Episode 271: Movie Tourney Year Part VII

Once again, Pinky, Mikey & Dave come together to decide the greatest year of movies, ever... this time, with four more matches to finally set up the Entertaining Eight

After a quick chat about RetroZap Podcasting Network, a quick preview of Star Wars Celebration, which Mikey & Dave will be attending (while Pinky goes to prom with his fake girlfriend)

Plus... a throwback to Kenny Rogers' and how he turned our Love Around... and the story of Kenny Rogers' Roasters... and a quick bio of Tony "Tiny" Lister... and the remarkable gap between the years advancing...

1982
ET: The Extra Terrestrial... Rocky III... Poltergeist... 48 Hours... Tron... BladeRunner

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2012
Marvel's The Avengers... Skyfall... Argo... Looper... Django Unchained...

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1989
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade... Batman... The Little Mermaid... Major League... UHF... When Harry Met Sally

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1999
The Matrix... Fight Club... The Sixth Sense... Star Wars The Phantom Menace... Toy Story 2... Office Space...

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1967
The Graduate... The Jungle Book... Guess Who's Coming to Dinner... Bonnie & Clyde... The Dirty Dozen... In the Heat of the Night... Cool Hand Luke...

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1987
The Princess Bride... Lethal Weapon... The Untouchables... Wall Street... Full Metal Jacket

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1992
Boomerang... Aladdin... The Bodyguard... Unforgiven... Reservoir Dogs... Glengarry Glen Ross... Last of the Mohicans

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2015
Mad Max Fury Road... Inside Out... The Revenant.. Room... The Martian... Star Wars the Force Awakens... Jurassic World


Which movie year is your favorite??

Episode 215: Pure ReFlicktions

It's another round of the latest movies seen!  The monthly ReFlicktions Show commences!  Dave, Mikey and Pinky are joined once again by Terrance Malick Apologist and Film Historian Dr. Earl and Producer Shawn, while Producer Tommy geochaches in South America, we think.

Birthday movies give the gang a great reason to namedrop "GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords", then some Oscar talk.

Will we still think "Spotlight" is the best movie of the year five years from now?  Who should have won instead of Mark Rylance?   Plus, who won the Oscar pool and what horrid film gets assigned to the losers...

Touching on topics like... Amy Adams in a bit part... "99 Homes" not "99 Holmes", Dr Earl... a great discussion on "Hail, Caesar!" and where the Coens are going... Marisa Tomei with a bad accent... CSI: Jerusalem... 12 long minutes spent on George Strait's "Pure Country"... the strangeness of the Wolfpack Family...

Plus, a long discussion on Deadpool and the future of Rated R comic book films... the path of the Coen Brothers and why "Hail, Caesar!" may be divisive...

Movies discussed include:

Turbo Kid... Kung Fury... Barton Fink... Lullaby... DOPE... 99 Homes... Hail, Caesar!... The Hudsucker Proxy... Inescapable... Cartel Land... Soaked in Bleach... Deadpool... Risen... The Wolfpack... Kangaroo Jack... Pure Country... One Hour Photo... Dark Star: H.R. Geiger's World... Four Rooms... Everly... Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: Crouching Harder... Police Academy... Eddie the Eagle... Comet... Man Up.. Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Outta Water... Full Tilt Boogie... The Witch... Love the Coopers... Brooklyn... London Has Fallen... Raising Arizona... Stephen King's "IT" (The mini-series)... Burnt... Sisters... Zoolander 2... Staten Island Summer