Double Take: Recent Episodes

John DeSando, Johnny DiLoretto

Critical, sometimes confrontational, always amusing, conversations about movies. Hosted by Columbus film critics John DeSando and Johnny DiLoretto, Double Take provides insightful commentary and context regarding all things cinematic. Casual moviegoers and serious cinephiles will find at least one, maybe even two insights worth the price of admission, which is, thankfully, free... Double Take is a Cinema Classics production.

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Frank Capra's classic about a greenhorn senator in Washington, DC

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Tarantino's seminal work has its 30th anniversary.

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For its 30-year anniversary, Rear Window is our review.

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Docudrama about the debut of Saturday Night

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The sequel is a fitting addition to the Joker mythology.

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J K Simmons won the Oscar for his portrayal of a strict music teacher.

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A fading movie star and young college grad bind in Tokyo.

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A successful sequel more accessible and saner than the original.

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Channing Tatum plays a tech billionaire luring young women to his island.

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John and Mary determine Sing Sing the best movie of the year so far.

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Hitchcock train thriller with heroine and abduction.

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The fight for acceptance of Gaelic in North Ireland by a hip-hop band

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"The Dude Abides"

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Lawyers played by Hepburn and Tracy, married, face off against each in a murder trial. Charisma all around.

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Gru is a happy father hiding ot in a protection plan from his archenemy.

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One of the great film fantasies of all time with Kevin Costner.

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The origin story about an invsaion of blind monsters with super hearing.

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An fioction inspired by '60's motorcycle gang movies.

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A sequel with the same imagination as the original only this time Riley reaches puberty.

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Netflix beings back an Oscar-winning musical with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.

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A fresh look at a premiere classic film.

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Prequel to Fury Road, Furiosa depicts the rise of s new heroine played by Anya Taylor-Joy.

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Small town in NE England deals with influx of Syrian refugees.

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Young rebel chimps challenge the gorilla dictatorship

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Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut is silly and witty.

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A 12-year-old ballerina makes her abductors rue the day they took her.

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Successful scare-fest prequel to The Omen.

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Exciting parody of '70's late night talk shows

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The Titans join forces with Mothra to keep control of Hollow Earth.

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They're back in NYC busting the ghouls as always.

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Observations about the ceremony and the winners.

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A dynamic addition to the film adaptations of the epic novel

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Ethan Coen does a '70's exploitation road trip.

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Dakota Johnson stars as a Spidy-related heroine. Four superheroes in the making.

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Goth girl falls for grave-emerging corpse.

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A spy spoof with wit and twists.

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Jason Statham in an almost literate revenge film.

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Netflix 2005 imaginative neo-noir set in a high school

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New musical version of the classic Alice Walker novel

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Surveying the best and worst movies of 2023

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Leonard Berntein's marriage and his music

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The monster emerges again with a new take on Japanese adjustments after WWII.

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Miyasaki's most recent and semi-autobiographical anime.

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Dynamic docudrama from Netflix about the organizer of The March on Washington.

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Disney's newest musical animation.

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The Demonic Nun and Sister Irene face off again in the Conjuring series.

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Denzel in his swan song as Robert McCall, retired government assassin, now in Italy.

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Helen Mirren does a classic biopic about Golda Meir

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Oscar-winning thriller from 1992. on Prime, that treats transgender for one of the first times in cinema. A great love story.

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Ben Kingsley brilliantly plays Milton, who meets an alien.

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One of the worst movies of the year starring Jason Statham underwater as well as the film.

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1981 John Carpenter actioner with Kurt Russell.

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A brilliant adaptation of the iconic doll who changed the world of women and ushered in feminism of a new kind.

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The 7th Mission and one of the best action movies of all time.

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John and Mary find an art-film thriller thrilling to discuss.

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A classic that gets better with time.

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The fifth and possibly last of the Indiana Jones franchise.

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Wes Anderson's newest imaginative exercise in beautiful color and deadpan dialogue.

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Robots into machines, families found. Much of the same for summer superheroes.

