Movie Madness

Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski return to catch you up on the world of physical media. This week you can get two very acclaimed films from just last year on behalf of Criterion. There’s a WWI thriller from John Ford and a story from the same era about a guy who really, really likes buildings. A Re-Animator sequel gets an upgrade as does a bizarre 3-D sci-fi film from the ‘60s and an even weirder sci-fi musical with Olivia Newton John. They got plenty of Italian crime films as well as one of Walter Hill’s most overlooked films. Finally, they take another look at the controversy over Neil Jordan’s big Anne Rice adaptation and how the film holds up.

3:22 - Criterion (The Secret Agent (2025) (4K), Nouvelle Vague (4K))

14:53 - Warner Archive (Skyscraper Souls, The Lost Patrol, Bundle of Joy)

35:41 - Deaf Crocodile (Toomorrow)

43:42 - Ad Break

45:42 - Kino (The Bubble 3D, Italio Crime Collection 4K, Johnny Handsome 4K, Careful, Bulletproof 4K)

1:35:21 - Ad Break

1:37:21 - Ignite Films (Bride of Re-Animator 4K)

1:52:58 - Warner Bros. (Interview with the Vampire (4K))

2:12:30 - New TV on Blu-ray (Landman (Season Two), Outlander (The Complete Series))

2:13:01 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Toy Story 5 (4K), Evil Dead Burn (4K), I Love Boosters (4K), Scary Movie (2026), Faces of Death (2026), Young Washington, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, Girls Like Girls)

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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.

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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The fall festival season is in full bloom and Erik Childress will be covering the Toronto International Film Festival for his 23rd year. Before he arrives though, there are ten films he wants to put on your radar if you are attending and can fit into your schedule. Otherwise, remember them in the future for when they hopefully find distribution. They include music documentaries of well-known singers and a pair hoping to find greater success. There are stories about masculinity and women fighting back against oppression and much worse. A harrowing new horror film from the director of Train to Busan but also a delightful summer hang comedy and another hysterical one with Christopher Walken as a mortician. And that’s just the beginning.

4:41 - Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been

9:57 - Pretenders

12:50 - Bleeding Hearts

14:56 - Sunburn

17:06 - Head to Head

19:24 - Paradise Lost

21:49 - Strong Son

24:23 - I Am Mario

26:09 - Phoolan

28:45 - Back in Black

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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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Just because Erik Childress is headed to the Toronto Film Festival doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have you covered in the physical media department while he’s gone. Peter Sobczynski and him go over two weeks worth of releases including Sidney Lumet’s incredible debut and Jon Favreau’s as well. There is also Mike Nichols’ final film as well as one of the great (if not greatest) film noirs of all-time. There are incredible documentaries ranging from the horrors of the Holocaust to the horrors of the highway. Warner Bros is doing Looney Tunes right for a change while Arrow does right by their star-studded Robert Towne noir. Finally, the newly formed Toy Robot Video does right by all the He-Man fans of the ‘80s who still carry a torch for the Cannon Films production of their beloved action figures.

3:19 - Criterion (12 Angry Men (1957) (4K), Shoah (4K))

22:46 - Kino (Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films)

37:00 - Warner Archive (Looney Tunes Collector's Vault: Volume 3, Out of the Past 4K)

54:32 - Ad Break

56:32 - Severin (Danza Macabra Vol. 5)

1:06:47 - Lionsgate (Made 4K, Sorority Row 4K)

1:23:16 - Shout Factory (Charlie Wilson's War (4K))

1:36:29 - Ad Break

1:38:29 - Toy Robot Video (Masters of the Universe (1987) (4K))

1:58:55 - Arrow (Tequila Sunrise (4K))

2:14:58 – New TV on Blu-ray (Star Trek—The Original Series 60th Anniversary, Shaun the Sheep (Season Seven), Tulsa King (Season Three), Scooby-Doo and Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Series, Dark Shadows (Volume One))

2:15:58 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Supergirl (2026) (4K), Minions & Monsters (4K), Passenger, Stop! That! Train!, Maddie's Secret, Leviticus)

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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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A week before Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy take some festival trips, they have nine reviews for you over Labor Day weekend. Ten, in fact, is they catch up on one of the 193 shark movies to come out this year (The Devil’s Mouth). Then they get to this week with a music concert (Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour - Live From Paris) and another songwriter creating a new album in the face of tremendous sadness (Sara Bareilles: Good Grief). You may have that Charlie Brown reaction for a murder mystery that has clearly seen other serial killer movies but not learned much from them (The Girl in the River). There’s a story about high school journalism from one of the best documentarians working today (Teenage Wasteland). People are climbing to new heights and putting themselves in danger once again (Fall 2: Deadpoint) while Gal Gadot is forced to jog to save her kid (The Runner). Adria Arjona has to fend off super soldiers in Adam Wingard’s latest (Onslaught). Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh are unlikely Cold War allies in an action comedy from the makers of Game Night (Mayday). Finally, Mark Wahlberg beats the hell out of racism for the FBI (By Any Means).

9:56 - Review Catch Up (The Devil’s Mouth)

22:06 - Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour - Live From Paris

31:05 - The Girl in the River

37:51 - Sara Bareilles: Good Grief

45:23 - Ad Break (00:43:53.31)

47:23 - Teenage Wasteland

59:08 - Fall 2: Deadpoint

1:08:38 - The Runner

1:18:25 - Ad Break (01:14:55.17)

1:20:25 - Onslaught

1:33:35 - Mayday

1:44:27 - By Any Means

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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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Some new titles in physical media this week and a few to catch up with from last week, Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski have you covered. They include a couple of monumental documentaries from Barbara Kopple and the history of Ozploitation is lovingly told in its own doc. Val Kilmer dons the mask(s) of a classic character while Jude Law and Ed Harris snipe at one another. Danny Boyle’s original rage-infested tale gets an upgrade as does a film once torn apart by the Weinsteins. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are sister witches, there’s an early appearance by Rachel Ward and poor Don Johnson has to choose between Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Connelly. Poor guy.

2:49 - Criterion (Harlan County USA (4K), American Dream)

16:07 - Sony (28 Days Later (4K Steelbook))

26:57 - Ad Break

28:57 - Vinegar Syndrome (Night School 4K, Lady in White 4K, Not Quite Hollywood)

52:29 - Cinematographe (54 4K)

1:06:37 - Ad Break

1:08:37 - Paramount (The Saint (4K), Enemy at the Gates (4K Steelbook))

1:22:49 - WB (Practical Magic (4K))

1:30:45 - Radiance (The Hot Spot 4K)

1:51:54 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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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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