You didn’t ask, but I’m going to tell you anyway. The late great film critic Roger Ebert kept a regular column, “The Movie Answer Man,” to respond to all the questions he received from curious readers. The Coeur d’Alene Press doesn’t field quite as many film queries, but we love pretending to be the size […]
If you asked a critic: Summer softie and Disney desperation Read More »
Trying to appease all types of fans and regular moviegoers, the new “Ghostbusters” film, subtitled “Frozen Empire,” introduces a half-dozen decent ideas and fails to deliver on any of them. Without divulging spoilers, “Frozen Empire” assembles 12 different characters for a finale in which only two of them have anything to do. Everyone else just
Review: Overstuffed ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ fails to justify its existence Read More »
Don’t hate her because she’s beautiful. Hate her because she’s the smartest person in the room. While the marketing for “Legally Blonde” suggested a movie about a ‘dumb blonde squaring off against academia,’ it’s clear from the onset that Reese Witherspoon’s Elle Woods is more than equipped to handle Harvard Law School and the spoiled
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:49:02 — 199.6MB) | Embed
Subscribe: Spotify | Amazon Music | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | RSS | More
Legally Blonde – 2001 – ep 135 Read More »
In this special episode of Old Millennials Remember Movies, we remember and share our favorite movies from 2023. Despite his intense schedule of law school, continuing to write part-time, and still helping to raise our four kids, Tyler still found time to watch more than 125 movies that came out in 2023. Per usual, he
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:38:24 — 180.2MB) | Embed
Subscribe: Spotify | Amazon Music | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | RSS | More
Best Movies of 2023 – ep 134 Read More »
With six Oscar wins and widespread critical acclaim, 2021’s “Dune” embraced the awe-inspiring scope of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic. In embracing the complexity of the book, Denis Villeneuve’s film sacrificed telling the complete story in one movie, all without the guarantee of adapting the book’s second half. Fortunately, audiences embraced the various prophecies and giant
Review: ‘Dune: Part Two’ pays off ‘Part One’ with more spectacle Read More »
The Coen Brothers make movies unlike most everything on the market. Even then, their filmography can be splintered into distinct flavor types, from something as gripping and serious as “No Country for Old Men” to the absurdist worlds of “Raising Arizona” and “The Big Lebowski.” After the release of their Western anthology film, “The Ballad
Review: ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ a diverting, ‘Diet-Coen’ road movie Read More »
We’re in the process of uploading Tyler’s 20+ years of movie and pop culture articles over here to Old Millennials Remember. The CDA Press Newspaper isn’t … the best at archiving or making it easy to find past articles. Here’s a sampling of some that we haven’t fully moved over yet. Enjoy! https://cdapress.com/news/2024/jan/27/if-you-asked-a-movie-critic-oscar-nominations-unstoppable-oppenheimer-more/ A ‘Marvels’
Tyler’s Press Articles Read More »
“Hercules! Hercules Hercules!” – some Eddie Murphy character not in Disney’s “Hercules.” The first half of the 1990s was a pinnacle for Disney Animation. After the run of “The Little Mermaid” (technically 1989), “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” (plus Pixar’s debut “Toy Story” in 1995), the studio had nowhere to go
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:20:50 — 148.0MB) | Embed
Subscribe: Spotify | Amazon Music | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | RSS | More
Hercules – 1997 – ep 133 Read More »
All this movie really needed to be great was Brendan Frasier defeating a bunch of swordfighting ghouls before turning to the camera and grin-shrugging, “Mummies!”
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:28 — 106.5MB) | Embed
Subscribe: Spotify | Amazon Music | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | RSS | More
The Mummy – 1999 – ep 132 Read More »
Lt. Dan can’t go to space because he *might* get the measles, then Bill Paxton gets all sick up there. Maybe Tom Hanks is poisoning them, or they all have space dementia like Steve Buscemi.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10:29 — 107.3MB) | Embed
Subscribe: Spotify | Amazon Music | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | TuneIn | RSS | More
Apollo 13 – 1995 – ep 131 Read More »
