Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 10/24/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about Amazon’s final season of Red Oaks, the return of Stranger Things, the necessity of Cars sequels (and the surprise discovery that Cars 3 was actually good), the Kristen Stewart ghost tale Personal Shopper, and passing of actor Robert...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 10/17/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the powerful Netflix drama The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) with Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, and dramatic performances from Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller; the David Fincher thriller series Mindhunter, the theatrical hit Girls Trip, and director Sofia Coppola’s version of The Beguiled. Plus, how stoned does one have to be to enjoy Amazon’s reboot of Sigmund and the...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 10/10/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the box office surprise Baby Driver, the Marvel smash Spider-man: Homecoming, the strangely hypnotic dystopian western The Bad Batch; as well as War for the Planet of the Apes, and why Andy Serkis deserves an...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 10/03/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the gnarly Stephen King adaptation Gerald’s Game, the romance Our Souls at Night, with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, and why fans should be patient with Star Trek...
Flick Nation: At the Movies – 9/29/17
Dennis Willis reviews the true-life Tom Cruise crime flick American Made, and the charming documentary California Typewriter. LISTEN:...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/26/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, the comedy special Jerry Before Seinfeld, the TV reboots of Will and Grace and Roseanne, the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix, and why you should watch a double feature of The Shining and the documentary Room...
mother! – Mommy and Daddy are Fighting!
MOMMY AND DADDY ARE FIGHTING! Darren Aronovsky’s mother! Says This is Seriously Fucked Up Films have always tried to show us our fears and comment on what is threatening to the world; the good ones usually do it with veiled, nuanced archetypal drama, while the bad ones are called horror movies. Okay, I’m sorry. That was a lousy joke and I think a very bad beginning to this article. Let’s try again. When the going gets weird, the weird...
Flick Nation: At the Movies – 9/22/17
Dennis Willis reviews the historical sports comedy Battle of the Sexes, in which reining feminist tennis legend Billie Jean King accepted a $100,000 Challenge from male chauvinist champ Bobby Riggs....
Battle of the Sexes (Review)
Battle Of The Sexes tells the wild true life story of when reining feminist tennis legend Billie Jean King accepted a $100,000 Challenge from male chauvinist champ Bobby Riggs, an outrageous event that was carried on prime-time TV to an audience of 90 million viewers. It was the epitome of 1970s sports entertainment in which the splashiness of the event itself was bigger than the actual competition. But it was about so much more. As...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/19/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Pat Thurston about the home media release of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the Netflix comedy special Marc Maron: Too Real, the TV premiere of the long-shelved Prince concert film Sign O’The...
Flick Nation: At the Movies – 9/15/17
Dennis Willis reviews Darren Aronofsky’s polarizing new thriller mother! Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem open their doors to surprise guests, and that’s when things get weird. This film is shocking, but there’s a lot more going on under the hood! LISTEN HERE: http://flicknation.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FN-ATM-9.15.17-KGO.mp3 ...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/12/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the decision to hire J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars: Episode IX, the Tom Cruise horror vehicle The Mummy, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, and the Disney movies available on Netflix this...
Flick Nation: At the Movies – 9/08/17
Dennis Willis reviews the long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s classic It; and the Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy Home Again....
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 9/05/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me, the Netflix releases of the Jaws series, Dead Poets Society, and the re-release of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. Plus, an advance review of Battle of the Sexes, with Emma Stone and Steve...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 8/29/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the digital release of Wonder Woman, and how it was able to accomplish so much; Plus, the movies leaving Amazon and Netflix, and the best way to enjoy the 2017 comedy version of...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 8/22/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about Jerry Seinfeld’s massive Netflix deal, the YA teen romance drama Everything Everything, the latest plan to allow consumers to rent movies while they are still in theaters – will this one succeed when the others all failed? And why are there so many different version of the Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 8/15/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about Alien: Covenant, the Netflix movie Naked with Marlon Wayans, the Amazon series Comrade Detective, and The Last...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 8/08/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about Disney’s decision to pull its titles off Netflix, and David Letterman’s return to TV. Also, Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2 is now available digitally, Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later premieres on Netflix as does The Founder, with Michael...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 7/25/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the spooky Kristen Stewart drama Personal Shopper, the Amazon Prime Video debuts of two Mel Gibson flicks: the Oscar-winning Braveheart and the criminally-underseen Payback. Plus, a report on the new Amazon Jack Ryan series just as two of the five entries drop on Prime...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 7/18/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about Colossal, the monster movie mashup with Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis, action thriller Free Fire with Brie Larson, the Netflix comedy series Friends from College, and Rogue One: A Star Wars...
