Episodes
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Left Behind (2000) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Terry and Steve take on the "biggest and most ambitious Christian film ever made" with their Left Behind (2000) VHS Movie Review. Can Kirk Cameron save their souls or will they get LEFT BEHIND?!?
Quick Facts
Director: Vic Sarin
Producers: Joe Goodman, Paul Lalonde, Peter Lalonde, and Ralph Winter
Writers: Joe Goodman, Paul Lalonde, and Alan B. McElroy
Based on Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Budget: $4 million
Box Office: $4.2 million
Release Date: October 31, 2000 (video) and February 2, 2001 (theatrical)
Distributor: Cloud Ten Pictures
Cast
Kirk Cameron as Cameron "Buck" Williams
Brad Johnson as Rayford Steele
Gordon Currie as UN Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia
Janaya Stephens as Chloe Steele
Clarence Gilyard Jr as Bruce Barnes
Chelsea Noble as Hattie Durham
Colin Fox as Chaim Rosenzweig
Left Behind Summary
On an overseas flight to London, journalist Buck Williams (Kirk Cameron) and pilot Rayford Steele (Brad Johnson) are caught in the middle of the most incredible event in history. Suddenly, without warning, dozens of passengers simply vanish into then air. But it doesn't stop there. It soon becomes clear that millions of people are missing from around the world.
As chaos and anarchy engulf the world, both men set out on vastly different paths in a desperate search for answers.
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, Left Behind is overflowing with suspense, action and adventure. This riveting motion picture will take you on a spellbinding journey through the most mysterious book of the Bible - The Book of Revelation.
Trailers
Revelation with Jeff Fahey
Tribulation with Gary Busey
Judgment with Corbin Bernsen
Post Credits
Left Behind Film Project with Kirk Cameron
Midnight Cry Music Video by All-Star Choir
Trivia
-According to the "Making of..." documentary, Chelsea Noble (Hattie), who is married to Kirk Cameron (Buck), was reading the book in bed. Kirk was asleep, but Chelsea was so excited about the idea of turning this into a movie, she started slapping Kirk on the leg to wake him up, and said, "I want to play the role of Hattie!" Kirk and Chelsea then started farming out the idea to find out who might produce the film.
-Left Behind was released directly to video in 2000, copies of the film came bundled with a free pass to watch the movie in theaters when it was later given limited release in early 2001.
-Most of the cast were volunteers from local churches.
-The character of Ivy (Krista Bridges) was created specifically for the films. Ivy does not exist in the novels.
-Author Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins originally sold the rights to producer Ralph Winter after he pitched a big-budget, mainstream blockbuster adaptation that would remain faithful to the source material. Winter hired writer Alan B. McElroy to produce a script treatment for such an adaptation but was ultimately unable to generate enough interest from potential financiers or distributors. Winter sold off the rights to independent production company Cloud Ten Pictures, who had previously produced similarly-themed films, thereby ending his and McElroy's involvement in the project. However, both were still credited in the finished film, possibly to generate publicity and add legitimacy to the film.
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Thursday Jan 24, 2019
The Black Cauldron (1985) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Analog Jones takes on Disney's black sheep in their The Black Cauldron (1985) VHS Movie Review!
Rated: PG
Released: July 4th, 1985
Runtime: 80 minutes
Budget:$44,000,000 (estimated)
Gross USA: $21,288,692
Trailers
A Bug's Life Teaser Trailer
Meet the Deedles
Kiki's Delivery Service (Kristen Dunst is the voice actor and Matthew Lawerence)
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Lady and the Tramp Coming to Video this fall
Lion King II: Simba's Pride Only on Video
Trivia
- it is loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are, in turn, based on Welsh mythology.
-The first Disney animated movie to not contain any songs, neither performed by characters nor in the background.
-Known by many as "the film Disney tried to bury," fans of the fantasy genre and this movie have tried many times to get the deleted footage restored.
-Suspended from video release for several years, due to its dark content.
-First full-length Disney animated movie since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to have completed scenes cut before release.
