A weekly talk show hosted by film critic Christopher Crespo
In episode 586, Chris and Drew do the thing and Chris reviews The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, as well as Florida Film Festival movies New Life and Sleep, and they talk about Fallout, Shogun, X-Men ’97, World War II documentaries, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, roller coaster thrillers, nepo baby actors and directors, Al Pacino as an exorcist, Furiosa’s 15-minute action sequence, and much more!
In episode 585, Chris and Drew do the thing and Chris reviews Civil War, as well as the Florida Film Festival movies Water For Life, Secret Mall Apartment, The Way We Speak, Booger, and Paradise, plus they talk about X-Men ’97, 3 Body Problem, The Sympathizer, Fallout, Ninja Kamui, Scary Movie 6, Now You See Me 3, Sonic 3, the Chris Farley biopic, Edgar Wright’s remake of The Running Man, and much more!
Twelve years in the making, Water for Life features three Latin American community leaders working to protect their water and ancestral territory from multinational corporations and corrupt governments that threaten the environmental, cultural and economic survival of their communities. Narrated by Diego Luna, Water For Life will have its Orlando premiere at the Florida Film Festival on Sunday April 14, and will screen again during the festival on Friday, April 18. In this interview with producer and director Will Parrinello, he discusses how he chose these three leaders to feature in the film, the process of making this film, and his hopes for what the movie can accomplish in terms of spreading awareness of these environmental battles and the people caught up in these fights.
Chris Crespo: What was the process of choosing these three people as your main subjects to tackle this issue of water use and land rights throughout Latin America? Did you initially want to make a documentary about this problem, or did you find out about the individuals first and then learned about their cause?
Will Parrinello: As independent documentary filmmakers, director of photography Vicente Franco and I have been making short documentary profiles of Goldman Environmental Prize recipients throughout Latin America since 2009. Each year the Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of the environmental world, recognizes six grassroots environmental defenders from around the world who have achieved a seemingly unachievable goal. I wanted to make this film because I found these stories to be incredibly inspiring. At a time when we face numerous environmental challenges, many which seem insurmountable, here are stories of individuals who are courageously standing up, speaking truth to power and creating positive change in the world! Continue Reading …
In episode 584, Chris and Drew do the thing and Chris reviews Monkey Man and Wrestlemania 40, and they discuss Shogun, Tokyo Vice, X-Men ’97, Three Body problem, Mel Gibson’s career, Amy Adams’ Nightbitch, the Monopoly movie, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, Fallout, and much more!
In episode 583, Chris and Drew do the thing and Chris reviews Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Immaculate, and Anatomy of a Fall, and Drew reviews X-Men ’97, and they discuss Shogun, Tokyo Vice, favorite Louis Gossett Jr. roles, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Ang Lee’s repudiation of 3D filmmaking, Anya Taylor Joy’s secret vampire wedding, and much more!
In episode 582, Chris and Drew do the thing and Chris reviews Late Night With The Devil and they both review Road House, and they talk about Quiet on the Set, Tokyo Vice, Shogun, X-Men ’97, Physical: 100, Neon’s genius marketing for Immaculate, sequels and remakes no one asked for, jukebox musicals, the irony of The Walking Dead refusing to go away, and much more!
In episode 581, Chris and Drew do the thing and Chris reviews Love Lies Bleeding, Drew reviews Netflix’s The Gentlemen, and they talk about Dune Part Two, Dream Scenario, Rock the Block, Leprechaun, Ozempic face, contrition versus denial, Mike Tyson, Harry Hole, the Staten Island Pizza Wars of the 20th Century, insurance fraud, and much more!
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“Chris and Drew talk about Spider-Man: Far From Home, and they get into all the details and spoilers about who lives, who dies, all the twists and turns and what not, plus they talk about the two post credits scenes and what they could possibly mean for the future of the MCU. Enjoy!”
Originally Released July 4, 2019
In episode 580, Chris and Drew do the thing and Drew reviews Poor Things and Chris talks about the Oscars, and they also talk about news out of SXSW, A24’s IMAX plans, Billy Baldwin and Sharon Stone, The Batman 2, Venom 3, Peacemaker season 2, and much more!
In episode 579, Chris and Drew do the thing and review Dune Part Two, and they also use their Eyes of Ibad to make their 2024 Oscar picks!