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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

19:15

In the Heart of the Sea (2015) Chris Hemsworth – Movie

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2015/12/10

The main story is framed by fictional scenes of Herman Melville visiting the Nantucket home of Tom Nickerson, the last living survivor of the voyage of the "Essex". Nickerson is beyond reluctant to recount what happened, clearly still traumatized by an experience he deems to be unspeakable, but Melville's persistence, the insistence of Nickerson's wife, a tidy sum of money, and enough liquor to help him get through it, are enough to ultimately get him to open up and tell his story for the first

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14:30

Krampus (2015) Emjay Anthony, Adam Scott – Movie Review

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2015/12/05

It's Christmas time for one particular family, which means yet another gathering at the home of workaholic Tom and OCD Sarah, and the rest of the dysfunctional unit for three claustrophobic days that mostly involve snippy complaining and petty squabbling. Tom and Sarah's young son Max, at perhaps the last age when Santa Claus might still be seemingly real idea, writes a letter to the mythical North Pole resident that relates his wish of Christmas with his family being "like it used to be."

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21:57

Creed (2015) Michael B. Jordan, Stallone – Movie Review

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2015/11/28

Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Johnson, the illegitimate son of former world heavyweight champion boxer Apollo Creed, who died in the ring before he was born, and a woman Creed had an affair with who died while Adonis was a young boy. Apollo's widow Mary Anne pulls Adonis out of his hard-knock life foster care and juvenile hall to adopt him as her own son, raising Adonis to be a fine young man with a bright future in business. However, it seems Adonis is his father's son after all, opting to

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14:17

The Good Dinosaur (2015) Pixar, Disney – Movie Review

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2015/11/26

Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened bad the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are the ones that have advanced to learn how to speak and perform agriculture. We spy Poppa and Momma awaiting the hatching of three of their eggs, springing forth unruly Buck, enthusiastic Libby, and overly jumpy runt Arlo. Buck and Libby take readily to their parents instructions, but Arlo is always

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19:36

Brooklyn (2015) Saoirse Ronan – Movie Review

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2015/11/25

Set in the early 1950s, Saoirse Ronan stars as Eilis Lacey, whom we find at the beginning of the film as a young woman who has grown to not have much of a life worth bragging about in her quaint small town in Enniscorthy, Ireland, where she lives with her lonely widowed mother, Mary, and her kindly older sister, Rose. Eilis finds the town a bit stifling for her, especially working short hours for a bitter spinster who demeans her. She's been anxious for more, so when a kindly Irish priest living in

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19:15

Spotlight (2015) Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo – Movie...

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2015/11/23

In 2001, the Boston Globe's new editor-in-chief is Marty Baron, a Jewish media exec coming in from Miami to take over the reins of a paper that has always catered to a predominantly Catholic community and readership, but one on the cusp of primarily getting their news through their AOL connection and the World Wide Web. Baron's first order of business is in getting to the guts of what the paper does and try to make it relevant to the readers they serve, and, in a conversation with Walter "Robby"

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19:53

The Night Before (2015) Seth Rogen – Movie Review

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2015/11/22

Isaac, Ethan, and Chris are friends since childhood who've made it a point, after Ethan's parents are killed by a drunk driver, to get together on every Christmas Eve in order to party like there's no tomorrow. (Yes, they're going to commemorate someone else's drunken revelry that led to a tragedy that left one of them becoming an orphan by engaging in it themselves.) Now into their thirties and ready to get serious about family and career, they've decided that this year's night of debauchery will

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14:26

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015) – Movie Review

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2015/11/21

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is the fourth and final film based on the Suzanne Collins trilogy of young adult novels, and the story, as it reaches its big climax, shifts more into a war flick and less a sci-fi based satire, as it becomes a game of survival to see if Katniss can stay alive long enough to capture and kill the villainous President Coriolanus Snow. It's a decidedly darker film, not only in themes, but also in delivery, as the high-gloss shine of the aristocracy becomes

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16:50

The Peanuts Movie (2015) Blue Sky Studios – Movie...

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2015/11/20

Though the movie weaves many side stories in and out of it, the through-line of The Peanuts Movie is in whether or not Charlie Brown will strike up enough nerve to talk and get to know the new girl in the school he develops an instant crush on (he's dubbed her the Little Red-Headed Girl -- she's traditionally never actually seen in prior works, but we finally get a glimpse of her here). Taking place over the course of a school year, Charlie Brown seizes upon several opportunities to put himself on

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12:56

Room (2015) Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay – Movie Review

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2015/11/16

Emma Donoghue beautifully adapts her best-selling 2010 novel of the same name, about young woman named Joy Newsome (Brie Larson), who has been kidnapped and held as a captive for repeated sexual abuse in the soundproofed and electronically secured shed in the backyard of a deranged sexual predator for over seven years. In the shed with her is her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who was born and raised in captivity in that tiny environment that they simply call "Room", and whose

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20:18

Spectre (2015) Daniel Craig as James Bond – Movie Review

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2015/11/07

M is none too thrilled with the events of Bond's Mexican excursion, especially as it makes the proposed merger between MI5 and the more top-secret MI6 a reality, which will threaten to take out the 00 series of spies in favor of using hi-tech surveillance equipment like satellites and drones. This ends up resulting in a grounded 007 getting injected with a substance that allows his whereabouts to be tracked at all times so he doesn't go rogue again, which, of course, he's going to disregard.

