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To the "90s and Beyond! Film Podcast

“To the 90’s and Beyond” offers concise deep-dives into the origin, making, production, trivia, and legacy for movies of the 1990s, as well as looks at newer films that were influenced by the films that came out in the 1990s, as well as sequels to those franchises that began or had presence in the decade.

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7:27

The Gemini Man (2019) | Ang Lee

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2019/10/18

Will Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a top-notch sniper and skilled combat fighter working for a black ops government agency named Gemini, performing one last kill before retiring from the assassin business at the ripe age of 50. He's the best at what he does but hates the man he's become, unable to even look at himself in the mirror without observing disappointment and pain. But just when he thinks he's pulling out, they pull him back in, discovering that he's been misled by his superior at Gemini,

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9:40

Joker (2019)

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2019/10/13

Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime in the early 1980s, Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, a man who has been dealing with mental challenges his entire life, with little to show for all of his efforts to keep on the sane path. One of his afflictions is his uncontrollable laughter when faced with things that make him anxious, which often gets him into further trouble on its own. He’s living in a Gotham City apartment with his ailing mother, Penny (Frances Conroy), trying to make it on his

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9:53

Hustlers (2019) | Lorene Scafaria

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2019/09/17

Starting off in 2007, Constance Wu stars as Destiny, a newbie stripper trying to make it in the clubs of New York's competitive environment in order to earn enough money to support her and her ailing grandmother. Backstage she meets and ends up being mentored by a legendary veteran stripper named Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), who completely cleans up in terms of money whenever she appears on the stage or off. However, the great recession of 2008 soon hits, with opportunities completely drying up to earn

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9:55

Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) | Paul Downs Colaizzo

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2019/09/10

Jillian Bell stars as Brittany Forgler, a broke and down-on-her-luck woman in her late 20s who moved from Philadelphia to New York to pursue a career that didn't quite pan out. Her quest for success doesn't motivate her so much as dropping out for fear of failure. She has a job she is ill-suited for and is overweight, spending much of her time living in the shadow of her perky and pretty roommate Gretchen, going to clubs where she buries her feelings into a toxic combination of drinking, drugs,

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13:35

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) | Tyler Nilson & Mike...

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2019/09/02

Zack Gottsagen is a young man with Down syndrome who is persistently trying to escape from his care facility in order to go meet his idol, a professional wrestler named the Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Curch), who runs a wrestling school in Florida, hoping to fulfill his dream of becoming a pro wrestler himself. Along the way from the shores of North Carolina, he meets a wayward neer-do-well named Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), who is on the run after practically destroying the business of a local crab

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Good Boys (2019) | Gene Stupnitsky

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2019/08/26

The raunchy story surrounds three 12-year-old boys, best friends since kindergarten, dubbing themselves the Bean Bag Boys because -- well, they all had beanbags. Now they're in middle school and finding it hard to cope with the pressure of their peers to be considered cool among them. Max (Jacob Tremblay) has a crush and might be able to finally make a connection with the object of his desires once he gets invited to a 'kissing party' where the popular kids are all going. Trouble is, he doesn't know

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10:37

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

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2019/08/05

Hattie (played by Vanessa Kirby) is an MI6 agent on a mission to keep a deadly virus named Snowflake, which can liquefy the internal organs of humans who contract it, from getting into the hands of a faction of mercenaries under the employ of an evil tech-based organization called Eteon, led by Brixton Lore (Idris Elba), a hi-tech assassin with technology-augmented senses that make him a swiss-army knife of deadly skills, something seen by the company as the future of a humanity soon to die off. In

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12:46

Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood (2019) | Quentin Tarantino

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2019/07/28

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Rick Dalton, a Hollywood star who is seeing his brightness fade in the ever-changing and fickle industry. Brad Pitt stars as Cliff Booth, his dedicated stuntman, chauffeur, and overall sidekick in life. The outlook looks bleaker each time out for both of them, as Dalton goes from leading-man roles in films to heavies on TV shows, mulling over advice to continue his career starring in Italian films rather than take a back seat in Hollywood. Meanwhile, Cliff ends up getting

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9:02

Fast Color (2018) | Julia Hart

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2019/07/19

Set sometime in a future in which natural resources like water have become scarce. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a recovering drug addict on the run due to the fact that she just might be someone who possesses some sort of seizure that reveals an earth-shattering (literally) superpower that causes a shift in tectonic plates that never move, making her the target for experimentation from government scientists. Broke and desperate, she ends up returning to the rural home he ran away from when she was

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9:51

Shaft (2019) | Tim Story

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2019/07/12

Thirty years ago, J.J. (Jessie T. Usher) was fathered by Samuel L. Jackson's Shaft, who was immediately estranged from his kid by the mother, Maya, who wants to keep her child's life from the daily danger that Shaft is surrounded by. Shaft keeps his toe in the water with J.J. by sending presents on birthdays and holidays that often show how out of touch he is, not only in what's going on in J.J.'s life but also in what is acceptable by standards of our less politically incorrect world. J.J. Shaft

