Forgotten Cinema

09/06/2025

Maybe some movies should stay forgotten...
Thanks Russ Lyman

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) – A Fatality for Film?Some fights are destined to be revisited — and some movies test your very will to survive.Welcome to From Console to Screen, a new limited series where we dive fist-first into the world of video game movie adaptations. And who better to he...

08/06/2025

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Season 21, Episode 4We’re headed back to the grimy streets of mid-90s New York this week, but instead of a tight crime drama, we’ve got ourselves a curious cinematic time capsule that doesn’t quite know what to do with itself. Kiss of Death (1995), directed by Barbet Schroeder, stars David Car...

07/06/2025

We’ve joined forces with Russ Lyman for a special series of videos highflying movies based on video games. First up? Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Why not the first one, you ask? Well, we already covered that movie on the main show way back in the early years…with Russ!

https://youtu.be/rCdkIUwjx8s

Years ago, the Mikes had guest Russ Lyman to discuss the 1995 film adaptation of "Mortal Kombat". Russ and Mike Butler enjoyed their time in Outworld, but t...

04/06/2025

“Looks like this movie…(puts sunglasses on)…needs some lipstick.” WAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

It’s Horatio Caine….I mean, David Caruso in Kiss of Death (1995) - our latest episode of Forgotten Cinema.

Find out what we thought of his performance, this movie and more!

Also starring Nicolas Cage, Samuel L Jackson, Stanley Tucci, Helen Hunt, Kathryn Erbe, Ving Rhames, Michael Rappaport and Michael Rappaport. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Written by Richard Price.

This week on Forgotten Cinema, the Mikes take a ride back to the grimy streets of mid-90s New York with "Kiss of Death" (1995), starring David Caruso, Samuel...

02/06/2025

The vault has been opened again. Back when we covered the remake of Road House on Amazon Prime, we covered the sexy, Patrick Swayze original. You read that right. Check out our Lead Up episode on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/iGmJ-oPjZ0c

🎬 Forgotten Cinema: Lead Up Series | Road House (1989) 🤘🦅Before you watch Jake Gyllenhaal throw down in the Road House remake, take a trip back to the row...

31/05/2025

ICYMI. We had a new episode this week. Like every week!

Season 21, Episode 4This week on Forgotten Cinema, we take a trip back to the early 2000s with Igby Goes Down, a film that was lauded at the time for its snarky wit and indie spirit. But as we quickly learned…not everything ages like fine wine.Igby Goes Down follows the misadventures of a young mi...

28/05/2025

Too Rich, Too Whiny: The Igby Goes Down Problem

Kieran Culkin may have just taken home Oscar gold for "A Real Pain", but before "Succession" made him a household name, he was Igby Slocumb—a rich, rebelliou...

26/05/2025

I don’t think our guest hosts are going to work out.

21/05/2025

We’re going to the suck this week!

Not Your Typical War Movie | Revisiting Jarhead

This week on Forgotten Cinema, the Mikes are shipping out to the Gulf War... but not exactly going into battle. Mike Field and Mike Butler are diving into "J...

19/05/2025

Hey there. I’m a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude.

We’ve opened the Forgotten Cinema vault to bring you our Lead Up episode of Shadow of the Vampire. We covered this movie a while back leading up to our Now Showing episode of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. YouTube exclusive!

Shadow of the Vampire | Lead Up

The Mikes are taking a look back at 2000's "Shadow of the Vampire" starring Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich in their Lead Up episode for "Nosferatu".Dafoe ge...

18/05/2025

Our movie this week!

Season 21, Episode 2Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts bring the star power, but is that enough to make Larry Crowne memorable? In this episode of Forgotten Cinema, we head back to 2011 for a charming-but-lightweight romantic dramedy written and directed by Hanks himself.It plays like cinematic comfort foo...

15/05/2025

Fresh from the archive, its our Lead Up Series where we covered The Planet of the Apes trilogy.

Revisiting the Modern Planet of the Apes Trilogy | Forgotten Cinema Lead Up SeriesBefore we ventured into Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, we knew we had to revisit the incredible trilogy that laid the foundation for this new era of storytelling. The modern Planet of the Apes films—Rise, Dawn, a...