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Movie Madness is a weekly podcast hosted by Chicago film critic Erik Childress presenting movie reviews, interviews, film festival coverage, DVDs, awards, box office and much more!
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1 Episode 549: Hackman And The Deadly Wonder Women 1:41:10
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Blu-rays, 4Ks, physical media galore this week as Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski guide you through another week. They include upgrades of a great Gene Hackman film and another from Alan Rudolph by Criterion. There’s early work from Rudolph Valentino and the late George Armitage. Horror goes from brain-inhabiting slugs to a black mamba, child murders, cannibalism and eating the rich. There’s also a pair of Chris Farley/David Spade films and a trio of deadly women including Ursula Andress, Kathleen Hughes and the immortal Lynda Carter. 0:00 - Intro 1:54 - Criterion ( Night Moves 4K , Choose Me 4K ) 21:23 - Warner Archive ( Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , Hit Man ) 32:05 - Shout Factory ( Shaw Brothers Vol. 6 , Night of the Creeps 4K ) 41:19 - Blue Underground ( Venom 4K ) 50:56 - Arrow ( Don’t Torture a Duckling 4K ) 58:36 - Severin ( Delicatessen 4K , Antiviral 4K ) 1:09:48 - Paramount ( Tommy Boy 4K ) 1:15:42 - Kino ( Black Sheep 4K , The Glass Web 3D , The 10th Victim , Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw ) 1:33:55 – New TV on Blu-ray ( Magilla Gorilla: The Complete Series , Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Complete Series ) 1:35:18 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray ( The Brutalist 4K , Babygirl 4K , Memoir of a Snail ) 1:37:38 – New Blu-ray Announcements…
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1 Episode 548: Hi Ho! Alto! It’s Off To Eephus We Go!! 1:53:20
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Erik Childress & Steve Prokopy have nine movies for you this week. It all starts by hitting the way back machine for their 2023 review of a Sundance film delayed by the controversy over its star (Magazine Dreams). There is also an apocalyptic musical fantasy (O’Dessa) and Bill Skarsgard is trapped in Anthony Hopkins’ fancy car (Locked). Sci-fi goes two ways with the bloody aftermath of an astronaut colony (Ash) and the process future couples go through to have a baby (The Assessment). Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo form a surrogate parental friendship (Bob Trevino Likes It). One of the great baseball movies is out there just in time for the season (Eephus). Robert DeNiro plays dual roles as real-life mobsters for Barry Levinson (The Alto Knights) and the Disney live-action remake machine churns out its latest (Snow White). 0:00 - Intro 1:46 - Magazine Dreams 18:06 - O'Dessa 26:09 - Locked 36:49 - Eephus 48:56 - Bob Trevino Likes It 59:18 - Ash 1:09:06 - The Assessment 1:22:00 - The Alto Knights 1:32:26 - Snow White 1:51:28 - Outro CLICK ON THE FILMS TO RENT OR PURCHASE AND HELP OUT THE MOVIE MADNESS PODCAST…
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1 Episode 547: The 2025 SXSW Film Festival 1:08:30
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Erik Childress has been traveling to Austin for over 20 years for the annual South by Southwest Film Festival. He is back to tell you all about 19 films that he saw this year. Among the films you can see soon are the return of Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively to the world of simple favor. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega trying to survive the revenge of a unicorn and Nicolas Cage battles some territorial Australians. Hopefully audiences won’t have to wait too long to see the solo directorial debut of Jay Duplass or the latest from Matt Johnson that pays homage to the world of Robert Zemeckis and Rosamund Pike & Matthew Rhys desperately try to get to the scene of their daughter’s accident, Daisy Ridley has to dodge zombies and a pair of brothers take a leisurely stroll through San Francisco with their guitars in a single take. There are documentaries about Curtis Mayfield, Marc Maron, the horrors and fascism in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting and what to do when an A.I. Pioneer won’t answer your questions. Erik reviews all that plus Michael Bay’s parkour documentary in this recap of one of his favorite festivals. 0:00 – Intro 2:02 – Another Simple Favor 5:08 – Hallow Road 8:27 – Brother Verses Brother 11:19 – The Dutchman 14:03 – Death of a Unicorn 18:51 – American Sweatshop 22:18 – Uvalde Mom 25:22 – Forge 28:10 – We Bury the Dead 31:25 – Nirvanna the Band the Show – The Movie 35:59 – Deepfaking Sam Altman 39:40 – The Baltimorons 45:02 – For Worse 49:21 – The Surfer 53:14 – The Makings of Curtis Mayfield 54:27 – Make It Look Real 57:07 – Caper 59:50 – We Are Storror 1:03:59 – Are We Good? 1:07:02 - Outro…
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1 Episode 546: Light A Candle And You Will See Baked Beans 1:53:57
