The Podcast Archives

Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer

Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford— Funny, informative movie reviews

The Podcast

Aug 2024

Twister (1996)::rating::3.5::rating::3.5::rating::3.5

T wister takes the heart and soul of a rickety B-movie and builds the body of a big, lavish blockbuster around it. Think about it: You've got Jan de Bont…

Jul 2024

The Archive The Podcast

Baby Driver (2017)::rating::4

E dgar Wright's Baby Driver takes a page from Quentin Tarantino and elevates its soundtrack to a full-on supporting character. Ansel Elgort's Baby suffers from tinnitus and medicates himself with an iPod…

Jul 2024

The Archive The Podcast

The Natural (1984)::rating::3.5

T he Natural takes all the mythologies and superstitions that have attached themselves to baseball and bundles them into one infectiously silly package. For this story, the game takes on…

Jul 2024

Greatest The Podcast

Stop Making Sense (1984)::rating::5

A s musical documentaries go, none are more grippingly intimate than Stop Making Sense. The live audience exists as an invisible force, somewhere in the darkness beyond the stage. For most…

Jul 2024

The Archive The Podcast

Independence Day (1996)::rating::3

M ake no mistake: Independence Day is one of those movies that should have a high resistance to criticism. After all, it's junk-food entertainment of the first order--blustery, big-budget silliness. …

Jun 2024

The Archive The Podcast

Stand by Me (1986)::rating::3.5

M ore than any coming-of-age movie, Stand by Me is filled with a slow, billowing sense of dread. Characters frequently find themselves on the run from some approaching doom, where it comes in…

Jun 2024

The Archive The Podcast

The Way Way Back (2013)::rating::3.5

T he Way Way Back takes an exhausted subgenre, the Coming of Age dramedy, and supercharges it with a high-powered cast and a well-crafted screenplay. This film may not say anything…

Jun 2024

Greatest The Podcast

Dazed and Confused (1993)::rating::5

D azed and Confused contains one of my favorite moments in all of movie history. It's late in the film, and if you blink, it could slip by: Randall "Pink" Floyd…

May 2024

Greatest The Podcast

Dr. Strangelove (1964)::rating::5

D r. Strangelove is one of the greatest examples of telling truth to power in all of cinema. For 94 glorious minutes, Stanley Kubrick and his co-conspirators use comedy to permanently…

May 2024

Greatest The Archive The Podcast

Blazing Saddles (1974)::rating::5

W hen I was ten years old, my mother forbade me to watch Blazing Saddles. Naturally, when my parents ventured from the house, that VHS tape went straight into the…

the Kick-ass Multipurpose WordPress Theme