This week we watched the 1982 DC Comics film Swamp Thing. Written and directed by Wes Craven it tells the story of scientist Alec Holland who is transformed into the monster known as Swamp Thing through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane. It stars Ray Wise, Adrienne Barbeau, Dick Durock and Louis Jourdan. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
This week we watchd the new 2026 Marvel film Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, in the film, Peter anonymously protects New York City as the hero Spider-Man and investigates a powerful new threat while his superpowers undergo a surprising and potentially dangerous evolution. It stars Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Florence Pugh, Tramell Tillman, Marisa Tomei, and Mark Ruffalo. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tortellin
This week we watched the 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy Mamma Mia! Directed by Phyllida Lloyd the film follows a young bride-to-be who invites three men to her upcoming wedding, with the possibility that any of them could be her real father. The film features an ensemble cast, including Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, and Christine Baranski. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twi
This week all six of us are together again to talk about the black sheep of the Jurassic franchise, Jurassic Park III. Directed by Joe Johnston the film’s plot involves a divorced couple who, via subterfuge, enlist the help of Grant to find their son, who has gone missing on Isla Sorna. It stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, and Michael Jeter, with a brief appearance by Laura Dern. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twi
This week we’re doing something we haven’t done in a long time, a commentary of the 2009 workprint X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Directed by Gavin Hood and written by Dumb Benioff and Skip Woods it follows the early years of James Logan, featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in the special forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine. It stars Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, and Ryan Reynolds. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpod
This week we’re back with the 1986 scifi body horror film The Fly. Directed and co-written by David Cronenberg it is based on the 1957 short story of the same name. The film tells the story of an eccentric scientist who, after one of his experiments goes wrong, slowly turns into a fly-hybrid creature. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and John Getz. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
This week we watched the 2023 sci-fi comedy drama film Asteroid city. Written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson, Its plot mostly presents a stage play which follows a Junior Stargazer convention and the unexpected arrival of extraterrestrials and UFOs. The ensemble cast includes Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, and Jeff Goldblum. Come join
This week we’re starting our Summer Blockbuster Month and we watched the 2014 animated fantasy film How to Train Your Dragon 2. Written and directed by Dean DeBlois it is set five years after the events of the first film, and follows Hiccup and his friends as they encounter Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world by use of a dragon army. It stars Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou and Kit Harington Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: htt
This week we saw the new horror film based on the creepypasta of the same name Backrooms. Directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons in his directorial debut, in the film, a furniture store owner and his therapist discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the basement of the store. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/
In kind of an Epic Month pick we watched the 2025 horror film Sinners. Directed by Ryan Coogler set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twi
Taking a break from Epic Month watched the first Star Wars movie in seven years The Mandolorian and Grogu. Directed by Jon Favreau, who co-wrote the film with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor it tells the story of Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu are enlisted by the New Republic to rescue Rotta the Hutt in exchange for information on a target. The film stars Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White and Sigourney Weaver. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://t
Continuing Epic Month we watched the 1971 musical drama Fiddler on the Roof. Directed by Norman Jewison, the film centers on Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman, who is faced with the challenge of marrying off his five daughters amidst the growing tension in his shtetl. It stars Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michèle Marsh, Neva Small and Paul Michael Glaser. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.c
Continuing Epic Month we watched the 1962 biograpohical drama Lawrence of Arabia. Directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel it is based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom (also known as Revolt in the Desert). It stars Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/Past
This month begins Epic Month and to kick it off we watched the 2009 superhero film Watchmen. Directed by Zack Snyder, and written by David Hayter and Alex Tse, it tells the story of a group of mostly retired superheroes who investigate the murder of one of their own before uncovering an elaborate and deadly conspiracy with which they are all connected. The film stars Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpod
Concluding this year’s Decades Month at the end pf the 60’s with the 1969 Western buddy comedy Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of outlaws Butch Cassidy and his partner the Sundance Kid, who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The film stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katherine Ross. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAt
Moving along in Decades Month to the 50’s with the 1954 crime drama On the Waterfront. Directed by Elia Kazan it tells the tale of an ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman who struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. It stars Marlon Brando, and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
Rolling along into the 40’s for our Decades Month with the 1944 black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. Directed and produced by Frank Capra, the story follows a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage who risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot.. The film stars Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane and Peter Lorre. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon \Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
This month we’re calling Decade’s Month where each week will be a different decade and we’re starting in the 30’s with the 1933 film King Kong. Directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, the story follows a giant primate dubbed Kong who feels affection for a beautiful young woman offered to him as a sacrifice. The film stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pasta
Next up in his week of 4 episodes is the new film The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, in the film Mario and Luigi with their friends adventure into outer space, where they face off against Bowser and his son, Bowser Jr.It star Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key, Benny Safdie, Donald Glover, Glen Powell, and Brie Larson. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.c
The third episode of this week of 4 episodes is the 1993 video game adaptation Super Mario Bros. Directed by the husband-and-wife team Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, it follows the brothers Mario and Luigi in their quest to rescue Princess Daisy from a dystopian parallel universe ruled by the ruthless President Koopa. The film stars Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis and Dennis Hopper. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/P
Next up in his week of 4 episodes and the conclusion Foreign Film Month is the 1985 drama Kiss of the Spider Woman. Directed by Héctor Babenco, set in a Brazilian prison, the film centers on a dialogue between two very different cellmates, a hardened leftist revolutionary and an apolitical gay man. It stars William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga, José Lewgoy, Milton Gonçalves, and Denise Dumont. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/Past
4 new episodes are coming this week and first up is the continuation of Foreign Film Month with the 2025 black comedy No Other Choice. Directed by Park Chan-wook and based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, the film follows a desperate paper industry expert who decides to kill off his competition to be assured of the job he seeks to maintain his way of life. It stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.faceboo
Back with another Foreign Film Month pick this week we watched the 1961 black comedy Divorce Italian Style. Directed by Pietro Germi the film tells the tale of an impoverished Sicilian nobleman who is trapped in a loveless marriage and fantasizes killing his wife.It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, and Leopoldo Trieste. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
THE UNDERTONE - Feature Film. February, 2025. Photo by Dustin Rabin #2935 Breaking from Foreign Film Month, we saw the new A24 horror film Undertone. Written and directed by Ian Tuason, in his directorial debut, the film tells the tale of two podcasters who are sent recordings by a married couple experiencing paranormal noises in their home. It stars Nina Kiri and Adam DiMarco. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
After a 3 year hiatus Foreign Film Month finally returns and to kick it off we watched the 2009 surrealist comedy Symbol. Directed and starring Hitoshi Mastumoto the film is about a man who wakes up in a white room with buttons on the walls and he must find out which button to push to get what he wants. Come join us!! Website : https://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod