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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) | Jon Watts

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2019/07/04

Jake Gyllenhaal gets to don the "fishbowl" as Quentin Beck, the interdimensional savior of Venice when a giant water monster surfaces to try to destroy the city. Peter Parker (Tom Holland) happens to be there at the time, as he has traveled to Europe for a week-long class trip. Peter, of course, is gifted with superhero powers, but doesn't have the "great responsibility of other incarnations of the character, and would rather just be a teenager and do teenage things, like trying to find a way to

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11:22

The Dead Don’t Die (2019) | Jim Jarmusch

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2019/06/26

After the Earth’s rotation is disturbed due to environmental fallout resulting from “polar fracking”, strange natural phenomena begin occurring all over the globe, including, in one area at least, the dead coming back to life to feast on the living. Bill Murray stars in his second zombie comedy as Cliff Robertson, the chief of police for the small, Mayberry-esque town of Centerville. He, along with his partner in fighting very little crime, officer Ronnie Peterson (Adam Driver) find themselves

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I Am Mother (2019) | Grant Sputore

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2019/06/20

n this thoughtful sci-fi film, Clara Rugaard plays a young teenager we only hear referred to as 'daughter' by 'mother', who is has an android body with a soothing woman's voice (Mother's finished voice-over acting provided by Rose Byrne). We soon come to find that Mother is an artificial intelligence robot that works within a facility that is raising children in order to learn how to properly nurture them to adulthood, for the purpose of one day repopulating the contaminated Earth that lies outside

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Men In Black: International (2019) | F. Gary Gray

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2019/06/15

For this fourth entry in the series, out are Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Instead, we get two new characters to follow working for the super-secret government organization to protect Earth from interdimensional threats and to keep knowledge of alien lifeforms away from human knowledge. The two are Tessa Thompson’s newly on-board Agent M and Chris Hemsworth’s roguish veteran named Agent H. The two “Men in Black” get their assignment from their boss, High T (Liam Neeson), to look after an alien of

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Dark Phoenix (2019) | Simon Kinberg

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2019/06/12

The plot, initially set in 1992 after a prologue with a tragic event in Jean Grey's childhood back in 1975, continues with the First Class set of mutants and involves a presidentially sanctioned trip into space in order to rescue a space shuttle. Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) commits an act of heroism in trying to keep the space shuttle together as the crew is rounded up to safety, absorbing a massive wave of energy that should have easily taken her life. She ends up surviving the ordeal, much to

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | Michael...

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2019/06/09

Eco-terrorist Alan Jonah (Charles Dance), who has taken as hostage a paleobiologist under the employ of the Titan-research group known as Monarch, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), along with her teenage daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown), to utilize Orca, an experimental mind-control technology she created to try to control the Titans, the giant monsters of the Earth that he sees as protecting the planet from humanity's continued exploitation and destruction, effectively by destroying most of

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Always Be My Maybe (2019) | Nahnatchka Khan

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2019/06/01

The main premise is that two childhood friends, Sasha Tran (Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park), end up consummating their time growing up together as Asian-American teens in San Francisco with their first sexual experience, only to find their friendship has become awkward after going beyond the friend zone. These besties soon drift apart and lose connection as they progress into adulthood, with Sasha hitting the big time by becoming one of the most successful celebrity chefs in Los Angeles,

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Booksmart (2019) | Olivia Wilde

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2019/05/27

BFFs Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) have busted their tails off academically all through high school to set themselves up for post-graduation excellence, with Molly accepted to Yale and Amy going on a mission to help the poor in Africa. Their world gets rocked when they realize that the kids around them that looked like they just lived for partying are also going to similarly great colleges, or have lucrative careers waiting for them. Upset that they sacrificed all their fun for

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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) | Chad...

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2019/05/19

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum spins off its plot from something that happens in the second chapter, namely that John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is now "excommunicado" by the High Table that controls the world's leading organization of assassins for killing someone inside the assassin's "sacred ground" of the Continental Hotel in New York - a big no-no. that sees a huge bounty put on his head. John has very few places he can run, and he'll eventually run out of safe havens, but he means to keep himself

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The Professor (2018) | Wayne Roberts

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2019/05/18

Johnny Depp stars as an English professor for a prestigious New England college named Richard Brown who learns he has late-stage lung cancer and probably only six months to live without treatment, which he doesn't plan on seeking. On top of this, Richard is also a terminally bored, self-absorbed jerk whose own life has been falling apart long before this diagnosis. His wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) is cheating on him, with the chancellor at his school (Ron Livingston), no less. Now he can say whatever he

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