As we head into our mid-summer holiday, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have seven movies for you to consider. They revisit their praise of Eva Victor’s Sundance wonder (Sorry, Baby) chosen for their Chicago Critics Film Festival along with Danielle Deadwyler trying to protect her family and farm during another cinematic apocalypse (40 Acres). Alicia Silverstone chooses the wrong sugar daddy (Pretty Thing) while Alex Ross Perry takes us through decades of video stores in movies in a three-hour cinematic essay (Videoheaven). John Cena and Idris Elba are their country’s leaders caught in an assassination plot (Heads of State) and Charlize Theron is back with her band of immortals only without her powers (The Old Guard 2). Finally, Gareth Edwards tries to do what he was called to do for Godzilla and Star Wars for the seventh film in the franchise (Jurassic World: Rebirth).

2:16 - Sorry, Baby

14:09 - 40 Acres

22:02 - Pretty Thing

27:58 - Heads of State

38:45 - Videoheaven

55:22 - The Old Guard 2

1:07:15 - Jurassic World: Rebirth

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy wade through nine reviews this week to get you to the few standouts. A couple is presented with the possibility their daughter was switched at birth (A Stranger in My Home) while a team of nitwits try to steal a 35mm print from Quentin Tarantino (Stealing Pulp Fiction). Emma Mackey tries to use Vicky Krieps as a distraction from her invalid mother (Hot Milk) while a drug deal goes south for a sex worker (Ponyboi) and Bryan Cranston tries to keep his family and regional theater afloat (Everything Going To Be Great). Mariska Hargitay remembers her mother Jayne Mansfield (My Mom Jayne) while a woman tries not to forget the life she lived as she slides into dementia (Familiar Touch). Finally the killer A.I. robot goes T2 on us (M3GAN 2.0) and Brad Pitt goes fast in a car with other cars (F1: The Movie).

1:41 - The Stranger In My Home

11:00 - Stealing Pulp Fiction

18:53 - My Mom Jayne

25:55 - Hot Milk

33:34 - Ponyboi

41:20 - Everything’s Going To Be Great

51:26 - Familiar Touch

58:55 - M3GAN 2.0

1:11:37 - F1: The Movie

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Seven new movies are reviewed by Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy this week and most of them are documentaries. Steve takes a look at Disney’s stage version of one of their biggest films (Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical) and a tale of more than two kitties (American Cats: The Good, The Bad and the Cuddly). Erik checks out the story of sexual assault within the sports programs of a major university (Surviving Ohio State) plus a daughter trying to learn more about her photographer mother (A Photographic Memory). As for the narrative features, they warn you of one of the very worst films of the year (Bride Hard). They also go back to Disney and Pixar for their latest sci-fi comedy (Elio) and then go back to the world of the rage virus even if it might not be the world you are expecting (28 Years Later).

3:08 - Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical

12:31 - Surviving Ohio State

20:08 - American Cats: The Good, The Bad and the Cuddly

26:01 - Bride Hard

38:28 – A Photographic Memory

50:04 - Elio

1:00:53 - 28 Years Later

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The talk includes a less-talked-about film of the screwball era as well as one of the classic rom-coms of the ‘50s. There’s another Tombstone story and a documentary about Thelonious Monk. A two decade old Charles Burnett film finally comes to light and a beloved Steve Martin comedy finally gets a Blu-ray release. There are Looney Tunes, bicyclists, underwater monsters, a whole lot of Jessica Fletcher and Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut all there for your libraries.

3:45 - Criterion (Midnight, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser)

16:28 - Kino (Law and Order, Sabrina 4K, Rock Pretty Baby, Promise Her Anything, DeepStar Six 4K, I, Madman)

1:02:38 - Mill Creek (Rad)

1:08:01 - Milestone (The Annihilation of Fish)

1:15:12 - Lionsgate (All of Me, The Way of the Gun 4K)

1:36:35 - Warner Bros. (Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Vol. 1)

1:42:51 – New TV on Blu-ray (Murder She Wrote: The Complete Series)

1:50:56 – New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have eight movie reviews for you this week. They include a pair of documentaries on a Scottish rock band who were more than their soundtrack contribution (Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible) and about New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern (Prime Minister). A woman finds some disturbing secrets about her grandparents and society (Best Wishes To All) while Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson look for some hidden gold (The Unholy Trinity). A trio of improv performers go undercover for the cops (Deep Cover) while Julianne Moore covers up for daughter Sydney Sweeney (Echo Valley). Finally, Dakota Johnson has to choose between rich Pedro Pascal and poor Chris Evans (Materialists) while the latest in tracer cinema redoes a modern animated classic (How To Train Your Dragon).

0:00 – Intro & Upcoming Events

3:17 - Deep Cover

11:40 - Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible

20:53 - Prime Minister

32:50 - Best Wishes To All

41:48 - The Unholy Trinity

50:22 - Echo Valley

1:01:03 - Materialists

1:17:59 - How To Train Your Dragon

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Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski go over the history of Sidney Lumet’s version of The Wiz. They look over the failed attempt to tell the story of Air America and the ridiculous entry into the cyber-thriller canon known for anything but the hacking. Then they go through a new set upgrading the original Sean Connery James Bond films and how they compare to the other versions throughout the years.

For more James Bond talk go back to this episode with the great Sergio Mims talking about No Time To Die and his personal relationship to this iconic character.

2:00 - Criterion (The Wiz 4K)

21:09 - Lionsgate (Air America 4K)

31:09 - Arrow (Swordfish 4K)

43:56 - WB (Sean Connery 007 4K)

1:22:11 New Theatrical & TV Titles on Blu-ray) (A Working Man, Drop, Borderline, In the Lost Lands, The Friend, Dexter - Original Sin: Season One, The Creep Tapes: Season One)

1:26:26 - New Blu-ray Announcements

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Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy go from the comically violent travails of adoptive parents Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells (I Don’t Understand You) to yet another exorcism film with Al Pacino and Dan Stevens (The Ritual). The creature that once stalked Schwarzenegger now gets animated (Predator: Killer of Killers) and a shark-loving serial killer leads to a cat-and-mouse battle on a boat (Dangerous Animals). Wes Anderson delivers his latest (The Phoenician Scheme), Mike Flanagan adapts another Stephen King novella (The Life of Chuck) and the World of John Wick gets a little bigger (Ballerina). Find out what is worth your time.

1:47 - I Don't Understand You

13:20 - The Ritual

25:13 - Predator: Killer of Killers

35:43 - Dangerous Animals

44:39 - The Phoenician Scheme

57:00 - The Life of Chuck

1:10:29 - Ballerina

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