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?

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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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Failure and calamity repeatedly confounded our efforts to record this show, but no longer! Mamo 228 is finally here, discussing (in no particular order) Joss Whedon, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Snow White, Snow White, The Hunger Games, Breaking Dawn, Norm Wilner’s readership, the Row Three commenters, the Internet in general, Happy Feet Two, The Muppets, Steve Whitmire, and Jim Henson’s soul. If we’re still alive when you’re listening to this, the show was a success.

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Special guest star Adam Lopez, director and founder of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, joins us to call us out on various colours of carpets for our comments on Episode #225! A spirited conversation about running a genre film festival in the city of Toronto ensues…

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Mamo returns! We address the reaction to last week’s Toronto After Dark episode and do some stage-setting for the next episode to come, before diving into a conversation about Tower Heist, Skyfall, the new DCU, and the CGI future – as lead by Andy Serkis.

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Mamo checks in from the Toronto After Dark film festival 2011, with a good news / bad news analysis of this festival’s market chances in the city with the most film festivals anywhere in the world. Plus unexpected guest appearances from Kurt and John!

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We roundtable on the latest fistfights in movie news, circa six days ago: the Avengers vs. the Dark Knight! UltraViolet vs. iCloud! Real Steel vs. the Remakes No One Wanted! It’s a Mamo pot-pourri episode, displaced in time.

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Special guest star Adam Nayman, TV critic for MSN.ca, joins us on the podcast to talk all things boob tube in our annual television episode! We wander from the best of HBO and AMC to the most popular of oldschool network, with a stop in Community’s seven non-intersecting timelines, as we survey the current state of the nation in TV Land.

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We’re joined by Row Three Summer Box Office Contest winner Toro913, Miran Terzic, for a look ahead at the jam-packed Christmas box office season for 2011. Who thought up this twenty-car pileup?

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Welcome back to Mamo! With TIFF behind us, we close the 2011 Summer Box Office contest, and have a look at what went down at the domestic and international movieplexes in the summer of twenty-eleven. Superheroes! Pirates! Harry Potter! Talking monkeys! Plus, the Planet of the Apes!

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We close out the Toronto International Film Festival 2011 with talk of Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film, and how our story of film has changed as 2011 TIFFgoers.

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Less than 24 hours later, we’re back at it with more coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2011. We talk some more about Take Shelter, along with Tyrannosaur, Habemus Papam, The Day, This Is Not A Film, and more!

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Our third podcast from the Toronto International Film Festival 2011 sees guest star Shelagh Rowan-Legg join us in line for Midnight Madness to talk Jeff Who Lives At Home, Warriors of the Rainbow, Take Shelter, Amy George, Sleeping Beauty, Wuthering Heights, Shame, Sleepless Night, Undefeated, Hysteria, and more! We’re nearly at the end, folks…

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The first weekend of TIFF 2011 is over and Mamo endures – we talk Midnight Madness (God Bless America! You’re Next! Livid!), Hick, Killer Joe, I Wish, Twixt, and more!

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The Toronto International Film Festival 2011 has started, and Matt and Matt check in with their thoughts on the first two days. We are interrupted frequently because we’re just so gosh-darn popular. Has the festival returned to its most sociable roots? Awesome!

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