PODCAST: Episode 69 of "The Cinephile Hissy Fit" Podcast

For their 69th episode, two stoic film critics, action figure dads, and time-traveling school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan race through time, space, innuendo, whiners, and controversies to defend Disney/Pixar's newest film Lightyear. Our two Space Rangers see and staunchly defend the veritable good that brims through this animated adventure while pushing away the nitpicky haters.

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SPECIAL EVENT: Rockford Hosts Free Premiere of "A League of Their Own"

I don’t know a baseball fan OR a movie fan who doesn’t have a soft spot for Penny Marshall’s seminal 1992 classic A League of Their Own. Amazon has been in development of a new series based on that chapter of sports history. Rockford, Illinois, home of the beloved Rockford Peaches women’s professional baseball team, gets the public’s first look at the show.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Elvis

Processing such delirium for 159 minutes from what could have been 240, Elvis is an opus of exhaustion. Luhrmann’s fever dream veers from campfire fable to therapy session and is as gaudy as its subject. You don’t just succumb to the Aussie filmmaker’s trademark visual and aural excessiveness. You submit to it, because, goodness gracious, it’s Elvis Aaron Presley and the stature of his legend on this display is indomitable.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Included in Hollywood Critics Association "Gradebook" for "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande"

Upon being accepted into the Hollywood Critics Association, their fine site-runners and admins assemble “Gradebooks” collecting early reviews and grades from their critics on popular releases. When I can get more work completed and a review submitted early enough, my take and connected quotes have the chance to make these shout-out posts. My newest was being included for Good Luck to You, Leo Grande playing now in theaters. Check out your boy!

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube roundtable for "Lightyear"

It’s not often that my fellow Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast host Will Johnson and I find ourselves alone in a room defending a popular movies, but that was the case this on Ian Simmons’ Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel and his critics roundtable for Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear. Hear our passionate defense! Watch and listen to Ian, Will, myself, David Fowlie of Keeping it Reel, Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, and Annie Banks from Chuck Load of Comics.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's YouTube roundtable for "Jurassic World Dominion"

With a roar, “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” return to join Ian Simmons, the the host of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel, to fossilize Jurassic World Dominion. We chat up the little good and plenty bad going on with the legacy rerun and trilogy capper. Watch and listen to Ian, myself, my Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast partner Will Johnson, David Fowlie of Keeping it Reel, and Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions put our hands up together to tame our raptors and personal demons.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Included in Banana Meter's "First Reactions" for "Lightyear"

The newly-formed Rotten Tomatoes alternative Banana Meter has been gathering talented critics and hoping to make a social media splash. They’ve been timely and spirited with highlighting their members and getting their reviews out there. One of these frequent features is a collection of “First Reactions” for big new releases. If I can get my work done early enough, I have the chance of my work and grade being selected for one of those hot-off-the-press features. It’s an honor to join friends and peers for such an inclusion. Here’s my highlight from Lightyear.

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MEDIA APPEARANCE: Included in Hollywood Critics Association "Gradebook" for "Jurassic Park Dominion"

Upon being accepted into the Hollywood Critics Association, their fine site-runners and admins assemble “Gradebooks” collecting early reviews and grades from their critics on popular releases. When I can get more work completed and a review submitted early enough, my take and connected quotes have the chance to make these shout-out posts. My newest was being included for Jurassic World Dominion playing now in theaters. Check out your boy!

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MOVIE REVIEW: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Where some viewers will immediately implode with pearl-clutching outrage hellbent on voicing warped decency and unfair determinations, others will be ignited by the possibilities of this premise and the talent involved. Alas, once again, the key of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande remains the rich conversation. More viral potency comes from the shared verbal exchanges than any “afternoon delight.”

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PODCAST: Episode 68 of "The Cinephile Hissy Fit" Podcast

For their 68th episode, two chaotic film critics, paleontologist dads, and fossilized school teachers Will Johnson and Don Shanahan take umbrage with the new release Jurassic World Dominion. They question then purpose and charm while trying to find and acknowledge any good parts of what is billed as being a trilogy conclusion. We think you're find two guys rooting for the dinosaurs instead of the people.

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