Film Obsessive

3 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, have entered an odd place with the latest Marvel film, Thunderbolts. For nearly 200 episodes in over four years together, they have watched the Marvel Cinematic Universe falter and fade through its shakiest post-Endgame phases. Some of the ups-and-downs have made them question both their fandom and the integrity of the house mega-producer Kevin Feige has built.

3 weeks ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

Continuing its long tradition of restoring and updating both classic independent and studio-backed films, Kino Lorber recently upgraded and released 1992’s Sneakers for the first time on the 4K-UHD disc format. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson of Field of Dreams fame during an era long before the cyberthrillers would become more en vogue later that decade, the Universal Pictures release deftly combined charm, suspense, and a crack cast to be a moderate audience and critical favorite.

1 month ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The title character in Nora, played by writer-director Anna Campbell of You, Me & Her, is a middle-aged mother who finds herself needing to step up to fuller parental responsibilities. Her daughter, Sadie, is beginning kindergarten. Even though she gets a little bit of empty nest, “treat yourself” freedom while the kid is at school, Nora is still overwhelmed and out of her element.

1 month ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, have often encountered greatness as its happening. The new works of special filmmakers find ways to stand out and announce their presence as burgeoning or established masters. Those directors create the reputation to become necessary appointment viewing whenever a new film is released, hype be damned or not.

1 month ago | filmobsessive.com | Don Shanahan

At the center of the new Apple Studios streaming film, Fountain of Youth, is a pair of argumentative siblings played by the headlining duo of John Krasinski and Natalie Portman. A union between People magazine’s reigning “Sexiest Man Alive” and the Black Swan Academy Award winner—aging wonderfully in their mid-40s—boasts an intriguing charisma match.