Totally Awesome Films

By Jon Chung

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Episodes: 170

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Appreciate your favorite films on a whole new level!

Episode Date
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
Feb 04, 2024
Oppenheimer (2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Barbie (2023)
Aug 06, 2023
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Jul 23, 2023
Airplane! (1980)
Jul 21, 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) (Spoiler Alert: I hated it!)
Jul 16, 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beast (2023)
Jul 12, 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (2023)
Jul 05, 2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Jul 02, 2023
The Flash (2023)
Jun 25, 2023
The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023)
Apr 29, 2023
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Apr 11, 2023
John Wick 4 (2023)
Apr 03, 2023
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Mar 30, 2023
Scream 6 (2023)
Mar 20, 2023
Creed 3 (2023)
Mar 15, 2023
Cocaine Bear (2023)
Mar 05, 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Feb 28, 2023
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Why The Authority: Vol 1, Book 1 (1999) is totally awesome! COMIC BOOK SPECIAL
Feb 12, 2023
Why M3gan (2023) is totally awesome!
Feb 05, 2023
Why Miracleman: The Silver Age (2022) is totally awesome! COMIC BOOK SPECIAL
Jan 29, 2023
Why The Suicide Squad (2021) is totally awesome!
Jan 13, 2023
Best Pop Culture of 2022 (Best of 2022, Top Movies, Top TV, Top Video Games, Top Comic Books)
Jan 03, 2023
Why Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) is totally awesome!
Dec 29, 2022
Why The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) is totally awesome! RE-RELEASE!
Dec 17, 2022
Why The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) is totally awesome!
Dec 17, 2022
Why Violent Night (2022) is totally awesome!
Dec 13, 2022
Why National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) is totally awesome!
Dec 04, 2022
Why Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) is totally awesome!
Nov 19, 2022
Why Smile (2022) is totally awesome!
Nov 10, 2022
Why Black Adam (2022) is totally awesome!
Oct 30, 2022
Why Halloween Ends (2022) is totally awesome!
Oct 29, 2022
Why Werewolf By Night (2022) is totally awesome!
Oct 22, 2022
Why Nope (2022) is totally awesome!
Oct 15, 2022
Why Prey (2022) is totally awesome! (Naru fights a Predator in Comanche times.)
Oct 10, 2022
Why Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) is totally awesome!
Jul 20, 2022
Why Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) is totally awesome!
Jul 20, 2022
Why Top Gun: Maverick (2022) is totally awesome! (Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly star in the modern sequel of the 80's classic)
Jun 18, 2022
Why Top Gun (1986) is totally awesome! (Tom Cruise as Maverick, Anthony Edwards as Goose, and Val Kilmer as Ice Man compete for top Navy pilot spot in 1980's classic)
Jun 18, 2022
Why Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (2022) is totally awesome! (The next Marvel MCU comic books film)
May 16, 2022
Why The Northman (2022) is totally awesome! (Roger Eggers and Alexander Skarrsgard in the Viking epic of Amleth)
May 16, 2022
Why Morbius (2022) is totally awesome! (Jared Leto as Morbius the Living Vampire in Sony Shared Spiderman Universe)
May 16, 2022
Why The Batman (2022) is totally awesome!
Mar 18, 2022
Summer 2021 RECAP: Why Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) is totally awesome!
Mar 18, 2022
Summer 2021 RECAP: Why Black Widow (2021) is totally awesome!
Mar 18, 2022
Best Pop Culture of 2021 (Best of, Top Ten, Greatest Movies, TV, Video Games, Comic Books)
Jan 04, 2022
Best Pop Culture of 2020 Recap (Best of 2020, Top Ten, Greatest Movies, TV, Video Games, Comic Books)
Jan 04, 2022
Why Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) is totally awesome! (Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Peter Parker as Spiderman, Zendaya, Aunt May, and the Green Goblin)
Dec 29, 2021
Why Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) is totally awesome!
Nov 22, 2021
Why The Eternals (2021) is totally awesome! (Marvel Cinematic Universe presents Jack Kirby's iconic sci-fi comic book heroes debut in the MCU)
Nov 12, 2021
Why Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) is totally awesome!
Nov 06, 2021
Why Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Meyers (1995) is totally awesome!
Nov 04, 2021
Why Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Meyers (1989) is totally awesome!
Nov 03, 2021
Why Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers (1988) is totally awesome!
Nov 03, 2021
Why Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) is totally awesome!
