New movie trailers include “300: Rise of an Empire”, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”, “The Butler”, “Diana”, “The Family”, “Free Birds”, “Disney’s Frozen”, “Girl Most Likely”, “Insidious 2”, “Jobs”, “The Lego Movie”, “Machete Kills”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
It’s a big movie weekend as The Movie Guys look at upcoming films “World War Z” and “Monsters University”, including a call in to Monsters University of Phoenix. They also welcome special guests Herm Winningham, who is a zombie, and writer/actor/director Mitch Rouse, who is not.
Realizing the son of Jor-El is living amongst the humans on Earth, a warning is issued from General Zod and Rebecca Martinson to give over the alien or else.
The Movie Guys send good friends from The Hater Nation Radio Show & Podcast, MC Hater and Ali, to a screening of “This is the End”. They record their thoughts going to and from the movie. Will the film be hilarious? Will they get there in a car with only one headlight? Will they be allowed in the theater? Stay tuned.
Showcast Episode 4: Locked up safely in a Bomb Shelter, The Movie Guys lament their final Showcast before the world ends. But it doesn’t end without previews of “Man of Steel” and “This is the End”. Plus, a handy once-over of an apocalypse survival guide, a look at a hi-tech superhero movie title generator and finally a visit from guests Yelena Popovic and Alexander Zisiades, who talk about their new indie film “L.A. Superheroes: Illegal in Hollywood”.
New movie trailers include “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”, “Captain Phillips”, “Delivery Man”, “Ender’s Game”, “Gravity”, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”, “Paranoia”, “Prisoners”, “Riddick”, “Runner, Runner”, “Rush”, “The Way, Way Back”, “We’re the Millers”, “The World’s End”
Showcast Episode 3: The new film “The Internship” inspires Paul to interview for new Movie Guys interns, also the new thriller “The Purge” gets previewed, including it’s straight-to-DVD companion piece. Plus, our signature look at movie news and a long talk with indie filmmaker Paul Osborne on the eve of the Los Angeles debut of his new film, “Favor”.
Showcast Episode 2: This week’s Showcast gets all Shyamalan-y with previews of “After Earth” and “Now You See Me”. Plus, The Movie Guys take to the street to talk celebrity children, the triumphant return of radio magician The Amazing Mono and guest Mike J. Nichols talks up the 30th anniversary of “Return of the Jedi”, including a tribute to little-known legend and Millenium Falcon co-pilot, Nien Nunb.
It seems like the career of M. Night Shyamalan has gotten to the point where “it’s not embarrassing” is high compliment.
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes a first look at “Transformers 4”, and updates on “The Avengers 2”, “Star Wars, Episode VII” and what’s new with Star Wars Kid. Yes…Star Wars Kid.
The filmmakers have wisely taken a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach here.
The characters were creative and the universe that formed around them was charming, but nothing was committed to.
When you pick a movie on Netflix to watch, Netflix will recommend other films and TV shows to view. Sadly, this recommendation process is run by monkeys. But the result is Matteo sharing some of the looniest recommendations with you.
Showcast Episode #1: The Movie Guys return in their brand-new weekly comedy show “The Movie Showcast” This week, Paul, Adam, Lee & Karen preview “6Fast 6Furious”, or whatever it’s called, “The Hangover, Part III”, “Epic, Part One” and they welcome special guest Chip Krolik to review “Star Trek Into Darkness”.
This movie held my attention with its intense action scenes from the moment it started, its characters were real, learning and evolving, making decisions that I could understand and follow. In short, it was masterfully executed in all areas of review.
The Movie Guys weekly comedy show comes back at the end of May. In the meantime, Paul, Adam, Lee & Karen crank out another test show, talking about what films they’ve seen lately and a preview of “Star Trek Into Darkness”.
They say the devil is in the details, and it certainly was with this film.
Movie Guys Paul Preston, Karen Volpe, Adam Witt & Lee Kias test out the audio juice of The Admiral’s Club, their new Burbank-based podcast studio. There’s lively talk and previews of “The Great Gatsby” and “Peeples” in between planes flying overhead.
Movie Guys Paul Preston and Karen Volpe appear on The Hater Nation Radio Show on The National Talk Radio Network to talk about the summer 2013 films. There’s a Robert Downey, Jr. love fest, a “Who’s the Hottest Avenger?” game and a surprise REVIEW of “Pacific Rim”.
Movie Guys Paul Preston and Karen Volpe stopped in on LA TALK RADIO’s “Broad Topics” to preview the big summer movies. This is no place for art-house films…
A single question can sum it up: What is the price tag on being a hero?
In the end, Bay has a made a film struggling with the fact that it’s a Michael Bay film. It’s fun to watch the best parts peak through Bay’s usual main ingredient – excess.
New movie trailers include “The Bling Ring”, “The Conjuring”, “Elysium”, “Grown-Ups 2”, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Now You See Me”, “Only God Forgives”, “R.I.P.D.” and “Thor: The Dark World”
What an appropriate picture of Tom Cruise. Walking the Earth by himself. The lone member of a dying race: The Movie Star.
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes big changes for Grauman’s Chinese Theater, behind-the-scenes photos from “The Empire Strikes Back” and a message from General Zod.
The history of “third chapters” (known as “threequels,” thanks to those people who love to invent new terms while butchering English) is filed with good examples — and an outstanding series of atrociously bad ones.
It’s like having an orange popcicle, the mild orange taste is pleasing enough, but no one ever spends much time thinking about it afterwards, its banished from our thoughts because while the taste is good, it’s also unremarkable.
Honestly, I’m trying to remember what happened during the mid part of this movie other then a few hazy isolated moments of plot development
A fresh and unique look at a romantic comedy that a studio could never achieve
The dialogue was it’s only strong area, but liking the film because of that would be akin to thinking a park bench a good snack because someone spilled your favorite espresso on it.
Movie news from The Movie Guys includes a new NetFlix series from Eli Roth, Matt Damon’s latest humanitarian project and remembering Roger Ebert.
Movie Guy Justin Bowler fills Indiana Jones fans in on an inventive new feature-length documentary about “Raiders of the Lost Ark” that’s available for free on Vimeo.
I loved getting lost in Roger’s bottomless, passionate love of the movies.
The demon-speeding-through-the-woods shots that we’ve come to love in the original are still in tact and still effective.
The Movie Guys LIVE! Radio Show welcomes the world’s only Radio Magician, The Amazing Mono. Listen to his amazing feats of illusion and slights of what we’re told by host Paul Preston, are his hand.
New movie trailers include “2 Guns”, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2”, “The Company You Keep”, “Disney’s Planes”, “Fast and Furious 6”, “Favor”, “The Hangover, Part III”, “The Internship”, “Kick-Ass 2”, “Monsters University”, “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”, “Red 2”, “This is The End”, “The Wolverine”, “To The Wonder” and “World War Z”.
Matteo Molinari looks at the taglines that help sell a movie in NO WAY WHATSOEVER.
“This is 40” is a return to the same kind of foul-mouthed-with-a-heart-of-gold comedies that make up the best of the Apatow catalog.
The final entry of documentary reviews from Chris MacKenzie’s whirlwind trip through docs on Netflix. Part Ten: “The Final Member”, “Whore’s Glory”, “Paper Clips”, “The Hollywood Complex” and, yes, “Katy Perry: Part of Me”
Kerr Lordygan reviews another horror film for themovieguys.net, continuing his “From the Dark Side” series. This time out, he reviews the new release “The Last Exorcism, Part II”