If you have watched or listened to the Podcast, you know that the competition for selections was not particularly fierce. There were so many good choices to begin with that even playing it straight might not have resulted in much conflict. The participants however, had varying strategies that seemed to…
The last real movie star is the subject of this week’s loaded episode. Tom Cruise has made over 50 movies and the vast majority of them have been quite successful. He is currently enjoying a successful run for the Eighth and supposedly final film in the “Mission Impossible” franchise that…
Congratulations for a Third Time in a Row to Aaron Neuwirth of “We Live Entertainment” and “Out Now with Aaron and Abe”. Somehow the community has selected his esoteric slate of Science Fiction films as their favorite in the recent draft. This seems like a good launch pad for his…
In 1968, “2001 A Space Odyssey” changed science fiction films forever. Before that movie, most SciFi movies were low budget, horror related, or exceptions to those rules. That means there were still plenty of good (and not so good) movies for audiences to both enjoy and be stimulated by. This…
One of the things everybody seems to agree on is that 1984 was a landmark year for films. There were blockbusters that still have franchise installments up to today, as well as esoteric foreign language films, and cult movies galore released in that 366 day window. In was inevitable that…
Another world, another time, in the age of wonder. A thousand years ago, this land was green and good… a lot of fantasy stories start along these lines. Something that was good has been lost and must be found, or something evil is threatening something good. Those somethings often come…
Eight years ago, the Lambcast did a draft of Tom Hanks movies, which was probably great, but eight years is an eternity in modern social media so we are taking another swing at this. Let’s face it, Hanks is a prolific actor who continues to work at a top level.…