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Peter Sobczynski joins Erik Childress again to get you caught up on a couple weeks of new physical media. They include drama from Charlie Chaplin and Michael Mann’s feature debut. Godzilla returns as does the creepy Roger Corman sci-fi of the early ‘80s. Renny Harlin brings the sharks, Skippy from Family Ties battles a heavy metal killer and Peter reminds us of another piece of ‘80s horror that some parents would like to forget. There is also more weirdness including Steve Allen studying sex, John Travolta investigating sex and Eddie Murphy brought in to save a comedy. All that might be nothing compared to the visualization of The Who’s rock opera brought to life by Ken Russell. 0:00 - Intro 2:11 - Criterion ( A Woman of Paris , Thief 4K , Godzilla vs Biollante 4K ) 18:53 - Arrow ( Deep Blue Sea 4K ) 27:08 - Kino ( College Confidential , The Godsend , Best Defense , The General’s Daughter 4K , The Black Tulip , Half a Chance ) 58:46 - Sony ( Bon Voyage ) 1:03:57 - Synapse ( Trick or Treat 4K ) 1:13:01 - Shout ( Forbidden World 4K , Tommy 4K ) 1:40:27 – New TV on Blu-ray ( The Penguin 4K , The Last of Us 4K , Tulsa King Season 2 ) 1:45:38 – New Theatrical Titles on Blu-ray ( Wildcat , Moana 2 4K , Wolf Man 4K ) 1:48:00 – New Blu-ray Announcements…
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Movie reviews continue on the show with seven new releases this week. Steve Prokopy looks at the chaos of a young woman and her Zambian family (On Becoming a Guinea Fowl) while Samara Weaving plays a pop star dealing with a stalker (Borderline). John Malkovich is another pop star whom Ayo Edebiri discovers may be part of a cult (Opus). Daffy Duck and Porky Pig try to save the world from zombies and aliens (The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie) while Chris Pratt and Millie Bobbie Brown live in a world of robots (The Electric State). Jack Quaid can feel no pain while trying to rescue his girlfriend (Novocaine) and Steven Soderbergh gives us Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as married spies (Black Bag). 0:00 - Intro 1:17 - On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 9:04 - Borderline 16:14 – The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 23:41 – The Electric State 36:24 - Opus 50:17 - Novocaine 1:03:08 - Black Bag 1:14:59 - Outro…
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1 Episode 544: From Las Piedras To Nearly Peru 55:26
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Physical media never takes a week off but sometimes they sleep in a little. Such as this light week that has Peter Sobczynski and Erik Childress starting off with a stone-cold classic thriller from Criterion upgraded to 4K. Kino has more film noir, a double feature with Agatha Christie AND Bert I. Gordon plus the terrifying presence of Klaus Kinski as a Nazi. There’s an animated cat who gives massages and everyone’s favorite bear in a rain slicker. 0:00 - Intro 6:53 - Criterion ( The Wages of Fear 4K ) 13:32 - Kino ( Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIV , Crawlspace , Endless Night/Picture Mommy Dead 4K ) 34:56 - Shout ( Ghost Cat Anzu ) 39:21 - Warner ( Paddington 2 4K ) 43:41 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray ( Gladiator II , Red One , Kraven the Hunter , Den of Thieves 2 , The Count of Monte Cristo ) 52:36 – New Blu-ray Announcements CLICK ON THE FILMS TO RENT OR PURCHASE AND HELP OUT THE MOVIE MADNESS PODCAST…
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Another light week of releases, but are any of them good? Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy talk you through five of them including a documentary on a better person in charge of the Washington Post (Becoming Katharine Graham). Ed Harris factors into two releases this week including a woman manifestsing her PTSD through her fellow soldier (My Dead Friend Zoe) and a crime comedy with an all-star cast (Riff Raff). There is also a bitcoin hostage thriller (Cold Wallet) and an underwater true story that the filmmaker has re-made from their own documentary (Last Breath). 0:00 - Intro 1:56 - Becoming Katharine Graham 7:24 - My Dead Friend Zoe 16:28 - Cold Wallet 22:37 - Riff Raff 32:17 - Last Breath 46:52 - Outro…
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1 Episode 542: Why Is Everything Controversial? 2:07:12
