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In episode 118, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by returning guest DJ Baby Lac!
Drew and Chris review Results, The Desk and Welcome to Leith from the 2015 Florida Film Festival.
They talk about scary movies and Blockbuster video and the DVD Man at the Barbershop.
Also discussed in this episode:
Power Rangers, The Dark Tower, Aquaman, and much more!
“Welcome to Leith” is a fascinating documentary about a small town in North Dakota and how they reacted when a well-known white supremacist moved in with the intention of turning it into a safe haven for his fellow racists.
This old fella named Craig Cobb found this tiny town in North Dakota with only 24 residents, which includes the children, and yet this town named Leith still has a functioning government, in that there is a mayor and a town council and all that good stuff. And Cobb saw this little rundown town in the middle of nowhere and saw an opportunity to take it over. What he didn’t see was a small group of people who didn’t want anything to do with their brand of foolishness. What ensued was a six-month stand off, with Cobb and his hate-filled compatriots on one side and some honest people who just wanted to live their lives without having to worry about any of this bullshit on the other.Continue Reading …
So what is “The Desk?” Apparently submitted to the festival as a narrative feature despite clearly being a documentary (a meta-documentary, but a documentary nonetheless), “The Desk” is part biography and part exposé, while also getting into the role of social media in journalism and in our culture as a whole, which brings with it a bit of an indictment on many peoples’ need to be outraged about…well, about anything. Combining footage from a failed short film about a failed television late night talk show with interviews, recreations from actors, cell phone footage and some audio from previous celebrity interviews, this movie is a hell of a ride as it documents a man’s fall from grace, a time during which just about everything goes wrong for the apparently very well-intentioned guy.Continue Reading …
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In this BONUS episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about the movie FURIOUS SEVEN, and it is spoilers ahoy because they get into all the details of the entire movie so there you go you have been warned.
SPOILERS!
Seven movies into this franchise, we have all now come to expect a certain mood and tone for our increasingly over-the-top sequels to that little “Point Break” rip off from all those years ago, “The Fast and the Furious.” After safely driving cars off of cliffs in “Fast Five” and battling military tanks and planes in “Furious Six” (subsequently renamed “Fast & Furious 6“), the most extreme things that could be done with this new movie not only include dropping cars from planes and car chases down the side of mountains, but also adding the one and only Jason Statham as an iconic villain, something these movies have not had yet. And because “The Fast and The Furious Vs. The Transporter: Dawn of Justice” would have involved too many copyright issues, here we are with the simply titled “Furious 7.”Continue Reading …
From the director of “The Fighter” and “Silver Linings Playbook” and starring legit movie stars and box office draws George Clooney and Mark Walhberg (as well as the cottage industry unto himself known as Ice Cube), it is kind of amazing to look back and see how Warner Brothers doubted this movie and barely had the nerve to fund it and see it through. But then again, back in 1999, director David O. Russell was a nobody auteur and he was making a movie with a guy who played a doctor on television and a rapper turned underwear model. It is kind of easy to put yourself in that mindset and see how “Three Kings” could have very well been a complete disaster.
And yet, it is not. Instead “Three Kings” is the movie that really launched Clooney’s movie career, helped legitimize Wahlberg, and gave Russell the experience he needed to build upon in order to become the award winning filmmaker he is today. A heist movie set during the first Gulf War, “Three Kings” starts out as a fun romp of a war movie and then gets surprisingly deep and even more interesting as the movie progresses and it becomes less about the heist and more about what it takes for a person to “do the right thing,” so to speak. Funny, unique, well directed and with an energy all its own, this is a pretty great movie, another fine cinematic entry from the rather amazing year that was 1999, and one that is standing the test of time as we get closer and closer to the twenty year anniversary of this flick being made.Continue Reading …
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In episode 117, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by Chico from Answer Pants (www.RampantRadio.com).
They review Furious 7. t
There’s a new Netflix Pick of the Week, Billy D’s Death at the Movies, and more.
Discussed in this episode:
Deadpool will be rated R.
Groundhog Day the Musical.
1960s Batman Animated Movie.
Batman v Superman trailer rumors.
Eastwood and DiCaprio team up again.
Maybe three more Mad Max movies?Continue Reading …
With “Furious 7” set to come out and smash records this weekend, we the movie going public have witnessed over the years how the “Summer movie season” has steadily crept closer and closer to the beginning of the year, starting earlier each time out.
This will be no more apparent than when “Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice” (what a horrible title) opens in March of next year. But for now, we are sticking with the traditional definition of the Summer movies, which means the first big movie of the season will open, like they do every year, in the first weekend of May.
And that is where we will begin our preview.Continue Reading …
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In this BONUS episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about the movie IT FOLLOWS and do so in depth, with all the deets and spoilers.
So beware of SPOILERS because this is a SPOILER bonus episode full of SPOILERS.Continue Reading …
“Wild Tales” is a fun, crazy, over the top movie about six separate scenarios, short stories involving different characters, none of them related to each other at all save for the fact that each story involves some sort of revenge, usually stemming from very innocuous and seemingly simple actions, all of them building to insane crescendos of some sort of violence.
To go into details about each short story and to give away what happens in each one would do a disservice to you, so there will be a lack of deets here. Suffice to say, these stories involve a strange coincidence on an airplane, a mobster getting dinner at a deserted diner, a bit of road rage, undeserved parking tickets, a family cover-up, and lastly, a wedding party gone horribly wrong. In each story, seemingly normal well-adjusted people are pushed to the edge of civility (sometimes they are shoved, and sometimes it just takes a tiny little nudge), and that thin line that separate people from wild animals often gets blurred, if not outright erased. This is evident with the opening credits, as actors names are shown over images of wild animals, like lambs and foxes – sure we drive cars and exchange pleasantries and observe man-made laws, but in the end, we are all just as wild and unpredictable as any animal in nature.Continue Reading …