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Behind the Screened Door 02-07-2011

by Jon Cole in Movies, TV366 days ago

This week’s Screened-cast starts things off with discussion about this year’s Super Bowl. The pre-show butchering of the National Anthem, Frank Caliendo, crazy sports commentator shenanigans, and a jingoistic America F-yeah! montage join the terrible Black Eyed Peas halftime show add up to a bizarre peripheral Super Bowl experience, but the game itself and a handful of solid commercials seemed to make the whole thing worthwhile to the guys. Rorie reviewed The Roommate this week, which seems to be a boiled down, college-age version of...

Filmspotting #280: Precious / When Father Was Away on Business / Top 5 Bad Screen Parents

by Jon Cole in Movies826 days ago

Filmspotting follows up last week’s review of Antichrist with a comparably devastating film, Precious.  Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, this film tells the story of a young African-American woman who’s sexually abused by her father and emotionally tortured by her mother.  Both Adam and Matty were absolutely destroyed by this film, some segments forcing them to cover their faces due to some of the powerful imagery in the film.  There’s a little bit of push and pull concerning the casting choices of Mo’Nique as Precious’s mother...

Filmspotting #278: Where the Wild Things Are / High and Low / Top 5 Nostalgia Movies

by Jon Cole in Movies838 days ago

Adam and Matty take the most anticipated fall movie by the horns with this week’s review of Where the Wild Things Are.  Both Filmspotting guys praise the film, taking care to respond to the complaints from other reviewers over an oversimplified determinant of the film’s premise – a child dealing with his parents’ divorce.  They believe that the film’s “wild things” are meant to be personifications of different aspects of the protagonist Max’s psyche. Matty thought that the movie was left open to interpretation, allowing the viewers...

Filmspotting #273: Extract / Yojimbo / Top 5 Most Anticipated TIFF ’09 Movies

by Jon Cole in Movies882 days ago

Matty “Ballgame” Robinson kicks off the podcast with a list of things he loves… and strangely enough, they all seem to intersect in the subject of this week’s review, Extract.  Adam Kempenaar tries to explain why exactly Matty didn’t like the movie so much albeit this alignment of the stars, and he starts off with Jason Bateman’s character whose relationships aren’t really believable.  In fact, the guys say that a pretty sizable minority of the characters are cartoonish and don’t have too much payoff.  Mike Judge does a pretty...

Filmspotting #270: Ponyo / Throne of Blood / Top 5 Films of 2000

by Jon Cole in Movies903 days ago

Due to a single Chicago screening of Inglourious Basterds that Matty just couldn’t make it out to see, the Filmspotting crew shifts their magnifying glass over Hayao Mayazaki’s latest film, Ponyo.  Adam notes that at several points, Ponyo clearly shows its true colors as a children’s movie by breaking any sense of logic– Miyazaki is generally willing to control his films by constructing a particular set of rules but this film just doesn’t get him to suspend his disbelief.  Matty says that Miyazaki still offers a great...

Scene Unseen – “Funny People”

by Jon Cole in Movies918 days ago

While Chris takes a break from the podcast on his European vacation, special guest Lia joins Jimmy this week in a review of Funny People.  Leah has a pretty positive take on the movie though she certainly has a handful of complaints, including the overuse of Judd Apatow’s kids and a pretty disjointed ending.  Jimmy also recommends the movie, telling the listeners to just “give Judd a chance” and cites his personal relationship with Seth Rogen. The terminal illness DVD picks for this week start off with Lia’s choice of Bernardo Bertolucci’s...

Filmspotting #267: Funny People / Ikiru / Top 5 Movies About Comedy

by Jon Cole in Movies924 days ago

This week, Adam and Matty talk about Judd Apatow’s latest comedy, Funny People.  While they certainly have their complaints, the guys think the film delivers with some fantastic jokes and plenty of worthwhile cameos.  Adam attributes Funny People’s weakest moments to the movie’s final half-hour, which jams two hours worth of plot development into a “contrived” conclusion that doesn’t work. In their listener feedback segment, Matty catches some flak for neglecting to include a couple of films in his top five movies of 2009 so far, but...

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