2012 is starting out surprisingly strong, isn’t it? We look at the just-released Chronicle, and the notion of “found footage” movies in general, and then step back by a week and examine the reborn career of Liam Neeson, c/o The Grey.
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The Boys of Mamo return on Oscar Nomination Tuesday to talk about what the hell just happened, i.e. the same thing that happens every year.
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What do Yol, George Lucas, and the Stop Online Piracy Act have in common? They have this episode of Mamo, for one thing.
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With the announcement of changes to the eligibility requirements for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars, we pause for a moment to consider the health of the genre. Has a documentary ever changed the world?
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Part 2 of our 2011 wrap-up! We look at how the industry fared for the year – not enough money, too much 3-D, and a whole lotta superheroes. Which franchises were born? Which were renewed? Which [cough Green Lantern cough] are dead, dead, dead?
Mamo #235: The Year Keeps Ending, And We Keep Ending With It [ 34:21 | 0.01 MB ] Play Now | Play in PopupTo download this episode, use this URL: http://rowthree.com/audio/mamo/mamo235.mp3
The Cinema Appreciation Society of Toronto (CAST) has announced the results of its annual poll for the best films of the year. Matt Brown and Matt Price, from the Mamo podcast, host a special roundtable of CAST voters, discussing their picks and pans from the list of winners!
Participants include:
Kurt Halfyard, Row Three, Twitch Film (@triflic)
Bob Turnbull, Row Three, Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (@TheLogicalMind)
Joseph Belanger, Black Sheep Reviews (@blacksheeprevs)
Ryan McNeil, The Matinee (@matinee_ca)
James McNally, CAST organizer, Toronto Screen Shots (@toscreenshots)
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Happy new year! Mamo gathers on a crystal-clear January morning and looks back on the best and worst of 2011 with special guest star Peter Kuplowsky, from our favourite vantage point in the corner booth at Caplansky’s Deli. Lists abound. What was your favourite film of the year?
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As the year winds to a close we look at a chock-a-block week in popular culture, from Sherlock Holmes to BBC’s Sherlock, from The Hobbit to Lord of the Rings, from Tintin to the next Tintin, and from Prometheus to Alien (in reverse). Pull up a chair and get some cream for your coffee.
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There is no such girl. But wouldn’t it be lovely if there were? We look at David Fincher’s mega-zeitgeisty adaptation of the biggest book in the world, before turning our gaze to the biggest screens in the world and their recent, thunderous triumph with a certain impossible mission.
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The Boys of Mamo head to the multiplexes to take in the first six minutes of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, and on the way, chit-chat about annual critics’ lists, and Butt-Numb-A-Thon, and big burly men in masks with unintelligible voices. Sort of like us.
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Special guest star Colin Geddes, Midnight Madness programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival, whisks us away to a secret location to drink old-timey drinks and gab about his cinematic life and times in Toronto. With bonus guest: Our mysterious benefactor! Pull up a stool!
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Yanksgiving and Black Friday are squarely behind us, and the tripartite battle between November’s family films (and Breaking Dawn) is done! Let’s look at The Muppets, and Hugo, in an all-new podtacular Mamo.
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