A weekly talk show hosted by film critic Christopher Crespo
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In this bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and everything that happens in it. They both have stuff they liked and didn’t like, and they try to make sense of it all.
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In this BONUS episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn ramble about their earliest movie memories, plus whatever else bubbles up to the rambling surface.
What are the first movies they remember seeing? What are their first movie theater memories? Did they ever skip school to see a movie growing up? What movie scared them the most?
And so on and so forth. You get it. Movie memories.
Email us with your movie memories at CinemaCrespodiso@gmail.com!
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In episode 167, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by first time guest Samantha Haar (www.twitter.com/iamThatSam) from A Mediocre Time With Tom And Dan.
Chris and Drew review Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is The Master.
Billy D reviews Daredevil Season 2, The Expanse Season 1 and a PC video game that is like “Doom on crystal meth.”
Dr. Drew gives his two cents on taking vacations.
The Crespodisco features a song from the soundtrack for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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In this SPOILER FILLED bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about 10 Cloverfield Lane and everything that happens within it.
So this means SPOILERS ABOUND, because that is the whole point of doing these spoiler bonus episodes. Chris and Drew talk about what really happens in this story, what the big reveal is at the end, and they talk about what they did and did not like about it.
Enjoy the bonus show!
“The Brothers Grimsby” ended up being one of those movies that I did not like nearly as much as I wanted to like it going in. Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedy force unto himself, and he has a specific style of using idiocy to make some great points, to use jocularity to approach difficult subjects, but unfortunately there does seem to be something in the way of diminishing returns when it comes to his movies. And at the most recent and lowest end of this spectrum is his latest, an action comedy which would have fit right in with 2015’s glut of spy-related movies.
Cohen is Nobby Butcher, a welfare cheat and soccer hooligan living with nine children and his girlfriend (Rebel Wilson) in the small town of Grimsby, where he was born and raised. For 28 years, Nobby has been separated from his younger brother Sebastian due to the foster care system, but Nobby becomes reunited with his brother (Mark Strong), who now happens to be one of MI6’s top secret agents. Nobby immediately and predictably screws things up for Sebastian, and the two of them have to go on the run from MI6 in order to clear their names and also to save the world or something. You know, generic spy movie stuff.
As heard in episode 166 of Cinema Crespodiso.
Who is Dock Ellis? “No No: A Dockumentary” tells us everything we need to know about the fella known as the “Muhammad Ali of Baseball,” what he did that was so special and why he should be remembered as one of the more important figures of 20th Century American sports.
Pitching in the major leagues from 1968 through 1979, Dock Ellis is best known athletically for a no-hitter he threw in 1970, an already rare feat indeed, made even more rare by him being very candid and open about the fact that he pitched this particular game while tripping on LSD. While this is a shocking admission, it also should not come as any surprise to any baseball fans, who should know that all of their favorite players for DECADES have been performing their duties while under the influence of something. LSD is a little extreme, but ballplayers have been playing while hungover, if not outright drunk, since the sport was invented, this particular documentary about Dock Ellis gets into the “greenies” which were given out by doctors and trainers to everyone for years and years (they were nothing more than amphetamines), players hit the field ripped on cocaine throughout the 80s, and steroids caused a big scandal in the late 1990s and early 2000s but if you don’t think athletes were using ‘roids in the 70s and 80s when it was perfectly legal and not looked down upon at all, then I got an Asgardian bridge to sell you.
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In episode 166, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by returning guest, from SBK Live, Matty Ice aka Matt Was Cabin (www.twitter.com/mattiscabin).
Chris and Drew review 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Brothers Grimsby.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is No No: A Documentary.
Billy D reviews The Last Winter.
Dr. Drew gives his two cents on reading more books.
The Crespodisco features the main theme from 10 Cloverfield Lane.
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In this bonus episode, Chris Crespo does some more basic rambling, but this time guided by the music as well as the randomness of fate and “shuffle.”
According to producer JJ Abrams, “10 Cloverfield Lane” is not a direct sequel to the 2008 found footage monster movie called “Cloverfield,” but instead is hopefully the beginning of a series of movies that will fall under a Cloverfield-themed banner, essentially an anthology of genre movies that will be similar in spirit and tone to each other but will be different stories going in different directions. Like “The Twilight Zone” or “Tales From The Crypt,” the word Cloverfield will theoretically start to mean something more to people than just “giant monster.” And with “10 Cloverfield Lane,” it appears that they have started this journey of a thousand miles with the proper first steps.
The cool thing about “10 Cloverfield Lane” is how the story and plot are both quite small and contained to a single set and only a few characters, but the scope of the movie ends up being pretty epic. It’s actually a great example of how a movie can give an audience just enough so that they can make bigger leaps with their imaginations, wondering how the details provided actually continue to extend throughout this world logically. We don’t need to actually see the full picture, just give a few smartly chosen details and let the audience do the rest.
“London Has Fallen” is one of the worst kind of action movies, which is that it is the kind of film that wants to mine real world politics in the name of action and suspense, and it does so without any nuance or actual thought being put into the situation they are exploiting, and as a result ends up being a gross reinforcement of outmoded stereotypes used to maintain a constant sense of general Fear and Loathing. What’s worse is that this particular movie pays a little bit of lip service to idea that maybe Western governments bring a lot of this violence on themselves, but that is all negated anyway with a couple awkward lines of dialogue and a specific character detail.
Basically this movie did start out with the balls to show an American drone strike at a wedding, something that does happen all the time in the Middle East, as drones are used to blow up all manner of gatherings of people as long as there is just a slight possibility of them killing an actual terrorist. And it would have been kind of amazing if the “bad guy” in the movie was indeed wrongly targeted, but they made sure to let us know the main baddie behind the whole crazy terrorist plan in the story is an arms dealer, providing weaponry for all sorts of armed conflicts around the world, making money on the backs of the dead. He does get to point out that this is the same thing the US government does, and they just don’t happen to like the people he sells weapons to, and this is a valid point after all, the ridiculous hypocrisy of selling weapons to some groups of people and labeling other groups as terrorists for doing the same thing. But just saying this isn’t enough, this guy is bad this movie tells us and despite the collateral damage killing him is a worthy cause.