Andor Season 2 - Hour of the Wolf
Mighty Movie Podcast
I have a lively conversation with host Jim Freund about season two of STAR WARS: ANDOR on WBAI's HOUR OF THE WOLF.
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Review: MARTYR'S LANE
Mighty Movie Podcast
A review for Hour of the Wolf, which airs on WBAI 99.5FM in New York.
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THE ANTENNA
Mighty Movie Podcast
What happens when your TV set can only bring signals from local station WEVL? Turkish director Orçun Behram explores the mayhem in the surreal, political body-horror film THE ANTENNA, and talks with us about how it came to be.
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BURNING GHOST and A WHITE, WHITE DAY
Mighty Movie Podcast
Death abides, but not often easily. In BURNING GHOST, a young man ferries lost souls to the afterlife, until love distracts him from his mission, while in A WHITE, WHITE DAY, a policeman investigates the possibility that his recently deceased wife was having an affair.
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JOKER and AD ASTRA
Mighty Movie Podcast
While WBAI's HOUR OF THE WOLF has been (hopefully) temporarily sidelined, here's my unaired review of the intriguing JOKER and the dismaying AD ASTRA.
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VIDEO: SCARED TO DEATH
Mighty Movie Podcast
In a startlingly bold experiment for ToB, we've decided to take the first twenty minutes of the classic(?) Bela Lugosi horror(?) film, SCARED TO DEATH, and treat it to a daringly new concept in film analysis, one that's never been seen before and certainly has absolutely no connection to MST3K or CINEMATIC TITANIC or RIFFTRAX, or anything like that. (And if there appears to be resemblance, well, we came up with it first and our lawyers are going to be in touch with all of those guys in the morning, believe you me.) A few notes: This was Bela Lugosi's only color film, not that it did him much...
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STAR TREK 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Mighty Movie Podcast
Some thoughts on the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.
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KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Mighty Movie Podcast
Review of Laika's Kubo and the Two Strings.
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THE VAMPIRE'S COFFIN
Mighty Movie Podcast
Let's not mince words about this: THE VAMPIRE'S COFFIN is a goofy movie, a Mexican horror-fest with rubber bats, balsa wood coffins, poorly choreographed fight scenes, and a "hero" (the star of THE BRAINIAC, actually) who caps off practically every scene by coming close to wetting his pants. It also happens to be a surprisingly good-looking film, with cinematographer Victor Herrera ripping whole reams from the German expressionist playbook for his set up. Which makes for an unusual ToB episode in which Andrea Lipinski, Kevin Lauderdale, Orenthal Hawkins, and Dan Persons explore the paradox...
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ICETASTROPHE
Mighty Movie Podcast
Ever wonder what your cats do when you're not around? Sorry to disappoint you, but likely they climb up on the couch and go to sleep. Ever wonder what kind of film Syfy runs when nobody's watching? Very likely it's ICETASTROPHE, a virtual non-entity of a natural disaster movie in which a meteor somehow manages to put an isolated mountain town under a deadly deep freeze and nobody, not even the people being frosted over, cares. Come join the Temple of Bad team of Orenthal Hawkins, Andrea Lipinski, Kevin Lauderdale (whose formidable editing kung fu saved this show from slipping into the...
info_outlineHere's a curious thing: A fun, funny, action-packed animated family film that just by happenstance strikes at the very core of the ugliness behind the presidential campaign of a certain, stubby-fingered, orange-American. Couldn't have been by design, not with production schedules for CG animation being what they are, but there it is: ZOOTOPIA -- anthropomorphized animals against Trumpism. Couldn't have come at a better time.
Also in this review, my take on near-future hipster comedy CREATIVE CONTROL, and Terrence Malick's introspective KNIGHT OF CUPS.
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