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To the "90s and Beyond! Film Podcast

A concise deep-dive look at the films of the 1990s, as well as newer films that were influenced by them. Hosted by Vince Leo, author of the review site Qwipster.net.

tv & film film history

All Episodes

7:27

The Finest Hours (2016) Chris Pine – Movie Reviews

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2016/01/29

Based on a true story, The Finest Hours is set mostly in winter of 1952, where, off of the snowy coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, an oil tanker called the SS Pendleton would be split in half due to a vicious nor-easter and massive 60-foot swells, with one half sinking immediately to the bottom of the ocean, while the other half sinking much more slowly, with the thirty-three men on board desperate to try to figure out a way to stay alive in the freezing, turbulent chaos, hoping to figure out a way

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9:13

Macbeth (2015) Fassbender, Cotillard – Movie Review

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2016/01/27

Michael Fassbender stars as Macbeth, who is foretold by three sisters of mystical powers that he will one day be the king in Scotland. Lady Macbeth, a firm believer in the prophecy, convinces her husband, who is a heartbeat away from ascending to the throne, to murder Scottish King Duncan and become the leader of the land. However, once that threshold to murder has been breached, it becomes a toxic force in the lives of the new king and queen, as Macbeth finds himself all-too-willing to snuff out

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8:57

The Boy (2016) Lauren Cohan – Movie Review

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2016/01/25

Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, an American woman who takes a job as a nanny in England in order to get away from a dangerously abusive and obsessed ex. It's a large and isolated country mansion owned by an older couple called the Heelshires, who expect Greta to cater to the every needs of their eight-year-old boy, Brahms, as they go away on holiday. Greta finds out the reason why they've had difficulty keeping prior nannies on hire once she meets Brahms, as he turns out to be a doll, literally,

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11:51

The 5th Wave (2016) Chloe Grace Moretz – Movie Review

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2016/01/24

Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Ohioan teenager Cassie Sullivan, whom we first meet in a post-apocalyptic world fighting for her survival. We flash back to how this world came to be, starting with the appearance of a massive alien spaceship in the sky. After four waves of cataclysmic "plagues" that include such things as tsunamis and a deadly virus, human beings begin to suspect that "the Others" are trying to take the planet and don't want humans on it when they do. Dealing with the separation from

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14:03

Dirty Grandpa (2016) Robert De Niro, Zac Efron –...

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2016/01/23

De Niro plays Dick Kelly, a very recent widower who is being driven by his uptight corporate lawyer grandson Jason from the former's home in Georgia to his Boca vacation home, and the latter's marriage celebration and ceremony in Florida. After 40 years of having only sex with one woman, grandpa Dick is ready to get his perv on by sowing his wild oats with college girls in Daytona Beach partying for spring break, and persistently cajoles Jason to try to remove the stick from his bum and party along

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13:48

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)...

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2016/01/18

13 Hours takes place during a volatile time in Libya, shortly after the overthrow and murder of their dictator, Muammar Guadaffi in 2011. Various factions began their scramble for power, starting with raiding the government arsenals for high-powered weaponry, as other countries, sensing the instability that could lead to atrocities, pulled out of their embassies in the area. The U.S. did keep a small outpost of diplomats in the city of Benghazi, as well as a hidden CIA annex not far away that was

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9:25

Ride Along 2 (2016) Kevin Hart, Ice Cube – Movie Review

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2016/01/16

We pick up not long after the first entry with Hart's character, Ben Barber, now a probationary officer for the Atlanta Police Department. He's just a little over a week away from marrying his beloved fiancée Angela, sister of his former reluctant partner-in-crime-fighting James Payton. Once again, James finds himself in a situation in which he decides to take Ben as a partner in order to embarrass him by showing just how over his head he will be in dealing with real dangerous criminals, as the

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12:59

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) documentary – Movie Review

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2016/01/14

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a documentary on Alfred Hitchcock, his influence on other filmmakers in history, including Francois Truffaut, who wrote a definitive book on the man through a series of interviews over the course of one week in 1962.

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11:39

45 Years (2015) Charlotte Rampling – Movie Reviews

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2016/01/03

On the verge of celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary, wife Kate is putting together all of the necessities for their big party at an esteemed hall in the English countryside, while husband Geoff seems to be preoccupied. What's been on his mind has stemmed from a letter he's received that the body of the woman he was involved with before he met Kate, a woman named Katya, has been found frozen in a glacier in Switzerland, preserved nearly as it had been since she fell into a fissure as they

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17:18

Top 10 Films of 2015 – Best movies

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2016/01/02

The end-of-they-year podcast. Vince Leo runs down his favorite films of the year 2015, as well as some honorable mentions. Happy New Year everyone!