Nov 03, 2021
Why Halloween II (1981) is totally awesome!
Nov 03, 2021
Re-Release: Why Halloween (1978) is totally awesome!
Nov 03, 2021
Re-Release: Why Halloween (2018) is totally awesome!
Nov 03, 2021
Why Halloween Kills (2021) is totally awesome! (Laurie Strode and Michael Meyer continue battle in Haddonfield in classic slasher horror franchise)
Nov 01, 2021
Why Dune (2021) is totally awesome! (Timothy Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Zendaya as Chani in Frank Herbert's classic. Fremen, House Harkonnen, Sandworms, and the Spice Melange!)
Oct 29, 2021
Why No Time To Die (2021) is totally awesome! (Daniel Craig's final film as James Bond 007)
Oct 21, 2021
Why Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage (2021) is totally awesome! (Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson in bonkers Marvel Comic sequel in Sony's Spiderman Universe)
Oct 20, 2021
Why Army of the Dead (2021) is totally awesome!
Jun 21, 2021
Why Mortal Kombat (1995) is totally awesome!
Jun 19, 2021
Why Mortal Kombat (2021) is totally awesome! (with co-host Alex Dudash)
Jun 02, 2021
Why Godzilla vs Kong (2021) is totally awesome! (with co-host Alex Dudash)
May 12, 2021
Why Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) aka WW84 is totally awesome! (Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Pine interpret DC Comic classic in the 9th film of DCEU)
Dec 28, 2020
Why Mulan (1998) is totally awesome! (The original 1998 Disney animated classic starring Ming Na Wen, B.D. Wong, and Eddie Murphy)
Dec 05, 2020
Why Mulan (2020) is totally awesome! (Live-action remake of Disney's Hua Mulan or Fa Mulan joins the Chinese Army and Donnie Yen to fight for Emperor Jet Li)
Oct 25, 2020
Why Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020) is totally awesome! (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back as aging slackers trying to save reality)
Sep 07, 2020
Why Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) is totally awesome! (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back for a journey of the After-Life with Death, the Grim Reaper.)
Aug 26, 2020
Why Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) is totally awesome! (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as our favorite time-traveling slackers)
Aug 24, 2020
Ranking all the James Bond Films: Special Episode!
May 22, 2020
Appreciate The Hunt (2020) on a whole new level! (Hillary Swank and evil wealthy leftists hunt Betty Gilpin in controversial film)
May 02, 2020
Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) is totally awesome! (Quentin Tarantino's Academy Award nominated ninth film starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio about the Charles Manson murders)
Apr 06, 2020
Why The Irishman (2019) is totally awesome! (Martin Scorsese and his Academy Award nominated mafia film starring Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran and Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa)
Mar 20, 2020
Why Ford v Ferrari (2019) is totally awesome! (James Mangold's Academy Award nominated film starring Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as Ken Miles about the Ford GT40 and the 66 Le Mans)
Mar 20, 2020
Why Parasite (2019) is totally awesome! (Bong Joon Ho and his Academy Award winning Best Picture Oscar Korean film)
Feb 29, 2020
Why Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is totally awesome! (Margot Robbie DC superhero film where Harley breaks up with the Joker and fights Black Mask)
Feb 08, 2020
Why Bad Boys For Life (2020) is totally awesome!
Feb 03, 2020
Why Bad Boys 2 (2003) is totally awesome!
Jan 26, 2020
Why Bad Boys (1995) is totally awesome!
Jan 26, 2020
Top Totally Awesome Pop Culture of 2019
Jan 24, 2020
Why Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker is totally awesome!
Jan 08, 2020
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 8: Redemption" is totally awesome!
Jan 04, 2020
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 7: The Reckoning" is totally awesome!
Jan 03, 2020
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 6: The Prisoner" is totally awesome!
Jan 03, 2020
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger" is totally awesome!
Dec 11, 2019
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 4: Sanctuary" is totally awesome!
Dec 08, 2019
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 3: The Sin" is totally awesome!
Dec 08, 2019
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 2: The Child" is totally awesome!
Dec 01, 2019
Why Star Wars The Mandalorian Season 1, "Chapter 1" is totally awesome!
Dec 01, 2019
Why Joker (2019) is totally awesome!
Nov 30, 2019
Why Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) is totally awesome!
Jul 17, 2019
Why Avengers: Endgame (2019) is totally awesome!
May 05, 2019
Why Shazam! (2019) is totally awesome!
