“Beasts of the Southern Wild” is a fantastic movie, the feature-length debut of young filmmaker Benh Zeitlin, made in part with his New Orleans-based film group Court 13 Pictures, and…
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Spillover Bonus Episode – Extra! Extra!
In this spillover movie news bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about: – Sausage Party animators claim poor work conditions. – John Williams officially signed on to score…
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Review: ‘Battleship’
Let’s get this out of the way, right up front: we all know “Battleship” is preposterously based on a plotless, characterless board game that involves yelling out random letters and…
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Review: ‘Apollo 18’
The “found footage” mockumentary genre has been going surprisingly strong since “The Blair Witch Project” popularized the filmmaking style in the 1990’s, and it was only a matter of time…
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Netflix pick for 8/15/16 – ‘The Princess Bride’
As heard in episode 188 of Cinema Crespodiso. “The Princess Bride” is a romantic fantasy comedy action drama from 1987 and if that makes your head spin, it should. In…
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#188 – Rational Satanism
In episode 188, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by first time guest and friend of the show Gabe (www.twitter.com/RageAgainstTwit). Chris, Drew and Gabe review Sausage Party and Pete’s…
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Review: ‘Sausage Party’
“Sausage Party” is the story of how a fella named Frank goes on a journey of discovery, as he always “knew” one truth about The Great Beyond but then suddenly was…
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Review: ‘Pete’s Dragon’
“Pete’s Dragon” is the surprisingly sad story of a young boy who lives in the forest with a big green dragon, and it would have been a fun and light…
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Review: ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is the third of four (and soon to be five) mega opuses from Michael Bay about two races of sentient machine-based alien life forms who can…
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Review: ‘Another Earth’
“Another Earth” is one of those little indie films that comes out of the film festival circuit with lots of buzz and good will and jury prize awards and what…
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