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Disney's latest attempt to turn a theme park attraction into a movie franchise succeeds in delivering a breezy popcorn-muncher, but the thrills are gone all too soon.  Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of fun to be had. Dwayne Johnson's turn as a jungle cruise skipper who delivers groan-inducing puns and one-liners while also swinging from the trees to battle bad guys is the stuff that blockbusters are made of. Similarly, Emily Blunt's portrayal of a brash, no-nonsense botanist who won't let any obstacle stand in her way makes for easy viewing. Let's be honest, these are two of the most charming, likeable people working in Hollywood today; the camera loves them, the audience enjoys them, and this is a fantastic bit of casting that helps this movie go down easy. There's even nice character work delivered by Paul Giamatti ( American Splendor ) and Jesse Plemons ( The Irishman ).  I just wish these actors had more to do. This is another case of one of the m

 David Lowery's big screen interpretation of one of medieval literature's most famous tales is complex, ambitious, thoughtful, and provocative. The Green Knight  (2021) is the latest in a long line of screen adaptations of the 14th century story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , a classic tale in the romantic, chivalric tradition that recounts the tale of one of Arthur's knights and a quest for honor against the titular Green Knight, a supernatural character that seems to promise certain death. Dev Patel ( Slumdog Millionaire ) plays Gawain, a young man (here he is Arthur's nephew, though our weary king is never identified as the mythic monarch) who is brash, headstrong, and seeking adventure. When The Green Knight--here, literally a man who is composed of nature itself, as if he was formed from a living, moving tree--rides into the King's hall on Christmas day and issues a challenge in the guise of a game, Gawain accepts. The consequences of this challenge set G

In our latest new release spotlight, we've got a quartet of Vincent Price movies, shot-on-video shenanigans, and horror movies from all over the world! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

Eric Grigs from Pop Trash Museum stops by to celebrate Christmas in July and discuss some of his favorite NEW Christmas songs! Check out this Christmas in July Spotify playlist , curated by Pop Trash Museum! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

The Film Detective has just served up another outstanding slice of retro awesomeness with their new Blu-ray of FLIGHT TO MARS (1951), featuring a stunning new restoration and special features from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures! Full details about the film and the features in this review! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight! Purchase here: https://amzn.to/2VlcFUo

It's time to announce our latest Christmas in July contest winners PLUS we've got even more chances for you to win prize packs!  LifeAfterMovies.com YouTube.com/lifeaftermovieswebshow Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

Saddle up as we review Invaders of the Lost Gold, a 1982 action/exploitation film brand new to Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films! Purchase here: https://amzn.to/3kVrfNn Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

We've seen the first five episodes of Masters of the Universe: Revelation and we've got LOTS of UNSCRIPTED thoughts about this show AND the fan reaction! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins blasts into theaters everywhere this weekend and Cereal At Midnight has your non-spoiler review! Yo Joe! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

In this episode, we're digging into the latest HorrorPack and a Severin Films Blu-ray!  HorrorPack.com Severin-films.com Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

New titles have arrived from Mill Creek Entertainment! Join Heath for this unboxing episode and see what's hot off the replicators! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

In our latest thrift store video, we return to the hallowed hall of bargain buys to plunder the treasures of media history!  see ALL our thrift store videos HERE Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

Initiation is a thoughtful new slasher film that offers an interesting twist on an old formula.  The setting is familiar: a university campus, dorm rooms occupied by frat boys and sorority sisters looking for a good time. The party gets out of hand and things go too far. There's an assault, a cover-up, and then the murders begin, perpetrated by a masked killer who uses an impact driver to impale his victims with long metal spikes.  It's not surprising to find out that the director of Initiation , John Berardo , has adored Scream,  Wes Craven's reinvention of the slasher genre, since he saw it as a ten-year-old in 1996. Just like Craven flipped the script on expectations 25 years ago, Berardo has brought his own post-modern twist to the slasher film through the addition of social media itself as a character in the film.  Scream  invited viewers to play along by acknowledging the rules of the horror film. Similarly, Initiation  brings things into the social media age where ev

"The Journey Changes You." Anthony Bourdain was a lot of things: chef, author, travel host, punk philosopher, iconoclast, and reluctant figurehead, to name a few. He was thrust onto the international stage in 2000 with a tell-all book, Kitchen Confidential , that quickly rose through the ranks of the bestseller list. This led to talk show appearances, and then to a new career as the host of a travel show with food and culture under the microscope. Before anyone would have expected, Bourdain's frank, no-b.s. attitude, coupled with an intense and deeply-analytical interest in the world around him, created a superstar. Hundreds of hours of television and multiple books were produced over the next 18 years. On June 8, 2018, Bourdain committed suicide in France, seemingly in reaction to tabloid reports that his lover, film director Asia Argento, was seeing someone else. The story had come to a shocking, tragic end.   Or had it? Does his death define that story, or can we exami

Christmas In July continues, and we're giving away more presents to YOU! In this episode, the winner of our first prize pack is announced, along with your next TWO chances to win!

