Pardon me for posting a little later than usual today. I might be a bit tardy, but as per the custom, I am here to get your weekend rolling by turning the spotlight on to my fellow enthusiasts. Speaking of those fellow enthusiasts, I find myself especially concerned for friends like Dor Dotson, Rich Watson, and Joanna Chlebus this week who are all proud New Yorkers. All three of them have checked in, so I know they are in one piece, but I hope the stress of trying to live and work in a disaster area doesn’t become too much for them in the coming days and weeks.

Be well you three, along with any other NY/NJ folk I might be forgetting.

Back home my brain is on podcasts. I’ll be sitting down tonight to begin editing Matineecast 71, so that’s probably the biggest reason why I’m thinking of such things. However, I’m also thinking about podcasts because this week at the office I had a lot of data entry to do, and as such was pretty much living with my headphones on. I don’t know if I’ve ever said so in this space, but my fellow podcasters really keep me company some days and make rather tedious tasks more endurable. So if I’ve never said so before, thank-you for that.

I’m also thinking about podcasts because I’d like to add one or two to the subsciption list. So do tell folks:

What are some of the movie podcasts you love to listen to – especially the ones you click the moment they go online?

 

For your listening and reading fulfilment, I give you…

 

The Mamo boys might have set a world record. News of the Lucasfilm sale hit the wire at 4pm EST on Monday, their podcast discussing the subject went live at ten-to-five.

A film I liked a lot about back at TIFF was the new film RUST AND BONE, directed by the same chap who brought us A PROPHET. Tristesse caught up with it this week, and seems especially smitten.

As we get deeper and deeper into the autumn, I’m finding it interesting to note which fall films stick with me, and which get lost in the static. One I haven’t been able to let go of is THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, and it just so happens that Sam McCosh caught up with it this week. Here’s her lovely review.

It’s crazy what will unexpectedly scare people in a movie isn’t it? Sit down for something supposedly “family-friendly” and instead find yourself subject to nightmare fodder? Candice Frederick turns her attention to such moments this week in a post dedicated to Family Films that Terrify Their Audiences.

This week Anna over at Defiant Success caught up with one of my personal favorites – FIGHT CLUB. Not only is it a favorite movie, but it’s also one of my favorite books. So then you can see why I’d be especially interested in her post where she compares the book to the film.

I might have mentioned this already, but there are few directors whose work I grew to admire lately more than that of Roman Polanski. Jake has put together a post looking back on the career of the controversial director, including offering up his own Top Ten Polanski Films.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times – Alex Kittle might as well just help herself to twenty bucks out of my pocket every time she picks up a brush. The woman has just immortalized EMPIRE RECORDS.

The Tweet of The Week comes from GMan. Make of it what you will…

 

[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/gmanreviews/status/264434246020653057″]

 

Enjoy!

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  2. Podcasts I listen to:

    yours,
    mine,
    JustAtadCast,
    FilmSpotting,
    FilmSpotting SVU,
    How Did This Get Made,
    /FilmCast,
    MaMo,
    The Cinephiliacs,

    NON FILM:
    The Tobolowsky Files (very intermittent releases recently),
    WTF w/ Marc Maron,
    Nerdist,
    The Indoor Kids,
    The Dinner Party,
    The Bugle,
    BBC Newspod,
    Sex Nerd Sandra,
    NPR: All Songs Considered,
    NPR: Fresh Air,
    Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show,
    Judge John Hodgeman,
    Girl on Guy,
    ESPN FC Podcast,
    Comedy Bang Bang

    The ones I listen to immediately/ASAP:

    You, /Film, The Indoor Kids, FilmSpotting (& SVU), Nerdist, How Did This Get Made

    1. Went to a live taping of The Nerdist a few weeks ago – can’t say I was all that nuts about it.

      I meant to ask you actually – were you listening to Mamo before you came to visit?

      3. Some I don’t listen to as I get them, some I let pass… like the interview heavy shows I’ll listen to their backlog a lot more than anything else. I’ll be scrolling and see a Nerdist ep where they talked to Bryan Cranston and go (yes) and listen to that rather than week to week eps of Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show…

        Movie review shows I dont listen to unless I’ve already seen the film, which pushes a lot back a couple weeks for me since I don’t get a lot of new releases on time. But overall it’s as I see fit… I listen to podcasts through most of my working day, on the commute to and from work… so in all that time I have enough time to fill with tons of people discussing things I find interesting.

  3. Haha thanks for the linkage and kind words! I do it all for you, you know! No podcasts to add, sorry, I just don’t listen to very many, and you already know of the ones I do.

    1. You have *NO* idea how many times I say “What’s with today today?” in an average week. Seeing such things immortalized makes me feel a little less crazy.

  4. Thanks for the mention Ryan. It’s a film I really admired while watching, but leaves me torn when analyzing it. I really have to see it again to see if my reaction differs at all.

    1. No harm in revisiting a film to flesh out an opinion. I did that with THE MASTER before I wrote about it.

      Oh, and it looks like later this month I will finally catch up with your namesake – TCM is showing it!

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