Considering the Cinema Ep. 079: The Weekly Watchlist – I Control the Alligator
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Release Date: 01/10/2025
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Considering the Cinema Ep. 083: The Weekly Watchlist - The Deaths of Redbox and Maggie Smith
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Considering the Cinema Ep. 082: The Weekly Watchlist - Make Work Your Favorite
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Considering the Cinema Ep. 081: The Weekly Watchlist – Scariest Environment Imaginable
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Considering the Cinema Ep. 080: The Weekly Watchlist – Sooner or Later, Everyone Who Loves Film Criticism Comes to Kauffmann
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Hello again, and welcome to Considering the Cinema’s THE WEEKLY WATCHLIST! Here in Episode 080, your affable hosts — Jason Pyles, Mack Robins and Dave Becker — will bring you discussions of what they have been thinking about pertaining to cinema and enjoying lately from their own, personal watchlists. For instance, Jay talks about film critic Stanley Kauffmann and a couple of intriguing documentaries; Mack discusses his journal entry that explains why he loves movies, as well as some interesting made-for-TV fare; and Dave gets to work by watching three of Mack’s very...
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Considering the Cinema Ep. 079: The Weekly Watchlist – I Control the Alligator
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“I’ve done dirty things in my life, but I wouldn’t plug someone in the back.” Welcome back to Considering the Cinema’s THE WEEKLY WATCHLIST episode with Jason Pyles, Mack Robins and Dave Becker, though you may know them as Jay of the Dead, Mackula and Dr. Shock. Here in Episode 079, Dave discusses some Criterion Collection documentaries; Jason tackles some ’90s and 2000s Action Sci-Fi movies; and Mack explores some films pertaining to the Olympics. In addition to Dave discussing the 40th anniversary of the Criterion Collection, Mack falls into a weird rabbit...
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Considering the Cinema Ep. 078: The DVD Infatuation Podcast – Dave’s Top 200 Favorite Movies: December 2024
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Considering the Cinema presents… The DVD Infatuation Podcast, “The Grab Bag of Movie Podcasts,” starring Dave “Dr. Shock” Becker — “The Leonard Maltin of the Internet,” the Amazing but Subtle One, the National Treasure himself, brings you this 30th Edition of The DVD Infatuation Podcast for December 2024. Once again, Dr. Shock is reviewing three of his Top 200 Favorite Movies with three special guests! The guests are tasked with selecting a film from Dave’s Top 200 Movies that he hasn’t seen before! Here Dave is joined by filmmaker Mack Robins to...
info_outline“I’ve done dirty things in my life, but I wouldn’t plug someone in the back.” Welcome back to Considering the Cinema’s THE WEEKLY WATCHLIST episode with Jason Pyles, Mack Robins and Dave Becker, though you may know them as Jay of the Dead, Mackula and Dr. Shock. Here in Episode 079, Dave discusses some Criterion Collection documentaries; Jason tackles some ’90s and 2000s Action Sci-Fi movies; and Mack explores some films pertaining to the Olympics. In addition to Dave discussing the 40th anniversary of the Criterion Collection, Mack falls into a weird rabbit hole of learning more about the films of “Leni” Riefenstahl, and the guys have a quick little chat about film colorization (without tipping over the entire boat). Join us!
Note: This episode was recorded on Aug. 15, 2024, and it released on Jan. 9, 2025.
THE WEEKLY WATCHLIST is the type of episode where we simply talk about whatever we’ve been watching lately from our own, personal watchlists. Here’s how it works: Jay, Mack and Dave have zero “movie-watching homework.” We are completely free each week to watch whatever we want from any era, year, genre, country, etc! We can finally go through our own personal watchlists and catch up with the films we’ve been meaning to see. So, every week will be vastly different. Let us know what you think of this format.
Jay of the Dead also hosts a WEEKLY HORROR MOVIE PODCAST with Mister Watson at Horror Movie Weekly.com. And of course, every Horror fan should check out Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, The Gold Standard of Horror Movie Podcasts.
Thanks for listening to Considering the Cinema Podcast and Considering Horror Cinema, The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Movie Podcasting… Don’t forget: You can email Jay, Mack and even Dr. Shock at [email protected] or post a comment in the show notes for this episode.
SHOW NOTES: Considering the Cinema Ep. 079: The Weekly Watchlist
[ 00:00:01 ] – Introduction
– Jason welcomes Mack and Dave
– Hear our review of Alien: Romulus
[ 00:02:43 ] – Dave “Dr. Shock” Becker’s Weekly Watchlist:
– Criterion’s first release: Citizen Kane on LaserDisc
– November 2024 releases: Paper Moon
– Doc has 661 Criterion releases (more than half)
– Dave’s first: Time Bandits
3 Unseen Criterion Documentaries
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Dave = 7.5 ( Rental )
Harlan County, USA (1976)
Dave = 9.5 ( Buy it! )
Minding the Gap (2018)
Dave = 9 ( Buy it! )
[ 00:15:47 ] – Jason’s Weekly Watchlist:
– Jay gets Straight Shooting DVD out of the mail.
Total Recall (1990)
Jason = 6.5 ( Rental )
The Sixth Day (2000)
Jason = 7.5 ( Rental )
Total Recall (2012)
Jason = 8.5 ( Buy it! )
– Film Terminology: “Castle Thunder” sound effect in movies
[ 00:31:08 ] – Mack’s Weekly Watchlist:
— Movie Theme: The Olympics
Stick It (2006)
Mack = 89 out of 100 ( Buy it! )
Race (2016)
Mack = 94 out of 100 ( Buy it! )
– Propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Part One Festival of Nations (1938)
BONUS Tidbit: Mack on the preferred “Aliens” Extended Edition
BONUS Tidbit: Dr. Shock on one of his all-time favorite movie books, “Classic Movies,” by Neil Sinyard and his completed goal.
— The DVD Infatuation Podcast: Dave’s Top 200
Wrap-Up
Links for this episode:
Catch up with Mack here:
– Horror podcast: Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies
— IMDb.com Page: Mack Robins
Catch up with Dr. Shock here:
– Horror podcast: Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies
— Blog: DVD Infatuation.com
— Podcast: The DVD Infatuation Podcast
— Horror podcast: Land of the Creeps
— Podcast: The Illustrated Fan
— Movie Podcast Weekly has returned for MONTHLY releases
— Listen to Jay of the Dead’s Horror Movie Weekly with Mister Watson every Sunday!
Jay recommends Nate Johnivan’s music:
— Spotify Playlist
— Quarantine Dream iii
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