Missing Real with Mike D'Arrigo
Great movies take their place in history, but what about all the "turkeys" and disastrous flops littering the vast cinematic cesspool? If you really love movies, then what does it matter if a particular film won eight Oscars or eight Razzies? Sometimes over-the-top hammy acting, laughably choreographed fight sequences and rubber monster FX outdo even the most lavish productions in the Academy Awards echelon. So, whether it's an unsurpassed masterpiece or a piece of something else, every movie I talk about in this podcast is near and dear to my heart. Some you will know well, some you'd be well...
Season 12 Episode 2: Streets of Fire
Imagine the hit musical Grease, except that everyone dropped out of Rydell High School and became biker gangs or losers. Now reduce the number of catchy, memorable hit songs for your drunken karaoke fests and set it entirely at night in a crime-infested city with not a trace of Batman. Sounds like a blast, don't it? Well, it's actually a pretty cool film by the director of The Warriors and 48 Hours, featuring some notable cast members like a young Willem Dafoe doing his creepy bad guy thing. The music's not that bad after all, a weird but appealing blend of c...
S12 E1: Firestarter
The year was 1984, and while Big Brother may have been watching you, in his spare time he might have also watched this excellent movie adapted from a Stephen King novel, starring a cute 8-year-old Drew Barrymore. No ordinary kid, of course. She's got the pyrokinesis thing going, so any time she throws a tantrum, things burn down. She can generate the greatest balls of fire Jerry Lee Lewis could ever dream of. Goodness, gracious! This has been a longtime favorite of mine, thanks to the stacked cast of great actors, lots of shit blowing up, and a magnificent score by Ge...
Season 5 Episode 6: Event Horizon
Know what an event horizon is? Hint: it is NOT a sunset at a destination wedding. As far as I know, it's some fancy science slang for a thing black holes do. In this case, it's a lost space vessel and the doomed mission to recover it. This 1997 movie, starring Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus!) and Sam Neill (Damien! OK, you might need to have been born in the 70's to get that reference) is a visually stunning and intestinally purging experience that will haunt you long after you carefully return the Collector’s Edition blu-ray disc to its case and file i...
Missing Real S3 E10: Star Trek - Classic Crew
Sound...the final frontier. Because, really, once you've heard this podcast, what more is there to experience? In this galaxy-spanning comedy supernova, we will explore the classic Kirk/Spock/McCoy era of the Star Trek movies, spanning over a decade of cinema in just under an hour. Relive all your favorite moments, encounter all the intergalactic villains, learn some surprising trivia, chug some Romulan ale, it's gonna be fun! To miss this episode would be highly illogical. So kick in those engines, Mr. Scott. Ahead warp factor nine! (That was the fastest gear, right? Bet the Millennium Falcon could dust the...
Season 11 Episode 10: The Hobbit
Long movies with short characters. We must be back in Middle Earth again! After 8 years, Peter Jackson brought more Tolkien tales to the big screen and another epic trilogy arrived. These Hobbit adventures were almost as awesome at the previous Lord of the Rings movies, and some of our old familiar characters show up here, but it's all top-notch action and CGI beasts done properly. Sweeping music, slashing swordplay and a bad-ass, fire-breathing, trash-talkin' dragon make this a thrilling ride! Let me guide you (and save you about 8 hours of your time) through all the fun and treasures of the H...
