A weekly talk show hosted by film critic Christopher Crespo
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In episode 195, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn review Train to Busan.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is High Rise.
Billy D reviews Luke Cage.
Dr. Drew gives his two cents on the worth of having an enemy.
The Crespodisco features a song from the soundtrack for The Social Network and one from Fight Club.
To be honest I thought we had hit peak zombie interest around 2008 and 2009, as pop culture’s fascination with the stumbling, bumbling, and sometimes running, brain munching undead and that the genre would be dying down for awhile as everyone moved on to the next thing. And then the long running comic book series The Walking Dead got turned into the AMC series “The Walking Dead” in 2010 and now it seems like these damn zombies are gonna be around for much longer than I originally thought. What a shock. I was wrong about something.
Again.
So now in 2016, what makes a zombie movie worthwhile? What can be done with the genre? “Train to Busan” answers these questions by setting up its own rules for their undead, coming up with distinct characters with clearly defined motivations for what they do, and finding a new setting for this type of story, in this case, on a South Korean bullet train during the morning commute right at the very beginning of a cataclysmic outbreak.Continue Reading …
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In this third Talking TV bonus episode of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about the numerous television shows they have watched in the past few months, and BEWARE OF SPOILERS for each show!
Progams discussed in this episode:
Better Call Saul – Season 2
Fargo – Season 2
Game of Thrones – Season 6
Stranger Things – Season 1
O.J.: Made In America
BoJack Horseman – Season 3Continue Reading …
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In episode 194, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are in it to win it.
Chris and Drew review The Magnificent Seven.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Spotlight.
Billy D reviews Imperium and Rob Zombie’s 31.
Dr. Drew gives his two cents on a Douglas Adams quote from No Man’s Sky.
The Crespodisco features the original theme song for The Magnificent Seven and a song from Seven Samurai.
“Point Break” is a weird movie about a straight out of the 1990’s “extreme athlete” dude bro turned FBI Agent-in-Training who uses his extreme athlete knowledge to track down and infiltrate a group of daredevil eco-terrorists. Fortunately for him these guys are also a bunch of dude bros, and they even have a pretentious faux hippie chick to round out their general awfulness as people, so he fits right in. Soon enough his allegiances are called into question and he has to decide whether or not to help his new friends or do his duty for the FBI om my god who are we kidding of course he keeps working for the FBI and tries to bring down these bad guys because they are a bunch of a mantra spouting, Earth loving, offering giving, douche bag bad guys.
The movie starts with super dope extreme athlete Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) and one of his best bros riding dirt bikes on some perilous looking cliffs, and Johnny is all like “It’s okay, bro, follow my line” and they embrace and we’ve all seen movies before so we know right away that this bro is gonna be dead and yup there he goes off the edge of a cliff.Continue Reading …
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In this spoiler-filled BONUS episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk all about the brand new BLAIR WITCH, and they get into all the details and spoilers, so BEWARE OF SPOILERS because THERE BE SPOILERS HERE about what happens in the movie BLAIR WITCH.
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Enjoy the show.
As heard in episode 193 of Cinema Crespodiso.
By 1984, Eddie Murphy was already extremely popular, having been credited with saving the then-fledgling Saturday Night Live television program and having appeared in prominent co-starring roles alongside Nick Nolte in “48 Hrs.” and Dan Ackroyd in “Trading Places,” but when one of the most popular R-rated movies of all time came out called “Beverly Hills Cop,” Murphy was elevated instantly to worldwide mega star.
Everyone loved this action-comedy tale of Detroit PD Detective Axel Foley going to Beverly Hills, California to track down the people who murdered his friend, and ruffling many uptight feathers along the way to our collective delight. It became the highest grossing movie of 1984, and remained the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time until “The Matrix Reloaded” came out almost twenty years later. And it is launched two sequels and a plethora of Eddie Murphy movies for years to come.
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In episode 193, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are in it to win it.
Chris reviews Snowden and Chris and Drew review Blair Witch.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Beverly Hills Cop.
Billy D reviews Invoked and The Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The Crespodisco features two songs from the Snowden soundtrack.
“Blair Witch” is a sequel to one of the breakout horror hits of 1999, “The Blair Witch Project,” the super low budget movie that popularized the “found footage” genre, which unfortunately persists to this day. So if we are going to get another found footage horror movie set in the woods, might as well go back to the original and pay respect by just coming up with a sequel that builds off the mythology of the first in interesting albeit confounding ways.
(As “Blair Witch” chooses to totally ignore “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2,” then we shall as well.)
James (James Allen McCune) sees a YouTube video that claims to be more found footage from the Burkittsville, Maryland woods in which people have reported strange things for years, and which is the same woods that a trio of documentary filmmakers became lost forever, the footage of their horrors and tribulations being found by someone and coldly edited together and released as a movie (as the conceit of these films would lead you to believe if you follow them to their logical conclusions).Continue Reading …
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In this bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn catch up on the news stories of the week. This includes:
Peter Berg wants to make The Rundown 2.
Mr. Sinister will be the villain in Wolverine 3.
FOX is making a weird Stan Lee movie.
Denis Villeneuve on making Blade Runner 2 and his dream sci-fi project.
J.A. Bayona talks Jurassic World 2 and Chris and Drew posit where Jurassic World 3 will go.
One of the guys who made Sausage Party signed up for the remake of The Toxic Avenger.
Benecio Del Toro to star in The Predator.
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