Apr 22, 2019
Why Captain Marvel (2019) is totally awesome!
Mar 24, 2019
Top Totally Awesome Pop Culture of 2018
Jan 27, 2019
Why Aquaman (2018) is totally awesome!
Jan 06, 2019
Why Creed 2 (2018) is totally awesome!
Dec 23, 2018
Why Halloween (2018) is totally awesome!
Nov 13, 2018
Why Halloween (1978) is totally awesome!
Nov 11, 2018
Why Venom (2018) is totally awesome!
Nov 04, 2018
Why Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018) is totally awesome!
Aug 08, 2018
Why Ant Man and the Wasp (2018) is totally awesome!
Aug 07, 2018
Why Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is totally awesome!
Jun 16, 2018
Why Deadpool 2 (2018) is totally awesome!
May 27, 2018
Why Avengers: Infinity War (2018) is totally awesome!
May 06, 2018
Why Black Panther 2018 is totally awesome!
Feb 25, 2018
Top Totally Awesome Pop Culture of 2017 (Top films, top TV shows, Top Video Games, Top Comic Books)
Jan 27, 2018
Why The Last Jedi 2017 is totally awesome!
Dec 24, 2017
Justice League 2017 (Joss Whedon fixes Zack Snyder's Justice League. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg fight Steppenwolf)
Nov 26, 2017
Thor Ragnarok 2017 (Thor's third entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a hilarious winner!)
Nov 12, 2017
Blade Runner 2049, 2017 (Denis Villeneuve directs Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in a sequel 36 years in the making!)
Nov 04, 2017
Blade Runner 1982 (Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's iconic classic that defined future Sci-Fi)
Nov 04, 2017
Spiderman: Homecoming 2017 (Marvel's flagship character Spiderman returns home to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to fight The Vulture)
Aug 20, 2017
Wonder Woman 2017 (We have a franchise! Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Chris Pine as Steve Trevor fight Ares in a worthy entry into the DC Extended Universe)
Jun 10, 2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 2017 (Starlord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and Baby Groot fight Kurt Russell as Ego the Living Planet)
May 16, 2017
Fast and Furious 8: The Fate of the Furious 2017 (Street Racing, Fast Cars, Vin Diesel, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, fight Zombie Cars and Charlize Theron, all for Family)
Apr 17, 2017
Ghost In The Shell 2017 (Scarlett Johansson as The Major fights crime for Section 9)
Apr 16, 2017
Power Rangers 2017 (Zordon Selects Five Teens to Become Zords and Megazords to fight Rita Repulsa)
Mar 31, 2017
Kong Skull Island 2017 (Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John C Reilly and King Kong. Tease fight with Godzilla in Monsterverse)
Mar 24, 2017
LOGAN 2017 (Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Patrick Stewart as Charles Professor X Xavier, Dafne Keene as X23 Laura Kinney in final Logan movie)
Mar 18, 2017
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 - WITH SPOILERS (Arguably the Best Star Wars Movie since Return of the Jedi!)
Dec 24, 2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 - SPOILER FREE (Felicity Jones leads Rogue Squadron to Steal the Death Star Plans)
Dec 18, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: High Noon 1952 (Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in This Masterpiece Classic)
Dec 15, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: Red River 1949 (Howard Hawks directs John Wayne and Montgomery Clift about the first Great American Cattle Drive from Texas to Missouri)
Dec 15, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: My Darling Clementine 1946 (John Ford directs Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and his Gunfight at the OK Coral)
Dec 11, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: Stagecoach 1939 (John Ford directs John Wayne as the Ringo Kid in this Ultra Western Classic)
Dec 08, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: Tombstone 1993 (Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp, Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday about the Shootout at the OK Corral)
Nov 23, 2016
Doctor Strange 2016 (Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dr Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme with Wong fights for the Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Nov 06, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: Seven Samurai 1954 (Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune in the Japanese Period Piece that Inspired The Magnificent Seven)
Oct 30, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: The Magnificent Seven 1960 (The original film where Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn protect a Farming Village in Seven Samurai Remake)
Oct 23, 2016
Totally Awesome Westerns: Magnificent Seven 2016 (Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Lee Byung Hun in a modern remake of Western Classic about Hero Gunslingers)
Oct 15, 2016
Suicide Squad 2016 (Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jared Leto as Joker. DC Comics Super-villains fight for the Government.)
