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#20 – Florida’s Honey Podcast

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In episode 20, Chris and Drew are joined by Tom the Beer Guy, and they get into the new Netflix Instant Pick of the Week, they recap the Memorial Day weekend box office, Chris and Drew review The Hangover Part III and Furious 6, they take a look at the new movies coming out this week on DVD and in theaters, and then they go into the Crespodome, where Tom reveals his past as a top shelf behind the scene craftsman on television, film and stage productions before his life as a craftsman of delicious beer, and he also takes on Drew in Drewster Cogburn vs the World, and goes through the lightning round, so enjoy this supersized episode of Cinema Crespodiso!

Review: ‘The Hangover Part III’

To be fair there has never been a comedy sequel that improved on the original, so why did any of us expect “The Hangover Part III” to really be all that good, even after ‘The Hangover Part II” kind of let us all down after “The Hangover” kicked everyone’s asses? They ditched the tired conceit of trying to recap their lost night and replaced it with a more straight forward story, and they all ditched the concept of this movie being a comedy and replaced that with a weird thriller involving kidnappings, druggings, murder and prison breaks. Also one of the main characters going off his meds and just being unhinged and wild eyed the entire more. And I’m not talking about Bradley Cooper.

“The Hangover Part III” starts with Alan (Zach Galifianakis, The Campaign) off his meds and causing so much damage that he literally gives his father a heart attack from all the stress, which then leads to his family sending him off to an an institution of some sort to “get better.” His old wolfpack buddies Stu (Ed Helms, Cedar Rapids) and Phil (Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook) agree to accompany Alan and his brother-in-law Doug (Justin Bartha, Gigli) on the long trip to this place. But on the way they are kidnapped by henchmen and tasked with finding Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong, Pain & Gain), who stole millions of dollars from some bad guy named Marshall (John Goodman, Flight), a bad guy who blames the entrance of the cancerous Mr. Chow into his life all to a chance encounter between Alan and Doug the drug dealer (Mike Epps, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction) all the way back in the first movie. So the Wolfpack has to find Mr. Chow and bring him to Marshall, or else Marshall is going to kill Doug, kidnapping him, and again removing the character from the equation once again, because who wants to see Justin Bartha do anything except sit quietly at gunpoint?Continue Reading …

Review: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’

Four years after J.J. Abrams gave us “Star Trek Babies,” he is back with the rip-roaring sequel, “Star Trek Academy: Their First Assignment,” in which the young crew has gotten oh so incrementally older and even less interesting and is forced to face their greatest adversary yet due to the rules of summer blockbuster filmmaking, which state that a second movie in a trilogy must go dark, i.e. “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and the inevitable blood letting that awaits us all in “The Smurfs 2.”Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 5/20/13 – ‘Heathers’

“Heathers” is a like a 1980s John Hughes movie but with the sentimentality replaced with black-as-outer space humor, setting it’s sights on one of the hot button issues of the time, teen suicide, along with general teen malaise, anxiety, depression, loneliness, and all the other things that makes being an alienated and misunderstood teenager in high school so memorable. It’s “The Breakfast Club,” except instead of a character talking about thinking about suicide and the others tell him how wrong that is, we get crazy suicide attempts and killings and cover ups. Ahhhh yes. Good times.

This is one of those movies that bit it hard at the box office, only to find a cult following down the road, and it is available now here on the Netflix Instant for you to check out. And featuring Christian Slater, Winona Ryder and Shannon Doherty actually in their late teens like their characters, this is a heckuva a cynical trip back to late 80s high school culture (and culture in general).Continue Reading …

#19 – Time Flows Backwards

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In episode 19 of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris and Drew and joined by good friend of the show Matty J, and the trio review Star Trek Into Darkness, and they also get into the Netflix Instant Pick of the Week, Drew reviews Jack Reacher on DVD, and they talk about movies turned into failing television shows, boats and hoes and whether or not Drew is a wizard.

