Episodes

  • The JOKER: FOLIE à DEUX Review Episode!

    The JOKER: FOLIE à DEUX Review Episode!
    Oct 4 2024
    JOKER: FOLIE à DEUX is here! The surprising, unexpected musical sequel to 2019’s hit JOKER has been divisive from the beginning. On the latest episode of Cinema Royale, me and Joblo.com’s Chris Bumbray discuss Joaquin Phoenix’s return as Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn! Does it hold up to the original? Or is JOKER: FOLIE à DEUX just one big killing joke?

    All of this and more on a new episode of Cinema Royale, which you can find anywhere that you get podcasts.

    Host: Travis Hopson

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    21 mins
  • LEE Review: Kate Winslet is Superb as Lee Miller

    LEE Review: Kate Winslet is Superb as Lee Miller
    Sep 26 2024
    Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews LEE, a biopic starring Kate Winslet as model turned war photographer Lee Miller.

    LEE, the directorial feature from award-winning Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslett). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler’s private bathtub. Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and the voiceless victims of war. Her images display both the fragility and ferocity of the human experience. Above all, the film shows how Miller lived her life at full throttle in pursuit of truth, for which she paid a huge personal price, forcing her to confront a traumatic and deeply buried secret from her childhood.

    LEE opens in theaters Sept. 27th

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    #katewinslet #moviereview #warphotography
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    5 mins
  • AZRAEL Movie Review: Samara Weaving Is At Her Ferocious Best Apocalyptic Survival Horror

    AZRAEL Movie Review: Samara Weaving Is At Her Ferocious Best Apocalyptic Survival Horror
    Sep 26 2024
    Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews the apocalyptic survival horror AZRAEL starring Samara Weaving!

    In a world in which no one speaks, a devout female-led community hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil that resides deep within the surrounding wilderness – yet she will stop at nothing to ensure her own freedom and survival. From the seeds of this gritty, relentless parable of sacrifice and salvation, comes an immersive, real-time, action horror tale.

    AZRAEL opens in theaters Sept. 27th.

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    #samaraweaving #Azrael #moviereview
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    4 mins
  • MEGALOPOLIS Review: A Must See For The Wrong Reasons

    MEGALOPOLIS Review: A Must See For The Wrong Reasons
    Sep 26 2024
    Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited magnum opus, MEGALOPOLIS, starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Shia LaBeouf, and Aubrey Plaza!

    MEGALOPOLIS opens in theaters Sept. 27th.

    Megalopolis is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.

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    #Megalopolis #Coppola #adamdriver
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    8 mins
  • Talking Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley In THE SUBSTANCE

    Talking Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley In THE SUBSTANCE
    Sep 20 2024
    On the latest episode of Cinema Royale, me and Chris Bumbray of Joblo.com get injected with THE SUBSTANCE! Coralie Fargeat's wild, grotesque, unhinged examination of Hollywood beauty standards stars Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, and Demi Moore in a role unlike any she's ever played before and could put her back on top for the first time in years. Is it the best body horror since David Cronenberg's classics? We'll try to keep down our lunch and talk about the film that has everyone buzzing!

    All of this and more on a new episode of Cinema Royale, which you can find anywhere that you get podcasts.

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    #TheSubstance #DemiMoore #podcast
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    24 mins
  • WOLFS Movie Review: George Clooney And Brad Pitt Make It Look So Easy

    WOLFS Movie Review: George Clooney And Brad Pitt Make It Look So Easy
    Sep 18 2024
    Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews Jon Watts' action-comedy WOLFS starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney!

    George Clooney and Brad Pitt reunite for the action comedy WOLFS. Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high profile crime. But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up and the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control in ways that neither one of them expected.

    Sony Pictures releases WOLFS in select theaters on September 20th before moving to Apple TV+ on September 27th.

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    #BradPitt #georgeclooney #wolfs
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    7 mins
  • TRANSFORMERS ONE Movie Review: A Visually Stunning OptimusMegatron Origin Story

    TRANSFORMERS ONE Movie Review: A Visually Stunning OptimusMegatron Origin Story
    Sep 18 2024
    Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics reviews TRANSFORMERS ONE, an animated origin story featuring the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Laurence Fishburne, and Jon Hamm!

    TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever. In the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, TRANSFORMERS ONE features a star-studded voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi with Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.

    TRANSFORMERS One opens on September 20th.

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    #TransformersOne #Chris Hemsworth #moviereviews
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    9 mins
  • SPEAK NO EVIL Movie Review: James McAvoy Is At His Terrifying Best

    SPEAK NO EVIL Movie Review: James McAvoy Is At His Terrifying Best
    Sep 12 2024
    Travis Hopson of Cinema Royale and Punch Drunk Critics reviews SPEAK NO EVIL, starring James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, and Aisling Franciosi!

    When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

    SPEAK NO EVIL opens in theaters on September 13th.

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    #JamesMcAvoy #SpeakNoEvil #moviereviews
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    6 mins