The Toronto International Film Festival 2010 is just around the corner! Join Matt Brown and Matt Price, hosts of Mamo!, as we take a tour through Toronto’s date with the movies. What’s good? What’s bad? What’s up with the Lightbox? We’ll be your guides to TIFF 2010…
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The underwhelming summer of 2010 trickles to a close with a triple-header weekend of medicrity: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Vs. The Expendables Vs. The Women (Who Eat Pray Love). Is it time for TIFF 2010 yet?
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I had a dream that Matty Price and I got together over breakfast and talked about Christopher Nolan’s Inception. And the dream was real.
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Live from Chicago, Illinois! Land of Lincoln! Land of Ebert! Land of Mamo! Join us for our five-year anniversary show, where we’ll discuss Toy Story 3, The Karate Kid, Jonah Hex(ed), and The A-Team, all from the fat satisfaction of a quintessentially Mamo American road trip.
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In which the Matts depart from moviedom to mark the passing of the television series of the decade.
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THWACK! That is the sound of an arrow, not so much hitting its target as the next tree over. Robin Hood in theatres, and the reactions are varied. Tons of money overseas, not so much money here, and wasn’t this thing called Nottingham once upon a time? Mamo investigates!
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From a diner in Toronto at 3 in the morning, Matt and Matt join you to talk about Iron Man 2. Is that our breakfast order arriving in the middle of the show? Sure is! Sit in and enjoy a spur-of-the-Mamo discussion of Stark, Marvel, and where it’s all going from here.
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The summer box office picks are here! Listen to the Matts do their regular sham job of trying to figure out which movies will win, which will tank, and which will win by blowing aircraft out of the air with a free-falling tank.
CONTEST UPDATE:
Make your predictions of the top ten domestic grosses for the summer of 2010 in the comment section for your chance to win a dvd of your choice (max value $30). You have until Midnight, Thursday May 6th to submit your choices, and please make sure to include your email address. Affiliates of Row Three are disqualified from the contest, but may still play along for bragging rights. The Summer ends, according to our tabulations, six weeks after the last film picked by someone, but roughly sometime in September, at which time a winner will be announced.
A list of films coming out this summer can be found here
The nitty gritty of the tabulation is as follows:
A. 1-10 Points for film rankings. If you are bang on (your #1 pick comes in #1) you get 10. If you are 5 places away (your #8 film comes in #3) you get 5, etc.
B. 10 bonus points for every film who’s gross you have within 5 million of the actual gross.
C. 5 bonus points for every film who’s gross you have within 10 million of the actual gross.
D. 1 bonus point for every film who’s gross you have within 20 million of the actual gross.
E. 10 point bonus for every film you have ranked correctly AND within 5 million of the actual gross.
Good Luck!
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Directors: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders
Screenplay: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders
Based on the novel by: Cressida Cowell
Starring the voice talents of: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson
Year: 2010
(4.5/5)How to Train Your Dragon is surprisingly amazing – a popcorn movie for kids, sure, but soooooooo much fun. Between the abysmal Shreks and Monsters vs. Aliens, Dreamworks Animation is still a poor cousin to Pixar, but they’ve cranked it clean out of the park this time. Or more aptly, they’re up there riding dragons, and everyone else is watching from the ground.
The tale, loosely adapted from the childrens’ book of the same name, concerns Hiccup (Jay Baruchel, weary and winsome), the only citizen of his particular Viking town who isn’t built like Mr. Incredible wearing a grizzly bear. Further to his dismay, Hiccup is the only son of the chief, Stoick the Vast, who is indeed both stoic and vast; and even worse than this, the town is under near-daily attack by rampaging dragons. Vikings being Vikings, dragon-killing is the national pastime in this rocky corner of the world, and Hiccup ain’t even fit to fetch the water.
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[March 23 1910, legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was born. To celebrate the centennial of his life, his prolific contributions to the world of cinema, and immense impact on the hearts and minds of those quietly mourning his absence, staffers at Row Three are (rather enthusiastically) taking this opportunity to share their own experiences of the Kurosawa catalogue]
Ksagemusha has the distinction of being the first Kurosawa film I ever saw, and I will forever hold it in high regard and strong affection. The film is a visual, artistic triumph. Though Dodes’ka-den and Dersu Uzala certainly have their merits, Kagemusha seems to me to be the first film in Kurosawa’s colour canon where he fully utilized and exploded the opportunities of the palette, any doubt of which should be immediately quelled Kagemusha’s second sequence – a page running through a seemingly endless forest of different-coloured warriors.
As the legend goes, when Kurosawa could not initially raise the funds to make Kagemusha, he spent his time painting the sequences as he saw them in his mind. The resulting film has a decadent splendour which only Dreams would eventually surmount. Read More
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[March 23 1910, legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was born. To celebrate the centennial of his life, his prolific contributions to the world of cinema, and immense impact on the hearts and minds of those quietly mourning his absence, staffers at Row Three are (rather enthusiastically) taking this opportunity to share their own experiences of the Kurosawa catalogue]
The Hidden Fortress is reported (and over-reported) as “the film that inspired Star Wars,” a descriptor which has a technical truth to it only in the most basic plot terms (elder general and two bumbling idiots spirit a fugitive princess across enemy lines). The Star Wars connection likely leads to Fortress being many viewers’ access point to Kurosawa’s canon, however, and a splendid introduction it proves to be.
The Hidden Fortress is Kurosawa at his most warmly populist. Here, he builds a grand adventure movie around two of his consistently repeating obsessions: the chanbara genre, and Toshiro Mifune. The result is an unabashed crowd-pleaser, but, as one would expect, one built with exceptional craft and narrative verve. Read More
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[March 23 1910, legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was born. To celebrate the centennial of his life, his prolific contributions to the world of cinema, and immense impact on the hearts and minds of those quietly mourning his absence, staffers at Row Three are (rather enthusiastically) taking this opportunity to share their own experiences of the Kurosawa catalogue]
Kurosawa’s 1950 film, Scandal, is unfortunately little more than a ghastly weepie, a real low point in a period of the director’s career (1947-1954) which was otherwise marked with career-defining heights.
The directorial imprimatur of Message overtakes Scandal almost from the outset, as Kurosawa sets out to essay the deterioration of media morality in postwar Japan. His weapon of choice is the story of a libel suit against a tabloid by a young artist (Toshiro Mifune, who is so suave and debonair in this film that he’s a remark shy of James Bond) and a popular singer, who have been wrongly reported as being lovers.
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