Aug 30, 2018

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must recover three stolen plutonium cores before they are installed in portable nuclear weapons in writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT.

Also, Jason Statham attempts to protect an ocean research team from a megalodon, a 70-foot shark thought...

Aug 22, 2018

Lakeith Stanfield is a telemarketer whose professional success comes at a price neither he nor his girlfriend, played by Tessa Thompson, could have ever imagined in the dystopian comedy SORRY TO BOTHER YOU from writer-director Boots Riley.  

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys The Beatles’ animated trip to...

Aug 15, 2018

Dwayne Johnson plays a security expert who goes to extraordinary lengths to get into a burning Hong Kong building so he can save his family in writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s SKYSCRAPER.

Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss movie ticket subscription services.  (Note: this episode was recorded before...

Aug 8, 2018

Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie are a father and daughter living by choice in a Portland, Oregon park and trying to avoid detection in director and co-writer Debra Granik’s LEAVE NO TRACE.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer finds an unlikely escape in Ol Parker’s ABBA jukebox musical sequel MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO...

Aug 4, 2018

Scott Lang’s connection with Hope van Dyne’s long-missing mother brings Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly together again in director Peyton Reed’s ANT-MAN AND THE WASP as they work to rescue Janet van Dyne from the quantum realm.

Although they’re not superheroes, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss...