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Filmspotting #313: Get Low / Top 5 Robert Duvall Performances

by Jon Cole in Movies536 days ago

Adam and Matty meet this week to talk about Get Low, a new film starring the epic ranks of Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Bill Murray. While the film starts off with a visually stunning introduction and allows Duvall to deliver a breathtaking ending, Adam and Matty agree that a bulk of the movie is boring and overly polished. Beyond that, the major themes of the film don’t really have much to do with the events that take place throughout, essentially never maintaining a real tone. Ultimately, the Filmspotting duo can’t help but disagree with...

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Filmspotting #312: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World / Top 5 Action Movie Romances

by Jon Cole in Movies546 days ago

Adam and Matty are a little bit removed from the games and music pop culture scene nowadays but they try their best to handle Edgar Wright’s latest film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Their lack of experience in both of those likely have something to do with their dissatisfaction with the repetitive nature of the fight scenes, the unrealistic overarching plot, and the grating visual style. However, they do have something good to say about Wright’s filmmaking, which they agree is pretty well done. Matty also praises the execution of several...

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Filmspotting #310: Todd Solondz Interview / Top 5 Performances of 2010 (So Far)

by Jon Cole in Movies558 days ago

This week’s Filmspotting begins with an interview rather than the typical movie review, with Adam interviewing Life During Wartime director Todd Solondz. With characters based on his past film Happiness, Todd offers some insight on why he would choose to revive them rather than produce a fully original film. Beyond that, he goes on to say how he thought about casting and how he fashioned characters to better suit the actors he chose. The Billy Wilder marathon finally comes to a close this week with a big war movie, Stalag 17. It kind of transcends...

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Filmspotting #308: Inception / The Apartment / Top 5 Dream Sequences

by Jon Cole in Movies571 days ago

After a slightly laborious lead-in from Matty, Adam starts off this week’s review of Inception with a couple of simple thoughts, namely that this film succeeded on many levels and definitely ranks among his best movies of the year so far.  He goes on to say that the movies was so immersive and the mechanics were so well established that he found himself plunged into the film as though it was his own dream, ironically enough.  Matty steers the conversation from there, praising the visuals as the most stylistically complete that Nolan has...

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Filmspotting #305: Splice / Get Him to the Greek / Some Like It Hot / Top 5 Best Laid Plan Movies

by Jon Cole in Movies605 days ago

The rare Filmspotting double feature is back in action this week, starting off with a review of Vincenzo Natali’s latest thriller, Splice. Matty prefaces their conversation with the old-style definition of a “B movie”, namely an opening act to the major feature that tackles little-tread genres. With that context, Adam and Matty’s collective review is fairly complementary, centering on the somewhat corny introductory scene, campy dialogue, and silly gore. Ultimately, they agree that the film is fun and the plot is sufficiently...

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Filmspotting #304: Dennis Hopper Tribute / The Lost Weekend

by Jon Cole in Movies614 days ago

On this week’s episode of Filmspotting, Adam and Matty dedicate much of the time to the late Dennis Hopper, starting things off with a flashback to mid-2009 and their impressions of Easy Rider (in which Hopper directed and acted in).  The film was clearly a favorite in their New Hollywood marathon a year ago, earning Matty’s best cinematography award amongst the pack of nine films. After hitting upon the typical Massacre Theater and poll question segments, Filmspotting returns to the Billy Wilder marathon with their latest pick, The...

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Filmspotting #301: Iron Man 2 / Sunset Blvd. / Top 5 Summer Movie Preview

by Jon Cole in Movies634 days ago

Filmspotting is back to regularly scheduled programming this week, visiting the mainstream side of the tracks with their review of Iron Man 2.  They start off with the things the like about the film, namely the performance of Garry Shandling and the way that Jon Faveau handles the camera in action scenes.  Beyond that, they have little else good to say.  The film felt too jokey about scenes where the situation should have been far more dire, exacerbated by the overindulgence of Robert Downey Jr.  The sheer number of characters didn’t...

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