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‘Really Good Friends’ – An Interview with Adam Sekuler

Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker and educator based out of Detroit, and his short film “Really Good Friends” will be screening twice at the 2023 Florida Film Festival. In this quick interview, I ask him about how he came to this particular short film subject, and what his hopes are for the lifespan of this short and its abilities to be seen by larger audiences down the road.Continue Reading …

2022 Florida Film Festival Movie Reviews

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In this bonus episode, we take our 2022 Florida Film Festival movie reviews from episodes 483 and 484 and put them all together here, so listen to this show for reviews of Hatching, Poser, The Sun Rises in the East, Resurrection, Ali & Ava, and more!

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Dune, the Anti-Blockbuster & the Chosen One Myth

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.” – Princess Irulan, “Muad’Dib: Family Commentaries”

“It’s one thing to think that you’re the center of the universe — it’s another thing entirely to have this confirmed by an ancient prophecy.” – Douglas Adams

“Well that’s just your opinion, man.” – Jeff Lebowski

What makes Dune an anti-blockbuster? Continue Reading …

WarnerMedia, HBO Max & The Future of Movie Theaters

“The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” ― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (2003)

“’All we are is dust in the wind,’ dude.” – Ted Theodore Logan

Make no mistake, when corporations do battle, we ultimately lose. Is that a little intense? Let’s back up a bit. Multinational telecom media giant AT&T Inc., which owns WarnerMedia, made a big decision to simultaneously release their 2021 movie slate both in theaters and on HBO Max, their supposedly “fledgling” subscription service, much to the chagrin of said theaters. Why does this make theaters mad?

Continue Reading at https://www.patreon.com/posts/warnermedia-hbo-44664710

#397 – The Second Transubstantiation

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In episode 397, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn do the thing review Project Power!

Chris reviews Drought, Current Sea, The Outside Story, The Swerve, and For Walter and Josiah from the virtual Florida Film Festival 2020.

Also discussed: Muppets Now, Perry Mason, and Harley Quinn season 2 on HBO Max, Shaft (2019), World’s Most Wanted and Tread on Netflix, Night City Wire on YouTube, and much more!

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#327 – Scrambled Egg Hunt

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In episode 327, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by Steve Etchie!

Chris and Drew review Hellboy.

Chris reviews Dons of Disco, One Child Nation and Amazing Grace, all seen at the start of the 2019 Florida Film Festival. Drew watched The Expanse season 2 and Guava Island and Steve is rewatching Friends.

Also discussed: Deets on Disney Plus and Galaxy’s Edge.

Bonus Episode – Florida Film Festival 2018

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In this bonus episode, Chris Crespo tells Drewster Cogburn about the movies he saw at the 2018 Florida Film Festival:

40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie

Dark Money

The Power of Glove

The Guilty

Borg McEnroe

Hearts Beat Loud

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

Bonus Episode – FFF 2017 Recap (plus movie news)

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In this bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn go over the (regrettably) little bit of Florida Film Festival 2017 that they were able to attend, and then they go through a few quick movie news stories that Chris wanted to share with Drew since he missed episode 225.

Movies discussed in this episode: Clean Hands (short film), The Christmas Light Killer (short film), Rat Film (documentary), Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape, and the very different thrillers 68 Kill and Buster’s Mal Heart.

News stories discussed in this episode: The Knick won’t get a season 3, Glass is coming January 2019, get ready for X-Men: Dark Phoenix – The Do Over, and Katherine Heigl calls out Steven Seagal for being creepy on the set of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.

Op-ed: The Five Best Years in Cinema

Well so far 2016 hasn’t much to write home about, if one was in the habit of writing what would presumably be emails or maybe hand written letters, does anyone do that anymore, and while the year is not over, it does not look like 2016 will really be one to remember.

While excellent movies do come out every year, there are some years here and there that feel kind of weak when you look back on them and see that there wasn’t many inspiring films released in that particular span of 12 months (read: 2016). But then there are some years when it feels like the cinematic stars have all aligned in the heavens in such a way that there is an embarrassment of riches in the theaters, more films of superior quality than you can shake a stick at.Continue Reading …