“Moonrise Kingdom” is another notch for writer/director Wes Anderson, the 2012 installment of the filmography that sets apart Mr. Anderson from most of his contemporaries and peers, as he has established a consistent style of storytelling and filmmaking that can now be chalked up to the “Wes Anderson” brand, an expected product, a quantifiable property, something that we can actually point to and say, “this, this is what constitutes a Wes Anderson film,” and “Moonrise Kingdom” not only furthers this branding of style, but also works as one of the better films in this oeuvre, a movie which both Wes Anderson fans and non-fans alike will likely enjoy.Continue Reading …
#143 – The Bard’s Burgers
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In episode 143, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by returning guest Anthony The Black Hasselhoff Davis (www.twitter.com/emergecity) from the show FoGetDatYo Radio (www.twitter.com/FoGetDatYo).
Chris and Drew review The Martian and everyone reviews Sicario. Anthony also tells us what he thought of Turbo Kid.
Also discussed in this episode:
NYC Senior Correspondent Billy D reviews “Deathgasm.”
Dr. Drew gives his two cents on upcoming video game releases.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is “Moonrise Kingdom.”
The Crespodisco features two songs from the soundtrack for David Cronenberg’s “The Fly.”Continue Reading …
Review: ‘The Martian’
“The Martian” is a movie about hope and survival, both from the perspective of a lone person and that of an entire community, banding together for a common goal, for a common good. It is not too much to say that this is a movie about the better, more positive aspects of humanity. Instead of focusing on our differences and our foibles, it is a story about setting that all aside to achieve something seemingly impossible. There is no “bad guy,” though there is still plenty of drama. Continuing on in the face of impossible odds and unbelievable circumstances, the power of human connections, this is one of the most positive, life affirming movies to come out this year.
It is the near future, and NASA has already completed a couple of manned missions to Mars, and this story starts with the third mission being scrubbed just a couple of weeks in because of unforseen inclement Martian weather. During the evacuation, botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is lost and presumed dead, as the crew leaves him behind in order to keep all of them from dying as well. But lo, Mark is not dead, but alive. Injured, but alive. He makes his way back to the habitat they have set up and he starts taking steps to stay alive as long as possible until he find a way off the planet, or until a rescue mission can be mounted back on Earth, which would take four years to complete. In the meantime, Mark is all alone on a desolate planet in which nothing grows. And he wants to live. Continue Reading …
Review: ‘Sicario’
“Sicario” sets itself apart from other drug movies by taking such an intense, in your face, this is how it really is approach to the story; this is about the ongoing drug war here in the Americas, where an outrageous demand for an illegal product in one country results in a massive amount of casualties in another, where governments take whatever approach they can to try to minimize the damage, and in which there are people willing to do some very questionable things for an outcome that ultimately may, if they are lucky, only chip away at the overall problem. How far are you willing to go for something you truly believe in? What can you sacrifice, in terms of those you know and even just yourself? Hard questions have hard answers, and sometimes arriving at those answers ends up being worse than simply not knowing. Ignorance is bliss, but it also exacerbates the situation because how can a problem be fixed if one pretends it doesn’t exist?Continue Reading …
Review: ‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’
“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” is the continuing adventures of Thomas and his friends in yet another dystopian future, this time set in a world that appears to have been burned to death by the sun (or what we call, Arizona). Did you want to see another film in which a ruined future is run by an evil entity which can only be brought down by the chosen one and his/her teenage friends, but only after several films which have no endings and instead only cliffhangers to questions no one cares about? Because boy oh boy do we have yet another one of these movies for you.
Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes up to find himself in the hands of an organization hiding away deep in some giant warehouse or mountain or something, and he is reunited with his friends in a facility housing dozens of other teenagers. The one thing all these kids have in common is their immunity to some disease, as well as their dopiness when they blindly believe that this company simply wants to send them to some far away island where they can live out their days in paradise. Doesn’t that sound a lot like when your parents told you that your family pet was sent to a sweet farm upstate? Only Thomas and one other kid seem to question the motives of this company, and they set out to, yes you guessed it, save the day for everyone by exposing the company.Continue Reading …
Crespodiso Film School – Back to the Future
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In this bonus episode of the Crespodiso Film School, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about the entire Back to the Future trilogy.