-Tim Burton, who worked as a Conceptual Artist on this movie, wanted to incorporate minions of the Horned King that were akin to the "facehuggers" from the Alien film franchise. Some samples of his work can be seen on Disney's 2000 DVD of this movie.
-This movie is notable for being the first full-length Disney animated movie to incorporate computer graphics imagery (CGI) in its animation. The CGI was utilized for a lot of the special effects, which included the bubbles, a boat, a floating orb of light, the Cauldron, the realistic flames were seen near the end of the movie, and the boat that Taran and his friends used to escape the castle
-The production of this movie can be traced back to 1971 when Walt Disney Pictures purchased the screen rights to Lloyd Alexander's "The Chronicles of Prydain." This movie took over twelve years to make, five years of actual production, and cost over twenty-five million dollars. Over one thousand different hues and colors were used, and thirty-four miles of film stock was utilized.
-Ralph Bakshi was approached to be involved with this movie in 1979 after the success of his fantasy film Wizards (1977), and his animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1978). He turned it down, believing his style is far too mature for a Disney movie for family entertainment.
-Various members of Disney's "Nine Old Men," as well as Don Bluth, took stabs at making this movie during the 1970s.
-According to Producer Joe Hale, "When (Jeffrey) Katzenberg first screened the film, he told us to cut it by ten minutes. Roy (Disney) and I got together and found some scenes we could get rid of, that didn't affect the story that much." When they ran it again for Jeffrey Katzenberg, and the film finished, he asked Roy Edward Disney, "Is that ten minutes?" When Disney replied, "No, it was only around six minutes." Katzenberg stated, "I said ten minutes!" Hale continued, "Eventually he cut out about twelve minutes, which really hurt the picture."
-Four months before the film's release, The Samuel Goldwyn Company had released The Care Bears Movie (1985) which was made by the much smaller company Nelvana. It only cost $2 million but made $23 million at the box office. By contrast, The Black Cauldron cost $44 million but only made $21.3 million. This alarmed many Disney animators and raised questions about the future of the department.
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
2018 Top 10 Films
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Steve's Honorable Mentions
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Halloween (2018)
BlackKklansman
Annihilation
Black '47
Matt's Honorable Mentions
Cam
The Strangers: Prey at Night
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Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Hook (1991) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
We fly off with Robin Williams as Peter Pan in our Hook (1991) VHS Movie Review with this listener submitted movie!
Hook Quick Facts
Hook is a Fantasy Adventure film that was released into US theaters on December 11, 1991. Hook was produced by Amblin Entertainment and distributed by TriStar Pictures. Hook had a budget of around $70,000,000 and grossed about $300.9 million in the box office.
Director: Steven Spielberg (E.T., Jaws)
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy (Jurassic Park, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Frank Marshall (Poltergeist, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Gerald R. Molen (Schindler's List)
Screenplay Writers: Jim V. Hart (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Muppet Treasure Island) and Malia Scotch Marmo (Polar Express)
Story Writers: Jim V. Hart and Nick Castle (Escape from New York, The Last Star Fighter)
Hook's Cast:
Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan
Dustin Hoffman as Captain James Hook
Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell
Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee
Charlie Korsmo (Dick Tracy) as Jack Banning
Amber Scott as Maggie Banning
Maggie Smith (She was 57 at the time) as Wendy Darling
Gwyneth Paltrow as teenage Wendy Darling, at 19 years old
Caroline Goodall as Moira Banning
Dante Basco as Rufio
Hook Back of the Box Description
A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, Hook stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook.
Joining the fun is Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Bob Hoskins as the pirate Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy Darling, who must convince the middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, of friendship, and of magic. A classic tale updated for children of all ages, Hook, nominated for 5 1991 Academy Awards including best visual effects is "a 10. A film that will entertain generations, generations from now." Gary Franklin, KABC-TV
Back of the Box Quotes
"Get ready for adventure. Steven Spielberg has scored another triumph."
—Gen Shalit, The Today Show
Hook Fun Facts
-Spielberg had a personal connection to Peter and Jack's troubled relationship because it echoed his own life with his father.
-Spielberg considered directing it as a musical with Michael Jackson in the lead. Jackson wasn't interested in the adult version of Peter Pan forgetting his past.
