This week we watched the 2004 action thriller film Cellular. Directed by David R. Ellis it tells the tale of a female science teacher who is kidnapped but manages to randomly phone a stranger for help, who then informs the police before realizing that the kidnappers are dirty cops. The film stars Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy, Noah Emmerich, Richard Burgi, Valerie Cruz and Jessica Biel. Come join us!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 1985 adventure comedy film The Goonies. Directed by Richard Donner from a screenplay by Chris Columbus based on a story by Steven Spielberg in the film, a group of kids attempt to save their homes from foreclosure and, in doing so, discover an old treasure map that takes them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of famed pirate One-Eyed Willy. The film stars Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, and Ke Huy Quan. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Well Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming? This week Zach picked the 1991 Academy Award winning horror film The Silence of the Lambs. Directed by Jonathan Demme and adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name it follows Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill", as she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The film stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, and Kasi Lemmons. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 2011 adaptation of the play of the same name, The Sunset Limited. Directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson, the film is about the relationship between a Christian African American who has a positive view of life and a nihilistic White man with a very negative view. The screenplay was written by Cormac McCarthy who also wrote the play. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Returning again to the year 1989 we watched the comedy drama film Steel Magnolias. Directed by Herbert Ross and starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts. Based on the 1987 play of the same name about the bond a group of women share in a small-town Southern community, and how they cope with the death of one of their own. The supporting cast features Tom Skerritt, Dylan McDermott, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Sam Shepard. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

What a coincidence this was mentioned at last night’s Academy Awards, we watched the 1989 baseball fantasy Field of Dreams. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson and based on Canadian novelist W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, the film stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) and the Chicago Black Sox. Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster (in his final film role) also star. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 2024 epic scifi film Dune Part 2. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the sequel to Dune (2021), it is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel and follows Paul Atreides as he unites with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to wage war against House Harkonnen. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista and Javier Bardem reprise their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, and Souheila Yacoub joining the ensemble cast. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 1981 comedy adventure film History of the World Part I. Written and directed by Mel Brooks the film tells the story of some of human history through comedy and gags. The large ensemble cast also features Sid Caesar, Shecky Greene, Gregory Hines, Charlie Callas, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses, Comicus the stand-up philosopher, Tomás de Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques, le garçon de pisse. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 1999 action adventure film The Mummy. Directed by Stephen Sommers, in a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, and follows adventurer Rick O'Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with a librarian and her older brother, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest with supernatural powers. It stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Arnold Vosloo. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 2010 Japanese samurai drama film 13 Assassins. Directed by Takashi Miike it is a remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name, and is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo period in which a group of thirteen assassins plot to assassinate Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu, the murderous leader of the Akashi clan, to thwart his appointment to the powerful Shogunate Council. The film stars Kōji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

This week we watched the 2016 neo-Western crime drama film Hell or High Water. Directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan, it follows two brothers who carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family ranch while being pursued by two Texas Rangers. The film stars Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster and Gil Birmingham. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Up next is the podcast’s first Ridley Scott film, the 2001 war drama Black Hawk Down. Directed and produced by Ridley Scott, and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, it  is based on the 1999 eponymous non-fiction book by journalist Mark Bowden, about the crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu. The film features a large ensemble cast, including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Jason Isaacs, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Piven, Ioan Gruffudd, Ewen Bremner, Hugh Dancy, and Tom Hardy in his first film role. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Our second film of the season may, for the second year in a row, be starting an unintentional theme month of van movies with the 2015 dramedy The Lady in the Van. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the film is based on the memoir of the same name created by Alan Bennett which tells the story of Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parks her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeds to live there for 15 years. The film stars Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent and Francesca de la Tour. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Ian’s up with the first film pick of Season 8 and he chose the star studded 2006 tragicomedy film Little Miss Sunshine. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (in their directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Michael Arndt. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, all of whom play members of a dysfunctional family taking the youngest to compete in a child beauty pageant. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Welcome to Season 8!!! With the start of the new year and season brings our annual award show The Tortellini’s where we discuss our favorite films, actors and moments of Season 7 and what we’re looking forward to in the upcoming season. So come listen to us ramble on about stuff for a few hours!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

The final installment in not just our Lord of the Rings month but also Season 7 and 2023 is the 2003 film The Return of the King. Directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Jackson, the film is the final instalment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It features an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm, and Sean Bean. Come join us and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! We'll be back January 8th with Season 8!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Up next in our Lord of the Rings month is the 2002 film The Two Towers. Directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Jackson, the film is the second instalment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It features an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Brad Dourif, Karl Urban, and Andy Serkis. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

I guess December is technically Lord of the Rings month because we watched the whole trilogy and up first is 2001’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Jackson, based on 1954's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The film is the first instalment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It features an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, and Andy Serkis. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

The final entry in this year’s Animation Month is the 2001 Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away. Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the film tells the story of a family's move to the suburbs where, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, a world where humans are changed into beasts. The film features the voices of Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takeshi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tsunehiko Kamijō, Takehiko Ono, and Bunta Sugawara. Come join us!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod

Up next in Animation Month we watched the 2009 DreamWorks animated film Monsters vs Aliens. Directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman, the film involves a group of misfit monsters hired by the United States Armed Forces to stop the invasion of an extraterrestrial villain and save the world in exchange for freedom. It features the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Paul Rudd, and Stephen Colbert. Come join us!!!!! Website : http://tortelliniatnoon.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tortelliniatnoonpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TortelliniAtNoon Twitter: https://twitter.com/PastaMoviePod