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Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski run down titles you can get on physical media this week and, not gonna lie, there’s a lot of baggage. There’s the Mick Jagger film that say on the shelf for two years along with Lindsay Lohan’s collaboration with Paul Schrader and William Friedkin’s infamous Al Pacino murder mystery set within the gay community. Not to mention John Wayne playing Genghis Khan and the poor timing for an Eric Red horror film. But even controversy can be put aside for cinema sunshine. You can now get Milos Forman’s Mozart film in its original theatrical incarnation. Maybe you don’t even remember the issue parents had with one of the loveliest coming-of-age films of the ‘90s. And why would you say anything controversial about Carol Reed’s masterpiece? All that plus Guillermo Del Toro’s debut and the genius of poking fun at documentaries on this week’s Blu-ray show. 0:00 – Intro 3:13 - Criterion ( Performance 4K , Cronos 4K ) 22:43 - Vinegar Syndrome ( The Joy of Sex , Virtuosity 4K , The Canyons ) 48:18 - Arrow ( Cruising 4K ) 1:05:54 - Kino ( The Conqueror , Graveyard Shift 4K , Body Parts 4K ) 1:24:14 - Sony ( My Girl 4K ) 1:37:39 - LionsGate ( The Third Man 4K ) 1:44:22 - Warner ( Amadeus 4K ) 1:55:51 – New Television on Blu-ray ( Noble House , Documentary Now: The Complete Series ) 2:01:01 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray ( Hard Truths ) 2:05:13 – New Blu-ray Announcements…
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It’s a light week for movies so Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy work with what they have with four titles that you may or may not want to work with. They include a new Chicago horror film from director Mickey Keating (Invader). Daisy Ridley is a window washer who goes from pane to McClane when eco-terrorists take over her building (Cleaner). Christoph Waltz is an aging hitman with a protégé (Old Guy). Finally, Osgood Perkins is back with a Stephen King adaptation where things do not go well for anybody. (The Monkey) 0:00 - Intro 2:22 - Invader 9:26 - Cleaner 22:19 - Old Guy 31:00 - The Monkey 45:19 - Outro…
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1 Episode 540: Lighten Up, Frances & Zuckerberg 1:50:24
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It’s physical media time with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski guiding you through this week’s releases which includes a pair of late indie staples from the ‘80s now in 4K. There’s a pair of John Candy comedies from the same decade, Burt Reynolds directing a comedy about suicide and one about the life of Frances Farmer. Pick your poison in Richard Dreyfuss directing porn (within the movie) and the unspeakable horrors of Roger Corman mutant rapists. Keanu Reeves is a demon hunter and David Fincher gets upgrades for his underrated B-movie thriller and the origin story of another demon. 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - Criterion ( Crossing Delancey 4K , Drugstore Cowboy 4K ) 19:24 - Kino ( Summer Rental , Uncle Buck 4K , Frances ) 41:13 - MGM ( Inserts , The End , Uptown Girls ) 1:01:51 - Shout ( Humanoids from the Deep 4K ) 1:13:16 - Warner ( Constantine 4K ) 1:21:52 - Sony ( Panic Room 4K , The Social Network 4K ) 1:41:21 – New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray ( Last Summer , The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim , Nosferatu , The Order , September 5 , Weekend at Taipei ) 1:46:15 – New Blu-ray Announcements…
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1 Episode 539: Mad About The Boy And The Bear 1:32:20
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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy return to regular reviewing duties this week and they put a nine-spot on the board. There are a pair of documentaries involving Sly Stone (Sly Lives) and the Zep (Becoming Led Zeppelin). The director of Saint Frances & Ghostlight shows the horror of being a doctor (Rounding) while a young woman involved in one night stands may have been literally ghosted (The Dead Thing). Paolo Sorrentino has another tale of beauty (Parthenope) while Miles Teller & Anya Taylor-Joy snipe themselves into each other’s hearts fighting monsters (The Gorge). Then it’s a week of sequels including a continuation of Renee Zellweger’s beloved character (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy), everyone’s favorite marmalade-loving bear (Paddington In Peru) and the tale of a new Captain and a new President (Captain America: Brave New World). 0:00 – Intro 1:13 - Becoming Led Zeppelin 7:54 - Rounding 17:02 - Sly Lives! 23:00 - The Dead Thing 32:25 - Parthenope 39:22 - Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 55:43 - The Gorge 1:06:50 - Paddington in Peru 1:15:46 - Captain America: Brave New World 1:31:08 - Outro…
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1 Episode 538: Captain America: Brave New World 1:38:20
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The next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is here and so is comic book expert Erik Laws to talk with Erik Childress on how it plays out. Does it follow through on some of the ideas raised by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier or is it merely just continuing a story most many have forgotten about? Laws fills in the blanks left by the treatment of Shira Haas’ Widow and the remnants of the Serpent Society. Is this a genuine new beginning for the Universe or does it continue the rut that has befallen the MCU since Endgame.…