Sep 18, 2016
Star Trek Beyond, 2016 (Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones McCoy, and the USS Enterprise journey into the third installment of the Abramsverse)
Sep 18, 2016
X-Men Apocalypse 2016 (Jean Grey, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, and Beast fight Apocalypse and the Four Horseman)
Jun 05, 2016
Captain America: Civil War 2016 (Captain America fights Iron Man, Black Panther and Spiderman are introduced, Falcon, Vision, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and War Machine join the fight. Baron Zemo plots.)
May 21, 2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016 - Ben Affleck is great as Batman, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman steals the show, Henry Cavill is lukewarm, Doomsday looks like a cave troll. The DC Extended Universe is off to a rocky start.
Apr 05, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - Mad Max Fury Road
Apr 05, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - The Martian
Apr 05, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - Room
Apr 05, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - Brooklyn
Mar 29, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - The Revenant
Mar 27, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - The Big Short
Mar 26, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - Bridge of Spies
Mar 23, 2016
88th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 2016 - Spotlight
Mar 22, 2016
Deadpool 2016 - The Merc with a Mouth in the breakout hit of the X-Men franchise.
Mar 09, 2016
The Star Wars Saga: Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 - WITH SPOILERS (I will be giving away important plot points. If you haven't seen this film, go watch it now!)
Dec 27, 2015
The Star Wars Saga: Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 - SPOILER FREE (Rey and Finn join Han Solo and Chewbacca to fight Kylo Ren and the First Order)
Dec 23, 2015
Spectre 2015 - James Bond 007 (Daniel Craig meets his old foe Blofeld in Bond 25)
Dec 20, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Creed 2015 (Sylvester Stallone passes torch to Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan in Rocky spinoff aka Rocky 7)
Dec 13, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Rocky Balboa 2006 (Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement in this worthy conclusion to the franchise aka Rocky 6)
Nov 27, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Rocky V 1990 (Rocky Balboa loses his money and trains Tommy Gunn aka Rocky 5)
Nov 16, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Rocky IV 1985 (Rocky Balboa fights Ivan Drago and wins the Cold War aka Rocky 4)
Nov 08, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Rocky III 1983 (Rocky Balboa has the Eye of the Tiger boxing against Mr T's Clubber Lang aka Rocky 3)
Oct 31, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Rocky II 1979 (Boxer Rocky Balboa gets a rematch against champion Apollo Creed in Sylvester Stallone's iconic sequel. aka Rocky 2)
Oct 24, 2015
The Rocky Saga - Rocky 1976 (Sylvester Stallone creates this iconic franchise with Talia Shire, Burt Young, and Burgess Meredith. Boxer Rocky fights champion Apollo Creed. Yo Adrian!)
Oct 17, 2015
Mission Impossible Franchise - Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (Tom Cruise hangs off an airplane and fights The Syndicate. Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg co-star)
Oct 04, 2015
Mission Impossible Franchise - Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol 2011 (Brad Bird directs Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Tom Cruise as they climb Dubai Tower)
Aug 30, 2015
Mission Impossible Franchise - Mission Impossible 3 2006 (J.J. Abrams of LOST and Alias in his big film directorial debut of Tom Cruise/Ethan Hunt franchise)
Aug 16, 2015
Mission Impossible Franchise - Mission Impossible 2 2000 (John Woo directs Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt playing a James Bond-esque Ninja)
Aug 14, 2015
Mission Impossible Franchise - Mission Impossible 1996 (Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the beginnings of his spy thriller franchise based on the TV show)
Aug 13, 2015
Ant-Man 2015 - The Marvel Cinematic Universe (Hank Pym, Scott Lang, and Wasp fight Yellow-Jacket, plus Avengers Falcon cameo!)
Aug 09, 2015
Terminator Genisys 2015 - Terminator (Arnold is back as the Guardian Pops, Emeilia Clark as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke as John Connor, and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese)
Jul 26, 2015
Terminator Salvation 2009 - Terminator (Christian Bale and Sam Worthington try to reboot the franchise in a post-apocalyptic future)
Jul 19, 2015
Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines - Terminator (Arnold Schwartzeneggar sans Sarah Connor and James Cameron try to jump start the classic franchise)
Jul 04, 2015
Terminator 2 Judgement Day 1991 - Terminator (James Cameron and Arnold Schwartzeneggar deliver a hit blockbuster sequel with insane revolutionary CGI)
Jun 30, 2015
Terminator 1984 - Terminator (James Cameron's directorial debut with Arnold Schwartzeneggar as our favorite killer robot)
Jun 27, 2015