I really loved 2012 as an overall year for film. There were so many groundbreaking films in various genres, whether they were the biggest of blockbusters or the smallest of independent productions. Yet, they can’t all be gems. Every year has its stinkers and, while there were a limited amount of them, the ones that really stung hurt like hell. Might as well try to heal the wounds by going down my... 

We try a couple of new things this week, which leads to a few technological glitches and interruptions in the regular flow of the show. First, we try to call someone without testing things out, and secondly we take a few questions via Skype and Facebook. One works well, the other not so much. In the old days (when we had standards) Rafe might have let those technical gaffes bother him. Now he just... 

The title refers to a question Rafe asks this week. We’ve made some serious botches over the past few weeks, both with technical issues and misattributing roles within movies, and nobody has called us on it. C’mon folks, this is the Internet; you’re supposed to be all over us for the slightest mistake! Regardless of whether we actually have an audience or not, this week we discuss... 

How to start this review? Well first I guess I must recognize what came before. In 1982 John Milius and Oliver Stone came together to write a movie about Robert E. Howard’s most famous character, Conan. Milius went on to direct the film, and Arnold Schwarzenegger stared in it. The movie, Conan the Barbarian is a classic, and practically launched Arnold’s career. Flash forward to 2011 and... 

Wow, we’ve got one hell of a show this week. This episode is chock-full of movie goodness, from a discussion of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and how the Pirates franchise has evolved over time to a heated discussion of movies representing the Vietnam war era: Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and Platoon. Add in a little bit about The Dark Knight Rises, Transformers: Dark of the... 

A sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 picture Wall Street is exactly what this film critic ordered. The first movie is a beautiful commentary on the materialistic obsession of the film’s era, the 1980s. It’s also a story that is devoid of consequences. Sure, we begin to see the downfall of the charismatic Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) and his protégé Bud Stone (Charlie Sheen), but that downfall... 

We’ll admit it: This week’s show is pretty amazing. We return to a nice balance discussing new movies in the theater, what we’ve been watching at home, and a nice blend of movie news. In this episode: a review of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole, discussion of Wall Street and Tropic Thunder, a debate over Katy Perry’s pulled Sesame Street segment, and Joaquin... 

Wall Street is one of those movies that, like a fine wine Gordon Gekko would value, becomes more rich and increases in value with the passage of time. Set and released in the ‘80s, Oliver Stone managed to put together a film that captured and chastised the decadence and materialistic obsession of the decade, despite being right in the middle of it. While the story is solid and the film is well assembled,...