Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It-Ralph 2
“Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2” leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s...
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Reprising their starring roles from the first film are Chris Pratt as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Lucy (aka Wyldstyle), Will Arnett as LEGO Batman, Nick Offerman as Metal Beard, and Alison Brie as Unikitty. They are joined by Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, and Arturo Castro as, respectively, new characters Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi, Sweet Mayhem and Ice Cream Cone. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is directed by Mike Mitchell (Shrek...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 1/16/18
Dennis Willis spotlights the latest rental, sales, and streaming titles – including David Letterman’s return to TV, on the Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Katt Williams: Great America (Netflix), and the streaming debut of the shark thriller 47 Meters Down. New releases available for rental include the comedic horror movie Happy Death Day, the landmark animated film Loving Vincent, and the tone-deaf drama...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 1/09/18
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the divided audience over Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Netflix comedy-thriller The End of the F***ing World, the digital premieres of Blade Runner 2049 and Stephen King’s It, and whether Dunkirk works when you watch it on a...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 1/02/18
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the pros and cons of the theatrical subscription service Moviepass, the Netflix documentary series The Toys That Made Us, the Netflix premiere of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and the new controversial Dave Chappelle...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 11/28/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the Netflix documentary Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, the Spike Lee series She’s Gotta Have It, Despicable Me 3, and the all the movies leaving...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 11/14/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about separating the art from the artist in a post-Spacey and Louis C.K. world; plus, Amazon’s massive commitment to a multi-season Lord of the Rings TV series, the mid-season finale of Star Trek: Discovery, the neo-western thriller Wind River, with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, and the absurd Oscar-baiting Tulip Fever, with Alicia...
Flick Nation: Home Media Guide – 11/07/17
Dennis Willis chats with KGO Radio’s Brian Copeland about the short-lived scuffle between Disney, film critics and the Los Angeles Times. As well, Amazon’s streaming of the James Bond catalog, Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning epic The Departed, and the neo noir classic Kiss Kiss Bang...
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...
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....