Movie Review – Freaks vs the Reich
The writer/director manages to infuse a lot of deeper themes delivering a poignancy to the whole affair that goes way beyond the average Marvel movie.
Tom Cruise
The Ford Fiesta LIVE! – AND NOW…NONSENSE
Paul & Adam feel so accomplished making big strides with THE DEVIL’S OWN, AIR FORCE ONE & SABRINA that they’ve designated this episode specifically to nonsense!
The Top Ten Films of 2022
Movie Guy Paul Preston ranks his Top Ten films of 2022. And an eleventh for good measure.
Oscar, Why Bother?
Our Movie Guy Ray Schillaci longs for the past when it comes to the Oscars. This year’s nominees aren’t doing it for him.
Movie Review – The Gray Man
Ryan Gosling as Six proves to be every bit of an action star as Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson.
Movie Review – Top Gun: Maverick
A flight of the fantastic, a perfect escape with a soaring box office draw that cannot be replicated at your home theater.
Movie Nonsense – Show #39! – 5/30/22 – Special Guest Joe Canale!
TOP GUN: MAVERICK, OBI-WAN KENOBI and STAR WARS Celebration – All are covered with special guest ,and long-time friend of The Movie Guys, Joe Canale!
Movie Nonsense – Show #38! – 5/23/22 – Everything Must Go! Part 2!
TOP GUN, TOP GUN: MAVERICK, and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING, PART ONE. It’s Cruise overload and that is NOT a bad thing.
Everybody’s a Critic – Top Gun (Guest critic: Paul Preston)
Everybody’s a Critic hosts JTE & April have the need…the need for speed! JTE calls on his Schmoedown partner Paul Preston to talk about this ’80s classic.
Your Weekly Dose – That’s Not Steve…That’s Paul Preston!
Movie Guy Paul Preston sits in on the Your Weekly Dose podcast with host Sean Roberts as they talk music (Paul’s 2nd favorite thing), National holidays & more!
Oscar Rant 2021
Paul Preston’s annual rant on the categories and his Top Ten films of the Year for 2020
PIC of the Week – The War of the Worlds
Ray Schillaci’s PIC of the week at TheMovieGuys.net for 7/23/20 – The War of the Worlds
Five Criminally Under-Seen Movies for the Quarantine
Good news, nearly every movie ever made is available if you’re willing to rent or buy it!
PIC of the Week – The Invisible Man & The Hunt
Ray Schillaci’s PIC of the week at TheMovieGuys.net for 6/11/20 – The Invisible Man & The Hunt
Reporting From The Floor of Comic-Con 2019
Paul Preston reports from his annual pilgrimage to San Diego for the annual world’s greatest thing that a person could do.
PIC of the Week – Free Solo
Ray Schillaci’s PIC of the week at TheMovieGuys.net for 3/7/19 – Free Solo
PIC of the Year – 2001: A Space Odyssey + My Christmas Wish List
Ray Schillaci’s PIC of the week at TheMovieGuys.net for 12/20/18 is also his PIC of the Year – 2001. Also, Ray gives up his Christmas Blu-Ray wish list.
PIC of the Week – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Ray Schillaci’s PIC of the week at TheMovieGuys.net for 12/6/18 – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
This is a Tom Cruise movie, a sure sign that you’re not going to witness an unambitious production.
The Ten Wurst Films of 2017 (If Only They Tasted Better…)
Movie Guy Ray Schillaci goes over his list of easy and tough calls for the ten worst films of 2017.
Movie Review – American Made
OK, you have homework. See American Made before it leaves theaters!
DVD, Blu-Ray & Streaming – The Mummy
From the writing to the directing it is not just a misstep, it’s a giant leap backwards that makes movies like LEPRECHAUN look good.
Movie Review – Today I Watched…Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Paul Preston’s ongoing effort to watch a movie a day for the rest of his life. Today’s movie – “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”.
Movie Review – The Mummy
When Tom Cruise was attached to this movie, I thought he might lift the whole unnecessary project, but just the opposite happened, the whole unnecessary project dragged him down.
