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/Filmcast Ep. 106 – Knight and Day

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV686 days ago

This week’s /Filmcast starts off with Dave’s impressions of the Party Down Season 2 finale, which seems to have become the series finale. Everyone agrees that it is a good ending to both the season and series despite not wrapping up all of the loose ends. War of the Worlds gets a little bit of talk due to the Tom Cruise quotient in Knight and Day, which turns out being a lot more positive you might expect because the guys blame a lot of the film’s failure on audience backlash to Cruise. News is a little thin this week, dominated...

/Filmcast Ep. 104 – The A-Team and The Karate Kid

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV700 days ago

Katey Rich joins the /Filmcast this week, starting things off by talking about her impressions of Cyrus, the latest from the Duplass Brothers. In a bit of a followup to last week’s review of Splice, Dave got a chance to check out Vincenzo Natali’s earlier film, Cypher. He enjoyed the movie and sets in stone his love for Natali’s full spread of work, especially with his praise of Cube in past episodes. Devindra reports in with a boatload of television, including a follow-up from his initial impressions on Spartacus that he...

/Filmcast Ep. 102 – Prince of Persia

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV715 days ago

The /Filmcast returns for a more typical episode this week, starting things off with Dave and Devindra’s impressions of The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie. Overall, they both agree that while the show’s individual episodes were always funny, a feature-length picture is simply too much. Rounding out the first segment is Devindra’s experiences with the season 2 finale of Fringe, which he dramatically declares to be better and more fulfilling than the Lost series finale. The second segment is dominated by the two biggest piece...

/Filmcast Ep. 101 – MacGruber

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV721 days ago

Dan Eckman joins the /Filmcast this week, adding a little bit of spicy dissention while also promoting the DVD release of his film, Mystery Team. As always, the show starts off with What We’ve Been Watching, with Dave opening up discussion of the latest episode of Breaking Bad, which was directed by former guest and director Rian Johnson. Everyone agrees that the episode was great despite the fact that it didn’t drive the central plot very much. Most of this success was in fact due to Rian’s injection of much of his style...

/Filmcast Ep. 100 – Robin Hood

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV730 days ago

Highly respected and professional director Rian Johnson joins the /Filmcast this week to the blaring sound of a banjo, appropriately marking the hundredth episode of this podcast. He dominates the What We’ve Been Watching segment, first discussing Cowboy Bebop and considering the possible quality of the planned live action adaptation starring Keanu Reeves. He then rains praise upon Exit Through The Gift Shop, a documentary covering the work of British graffiti artist Banksy. The Rian Johnson love-train continues into the next segment,...

/Filmcast Ep. 99 – Iron Man 2

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV735 days ago

This week, Dave got a chance to check out Die Hard With a Vengeance, which everyone agrees is one of the better films in the series. Samuel L. Jackson’s performance garners a great response from both Dave and Devindra due to both his hilarious “reverse racist” lines and interactions with Bruce Willis’s John McClane. The first segment wraps up with Adam checking in on Community, an NBC show that seems to have carried the torch from a brilliant pilot into a solid series. News that David O. Russell is being scoped out to...

/Filmcast Ep. 98 – A Nightmare on Elm Street

by Jon Cole in Movies744 days ago

This week’s /Filmcast comes in a little bit shorter than usual, cutting a bit from the usually lengthy first segment. Devindra briefly hits on some of the films he saw at the Columbia University Film Festival before transitioning to Adam’s recent viewing of The Abyss. The film gets a ton of high praise from everyone on the show, though they all agree that the Director’s Cut is indisputably more worthy of viewing. Bill Cordon has been confirmed as the director for Twilight: Breaking Dawn and he wrote a letter to Twilight fans...

/Filmcast Ep. 97 – The Losers

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV749 days ago

Dave starts off this week’s show by talking about The Freebie, a “mumblecore” film reminiscent of Humpday or Cyrus. The most appealing attribute of this growing genre is the fact that they’re highly improvised (Dave notes that the script for this feature-length film is only six pages) and more in tune with reality. Also in this week’s “What We’ve Been Watching” is a bit of television, with Devindra sharing his surprisingly positive thoughts on Spartacus: Blood and Sand as well as Adam giving a...

