Season 1
April 16, 2025
Raiders of the Lost Ark is THE Action Movie | Review
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...
April 10, 2025
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is an Absolute Blast | Review
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?...
April 2, 2025
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is Why Movies Are Made | Review
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...
April 2, 2025
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is Why Movies Are Made | Review
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...
March 26, 2025
Star Wars: A New Hope is an All-Time Favorite | Review
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...
March 19, 2025
A Look Back at Unforgiven | Review
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...
March 12, 2025
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Caps Off the Greatest Trilogy Ever | Review
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...
March 5, 2025
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Might Be the Greatest Sequel Ever | Review
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...
Feb. 27, 2025
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring is One of the Greatest Films Ever Made | Review
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 ...
Feb. 19, 2025
Total Recall is a Mind-Bending Classic | Review
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...
Feb. 12, 2025
Star Trek Doesn't Get Better than Wrath of Khan | Review
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...
Feb. 5, 2025
Blade Runner is Incredible Sci-Fi | Review
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...
Jan. 29, 2025
A Look Back: Dark City
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...
Jan. 22, 2025
A Look Back: Aliens
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...
Jan. 15, 2025
Alien Might be the Scariest Movie Ever | Review
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...
Jan. 9, 2025
The Road Warrior is an Action Masterpiece | Review
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...
Jan. 1, 2025
A Look Back at When Harry Met Sally | Review
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...
Dec. 25, 2024
The Holdovers is an Instant Christmas Classic | Review
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...
Dec. 18, 2024
Scrooged is a Sarcastic Christmas Miracle | Review
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 ...
Dec. 4, 2024
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a Hidden Christmas Classic | Review
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...
Nov. 27, 2024
Galaxy Quest is the Funniest Sci-Fi Ever | Review
Welcome back! This week concludes our miniseries looking at comfort movies. For this installment, we discuss a personal favorite, Galaxy Quest ! This 90s comedy classic gently pokes fun at the Star Trek franchise, and feat...
Nov. 19, 2024
The Big Lebowski is the Ultimate Cult Classic | Movie Review
And we're back! After last week's brief break, we're doing a mini-series of comedies to close out November. In light of recent events, all of us here could use some cinematic comfort food. Nothing provides that like The Bi...
Nov. 13, 2024
A Look Back: Rounders
Welcome back! For this week’s episode, we’ll take a special look back at an episode from 2 1/2 years ago, Rounders! It’s an episode you may have missed, so enjoy! After that, we’ll close out November with 2 classic comedies,...
Oct. 30, 2024
The Exorcist is the Greatest Horror Film Ever | Movie Review
Hey! Our Halloween Series is nearly done, and we're wrapping things up with an all-time classic-- The Exorcist ! It's an iconic experience--disturbing, violent, and brilliantly acted and filmed. Does this film have any basi...