Late to the Movies

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

November 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 20 mins

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November is Sword and Sandals month! All month, we'll focus on mythical and mythic-ish movies, starting with 2010's Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief! Ben, Bree, Sam, and Vaz break down the watered-down (ha!) first attempt at adapting Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series.

Directed by Chris Columbus, starring Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, and Alexandra Daddario, and featuring Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Joe Pantoliano, and Uma Thurman.

In the Mouth of Madness

October 31st, 2024  |  1 hr 1 min

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Sam Neilloween culminates with John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness! Ben, Greg, and Ray discuss the goofy eldritch hijinks of Sam Neill's trip to northern New England.

Directed by John Carpenter, written by Michael De Luca, and starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston.

Daybreakers

October 28th, 2024  |  1 hr 1 min

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Sam Neilloween vamps it up with 2009's Daybreakers! Ben and Patrick discuss the surprisingly star-filled, surprisingly ambitious Spierig Brothers dystopian sci-fi/action/horror/thriller film.

Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig and starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, AND Sam Neill.

Event Horizon

October 21st, 2024  |  1 hr 8 mins

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Sam Neilloween blasts off to somewhere near Neptune with 1997's Event Horizon! Ben, Sam, and Vaz discuss Sam Neill's predictably full-send performance in the Paul W.S. Anderson... classic?

Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, written by Philip Eisner, and starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Joely Richardson.

Possession

October 14th, 2024  |  52 mins 34 secs

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Sam Neilloween continues with Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 cult-classic, Possession! This week finds our hero caught in a psychological domestic divorce horror opposite a Cannes Best Actress-winning performance from Isabelle Adjani. Ben, Cory, and Noah discuss the fully... committed? unhinged? performances and vague plot of Possession.

Directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani.

Jurassic Park Re-Re-Release (Happy Sam Neilloween!)

October 7th, 2024  |  1 hr 38 mins

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This year's October theme is Sam Neilloween! We'll be going deep on one of the most underrated and fearless actors of modern cinema, watching only Sam Neill-starring films all month. First up: the re-re-release of our episode on Jurassic Park, originally released in July 2022. Ben, Greg, Kyle, Lyndsey, and Ray discuss Neill's biggest film, the 1993 Steven Spielberg blockbuster that set a new standard for special effects in film (and also has that weird laugh that Jeff Goldblum does). It's weird they never made any legacy sequels to this one!

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough.

2001: A Space Odyssey

September 30th, 2024  |  1 hr 41 mins

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"(Going) Back to (Look at) the Future Month" reaches its epic conclusion with Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Ben, Greg, Lindsey, Marshall, and Ray discuss this vision of 2001 from the perspective of 1968; one of the most referenced, parodied, discussed, dissected, and imitated films of all time.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain.

Paprika

September 23rd, 2024  |  46 mins 32 secs

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"(Going) Back to (Look at) the Future Month" leaves dystopian futures behind (finally) and delves into the surrealist dreamscape of Satoshi Kon's Paprika (2006)! Ben, Cory, and Noah join the dream parade to discuss the animated classic, set in 2006's near-future.

Directed by Satoshi Kon, co-written by Satoski Kon and Seishi Minakami, and based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui.

The Running Man

September 16th, 2024  |  52 mins 47 secs

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"(Going) Back to (Look at) the Future Month" continues with Paul Michael Glaser's 1987 vision of a dystopian 2019 - The Running Man! Ben and Anthony discuss the unapologetically dumb, one-liner filled, Schwarzenegger-starring, incredibly loose adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura.

Johnny Mnemonic

September 9th, 2024  |  1 hr 12 secs

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Going Back to (Look at) the Future month continues with 1995's somewhat-reclaimed Johnny Mnemonic! Ben and Brady discuss the William Gibson-penned, Robert Longo-directed, Keanu Reeves-starring, notorious cyberpunk flop that predicted a 2021 that included a global pandemic... hmm!

Directed by Robert Longo and written by William Gibson, adapting his own short story. Starring Keanu Reeves, Takeshi Kitano, Dolph Lundgren, Ice-T and Dina Meyer.

Predator 2

September 2nd, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins

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New month, new theme... after spending last month looking at the past, in September we're "going back to (look at) the future!" That means we'll be talking about movies set in the future relative to film's release but in a year that has already happened in the real world. For instance: 1990's "Predator 2", set in near-future 1997 in Los Angeles. Ben, Bree, Sam, and Vaz discuss the extremely sweaty, trash-strewn action of this non-Arnold sequel.

Directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Peter Hall.

Eyes Wide Shut

August 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 52 mins

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1999 Month rolls on with the very chill, very non-divisive Eyes Wide Shut! Ben, Greg, Ray, and Robbie all totally agree while discussing the unquestionably (maybe!) masterful Stanley Kubrick classic.

Directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Sydney Pollack.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

August 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 2 mins

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1999 Month continues with Anthony Minghella's "The Talented Mr. Ripley"! Ben and Brady discuss the twists, turns, and idyllic Italian setting of the Matt Damon-starring thriller.

Written and directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Matt Damon, and featuring Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The Sixth Sense

August 12th, 2024  |  58 mins 44 secs

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This month we're gonna podcast like it's 1999! We're turning the clock back to pre-Y2K to celebrate the 25th anniversary of some of the best films in a great year for movies. First up: M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense! Ben and Anthony discuss the twists and turns of Shyamalan's most celebrated, most Oscar nominated, and most dead-people-seeing thriller.

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, and Toni Collette.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

July 31st, 2024  |  1 hr 21 mins

"Halloween in June: Part II - July" returns to the franchise that gives the month's theme its name with Halloween III: Season of the Witch! Ben, Greg, and Ray discuss the Irish Stonehenge magic in this Michael Myers-less installment of the classic series.

Written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, and Dan O'Herlihy.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

July 27th, 2024  |  1 hr 11 mins

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"Halloween in June: Part II - July" returns to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with Wes Craven's New Nightmare! Ben and Patrick discuss the meta-slasher that Wes Craven made before Scream, a box office bomb that killed Freddy Krueger for almost a decade but is actually pretty good!

Written and directed by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, and Miko Hughes.