A Reel Education

A Reel Education


Latest Episodes

Episode 135 – Chicago
August 01, 2019

Bill Condon writes the screenplay for this Best Picture winning musical, Chicago! In this debut film for director Rob Marshall, he finds a way to make a musical work for a modern film audience. It doesn’t hurt that Catherine Zeta Jones,

Episode 134 – Gods and Monsters
July 15, 2019

Alison Anderson, our resident Frankenstein guest, joins us for Gods and Monsters, a film about James Whale, director of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. The movie features an early star making turn by Brandan Fraser as well as a great pre-Lord o...

Episode 133 – Bride of Frankenstein
July 12, 2019

Our latest episode continues our exploration of Frankenstein with Bride of Frankenstein. Alison Anderson joins us to watch the sequel to James Whale’s Frankenstein with this film, that may actually be better.

Episode 132 – Arsenic and Old Lace
June 01, 2019

For this episode, we sort of followed Boris Karloff to a classic screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra. Arsenic and Old Lace was based on a stage play that featured Boris Karloff. He’s not in the movie, though. We’ll explain why.

Episode 131 – Frankenstein
May 21, 2019

Well after promising to get to this film for a few months, we finally managed to watch the 1931 Frankenstein! Adapted from Mary Shelly’s book, this movie basically defines what Frankenstein’s Monster will look like for the rest of film history.

Episode 130 – Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse
April 15, 2019

We decided we needed to watch the 2019 Oscar Winner for Best Animated Film, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse! Melissa had not yet seen it so Patricia Wick returns as our expert to talk about the film that may have just been the best film of 2019,

Episode 129 – Green Book
April 01, 2019

As has been our annual tradition, we are taking a look at this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture! For this episode, Melissa and Tim had both not yet seen the film. That means Patricia Wick joins us as our expert as we watch Green Book.

Episode 128 – Mad Max: Fury Road
March 15, 2019

For the second time, we are watching a Max Max movie! This time it’s Mad Max: Fury Road. In what is essentially one super long car chase, we get to watch Charlize Theron be a bad ass and a blind guy play a flame throwing guitar. It’s pretty great.

Episode 127 – The Great Race
March 04, 2019

We followed Peter Paul from The Princess Bride to this farce by Blake Edwards. The Great Race stars Falk, Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Keenan Wynn as they race across the world. Along the way, they get into a bar fight,

Episode 126 – The Princess Bride
January 15, 2019

OK, we finally get to watch The Princess Bride! As one might expect, it was a challenge to find someone who hadnt seen the movie but with a little work, we found Megan Ealain, who agreed to join us a