What makes a movie review podcast a real movie review podcast? (Dang it, I should have said reel instead of real. What ever, I can recover from this.) Real movie review podcasts watch and critique documentaries. It's true. They do. And that's exactly what we did and only one of us thought it was a mock-umentary. It was me. Eric. And yes, I am ashamed.

Our hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M Hunter

Nick Prince

American Movie (1999)

Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by  finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.

Director: Chris Smith

Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels

Watch Coven on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPi-qOUTS0

When is smoking drugs no longer the goal you strive for day in and day out? When does something, oh I don't know, let's say . . . a relationship, a positive relationship, come between you and your goal of smoking drugs day in and day out? Half Baked dares to answer that question and all sorts of weird childhood stories are brought up on this episode of Reel 90.

Our Hosts 

Ricky Glore
Eric M Hunter
Nick Prince
and special guest Danny Johns

Half Baked (1998)

The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.

• Director Tamra Davis
  
• Writers Dave Chappelle
  Neal Brennan
  
• Stars Dave Chappelle
  Guillermo Díaz
  Jim Breuer
  
  

What is this? Is he a man? Is he a monster? Did Tim Burton really have anything to do with this film? The boys are back, baby, not skipping a beat reviewing films from the 90s. 

Our Hosts
Ricky Glore
Eric M Hunter
Nick Prince

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

An  artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for  hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him  and introduces him to her world.

• DirectorTim Burton
  
• WritersTim Burton(story)
  Caroline Thompson(story)
  
• StarsJohnny Depp
  Winona Ryder
  Dianne Wiest
  

Bomb?! Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman!!  How could this 1990 master piece be bad?! I refuse to believe!!

Well believe it, dear listener, as we review the flop of 1990.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore   

Eric M Hunter

Nick Prince

Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

After his mistress runs over a young teen, a  Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and  attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.

Director:

Brian De Palma (as Brian DePalma)

Writers:

Michael Cristofer (screenplay), Tom Wolfe (novel)

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith

Do you feel that wind on your face, podcast listener? Or is it  a ghost? Reel 90 makes their triumph return with the box office smash  for the summer of 1990: Ghost. Do our hosts agree? Do they disagree? Do  they take up pottery? What ever they decide it’ll be an unchained melody  of 90s fashion.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M Hunter

Nick Prince  

Ghost (1990)

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his  lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Director

Jerry Zucker

Writer

Bruce Joel Rubin

Stars

Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg

“Hide ya kids, hide ya wife, because this movie is burglarin’ everyone’s turds up in here!”

There aren’t many more bad things we can say about the movie, The Super, that aren’t already said in this episode.

It’s no wonder that after this movie,  Hollywood decided not to give Joe Pesci main solo starring vehicles.  We’re not saying that Pesci is a bad actor, but he works better in a  supporting character role, rather than the center of a whole movie.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince     

The Super (1991)

Karma comes into play when a wealthy wisecracking landlord is ordered by a court to live in the filthy building that he runs.

Director:

Rod Daniel

Writer:

Sam Simon

Stars:

Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osborne

REEL90 Presents: REEL TALK

Where we talk with the people involved with the 90s movies that we’ve discussed.

Episode One of REEL TALK, our host Ricky Glore talks with Kevin Eastman, co creator of TMNT.

Kevin Eastman

Kevin Eastman was born on May 30, 1962 in Portland, Maine, USA as Kevin Brooks Eastman. He is a writer and actor, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987),Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). He is married to Julie Strain.

When you’re swimming and you see a shark, you don’t have to be faster  than the shark, you just gotta swim faster than the person you’re  swimming with.

Without Kevin Spacey in this movie, there is no movie. Spacey gives a  tour de force performance in this film, and even though he is an  incredibly unlikeable character, you start liking him because of how bad  and whiney everyone else is in the film.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter 

Nick Prince

Swimming With Sharks (1994)

A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss.

Director:

George Huang

Writer:

George Huang

Stars:

Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes

PREPARE THYSELF FOR A CROSSOVER OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!!!

Did I sell it too hard just then? I’m sorry…we at REEL90 are just  “reel” excited (see what I did there with the “reel”?) about our  crossover episode with pals, and bad movie enthusiasts, DIMENSION B!

We sit back and discuss the low budget 90’s classic CUBE.

We all agree that this movie be top notch yo!

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M Hunter

Nick Prince

Mike Flinchum

Doctor Science

Cube (1997)

7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics  are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly  traps.

Director:

Vincenzo Natali

Writers:

André Bijelic, Vincenzo Natali

Stars:

Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett

“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…
Three, four, filled with jokes galore!”

Is this movie scary to anyone? Hmmm???

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, comes off like a spoof parody of the Elm Street Series.

