Movie Madness

Disney & 20th Century Studios did not want them to see Psycho Killer this week, but Erik Childress & Steve Prokopy still have six films to talk about. Steve delves into Baz Luhrmann’s lost footage film (EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert). A woman seeks to constantly avenge her daughter (Redux Redux), two Game of Thrones stars reunite for some folk horror (The Dreadful) and would you believe there’s another zombie outbreak (This Is Not A Test). Harry Melling enters into a domme relationship with Alexander Skarsgard (Pillion) while Glen Powell tries to eliminate a family tree in order to receive his inheritance (How To Make a Killing).
1:16 - EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
9:56 - Redux Redux
19:45 - The Dreadful
29:43 - This Is Not A Test
40:27 - Pillion
52:54 - How To Make a Killing
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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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A trend certainly develops along this week’s path of physical media with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski. It is a week that offers musicals from Ernst Lubitsch, a double (or, actually, triple) dose of Van Damme and one of the craziest sci-fi horror films you will ever see. But it is also a week about truth and liberties. They go from the music side of the aisle in biopics about Benny Goodman and Jim Morrison. Diane Keaton takes you into the various depictions and mysteries of the afterlife. There is also another Tale of the Christ setting the record for the most Oscars for over 40 years as well as Ron Howard’s Oscar-winning Best Picture. Finally there is the journalism of today with Jake Gyllenhaal and perhaps the greatest film about the profession celebrating its 50th anniversary.
1:18 - Criterion (Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals, Cloud (4K))
10:57 - WB (Ben-Hur (4K), All the President’s Men (4K))
30:12 - Shout (Nightcrawler (4K))
36:47 - Universal (A Beautiful Mind (4K), The Benny Goodman Story)
50:06 - Lionsgate (The Doors 4K)
1:01:02 - Arrow (The Visitor (1979) (4K))
1:10:55 - MVD (Double Impact (4K), Knock Off (4K))
1:24:15 - Lightyear (Heaven (1987))
1:32:19 - New TV & Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray (Dexter: Resurrection (Season One), Predator: Badlands (4K), Sisu: Road to Revenge (4K), Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (4K), Rental Family, Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 (4K), Deathstalker (2025), Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) (4K), Song Sung Blue, Regretting You, The Carpenter’s Son)
1:37:37 - 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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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back on the review beat with eight new titles this week. They include another video game adaptation (The Mortuary Assistant), Juliette Lewis becomes a chair (By Design) while an actual goat tries to become one (GOAT). The world is in trouble with green alien fungus (Cold Storage) as well as AI in Gore Verbinski’s first film in nine years (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die). Chris Hemsworth is feeling the heat as a thief from Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry (Crime 101). The director of Blackberry returns what possibly could be the funniest film of 2026 (Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie) while Emerald Fennell returns with what definitely won’t be. Depending on your definition of “funny.” (“Wuthering Heights”)
1:15 - By Design
8:35 - The Mortuary Assistant
15:22 - GOAT
21:39 - Cold Storage
32:48 - Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
45:04 - Crime 101
1:00:57 - Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie
1:13:43 - “Wuthering Heights”
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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.
(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 lot of rescheduling leaves not a lot to talk about this week in physical media but Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski still power through. They include one of the most inventive (and expensive) comedies of all-time, a Johnnie To action film, Viggo Mortensen in one of his first starring roles. Finally, you have the cable staple that was the first pairing of Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner that in more ways than one led to the title of this week’s episode.
3:10 - Criterion (Playtime (4K))
17:06 - Alliance (Hanky Panky)
30:10 - Shout (The Big Heat (1988) (4K))
34:17 - Arrow (American Yakuza)
44:27 – New Theatrical Title On Blu-ray (Nuremberg)
45:59 - 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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Sundance is leaving Park City and after attending since 2003, Erik Childress looks ahead to the festival’s move to Boulder in 2027. But before then its; one last dance in Utah as Steve Prokopy and him countdown over 30 films they saw at the festival. New films from Olivia Wilde, Gregg Araki and Macon Blair. Ethan Hawke continues his roll with one of the best and biggest films while John Turturro gets one of the great roles of his career. Some of the best documentaries about Salman Rushdie, Marianne Faithfull, rescues, justice and girl scout cookies plus the first from John Wilson. All this and more in their wrap-up of this year’s festival.
4:10 – When a Witness Recants
9:32 – The Weight
16:41 – The Only Living Pickpocket In New York
23:54 – The Invite
28:32 – I Want Your Sex
35:21 – Broken English
40:21 – Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
45:32 – Everybody to Kenmure Street
51:21 – The Shitheads
56:41 – Josephine
1:05:52 – The History of Concrete
1:11:34 – Cookie Queens
1:14:32 – Union County
1:19:33 – Bedford Park
1:22:44 – Wicker
1:27:49 – The Incomer
1:32:55 – Big Girls Don’t Cry
1:37:09 - Hanging By A Wire
1:41:03 - More Titles From Steve & Erik (Paralyzed By Hope: The Maria Bamford Story, Buddy, Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, Antiheroine, Frank & Louis, How To Divorce During the War, Jane Elliott Against the World, The Musical, Run Amok, Once Upon a Time In Harlem, Time and Water, If I Go Will You Miss Me, The Gallerist, Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty, The Moment, Queen of Chess)
1:52:09 – Thoughts on 2027
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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.


This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit erikthemovieman.substack.com