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  • 09 Jun

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    Cinecast Episode 216 – Be Excellent to Each Other

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    There is fair bit of meat on the bones of the multiplex this week and Kurt, Andrew along with a sneezy and congested Matt Gamble tackle Terrence Malick, Woody Allen and the current state of the X-Men franchise. Everyone seems to have a different stance on these films, and the discussion is pretty lively. Beware of spoilers but stick around for some important tidbits and caveats regarding Midnight in Paris. The segment re-naming contest continues another week, free DVDs for everyone, Yummy! In the meantime, we do go through 3 or so What We watched each (Drew does Zack Snyder, Kurt does Terrence Malick, Gamble does a couple of upcoming feature films (and warns us off of both of ‘em) as well as more HBO. Gamble takes off but Kurt and Drew soldier onward past the three hour mark along to DVD picks, Netflix Instant arrivals and departures. Plus, all the free trimmings you are accustomed to from the this third row podcast: Do you want to find out answer to life, the universe and everything? Is it true that if Bill and Ted had a Ménage à trois with Audrey Tautou, you could get a perfect film? These pressing issues and more in this weeks show. Cheers.

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  • 02 Jun

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    Cinecast Episode 215 – The Pleasure is in the Ritual

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    Consider this episode to be the B-side for a future show. With nothing to talk about theatrically, we dive right into the goings on within our own homes and portable devices. The ever controversial Ocean’s franchise is debated once again at length. Who wins? You decide. Also, classic Spielberg, classic WWII and we give Wes Anderson another go around and he emerges victorious once again as he is want to do. The whole she-bang starts however, with a quick look at Fincher’s new Dragon Tattoo trailer (both red and green) whilst analyzing the merits of the marketing and the merits (or lack thereof) of the film being remade at all. For not much to talk about we sure do ramble on for a good 150 minutes. Sit back and enjoy the ride – no yelling on the bus!

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  • 26 May

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    Cinecast Episode 214 – I Hate that I Know That

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    We start things off simple. No Kurt. Just some Pirates and Priests. With unpleasantness out of the way, Kurt jumps in with both feet for a indie post-apocalyptic film out of Toronto, a re-evaluation of Inglorious Basterds and Tarantino’s career. Trains and Toni Collette keep the conversation chugging along and with Gamble here, “Game of Thrones” is sort of unavoidable. We all revel in the love for Rip Torn and South Korea before rounding everything out with a talk about sequels that are crazier than a rat in a tin shithouse (ala Caddyshack II and Gremilns II). Nobody dies.

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  • 20 May

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    Cinecast Episode 213 – Broadening Your Horizons by Telling You Something You Already Know

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    We still have not figured out that it is the ‘summer blockbuster’ season, so instead Kurt and Andrew decide to dig into one of the big Canadian films, (nominated for best foreign language Oscar) Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies (which we keep very light on *Spoilers*). An epic ‘what we watched’ section follows. Along the way, tangents on Lars von Trier and Cannes, the two fantasy epic mini-series on cable, Tree of Life, and Jodie Foster’s Beaver. There are lots of good DVD and Netflix picks to round out the show.

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    Cinecast Episode 213 [ 2:59:47 | 102.87 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup

     

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  • 11 May

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    Cinecast Episode 212 – Jeremy Davies 2.0

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    Thor. Is not mentioned once in this show. (To get your Marvel Norse Demigod fix, head on over to the experts at Mamo!) Instead we delve into two road-films of a very different nature. First up, the Oregon Trail meets Gerry in Kelly Reichardt’s wonderfully realized Meek’s Cutoff. We discuss the versatility of young Paul Dano, while praising Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, and the miracle of ambiguous endings. Next up is the vampire-western-post-apocalypse realized in Stakeland. Much love is bestowed on this type of very smart, very sharp genre fare. And Kelly McGillis is in the film, which Andrew is still working his head around. After some batty technical issues, we move along to a few more HotDocs titles, and Kurt’s overall impression of the festival this year. A wee bit more Beauty Day talk, our DVD picks (it is a good week for a change) and finally some Netflix Instant picks in Canada and the US. Old-fashioned tangents (guns, guns, guns!) and other oddball asides litter the good old fashioned style Cinecast you have sitting before you.

