Movies For Decades

Epic fights! Ultral violence! A true short king! Redemption, or lack therof! On this season's Cottingham special, we disect one of the ultimate and most influential action movies of the century, what makes it awesome and what makes it, not for everyone

Returning to Japan we pay our first visit to the legendary filmography of Akira Kurosawa, with his melancholy but gently comedic drama, Ikiru. As usual, we spend some time discussing details we might be missing, be it things lost in translation, lost in time, and whether or not we can even speak English, let alone pronounce Japanese words

Digging back into our childhoods with one of Helen's favorite movies (and one her brothers love as well) we talk A League of Their Own, Dottie Hinson as a heroic ideal, a little Hanks and maybe just a lil BASEBALL

Here we discuss Blade Runner, an essential science fiction film and also a fairly essential Albea family film. Unpacking what that might say about us, we examine the tortured history of this film's many versions, strengths and weaknesses of those changes, how we feel about Deckard as a replicant, Harrison Ford's unique star power and how to sell this movie as a fairy tale to little girls

Making a quick detour to the present we've got an Oscar Special! Helen and Colin make both Oscar predictions and work out their own picks for who should collect statues at this year's Academy Awards, and discuss the movies from this year and where Cinema is in the year 2022.