Film at 11 Podcast | One-Year Retrospective
With 52 weekly episodes now completed, the Film at 11 podcast has reached its milestone one-year anniversary. Rather than review another movie this week, we’ve decided to take a look back at the past year, decide which films were our favorites, which were our least favorites, and maybe consider whether any of our initial ratings…
Do We Have Any Real Gunmen in This Room? | The Quick and the Dead (1995) 4K Ultra HD
With the huge success of Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven, Westerns made a big comeback on cinema screens in the early 1990s. Not all of them were awards bait, however. The likes of Tombstone or Young Guns II were just rowdy fun, while director Sam Raimi (creator of the Evil Dead franchise) dabbled with a…
Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 52 | Inception (2010)
One of my intentions in doing the Film at 11 podcast is to challenge my children by making them watch movies that may be a little outside their comfort zones. For my son Thomas, that means I subjected him to Christopher Nolan’s 2010 mind-bender Inception this week. Although I knew Thomas would enjoy the action…
Psycho Therapy | Raising Cain (1992) Blu-ray
Still smarting from the critical lashing he took for his troubled 1990 adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities, director Brian De Palma retreated to what he felt was safer ground, on both figurative and literal levels. For his next outing, Raising Cain would be a return to the type of Hitchcock-flavored suspense thriller that…
Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 51 | Happy Gilmore (1996)
As a parent, it hasn’t completely escaped my notice that I may have used the Film at 11 podcast to watch goofier and… how do I put this?… less challenging movies with my son Thomas, while I often save the somewhat weightier fare for Joseph. Not always, but perhaps more than I should. I realize…
There’s Nothin’ Wrong with Goin’ Nowhere, Baby | Streets of Fire (1984) 4K Ultra HD
A movie that could only possibly have been created at the specific moment it was made, yet also simultaneously ahead of its time, Streets of Fire perplexed both critics and audiences during the summer of 1984, but has endured as a delightful cult property that, quite honestly, only gets better with age. I’ve watched the…
Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 50 | Gravity (2013)
As the Film at 11 podcast reaches its milestone fiftieth episode, I take my son Thomas on a journey up to the heavens and back down to Earth again with Alfonso Cuarón’s blockbuster smash Gravity. He liked it, but then, this is a pretty difficult movie to dislike. From its nerve-wracking suspense to its still…
Wouldn’t You Like to Do a Little Detecting Once in a While, Just for Fun? | The Thin Man (1934) Blu-ray
In real life, the prospect of investigating a murder is a grim business that should be conducted with the utmost seriousness and fastidious attention to detail. Yet movies and TV frequently present the job as being so much fun, the type of thing a clever person or team can do in their spare time for…
Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 49 | The Fugitive (1993)
In the latest Film at 11 podcast, I take my son on a hunt for The Fugitive, the 1993 blockbuster thriller starring Harrison Ford as a wrongly convicted man on the run from the law. Joseph tells me he liked the movie a lot, even though he obviously had some problems following the plot. More…
This Is Not the Work of a Cook | Under Siege (1992) 4K Ultra HD
Remembered largely as one of the better Die Hard knockoffs that proliferated in the late 1980s and most of the following decade, the 1992 action thriller Under Siege makes almost no pretense of being anything other than what it is. The movie earned the nickname “Die Hard on a battleship” immediately upon release and wears…
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