Oscar Rant 2017
Paul Preston’s annual, exhaustively-researched, category-by-category breakdown of the entire Oscars for 2017
Movie Review – Hidden Figures
It clips along and deserves the crowds it’s drawing.
“Horror, Whores & More!” (w/Emily Goss) – “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back”, “Tyler Perry’s Boo!: A Madea Halloween”, “Keeping Up With The Joneses” & “Ouija: Origin of Evil”
Four long-titled movies get the full preview treatment from The Movie Guys. Sitting in the whole show is actress Emily Goss, the lead actress of The House on Pine Street!
Movie Review – Jason Bourne
About two-thirds of the way through the film, I was reminded just how exciting action can be without special effects.
Movie Review – Central Intelligence
You’ll laugh a ton at this movie
THE MOVIE SHOWCAST – “YOU WEREN’T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE!” (w/Dan Bakkedahl) – “Krampus”
Showcast Episode 129: Everything about why movies are great is in this episode. Actor Dan Bakkedahl (“Trumbo”, “The Heat”) joins us the whole show for a preview of “Krampus” and a lengthy look at movie news. Plus, a trailer for another Christmas horror movie about your parents’ parents visiting over the holidays – “Grandpus”! And Bakkedahl’s Banksy and “Harold and Maude” stories are for the ages.
THE MOVIE SHOWCAST – “ROUGE NATION” (w/Darwin Harris & Mandy Schneider) – “Vacation”, “Southpaw” & “Mission: Impossible – Rogue
Showcast Episode 111: Bart leads The Admiral’s Club in a Tom Cruise love fest as “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” hits theaters, along with “Vacation”. Plus, a Tom Cruise character quiz and a look back at “Southpaw”. Then, hosts of the upcoming celebrity interview show “Picture’s Up!”, Mandy Schneider & Darwin Harris, hit the studio for a table full of movie talk.
LAWRENCE WOOLSEY PRESENTS THE MOVIE SHOWCAST (w/Mark McCracken) – “Ted 2” & “Max”
Showcast Episode 106: The Movie Guys’ special guest Mark McCracken is good at talkin’ movies, but listeners should note – he was also MANT in Joe Dante’s “Matinee”. So…now you need to tune in. “Ted 2” and “Max” get previewed and there’s an extensive tribute to the great James Horner
DON’T GO OUT LIKE THAT
I’m of the opinion that the least effective way to send people out of your film is not allowing the music that carried the film to finish the job.
NEW MOVIE TRAILERS – 3/27/15
New movie trailers include “Aloha”, “Crimson Peak”, “Hot Pursuit”, Inside Out”, “Maggie”, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”, “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, “Paper Towns”, “Pixels”, “San Andreas”, “Southpaw”, “Spectre”, “Straight Outta Compton” and “Trainwreck”.
MOVIE REVIEW – THE DUFF
“The Duff” knows its ancestry – John Hughes movies – and the film wisely embraces the best qualities of that genre without ripping it off.
THE MOVIE SHOWCAST – “SENIOR SEX” (w/Beth Grant) – “Chappie”, “Unfinished Business” & “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
Showcast Episode 90: Squeezing coverage of the long and varied career of Beth Grant into a hundred minutes proves no easy task for The Movie Guys as “The Mindy Project” regular is this week’s guest, sharing stories of working with industry giants like Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Billy Crystal, Sandra Bullock and, if time remaining, Michael Bay. Plus, she sits in to help preview this weekend’s new releases “Chappie”, “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” and “Unfinished Business”.
THE TOP TEN FILMS OF 2014…A SECOND (AND THIRD) OPINION
It’s Oscar Sunday, and with The Oscar Rant out there, more opinions have popped up about the ten best films of 2014.
OSCAR RANT 2015
Paul Preston’s annual, exhaustive, no-stone-left-unturned once over of all the nominees. All of them.
WHAT IS IT WITH THE FOURTH ONE?
Sometimes a story will continue on into a fourth installment (and beyond). That’s where it gets interesting.
MOVIE REVIEW – EDGE OF TOMORROW
This is a well-tuned machine that provides a fun trip to the movies that can be enjoyed by just about anyone young and old.