Seeing the throwback characteristics of Jaume Collet-Serra’s Jungle Cruise, folks are quickly applying the “swashbuckler” label, calling upon the good juju of Michael Curtiz, George Lucas, Stephen…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Jungle Cruise Piles On the Derring-Do”

  Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast hosts Will Johnson and Don Shanahan have been dangling the possibility of bringing in guests to act as “tiebreakers” for their little recorded…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast Welcomes Its First Guest for Blade Runner”

There’s a soul-baring and detrimental dialogue exchange in Joe Bell between the husband and wife played by Mark Wahlberg and Connie Britton that epitomizes the chief flaw…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Joe Bell: An Unglamorous Glamour Project for Wahlberg”

Rafe Spall’s Teddy shares a lovely line to his best girl Leanne, played by Zahra Newman, towards the beginning of Long Story Short. He says “I love…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Long Story Short Rapidly Devolves Love and Time”

Loyal Cinephile Hissy Fit listeners and followers know one of our hosts, Will Johnson, affectionately as the self-appointed Marvel shill. On multiple shows, Will has been a protective…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Cinephile Hissy Fit Boldly Goes Where Classics Have Been Before”

If you remember the last episode of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, 25YL film critic Don Shanahan said that Marvel’s never really made a “bad” movie when…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Marvel’s Black Widow Jades Both Cinephile Hissy Fit Hosts”

About halfway through Black Widow, the quips between the “sisters” played by Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh come to a humorous peak when the two formidable battlers…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Black Widow Poses More than Punches”

It’s very encouraging here in the summer of 2021 to see the communal experience return to movie theaters. Sure, we might not be  packed into the walls…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: A Remembered Night with Independence Day”

In a 2016 interview with the politically-minded website Dirty Movies, esteemed British filmmaker and two-time Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach doubled-down on comments he made with BBC…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: Edge of the World Tells a Reputable Historical Tale”

Treading down the homemade sound-muffling sandy paths of eastern New York again for A Quiet Place Part II roused a chin-rubbing line of inquiry for this very…… Read more “New from Don Shanahan on 25YL: A Quiet Place Part II Uncloaks Suspense At It Own Volume”