For those keeping score, Spiral: From the Book of Saw  is the ninth movie in the splatter horror franchise that built a name on elaborate death traps and perverse morality. For this latest entry, Chris Rock takes the lead as a police detective investigating an ever-growing pile of bodies left behind from a copycat of Jigsaw, the twisted mastermind of the series. Rock's character is the son of a famous cop, played by Samuel L. Jackson, and in addition to solving the murders, he's got a lot of baggage from a complicated father/son relationship.  The reader may be wondering "what does this movie bring to the table that's fresh and unique?" The answer? Not much. Because we finally seem to have moved on from Jigsaw, we've got a new mystery to unravel and new victims, even new faces leading the charge against these horrific crimes, but really, Spiral  offers more of the same that we've come to expect from this series. That's either a good thing or a bad thin

Filmmaker Lisa Downs (Life After Flash, Life After the Navigator) stops by Cereal At Midnight to discuss one of her favorite Christmas movies, THE NIGHT BEFORE, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and Anthony Mackie! Pop it!  LifeAfterMovies.com Youtube.com/LifeAfterMoviesWebShow Facebook.com/LifeAfterMovies Twitter: LifeAfterMovie3 Instagram: LifeAfterMovies Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

At first glance, the heart of American democracy may seem like a strange place for punk music to take root. Upon further examination, it makes perfect sense. Punk--bourne out of rebellion, inspired by injustices and the malaise of society, institutions, corporations, WHATEVER--will thrive in the places closest to the source of that frustration. What could be a better breeding ground for outspoken voices than the capital of the United States? Punk the Capital documents the Washington, D.C. punk movement from its birth in 1976 through 1983 and chronicles all the tumult and uncertainty of that era. Through first hand-accounts of those who were there, as well as archival footage of news items, live shows, even radio interviews, we're a fly on the wall as a spark becomes a flame. We see how the resentment toward commercial radio, the corporatization of art, and the dissatisfaction of the status quo leads to the gestation of new, wild sounds that harken back to the earliest days of rock

Christmas in July continues as Bree discusses her favorite holiday movie, A Christmas Story!  Check out all of our Christmas coverage HERE Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

"All they had was a skill for violence and nothing to lose but their lives!" 1969's  The Devil's 8  is often compared to The Dirty Dozen , which had wowed audiences two years before by combining the familiar "men on a mission" story with rich character development and gritty violence. In truth, this sort of nihilistic approach was becoming more and more popular in the Vietnam-era, and films with expendable characters from the wrong side of the tracks were big audience draws. Exploitation/genre studio American International Pictures had been riding a huge wave of success off the back of a string of bikers-gone-wild pictures such as 1968's The Savage 7 , and the appeal of watching a group of anti-heroes take on insurmountable odds while dying in the process seemed like a safe box office bet.  The Devil's 8  switches up the setting from the battlefields of war to the backroads of moonshine country. The plot in brief: federal agent Faulkner (Christopher

Announcing the first contest of Christmas in July! In this video, you'll see some of what you can win and--more importantly--find out HOW you can win it! Contest ends Friday, July 16th at 11:59 p.m.! Good luck and MERRY CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

It's our biggest Kino Lorber spotlight to date! In this episode, we discuss over 75 titles from the distributor, including your FIRST LOOK at new pre-orders that won't hit the street for weeks, our recent "June Swoon" SALE HAUL, and DOZENS of other films from the Kino Lorber catalog! This is the BIG ONE! * June Swoon sale   * While Supplies Last Sale * Kino Lorber Upcoming Releases

New video for our Patreon supporters! Heath picked up a stack of fresh tunes 4th of July weekend for only a buck per album, and we're showing the haul in this exclusive episode! Expect singing, impressions, and even stripping...all done poorly, but always enthusiastically. To find out how you can support us and gain access to over nearly 100 exclusive videos, visit Patreon.com/cerealatmidnight !

Heath is joined by Vanessa Buttino to kick off Cereal At Midnight's Christmas in July with a look at British Christmas Television Specials! Does your favorite make the list? Follow Vanessa Buttino on Twitter @VanessaButtino Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

1969. Thousands gather peacefully to hear the music they love performed by some of the record industry's boldest and brightest talents, as well as to celebrate a sense of community and pride in who they are, where they have come from, and most importantly, where they are going. But the venue is not Woodstock, it's the Harlem Cultural Festival, a six-week, summer-long concert series that celebrated African American music, culture, and pride.  Part documentary, part concert film,  Summer of Soul ( ...Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised )   uses bold visuals and powerful music to take us back over 50 years ago to a music festival that has been largely forgotten by history. There are no multi-record collections, no box sets of the wonderful music performed and captured during the performances. As the film shows through new interview footage featuring those who were there--both in the audience and on the stage--many who were in attendance had begun to wonder if the event w

New hotness is hitting shelves everywhere, and Cereal At Midnight has you covered! Discussed in this review video: Space Jam 4K from Warner Bros, Dead & Buried 4K from Blue Underground, Rugrats: The Complete Series from Paramount, and a TON of amazing exploitation classics and goodies from Umbrella Entertainment--now with added Tarantino!  Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!

Announcing Christmas In July all month long at Cereal At Midnight! Tune in for discussions of our favorite movies, music, and so much more, plus GIVEAWAYS and PRESENTS for you, the Cereal At Midnight community. Full details in this video!

Ron Dante is a music legend! He's the voice of some of the most recognizable commercials ever, the vocalist on The Archies hit "Sugar, Sugar," and as a producer, he's collaborated on an unbeatable series of hits with Barry Manilow that sold tens of millions of records. Now he's on tour as the lead singer of The Turtles as part of the Happy Together Tour! In this episode, Mr. Dante sits down with Cereal At Midnight to talk about his origins and to celebrate decades of wonderful music! RonDante.com Facebook.com/RonDanteMusic Twitter: @RonDante  RocknPopShop.com Happy Together Tour Tickets Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else! Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight!