Living for the Cinema
Short movie reviews from the last 50+ years by Geoff Gershon. https://livingforthecinema.com/
Episodes
469 episodes
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (1990) - "LIVING FOR THE STREEP" SERIES
“Living for the STREEP” Series: We are here to celebrate the career of Mary Louise Streep….now known to most as Meryl Streep who has become widely known by critics, film-lovers, and audiences as likely our GREATEST LIVING AC...
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Season 5
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Episode 55
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22:44
F/X (1986)
Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) is a special effects man working on low budget movies in New York City when one day, the FBI suddenly comes calling and they have a unique assignment for him. They would like for him to stage the fake murder of ...
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Season 5
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Episode 55
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17:25
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
The saga of The Sully Clan and their adventures on the far off planet of Pandora continues with this third entry in Oscar-winning director James Cameron's ongoing franchise which started in 2009 with Avatar....but do we still care? :p Well acco...
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Season 5
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Episode 54
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17:50
Marty Supreme (2025)
From acclaimed director Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems, Good Time) comes yet another intense thriller....sort of....THIS time focusing on the trevails of Marty Mouser (Oscar-nominee Timothee Chalamet) who's an aspiring table tennis player working his ...
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Season 5
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Episode 53
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20:57
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is a hot-shot young trumpet player leading his own jazz quintet who loves the music and has a way with the ladies but can't figure out how to reconcile those two things. He's also dating two women (Joie L...
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Season 5
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Episode 52
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19:51
Misery (1990)
Rest In Peace Rob ReinerCommemorating not only the 35th Anniversary of an iconic adaptation of the popular Stephen King novel of the same name but the recent tragic loss of its director Rob Reiner who was in the middle of a sterli...
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Season 5
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Episode 51
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21:02
Stir Crazy (1980)
What happens when you take two comedy legends and place them in prison?? :o Well in this particular case, in their second of four collaborations, you have Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, Blazing S...
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Season 5
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Episode 50
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17:31
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Legendary auteur Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Time Bandits, The Fisher King, Monty Python & the Holy Grail) directs this time-bending sci-fi thriller focusing on one man's unique journey to the past to save the future. That man is James Col...
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Season 5
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Episode 49
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16:18
Traffic (2000)
Throughout his storied career, the legendary Steven Soderbergh has directed a wide array of highly acclaimed films and/or hits (Out of Sight, Ocean's 11, Magic Mike, Black Bag, Logan Lucky, Contagion, Sex, Lies, & Videotape) and THIS is the...
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Season 5
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Episode 48
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22:04
Flash Gordon (1980)
He'll Save Every One Of Us....Yes it's the story of Flash Gordon (Sam Jones), the fictitious quarterback of the New York Jets who inadverdently travels into deep space with intrepid travel agent Dale Arden (Melody Anderso...
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Season 5
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Episode 47
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22:49
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
"Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world." That's the official IMDB description for this Oscar-nominated documentary but does tha...
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Season 5
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Episode 48
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19:19
The Godfather Coda: The Death Of Michael Corleone (1990)
Sixteen years after the previous film (The Godfather Part II) in this saga won him Oscars for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture...Oscar-winning legend Francis Ford Coppola (Apocolypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Conversation)...
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Season 5
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Episode 47
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19:46
Heat 30th Anniversary Re-Release (1995)
In honor of its upcoming 30th Anniversary next month, here is our newly remastered (with additional content) review of one of The Greatest Films Ever!“Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to...
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Season 5
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Episode 46
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27:00
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
In 1930's Mississippi, three escaped convicts go on the run into the country to find freedom and treasure - they are Everett (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and along the way, they have a variety of adventu...
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Season 5
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Episode 45
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17:30
Miss Congeniality (2000)
Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is a tomboyish FBI agent who is tasked with having to infiltrate the Miss United States beauty pageant as a contestant (Miss New Jersey) in order to prevent the threat of a bomb attack from a mysterious terrorist......
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Season 5
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Episode 44
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20:08
The Running Man (2025)
Based upon the 1982 Stephen King sci-fi novel of the same name, this dystopian action thriller takes place in a not-too-distant-future where just a few select corporations run everything and one of them controls most of the entertainment, inclu...
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Season 5
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Episode 43
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16:51
Casino (1995)
Oscar-Winning legend Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon, Taxi Driver, The Departed) directs this epic tale about The Rise and Fall of the Mob in Las Vegas, based on true events. It's the story of how mafia handicapper Sam "Ace" R...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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20:56
Predator: Badlands (2025)
Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey) returns to the Universe of the the Predator with an interesting new take.....what if we embarked on a hunting adventure with the Predator itself as the main protagonist? Actually the P...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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17:11
Spotlight (2015)
This is the true story of how a special investigative unit (called "Spotlight") of the Boston Globe spent upwards of almost two years working to uncover a massive scandal developing within the Catholic Church involving accusations of priests wh...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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22:31
Goldeneye (1995)
Thirty years ago this November, a brand new James Bond took the world by storm and he was played by Pierce Brosnan. Only eight years after the former television star of "Remington Steele" was initially set to take on the role but then cou...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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22:17
King of New York (1990)
Frank White (Christopher Walken) is a drug kingpin who just got out of prison and is eager to restart his criminal enterprise with his long-term lietenant Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne) helping to lead the way. And off the bat, he goes h...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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20:51
Unbreakable (2000)
Just over a year after the runaway success of his previous effort, The Sixth Sense, Oscar-nominated writer/director M. Night Shyamalan decided to follow it up with this genuinely unique thriller which had decent reviews and solid box office but...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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18:17
A House of Dynamite (2025)
From Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Point Break) comes her first feature film in in more than eight years and it might very well be THE scariest film of the year. :o The premise is simple: a lone nucl...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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16:00
After the Hunt (2025)
A Yale college professor (Oscar-winner Julia Roberts) finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil (Emmy-winner Ayo Edibri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Oscar-nominated Andrew Garfield) and a ...
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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17:15