GROUCHO REVIEWS film critic PETER CANAVESE reviews the new movies and home video releases on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (2-16-23) SCREEN SCENE with program host TIM SIKA --  (theatrical unless noted) including MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE; CONSECRATION; YOUR PLACE OR MINE [Netflix]; MARLOWE; OF AN AGE; SHARPER [Also on Apple TV+ 2/17]; THE BLUE CAFTAN; GODLAND; THE FABELMANS [4K][Universal Home Entertainment]; BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER [4K][Buena Vista Home Entertainment]; THREE COLORS (Krzysztof Kieslowski's BLUE, WHITE and RED Movies from 1993-1994 [Criterion Collection Blu-ray] and CINEMATIC SORCERESS: THE FILMS OF NINA MENKES [Arbelos Entertainment].

Celluloid Dreams - the Movie Show

SCREEN SCENE MOVIE REVIEWS with PETER CANAVESE on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (2-16-23)

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW --11/7/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW: Two new to Blu (-ray)!

Thelma is a 93-year-old woman who, one day, gets telephone-scammed by someone pretending to be her grandson in need of $10,000-- and there's no way she's gonna take that nonsense lying down! Similarly-aged Oscar-winning actor June Squibb chats with us about becoming an unlikely action star, and writer/director Josh Margolin also fills us in on THELMA-- incredibly, based on a real person!  

Set in 2008 during the last month of summer before high school begins, DIDI shows us an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese-American boy navigating the awkward, unknown landscape of teenhood, with the added toxic aspects of male peers and racism. Writer/director Sean Wang and Oscar nominee Joan Chen discuss the drama and cringe comedy of post-adolescent life in the semi-autobiographical DIDI.  

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿ANORA; JUROR #2; HERE; ABSOLUTION; HERETIC; SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE; THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER; MERCHANT IVORY [VOD]; COLUMBIA CLASSICS COLLECTION Volume 5 [4K][Sony Pictures Home Entertainment] and TRAP [4K][Warner Home Entertainment].
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This week's featured soundtrack: JUROR #2 (music by Mark Mancina) [WaterTower Music]

JUNE SQUIBB & JOAN CHEN + ALL NEW MOVIE RVIEWS on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (11-7-24)

GROUCHO REVIEWS film critic PETER CANAVESE reviews the new movies on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (11-7-24) SCREEN SCENE with program host TIM SIKA --  (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿ANORA; JUROR #2; HERE; ABSOLUTION; HERETIC; SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE; THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER; MERCHANT IVORY [VOD]; COLUMBIA CLASSICS COLLECTION Volume 5 [4K][Sony Pictures Home Entertainment] and TRAP [4K][Warner Home Entertainment].

SCREEN SCENE MOVIE REVIEWS with PETER CANAVESE on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (11-7-24)

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CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 11/14/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  

From 1999: In Tim Burton’s suspenseful and sweeping tale SLEEPY HOLLOW, Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, an eccentric and earnest constable with an avant-garde approach to solving crime. Ichabod’s investigative ways are put to the test when his superiors send him to the small village of Sleepy Hollow to probe a string of murders, allegedly committed by a HEADLESS HORSEMAN! 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the film, so, we dust off our sit-down with actor Johnny Depp!  

KNEECAP is the real-life story of three directionless young men from West Belfast who form a rap group (dubbed KNEECAP) and become unlikely figureheads for the civil rights movement to save the Irish language. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures. We sit down with rappers/actors Móglaí Bap (Naoise) & DJ "JJ" Próvai and director Rich Peppiatt.  

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿ELEVATION; RED ONE; BIRD; ﻿PAPER MOON [4K][Criterion Collection Blu-ray]; ZODIAC (2007) [4K][Paramount Home Video]; ﻿﻿WHITE CHRISTMAS [4K][Paramount Home Video]; ROSELAND [Cohen Media Group] and ﻿﻿MERCHANT IVORY: The Documentary [Cohen Media Group].
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This week's featured soundtrack: MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (music by Elena Kats-Chernin) [Australian Broadcasting Corporation]

JOHNNY DEPP + KNEECAP Director & Cast + ALL NEW REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 11-14-24

GROUCHO REVIEWS film critic PETER CANAVESE reviews the new movies on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (11-14-24) SCREEN SCENE with program host TIM SIKA -- (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿ELEVATION; RED ONE; BIRD; ﻿PAPER MOON [4K][Criterion Collection Blu-ray]; ZODIAC (2007) [4K][Paramount Home Video]; ﻿﻿WHITE CHRISTMAS [4K][Paramount Home Video]; ROSELAND [Cohen Media Group] and ﻿﻿MERCHANT IVORY: The Documentary [Cohen Media Group].

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CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 11/21/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  The truth is in there, somewhere.

A successful and respected television documentary journalist is forced to confront a dark incident from her past when she appears in a novel written by the father of a boy she let drown 20 years earlier. DISCLAIMER* is a 7-episode limited miniseries written and directed by our first guest, Alfonso Cuarón [ROMA; GRAVITY; CHILDREN OF MEN].

Now on Blu-ray:  Max is a 25-year-old aspiring novelist, living in London and paying his dues working as a freelance escort under the pseudonym Sebastian and using his experiences to fuel his stories. What begins as a few furtive meetings soon becomes a nocturnal double life. SEBASTIAN is the film  and zooming in are writer/director Mikko Mäkelä (A MOMENT IN THE REEDS) and actor Ruaridh Mollica.  

