
Matt Brown gives a succinct overview of the failures of both the J. Edgar Hoover biopic and Clint Eastwood’s post-Unforgiven filmmaking career. Courtesy of our friends at The Substream.
(Oh, and poor Al Waxman, he once was the King of Kensington!)

Matt Brown gives a succinct overview of the failures of both the J. Edgar Hoover biopic and Clint Eastwood’s post-Unforgiven filmmaking career. Courtesy of our friends at The Substream.
(Oh, and poor Al Waxman, he once was the King of Kensington!)

Did you want two minutes of hyper-ecstatic stream-of-thought on Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia? Again, The Substream has got you covered, this time with yours truly talking fast in the damp November cold. The thesis: Why Lars Von Trier is the right man for the job of making a gorgeous epic on depression and self destruction.
Madness! Madness I tell you. Mamo!’s Matt Price sings the praises of Tower Heist to the boys at The Substream, while giving it a very favourable comparison to the original Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3.
*In a conversation later on this evening, Mr. Price wants to clarify his position. He calls it his ‘favourite’ not the Best thing he has seen all year. Many cinephiles will actually understand that distinction.
Check out all The Substream coverage for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2011, including the quite excellent print reviews by Mamo!’s Matt Brown.
Check out all The Substream coverage for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2011, including the quite excellent print reviews by Mamo!’s Matt Brown.
Check out all The Substream coverage for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2011, including the quite excellent print reviews by Mamo!’s Matt Brown.
Tsecond film of 2011 to under use Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Ides of March isn’t half as good as Moneyball, but might boast the best cast since, well, Contagion. Here is a quick 2-minute reaction after leaving the cinema last night.

Our very fine friends at The Substream are at it again, sending a most articulate Matthew Brown (the bearded-half of MAMO!) to see a terrible movie and then talk about it. Warning folks, he *SPOILS* the heck out of the movie – the A Tale of Two Sisters-esque Dream House – but does it in such an elegant and charming fashion (particular the Naomi Watts call-out) that you kinda sorta want to hug him for saving you the trouble. Check the review below. And listen to his “Watch This Instead” advice…Although, I have got to say, that I actually kinda dig Eye of the Beholder. Seriously, I am not kidding.
Sure, I have already reviewed Red State (Kurt’s Review) when it opened Fantasia this summer, but the kind folks at the TheSubstream.com offered me a chance to talk quickly (an imposed 120 second limit is a stretch to the way I normally discuss movies on the Cinecast) about Kevin Smith’s sort-of-horror movie that, I believe, is getting a limited release this weekend.
Episode #9 in a series of video reviews in which Kurt’s kids, 8 year old Willem and 6 year old Miranda experience film fare on the edgier side of typical family entertainment. This episode is the specific impetus for the PG-13 rating, Steven Spielberg’s Temple of Doom. The children have plenty to say (making it the longest show to date) about adventure, scares and snakes.
The entire series, designed to be an unfettered look at how young kids process movies both in storytelling, plot and meaning, can be found on the Vimeo Kids Talk Film Channel.
Mamo!’s Matt Brown is over at The Substream (god bless ‘em!) and up to his usual shenanigans. That is to say, wonderful and personal commentary on a movie currently in wide release. This time Brown tackles Steven Spielberg, JJ Abrams, Super 8, and his own childhood.
We will embed the high-resolution video when it pops up on Youtube, but for now (unless you use an iPhone/Pod/Pad), you can watch it in flash over at The Substream:
Our Friends over at the Substream have been calling upon team Mamo! to do some of their video content. Matt Brown gives a fair and balanced look at Scre4m (“Scra-Form”) and implores you to watch Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom.