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Living for the Cinema
Short movie reviews from the last 50+ years by Geoff Gershon. https://livingforthecinema.com/
Episodes
399 episodes
SINNERS (2025) - 400th Episode!!!!
HAPPY 400TH EPISODE - Thanks to all listeners and subscribers for your continued support!!! :)Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) are twin brothers who also are both recent World War I veterans and...
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Season 4
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Episode 85
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22:00

Total Recall (1990)
For the Memories of a Lifetime.....In the Year 2084, Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a mild-mannered construction worker just living the simple life with his loving wife Lori (Sharon Stone). All seems well ...
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Season 4
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Episode 84
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20:38

Get Shorty (1995)
Exactly one year after his historic comeback in the seminal Pulp Fiction (which he received an Oscar nomination for), John Travolta followed it up with this slick and crime caper/satire adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name.&nb...
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Season 4
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Episode 83
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22:53

Millions (2005) - "Living For The Boyle" Series
Welcome to the LIVING FOR THE BOYLE review series! Daniel Francis Boyle originally hailed from Manchester, England and his filmmaking career took off thirty years ago in 1995 with the release of acclaimed cult thriller...
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Season 4
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Episode 82
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22:24

I Love You To Death (1990)
Master '80's auteur Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, Silverado, Body Heat) kicked off the '90's with this dark comedy based upon the bizarre true story of a philandering husband whose wife conspired to murder him....and yet he wouldn't die. :o T...
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Season 4
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Episode 81
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18:31
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The Blues Brothers (1980)
It's 106 miles to Chicago, they've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and they're wearing sunglasses....The brothers are Joliet Jake Blue (John Belushi) and Elmwood Blues (Dan Ackroyd)....and the...
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Season 4
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Episode 80
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24:14

Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut (2005)
Twenty years ago, Sir Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Napoleon, 1492, Black Hawk Down) directed yet another large-scale historical drama.....this time taking place during the Crusades as we watch war escalate between the Saracins and Christian armies ...
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Season 4
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Episode 79
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21:42
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Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995)
John McClane is Back! After successfully defeating terrorists at Nakatomi Plaza in the first movie and Dulles Airport in the second movie, McClane (Bruce Willis) is once again working as a NYPD cop. Hung over and once again on the o...
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Season 4
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Episode 78
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22:59
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Blue Steel (1990)
Out on her first night on the beat, rookie NYPD cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes upon a robbery in a grocery store and takes down the perpetrator. However as soon as she takes him down, things take a strange turn as one witness f...
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Season 4
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Episode 77
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16:51
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Trainspotting (1996) - "Living For The Boyle" Series
Welcome to the LIVING FOR THE BOYLE review series! Daniel Francis Boyle originally hailed from Manchester, England and his filmmaking career took off thirty years ago in 1995 with the release of acclaimed cult thriller...
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Season 4
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Episode 76
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22:29

Black Bag (2025)
What's this? Yet ANOTHER movie/series about a married couple who are also spies?!? :o Yes this thriller is about a couple of British spies who both work for the same intelligence agency and apparently there's a dangerous leak which has oc...
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Season 4
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Episode 75
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18:10

House Party (1990)
Who doesn't love a movie focused on a party?? :) Well when they're done right at least....Animal House, Bachelor Party....and thirty-five years ago, director Reginald Hudlin (Boomerang) made his debut with one of the better ones. It also ...
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Season 4
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Episode 74
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19:46

Mickey 17 (2025)
Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) returns from his Oscar triumph five years ago with his first directorial effort since his worldwide smash Parasite, which remains the ONLY foreign language film to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 73
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19:12

Miller's Crossing (1990)
With only their third feature film (following Blood Simple & Raising Arizona), The Coen Brothers (Joel & Ethan) delivered one of the most unique crime dramas of its era...or any era. This neo-noir takes place during the Prohibitio...
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Season 4
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Episode 72
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19:20

Outbreak (1995)
Thirty years ago this month, acclaimed director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) gave us a terrifying viral thriller which at the time MIGHT have seemed like pure fiction....but WAS it? :o Well regardle...
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Season 4
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Episode 71
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19:13
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Revenge (2018)
Six years before she would achieve success and acclaim with The Substance, recently Oscar-nominated French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat directed this nasty little grindhouse thriller. It's a simple story about a young, aspiring actress/model...
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Season 4
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Episode 70
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15:00
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Sunshine (2007) - "Living For The Boyle" Series
Welcome to the LIVING FOR THE BOYLE review series! Daniel Francis Boyle originally hailed from Manchester, England and his filmmaking career took off thirty years ago in 1995 with the release of acclaimed cult thriller...
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Season 4
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Episode 69
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24:29

Love & Basketball (2000)
This is the story of Monica and Quincy who both grow up next door to each other in Southern California, apparently enamored of two things: the game of basketball and each other. And as they grow up, they both develop into excellent basket...
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Season 4
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Episode 68
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21:46

Wonder Boys (2000)
Twenty-five years ago, director Curtis Hanson (8 Mile, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) followed up his widely acclaimed crime drama classic LA Confidential with this quirky adaptation of the Michael Chabon novel of the same name. This tel...
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Season 4
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Episode 67
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19:19
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The Brutalist (2024)
Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) has directed a three and a half hour sprawling tale of a Jewish architect named Laszlo (Adrian Brody) who has escaped religious persecution in World War II Europe to come to America. This epic drama kicks off with h...
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Season 4
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Episode 66
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20:25
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The High Note (2020)
Director Nisha Ganatra (Late Night) delivers a throwback to big studio romantic comedies from twenty years ago with this frothy musical tale of Maggie (Dakota Johnson) who is the beleaguered personal assistant to legendary pop diva Grace Davis ...
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Season 4
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Episode 65
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21:49
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Pretty Woman (1990)
Edward (Richard Gere) is a wealthy industrialist who is feeling lonely one night while on a business trip. While cruising Hollywood Boulevard, he meets a prostitute named Vivian (Julia Roberts) and he decides to hire her for the week to s...
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Season 4
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Episode 64
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20:38
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Presence (2025)
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (The Ocean's Trilogy, Erin Brockovich, Contagion) returns to the big screen with a simple tale about one suburban family which has just moved into a new home....only to find out that they might not be al...
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Season 4
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Episode 63
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14:42
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