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18:11

Anomalisa (2015) Charlie Kaufman – Movie Review

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2015/12/31

The main character is unhappily married, middle-aged self-help author and occupational speaker Michael Stone, who has traveled for a one-day stay in Cincinnati in order to deliver a lecture at a convention for those in the customer service industry. Michael is bored, lonely, and sad; he isn't someone who particularly likes being around other people, and yet he also can't seem to tolerate having to be left alone with his own thoughts. Ironic that he has become an expert in giving good customer

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26:35

Chi-Raq (2015) Spike Lee, Nick Cannon – Movie Review

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2015/12/30

Set in Chicago's South Side, there are two warring gangs who've been committing violent crimes against each other for years, the purple-clad Spartans and the Trojans, dressed in orange. Chi-Raq, aka Demetrius Dupree, is the head of the Spartans, and he's down the eyepatch-sporting Trojan Cyclops and all of his men before his own get taken down. However, in the gunfire between the two men, an eleven-year old girl is killed by one of their strays, and no one is brave enough to snitch against the

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16:24

Carol (2015) Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara – Movie Review

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2015/12/26

Set just before Christmas in the early 1950s, Rooney Mara co-stars as Therese Belivet, a young and shy Manhattan shopgirl who ends up waiting on a sophisticated socialite named Carol Aird, who is looking for the right present to get for her young daughter, Lindy. Carol means to make a separation from her husband Harge and wants to make the present something special to ease the transition for the young girl, especially as her parents will likely be tied up in a battle for custody for the

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14:35

Daddy’s Home (2015) Ferrell, Wahlberg – Movie Review

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2015/12/25

Will Ferrell stars as New Orleans smooth jazz ratio station exec Brad Whitaker, who has a loving wife in Sarah, and two stepchildren who haven't quite come around to accepting him as their new father. Things seem to be on the up and up until Sarah's deadbeat ex, Dusty Mayron, decides he wants to pay a visit, triggering lots of feelings of jealousy and insecurity when it turns out that Dusty is seen as the epitome of cool to his kids in all of the ways Brad can never be. Thinking he needs to up his

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33:49

The Hateful Eight (2015) Quentin Tarantino – Movie...

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2015/12/25

Set in a wintry Wyoming in the late 19th Century, we start the film off with ex-Union soldier turned bounty hunter named Major Marquis Warren, who stops a stagecoach in the middle of travel through a desolate mountain pass just ahead of a major snowstorm. On board the stagecoach is a fellow bounty hunter, John 'The Hangman' Ruth, who, unlike Marquis, takes his dead-or-alive bounties in while they're still breathing so they will be hanged at the public square. The other passenger is one of those

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17:02

The Big Short (2015) Christian Bale – Movie Review

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2015/12/24

Bolstered by a dynamite cast, The Big Short has several converging story threads, beginning with a socially awkward hedge-fund manager named Dr. Michael Burry, who determines that the subprime mortgage industry is a bubble built on a slew of misguided practices that's inevitably going to burst, so he invests his company's available assets, totaling 1.3 billion dollars, to bet against them. Douchebag banker Jared Vennett, who also serves as the film's narrator, catches wind of Burry's activities and

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13:47

Joy (2015) Jennifer Lawrence – Movie Review

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2015/12/22

Jennifer Lawrence stars as the titular Joy, whom we meet as a young girl with a head full of interesting ideas on how to make life great. Real life seemed to squash those early dreams, opting not to go to college despite being the valedictorian of her high school, and then entering in through a short-lived marriage and raising two kids mostly on her own. Her home life in Long Island is like a kooky sitcom, with a shut-in mother hooked on soaps in one bedroom, a Venezuelan lounge singer ex-husband

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15:41

The Revenant (2015) Leonardo DiCaprio – Movie Review

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2015/12/21

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Hugh Glass, who is mauled by a mama grizzly bear while out with a hunting party of fur trappers, leaving him barely clinging to life with severe trauma and a plethora of injuries. Glass's teenage son Hawk (a fictional character added for dramatic effect), who was the son of a murdered Pawnee lover, won't leave his side, though that also leaves him largely unprotected among a group of men with their own prejudices, and their own reasons to hate the natives of the area,

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21:25

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) JJ Abrams – Movie...

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2015/12/19

An orb-like droid named BB-8 has some technology placed within him that contains a map showing the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, and there are several interested parties, some benevolent and some evil, that desperately want to get a hold of this for their own purposes. In protection of the droid are a scavenger from the desert planet of Jakku named Rey, a failed stormtrooper turned hero nicknamed Finn, intergalactic smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca, and, to a lesser extent, a resistance pilot

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13:37

The Lobster (2015) Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz –...

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2015/12/16

Greek writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos directs this strange alternate universe, near-future setting, which feels cold, oppressive, and bizarre. It's his first English-language feature-length effort, with a little French thrown in, still quite astute, even if it's not his mother tongue thanks to the uniqueness of the story and a very solid cast, most of whom are in complete deadpan mode. Many of the characters have been stripped away from their emotions, as if there is little joy to be found in

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