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In this bonus episode of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris and Drewster give their picks for the 85th Academy awards, and then play a little game at the end of the episode to help even the playing field. Dig it!
The 85th Academy Awards are here (though apparently the Academy wants to just call it The Oscars this year) and what’s more thrilling than compiling a scorecard of all the categories and trying to pick the winners ahead of time? Answer: everything. But because it IS that time of year and because keeping track of these things does manage to make the actual show itself more entertaining, here are some predictions for this year’s 85th Acada- uh…the Oscars.Continue Reading …
“Sound of My Voice” is a very low-budget psychological thriller from 2011, and much like “Another Earth,” it is an admirable attempt at a genre picture, featuring some interesting ideas, but ultimately hollow due to insistence on ambiguity for the sake of being ambiguous. A great premise is introduced, some character drama happens in the interim, and then BAM! an ambiguous and unsupported ending, used in an unfortunate attempt at profundity and lacking any real dramatic punch because really the movie refuses to come out and say anything.
The movie starts with Peter and Lorna infiltrating a very small but elaborate cult, based on all the bathing and sanitizing and secrecy, and apparently by the time the movie begins they have already made significant headway into the cult, established by the fact that they know some ridiculous and elaborate secret handshake that allows them ultimate access to the cult leader, Maggie, a young woman who claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2054, and who has come back to gather disciples to form sort of army for some future civil war or something like that. She’s all quietly charismatic and is introduced with an oxygen tank, showing she is ill, and she guides her news disciples through a series of exercises, and the whole while Peter and Lorna are there trying to suss her out and see what’s up.Continue Reading …
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The street team has been hard at work, and here is another collection of pictures from around the globe, showing off the many places Cinema Crespodiso has invaded, conquering eyeballs and earholes with stickers and podcasts.
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This is what we were all afraid of, this is the exact thing that everyone doesn’t want to see happen, yet here it is, it has happened, it is in our face and all we can do is take it because we are all suckers. When people turned out in droves for the summer blockbuster, PG-13 rated and preposterously titled “Live Free or Die Hard,” certain people’s eyes lit up, as they saw they could still squeeze quite a bit of money out everyone’s favorite New York City detective perpetually in the wrong places at the wrong times. So here is some more squeezing, this time an R-rated non-blockbuster but still a new “Die Hard” movie, still featuring an ever-aging Bruce Willis, and still getting worse than ever as a franchise.Continue Reading …
“Biutiful” is a 2010 Spanish-language drama from the director of “Amores Perros” and “Babel,” featuring an incredible performance from Javier Bardem that is pretty much worth the price of admission alone. It’s a grim and heavy movie about death and dying, as Bardem plays a guy dying of cancer and who is faced with the near inevitable fact that he will be leaving his young children with no money and a lousy mother, so he tries to hustle and use his weird psychic ability to make some extra cash at funerals and maybe do some illicit things that he shouldn’t be doing but feels like he has no choice because he doesn’t want to leave his kids with nothing. It’s not a fun viewing experience, but it is an emotionally charged experience and pretty satisfying.
Conceived and shepherded by much acclaimed writer Paddy Chayefsky, “The Hospital” is a 1971 satirical black comedy about a lost and suicidal doctor, played by George C. Scott, who laments the deplorable conditions of his hospital and who finds himself butting up against more and more health insurance related garbage, when all of a sudden people start turning up dead all around the hospital, including nurses and doctors, which of course complicates matters further. Naturally this is where they inserted a dame into the equation, here the daughter of a patient, played by Diana Rigg, and the pot is now a-boilin’.
Since it’s Chayefsky, this movie is loaded with great rants and speeches and monologues, and of course Mr. Scott brought all the sound and fury necessary for the role, and Chayefsky won an Academy Award for best screenplay for this movie, so there’s that.Continue Reading …
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Episode six of “Cinema Crespodiso” features special guest Johnny the Hater joining Chris and Drew as they discuss the happenings in the movie world! In this episode: a new Netflix Instant Pick of the Week, reviews of A Good Day to Die Hard and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, movies that make them cry, their favorite bad movies, and so much, so enjoy the show cause it gets wild! And find out what Johnny the Hater actually likes! All of this in this new episode of Cinema Crespodiso!
“Identity Thief” is the new comedy from Seth Gordon, who made the great documentary “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” as well as the rather funny comedy “Horrible Bosses,” but I do fear that this current movie we have here about a woman who steals a man’s personal information in order to run up ridiculous credit charges and bills only to have that man track her down as a form of a generic everyman justice is much closer to Mr. Gordon’s “Four Christmases,” a rather lackluster and unfunny Christmas comedy that everyone has all but forgotten by this point. Except Vince Vaughn. Surely it keeps him up at night, haunting him.Continue Reading …
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Episode Five of Cinema Crespodiso features reviews of Identity Thief, Side Effects and End of Watch, plus a book review, questions from listeners, a break in the Crespodisco, and whole new Netflix Instant Pick of the Week, picked on the spot thanks to the Crespo Randomizer. Host Chris Crespo navigates through the Crespodome, in which Chris and Drew discuss their favorite romantic movies for Valentine’s Day, movies in which the hero dies at the end, and whether or not Disney is over saturating the Star Wars movie market. It’s chock full of good times, so get down with your bad self and enjoy!