Living for the Cinema
Short movie reviews from the last 50+ years by Geoff Gershon. https://livingforthecinema.com/
Episodes
373 episodes
WITNESS (1985)
Following up starring in a string of big budget genre epics (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) in the early part of the '80's, Harrison Ford decided to detour just a bit with this smaller-scale susp...
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Season 4
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Episode 59
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16:01
Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera
Big Nick is BACK! And so is Donnie the Driver....as played by Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. respectively, they are the only significant hold-overs from the first first Den of Thieves which came out five years. That original L...
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Season 4
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Episode 58
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20:16
Tremors (1990)
In the small, isolated Nevada town of Perfection, two aimless handymen Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) were just minding their own business working their latest gig when they suddenly discover strange things occurring....including the in...
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Season 4
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Episode 57
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17:08
The Limey (1999)
Wilson (Terrance Stamp) is a career criminal from the UK who is now coming to Los Angeles to find out about what happened to his daughter (Melissa George) who just tragically died in a car accident....or did she? Her father suspects that ...
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Season 4
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Episode 56
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19:06
The Book of Eli (2010)
Taking place within a future apocalyptic wasteland, Denzel Washington plays the titular Eli and he's traversing through this wasteland with an all-important book (hence the title)...along with a super-sharp machete blade, shotgun, killer instin...
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Season 4
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Episode 55
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19:05
Alexander: The Director's Cut (2004)
Twenty years ago, Two-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK, Wall Street) finally had the opportunity to direct the grand-scale historical epic which he and several of his directing peers (Scorsese, Kubrick) had been trying to helm for d...
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Season 4
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Episode 54
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21:22
Anora (2024)
Acclaimed independent filmmaker Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine) both wrote and directed this dramedy about a Brooklyn sex worker/exotic dancer named Ani (Mikey Madison) who one night meets a wealthy young Russian named Ivan (Mark Ey...
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Season 4
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Episode 53
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19:16
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Griswalds Are Back! Only this time, they're staying home for Christmas in this third entry of the highly popular "National Lampoon's Vacation" which started in the early '80s. Chevy Chase once again returns as the endurin...
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Season 4
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Episode 52
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15:35
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Coming out more than sixteen years after its beloved predecessor (2001: A Space Odyssey), this might have been the very first "Legacy Sequel." Also whereas the first film was directed by the late great cinema legend Stanley Kubrick, this ...
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Season 4
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Episode 51
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20:52
All That Jazz (1979)
This is the semi-autobiographical musical story of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a legendary choreographer/director struggling with various addictions as he juggles developing a new stage musical and editing a film he has directed. And it wa...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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20:04
Any Given Sunday (1999)
What happens when the acclaimed and idiosyncratic director of JFK, Natural Born Killers, and The Doors attempts to direct a conventional sports drama about his favorite sport? Multiple Oscar-winner Oliver Stone showed us back in December ...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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23:59
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Fifty years ago, recent Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola returned to write and direct what was likely one of the most highly anticipated sequels in the history of cinema.....and barely two years after the original film (The Godfather) had set ...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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22:30
Gladiator II (2024)
STRENGTH AND HONOR!The legendary Sir Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) returns to Ancient Rome to direct this long-awaited sequel to his Best Picture-winning, blockbuster smash from twenty four years ago, Gladiator.&nbs...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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17:08
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Forty years ago this December saw the release of the most popular AND influential action comedies of all time. This was star Eddie Murphy's immediate follow-up to his two breakout hits the previous years, 48 Hrs. in '82 and then Trading P...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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19:58
The Insider (1999)
Closing out a decade comprising two iconic hits (Heat, The Last of the Mohicans), Oscar-nominated director Michael Mann decided to next collaborate with Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth (Forest Gump) on this docudrama about a controversial story ...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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21:55
Conclave (2024)
The Pope has suddenly died and a new one must be elected via a titular conclave as soon as possible at Vatican City. Cardinal Law (Ralph Fiennes) has been tasked with running this conclave and must not only ensure that every viable candid...
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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15:21
Fury (2014)
David Ayers (Suicide Squad, The Beekeeper) directs this brutal war drama which takes place during the last days of World War II along the German front. We follow a crew riding within a tank known as the titular "Fury" which is lead by Bra...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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16:55
1917 (2019)
In the grand tradition of such intimate war epics as Dunkirk and Black Hawk Down, Oscar-winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) directed this ground-level journey of two young British army privates (Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay) who...
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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19:38
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
DIVORCE WEEK continues (and concludes) with this game-changing domestic drama directed by Robert Benton (Places in the Heart, Nobody's Fool) which not only nominated for nine Oscars but would also win five Oscars including Best Picture for 1979...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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17:22
The War of the Roses (1989)
What happens when you take one of Hollywood's most popular on-screen couples at the time and pin them against each other in a movie about divorce? Thirty-five years ago, newly minted director (and co-star) Danny DeVito was apparently the ...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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15:47
The Guest (2014)
If a very handsome and friendly young veteran named David visited your home one afternoon with a warm smile and some very kind words about your son whom he served with overseas....wouldn't YOU invite him over to stay? That's the main ques...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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20:59
The Bone Collector (1999)
There's a serial killer around New York city going around murdering people in increasingly bizarre ways while also leaving increasingly minute details behind as clues. Denzel Washington plays the brilliant criminologist Lincoln Rhymes who...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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20:20
Saturday Night (2024)
LIVE FROM NEW YORK....For any one born after 1975 (or before), "Saturday Night Live" has been an American entertainment institution...an irreverent weekly platform for up-to-the-minute comedy featuring promising performe...
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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18:55