June 28, 2019
[School of Movies 2019]
We haven't covered Pixar for an astonishing eight years, since the Toy Story trilogy of early 2011, so rather than starting from A Bug's Life and continuing through their entire library in the style of our Disney series we're going to cherry-pick our favourites when we have something to really say about them.
In this case we begin anew with our top choice, the 2015 story of emotions embodied within the head of a tween girl. And to get the best angle we brought in a pair of psychologists
Guests:
Dr Hunter Mulcare @realhuntermmm
Amy Donaldson of @TwoShrinksPod
June 21, 2019
[School of Movies 2019]
Time to close the book on the Fox X-Men movies and the podcast series that Sharon and I started in 2014.
If you haven't seen the film (and statistically this is the case) we will talk you through it. We can't spoil anything. There's no surprises TO spoil. It might sound like we're furious and that we hate this thing, but our response is something more like intense disappointment spread over two decades, so that it becomes *expected* disappointment. It stems from a place of frustration that it was THESE people who got handed the keys to such a potentially fascinating city for so very long.
But we always like to look for the good in things and accordingly we root out the best aspects over the years and give credit where it's due.
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June 14, 2019
[School of Movies 2019]
A film that immediately filled the majority of critics with derision, disdain and disgust. Now we don't want to say the majority of critics are wrong, but if they're saying there's no character to this and nothing below the surface then we don't have much choice, do we?
Because what we have here is a joyful epic, a loopy sci-fi about the old Gods coming back to reclaim the Earth, leaving mankind running around their gargantuan feet just hoping the more benevolent ones win. But those Gods are representational, and that conflict means something.
For fans of kaiju movies this is the big-budget fun-fest they've always dreamed of. For us, we see a measure of depth and detail that is being overlooked by almost everyone (much like with Pacific Rim) and spotlighting that nuance is what this show was made for.
To help us out and put things in perspective we recruited a crew of Godzilla fans who adored this film.
Guests:
Bob Chipman @the_moviebob of The Escapist & Geek.com
Brendan Foley @TheTrueBrendanF of Cinapse
Dan Hoeppner @MightyMegatron0 of Leftover Army Monsters
And we are @SchoolOfMovies
June 7, 2019
[School of Movies 2019]
With the release of Men in Black: International we went back to the original trilogy starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Mr Jones' younger model Josh Brolin.
And what a wildly mixed bag we have here. The first is excellent, though almost too brief, the second is an atrocious unfunny mess and the third (which most people didn't see because they were so put off by the second) is actually quite a dedicated time travel sci-fi tale with a sudden, disarming emotional punch at the end.
We recommend seeing 1 and 3 if you haven't yet. Just hearing about 2 will be quite enough.
0h 01m Men in Black
0h 57m Men in Black II
1h 40m Men in Black 3
