Ep 445 – Bumblebee – Sam Tripoli
Graham and Chris welcome Sam Tripoli to talk about Bumblebee, John
Coltrane and more!
In the spirit of full disclosure, I was a kung fu consultant on the original Kung Fu Panda. Seems a crew member had seen my San Diego Comic Con Superhero Kung Fu Extravaganza (for which the Comedy Film Nerds have served as co-hosts the past few years) and suggested to the producer that I give…
DetailsOh hello, kids! Let’s see what random things are happening this week. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is expected to pass the 900 million dollar mark this weekend. This will put it over 2 billion dollars worldwide. I suppose that’s hardly news, though, huh? Looks like Lionsgate is going to be making a reboot of…
DetailsHoly shit, this is a sweet movie! Not since Once did some Irish jerks get to me like this. I love it and I resent it. I mean, why should I have to feel all sad when I watch a movie? Or walk around after, like, “Will I ever know love, truly?” Brooklyn takes place…
DetailsAndrew Haigh’s third feature follows his second, Weekend (2011) in depicting an intimate portrait of two people in a relationship. In Weekend, that relationship was just beginning; here, it’s deep – forty-five years deep. That’s the anniversary looming at the end of the week for Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtney) and Kate’s planning a big party with…
DetailsCarol is the latest successful adaptation of the incredibly cinema-friendly fiction of Patricia Highsmith, although here her source novel, The Price of Salt, is semi-autobiography. The material has found a perfect executor in director Todd Haynes, who combines his exquisite sense of period with a very personal subversive streak, and actors Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who both…
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