Join me for another 6-pack of quick reviews on today's hottest titles - including the new Knives Out movie, a couple shortlisted Oscar contending documentaries, a Brazilian thriller, NEIL DIAMOND!!, and a slow moving train... WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025, dir. Rian Johnson) THE ALABAMA SOLUTION (2025, dir. Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman) THE SECRET AGENT (2025, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho) SONG SUNG BLUE (2025, dir. Craig Brewer) COVER-UP (2025, dir. Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus) TRAI...

Join me for a quick chat about some recent theatrical and streaming offerings! APOCAYLPSE in the TROPICS (2024, dir. Petra Costa) ELLA McCAY (2025, dir. James L. Brooks) BLUE MOON (2025, dir. Richard Linklater) SORRY, BABY (2025, dir. Eva Victor) SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (2025, dir. Mike P. Nelson) THE HOUSEMAID (2025, dir. Paul Feig) AVATAR: FIRE and ASH (2025, dir. James Cameron) MARTY SUPREME (2025, dir. Josh Safdie)

HO-HO-HOMICIDE! Join me as I cover warnings from Grandpa, nuns, Garbage Day, witches, Mickey Rooney, and even a Christmas light electric chair - ALL in one of the craziest franchises I've ever seen. For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps below indicate when each discussion begins: SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984, dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.) - 2:00 SNDN PART 2 (1987, dir. Lee Harry) - 24:11 SNDN 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (1989, dir. Monte Hellman) - 32:29 SNDN 4: INITIATION (1990, dir. Br...

Please join me for a quick recap of movies I've been catching in theaters and on streaming to prep my next Oscar ballot, and to check off one I missed...maybe it was better I did? THE CONJURING: LAST RITES (2025, dir. MIchael Chaves) THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (2025, dir. Geeta Gandbhir) ZOOTOPIA 2 (2025, dir. Jared Bush & Byron Howard) OH. WHAT. FUN. (2025, dir. MIchael Showalter) ETERNITY (2025, dir. David Freyne) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (2025, dir. Joachim Trier) LEFT-HANDED GIRL (2025, dir. Shi...

Join me as I fulfill my promise to cover all five Twilight movies, but ye be warned!! I do not like them, and hadn't watched a frame in over 15 years. For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps below indicate when each discussion begins: TWILIGHT (2008, dir. Catherine Hardwicke) - 0:56 NEW MOON (2009, dir. Chris Weitz) - 28:28 ECLIPSE (2010, dir. David Slade) - 49:22 BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (2011, dir. Bill Condon) - 1:05:16 BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (2012, dir. Bill Condon) - 1:21:50

Join me as I cover (more timely this time) four new movies out in theaters! If these are playing near you, give them a whirl! Action! Musical! Dramedy! Foreign Films!! I watch everything here on the Movie Marathon Man! THE RUNNING MAN (2025, dir. Edgar Wright) WICKED: FOR GOOD (2025, dir. Jon M. Chu) RENTAL FAMILY (2025, dir. Hikari) SISU 2: ROAD to REVENGE (2025, dir. Jalmari Helander)

Join me for a special actor tribute to the late, great Diane Keaton, who changed how we view the perfect girl in Annie Hall, went toe to toe with Albert Finney in Shoot the Moon, played the villain in The Other Sister, and held The Family Stone together at Christmastime. For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps below indicate when each discussion begins: ANNIE HALL (1977, dir. Woody Allen) - 2:12 SHOOT the MOON (1982, dir. Alan Parker) - 34:34 THE OTHER SISTER (1999, dir. Garry Marshall) - 54:2...

Please join me for brief reviews on EIGHT 2025 movies as I catch up with my watching over the last two months! TRON: ARES (2025, dir. Joachim Rønning) ROOFMAN (2025, dir. Derek Cianfrance) BUGONIA (2025, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) PREDATOR: BADLANDS (2025, dir. Dan Trachtenberg) MATERIALISTS (2025, dir. Celine Song) DIE MY LOVE (2025, dir. Lynne Ramsay) IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (2025, dir. Jafar Panahi)

Join me for my final Halloween 2025 series episode, all about the Italian giallo master MARIO BAVA!! Also included is an Intro to Early Italian Cinema, from the invention of film to the 1960s when Bava got his start! I had a ton of fun doing this episode, and I hope you enjoy it too! For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps below indicate when each discussion begins: AN INTRO to ITALIAN CINEMA - 1:25 BLACK SUNDAY (1960, dir. Mario Bava) - La maschera del demonio - 9:51 BLACK SABBATH...

