I’ve always been a trifle suspicious of my love for Andrew Bird.
But it’s hard to reconcile this Ceylan with the deadpan stylist who drew my attention with 2002’s Distant.
The whole thing is well-filmed, competently paced, and generally praiseworthy.
When we started recording these, they were a joke.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2009: 35 Shots of Rum, The Beaches of Agnès, The Apprentice, & More
I took almost no notes during 35 Shots of Rum, because it seemed kind of beside the point: Claire Denis’s pleasures are almost all immediate.
If Dillinger Is Dead is riveting at its most ostentatiously purposeless, it’s also more conventional than it knows.
This was the last podcast we did before engaging in a bit of a recording hiatus before our upcoming Oscar Pre-Podcast.
We’re back again after our New Year’s Pubcast/Boys’ Party with a special ode to a newly reborn film festival.
Man’s Castle is my second attempt at understanding Borzage after being defeated by History Is Made at Night.
Coraline is that rarest of creatures
The curious Mr. West’s folie de grandeur didn’t, as initially widely predicted, blow up in his face.
We know you all wait with bated breath for the next time that we gather in bars and shout indiscriminate things at each other.
Truth is, our boy’s an idiot and deserves to fail, but his cheekbones and alleged creativity will always save him with a certain type of girl.
Indie 500: Neon Neon, David Byrne & Brian Eno, T.I., Los Campesinos!, Clipse, and Radiohead
Like the music it emulates, Neon Neon is both disposable and surprisingly durable.
Dark discussions aside, we once again prove that you can charm your way onto the podcast by offering us work or calling us respectable.
Flim critics are a dying breed, since they’re either stuck online, being laid off from print publications or going off to Grad School.
This podcast commemorates the one-year-anniversary of Preston Miller’s Jones.
A lot of Transporter 3 is wasted on talk and character bonding between Jason Statham and Natalya Rudakova.
Grassroots with a sound system is already a bit of a noise maker.
Here’s the thing about the Broken West: They’re one of the most derivative bands working today.