Episode Four--Goodbye, The Rescuers--is our best show yet. We are getting more comfortable with the technique and process of putting a show together and it shows.
Thanks to all of our supporters and please keep spreading the word about the show.
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Joe loved it (his #2 of movie of 2008) and Ethan liked it a lot.
The Trailer:
Ethan mentioned that the groom in the film is played by Tunde Adebimpe and fronts a favorite band of his, TV on the Radio. Here's the video for their jam, Wolf Like Me:
RELIGULOUS
Both of the guys enjoyed the movie and felt it was very entertaining, but the review gets a little heated--no doubt fueled by the personal beliefs of The Movie Hour Duo. Can a critic leave his personal views at the door of the theater and truly be subjective? Should they? Ethan and Joe say no--the moviegoing experience is richer if you don't. And so are The Movie Hour conversations.
The Trailer:
POST OSCAR TELECAST TALK
Ethan and Joe agreed that the Oscars were better for having 5 presenters on stage for the acting awards and Ethan referenced Robert De Niro talking to Sean Penn. See that moment by clicking here.
Joe was critical of so many Oscar dance numbers. Hugh Jackman has a background in live theater and is a song and dance man in that life, but really...ANOTHER musical number. Here's one to enjoy:
LIVING ROOM FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS AS A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Tons of email this week (thanks so much and keep it coming). Because we left this week's LRFF so open to your interpretation, you interpreted it widely and we enjoyed that. Here were our picks.
Ethan's Picks:
Joe's Picks:
warning - adult language
Goodfellas, of course, being the film that caused Joe to say, "Goodbye, The Rescuers".
A THE MOVIE HOUR DVD Extra: The source of this comment is that The Rescuers was the first film Joe ever saw in the theater. 1977 - 5 years old.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Episode 4 is now available!
Episode 4 of The Movie Hour is now online! There are many ways to get the show and listen to it. If you have an iPod, the easiest way to get and listen to the show is to click on the "Subscribe with iTunes" icon right below this.
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Monday, February 23, 2009
The Ram vs. Tito Santana: Real-Life Wrestler?
This is a great piece from the New York Times on Tito Santana, who has lived a much more upbeat version of Randy the Ram's career arc in The Wrestler. Check the parallel:
Then: "In 1987, he wrestled before 93,000 during WrestleMania III, at the Silverdome in Michigan. He toured Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, England, spending 340 days a year on the road."
Now: "He teaches Spanish at Eisenhower Middle School and coaches boys’ basketball, while his wife runs their hair salon, Santana’s."
Like I said, much happier ending than The Ram. But, without the killer Springsteen song.
Then: "In 1987, he wrestled before 93,000 during WrestleMania III, at the Silverdome in Michigan. He toured Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, England, spending 340 days a year on the road."
Now: "He teaches Spanish at Eisenhower Middle School and coaches boys’ basketball, while his wife runs their hair salon, Santana’s."
Like I said, much happier ending than The Ram. But, without the killer Springsteen song.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Episode 3 is now available!
Episode 3 of The Movie Hour is now online! There are many ways to get the show and listen to it. If you have an iPod, the easiest way to get and listen to the show is to click on the "Subscribe with iTunes" icon right below this.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The International's Guggenheim Revealed
Think the Guggenheim shootout sequence in The Internationalwas too good to be true? Yep. Here's the inside story on how they did it.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Another way to listen.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Episode 2 is now up!
Episode 2 of The Movie Hour is now online! There are many ways to get the show and listen to it. If you have an iPod, the easiest way to get and listen to the show is to click on the "Subscribe with iTunes" icon right below this.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
How you can play along with The Movie Hour - Living Room Film Festival
In episode 2, you will hear our new segment, Living Room Film Festival. LRFF is your chance to get involved in the show by choosing up to 5 films that you would program as a viewing marathon. Imagine inviting over 20 of your closest friends and they're forced to watch your picks in all-night film-watching blowout. If you owned your own movie theater, what would YOU program. The only catch is that Ethan and Joe pick the theme of the film festival.
The LRFF theme for Episode 3, in conjunction with our upcoming review of Tom Tykwer's The International is, simply, The International Thriller Film Festival. What films, up to five, would you program into a long night of marathon film watching with your closest friends with that theme? Send the list to us at themoviehour@gmail.com before Wednesday, February 18th, 6PM Central so we can discuss them on air.
Episode Two - 'Anti-Drumite'
Episode Two of The Movie Hour with Joe and Ethan explodes onto the 'internets' Friday, February 13.
It includes:
--Our review of Coraline - New Release
--Mailbag including 'What Movies Mean to Us'
--Our review of The Visitor - DVD Release
--and our newest segment, Living Room Film Festival. This week's theme: The Creepy Animation Film Festival
Joe and Ethan picked the films in this innaugural installment of LRFF to get the ball rolling, but we want to hear from you. Email us your picks for this LRFF (maybe we missed an obvious Creepy Animated Film) or next week's theme, The International Thriller Film Festival, to themoviehour@gmail.com.