-This movie almost went into production in 1985 with Paramount Pictures.
-Malia Scotch Marmo rewrote Captain Hook's dialogue, and Carrie Fisher went uncredited writing Tinker Bell's dialogue.
-The original budget was set at $48 million but ballooned to $70-80 million after the movie ran 40 days over schedule.
-Spielberg's on-set relationship with Julia Roberts was troubled, and he later revealed in an interview with 60 Minutes, "It was an unfortunate time for us to work together." In a 1999 Vanity Fair interview, Roberts said that Spielberg's comments “really hurt my feelings.” She “couldn’t believe this person that I knew and trusted was actually hesitating to come to my defense . . . it was the first time that I felt I had a turncoat in my midst.”
-Hook had Action Figures and here's the commercial
-Hook also came out as a SNES Game and here's the long play of the game
-The film was nominated for five categories at the 64th Academy Awards. This included Best Production Design (Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis) (lost to Bugsy), Best Costume Design (lost to Bugsy), Best Visual Effects (lost to Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Best Makeup (lost to Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and Best Original Song ("When You're Alone", lost to Beauty and the Beast).
-Hoffman was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (lost to Williams for The Fisher King).
-John Williams was given a Grammy Award nomination for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
-Julia Roberts received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actress (lost to Sean Young as the dead twin in A Kiss Before Dying).
-In a 2013 interview on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review Show said this about Hook: "I wanna see Hook again because I so don't like that movie, and I'm hoping someday I'll see it again and perhaps like some of it."
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Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Critters (1986) VHS Movie Review
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Let's take a bite out of listeners submission month with our Critters (1986) VHS Movie Review.
Quick Facts
Critters is a 1986 monster/comedy horror film made on a budget of $2,000,000 by New Line Cinema. Critters grossed $13.6 million during its release in the United States and spawned a Critters franchise with three sequels.
Director: Stephen Herek (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Mighty Ducks)
Writers: Domonic Muir (Gingerdead Man, Evil Bong as August White), Stephen Herek and Don Keith Opper (Has writing credits in all four Critter films)
Critters Cast:
Dee Wallace (E.T. and Cujo) as Helen Brown
Scott Grimes (Band of Brothers and The Orville) as Brad Brown
Billy "Green" Bush (Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday) as Jay Brown
Nadine van der Velde (Munchies and is now a TV Producer) as April Brown
M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple and Missing in Action) as Sherriff Harv
Don Keith Opper (Critters Franchise and born in Chicago) as Charlie McFadden
Billy Zane (Titanic, Demon Knight and born in Chicago) as Steve Elliot
Ethan Phillips (Star Trek: Voyager) as Jeff Barnes
Terrence Mann (Stage actor) as Ug/Johnny Steele
Jeremy Lawrence (Stage actor) as Reverend Miller/Preacher
Lin Shaye (Insidious, There's Something About Mary and is Bob Shaye's sister) as Sally
Corey Burton (Voice actor and plays Dale from Chip n Dales: Rescue Rangers) as the voices of the Crites/Critters
Critters Back of the Box Summary
"Both thumbs up!" said Ebert and Siskel about CRITTERS, a horrific story of carnivorous aliens who come to Earth in a feeding frenzy for human flesh. It's no picnic for the Brown family when a lethal litter of Krites arrives unannounced at their Kansas farm. Trapped in a deadly nightmare, the terrified Browns fight for their lives against the attacking bloodthirsty monsters. But, it's a losing battle until two intergalactic bounty hunters arrive determined to blow the hellish creatures off the planet! It's an alien adventure, full of action and just crawling with CRITTERS!
Fun Facts
-The Krites voices were a combination of French and Japanese elements and voiced by Corey Burton (Dale from Chip and Dale.
-Although Critters was released two years after Gremlins, director Stephen Herek states that the script for Critters was initially written by Dominic Muir far before Gremlin's entered production; Gremlins did, however, serve as an incentive to greenlight Critters. Herek unsuccessfully attempted to sell his project to several studios, but it was only after the release and success of Gremlins that New Line Cinema was willing to produce it. Herek thus had to heavily adjust Muir’s script to reduce the similarities between the two films significantly.
