Filmspotting

#885: A24 10th Anniversary Draft / Prey

Hinzugefügt: 12. August 2022

Indie distributor A24 started memorably, if modestly, back in 2012 and 2013, with titles like Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." Within the next couple of...

#884: Top 5 Brad Pitt Performances / Bullet Train

Hinzugefügt: 5. August 2022

When Brad Pitt arrived on screen 30+ years ago, he was a pretty face with a surprising sinister side. That brief turn in Ridley Scott's "Thelma and Louise" proved to be a template for the actor's...

#883: Nope / The Gray Man / The Lady Eve (Stanwyck #3)

Hinzugefügt: 29. Juli 2022

With their potent mix of horror, comedy, and social satire, the films of Jordan Peele are the rare Hollywood films that succeed in entertaining while also puzzling, sending audiences out of the...

#882: Thor: Love & Thunder / Top 5 Chris Power Ranking

Hinzugefügt: 15. Juli 2022

Taika Waititi helming another Thor movie was always going to mean a great deal of silliness along with whatever planetary crisis the MCU brain trust cooked up, but with THOR: LOVE & THUNDER, the...

#881: Stanwyck #2 - Stella Dallas / Marcel the Shell With Shoes On / Top 5 Movie Mother-Daughters

Hinzugefügt: 8. Juli 2022

As a social climber turned selfless mother in the heartbreaking 1937 melodrama STELLA DALLAS, Barbara Stanwyck earned the first of her four Oscar nominations. And two films into their Stanwyck...

#880: Stanwyck #1 - Baby Face (1933) / 1930s Starter Pack

Hinzugefügt: 1. Juli 2022

The frank sexuality of 1933's BABY FACE has made it one of the defining films of Hollywood’s precode era, with new Filmspotting marathon subject Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers, a young woman who...

#879: Top 5 Movie Summers / Elvis / Lightyear

Hinzugefügt: 24. Juni 2022

The summer movie season offers the promise of a special kind of escape. With our brains and bodies fried from the heat, we go to the multiplex less for the subtlety of great cinema and more for big...

#878: Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth) / Hustle / Top 5 Toy Story Moments w/Griffin Newman (2019)

Hinzugefügt: 17. Juni 2022

Cooper Raiff's debut film, 2020's "Sh*thouse," put the young writer/director on the map with a tale of collegiate malaise, and was made not long after Raiff himself left college. His follow-up, the...

#877: Top 5 Films of the Year So Far / Keaton Marathon Awards (Live in Chicago)

Hinzugefügt: 10. Juni 2022

At the midpoint of the movie year, Adam and Josh come to the show with several titles big and small vying for their Top 5 Films of the Year So Far, along with a shared number one that Josh...

#876: Top 5 Movies For Graduates

Hinzugefügt: 3. Juni 2022

For their TOP 5 MOVIES FOR GRADUATES, Adam and Josh choose tales of hardship, uncertainty, letting go, and finding fulfillment from Hayao Miyazaki, Cameron Crowe, Agnes Varda, Akira Kurosawa, and...

#875: Top Gun: Maverick / Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton #5)

Hinzugefügt: 27. Mai 2022

Scrubbed of nostalgia, 1986's "Top Gun" is, let's be honest, a big slab of '80s cheese. But there's that star-making turn by Tom Cruise; some flashy direction from Tony Scott; the rousing,...

#833: A Clockwork Orange at 50 / Roadrunner / As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai #1)

Hinzugefügt: 16. Juli 2021

With its provocative mix of giddy, nihilistic violence, social satire, and formal audaciousness, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE has been a cinephile rite of passage for decades. For their Sacred Cow revisit,...

#832: Black Widow / Summer of Soul / No Sudden Move / Zola

Hinzugefügt: 9. Juli 2021

Marvel's BLACK WIDOW returns the MCU to theaters for the first time since 2019, but despite the more than capable cast and some provocative ideas, Adam and Josh agree that director Cate Shortland...

FS Revisited: Raiders of the Lost Ark / Top 5 Films of 1981

Hinzugefügt: 2. Juli 2021

Back in September 2012, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was back in theaters for a limited IMAX run on the heels of its 30th anniversary. Adam and Josh took the opportunity to give the film the Sacred Cow...

#831: F9 / Top 5 Fast & Furious Moments

Hinzugefügt: 25. Juni 2021

For one of their patented "still processing" reviews, Adam and Josh go from screening to studio to discuss F9. But all Adam has is questions; namely, are the F&F movies not only critic-proof but...

#830: Pixar's Luca / 7 From '76 Awards / The Sparks Brothers

Hinzugefügt: 18. Juni 2021 - Durchschnittliche Bewertung: 3

While Pixar's latest brazenly evokes the settings and stories of earlier animated classics like Disney's "The Little Mermaid," Pixar's own "Finding Nemo" and Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" and "Porco...

#829: In The Heights / Car Wash (7 From '76)

Hinzugefügt: 11. Juni 2021

When reviews started trickling in for IN THE HEIGHTS earlier this year, anticipation for the already much-hyped adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical started to reach a feverish...

#828: Undine / Harlan County U.S.A. (7 From '76)

Hinzugefügt: 4. Juni 2021

Director Christian Petzold ("Phoenix," "Transit") returns with UNDINE, a romance haunted by German history and politics–and loosely inspired by a European fairy tale. Stars Paula Beer and Franz...

#827: A Quiet Place Part II / Top 5 Quiet Scenes

Hinzugefügt: 28. Mai 2021

Back in 2018, John Krasinksi's "A Quiet Place" was a novelty: the rare box office hit that didn't belong to an existing franchise or property. Fast forward to 2021 and "A Quiet Place" has itself...

#827: A Quiet Place Part II / Top 5 Quiet Scenes

Hinzugefügt: 28. Mai 2021

Back in 2018, John Krasinksi's "A Quiet Place" was a novelty: the rare box office hit that didn't belong to an existing franchise or property. Fast forward to 2021 and "A Quiet Place" has itself...