Episode 197: Strap In And Lock Down For 2021

The first official movie review show of 2021 arrives with ten films, including a few holdovers from the end of 2020, discussed by Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy. They catch-up with Robert Rodriguez’s latest family film (We Can Be Heroes) and the bonkers WWII action horror film (Shadow in the Cloud) with Chloe Grace Moretz. Anthony Mackie is a more modern warrior with more sci-fi action (Outside the Wire), Liam Neeson tries to save an immigrant child from the drug cartels (The Marksman) and everyone tries to get saved from an active volcano (Skyfire). The government’s surveillance of a civil rights hero is examined in a new documentary (MLK/FBI) and they breakdown the harrowing experience of Vanessa Kirby’s childbirth (Pieces of a Woman). Steve reviews the working class drama, Herself, from last year’s Sundance and Erik talks up a gonzo kidnapping thriller (Bloody Hell) that premiered at the Nightstream Film Festival. Finally, there is Anne Hathaway & Chiwetel Elijofor as a nearly estranged couple coming together for a diamond heist during the pandemic in the latest from director Doug Liman (Locked Down).

(1:57) We Can Be Heroes

(15:51) Shadow in the Cloud

(26:39) Pieces of a Woman

(40:02) The Marksman

(52:37) MLK/FBI

(1:00:12) Skyfire

(1:14:50) Outside the Wire

(1:27:58) Locked Down

(1:45:04) Herself

(1:52:28) Bloody Hell