The roll to total world domination continues, as Avatar takes some Golden Globes, some more records, and the increasing ire of some among the filmgoing community. We continue to handicap the world’s first 2 billion dollar hit, and why it isn’t the world’s first 2 billion dollar hit.

The end of the year, the decade, and oh, conventional filmmaking. The Matts are back to reset the conversation with the list of what we liked in the past 3653 days. As is it impossible to cover everything, here are some links to better round out the conversation: Matthew P’s Best of 2009,  His Best of the Decade, Matthew Brown’s Best of 2009, and his Best of the Zeros. Enjoy, and have fun taking us to task in the comments.

AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAAAAAAAAR!!

We finally come to you from the welcoming environs of my favorite Toronto restaurant, Caplansky’s Deli in the heart of the Kensington Market district. Between delectable bites of smoky cured meats we take a second pass at the relative success of Twilight: New Moon, the relative failure of The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and the before release backlash (Frontlash?!?) directed at James Cameron and Avatar. Enjoy the latest Mamo, now with the spicy mustard.

Pretend we didn’t just do a show where we spent the first ten minutes slagging girl-centric crap like Twilight and New Moon and then proceeded to geek out about boy candy like Avatar, Thor, and the Star Trek DVD. Let’s all pretend we didn’t do that.

Hi Mamo listeners, I am in Berlin right now. How, then, have I managed to record this Mamo? Magic and science, that’s how, together at last! In this episode, in honour of my absence, we discuss the posthumous victories of Jackson, Polanski, and Ledger. Enjoy!

It wasn’t so much where the Wild Things were as what they were, a brilliant collection of vital imagery that verges on the miraculous. Matt and Matt take a look at all things feral in their latest coffee shop rumpus.

In which the summer of 2009 is put to rest, reputations are made and broken, and a hero (of guessing box office grosses) is at long last revealed. Plus, our belated interview with Zeb Pike, and his thoughts on 9.

We wrap up on the Toronto Film fest, discuss the business end of a screening at the Elgin, and provide the highest quality in depth analysis ever given from a bench in the mall. Plus we parse the cock-up at Disney, and tease our upcoming interview with Zeb Pike, lighting compositor and part of the creative team at Starz that produced Shane Acker’s 9.

More Mamo from the 7th day of the Toronto International Film Festival 2009! Too tired to further blurb, please have a listen.

LINK IS FIXED! Sorry for the sleep-deprivation-induced inconvenience.

Catch up with the Matts again, this time in line for The Disappearance of Alice Creed at the Toronto International Film Festival. We’ll recap days 1, 2, 3, and twitter, which is not so much a day as a social force majeure. (We’re @tederick and @mattmovies, by the way.)

Mamo!

Who says we’re above posting our own outtakes and B-sides? What started as a test of a new on-the-fly Mamo recording technique (it’s not exactly a scientific revolution, but it’ll help) turned into a 3-minute introductory podcast for the Toronto International Film Festival 2009. Hey: enjoy that. Longer shows are coming.