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿EMILIA PEREZ [Netflix]; ﻿﻿A REAL PAIN; THE PIANO LESSON [Netflix]; GLADIATOR II; ﻿﻿BONHOEFFER: PASTOR. SPY. ASSASSIN; ﻿ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT; BLITZ [Apple TV+]; BREAD AND ROSES [Apple TV+]; ﻿﻿HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: The Complete Second Season [4K][Warner Home Entertainment]; ﻿﻿NORTH BY NORTHWEST [4K][Warner Home Entertainment]; BLAZING SADDLES [4K][Warner Home Entertainment]; THE TERMINATOR [4K][Warner Home Entertainment]; ﻿﻿THE INTERN [4K][Warner Home Entertainment]; ﻿VACATION [4K][Warner Home Entertainment] and ﻿﻿TAG [4K][Warner Home Entertainment].

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This week's featured soundtrack: RED ONE (music by Henry Jackman) [Sony Music]

ALFONSO CUARON (Disclaimer) + SEBASTIAN + NEW REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 11-21-24

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 11/28/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Dreams... non-celluloid ones.

Anora is a Brooklyn erotic dancer/sex worker who, one day, meets the childish son of a Russian oligarch and marries him with fairy tale impulsiveness. But then, his parents fly to New York, hellbent on putting an end to the dream. ANORA is the latest film from Sean Baker (TANGERINE, THE FLORIDA PROJECT),  and we're joined by  breakout lead actor Mikey Madison.

Now on Blu-ray:  A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico working odd jobs to get by. When he takes a job at a ranch, he finds welcomed by a vibrant community of queer rodeo riders exploring their own conception of the American dream. NATIONAL ANTHEM is directed and co-written by Luke Gilford and follows on from his 2020 biograph of the same name, comprising photographs documenting the queer rodeo subculture.  

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿﻿WICKED Part 1; JOY [Netflix]; ﻿﻿THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS; BEATLES '64 [Apple TV+]; DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS [4K][Universal Home Video]; THE INVASION (2007) [4K][Arrow Video]; ﻿A SIMPLE PLAN [Arrow Video] and ﻿SCALA!!! (Or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits) [Severin Films].

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This week's featured soundtrack: LEONARDO DA VINCI (music by Caroline Shaw) [Nonesuch Records]

MIKEY MADISON (Anora) + LUKE GILFORD + NEW FILM REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 11-28-24

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 12/5/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  When real life gives way to something else..

Remember Y2K-- the event that wasn't? In 1999, programmers across the globe scrambled to update systems to avoid a mass crash when clocks hit the new millennium. In the retro-teen comedy-with-horror Y2K, two nobodies crash a big NYE party and... things don't go the way they did in reality! With us are first-time director Kyle Mooney (SNL; BRIGSBY BEAR) and producer Evan Winter-- both also co-writers.

From 2020: Based on Peter Carey's novel, the almost-assuredly-true tale of one of Australia's most notorious figures is spun in TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, a fictionalized account of the famed 19th century Australian Bush Ranger/bandit Ned Kelly. With his new film THE ORDER in theaters, we return Down Under for our 2020 chat with director Justin Kurzel (MACBETH; ASSASSIN'S CREED).  

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿﻿MOANA 2; MARIA; NUTCRACKERS [Hulu]; ﻿Music Box: YACHT ROCK: A DOCKUMENTARY [Max]; ﻿NIGHTBITCH; QUEER; GET AWAY; FLOW; THE ORDER; ﻿WATCHMEN: Chapter II [4K][Warner Home Entertainment] and ﻿PULP FICTION Limited Edition Collector's Set [4K] [Paramount Home Video].

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This week's featured soundtrack: WICKED (music by John Powell & Stephen Schwartz) [Republic Records]

Y2K + JUSTIN KURZEL + ALL NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 12-5-24

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 12/12/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW: It's the past! It's the future!

In February of 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were invited to co-host the syndicated daytime The Mike Douglas Show for an entire week, with them selecting all the guests and bringing the counterculture to an entirely new audience. DAYTIME REVOLUTION gleans highlights of that week and peppers them with newly-recorded recollections from some of those shows' participants. We join up with director Erik Nelson (DIARY OF A GRIZZLY MAN; A GRAY STATE).

New to Blu-ray: SLINGSHOT follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous "slingshot" maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality. Zooming in to elucidate on all this space madness is director Mikael Håfström.

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿﻿DAY OF THE FIGHT; THE END; THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM; ﻿OH, CANADA; THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG; FRANK CAPRA AT COLUMBIA Limited Edition [4K] [Sony Pictures Home Entertainment] and ﻿JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX [4K] [Warner Home Entertainment].

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This week's featured soundtrack: MOANA 2 (music by Mark Mancina) [Walt Disney Records]

ERIK NELSON (Daytime Revolution) +  ALL NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 12-12-24

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 12/19/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Ghosts of Christmas movies past!

From 2003:  You know him from our intermission entertainment: the late author/ Hollywood tour guide Stephen Schochet's short Hollywood Stories. In 2003, Stephen hung with us a bit longer, sharing anecdotes related to his some iconic Christmas movies. 'Tis the season for the HOLLYWOOD STORIES: XMAS MOVIES EDITION!  

From 2010:  A holiday mainstay got wildly reinvented via a radical new big-screen take on the classic THE NUTCRACKER. Originally designed for 3-D, it trades the dream scenario for a journey into another dimension with oversized humanoid toys. Joining us was director Andrey Konchalovskiy (RUNAWAY TRAIN).  

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿﻿﻿KRAVEN THE HUNTER; CARRY-ON [Netflix]; THE BRUTALIST; ﻿﻿A COMPLETE UNKNOWN; ﻿BABYGIRL; ﻿NOSFERATU; BETTER MAN; THE FIRE INSIDE; ﻿BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE [4K] [Warner Home Entertainment] and ﻿GALAXY QUEST [4K] [Paramount Home Video].

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This week's featured soundtrack: NIGHTBITCH (music by Nate Heller) [Hollywood Records]

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