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Two exciting films for summer '23.

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Taxi Driver's Paul Schrader writes and directs this spare drama about characters on the road to redemption.

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A Disney remake that could be a classic itself.

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A Western genre spoof that is yet an exciting example of a great Western.

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Another super-hero adventure with many eccentric characters, some actually developed.

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Ray Romano directs and stars in a dramedy about an Italian-American family in Queens.

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Nicolas Cage shines as a modern Dracula.

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One of the best sports films ever.

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Keanu Reeves returns as the most efficient assassin in movie history.

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Scream VI and the horror genre with its tropes.

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Connecting current Oscar winners with the past and assessing some of the awards ans the ceremony.

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The ninth Rocky iteration starring Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed.

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An imagining of Emily Bronte's little-known life

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A new, enjoyable Philip Marlowe detective story starring Liam Neeson.

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A splendid Iranian drama by an imprisoned filmmaker who continues to make world-class films.

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A discussion about the leading nominees for Oscars at the 2023 ceremony.

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Connecting Hitchcock's Birds with the rest of his work and scary movies,

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Almost all the action in this smart thriller is online. A daughter searches digitally for her lost mom.

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Two for one: Netflix's Pale Blue Eye and Theaters' M3gan.

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Brendan Fraser stars in an Oscar-worthy role as a morbidly-obese, reclusive English instructor.

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Extended discussion of our favorite films and Golden Globes nominations

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An extended discussion of Damien Chazelle's Babylon.

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Guillermo del Toro's rendition of Pinocchio—dark and beautiful.

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Steven Spielberg's imaginative take on his growing up inspired by his family and friends.

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This whodunit is almost as good as the Knives Out original.

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Suggestions for classic holiday movies

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John/Wayne enjoy meeting Sherlock Holmes' young sister in a thriller about a missing girl in London.

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An extended conversation about the Scandinavian comedy that won the Cannes Palm d'Or.

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Cate Blanchett will probably be nominated for an Oscar in Tar.

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A beautiful Irish Island with 100 people and one who says he doesn't want to have anything to do with his best friend.

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All about the in's and out's of the A-list dramedy, Amsterdam.

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Our extended discussion of the iconic sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, in the film Blonde.

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The top and bottom movies of Summer '22

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Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson collaborate on an unforgettable drama about a genius clothes designer and his loves.

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From Mad Max to Babe to 3000 Years of Longing, George Miller is a true auteur.

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Film Commissioner John Daugherty helps celebrate 700 episodes of Cinema Classics.

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An extended conversation about one of the great docudramas this year.

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Aubrey Plaza stars in a tidy thriller for which her deadpan heroine is perfectly suited.

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John and Jordan give extensive analysis to Bullet Train.

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John and Kevin look at the work of the creator of Nope, Jordan Peele

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John and Mary recommend this dramedy, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, as the best comedy of the summer.

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A discussion of the work of Taika Waititi, director of Jojo Rabbit, Hunt for the WIlderpeople, Thor Ragnorak, and Thor Love and Thunder.

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We fund this drama set in Morocco (Casablanca, Anyone) has intriguing themes, not all about conflicts among cultures.

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Inspired by his Elvis, John and Kevin explore director Baz Luhrmann's filmography.

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John/Wayne have fun with The Black Phone and Ethan Hawke's career.

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Inspired by the the three featured children of stars in Jurassic World Dominion, we look at children of stars in other movies.

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Double Take reviews Hustle and the career of Adam Sandler.

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Inspired by the success of Top Gun Maverick, John and Wayne survey their fav action films.

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A look at the summer '22 July and August upcoming films.

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Inspired by The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, John and Johnny look at Nicolas Cage's filmography.

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Previewing May and June Movies '22

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Surprisingly entertaining Films Right after Oscar.

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A look at the famous stars who died in 2021.

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Looking at forgotten films of 2021-22

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Aaron Sorkin has achieved well in TV and Film.

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Chris Hamel joins John and Johnny to discuss the forthcoming Oscars.