This week starts off with Steve’s transgender double feature of Tangerine and Boys Don’t Cry (7:45), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (17:26), Mistress America (20:40), Room (30:09), Love & Mercy (38:07), Joy (43:14), Macbeth (57:53), The Martian (1:05:17), and No Escape (1:14:21).
Tag: film
Debt to Cinema 015: Strange Days
This film is all about the imagination: Imagine if Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron made a Y2K sci-fi action thriller.
Next imagine it has awesome virtual reality.
Also imagine it has a strong subtext about police brutality.
Finally, imagine what a podcast review would sound like about that film.
Two Cents 027: Christmas Will Break Your Heart
This shorter than usual episode where we continue to talk about Star Wars making box office history, Avatar 2 possibly coming Christmas 2017, The Hateful Eight screener that leaked before its release, deaths of stuntmen and the end of stunts, James Franco making a Lifetime movie, David Fincher teaming with Netflix again, Comcast rolling out gigabit internet, and the return of LCD Soundsystem.
Dollar Reviews 005: The Hateful Eight
This week we had a special engagement on the road for Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film. Plus Z for Zachariah (17:05), Brooklyn (22:40), The Big Short (33:50), Steve Jobs (40:00), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (46:05), Bridge of Spies (49:00), Spy (55:52), Creed (1:04:50), and The Peanuts Movie (1:11:25).
A Few Dollars More 001: The Force Awakens
Hey, look, its a new show! Because, sometimes a movie is so big, or just thought provoking enough, that a proper conversation can’t be had without spoiling a thing or two.
Dollar Reviews 004: Dinosaurs Resurrected
This week we managed to review a few things besides Star Wars beginning with a rewatch of The Good Dinosaur, Hotel Transylvania 2 (10:09), McFarland USA (16:44), Paper Towns (19:14), Mistress America (31:44), Knock Knock (37:17), Legend (46:22), Black Rain (51:43), and some VR content (57:19)
Two Cents 026: No Place Like Dome
The episode in which the force awakens new box office records, Tarantino is pushed out of the Cinerama Dome, Dreamworks becomes Amblin Partners, Netflix streaming requires less bandwidth, Mad Max might get a black and white re-release, Terminator 2 is returning in 3D, Disneyland takes safety precautions, Sean Penn is Andrew Jackson on HBO, and Amazon renews three shows (including my darling Red Oaks).
Dollar Reviews 003: The Force Awakens
Welcome to the all Star Wars episode where we start with Disney’s first installment in the galactic opera, then search our feelings for our opinions on the rest of the saga.
Two Cents 025: Virtually a Reality
The episode in which we speculate what The Hateful Eight announcement will be, review Amazon’s premium add-on subscription offerings, Netflix doubling original content in 2016, VR feeling closer than ever/my first impressions of Google Cardboard, Ang Lee returning to 3D filmmaking, The Rock making an 80s style buddy action comedy, Lionsgate possibly making prequels to The Hunger Games, Universal’s shared monster universe casting rumors, and Mr. Robot season 2 being helmed entirely by Sam Esmail.
Dollar Reviews 002: The Ridiculous 6
This week we review Adam Sandler’s first streaming only title, Todd Haynes’s Carol, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, In the Heart of the Sea, Murder of a Cat, Tak3n, The Haunting (1999), While We’re Young, Laggies, The Fault in Our Stars, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Dumb and Dumber To, While You Were Sleeping, Comet, Up Close and Personal, and Transparent Season 2 (54:30).
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