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#192 – Little Blue Marble

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In episode 192, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by no one but that’s okay because they got plenty to talk about.

Chris reviews Sully.

The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World.

Billy D reviews nothing because he is in Canada and they have yet to perfect email technology apparently.

The Crespodisco features a Clint Eastwood written and performed song from the American Sniper soundtrack and the End Credits music from Creed to help pump things up.

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Review: ‘Sully’

sully-posterBefore we get started, look at that “Sully” poster there, the one featuring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the experienced airline pilot who successfully landed a jetliner on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. Why is he simply adjusting his collar and looking pensively to his side while standing presumably on the wing of his plane as it sits on the river, the barely-above-freezing water up to his waist? What kind of shot is this? Who thought this was the image to sell this movie? “Look at our hero pilot, half submerged yet totally fine, barely noticing the obviously oncoming hypothermia and totally ignoring the crash landed and partially sunken plane on which he stands. Isn’t this intriguing?” No, it is perplexing. What marketing department fixed this one up and which head honcho looked at it and said “yes, this is exactly how we sell this thing, put it out there now” because this is a bunch of dumb bullshit.

Okay, I feel a little better.

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Spillover Bonus Episode – News and Views

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In this bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn catch up on the news stories of the week. This includes:

A Mythbusters spin-off show is coming to Netflix.

The Crow reboot scheduled to start filming in January 2017.

Young Frankenstein playing in theaters for one night only.

The Tucc is Loose!

Godzilla Resurgence is coming to America for one week only.

Will Daniel Craig come back for more Bond movies?

Shanghai Dawn is a thing and it is coming.

The next three Stan Lee cameos have been filmed.Continue Reading …

Netflix pick for 9/5/16 – ‘Big Trouble In Little China’

BigTroubleInLittleChina_PosterAs heard in episode 191 of Cinema Crespodiso.

“Big Trouble In Little China” is a crazy 1986 fantasy action movie that takes place in the insane underworld of San Francisco’s Chinatown, which includes magic, monsters, battles of energy and light beams and just general nuttiness. The fact that this is directed by John Carpenter and stars Kurt Russell makes it all that much better.

Initially conceived as a Western by the original screenwriters and then updated to a modern setting by a mandate from 20th Century Fox, John Carpenter was eventually brought on as a hired gun director due to his ability to work quickly, coming from the low budget indie movie world. Carpenter, for his part, saw a chance to take $25 million studio dollars and use it to make a martial arts movie, something he wanted to check off his bucket list. All of these decisions resulted in a film that was rushed into production (in order to beat “The Golden Child” to theaters) and left critics divided and audiences underwhelmed, and Fox lost money and Carpenter became disillusioned with the whole studio movie making system.Continue Reading …

#191 – Cold On Site

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In episode 191, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by returning guest and friend of the show Steve Etchie, founder and leader of the Pfft Radio Network, home of shows Tidbits and the What’s The Fuss? podcast.

Chris and Drew review Morgan, Chris reviews The Light Between Oceans and Drew reviews Don’t Breathe.

The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Big Trouble in Little China.

Billy D reviews All Good Things.

The Crespodisco features a song from the soundtrack for Kubo and the Two Strings and The Light Between Oceans.

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Spillover Bonus Episode – News You Can Use

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In this BONUS episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about:

– Drew’s trip to NYC and the Prophets of Rage show in Brooklyn

– RIP Gene Wilder

– Casting Kurt Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was Chris Pratt’s idea

– Captain America 3 almost featured “zombies”…sort of

– Ryan Reynolds paid for the Deadpool writers to be on set when FOX would not

– Deathstroke will be in Justice League and probably The Batman

– Terminator 2 getting a 3D re-release in 2017

– A Star Trek themed beer? Drew has no interest whatsoever.

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Netflix pick for 8/29/16 – ‘Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’

dirtymarycrazylarryAs heard in episode 190 of Cinema Crespodiso.

