The 19th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is threaded and ready to roll. This week we chat about new projects from Chris Pine, Gulliermo Del Toro, Robert Rodziguez, and Spielberg in the News. Then we discuss the bearded ones’ 1991 film Hook for In Defense of. It’s our 5 favorite screenplays in our Featured Topic, and to close it out we have a famous convo from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in our The One Liner of the Week.

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 Episode 19 – School's Out: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (63)

Every Monday (or Tuesday, better late than never) here at Filmdogs, a member of the pack will be offering a recommendation for a soundtrack to help you speed up those never ending work days and (if possible) inspire you.

Ennio Morricone is one of the greatest composers to ever live thanks to scores he did for films like: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, and The Untouchables. Quentin Tarantino and those wanting to be as hip as Quentin often sample his music for their films such as Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-ass. However, it may be his work for Brian DePalma’s so-so Sci-fi guilty pleasure from 2000, Mission to Mars, that is my favorite. The film itself is DePalma’s ode to 2001: A Space Odyssey, yet despite some well done sequences and a great cast it never lives up to that name. (more…)

I was excited when the first Green Hornet Trailer debuted a few weeks ago. The film looks to have a nice blend of both action and comedy thanks to talent such as Seth Rogan, Jay Chou, and director Michel Gondry. Well, now the international trailer for the film has been released and while the differences are subtle they still offer up some additional glimpses of the movie. Check it out below.

The film is released in the U.S. Jan 14th 2011.

Rogen and Chou as The Green Hornet and Kato.

The new trailer for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet is here and it kicks ass. The film is based upon the campy 60s television show in which media mogul Britt Reid fights crime with the help of his very resourceful sidekick Kato. (more…)

When people think of foreign films they often simply pass them off as being too pretentious and experimental for their liking. Yet, one of the things I’ve discovered about films from oversees is how their main influence is often American. Which makes sense when you think about it, Hollywood is in the U.S. after all. Such is the case with director Jean-Pierre Melville and his 1967 hitman masterpiece Le samouraï. (more…)

Overall, this years awards went down as expected and were kind of bland. I kept hoping for an upset, but the biggest one I got was Geoffrey Fletcher winning Best Adapated Screeplay for Precious over Jason Reitman’s script for Up in the Air. It was cool seeing Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win in the directing category. Dito, as for seeing “The Dude” himself, Jeff Bridges, win for Crazy Heart. The Hurt Locker had a big night sweeping all the major awards including Best Picture. For me though the best part of the entire show was the cutting of the Best Original Song performances from the telecast. Here’s hoping that change is here to stay. See all the winners below in bold.
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Here are some of the Pack’s Oscar picks. Each individual writer’s choices for who they think will win are indicated by their name in Bold to the right of a nominee. See how our staff’s picks stand up against our own and leave your thoughts below in the comments. Also follow the sites official twitter for live updates during the show. (more…)

If there was ever a director who knew how to make hyperbolic statements concerning his own work and upcoming projects it is Quentin Tarantino. Rumors of the semi-sequel to his early films’ “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” titled “The Vega Brothers” have been talked up for years. So naturally when Tarantino said he had an idea for the WWII movie to end all WWII movies I simply rolled my eyes. Now don’t get me wrong, I wanted to see that movie in a bad way. I may have even thought of kidnapping him at one point, and forcing him to write the script, but thats neither here nor there… (more…)

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I’ll always look back on this past decade in film as the one in which I as a film junkie plunged head first into the world of cinema. In 2000 “Gladiator” became the blueprint to which all other films in the following decade would have to live up too. Granted I was 16 at the time and could only hope to live a life interesting as Maximus. (more…)