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Colton’s next choice is REAR WINDOW. Have you figured out the connective tissue which binds his choices on this season of Cinema Surprise.

One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.

Philosophical conundrums a plenty! Ex Machina, although made in 2014; hits a bit differently today knowing there are thousands of Tesla bots about to roam the world... Join us for this week of Cinema Surprise, where Colton reveals the pick for next week at the end of this episode!

Here comes the bride! Our 3rd season of Cinema Suprise continues with Colton’s second choice: THE DRAMA.

Join us for the third episode in this go around of CINEMA SURPRISE, where this week we are covering BLADE RUNNER 2049. We are usually very loving critics, but this week we both feel unable to connect with Blade Runner yet again. Find out what Colton's next pick will be at the end of this episode!

Colton’s first choice of CINEMA SURPRISE season 3, the most down the middle Lynch movie ever crafted. THE STRAIGHT STORY.

CINEMA SURPRISE IS BACK!! It begins with Joseph’s completely out of left field choice in DOCTOR SLEEP, the less than iconic sequel to the iconic 1980 classic THE SHINING.

THE NICE GUYS WITH A REAL NICE GUY, K-BEEZY BACK FOR YHE FIRST TIME SINCE INDIANA JONES.

Join us as we discuss one of the greatest sleeper movies of all time, DEJA VU

Baz Luhrmann's take on quite the classic story, but in a very unclassical manner

Quintessential coming of age by the legendary Rob Reiner.

Time for us to revisit Taxi Driver on a strangely fitting day for it.

Closing out Pride with one of Colton’s favorites ever made.

Happy Juneteenth and Happy Pride!

Continuing our celebration of pride month with Alice Wu’s deeply loving and funny SAVING FACE.

Pride Month begins with a camp classic!

The Top 10 to ever do it! We’ve finally arrived. Shoutout to all the legends who have shined on the big screen for the last century and beyond.

So hard to leave these out of the top 10, but some folks had to miss the cut!

Who missed the top 20? Still some of our favorites ever!!

Oh it’s heating up, almost to the top.

On the north side of the top 50, who made it to such illustrious status?

Just outside the top 50, who just missed the cut?

Nearing the halfway point in the list, where will it take us?

Part three is here, what legends of the screen await us today? Find out here.

And so it continues, our favorites to ever shine on the screen! Spots 80 through 89.

Our top 100 favorite actors list starts here! 
Using the gender neutral term, all performers are valid here!

We top off a month of watchlist maintenance with a Scorsese blind spot: SILENCE.

Our long awaited coverage of the sequel to the greatest film of all time. SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED is here. Check out our coverage of the first film nearly 4 years ago on GEEK WITH ME.

All we knew was that it would make us cry, here’s our coverage of THE GREEN MILE.

Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh? Somehow we hadn’t seen it, but that changes today.

We kick off a month of watchlist maintenance with Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN.

Sealing the deal on a generally dark topic with a lighter approach, the outrageously funny American-Cop-Action-Flick-Satire from Edgar Wright: HOT FUZZ.

We celebrate Joseph’s birthday with QUITE the flick to celebrate a birthday? Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT, as hauntingly prescient as ever.

We take a look at the results of the 98th Annual Academy Awards and react to them. We’ve previously discussed 3 Academy Award WINNERS, check out our episodes on SINNERS, FRANKENSTEIN, and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.

Nominated for 13 Oscars, we felt it was worth squeezing into our month of secret society movies prior to the ceremony this Sunday. Here is our discussion of PTA’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.

We celebrate a brilliant year for film in 2025 ahead of The Academy Awards on Sunday with something even more prestigious. An even higher honor: The Cinementalists Cinema Awards.
Best Picture, Director, Lead Performers, Supporting Performers, Original and Adapted Screenplays, Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Hair & Make-Up, Score, Ensemble, VFX, and Sound.

Our month of delving in to cinema’s secret societies begins with John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE.

Hitting a recent best picture nominee to top off Black History Month, RaMell Ross’ NICKEL BOYS.

Can’t celebrate black filmmakers without mentioning Spike Lee, and we hit the quintessential DO THE RIGHT THING to continue our Black History Month coverage.

Our celebration of black filmmakers continues here on Valentine’s Day with John Singleton’s sophomore flick, starring Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson: POETIC JUSTICE.

Black History Month kicks off for us with an incredible indie effort from Cauleen Smith: DRYLONGSO.

Our month of romance comes to a close with Cher’s Oscar winning turn in MOONSTRUCK.

A masterwork in yearning, Wong Kar-Wai’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.

A year after his passing, we tackle David Lynch’s chaotic romance film: WILD AT HEART.
Rest in Peace, legend.

Celebrating Colton’s 26th birthday with coverage of one of his favorite movies ever crafted: TITANIC (1997).

Starting the new year off right with one of the finest romantic films of the 20s. PAST LIVES by Celine Song.

We ring in the new year with one of our favorites from this one: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S FRANKENSTEIN.

Merry Christmas one and all! NADDAFINGA!

HOLIDAZED proceed with a nostalgic classic.

Our Holidazed continues with a fun 2 for 1! The original HOME ALONE features covered here today!

We kick off the holiday season with an absolute classic! IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.