Morose & Macabre's Atrocity Exhibition IX - Episode 53
Release Date: 05/07/2017
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This week, we are heading again to 1995 to review Johnny Mnemonic. A movie that feels a bit like a chipotle burrito, jam packed filled with brain implants, yakuza assassins, a global pandemic created by "technology", a cyborg dolphin, and yea....Henry Rollins is in it too. But is this movie really all that terrible? Are there any redeeming qualities to a film that has the pedigree of William Gibson's writing and the direction of artist Robert Longo? Well get ready to jack in as we tackle the world of cyber implants, VR Internet, and Johnny Mnemonic! DISCORD!!! Take the conversation...
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Continuing on with our 90's Cyber Punk Dystopian Future Month, we've got another cult classic from Virtuosity Director, Brett Leonard. It's the 1992 VR Thriller, The Lawnmower Man starring awesome character actor, Jeff Fahey and a not-quite-James Bond; Pierce Brosnon. This movie tried to show us the 2 true horrors of the 90's, 32 Bit VR games and DRUGS!!! Lawnmower Man tells the story of Jobe, a hapless lawnmower man who just wants to be smart enough to read the text boxes in the Cybo Man comic books he collects and to maybe kiss the town floozie, Marnie. It also tells the story of Dr....
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What happens when the big bad in a VR video game made up of 150 maniacs escapes to the real world "future" of 1999 as a nano bot blue goo android? You get the shoot e'em up chase movie, Virtuosity starring Denzel Washington and a pre-gladiator Russell Crowe (which this might actually be his best performance outside of the 2020 film "Unhinged"). Joining us in VR land this week are fellow movie podcasters, Joe La Scola and Sean O'Rourke of Movie Dumpster. We'll try to tackle the hard ethical questions in this movie such as how a Kevin J. O'Connor's "desires" are completely to...
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This week, we are joined by some serious talent. FRZY, Pittsburgh's very own Emmy Award winning rapper, Guiness World Record Holder for Longest Freestyle Rap, Derby Car Driver, and soon to be headliner in a join performance with The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra joins us to talk all about The Blackening, Director Tim Story's (of Fantastic 4 fame) new horror comedy that is now out on Blu-Ray and streaming. The Glorious Succession of Frzy with the Pittsburgh Symphony November 8th at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh PA! GET YOUR TICKETS! - Experience a historic musical collaboration as...
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This week, we are joined by The Art Director for The upcoming Eerie Horror Fest, Monster Mark Kosobucki as we review one of George A. Romero's early classics, The Crazies. A movie that seriously has a totally different meaning in light of the past few years with the Covid-19 Pandemic, The Crazies is a tale of a small town in Western Pennsylvania that becomes infected by a bio weapon from the US Government and said government's attempt to quite it down to keep order. This movie takes jabs at a government that at the time was in the midst of a crisis of credibility due to the...
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This week, we are returning to our well of dark comedies and misunderstood misfit movies to analyze one of the darkest comedies to come out of the "edgy" and "extreme" 1990's- Very Bad Things. A movie that plays to the trope of a bachelor party gone horribly horribly wrong and illustrates the lengths that people will go to avoid consequences. Starring Daniel Stern of Home Alone fame, future Iron Man Director and Star Wars Savior John Favreau, and a very sinister Christian Slater, this movie was deridded by critics during it's original run, but is it really that awful? ...
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This week, we are reviewing the second half of the cinematic phenomena known as "BARBENHEIMER"! And while Barbie was a celebration of a cultural icon going through an existensial conflict; Oppenheimer is very much the story of humanity's existential nightmare caused by the birth of the atomic bomb during World War 2. Helmed by one of Cinema's biggest champions and featuring a massive cast of amazing actors, how does Christopher Nolan's nealry 3 hour long IMAX epic shake out and does it live up to the hype? DISCORD!!! Take the conversation further! Come check...
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This week we are back from a 1 week hiatus which just so happened to include one of the biggest cinematic viewing events of the year: BARBENHEIMER! And in celebration of the story of the Atomic Bomb and with us being Kenough, we are taking a look at BARBIE! A movie that manages to rise above it's source material to be a film that speaks to the legacy of the character among women as well as manage to enrage the feelings of so-called "alpha males" everywhere who simply missed the point of the movie. Yep, its that kind of episode folks. So saddle up with us as we...
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Do you like movie reviews with a heavy does of comedy? We'll we're The Cinema Psychos Show! We are indie filmmakers, Brian Cottington and John Wooliscroft who each week deep dive your favorite movies and filmmakers (both bad and good) with our own brand of vulgar-yet-smart film criticism. Follow us where ever you get your podcasts or reach out to our website DISCORD!!! Take the conversation further! Come check out our Discord channel where we you can interact face to face (digitally) with us. Like our opinion or hate it, now you can tell us...
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Buckle up for a roller-coaster ride as we embark on an excavation of the latest Indiana Jones adventure – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. With a treasure map in one hand and a sense of humor in the other, we scrutinize the controversy surrounding the digital de-aging of Harrison Ford, marvel at the plot twists, and contemplate the wisdom of the movie's third act. But we're not stopping there! We're burrowing deeper into the franchise's cinematic labyrinth, revisiting previous installments like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, while posing some uncomfortable...
info_outlineThis week, Brian is joined by Nick Noir, Lilith Deville, and Dr. Morose of the annual gathering of aficionados of the strange and unusual, the 360 degree living art exhibition that is Morose & Macabre's Atrocity Exhibition! The show itself is coming up this May 12th and 13th at The Rex Theater in Pittsburgh, PA. Nick, Deville, and Dr. Morose are going to give us all the run down on all the sideshow, burlesque, and dark themes of this fantastic show that you definitely do not want to miss.