There is also a new edition of Drewster Cogburn vs The World, as well as a whole new Lightning Round for Matty J, so check out the movie related talk show podcasting goodness here in episode 19!

Guess what? We’re having twins! A bunch of ’em!

What the hell is going on this year? Look, this has happened in the past, don’t get me wrong. We all remember when “Volcano” and “Dante’s Peak” competed in 1997 for those volcano enthusiast dollars, right? Or when “Armageddon” showed “Deep Impact” what’s up at the box office in 1998? How about that battle of the talking pig movies in 1995 between “Babe” and “Gordy?”

It happens, we get it, every now and then these competing project get made at the same time. Sometimes its even a situation like last year’s double bill of “Lincoln” and “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Sad. But this year, what the hell is going on? 2013 is the year of the creative logjam apparently, too many minds working in the same subconscious soup, extracting the same information at the same time and making the same things, but different.Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 5/15/13 – ‘The Hammer’

Formerly known as “Hamill” (at least that was that title when I saw it at the 2011 Florida Film Festival), “The Hammer” is a movie based on the life of Matt “The Hammer” Hamill, a wrestler and eventual MMA fighter who was born deaf and had to overcome some extra obstacles that not even the average deaf person has to deal with. Continue Reading …

#18 – Coppolas, Baldwins and Sheens oh my!

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In episode 18 of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris and Drew talk about the latest Netflix Instant pick of the week, they review The Great Gatsby during the weekend box office recap, and in the Crespodome they talk about the trailers for Gravity, Inside Llewyn Davis, Captain Phillips, Drew reviews Silver Linings Playbook and Life of Pi, and more!

Additional topics include:

Why didn’t Craig and Smokey sell Craig’s gun in Friday for some quick cash?

Terminator vs. Robocop…vs. Predator?

What the hell is Cherry 2000 and why Weird Science is better.

Are sneak peaks of movies a bad sign?

All this and more in this week’s episode, so check it out!

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Talking Trailers: ‘Gravity’

It has been far too long since the great director Alfonso Cuarón has graced our screens with one of his films – since “Children of Men” way back in 2006 to be exact – and with this short teaser trailer for his new sci fi flick “Gravity,” we finally get just a little taste of what we have been missing this whole time.

Just watch that trailer below and tell me you aren’t intrigued. Can’t be done, because it looks to awesome to not get your attention. And if you are familiar with “Children of Men,” you know that Cuarón favors these impossibly long one-take shots, which he will apparently be pushing even harder in “Gravity,” with rumors of at least one twenty-minute uninterrupted sequence with no cutaways of edits, and since it looks like most of this thing will be taking place in zero Gs in outer space, one can already imagine the drifting, floating, “weightless” camera work that will be employed throughout.Continue Reading …

Talking Trailers: ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

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The Coen Brothers are back at it, this time coming at us with a period piece maybe musical comedy/drama/dramady(?) about a folk singer trying to make it big in 1960s New York City, and since this is from the makers of such films as “Raising Arizona,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou,” “No Country For Old Men,” and “True Grit” among other gems and classics, how can this not shoot up to the top of my must see list of the year? And the same goes for you. You know wanna see this already just based on the pedigree. Well guess what? Now there’s a trailer, t0o.

Oscar Isaac somehow landed the lead role and I am sure it made his day when he got that phone call, and you know what? Based on this trailer, he looks pretty awesome, I like the laconic, laid back look and feel, and actually this trailer is put together pretty well and comes to an interesting climax that really makes me anticipate what happens with this character and how he’s going to actually play out. It’s cool to see the Coens mixing it up with some new people, including the now always reliable Justin Timberlake, of whom they utilized both his acting chops and his musical abilities for the soundtrack. Also working on the movie’s music is T Bone Burnett, and that worked out great for “O Brother, Where Art Thou” so there’s no reason to doubt it will work here.Continue Reading …