Here are some clips from films from the innaugural LRFF, Creepy Animation.
Joe's Pick - Spirited Away - As Ethan said, all of our picks could potentially be anime entries considering the Japanese's seeming ability to tolerate creepy and violent images in their animation. In America, we just like our cutesy-poo animals singing and dancing. So my anime inclusion for the Fest is Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the 2001 Oscar winner for Best Animated Picture. The sequence where Chihiro’s parents are transformed to pigs and the scenes of No-Face eating the bathhouse staff leap to mind. Apologies for the tribute style clip below.
Ethan's Pick - Dot and the Kangaroo - This one freaked me out as a kid. If you've never seen it, enjoy.
Joe's Pick - Watership Down - If Ethan wants to discuss his traumatized youth, I'll go toe to toe. I'm 7 or 8 years old and my parents see a cute bunny cartoon for rent at the video store. They plunk it in and, as I remember it, leave the room. It's Watership Down. Enjoy the cute bunnies below. Another tribute style clip.
Ethan's Pick - Waking Life - This one isn't creepy so much as noteworthy although Linklater and art director, Bob Sabiston use animation to spin real life situations and conversations into unexpected places--some of them creepy. I really love this film.
Joe's Pick - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Again, not so much creepy as interestingly injected into the film. Some could find the theory of how two people find one another creepy...maybe. It plays like a music video, so no explanation really needed.
Ethan's Pick - The Triplets of Belleville
Joe's Bonus Pick - We were running long so I left this one out of the podcast, but this is one of my most memorable Jr. High-age movie experiences:
Also mentioned on the show:
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Natural Born Killers blood/snake animation
and, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas
What did we leave out? Email Joe and Ethan at themoviehour@gmail.com
It includes:
--Our review of Coraline - New Release
--Mailbag including 'What Movies Mean to Us'
--Our review of The Visitor - DVD Release
--and our newest segment, Living Room Film Festival. This week's theme: The Creepy Animation Film Festival
Joe and Ethan picked the films in this innaugural installment of LRFF to get the ball rolling, but we want to hear from you. Email us your picks for this LRFF (maybe we missed an obvious Creepy Animated Film) or next week's theme, The International Thriller Film Festival, to themoviehour@gmail.com.
Here are some clips from films from the innaugural LRFF, Creepy Animation.
Joe's Pick - Spirited Away - As Ethan said, all of our picks could potentially be anime entries considering the Japanese's seeming ability to tolerate creepy and violent images in their animation. In America, we just like our cutesy-poo animals singing and dancing. So my anime inclusion for the Fest is Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the 2001 Oscar winner for Best Animated Picture. The sequence where Chihiro’s parents are transformed to pigs and the scenes of No-Face eating the bathhouse staff leap to mind. Apologies for the tribute style clip below.
Ethan's Pick - Dot and the Kangaroo - This one freaked me out as a kid. If you've never seen it, enjoy.
Joe's Pick - Watership Down - If Ethan wants to discuss his traumatized youth, I'll go toe to toe. I'm 7 or 8 years old and my parents see a cute bunny cartoon for rent at the video store. They plunk it in and, as I remember it, leave the room. It's Watership Down. Enjoy the cute bunnies below. Another tribute style clip.
Ethan's Pick - Waking Life - This one isn't creepy so much as noteworthy although Linklater and art director, Bob Sabiston use animation to spin real life situations and conversations into unexpected places--some of them creepy. I really love this film.
Joe's Pick - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Again, not so much creepy as interestingly injected into the film. Some could find the theory of how two people find one another creepy...maybe. It plays like a music video, so no explanation really needed.
Ethan's Pick - The Triplets of Belleville
Joe's Bonus Pick - We were running long so I left this one out of the podcast, but this is one of my most memorable Jr. High-age movie experiences:
Also mentioned on the show:
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Natural Born Killers blood/snake animation
and, of course, The Nightmare Before Christmas
What did we leave out? Email Joe and Ethan at themoviehour@gmail.com
Monday, February 9, 2009
Episode 1 of The Movie Hour is now online! There are many ways to get the show and listen to it. If you have an iPod, the easiest way to get and listen to the show is to click on the "Subscribe with iTunes" icon right below this.
If you have any other MP3 player and would like to add our show to your playlist, please Right click the following link and choose "Save". Then drag it to your software of choice to upload to your player.
Download this episode (right click and save)
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If you have any other MP3 player and would like to add our show to your playlist, please Right click the following link and choose "Save". Then drag it to your software of choice to upload to your player.
Download this episode (right click and save)
The easiest way to listen to a stream over the net is to use the player below. Just click play, and depending on your connection speed, it should start playing right away. Thanks for listening and remember we want your feedback. Please email us at TheMovieHour@gmail.com.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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