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  • 03 May

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    Cinecast Episode 211 – Save it for the Spank Bank

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    Rather fast and casual this week folks; we sound like surly video store clerks! With Canadian Elections and Scotch vying for attention, it was hard to keep our thoughts about this weeks theatrical releases. An unnecessary heated debate ensues over the first two episodes of “Game of Thrones” after reviewing both Fast Five and Thor in quick succession. With HotDocs in full swing, Kurt gives an overview on what he has been watching on the big screen. This includes the festivals opening night films, an enthusiastic house for Beauty Day, midnight surreal lullaby of murder and madness, James Marsh’s debut documentary Wisconsin Death Trip, and what gets the conversation into heterosexually murky waters, Boy Cheerleaders. DVDs are still in the ho-hum stages of the year apparently, so we go to the standby Criterion release and the proto-grindhouse Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez vampire flick from the mid-nineties. Still, we keep things (relatively) civil this week and have fun with the varying directions the show takes us. Welcome to May.

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  • 27 Apr

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    Cinecast Episode 210 – Like Porridge

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    This is the cinecast at its most casual (and for our show, that is saying something.) Kurt and Andrew tongue bath Takashi Miiike’s Chanbara epic 13 Assassins after Andrew caught it on the big screen at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. As a stalling tangent, there is an awkward and wacky conversation on time travel paradoxes and taboo sex in Back To the Future. Gamble saunters in late (diva) but then proceeds along with the whole gang to break down the multitude of reasons why we love Jay Cheel’s debut feature documentary Beauty Day. Kurt gets a little too excited about catching Chungking Express on the big screen. Gamble raves more about A Game of Thrones. Drew shuts down Feng Xiogang’s disaster-weepy epic, Aftershock. Not much love for Kim Ji Woon’s I Saw the Devil, either. But the fit hits the shan in another one of those Matt/Kurt arguments, this time, Brian DePalma in light of the Blow Up Criterion Blu Ray. It’s going to be a party tonite, a party tonite, I know…

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  • 20 Apr

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    Cinecast Episode 209 – Respect the Troll Canon

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    After a couple of lean and mean episodes, we bring the show back to is usual epic size and clock in a 3.5 hour conversation. This is due to a number of things. Everyone was able to catch Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams and discussion about art, 3D, and Wernerisms ensue. Andrew has been taking in the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival and talks about boarding schools, Eva Green and troll hunting. Matt Gamble (Where the Long Tail Ends) returns after a week hiatus and reviews Scream 4 (*SPOILER HEAVY*) and this leads into a discussion of the whole Scream franchise but really, Kurt and Matt only want to talk about The People Under the Stairs. Then there is a fairly heated argument about Speed Racer and how it is kind of like Ronin Miller’s Crossing. Kurt gets angry. Matt gets condescending. (Things get even less civil later on when talking about Philip Ridley’s dark and unclassifiable fairy tale, Heartless.) Moving along, and putting arguing styles aside, we move into what we watched which includes couple of interesting documentaries, one of the super rich the other on mysterious street art. There is some talk about The Joneses and joy of David Duchovny’s self-caricature idiom, there is lots of worship of Christopher Lee and The Wicker Man. And, of course, the proverbial much, much more!

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    Cinecast Episode 209 [ 3:29:05 | 119.64 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup

     

     

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  • 13 Apr

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    Cinecast Episode 208 – It’s Gonna Be Ass-Tastic!

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    Welcome to another edition of the Cinecast, wherein the boys talk a little Joe Wright and Super-Spy-Assassins with the weekend release of Hanna. There is no Gamble on the show today, but in order to properly plumb the depth and nuance of Your Highness, we bring in a mystery guest. Then it is on to Kurt’s 3 days in Asheville, NC watching action films and stunt folks from around the world ply their trade at ActionFest. A recap of some of the highlight titles (from Bangkok stunt-reel filmmaking to white knuckle mountain climbing thrillers and Mixed Martial Arts Kumite) along with plans to revisit next year. DVD and netflix picks round out a show that is on-target and efficient, but a tad on the foul-tongued side. Fair warning.

