oak Street

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Physical media certainly has a theme this week with a number of interesting couplings and the music they make between them. Speaking of interesting couplings, Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski are your guide through it all. They include a little Martin & Lewis, Rock Hudson & Claudia Cardinale and even Lana Turner & Ricardo Montalban. ¿Quién Es Más Macho? There is J-horror and modern horror, a less-anointed Scorsese film plus Catherine Deneuve & Alain Delon. Peter makes the case for a Tim Burton film celebrating its 30th Anniversary as one of his best and Erik recounts the personal connection to a still underseen film from the director of Once.

2:47 - Kino (Money From Home 3-D, Manon 70, Le Choc)

19:36 - Universal (Portrait in Black, Madame X, Blindfold)

36:45 – Ad Break

38:45 - MVD (New York, New York )

56:14 - Lionsgate (Sing Street 4K)

1:10:19 - Ad Break

1:12:19 - Arrow (Ju-on: The Grudge (4K))

1:18:37 Disney (Barbarian (4K))

1:25:21 - Warner Bros. (Mars Attacks! (4K))

1:46:18 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Project Hail Mary (4K), Hokum (4K), Tuner, One Spoon of Chocolate, EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert (4K))

1:50:21 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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After a week off the Friday reviews are back in what looks to be a jam-packed August. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy do a little catch-up to get Steve’s thoughts on the new Spider-Man and Erik’s on the dumped M3GAN universe film (Soulm8te). They have a pair of documentaries to talk about including the latest from the great Penny Lane about an owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo (Wild Inside) and the Girl Scouts annual sale through the eyes of the labor force (Cookie Queens). There is a comedy about a Jewish summer camp (The Floaters). Mysteries are abound when a lord takes a stand against a warlord in 16th century Japan (The Samurai and the Prisoner) and a strange storm keeps a family from leaving their house (The Last House). Eli Roth is back with some sinister child mayhem (Ice Cream Man) as are the Broken Lizard gang with the characters that put them on the map (Super Troopers 3). Finally, can you make a rom-com set on the evening when pre-marital sex is legal (One Night Only)? The duo have questions.

6:30 - Review Catch-Up

12:29 - Soulm8te

20:30 - Wild Inside

27:30 - Cookie Queens

38:09 - Ad Break

40:09 - The Samurai and the Prisoner

51:44 - The Floaters

1:01:50 - The Last House

1:17:50 - Ad Break

1:19:50 - Ice Cream Man

1:31:06 - Super Troopers 3

1:40:51 - One Night Only

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Erik’s Weekly Box Office Column – At Rotten Tomatoes

Critics’ Classics Series – At Elk Grove Cinema in Elk Grove Village, IL

Chicago Screening Schedule - All the films coming to theaters and streaming

Physical Media Schedule - Click & Buy upcoming titles for your library.

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Erik’s Linktree - Where you can follow Erik and his work anywhere and everywhere.

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The beginning of each month always seems to be slow for physical media but Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski have some choice titles for you, especially if you ever wanted to see James Cagney and Mickey Rooney do Shakespeare. A couple hit comedies from Universal get a 4K upgrade as does one of Christopher Nolan’s favorite movies. You can also see the Todd Haynes film that helped put Julianne Moore on the map and one of the great films about defending the First Amendment, as timely today as it was 30 years ago about a time a couple decades before then.

4:20 - Criterion (Safe 4K)

13:17 - Warner Archive (A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Presenting Lily Mars, Macao)

32:59 - Universal (American Pie 2 (4K), Little Fockers (4K))

47:06 - Sony (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (4K))

56:58 - Arrow (The People vs. Larry Flynt (4K))

1:15:29 - New Theatrical Title on Blu-ray (Exit 8)

1:16:37 - New Blu-ray Announcements

Be sure to check out

Erik’s Weekly Box Office Column – At Rotten Tomatoes

Critics’ Classics Series – At Elk Grove Cinema in Elk Grove Village, IL

Chicago Screening Schedule - All the films coming to theaters and streaming

Physical Media Schedule - Click & Buy upcoming titles for your library.

(Direct purchases help the Movie Madness podcast with a few pennies.)

Erik’s Linktree - Where you can follow Erik and his work anywhere and everywhere.

The Movie Madness Podcast has been recognized by Million Podcasts as one of the Top 100 Best Movie Review Podcasts as well as in the Top 60 Film Festival Podcasts and Top 100 Cinephile Podcasts. MillionPodcasts is an intelligently curated, all-in-one podcast database for discovering and contacting podcast hosts and producers in your niche perfect for PR pitches and collaborations.

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Be sure to check out

Erik’s Weekly Box Office Column – At Rotten Tomatoes

Critics’ Classics Series – At Elk Grove Cinema in Elk Grove Village, IL

Chicago Screening Schedule - All the films coming to theaters and streaming

Physical Media Schedule - Click & Buy upcoming titles for your library.

(Direct purchases help the Movie Madness podcast with a few pennies.)

Erik’s Linktree - Where you can follow Erik and his work anywhere and everywhere.

The Movie Madness Podcast has been recognized by Million Podcasts as one of the Top 100 Best Movie Review Podcasts as well as in the Top 60 Film Festival Podcasts and Top 100 Cinephile Podcasts. MillionPodcasts is an intelligently curated, all-in-one podcast database for discovering and contacting podcast hosts and producers in your niche perfect for PR pitches and collaborations.

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