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Sober Cinema

Michael Denniston and Jairo Benavides

A movie podcast that"s late... but still too early.

tv & film film reviews

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00:39:16

1996 at the Movies: EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/13

Twenty-five years of listening to actors who can't sing do just that. But that's not really the problem here. It's two Kentucky hillbillies and the International Man of Mystery from Peru trying to understand the plight of the wealthy whites as often seen in Mr. Allen's filmography. Also the underage women (hello Ms. Natalie Portman) that are usually involved in the Woodmeister's films. Dangerous territory. But we are brave enough to tackle such things and also yet again mention the greatness of Nick

00:34:34

1996 at the Movies: THE CRUCIBLE

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/13

Twenty-five years of Daniel Day-Lewis yelling. Joan Allen puts up with a lot in this flick. The lack of adequate dental care. A husband with a wandering eye. A young up and comer smearing her face with chicken blood and placing curses on you. And then... not even welcome at church. It's a party in THE CRUCIBLE. Enjoy. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo

00:44:09

1996 at the Movies: SLING BLADE

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/13

Twenty-five years of waking up to the roommate from the garage holding a hammer over your bed. In what is our most important episode of 1996 we discuss the many merits of Billy Bob Thornton's SLING BLADE: Was John Ritter's version of the hight and tight a bold move in mid 90s Arkansas? Dwight Yoakam's drunk boyfriend is a man of many moods when imbibing. He contains multitudes. How many weeks old are the underwear that Robert Duvall wears in his silent confrontation from his command post of the

00:33:47

1996 at the Movies: THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/12

Twenty-five years of Barbara Streisand not being Michelle Pfeiffer. And that's just fine with two thirds of the hosts on this podcast. Rita Kempley of The Washington Post... well she had some harsh words for The Barbara. No matter. We can't all be Catwoman and in this film that's not what Mr. Bridges wants in a romantic partner. This opens the door for your hosts to try and figure out what exactly they want in a partner. If that partner happened to be Ms. Streisand. We come to no conclusions

00:34:06

1996 at the Movies: RANSOM

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/11

Twenty-five years of Lieutenant Dan hating Nick Nolte's kid. Delroy Lindo returns to the podcast from his rousing performance in FEELING MINNESOTA to once again be the voice of reason. Unfortunately he is trying to coach Mel Gibson... who has his own hangups. BUT as a movie podcast that hates children and mostly tolerates the films we select, a story about a father seeing a chance to not lose millions of dollars while ALSO losing his child? Intriguing. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon

00:32:08

1996 at the Movies: ROMEO + JULIET

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/11

Twenty-five years of passing on Claire Danes. Because that is legal and right. However when she got to HOMELAND her crazy face was just the medicine three old men needed BUT let's get to less dangerous ground. Like the curiosity that was Dash Mihok's career. That was weird. A cat fight between John Leguizamo and Harold Perrineau? Not weird at all. Also Leo is in this too. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on

00:29:06

1996 at the Movies: THINNER

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/10

Twenty-five years of Stephen King asking us to sympathize with an ungrateful husband. Here at SOBER CINEMA we are nothing if not sex positive. And sometimes we also talk about movies. This time it's the 1996 classic on oral pleasure amongst married individuals in Stephen King's THINNER. Enjoy it with a large meal. Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo

00:34:49

1996 at the Movies: SLEEPERS

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/04

Twenty-five years since Kevin Bacon ordered the wrong dinner. And made some other mistakes along the way. Thankfully a cast of movie stars such as Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Billy Crudup and... Ron Eldard (?) fix the glitch of Barry Levinson's SLEEPERS. Then everything is as it should be again. We only avoid the plot of this film in show notes because it would make for terrible SEO so instead let's mention our love for Minnie Driver here. Especially in GROSSE POINTE BLANK. The rest of it..

00:31:51

1996 at the Movies: THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS

Sober Cinema ·

2022/01/03

Twenty-five years of Val Kilmer playing Home Alone in Africa... ...and still being more ridiculous than Macaulay Culkin. But not in a fun Christmas classic sort of way. More of a not-so-classic white savior trope. And normally we like that sort of thing here at SOBER CINEMA. But not this time! For there is no hand to hand combat with these lions. Only endless monologues and failure. Tom Wilkinson gets a pass for being a huge ass but everyone else in this movie turns us back to more BOUND discussion

00:34:25

1996 at the Movies: BOUND

Sober Cinema ·

2021/12/31

Twenty-five years of back and to the left with this Wachowskis caper. Apologies to Joey Pants but only one host has the appropriate appreciation for Ms. Tilly and Ms. Gershon's efforts in this gift from heaven in the barren wasteland that is cinema of 1996. Or you could listen to the idiot that loved CHAIN REACTION. Unfortunately you have to (only so much can be improved in the edit) but we eventually talk about the importance of a disciplined crew and which of these two lovely ladies would be the

00:35:50

1996 at the Movies: 2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY

Sober Cinema ·

2021/12/30

Twenty-five years of still being creeped out by James Spader being that close to Charlize Theron. The one thing we can all be grateful for when it comes to this mid90s Tarantino ripoff is that it gave Ms. Theron her start. And the world was a better place. We spend about half the episode on this fact and eventually make our way to a more titillating look at sad sacks in the valley with Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece BOOGIE NIGHTS. As it should be, Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon

00:39:15

1996 at the Movies: THE FIRST WIVES CLUB

Sober Cinema ·

2021/12/29

Twenty-five years of Stockard Channing being an unfortunate inspiration. The hosts of SOBER CINEMA were initially concerned about being two middle-aged men picking on older women... until this box-office hit from 1996 did it for us. But just to cover our bases we brought on the world's biggest Diane Keaton fan in Derek Stewart of THE GRAND GESTURE podcast and unfortunately for him he meets a new superfan of Bette Midler. Also Goldie Hawn. She's done well for herself. She slept with Kurt Russell. But

00:36:49

1996 at the Movies: FEELING MINNESOTA

Sober Cinema ·

2021/12/06

Twenty-five years of Keanu being confused. And why wouldn't he be by the uncomfortable shifts in tone in this mid90s Tarantino ripoff? However we have bigger questions, SUCHAS: How dirty does a bathroom have to be before you wouldn't have sex with Cameron Diaz in it? Does it matter if said bathroom has been used more than once (though once is enough) by the bug from MEN IN BLACK? And back to the bathroom business... one host is ready to answer in the affirmative even if it's the stall from

1996 at the Movies: SWINGERS

Sober Cinema ·

2021/12/02

Yes, this is kind of like Vince Vaughn unpausing the Sega Genesis game of hockey... ...but if we didn't cover HAPPY GILMORE then we most certainly were not talking Adam Sandler's lesser known 1996 comedy BULLETPROOF. Unlike that wide release Jon Favreau and friends were making the festival circuit in fall of 96 and your hosts of SOBER CINEMA were nowhere near it. For one host it would be stumbling across this gem on cable. For another host it was the above host quoting this movie incessantly and

00:29:50

1996 at the Movies: THE TRIGGER EFFECT

Sober Cinema ·

2021/12/01

We prepare for the breakdown of society caused by confusing Dermot Mulroney with Dylan McDermott. As 2020 proved... nothing can be agreed upon ESPECIALLY with the talents of Ms. Shue standing in between with her futile attempts at mediation in David Koepp's THE TRIGGER EFFECT. Along the way we learn about the inherent madness of participating in one host's homeowner's association and perhaps less strangely the participation of auteur David Cronenberg in a Tom Arnold comedy called THE STUPIDS. This

00:30:29

1996 at the Movies: THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU

Sober Cinema ·

2021/11/30

This is an episode about blowholes. And penile implants. Also it's sometimes about John Frankenheimer's bullpen assignment for the Val Kilmer starring THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. Two boys lost all faith in cinema that day while somewhere in Peru... a man wanted to become a bigger man. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/Google Podcasts Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson

00:32:32

1996 at the Movies: THE FAN

Sober Cinema ·

2021/11/29

Wesley Snipes vs. Robert De Niro in a movie that is not HEAT. It's also not SEVEN. Or even THE SANDLOT. It just stinks. And we'd rather be watching Tony Scott's THE HUNGER. But that also goes for every movie. Enjoy! Listen: Apple Podcasts/Spotify Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @sobercinema Follow your hosts on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS: Jairo @truebromance Jared @jgdotson Josh @SoberCinema Mike @projectingfilm Find out more at https://sobercinema.pinecast.co This podcast is

00:33:53

1996 at the Movies: JACK

Sober Cinema ·

2021/11/28

Francis Ford Coppola apologized for the third GODFATHER with... JACK. And we never knew how good we had it with Sofia Coppola's acting until we saw a much beloved comedian facing impending death and impending baldness in a film now relegated to terrifying children on Disney Plus. But back in 1996 we were innocent. And then Bill Cosby walked onscreen as a mentor to a ten year old kid with the sexual desires of a forty year old. On that day we turned into men. Deviant men. Enjoy! Listen: Apple

00:24:40

1996 at the Movies: CHAIN REACTION

Sober Cinema ·

2021/11/24

Twenty-five years of Michael Shannon being The Pride of Chicago. That may be a bit misleading but one of our hosts named Jairo is an idiot. He attempts an overcorrection by praising the followup to THE FUGITIVE from auteur Andrew Davis in the Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz on the run movie about some science stuff. Morgan Freeman uses that great voice to try to talk Keanu down from the public fat shaming that never came for his girth in this film while Ms. Weisz waits for SPEED to drag her around to

00:32:23

1996 at the Movies: A TIME TO KILL

Sober Cinema ·

2021/11/16

Twenty-five years of choosing Ashley Judd over Sandra Bullock... ...along with some other tragedies in Joel Schumacher's adaptation of John Grisham's A TIME TO KILL. The finest film podcast from the South have a few notes to give the filmmakers: We accept all cast members sweating profusely EXCEPT for Brenda Fricker. More Oliver Platt. Less Kevin Spacey. More Olvier Platt sweating. PROFUSELY. All of this and more as one Florida Man schools two Kentuckians on just why this film represents The

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