-The Chiodo brothers — Charlie, Steve, and Ed — got the job of creating the Krites. The design and construction of the Krites cost $100,000 of Critters $2,000,000 budget.
-The main puppets were full-sized 13″ models, with radio-controlled eyes and blinking eyelids, cable-controlled faces, arms, and claws, as well as bladders in the throat and chest to mimic breathing. For the Critters’ eyes, clear plexiglass spheres were coated with reflective Scotchlite material in the back.
-The giant Krite at the end was a 4-foot tall suit to be worn by a little person. The Chiodo brothers didn't have much time or money to build the suit. “They didn’t give us the time or money to do it,” Charlie said. “The costume was just a quick, throwaway thing; they wanted to show something big. It looked alright, but there were no mechanics budgeted for the face; it didn’t move.”
-Sugar Apples inspired Krite eggs.
-Jordan Downey made a 6-minute fan film for a Critters web series that never got off the ground, but his short is rad.
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Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Twister (1996) VHS Movie Review
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Twister Quick Facts
Twister is an action/disaster film from Amblin Entertainment. Twister was released on May 17, 1996. Twister had a budget of $92 million and grossed almost $500 million in worldwide sales.
Director: Jan de Bont (Speed)
Writers: Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Anne-Marie Martin, Joss Whedon (Avengers), Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List), and Jeff Nathanson (Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3) were brought in for rewrites.
Producers: Ian Bryce (Speed), Michael Crichton, and Kathleen Kennedy (E.T.)
Twister Cast:
Bill Paxton as Bill "The Extreme" Harding
Helen Hunt as Dr. Jo Harding
Jami Gertz as Dr. Melissa Reeves
Cary Elwes as Dr. Jonas Miller
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as "Dusty" Davis
Alan Ruck as Robert "Rabbit" Nurick
Jeremy Davies as Brian Laurence
Lois Smith as Aunt Meg Green
Twister Back of the Box Description
The house rips apart piece by piece. A bellowing cow spins through the air. Tractors fall like rain. A 15,000-pound gasoline tanker becomes an airborne bomb. A mile-wide, 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you: Twister is hitting home. In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain enough data to create an improved warning system. But to do so, they must intercept the twisters' deadly path. The chase in on!
Twister Box Quotes
"A Gale-force Movie! The special effects are spectacular!"
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Taglines
The Dark Side of Nature
Don't Breathe. Don't Look Back.
Go for a ride you'll never forget!
The Beautiful yet Destructive side to life
Twister VHS Trailers
Space Jam
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Twister Soundtrack Promo
Bugs Bunny and Taz WB Intro
Fun Facts on Twister
-Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were temporarily blinded by bright lights used to dim the sky. The lights sunburnt both their eyeballs and caused them both to miss a couple days of shooting.
-The sound of the tornado got the crew nominated for an Academy Award for best sound. How did they do it?
“To make new and different wind sounds, they constructed a box filled with chicken wire, stuck a microphone inside, and placed it on top of a car,” author Keay Davidson revealed in his book, Twister: The Science of Tornadoes and the Making of a Natural Disaster Movie. “Then they rolled the car downhill — turning the engine off so that it wouldn’t interfere with the sound recording.
“They also reviewed recordings of camels and noted that these creatures emit sounds that are ‘wet and lugubrious and nasty.’ As he [supervising sound editor, Stephen Hunter Flick] listened to the camel recordings over and over, Flick turned down the pitch, and the camels’ sounds developed a moaning, ‘cavernous’ quality that, he felt, nicely captured the eerie vastness of a tornado.”
-Director Jan De Bont was very unpopular on set. Entertainment Weekly claimed more than 20 crew members walked off the set after De Bont pushed a camera assistant into the mud after he got in the way of a complicated shot. The
-Bill Paxton wanted to direct a sequel but sadly it never happened before his death.
-Two of the stars in Twister have passed away. Phillip Seymour Hoffman died on February 2, 2014, of an accidental drug overdose. Bill Paxton died on February 25, 2017, due to complications from surgery.
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