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1 Episode 537: Nobody Wants To See Your Lear, Dude! 1:38:54
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Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski bring you this week’s physical media roundup which includes a great upgrade for the family involving a cat and a mouse. Horror fans get some 4K upgrades from four different decades. Film Noir gets several different takes including through the mind of Woody Allen. A legendary black filmmaker championed over the years by Sergio Mims gets his whole collection. There are early appearances by Sam Elliott, Sean Penn and John Cusack along with a reappraisal of a current Oscar contender. A more positive reappraisal has been happening for years with a Shane Black film now in 4K and Peter takes us down the rabbit hole of the time Jean-Luc Godard made a Shakespeare adaptation for Cannon Films. 0:00 – Intro 3:09 - Criterion ( King Lear ) 17:26 - Warner Archive ( Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection ) 21:31 – Warner Bros. ( The Nice Guys 4K ) 30:18 - Kino ( Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection , Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIII (Rope of Sand / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye / Never Love a Stranger) , Play It Again Sam , Hot Pursuit ) 57:11 - Fun City ( Lifeguard , Racing with the Moon ) 1:08:50 - Universal ( Conclave 4K ) 1:13:42 - Arrow ( Alice Sweet Alice 4K ) 1:22:52 - Shout Factory ( Galaxy of Terror 4K , Ghosts of Mars 4K , The Last Voyage of the Demeter 4K ) 1:35:21 – New Blu-ray Announcements…
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1 Episode 536: The 2025 Sundance Film Festival 1:36:02
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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy return after more than a week in Park City plus virtual screenings for this year’s Sundance Film Festival and they are here to talk about 15 of their favorite films. They include a pair of body horror films about the terror of living happily ever after. There is also the horror of being a parent especially if you live next to the worst kind of Karen. Music plays a role in a lovely story about a washed-up folk singer and a lottery winner plus the heartbreaking tale of an artist taken away from us too quickly. There are more documentaries about the first deaf Oscar winner, teenagers who took on the environmental concerns of their community, the troubling legacy of To Catch a Predator and the consequences of delaying that colonoscopy. Audiences were treated to standout performances from Dylan O’Brien and the genuine discovery of the debut by a name to remember, Eva Victor. All that plus generational tales of Palestine and the building and rebuilding of America. 0:00 - Intro 5:44 – The Ugly Stepsister 11:03 – The Ballad of Wallis Island 16:16 – It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley 20:04 – Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore 26:26 – The Perfect Neighbor 35:25 – Predators 43:04 – Twinless 48:33 – If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You 54:01 – Andre is an Idiot 57:48 – All That’s Left Of You 1:01:08 – Rebuilding 1:05:33 – Together 1:11:03 – Middletown 1:15:33 – Sorry, Baby 1:23:10 – Train Dreams 1:31:47 – More Sundance Mentions 1:34:29 - Outro…
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1 Episode 535: My Eyes Are Up Here, Orca! 2:18:43
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After some time off for Sundance, Movie Madness returns to get you caught up on the latest and greatest in Blu-rays. Erik Childress talks to Peter Sobczynski about a couple 4K upgrades from Criterion for Paul Thomas Anderson and Anthony Mann. There are rom-coms with Cary Grant and Clark Gable while Al Pacino tries to find love with possibly a serial killer. They’ve got a possessed authoritarian in the White House (from 1933) and a killer whale on the loose. Music documentaries for Joan Jett and Joan Baez and one of Dario Argento’s best. But it all comes down to a remastered version of a butchered Michael Mann film and a trio of upgrades for one of the kings of sexploitation, Russ Meyer. 0:00 - Intro 2:48 - Criterion ( Winchester ‘73 4K , Punch Drunk Love 4K ) 19:34 - Warner Archive ( Gabriel Over the White House ) 26:40 - Kino ( Houseboat , Teacher’s Pet , Shout at the Devil , Orca 4K , Sea of Love 4K , Whore ) 1:09:47 - Magnolia ( Bad Reputation , Joan Baez I am a Noise ) 1:15:25 - Severin ( Opera 4K , Vixen 4K , Supervixens 4K , Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens 4K ) 1:56:33 - Vinegar Syndrome ( The Keep 4K ) 2:10:53 – New TV on Blu-ray: ( House: Complete Series , Quantum Leap (2022): Complete Series , Frankenstein Jr. And the Impossibles: Complete Series , Wait Til Your Father Gets Home: Complete Series , Twin Peaks Z to A ) 2:15:52 - New Theatrical Titles On Blu-ray ( The Coffee Table , Hundreds of Beavers , Juror #2 , A Real Pain , Werewolves , Wicked ) 2:16:37 – New Blu-ray Announcements…
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