Hello From Obscurity
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The Last Supper (1995)
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di Wesley Erickson, Peter Clark, Lily Lenarz Hooyman, and Sam Pavich
The year is 1995, Apollo 13 is being filmed at the same time as a little indie black comedy and on his off days, Bill Paxton swings by for a weekend to film the part of a racist, sexist, child murderer before going back to play and astronaut. Starring Cameron Diaz, Ron Perlman, Courtney B. Vance, Anabeth Gish, and even more! Will this be a tale of the little movie that could...MURDER? Tune in and find out on this season starter from Hello From Obscurity
The year is 2008, the director of Saw II sets out to create his passion project: a gore and angst filled musical featuring graverobbing, a culture of excessive plastic surgery and a less-then-ideal healthcare program. Repo! The Genetic Opera. When an epidemic of organ failure grips the world, the company GeneCo stepped in and offered viable organs to all. However, if you miss a payment for you organs, they will send the Repo Man after you to take back what is rightfully the company's property. Shilo, a teenage girl, will explore is twisted world and try to find herself along the way. Is this operetta too much for for today's audience? Or will we recall it back from that mysterious realm we call... Obscurity!
It's 1985. A year has past since the release of Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom and Steven Spielberg has decided to executive produce another movie featuring ancient civilizations and blood thirsty cults. This time in the form of an origin story for the greatest literary detective. Young Sherlock Holmes follows our titular character in his first encounter with John Watson, in his first case and with his first love. The family film features action, whimsy and also some of the scariest hallucinations ever put to film! Should this film be preserved for all to see? Or should it erode into the churning sea we call Obscurity?
In this episode, we jump into the surreal and bizarre creation of Terry Gilliam. The film follows the stories of the preposterous Baron Munchausen and his crew as they travel to such strange yet amazing settings. They journey kingdom on the moon, a Roman god's lair on the bottom of a volcano and inside a belly of a sea monster. Is this ill-fated film meant to be passed onto future generations? Or do we leave it be, untouched in the wilderness of oblivion? Join us as we review The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!
The year is 2014, Sam Esmail has just written his first feature film starring his wife: Emmy Rossum and Justin Long. It's a drama, it's a romance, it's a sci-fi that takes place in possible five different parallel universes? The gang sits down to follow along a discombobulating timeline of love lost, gained, re-lost, and maybe more. Will we find love on the screen, or are we doomed to only follow the bad timeline. Join us as we watch comet.
The year is 2003, a film featuring pirates, sword fights and swashbuckling adventure arrives in theaters everywhere... Pirates of the Caribbean, of course! But we are not discussing that movie. Instead we are reviewing the other movie release just one week later also featuring those things, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Is this DreamWorks animated movie buried treasure worthy of being discovered? Or is it fool's gold destine to sit on the bottom of the ocean forever?
The year is 2011, Roland Emmerich is at the top of his game, 2012 has just captivated at the box office and he can do whatever movie he wants next. His choice: A largely debunked Shakespeare authorship theory. With the likes of Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, and Mark Rylance at his side, does this theory hold any water? Or is it doomed to live in as the biggest disaster from this disaster artist's career? Peter, Wesley, Lily, and Sam find out.
The year is 2013 and Kerri Russel and Josh Hamilton are trying to keep their family financially afloat in their upper middle class neighborhood. But things are not as they seem as strange and terrifying happenings occur within their household. Are these the hauntings from supernatural spirits? Or are otherworldly beings to blame? Peter, Wesley, Lily and Sam will find out when they review this movie and ask if it's really even worth bringing back from Obscurity.
The year is 2004, and one of the oldest stories in western civilization is about to hit the big screen with modern day greek gods Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Eric Banana, and Brian Cox? Is this epic poem set to visuals doomed to ruin in the fall of Troy or is it to be held up as a beautiful marble statue for all to see? Peter, Wesley, and Lily talk about that exact thing.
This week, we take a look back at 2012's second movie featuring our 16th President. This historically IN-accurate movie asks the question audiences all over the world want to know: what if Lincoln had a cool axe-gun and could battle immortal beings on a runaway train? It features vampires, horse chases and so much slo-mo! Will this movie stand the test of time? Or will it die by being exposed to a copious amount of silver? Peter, Wesley and Lily are soon to find out.