Late to the Movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

December 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 45 mins

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Happy Hobbit-Days! This holiday season, Late to the Movies takes a long walk to Middle-earth to cover Peter Jackson's seminal Lord of the Rings trilogy. Up first - Ben, Cory, Greg, and Robbie offer their swords, bows, and axes to The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

Directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. Featuring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, and Andy Serkis.

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.

Scream

October 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 29 secs

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It's Halloween on Late to the Movies! Spook 'Em Up Month reaches its thrilling conclusion with 1996's Scream. Ben, Jeffrey, and Kate talk about the chills, kills, and jokes of Wes Craven's genre-revitalizing classic.

Directed by Wes Craven, written by Kevin Williamson, and starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, and Drew Barrymore.

Hocus Pocus & Hocus Pocus 2

October 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 45 mins

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It's a very special Spook 'Em Up Month DOUBLE Episode (Whoa!) as Late to the Movies podcasts a spell on 1993's Hocus Pocus (15:40-56:00) and 2022's Hocus Pocus 2 (starting at 56:00). Ben, Greg, Jordan, Ray, and Robbie hop on their broomsticks and Roombas to discuss Salem, nostalgia, and the almost-thirty-year-old Disney witch franchise.

Hocus Pocus was directed by Kenny Ortega and written by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert. The sequel was directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Jen D'Angelo. Both star Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy.

House (1977)

October 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 13 mins

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This week on Late to the Movies... Spook 'Em Up Month takes a phantasmagoric trip to the Japanese countryside with Nobuhiko Obayashi's House! Ben, Cory, Miles, and Noah discuss the technical wizardry and narrative lunacy of this 1977 cult classic.

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, story by his daughter Chigumi, script by Chiho Katsura, and starring Kimiko Ikegami and Yōko Minamida.

The Thing

October 10th, 2022  |  1 hr 19 mins

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Spook 'em Up Month continues on Late to the Movies with John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982)! Ben, Bree, Sam, and Vaz huddle around the burning wreckage of their sub-zero research facility to discuss their favorite puppets, scares, and existential questions in this incomparable horror/whodunit mashup. Directed by Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster, starring Kurt Russell, and featuring Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat, and Thomas G. Waites.

Poltergeist

October 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 27 mins

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It's spooky season, so you know what that means - Spook 'em Up Month! A totally common phrase to describe horror movies, which is what we'll be focusing on this October. Up first, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist! Ben, Greg, Ray, and Robbie go for a swim, climb a tree, and throw a rope into hell as they discuss this horror classic.

Directed by Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg. Starring JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, and Zelda Rubinstein.