Movie Madness

Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski take you through another week of physical media that includes three bangers from Criterion including Paul Newman at his baddest, early Scorsese and the Neil Jordan twist that rocked the world. There are gunslingers and hit men, William Wyler and Marlene Dietrich and one of the great modern sitcoms in a new set. Plus it is the 40th anniversary of one of the most infamous flops of the 1980s. Time for a reappraisal or is it still as baffling as ever?
2:43 - Criterion (Hud 4K, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (4K), The Crying Game (4K))
42:27 - Kino (The Love Trap, La Scoumoune (aka Hit Man) (1972))
53:23 - Arrow (Red Sun (4K))
1:05:43 - Shout (Full Contact 4K)
1:12:47 - Universal (The Song of Songs, Howard the Duck (4K Steelbook))
1:52:11 - New TV on Blu-ray (The Office (Superfan Complete Series - Superfan Extended Episodes))
1:59:50 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Obsession (2026) (4K), Michael (2026) (4K), Normal (4K), Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (4K), Deep Water (2026), The Christophers, Pillion, Animal Farm (2025))
2:11:03 - 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.
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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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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have six movie reviews for you this week. They include documentaries about a Pulitizer-winning poet (Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World) an an eager filmmaker hired to create shlock (Mockbuster). There’s a family on the run from an alien presence (The Outer Threat) while a teenage girl goes searching for info about her parents (Romeria). A retirement community deals with scam calls and an odd patient (Night Nurse). Zoey Deutsch looks to get even with her cheating fiancé (Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass). The Deadites are back and nastier than ever (Evil Dead Burn). Finally, another live-action Disney remake arrives just ten years after the original. Did we need it? (Moana).
0:52 - Review Catch-Up
3:25 - Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
9:45 - Mockbuster
17:23 - The Outer Threat
24:07 - Romeria
30:47 - Night Nurse
38:08 - Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
53:00 - Moana
1:06:48 - Evil Dead Burn
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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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Despite the news that Sony is no longer producing physical discs for its Playstation consoles, Blu-rays are not going anywhere. That despite this being one of the smallest tallies of titles that Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski have ever covered. (Cause we don’t like to repeat ourselves.) That being said you have David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated biopic and Tim Burton adapting a wacky soap opera. Besides the Criterion sale is on at Barnes & Noble so it’s a good week for your budget.
2:44 - Criterion (The Elephant Man (4K))
22:37 - Shout (Dark Shadows (4K Steelbook))
35:02 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (The Drama (4K), All You Need Is Kill, Dead Man’s Wire, Fuze, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror)
45:29 - New Blu-ray Announcements
CLICK ON THE FILMS TO RENT OR PURCHASE AND HELP OUT THE MOVIE MADNESS PODCAST OR BUY FROM MOVIEZYNG
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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Eight movies are on tap for the weekend that America celebrates its 250th birthday. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy check out Angel Studios’ attempt at part of that history (Young Washington). There are also documentaries about a legendary music producer (Peter Asher: Everywhere Man) and a public access legend in her own right (Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story). Carla Gugino tries to protect a family member from a demon (Lockbox) and Millie Bobbie Brown is back solving a mystery in Malta (Enola Holmes 3). John Early attempts to satirize message movies in earnest by playing a woman (Maddie’s Secret). Those gibberish-speaking assistants to evildoers take a trip through Hollywood history (Minions & Monsters). Finally, Olivia Wilde directs and stars with Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz in a comedy worth your RSVP (The Invite).
1:01 - Young Washington
19:20 - Peter Asher: Everywhere Man
30:25 - Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story
41:45 - Lockbox
54:15 - Enola Holmes 3
1:04:11 - Maddie’s Secret
1:16:14 - Minions & Monsters
1:29:33 - The Invite
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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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Given the big collection announced this week for October, Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski got you covered with a bunch of collections this week as well on physical media. They include the Hammer works of Jimmy Sangster and French filmmaker Lucie Hadzihaliovic. Last year’s Jafar Panahi gets the Criterion treatment. A pre-code Joan Crawford film held up by the courts is finally available in a new restoration. The teens are not alright in films by Frank Perry and Roger Vadim, nor are the kids of Robin Hardy. You can lighten things up by watching Tom Hanks’ house demolish around him. Then you can go back for Arrow’s releases of the original Mortal Kombat films and six of Jackie Chan’s joyful action films.
3:00 - Criterion (It Was Just an Accident (4K))
9:48 - Warner Archive (Letty Lynton, Last Summer (1969), Start the Revolution Without Me, Pretty Maids All in a Row)
45:30 - Severin (Sangster Directs Hammer (4K), Children of the Wicker Man, World of Lucie Hadzihaliovic)
1:13:49 – Shout Factory (The Money Pit (4K))
1:23:44 - Alliance (You Light Up My Life, Fast Forward, White Palace)
1:51:32 - Arrow (Mortal Kombat Kollection (4K), Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits! (4K))
2:19:51 - New TV & Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Primal: The Complete Third Season, Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, The Idiot Box, Crime 101 (4K), They Will Kill You, The Mastermind, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
2:22:24 - New Blu-ray Announcements
CLICK ON THE FILMS TO RENT OR PURCHASE AND HELP OUT THE MOVIE MADNESS PODCAST OR BUY FROM MOVIEZYNG
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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