Please join me for brief reviews on SEVEN 2025 movies as I catch up with my watching over the last two months! DEATH of a UNICORN (2025, dir. Alex Scharfman) FRIENDSHIP (2024, dir. Andrew DeYoung) HIM (2025, dir. Justin Tipping) ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) GOOD BOY (2025, dir. Ben Leonberg) SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME from NOWHERE (2025, dir. Scott Cooper) BLACK PHONE 2 (2025, dir. Scott Derrickson)

Join me for a four pack of horror movies that pack a PUNCH! One of the scariest movies I've ever seen, an independent found footage movie, Korean zombies, and family trauma!! For those who want to avoid spoilers, click the timestamps below to navigate to each episode individually: SINISTER (2012, dir. Scott Derrickson) - 0:55 CREEP (2014, dir. Patrick Brice) - 31:20 TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016, dir. Yeon Sang-ho) - 44:06 HEREDITARY (2018, dir. Ari Aster) - 1:02:19

Join me once again as I saw through a gaggle of teens - whoops! - I mean as I navigate once again some truly terrible sequels, remakes, and prequels and put Leatherface to bed. Night night, sweet prince. For those who want to avoid spoilers, click the timestamps below to navigate to each episode individually: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003, dir. Marcus Nispel) - 1:43 THE TCM: THE BEGINNING (2006, dir. Jonathan Liebesman) - 20:46 TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D (2013, dir. John Luessenhop) - 31:3...

REVVV THOSE CHAINSAWS, you pig b*itches!! It's time for one of the scariest, campiest, and crappiest horror franchises of all time!! From the sublime to the head scratching, these massacres have it all! Time stamps below indicate start of section, in case you want to avoid spoilers! THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974, dir. Tobe Hooper) - 1:05 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (1986, dir. Tobe Hooper) - 31:29 LEATHERFACE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III (1990, dir. Jeff Burr) - 54:30 THE R...

Join me as I pay tribute to a LEGEND of 60s and 70s Hollywood cinema, the Oscar winning director of Ordinary People (1980), founder of the Sundance Film Festival, and fighter for human and environmental rights, Robert Redford. This one's for you, Sundance. Time stamps below clickable if you need to skip around! Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, dir. George Roy Hill) - 1:13 All the President's Men (1976, dir. Alan J. Pakula) - 29:38 Three Days of the Condor (1975, dir. Sydney Pollack...

Please join me for brief reviews on FOUR new movies that recently opened at the cinema! LIGHT of the WORLD (2025, dir. Tom Brancroft, John J. Schafer) THE THREESOME (2025, dir. Chad Hartigan) DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE (2025, dir. Simon Curtis) THE LONG WALK (2025, dir. Francis Lawrence)

Please join me as a dropout of Beauty School and head back to Rydell in 1978's Grease, take a deadend summer job in Ridgemont in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and take up poetry and French at Padua in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You. Clickable timestamps below for the spoiler-conscious: GREASE (1978, dir. Randal Kleiser) - 1:11 FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982, dir. Amy Heckerling) - 30:22 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999, dir. Gil Junger) - 52:55

Please join me as I go through what made each of these new releases (or re-releases) tick, and why I loved them or even just liked them. CAUGHT STEALING (2025, dir. Darren Aronofsky) THE ROSES (2025, dir. Jay Roach) THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB (2025, dir. Chris Columbus) JAWS 50th Anniversary (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg) THE TOXIC AVENGER (2023, dir. Macon Blair) - 2025 theatrical release

Join me as I tackle a quartet of 80s comedies and see if they're still funny, if the humor has translated over the last 40-45 years, and if we all just need to remember how to laugh! For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984, dir. Jeff Kanew) - 1:58 PORKY'S (1981, dir. Bob Clark) - 25:40 WEIRD SCIENCE (1985, dir. John Hughes) - 37:02 BACK TO SCHOOL (1986, dir. Alan Metter) - 54:08

Climb on board the space station Resurrection, the Sulaco, Fury, and the Auriga as I explore the last four movies in the ALIEN franchise - using in-universe chronological order. Alien: Romulus (2142), Aliens (2179), Alien3 (2179), Alien: Resurrection (2381) For the spoiler-conscious, time stamps indicate when discussion for each begins! ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024, dir. Fede Alvarez) - 0:50 ALIENS (1986, dir. James Cameron) - 21:22 ALIEN3 (1992, dir. David Fincher) - 45:14 ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997,...

Join me as I discuss three new releases and one I'd missed from earlier this year - SPOILER FREE - for your listening pleasure! UNTIL DAWN (2025, dir. David F. Sandberg) THE NAKED GUN (2025, dir. Akiva Schaffer) FREAKIER FRIDAY (2025, dir. Nisha Ganatra) WEAPONS (2025, dir. Zach Cregger)