Episodes

Welcome back! Hopefully you've been enjoying our Trilogy Series. We'll wrap things up starting next week, with Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. In the meantime, we'll take a look back at our Baseball Series from 2022. Bull Durham is one of my favorite sports movies of all time, and one of t…

Welcome! Our Indy series wraps up with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade . Yes, there are two more after this one, thus making this not a trilogy. But, those last two films are increasingly disappointing, and these first thr...

Welcome! Our Trilogy Series continues with the second Indiana Jones film-- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . This is a very dark sequel, filled with chills and gross-out gags, and some very dark subject matter. Find ou...

Hello all! This week we kick off one of my favorite trilogies of all time--the Indiana Jones series. (Yes, there are Parts IV and V, but for this exercise, we're not going to claim those particular films.) Find out all kinds...

Welcome! Our Trilogy Series continues with the final installment in the OG Star Wars trilogy: Return of the Jedi . Did you know that this wasn't its original title? Or that Han Solo wasn't in the first draft of the script?...

Our Trilogy Series continues with The Empire Strikes Back! Many hold this up as the greatest sequel ever made, but that sells it short. This is one of the greatest movies ever made, sequel or not. I have a list of 25 perfe...

Our Trilogy Series continues with The Empire Strikes Back! Many hold this up as the greatest sequel ever made, but that sells it short. This is one of the greatest movies ever made, sequel or not. I have a list of 25 perfe...

For our next trilogy of films, Cinemavino heads to sacred cinematic ground: The original Star Wars trilogy. Simply put, these are movies that made me love movies. With this film's opening crawl and subsequent space battle, my...

Hello! We hope you've enjoyed our Trilogy Series so far! This week, we're taking a scheduled break, as all my kids are home for Spring Break. We'll be back next week with Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope . It's one of m...

Our LOTR series finishes with Peter Jackson's thundering conclusion-- The Return of the King ! It's a great ending to a great and influential series of films. We've loved talking about all three. Find out all sorts of behin...

Welcome! Our Trilogy Series continues with the second LOTR installment, The Two Towers ! With this film, Peter Jackson's series kicks into high gear. It's a high point in the trilogy, and one of the greatest films ever mad...

Welcome! This week, we kick off our Trilogy Series with what might the greatest trilogy ever made: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings series! Based on the mammoth books by J.R.R. Tolkien, these films became instant classics ...

Welcome back! Our Sci-Fi Series has been a lot of fun, and we're concluding with an all-time classic: Arnold Schwarzenegger's action epic, Total Recall ! It was a huge hit on release, and opinions of it have only grown sin...

Hey, and welcome back to Cinemavino ! This week, our Sci-Fi Series continues with a host favorite, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . We're Trek nerds, so this episode has a special place. This sequel had an interesting prod...

Hello everybody! We’re back! After a two week hiatus due to illness, Cinemavino is back to full strength. That means our Sci-Fi Series is back on track. This week, we can one the greatest and most influential flicks of th...

Hey! Unfortunately, due to my own illness, we'll have to hold off for one more week on our sci-fi series. Thank you all for being patient and sticking with us! In the meantime, enjoy another episode from 2021, in which we tak...

Hello! Our Sci-Fi series will be a little off, as I've got two sick babies at home. I always want to make sure you guys get the best (and best-sounding) version of Cinemavino , so we'll continue with Blade Runner next Wedn...

Hello! Part 2 of our Sci-Fi Series features one of the greatest ever: Ridley Scott’s horror classic, Alien . Longtime listeners might be shocked we’ve never gotten around to this all-timer. No one was more shocked than we...

Welcome back! Hope you all had a great New Year holiday, and thank you for coming back for 2025. For January, we're kicking a sci-fi series. Many of these entries will shock you that we haven't already done them. That goes...

Hello, and Happy New Year, everyone! We hope your 2025 is off to a great start. We're off this week, but this will be a good time to catch up on an episode you may have missed. There aren't many true NYE movies out there, b...

Welcome and Happy Holidays! This episode will air on Christmas Day. Whatever that day means to you, we hope you're happy and healthy, and we thank you for spending a little of it with us. This final Christmas installment fe...

Seasons greetings! We hope y'all are warm and safe, and all ready for the upcoming holidays. Part 3 of our Christmas Series takes us to a sardonic 80s classic--Bill Murray's Scrooged. It's a gnarly, sarcastic update on A ...

Welcome! Part Two of our Christmas Series takes us to a surprising movie: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut . This was a troubled production--even by Kubrick's legendary standards--with lots of backstage intrigue, especiall...

Can you believe it's already December?? Our annual Christmas Series will feature a few unorthodox selections, just to keep things spicy. We'll start things with a 90s cult flick that might have slipped under your radar: Th...