CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 3/13/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Things aren't looking bright!

It's been a while since we've had a new rock opera, and O'DESSA gives us a title character who, armed with a magic guitar, travels to a dystopian city ruled by a tyrannical game show host to fulfill an old prophecy. While there, she falls hard for her true love, but the infatuation soon turns into a rescue mission. Writer/director Geremy Jasper (PATTI CAKE$) zooms in to elucidate on his hero's journey.

From 2020:  In 1945, soon after atomic bombs exploded over Japan, two Hollywood studios were preparing big-budget films about the invention and use of that revolutionary new weapon. It was MGM that released THE BEGINNING OR THE END, a sort-of docudrama which covered the events leading from the U.S.'s initial reaction to the Nazis' own work to the project's terrible culmination at Hiroshima.  With his book, THE BEGINNING OR THE END: HOW HOLLYWOOD-- AND AMERICA-- LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, author (and our sole guest) Greg Mitchell dives deep into studio meeting rooms, laboratories and military camps to tell the real story behind the celluloid one, detailing how what studio chief Louis B. Mayer called a "most important story" turned into a watered-down, stagey piece of Hollywood propaganda. 

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews including ﻿﻿MICKEY 17; THERE'S STILL TOMORROW; IN THE LOST LANDS; SEVEN VEILS; THERE IS ANOTHER WAY; ﻿THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE and NOVOCAINE.

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This week's featured soundtrack: THE SOUND OF MUSIC (music by Rodgers and Hammerstein) [Twentieth Century Fox Film Scores]


GEREMY JASPER (O'DESSA) + GREG MITCHELL (THE BEGINNING OR THE END) + ALL NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (3-13-25) CELLULOID DREAMS

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW host TIM SIKA talks MOVIES on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (9-25-25) with program host TIM SIKA:

-----One Battle After Another
-----#EleanorTheGreat
-----Dead of Winter

Classic Movie Rec of the Week: Deja Vu (1997) 

Film Critic TIM SIKA talks MOVIES on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (9-26-25) with KIM MCCALLISTER

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 10/2/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Reality and fantasy.

A closeted undercover cop, assigned to arrest men cruising in shopping mall bathrooms, grapples with messy, conflicted feelings when he falls in love with a married man he's assigned to entrap. PLAINCLOTHES is an intense, deeply atmospheric drama that explores the grey zones of authority, identity and the cost of living a secret life. We sit down with its writer/ director Carmen Emmi.  

From 2021: In the meditative supernatural drama NINE DAYS, a mysterious man interviews five unborn souls to determine which one can be given life on Earth. But one free-spirited candidate causes him to face his own existential challenge by looking within. We connect with writer/director Edson Oda for a hardly-remote conversation.  

Then, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; STEVE [Netflix]; ﻿THE LOST BUS [Apple TV+]; GOOD BOY; ﻿PLAINCLOTHES; SUPERMAN [4K][Warner Home Entertainment] and TENACIOUS D: THE COMPLETE MASTERWORKS VOL. 3 [MVD Video].


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This week's featured soundtrack: CHAD POWERS (music by Natalie Holt) [Hollywood Records]

CARMEN EMMI (PLAINCLOTHES) + EDSON ODA + ALL NEW REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 10-2-25

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 10/9/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  It's the season for scares (and action)!

From 2011:  Years after the classic "first wave" of horror and monster movies, a new generation of young filmmakers unleased the first of a era of modern horror films. In his book SHOCK VALUE: HOW A FEW ECCENTRIC OUTSIDERS GAVE US NIGHTMARES, CONQUERED HOLLYWOOD, AND INVENTED MODERN HORROR, author Jason Zinoman focuses on the influence of a handful of directors (Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, etc.) whose groundbreaking efforts created a wildly-successful industry.  

From 2012:  MACHINE GUN PREACHER tells the hardcore and inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds his unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of children in war-torn Sudan. hard-hitting and moving story of violence, redemption and the lengths to which a person will go in combatting an almost-unthinkable evil. We sat down with actors Gerard Butler & Michelle Monaghan.  

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿THE SMASHING MACHINE; ANEMONE; ﻿BONE LAKE; ORWELL: 2+2=5; JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME Amazon Prime; ﻿﻿THE LIFE OF CHUCK [4K][Decal Releasing] and ﻿RELAY [Decal Releasing].

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This week's featured soundtracks: HELLRAISER III, FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE & EVIL DEAD II (music by Christopher Young, Brian May & Joseph LoDuca)



JASON ZINOMAN + GERARD BUTLER (Archive Show) + ALL NEW REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 10-9-25

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 10/16/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Drama, fantasy, horror and songs! What more could you need?

Molina, a gay hairdresser in 1983 is serving time in an Argentine prison for alleged indecency when he is joined with Valentin, a political prisoner, and the two form an unlikely bond punctuated with Molina's imaginary movies starring a classic screen actress.

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN was a 1985 drama that became a Broadway musical, which is now a film again. Director Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS, CHICAGO) and lead actor Tonatiuh sit down with us to discuss their haunting, sensual and deeply human story that blurs the line between fantasy and reality.