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  • 06 Apr

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    Cinecast Episode 207 – Don’t Anger Joseph Fiennes

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    Welcome to the shortest RowThree cinecast in years; under 90 minutes with a bullet! Instead of reliving Source Code (8 minutes at a time) we sort of blow right past it, the boys agree that it is a great sci-fi thriller, but it simply could not stir much conversation. Kurt gives a quick thumbs up for Joe Wright’s super-spy flick Hanna (more on that one next week). Andrew talks a bit about the TV-ish looking Camelot. Gamble chimes in on Insidious, the latest horror story from the Saw progenitors. And a brief chat on The Red Riding Trilogy. The what we watched section was brief, as Kurt needed his beauty sleep prior to road-tripping down to Carolina for ActionFest. Enjoy one of our rare ‘short-shows’ until we return (with a vengeance) next week.

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  • 30 Mar

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    Cinecast Episode 206 – My Disney Compass is Spinning

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    Hello folks. We are back after a week off and we waste no time getting into a detailed, and probably too damn introspective, conversation about Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Is it a movie that panders so hard to its base, or a movie that stabs its core audience in the chest while smiling? Is it a case of too much director ambition, too little story telling chops or simply a product of too much fiddling on the studio end such that, and there is no debate on this last bit, things just end up a muddled mess? Matt and Kurt discuss the particulars (onward ye Soldiers of Cinema, this may be your toughest battle yet) and remain, astonishingly spoiler free in the process. Afterwards, it is around the table again (and again) for a lengthy session of what we watched. We go from cheese-merchants to sleaze-merchants (that would be from Don Simpson and Joel Silver to Elmore Leonard and Paul Schrader for those keeping score) before Gamble trumps all with crazy-awful Dan Aykroyd paranormal documentary TV. Kurt revisits a couple of childhood horror-kids flicks, Gremlins and Dragonslayer while Matt travels to New York for the premiere of Beauty Day. Andrew re-evaluates Polanski’s The Ninth Gate, and there is mucho talk about the Spanish Swords and Sandals and Science Blockbuster Agora. Of course, there is the proverbial much, much more in that segment (which clocks in at a staggering 110 minutes) as well as DVD picks, Netflix fresh and expiring picks and a tiny tangent on the Canadian Bandwidth Wars(tm). Grab your battle-axe, strap on your shield and wade into it.

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  • 17 Mar

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    Cinecast Episode 205 – See Thomas Howell

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    Welcome one, welcome all! The latest episode of The Cinecast sees the destruction of four things: Los Angeles (or a back-lot set) from invading aliens, in Battle: LA; Dartmouth Nova Scotia gets bloody and graffitied up, exploitation style, from gangs going to war with a Hobo With A Shotgun; Catherine Hardwicke’s career with the flirts-with-camp-total failure of Red Riding Hood (Gamble took one for the team on this); and finally the end of Robert Zemekis’s Mo-Cap technology with the Disney mega-bomb Mars Needs Moms. Furthermore, while it was more of a mild pummeling by release circumstances than the complete destruction of what is a very solid film, the unfair treatment of I Love You Phillip Morris is discussed. Then we dig deep into what we have been watching. On the menu are political British Gangster dramas, Nazi propaganda films, Art-Giallo hommages, silent comedies, a knuckle-biter suspense spectacular, the Bard with music ‘n guns, more 80s nostalgia and TVs Party Down. We are back to our usual tangents, in particular on a certain actor that has Matt losing it, in tears, mid-show, and an angry ranting-slash-bit-o’-tomfoolery regarding Robert Redford’s baseball movie to close things out. We cram a lot into this show. I hope you enjoy it in all of its shaggy glory.

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