At least in this episode guest viewer Mike Flinchum joins us from the Dimension B podcast, to stew in this shit-soup with us.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter 

Nick Prince       

Mike Flinchum

Freddy’s Dead (1991)

Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of his daughter and Springwood’s last surviving teenager.

Director:

Rachel Talalay

Writers:

Wes Craven (characters), Rachel Talalay (story)

Stars:

Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Shon Greenblatt

“Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two
The Candy Man, oh the Candy Man can
The Candy Man can ’cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.”

I love that they finally made a wholesome family film based off that lovable Sammy Davis Jr. song!….

Wait…, what? Okay, I’m being told that this movie is not what I  mentioned above, but is in fact from a sick and twisted story that Clive  Baker (of Hellraiser fame) wrote.

Hmmm…I guess I shouldn’t have just popped this dvd in, left the room, and let those kids I was babysitting, watch it…

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter  

Nick Prince       

Candyman (1992)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook  for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad  student researching the monster’s myth.

Director:

Bernard Rose

Writers:

Clive Barker (story), Bernard Rose

Stars:

Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd

So this week’s movie is about a secret  agent who has lost their memory, and is living a normal life until the  bad guys come back to kill’em.

Nope, not one of the Bourne movies! It’s a little known action movie from the mid 90’s, written by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lethal Weapon 1&2, and Iron Man 3).

This action gem has all the great qualities of a Lethal Weapon or Die Hard movie, except a good ending.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter 

Nick Prince       

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

A woman suffering from amnesia begins to recover her memories after trouble from her past finds her again.

Director:

Renny Harlin

Writer:

Shane Black

Stars:

Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima

Welcome to a future where humans can be walking flash drives!

That’s right! In this 1995 ACTION/SCIFI film, Johnny Mattdamon…I mean, Johnny Marshmellow…crap…Johnny Mnoma nah…

In THIS MOVIE, the future  has become a dark greedy place, where corporations will do what they can  to induce profit margins. Hmmm…the future you say?

We all agree that this is just a dumb, fun  action flick that has a little bit too much goin’ on in it, but love the  fact that we can say that a character like Cyborg Jesus (played by  Dolph Lundgren) exists.

So sit back and enjoy our episode where we discuss Johnny Menards…shit!

PS. Also in this episode,  we play the interview clip from Kevin Eastman (co creator of the Teenage  Mutant Ninja Turtles) where he tells us about where the Turtles get  their money!!!

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter 

Nick Prince

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

A data courier, literally carrying a data  package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden  or is killed by the Yakuza.

Director:

Robert Longo

Writers:

William Gibson (screenplay), William Gibson (short story)

Stars:

Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Dina Meyer

“In the not too distant future…” How many times have you thought to  yourself, “Man, this old B movie is terrible! I wish I had someone to  watch it with me and make sarcastic and snide remarks during the  viewing…”?

Well now you can with Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Movie! Our  pick this episode wasn’t exactly a hit across the board with our hosts.  With all of the different “riffing” groups that exist now, it’s nice to  see how it all got started. No matter if you’re a fan of the original  MST3K show, I still think this cult classic will be talked about for  awhile, and is a nice entry for the TV show if you’re a newbie to it  all.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M Hunter 

Nick Prince

Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Movie (1996)

Synopsis

Mike Nelson and his robot companions watch and give their comments about “This Island Earth”.

Director:

Jim Mallon

Writers:

Joel Hodgson (television series Mystery Science Theater 3000), Michael J. Nelson

Stars:

Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon

Please leave a comment below about your experiences, positive or negative, of MST3K and the episode.

Reese Witherspoon is such a wretched, vile, angry, annoying piece of white trash…

…in the movie FREEWAY.

See what we did there? Made ya’ think we  were talking about the person, but then made it about the character in  the movie…anywhoooo….

Eric Hunter’s pick is a nice change of  pace, with none of us having seen the movie, all the hosts get to give  an unbiased original opinion on this film.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore      

Eric M Hunter   

Nick Prince

Freeway (1996)

Synopsis

A twisted take on ‘Little Red Riding Hood’  with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker  traveling to her grandmother’s house and being hounded by a charming,  but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile.

Director:

Matthew Bright

Writer:

Matthew Bright

Stars:

Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine

“DIE HARD IN SPACE!!!”

WARNING: No this is not the 5th Sequel in a series of movies (1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th Element).

Sit back and enjoy as this sci-fi/fantasy/action/comedy takes you for a ride in Bruce Willis’ space cab.

Most of the host at REEL90, agree that this  movie is the kind of guilty pleasure flick, that when your flipping  channels on t.v., you’ll stop and watch it.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore          

Shae Hornback         

Eric M. Hunter           

Nick Prince

The Fifth Element (1997)

Synopsis

In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central  figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr  Zorg at bay.

Director:

Luc Besson

Writers:

Luc Besson (story), Luc Besson (screenplay)

Stars:

Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman

Please leave a comment below about your experiences, positive or negative, of the Fifth Element and the episode.

