Cinemaholics

Hey kids! It's almost December, and you know what that means! Roughly 40 minutes of Will Ashton and the It Ain't Ogre Til It's Ogre podcast crew talking about a Dr. Seuss adaptation featuring your favorite Benedict Cumberbatch-voiced Illumination-produced holiday-stealing green bad boy. That's right, Will, Chris, and Matt are talking about the recently released The Grinch, and wow do they have some insights to share about this animated film based on the classic holiday tale.

The film otherwise known as Wreck-It Ralph 2 has just hit theaters like a box office smashing wrecking ball, but did Ralph break our expectations, too? We discuss and review this new Disney film along with Green Book, The Christmas Chronicles, Robin Hood, and Cam, so tune in for yet another packed episode.

Happy Flicksgiving! Per the request of one of our patrons, we're retro reviewing The Hateful Eight, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, and Walton Goggins. The film originally came out at the tail end of 2015, so what our thoughts three years later?

Should we Expelliarmus this new Harry Potter prequel sequel from our minds (wait, is that Obliviate?) Special guest Tyler Carlin of the Bacon and Eggs podcast joins us to discuss the latest misadventures of Newt Scamander in J.K. Rowlings Wizarding World of movies. We also review The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Instant Family, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Bodied, Burning, and more!

October is dead and gone, but Overlord brings some gore-infused horror back to the big screen right on time for the holidays. The Cinemaholics review this new WWII historically revisionist war movie (but with Nazi zombies) from director Julius Avery. Plus we review The Grinch, Widows, Outlaw King, and The Front Runner.

Is Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury's real life, or is it just fantasy? Well, the Cinemaholics are caught in a landslide of controversey surrounding Fox's new biopic starring Rami Malek about the iconic band's rise to fame in the 70s and 80s. Also in this show, the gang reviews Suspiria, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The Haunting of Hill House, Wildlife, and Boy Erased.

Get ready for one badical review. This week, we discuss the new A24 coming of age skater film written and directed by Jonah Hill and starring Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston, and a host of talented newcomers. Later in the show, we also review "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," Johnny English Strikes Again, "Red Dead Redemption 2," and "Kidding."

Is Halloween...scary good? This week, we review the latest followup to the 1978 classic horror film of the same name, directed this time by David Gordon Green with Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprising their roles as original final girl Laurie Strode and unkillable serial killer Michael Myers. We also review The Hate U Give, Apostle, and more!

Drew Goddard directed and wrote this new neo-noir thriller about one night gone horribly wrong at a hotel with some disturbing, dark secrets. Starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, and more, this ensemble piece had all of us at Cinemaholics talking, so we decided to do a special Last Call episode to give the film it's due.

The review has landed, but does First Man have wings? That's what we're here to find out. Damien Chazelle's latest film promises to be his prestige hat trick at the Oscars, with starring roles for Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy that might be out of this world. Also in this week's show, we review some new Netflix movies like Hold the Dark and 22 July, plus new seasons for "Big Mouth" and "American Vandal." Next week, we'll be diving into Bad Times at the El Royale due to scheduling conflicts, so we apologize for the wait!

T.J. Wolsos, cofounder of PixarPost.com, joins Jon for our latest Happy Hour topic: are the best Pixar films behind us? Jon and T.J. discuss the current state of Pixar Animation Studios, from their work culture and recent scandals to the actual movies they have slated for the next decade. This is one conversation about Pixar you don't want to miss.

Get ready to sink your teeth into our double feature review of Venom and A Star is Born, this week's double wide release. Is Venom too toxic for audiences? And should moviegoers get loud for the latest remake of A Star is Born? Also, stay tuned for our exclusive interview with Joe Morton, star of the new CBS show "God Friended Me."

Welcome to our first ever Cinemaholics Happy Hour, a new bonus episode series where one of us sits down with a special guest to discuss just one topic that's on our minds. This week, Cinemaholics host Jon Negroni sits down with Alisha Grauso to discuss the controversy surrounding Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn and his recent firing from Disney. Jon and Alisha chat about how this will affect the Marvel franchise moving forward, what it means to forgive celebrities, and a whole lot more.

We're breaking the "pattern" this week and we just might lose our minds reviewing Maniac, the new limited series on Netflix directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. We also air our interview with Karey Kirkpatrick, the director of Smallfoot, then review the film ourselves along with Hell Fest, The Hate U Give, Night School, and plenty more.

It's finally time for our long-anticipated Q&A episode! We gathered questions from Cinemaholics listeners all across the internet and did our best to answer them. We discussed our most overrated and underrated films, debated which decade of film is better than the other, relived our final Blockbuster Video memories, and a whole lot more. It's a packed episode filled with passionate dialogue about some of our favorite and not-so-favorite films ever, featuring Sam Noland of the Anyway, That's All I Got podcast!