Late to the Movies

Chicken Run

November 6th, 2023  |  52 mins 51 secs

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November is Bird Month! Flying in first, it's Aardman's 2000 classic, Chicken Run! Ben and Anthony discuss the highest grossing stop motion animated film of all time.

Directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

November 28th, 2022  |  53 mins 57 secs

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Animation Month ends on Late to the Movies with Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Ben, Anthony, and Kay dig in to all the anthropomorphized antics of this 2009 stop motion Roald Dahl adaptation.

Directed by Wes Anderson, screenplay by Anderson and Noah Baumbach, and starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson.

Akira

November 21st, 2022  |  51 mins 23 secs

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Animation Month continues on Late to the Movies with the ultra-influential Akira! Ben, Cory, and Noah discuss the jackets, psychic babies, and cyberpunk dystopia of this 1988 animated classic. Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

November 14th, 2022  |  1 hr 15 mins

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Animation Month keeps swingin' on Late to the Movies with 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! Ben, Greg, Ray, Robbie, and Will discuss the groundbreaking, eye-popping, poignant instant superhero classic, produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, and starring Shameik Moore with the voices of Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Vélez, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, and Liev Schreiber.

The Iron Giant

November 7th, 2022  |  1 hr 17 mins

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It's a new month and that means a new theme on Late to the Movies: November is Animation Month! Ben, Bree, and Sam kick it off with a discussion of Brad Bird's 1999 classic, The Iron Giant.

Directed by Brad Bird and starring the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, and Christopher McDonald.