“It’s time to play…BALL!”

Women playing Baseball?!?! Wha-wha-what???

I know it’s crazy, but follow me… At one  time in history, a World War happened, well okay, the second time that  happened… WW2 breaks out and business men decide that instead of losing  money with their star athletes away and fighting in the war, that  they’ll take the best women they can find from around the world, and  have them play baseball. Let me just tell you this…oh how the comedy  ensues! Who knew that misogyny was soooo entertaining???

Seriously though, we here at REEL 90 all  agree that this is a really good movie, is abundant with quotable lines,  and has a great re-watch factor.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore         

Shae Hornback    

Eric M. Hunter      

Nick Prince

A League of Their Own (1992)

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.

Director:

Penny Marshall

Writers:

Kim Wilson (story), Kelly Candaele (story)

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty

So who had the hovering, silver balls on them to pick this movie?!?

Your one and only REEL 90 Host, Ricky Glore, picked this “ball busting” HORROR/ACTION/COMEDY classic.

Listen to find out if our other hosts, Eric  and Nick, are able to follow the Phantasm III’s storyline, without  having seen Phantasm I or II. Listen to find out from Ricky, that if by  seeing Phantasm I or II, Phantasm III’s storyline makes any more sense.

So sit back, listen, and have a BALL!

(I swear the ball puns are done…okay, maybe not done forever, because our next episode is about a baseball movie…sorry…)

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince

Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)

Synopsis

Mike and Reggie continue to hunt the mysterious Tall Man.

Director:

Don Coscarelli

Writer:

Don Coscarelli

Stars:

Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury

Remember a time when you could do an action movie set in a city, and  that didn’t mean Michael Bay would come in and make multiple sky  scrapper buildings crumble and get destroyed?

We here at REEL 90 do!

The lads all agree that the original (OG), Turtles movie, is the way  to go and still is a great fun adventure, action packed film.

No question about that, no question at all…Wait…There may be one question…

WHERE DO THE TURTLES GET THEIR MONEY?!?

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Synopsis

A quartet of mutated humanoid turtles clash with an uprising criminal gang of ninjas.

Director:

Steve Barron

Writers:

Kevin Eastman (characters), Peter Laird(characters)

Stars:

Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais

Please leave a comment below about your experiences, positive or negative, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the episode.

What happens when you tell four different stories, by four different  writers and directors (only two of which you’ve ever heard of…), and put  them all in the setting of one old school Hollywood Hotel on New Years  Eve?!?

Well apparently the gents at REEL 90 thinks that you get ONE mediocre (or bad) movie.

Listen and decide if you think FOUR ROOMS is uneven, or if Betty White’s “Golden Girls” (her boobs), could have saved it!

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Shae Hornback

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince

Four Rooms (1995)

Synopsis

Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year’s Eve.

Directors:

Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell

Writers:

Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell

Stars:

Tim Roth, Amanda De Cadenet, David Proval

“Here we come…walking down the street… We get the funniest looks from, everyone we meet… Hey, hey, we’re the 12 Monkeys!”

This week our hosts take a close look at the Terry Gilliam sci-fi post apocalyptic thriller.

Does the time travel make sense? Is the directing good? Is Bruce  Willis really every character he ever played, in this movie? All of that  and more is discussed here in this week’s episode of REEL 90!

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Shae Hornback

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince

12 Monkeys (1995)

Synopsis

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in  time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most  of the human population on the planet.

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Writers:

Chris Marker (film La Jetée), David Webb Peoples(screenplay)

Stars:

Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt

Critically considered as writer/director Smith’s best work, the hosts  of REEL 90 are split 50/50 this week. Does Chasing Amy’s 1997 indie  allure still hold up? You decide…

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Shae Hornback

Eric M. Hunter

Chasing Amy (1997)

Synopsis

Holden and Banky are comic book artists.  Everything’s going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic  book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he  finds out she’s gay.

Director:

Kevin Smith

Writer:

Kevin Smith

Stars:

Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Ethan Suplee

On episode 2 of Reel 90, the guys partake  in a stinker of a sequel and discuss the finer points of fan fiction to  make their arguments relative to the movie.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince

Predator 2 (1990)

Synopsis

Amidst a territorial gang-war, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks  the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is  veteran LAPD officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.

Director:

Stephen Hopkins

Writers:

Jim Thomas, John Thomas

Stars:

Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall

On episode 1 of Reel 90, our hosts review the Christmas classic Home Alone and see what the Wet Bandits are up to now.

Our Hosts

Ricky Glore

Eric M. Hunter

Nick Prince

Home Alone (1990)

Synopsis

An 8-year-old boy who is accidentally left  behind while his family flies to France for Christmas must defend his  home against idiotic burglars.

Director:

Chris Columbus

Writer:

John Hughes

Stars:

Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern