Posts Tagged ‘Robert De Niro’
The Filmdogs Podcast: In the Lounge with W, J, and J
This week on The Filmdogs Podcast we decided to hang loose and take it easy discussing the films and TV shows we’ve watched recently “In the Lounge with W, J, and J.” Some of the movies talked about include Super 8, X-Men: First Class, and Midnight in Paris. So, sit back relax and enjoy the Filmdogs lounge.
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The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 35 – The Social Podcast
The 35th Episode of The Filmdogs Podcast is up! This week we discuss The Golden Globes, the now semi-defunct Alien Prequel, Darren Aronofsky‘s new comic project, and the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the News. Next, we go into a Mini-Review of The Green Hornet before tackling our Featured Topic of the Week, a full review of one of the best films of 2010, the engaging street art Documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. To wrap it up we have fun with one of the former Governator’s lines from Kindergarten Cop (It’s not the one you think it is…) Download the show now and check it all out!
Email us with you podcast feedback or segment suggestions at filmdogspodcast@gmail.com. Subscribe to the podcast here, or listen in you browser. Also, you may download an enhanced AAC feed with chapter markers and artwork from iTunes on your computer or straight to your iPhone/iPod touches now! If you like what you hear be sure to write a quick review on iTunes as well. It helps us out. Thanks!
Score Your Week | Taxi Driver
With Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader crafted a film that flexes every muscle of cinematic greatness. Our lone (anti) hero, Travis Bickle, cruises a wasteland that he calls home. Disgusted by the trash and debris, he takes it upon himself to clean up the streets and wash away the filth. He is clearly a sociopath and possibly psychotic, but in his eyes he is doing us all a favor. Guiding Travis on his conquest is Bernard Herrmann’s fantastic score. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 23 – Money Never Sleeps
The 23rd Episode of the Filmdogs podcast is up and it’s one of our best yet! Listen as we discuss The Dark Tower, the Live-Action Mulan, and Scorsese’s The Irishman in the News. Then we dive right into our Featured Topic of the Week, our fall movie preview. No stone is left uncovered and no film escapes unscathed. Then to wrap it up we honor Ben Affleck’s new picture The Town by showcasing a moment from Gone, Baby, Gone in our One Liner of the Week. This one episode you won’t want to miss!
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Scene Stealer | Collateral “Ready Steady Go”
I like my Cruise crazy.
Director Michael Mann is known for writing memorable characters and putting them in amazing set pieces. Who could forget the epic meet-up of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Heat, or the equally romantic parting of Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stow in The Last of the Mochicans. Scenes like those make you wonder if Mann starts his writing process with an idea for a sequence and builds the movie from there. Something Hitchcock was known to do on many occasion.
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Your Poster Is Cool | 2010 Rolling Roadshow Tour
The famous Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is presenting the 2010 Rolling Roadshow Tour, in which they will be showing “free screening of famous movies in famous places.” To coincide, graphic designer Olly Moss has created nine fantastic posters for the films being shown. Continue on to check out the posters and to find out the movie showtimes and locations. Read the rest of this entry »
The Stream | Vol. IV
The Stream is a new column that acts as a venue for Filmdogs writers to post shorter reviews of movies they have watched on streaming video services such as Netflix, Hulu, or even YouTube. Let’s get started.
Black Narcissus (1947)
Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus is a film so spectacular, I am saddened that it has taken me this long to watch it. Deborah Kerr plays Sister Clodagh, the head nun in charge of leading a group of her fellow sisters to a palace in the Himalayas and setting up a school. Black Narcissus has heavily influenced both Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and in Scorsese’s Shutter Island there is a fantastic reference to this film. In 1947, the flashback scenes of Kerr’s character were banned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, and I am still amazed that this film was made at all. Watching these nuns questioning their faith and sanity is quite unnerving and the tension drips in every scene. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth are exceptionally great as rivals of good and evil. This is an amazingly haunting film.
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Under the Radar | The Edge
This is a column that will focus on little known films, directors, writers, and actors. The column does not exist to tell you what to watch, but to simply help raise interest in the great art and talent that goes unseen year by year. So let’s begin. The film I will be spotlighting is the Lee Tamahori “Jaws in the wilderness” film The Edge. The Edge was directed by Lee Tamahori and written by the immensely talented David Mamet. Mamet is one of my favorite screen writers, and he brings everything that I love about his scripts to this film.
Top 10 Matt Damon Performances
With Green Zone opening this weekend, I found it appropriate to profile the film’s star… Matt Damon. Matt Damon is an amazing actor who gets better with every role. I really do think he is one of the best actors (if not THE best) of his generation. He has played a wide variety of different characters, all the while bringing charisma and charm. He has been many things: an existential action star, a brilliant mind trapped in a thug’s body, a double crossing rat, a fat dopey whistle blower, a solider deciding who he fights next to are his brothers. He is all these things and so much more. Damon has taken us down an exciting road, and he isn’t stopping anytime soon. The following performances are my personal top 10. If I miss some of your favorites, please feel free to post them in the comments section. Read the rest of this entry »
Censored! The Best movie Dub-Overs of All Time.
So I was watching the Coen Brothers’ cult classic “The Big Lewboski” the other day, and as a crazed Walter beat the living crap out of the car I couldn’t help but remember the way this film was famously censored for television. The Coen’s in their infinite wisdom had John Goodman himself re-dub his classic scene for TV and the result is well…brilliant. Read the rest of this entry »