/Filmcast Ep. 96 – Kick-Ass

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV757 days ago

This week’s /Filmcast starts off unusually but very much in the spirit of the show, with each of the member giving their final impressions of Kick-Ass. Apparently, their review at the end of the “proper” episode got into spoilers very quickly and without much warning, so Dave felt the need to serve the wary with a completely immaculate mini-review. After that, it’s back to normal with “What We’ve Been Watching”, kicking things off with Dave’s experience watching Tommy Wiseau’s The Room with...

/Filmcast Ep. 94 – Clash of the Titans

by Jon Cole in Movies771 days ago

This week’s /Filmcast runs a little shorter than usual, kicking things off with yet another wholehearted recommendation of How To Train Your Dragon. As subject of last week’s glowing review, the film has continued to do well in the box office, showing one of the lowest percentage decreases of viewers from the first week’s showing to the second week. With Dave racking up a total of four IMAX-3D viewings and Adam coming in at three, the /Filmcast has collectively spent almost $200 on theatrical viewings on Dreamworks’s...

/Filmcast Ep. 92 – Repo Men

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV786 days ago

This week’s /Filmcast starts off with a ton of television talk, dominated by the recent release of Breaking Bad Season 2 on blu-ray. Dave cannot heap enough praise on the series, ranking it among the pantheon with The Wire and The Sopranos. Devindra agrees, though he expresses some disappointment at the tall price on the blu-ray version of the first season, which unfortunately only features seven episodes due to the Writer’s Strike. A thin news segment is led by the big movie news of the week, namely the casting of Chris Evans as...

/Filmcast Ep. 91 – Green Zone

by Jon Cole in Movies792 days ago

Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski’s latest thriller, has garnered mixed opinions throughout the film critic culture, but the /Filmcast is decidedly positive about it. Devindra compares it to Polanski’s neo-noir Chinatown, saying that the director can bring a lot of finesse and impact to a somewhat unexciting script. Dave got a chance to check out Armored, an understated heist movie that ended up fairly well executed. The Oscars are hardly news, but due to scheduling, the /Filmcast hasn’t got a chance to talk about them until now. ...

/Filmcast Ep. 90 – Alice in Wonderland

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV798 days ago

Eric Vespe of Ain’t It Cool News joins the podcast this week, largely dominating the “What We’ve Been Watching” segment at the start of the show. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom stirs a bit of debate, considering Eric believes the film doesn’t get the attention and respect it deserves. He makes the argument that the Last Crusade is very derivative of Raiders of the Lost Ark, while Temple of Doom starts from square one with an entertaining experience. The first segment wraps up with a little bit of television...

/Filmcast Ep. 89 – The Crazies

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV805 days ago

As per usual, Dave starts off the show with movies he’s been watching, beginning with a film called Triangle. He makes the argument that it has a lot of plot holes but ultimately pays off in many ways, practically “demanding” a second viewing. Adam got a chance to watch Cop Out, deeming it almost unworthy of criticism considering its aspirations are so lowly. News is short but very comic-centric, the first piece underwhelming the crew by revealing David Goyer’s involvement in the upcoming Superman, Man of Steel screenplay. Next up...

/Filmcast Ep. 88 – Shutter Island

by Jon Cole in Movies814 days ago

The /Filmcast crew has been dipping into the back catalog this week, with Dave kicking things off with his positive impressions of Cube. As a slightly dated sci-fi movie, it’s been years since most of the guys have watched Vincenzo Natali‘s cult favorite, but they all have good things to say about both the execution and premise. Morgan Spurlock (of Super-Size Me fame) and Joss Whedon are rumored to be teaming up to produce a Comic-Con documentary, much to the pessimism of Robert Cargill. His main argument is that some similar ideas...

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