From 2003:  Five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker in the Texas backwoods and when she suddenly shoots herself, the group goes in search of help. Unfortunately, the remote house they discover is filled with a family of inbred psychopaths and in short order, they are pursued by a relentless chainsaw-wielding cannibal. Sound familiar? Of course it does! THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003) is considered one of the quality horror remakes, and we open the scary archives to revisit our chat with German director Marcus Nispel on his feature debut.  

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; ﻿ROOFMAN; ﻿TRON: ARES; ﻿URCHIN; ﻿﻿TRUTH & TREASON; TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME [4K][Criterion Collection Blu-ray]; MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING [4K][Paramount Home Entertainment]; AEON FLUX [4K][Paramount Home Entertainment]; EDDINGTON [A24] and WHEN FALL IS COMING [Music Box Films].

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This week's classic 50th anniversary featured soundtrack: JAWS (music by John Williams) [Universal Music Group]

BILL CONDON & TONATIUH (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN) + ALL NEW REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS) 10-16-25

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW host TIM SIKA talks MOVIES on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (10-3-25) with program host KIM MCCALLISTER:

---The Smashing Machine
---Orwell 2+2=5
---Anemone
---Plainclothes 

 Classic Move Rec. of the Week: The Heiress (1949) (Streaming on Prime)

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Film Critic TIM SIKA talks MOVIES with KIM MCCALLISTER on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (10-3-25)

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW host TIM SIKA reviews the new movies on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! with program host KIM MCCALLISTER (10-10-25)

---Tron: Ares
---Kiss of the Spider Woman
---Roofman 
---Lilly (Amazon Prime)
---John Candy: I Like Me (Amazon Prime) 

"Classic Movie Rec of the Week" is....Steel Magnolias (1989) (Amazon Prime)

Film Critic TIM SIKA talks MOVIES with KIM MCCALLISTER on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (10-10-25)

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW host TIM SIKA reviews the new movies with KIM MCCALLISTER on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (10-17-25):

---Good Fortune
---The Mastermind
---Urchin
---Among Neighbors
---Blue Moon

Classic Movie Rec of the Week: Now Voyager (1942)

Film Critic TIM SIKA talks MOVIES with KIM MCCALLISTER on THE AFTER PARTY LIVE! (10-17-25)

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 10/23/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Everybody scream!

From 2006:  During the Spanish Civil War, a young girl escapes the bloody conflict by retreating into an unfamiliar but captivating fantasy world. Leading our way through PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006) is writer/director Guillermo del Toro, (Golden Globe winner, THE SHAPE OF WATER), whose long-anticipated FRANKENSTEIN is currently in theaters.  

Now streaming:  A teenager moves with her father to the quiet town of Kettle Springs, Missouri, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times, and amidst boiling tensions, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time. Teen rebellion meets killer clown vengeance in CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD is an adaptation of the YA novel by Adam Cesare, who joins us along with director/co-screenwriter Eli Craig (TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL).  

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including AFTER THE HUNT; ﻿GOOD FORTUNE; ﻿BLACK PHONE 2; IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU; ﻿STILLER & MEARA: NOTHING IS LOST [Apple TV+]; ﻿A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE [Netflix 10/24]; BLUE MOON; IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT; ﻿﻿THE MASTERMIND; ﻿﻿AMONG NEIGHBORS; THE SOUND OF MUSIC [4K][Disney Home Video] and ﻿WEAPONS [4K][Warner Home Entertainment].

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This week's featured soundtrack: TWO-MINUTE TIMER PUMPKIN Tracks (music by John Williams) [Universal Music Group]



GUILLERMO DEL TORO + ALL NEW GROUCHO REVIEWS on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (10-23-25)

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 10/30/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Aliens and... alien?

From 2009:  It's a "Halloween holdover" from the archive. We travel back 16 years to revisit ALIEN TRESPASS: a "lost" sci-fi movie from 1957 complete with a nerdy astronomer, his adoring wife, some suspiciously-older teenagers, a crashed spaceship and an all-consuming monster! We sat for a chat with actors Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird & Dan Lauria.  

From 2014:  Then, with immigration in the political crosshairs in 2025, we go back to 2014 for a portrait of an undocumented journalist and his journey through America as an immigration reform activist. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas details his life-changing experiences in DOCUMENTED.  

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE; REGRETTING YOU; THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE [Hulu]; STITCH HEAD and ANNIVERSARY.

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This week's featured soundtrack: A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (music by Volker Bertelmann) [Netflix Music]

ALIEN TRESPASS + DOCUMENTED (Archive) + ALL NEW GROUCHO REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW)

GROUCHO REVIEWS film critic PETER CANAVESE reviews the Walt Disney Home Video 4k release of THE SOUND OF MUSIC starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer (10-23-25) on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW with program host TIM SIKA.

GEREMY JASPER (O'DESSA) + GREG MITCHELL (THE BEGINNING OR THE END) + ALL NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (3-13-25) CELLULOID DREAMS

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