From 1974, “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” is in that genre of car chase movies that were all the rage in the 1970’s, a genre that Quentin Tarantino himself played in relatively recently with “Death Proof,” and it features a supremely charismatic Peter Fonda as a getaway driver in a heist gone right, save for the part where they get away clean. Playing Larry, the aspiring (and crazy) NASCAR driver, he orchestrates a robbery of a supermarket with his engineer buddy, but when they try to get away they find they have a new partner in crime, (presumably dirty) Mary, played by Susan George, and you may be asking well who the hell is Mary and I am here to tell you that Mary is Larry’s one-night stand from the night before and he was just gonna dip out on her but she tracked him down and decided she was going to stick around.

So they try to ditch her and she proves very resilient. Meanwhile, the cops are getting closer and closer to them, and their window for a clean getaway gets smaller and smaller.Continue Reading …

#190 – The Time Before The Oceans

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In episode 189, Chris Crespo reviews Don’t Breathe and Kubo and the Two Strings.

The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

Billy D reviews TUSK and WE ARE STILL HERE.

The Crespodisco features a cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps from the soundtrack for Kubo and the Two Strings.

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Review: ‘Don’t Breathe’

DontBreathe_MoviePoster“Don’t Breathe” is a horror movie that is mostly about suspense and tension, as a group of teenage delinquents in economically depressed Detroit decide to break into a blind man’s house in order to steal some money they believe he has, but the old blind man is an Army veteran and can take care of himself, which he does when he discovers the intruders, killing one almost instantly, and spending the rest of the movie hunting down the other two within the confines of his house. The robbers soon discover that this old loner has some secrets which he is determined to keep within the house, and he can’t let any of them get out, which means they have to get out of his house before he can kill them. The stakes don’t get much higher than that.

The only real problem I had with this movie is how the lead characters all suck, as in, they are shitty people. Much like the recent “Hell or High Water” or other fairly recent movies like “99 Homes” and “The Big Short” and “Take Shelter,” this is a movie that takes place in post-recession America, with the ultimate evil forces at play being the destroyed economy and the lack of opportunity for people left in the wake of this destruction. It is a tough road when you have a lead character that sets out to hurt others in some way just so they can get ahead, even if their reasoning is ultimately righteous. In “Don’t Breathe,” one of the three robbers in the movie is given the obligatory family-member-needs-them burden, which is shown and explained in one scene, so while this is the character’s motivation, it still feels like something thrown in just to try to justify this character’s shitty decisions.Continue Reading …

Review: ‘Hell or High Water’

HellOrHighWater_MoviePoster“Hell or High Water” is a modern western, a story about cops and robbers, set in dusty West Texas, featuring bank robberies and shoot outs and Mexican stand offs, and the “updated setting coupled with classic motifs” gambit often pays off in artistic endeavors, this being one of those times. But additionally, this movie fits another genre, one that sprang from the murky mess of the 2007-2008 housing market crash which catapulted the world into a global recession and saw the concept of The American Dream finally popped and deflated, and that’s the genre in which honest and good people find their lives on the edge of complete ruin thanks to believing in a system that failed them, with the ultimate “bad guys” being banks or bankers or anyone callous enough to be rich and openly uncaring during a time of great strife for many other people, you know, folks inflicted with “Scrooge McDuckitis.”

In “Hell or High Water,” Toby Howard (Chris Pine) is the kind of anti-hero seen in these types of movies, the ones that explore how the American Dream turned into a Waking Nightmare. When we meet Toby, he has already crossed that line, having decided to stage a series of small bank robberies in order to raise enough money to save their family farm from mortgage foreclosure. As if that’s not enough motivation, Tony also has children with his now-divorced wife and he’s determined not to let them continue down the path of poverty that afflicted his family for generations. Toby wants to secure his home and a future for his family. He’s a good dude. That’s what we are supposed to notice when we see him walk into a bank with a mask and a gun and demand money from the frightened tellers.Continue Reading …

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