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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

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19:35

Meru (2015) Jimmy Chin – documentary movie review

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2015/08/29

Sacred Himalayan peak Meru Peak in northern India, at nearly 22,000 feet, may not be the tallest mountain in the world, but it is one of the most difficult to climb. It's so difficult that, at least prior to this documentary's footage, it had never been scaled successfully, even by several of the world's best mountain climbers who've tried repeatedly, ultimately failing once they get to the precipitous "Shark's Fin" of the mountain's central of three peaks, where climbing is slow, the harsh climate

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29:48

Straight Outta Compton (2015) NWA biopic – Movie Review

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2015/08/17

Straight Outta Compton gives us the basic origins of the group N.W.A.'s three most well-known members, Dre, Cube, and Eazy-E, the latter of whom would turn some of the money he accrued while drug-dealing into launching his own record label, Ruthless Records, and made it a local success. Their radio buzz puts them on the radar of music talent manager Jerry Heller, who impresses on them that he has the chops in the business to take them to the next level of success, securing a record deal to give

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12:09

The End of the Tour (2015) Jason Segel – Movie Review

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2015/08/16

After a prologue featuring David Lipsky hearing the news of David Foster Wallace's suicide in 2008, we flash back to 1996 for most of the duration, as the journalist travels to Wallace's home on the outskirts of Bloomington, Illinois for a few days before they head out to the final stop in Minneapolis, trying to pick his brain without being too pushy. The reserved author is very tight-lipped about things that are too personal in nature, which leads to a good deal of testiness on Wallace's part.

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16:52

The Gift (2015) Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman – Movie...

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2015/08/09

Jason Bateman stars as Simon, who has just moved to hometown Los Angeles from Chicago with his wife Robyn and St. Bernard, Mr. Bojangles. Robyn has decided to stay at home to work while Simon heads off to corporate-land due to some unstable moments of paranoia and fear in her past, including the trauma of losing an unborn child before it came to term. While purchasing some items for their new home, Simon is approached by a man he once went to high school with, Gordon, and, out of politeness,

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30:11

Fantastic Four (2015) Miles Teller, Kate Mara – Movie...

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2015/08/08

Miles Teller plays Reed Richards in his older form, who has invented, with assistance from his best and only friend Ben Grimm, a contraption that apparently allows it to teleport an object somewhere else and have it return back to the invention. Reed initially thinks that place it goes is on Earth, but he's later informed that he has created an inter-dimensional transporter that is connected to another planet full of all kinds of crazy energy that gets him linked up with Dr. Franklin Storm, the head

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23:40

Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (Tom Cruise) – Movie...

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2015/08/01

Ethan Hunt has to go it on his own as the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), for all intents and purposes, is shut down by the CIA head Alan Hunley for a lack of results on their latest mission, plus mishaps such as the Kremlin getting destroyed from their previous mission (as chronicled in the fourth M:I flick, Ghost Protocol). Hunt really wants to take down shadowy international terrorism syndicate leader Solomon Lane, who has been orchestrating a series of seemingly unrelated catastrophes for a

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15:04

Vacation (2015) Ed Helms, Christina Applegate – Movie...

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2015/07/29

Econo Airline pilot Rusty eavesdrops on a conversation in which his wife Debbie discusses how bored she's become of the routine in their marriage, exemplified by the usual Sheboygan cabin they rent every year around Memorial Day, Rusty decides to surprise her and their sons with something new -- a cross-country road trip from Chicago to So-Cal's Walley World, just like he had when he was a lad. Renting a similar family wagon in the Tartan Prancer, which contains features seemingly just to have

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23:37

Pixels (2015) Adam Sandler, Kevin James – Movie Review

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2015/07/25

In 1982, Sam Brenner was one of the best video gamers around his local arcade. But not THE best, as he would eventually lose in a Worldwide Video Arcade Championship competition to the cocky, pimp-voiced, and mulleted Eddie "The Fireblaster" Plant, who bests him at the wildly popular "Donkey Kong" to steal the victory. NASA had sponsored the event, and used the footage from the competition to send up to space, where it would eventually be found by aliens who take what they find as a declaration of

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14:22

Trainwreck (2015) Amy Schumer, Judd Apatow – Movie...

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2015/07/22

Comedian Amy Schumer gets her chance to shine on the big screen with Trainwreck, playing, appropriately, Amy, working by day as a journalist at a men's lifestyle and celebrity gossip publication, but who drinks hard, gets high, and carouses with the opposite sex even harder when not on the clock. Life's in a predictable pattern of not getting too committed to things until she is assigned a piece on a famous sports doctor named Aaron. Meanwhile, Amy has even more on her plate when her philandering,

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23:13

Marvel’s Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) – Antman Movie Review

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2015/07/21

There's actually more than one Ant-Man in the film, as we start with the original, Dr. Hank Pym, a leading scientist, and inventor of the "Pym Particle", which allows things, including people, to shrink own to ant-size, or more, but with enhanced strength. Through a series of ingenious plays, Pym manages to get his Ant Suit into the hands of resourceful (but jobless) cat burglar Scott Lang, recently released from prison for theft on a corporate scale, though he did it to return money the company

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27:49

Terminator Genisys (Emilia Clarke Jai Courtney) Movie...

