American Hustle is the new film written and directed by David O. Russell (The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook) where he takes his favorite actors and places them in a long con game where everyone who plays could lose everything. A con man, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), along with his amateur grafter girlfriend Sydney (Amy
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s the week of Christmas, and we here at Movie Issues HQ are in full swing filled with the holiday spirit. This week we watch some of our favorite holiday cartoons: Mickey’s Christmas Carol, The He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special, and two
In the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) tells the tale of how Hollywood mastermind Walt Disney finally convinced Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers to sign over the rights to make the Mary Poppins movie, which is still considered one of the greatest films to date. What is
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Still keeping with the Christmas Holiday theme, this week the guys watched one of the few horror Christmas flicks they could find. This year they did 1989s Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! What a terrible movie. A blind psychic
We’re back for another round of long walking in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. We pick up right where the first movie ended: Bilbo, along with Gandalf and Thorin Oakenshield and his twelve companions, continue east to the edge of the forest of Mirkwood where they encounter a skin-changer, are attacked by
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! The month of Christmas is here! And as we do here at Movie Issues HQ, it time to celebrate! So we kick the season off this 1992 Batman Returns, a movie that is more Christmas adjacent than anything else. But listen in
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s Thanksgiving week and we wanted to give thanks to all of our awesome listeners by letting you pick the movie we watched. Well, we got tons to pick from, so we put ’em all in a hat and pulled out
It could be argued that most Disney Animated Features could be Broadway musicals, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen one like Frozen, where you can see the show that it’s destined to be. With massive female empowerment for mothers and daughters, Disney smartly packaged this to hit all the right marks it’s supposed
Delivery Man stars Vince Vaughn as David, a warm-hearted guy whose life is a mess. He’s unreliable, always late, and basically a lovable loser who at one time had a steady gig as a fertility clinic donor. But the clinic overused his sperm, resulting in him being the biological father of 533 children, of whom 142