In the new sports comedy movie, Grudge Match, staring Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone as aging boxers who step back into the ring for one last bout 30 years after their last match. Directed by Peter Segal (Get Smart, 50 First Dates), takes these two acting icons that previously have had successful boxing films,
San Diego fictional icon Ron Burgundy is back as his infamous legend continues this week in Anchorman 2. With his news crew of misfits and rejects, Burgundy travels to the Big City circa 1980 to take on 24hr news, and himself since he’s probably the worst person in the movie. Neglectful, racially insensitive, sexist, ignorant,
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
Star Wars hit theaters in 1977 and lines wrapped around theaters consistently, full of fans waiting for the chance to see a cinematic marvel… I wasn’t born yet. Ghostbusters debuted and quickly became a phenomenon in June of ’84… I wasn’t even 2 yet. And when Batman blew Bat-Fans minds in ’89 I was just