Movies

What a humdinger of a week we have had. To try and keep our minds off the terrible things happening around the world, Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan went and watched a ton of movies...

The Vancouver International Film Festival happened last month and we've been holding onto a podcast about VIFF 2016 for a couple weeks now. We discussed the Toronto International Film Festival recently, and now it's only fair...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan return to the scene of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to perform surgery on Doctor Strange, the fourteenth film in the MCU. The film is directed by Scott Derrickson and stars Benedict...

Millennials have been at the short end of the theoretical stick for a long time. Between Baby Boomers, Generation X, and everything in between, blame needs to be placed for the next generation to blame...

It can be pretty lonely if you're the creative type. I'd expect Jim Jarmusch would be among those people that live in a form of solitude as a famous writer/director/intellectual. Paterson is a deep exploration into the...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan reflect on the remarkable 2010 film Klovn, before finally venturing into the raunchy, uncomfortable world of Klovn Forever. Starring Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen, the movie which is based off the show...

Known as one of the world's pre-eminent surrealists, Alejandro Jodorowsky has shown time and time again that he can tell a complete story with jumbled pieces. After a 23 year absence from the director's chair,...

Paul Verhoeven, the celebrated director of Basic Instinct, Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and many Dutch language films, has returned for his first film in 10 years with an expectedly provocative piece of cinema. Verhoeven is known...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan take a quick look at the new Jack Reacher film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The first was surprisingly decent. Does this second one hold up? Well, we talk about the lack of...

As an actress, Isabelle Huppert has blessed us with over 100 roles and just as many different types of characters. Some would say that Huppert has started to play the same bitter, pessimistic character for...

With the advent of virtual reality comes its application to cinema. Films are a primarily passive medium, meaning that virtual reality has the potential to provide interaction within something inherently static. With Invasion! there is a glimmer...

We were all witnesses to the horror renaissance of the 2010s. We can always pray for another It Follows or The Babadook. If Under the Shadow happened to have taught me anything, it's that I shouldn't get my hopes up...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan return this week with a look at how an autistic assassin manages to hold down his life with accounting. Yes, The Accountant is finally out and we discuss the probability of Ben...

Nate Parker, an actor of moderate success, told his agents that he wasn't going to act until he could play slave rebellion leader Nat Turner. Written by Parker along with a story credit by his college...

Film adaptations of novels that have done really well are not something new. There are tons of movies that have gone down this road, with the most recent and famous being the Harry Potter series,...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan woke up in the middle of our own houses, with mics in front of us, forced to recount the events of Tate Taylor's adaptation of The Girl on the Train. Starring...

In the midst of a Western renaissance, we have been spoiled with great films. By colliding the old with the new, fresh voices are bringing a modern take to the genre, sometimes blending in other...

Welcome to the round-up of the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss a handful of the films seen at the festival. Chris went this year, and managed to come...

Studio Ghibli has been synonymous with wonder and delight in animation for decades. By making anime, Studio Ghibli are iconic and legendary by making that type of animation legitimate. You won't find any of the...

It was a matter of time, but now it looks like a Gears of War movie is officially happening. Rod Fergusson, the head of The Coalition and all things Gears of War, announced during a livestream today that...

Man, missed opportunity to not watch 31 on our 31st episode. Oh well. Join Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan as they rip apart Rob Zombie's latest horror schlock. Spoilers: this really is not a positive review and...

It's fairly reductive to add one film with another and state that would theoretically be the summation of the film. It's definitely possible to do the same here, but Toni Erdmann does almost everything differently than...

Antoine Fuqua always feels far away from making a truly great film. It's been 15 years since he made Training Day, a film that feels just a little dated. Some of us here at Bago Games...

Welcome back! On this week's episode of Film Fallout, Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss the newest remake of a remake: The Magnificent Seven. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, we talk about the casting choices, missed opportunities...

Welcome to another installment of This Week on Blu-ray, where I tell you what the big releases are and whether they’re worth getting. This is a week definitely worth getting excited about. After all the...