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2015/07/02

Terminator Genisys starts in 2029, with the end of the rebellion against Skynet HQ, which makes it, essentially, both a prequel and a sequel to The Terminator, as we see the T-800 played by Schwarzenegger go back to 1984 and try to assassinate Sarah Connor, to make sure her son, John, will never be born, and therefore, not be able to lead humanity to victory against the machines. Following not long behind to keep this from happening is Kyle Reese, who soon discovers that he and the the killer

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18:37

Dope (2015) Shameil Moore Zoe Kravitz – Movie Review

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2015/06/22

Shameik Moore stars as Malcolm, a geeky high school senior with Harvard aspirations living in "The Bottoms", one of the toughest neighborhoods in Inglewood, California. When he's not trying to avoid crossing the paths of troublemakers, he's spending time with his best friends Diggy and Jib playing in their pop-punk band, or diving head first into 1990s hip-hop, including sporting the high-top fade hair style and colorful fashion of the "Yo! MTV Raps" era.One day, Malcolm runs into one of those

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19:24

Inside Out (Pixar, Disney, Amy Poehler) Movie Review

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2015/06/20

The basic premise of this film is that we're given the emotional inner workings of a young girl in Minnesota named Riley (Dias, The Shifting), through the personification of her feelings -- Joy (Poehler, They Came Together), Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger -- and how they try to coordinate to navigate her way through life in as safe and secure a way possible, looking out as if from the control tower of her mind's eye, through the many stages in life. Now eleven years old, this is a particularly

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21:57

Jurassic World (Chris Pratt) 2015 – Movie Review

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2015/06/13

Siblings Gray and Zach are sent on vacation to visit their Aunt Claire, who is the manager of operations at the Costa Rica island resort known as Jurassic World, a tourist attraction funded by mega-billionaire named Simon Masrani that takes its basic idea from the original Jurassic Park but seeks to do the formula right (i.e., more profitably). In addition to the assortment of dinosaurs, the corporation is looking into creating their own hybrid dinos through experiments in genetic engineering that

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24:59

Love & Mercy (John Cusack, Paul Dano) Movie Review

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2015/06/10

Love and Mercy, which takes its name from the first track on Brian Wilson's first solo album in 1988, is a biopic on Brian Wilson, the musical genius behind many of the Beach Boys greatest and most critically acclaimed hits. It's a tale told in two parts, one being the days of the late 1960s in which Wilson, here played by Paul Dano, would quite live touring to spend his days in the studio to make the ambitious albums Pet Sounds and the defunct Smile almost single-handedly, and the other taking

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25:06

Spy (Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig) Movie Review

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2015/06/06

McCarthy plays a CIA computer specialist names Susan Cooper, whose job it is to monitor a dreamboat of a field agent named Bradley Fine and try to give him suggestions (via an earpiece) to keep him safe, based on what she sees and hears from the hidden surveillance equipment he carries within a contact lens. That comes to an end when Fine is taken down by a Bulgarian arms dealer named Rayna Boyanov, who lets it be known that she knows who all of their top spooks are and to stay away, lest they

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16:43

San Andreas (The Rock, Dwayne Johnson) – Movie Review

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2015/06/01

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson plays Los Angeles Fire Department fireman and helicopter rescue pilot Ray Gaines, who ends up commandeering an LAFD chopper in order to try to rescue his soon-to-be ex-wife and daughter before they're crushed in the rubble following a series of mammoth earthquakes the likes of which California has never seen before.

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22:13

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

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2015/05/30

Thomas Mann stars as Pittsburgh-raised twelfth-grader Greg, who spends most of his days trying to fly under the radar among his peers at school, not trying to fit in so much as to not stand out. He's longtime friends (or co-workers, he states due to his desire not to commit to anything definitive) with Earl. Together, they spend a good deal of their spare time not only watching classic films, but making their own silly spoof home movies based upon them (echoes of Be Kind Rewind abound). His

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34:51

Mad Max: Fury Road (Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron) Film...

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2015/05/16

his time out, Max Rockatansky is played by Tom Hardy, an established actor known for playing many complex, troubled antiheroes, so a natural fit for the part. He's an ex-cop in post-apocalyptic Australia. His travels eventually lead him to abetting the fierce and heroic Imperator Furiosa, who is on a cross-country journey in a mega-tanker through desolate wasteland to transport five pregnant women used by a vicious, slaving despot named Immortan Joe for breeding purposes to a legendary oasis of her

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9:09

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

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2015/05/01

Juliette Binoche stars as internationally famous actress Maria Enders, whom we meet on a trip to Zurich, Switzerland with handy and very trustworthy personal assistant and confidante, Valentine, in tow, asked to accept a major career tribute, on behalf of Wilhelm Melchior, the playwright and screenwriter who gave her a big break early on (and perhaps a bit of romance). En route, she receives word that he has died, which derails the spirit of the speech she has been preparing. Meanwhile, Maria is

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