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
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
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! In our final week of watching good actors doing bad movies, Spooky picked 1994s Street Fighter. I know your thinking, there’s no one good in that, but there is. You’ll just have to listen to find out who. But over all what
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the second installment in The Hunger Games franchise, written by Suzanne Collins. Catching Fire picks up a year after the events of the first film, where Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) have become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games, which has
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week as we continue down the rabbit hole of good actors we like doing bad movies we came across a doozy! 1997s Alien: Resurrection. Where Ripley is cloned 200 years since we’ve last seen her, the Alien Queen she carries was