Joining them is returning guest Pedro Lima (www.twitter.com/ricangorilla), who explains his own personal connection to Back to the Future Part II.
Chris talks about how the idea came to be, how the initial movie got made, and how the sequels were made.
They all talk about the legacy of Back to the Future.
Enjoy the show and who knows, maybe you’ll even learn something!Continue Reading …
Review: ‘Grandma’
“Grandma” is the rare kind of movie, a film in which the lead character is a woman “of a certain age,” which is refreshing and wonderful because of the well documented plight of actresses in Hollywood and movies at large and how hard it is for women to get decent roles in good movies which amount to more than just “wife” or “girlfriend” or “prostitute.” Now of course this is a low budget film made outside of the system, but naturally often times the system must be fought from the outside, and this movie is a noble blow in that fight. Funny and heartfelt, this is exactly the kind of indie festival darling that has the power to break out and be seen by more people than expected, and deservedly so.
Widowed poet Elle (Lily Tomlin) starts her day by breaking up with her girlfriend of four months Olivia (Judy Greer) because Elle is incapable of saying whether or not she loves her, driving Olivia away, and before she can even recover from this trauma, she gets another surprise – her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) shows up on her door asking for $630 so Sage can pay for an abortion later that evening. As Elle is broke and has no credit cards, she agrees to help Sage raise the money. And from there they go around town, visiting friends and acquaintances from whom they might be able to get the money they need. Meanwhile they naturally learn a little bit about each other and themselves along the way.Continue Reading …
Review: ‘Everest’
“Everest” is based on a true story of a mountain climbing expedition in the summer of 1996 that went very wrong, mostly because a storm came through that just kind of ruined everyone’s day, some more so than others, but of course this isn’t just a movie about the trevails and spiritual rewards of mountain climbing but instead is a story of survival, perseverance and personal sacrifice, as well as the possibly high cost of human hubris.
New Zealander Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) is a pioneer in the mountain climbing world, as he took the previously impossible task of scaling Mount Everest and turned it into a full on enterprise, as people paid him tens of thousands per person to guide him to the top and back down Mount Everest. He started yearly expeditions, training amateur climbers over the course of several weeks to summit the world’s highest mountain, and it didn’t take long for other professional climbers to copy this business model, to the point in which the mountain was overrun by competing expedition teams in 1996, all of them jockeying for time on the mountain, causing massive delays in each other’s trips, and helping to exacerbate problems that would prove both burdensome and deadly at the most inopportune times.Continue Reading …
Netflix pick for 9/28/2015 – ‘First Blood’
When people think of Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo, they usually think of the cartoonish version of the character, all glistening muscles and sneering and shooting machine guns at people who are all different races than he is, this is the Rambo we all know, so it might surprise a few people out there to find out that Rambo started out as a much more low-key and nuanced character, much more real and grounded in the post Vietnam reality that was known as the late 70’s and early 80’s, and in the movie “First Blood” we have a Rambo who is just tired of being pushed around in a country he fought for and watched friends die for, a man who wants to live a normal life. But how can one live a “normal” life when they learn that they are at their best when they are hunting and killing other people?Continue Reading …
#142 – Slowly Sinister, Twisted
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In episode 142, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by three-time guest Chico (www.twitter.com/thisischico) from the recently ended show Answer Pants (www.twitter.com/Answer_Pants).
Chris and Drew review Everest and Turbo Kid and Chris reviews Grandma. Chico is surprised that Lily Tomlin is still alive.
Also discussed in this episode:
NYC Senior Correspondent Billy D reviews “The Green Inferno.”
Dr. Drew gives his two cents on tonight’s Super Blood Moon.
The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is “First Blood.”
The Crespodisco features one song from the Turbo Kid soundtrack.Continue Reading …
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