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24:14

Steve Jobs (2015) Michael Fassbender – Movie Review

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2015/10/25

Steve Jobs is written by highly acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who scored big with another tech industry biography with 2008's The Social Network. Although Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography on Jobs published in 2011 provides many of the facts used in the film, Sorkin takes all of those facts and conversations and eaves them into its own fictional circumstances, setting all of the backstage drama in the ramp-up to three key product launches in the career of Jobs, 1984's Apple Macintosh,

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14:32

Crimson Peak (2015) Jessica Chastain – Movie Review

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2015/10/20

Starting off in Buffalo, NY, at the turn of the 20th century, Mia Wasikowska stars as an aspiring writer named Edith Cushing (nod to Hammer Horror thespian Peter Cushing , no doubt) is struggling to get publishers to accept her ghost story novel in an era in which female authors are relegated to the romance genre. Thought to be on a clear trajectory to become a spinster due to her independent spirit, Edith is soon courted by a well-to-do British man named Thomas Sharpe. The two eventually marry,

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18:32

Bridge of Spies (2015) Tom Hanks, Spielberg – Movie...

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2015/10/17

Set starting in 1957, in the midst of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Tom Hanks stars as New York-based insurance lawyer James B. Donovan, a by-the-book guy. Donovan is called upon by United States representatives to provide the legally defense for Rudolf Abel, a longtime Brooklyn resident who has been accused of espionage for the Soviet Union for many years. The United States feel it's an open-and-shut case, but Donovan still takes his role very seriously, unwilling to play

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26:05

Pan (2015) Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman – Movie Review

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2015/10/10

Starting out in London around 1930 we find a young and anguished mother leaving her newborn baby on the doorstep of an orphanage. During the bomb-ravaged times of World War II, years later, the baby grows into a spirited young lad, Peter, who quickly makes friends with the fellow boys in the orphanage, but even faster enemies with the badgering nuns that run the facility. Things get complicated when Peter learns that other boys have gone mysteriously missing in the night, and he wants to get to

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16:18

Sicario (2015) Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin – Movie Review

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2015/10/05

Emily Blunt stars as FBI agent and SWAT team member Kate Macer, whose services are enlisted in voluntarily helping out a mysterious group of black ops law-enforcement agents headed by drug war advisor Matt Graver (Brolin) and partner in crime-fighting in former Colombian prosecutor Alejandro (Del Toro), who are operating under the usual radar in their effort to deal with the extremely dangerous Mexican drug cartels that have begun to take firm root on the U.S./Mexican border, and have even spilled

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21:16

The Martian – Matt Damon, Ridley Scott – Movie Review

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2015/10/04

A NASA mission finds a group of scientists and astronauts on the surface of Mars collecting info and samples of the native soil. Their mission ends prematurely when a major dust storm flings rocks and other debris around, causing the crew to head toward their spacecraft to leave the area, leaving behind a fallen team member, Mark Watney, who has been presumed to have died during the storm. Only Watney doesn't die, though he is quite injured, but manages to make it back to the Mars station for a

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24:08

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) Movie Review

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2015/09/20

The Scorch Trials is the follow-up to the modest 2014 hit, The Maze Runner, based on the 2010 YA novel by James Dashner. We continue to follow Thomas and his fellow Gladers, now out of the original maze, taken to a research facility where they meet the main administrator, Janson, who tells them that they will be taken to a place where they will no longer be in danger, once they pass a series of tests. Thomas soon discovers that not everything is what it appears to be, and comes to the conclusion

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18:20

Black Mass (2015) Johnny Depp – Movie review

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2015/09/19

Based on the infamous true story from the late 1970s to early 1980s, Johnny Depp stars as James "Whitey" Bulger, a ruthless Irish-American crime boss who climbed the ladder to the top in south Boston as the leader of the Winter Hill Gang. In some part, it helps that his brother Billy is a highly influential politician in the area, but his biggest breakthrough on the fast-track to success comes when a childhood friend named John Connolly happens to be an FBI Agent assigned to take down crime bosses

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23:45

The Visit (2015) M. Night Shyamalan – Movie Review

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2015/09/12

Fifteen-year-old Becca and her slightly younger brother Tyler are sent for a week-long stay in rural Pennsylvania to stay at the home of the grandparents they've never met while their single mother decides to treat herself to a romantic cruise with her new beau. Their first time staying with the elderly for an extended period, the kids are disturbed by the behavior of their Nana and Pop Pop, including Nana's cavorting around the house nude in a manic state, or Pop Pop's tantrums and mysterious trips

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