This week the Cut Print Film Podcast is broadcasting from the back seat of a fast car that goes vroom! No, we're safe and sound in our studio, but we are talking about the latest installment of the Fast & the Furious saga, Furious 7. Does the film improve upon the previous six? Are the explosions bigger and louder? Do the cars go faster than ever? And most importantly, how does Furious 7  hold up as a metaphor for our patriarchal, testosterone-fueled society? Just kidding, let's hear those cars go vroom again! After all that nonsense, we wrap up our David Lynch Directors Series with a discussion on his 2001 dream-haze masterpiece, Mulholland Drive. Were we left spellbound by the film's obtuse narrative or did we turn it off mid-way and pop in an HD-DVD copy of The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift? Download this episode to find out!

02:57 –  Furious 7

13:57 - Cut Print Film Mail Call

23:00 - Mulholland Dr.

1:06:33 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties, the Cut Print Film Podcast is taking the week off. While we're busy making the necessary repairs to our studio, feel free to take a trip down memory lane as we present to you volume 2 of our greatest hits! Laugh at our irreverent jokes all over again and revel in our spot-on assessments of some of the finest films ever released (Mortdecai). We'll see you all next week with a brand new episode and the finale of our David Lynch Directors Series which finds us discussing his 2001 film Mulholland Drive.

Spring has sprung but we're not quite out of the woods when it comes to bland-to-terrible Hollywood offerings (The Divergent Series: Insurgent, we're looking at you).  Fortunately, we live in an age where independent films are more freely available than ever before which means there's a respite to the slop playing at the multiplex.  This week we're discussing two of the best films of the year so far that just so happen to have been released by small, indie studios with no star power to speak of - Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter and Spring.  After that we get out our anesthesia inhalers, take a deep breath, and discuss David Lynch's sexy, twisted murder-mystery, Blue Velvet as part two of our David Lynch Directors Series. Once the blood has been mopped up we hand out our Weekly Movie Recommendations and call it a day.

02:42 –  Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

09:14 - Spring

18:43 - Blue Velvet

1:00:22 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

In case you haven't heard the good news, Adam Sandler has a new, terrible film out called The Cobbler and our very own Chris Evangelista has some strong opinions on the matter. With indie horror on the rise thanks to director Ti West's low budget/high tension films and last year's critically acclaimed The Babadook, we take a look at the micro-genre and discuss this week's wide release of It Follows. After all that spooky talk, we kick off our Director's Series on the surreal films of David Lynch by discussing one of his most accessible films, The Elephant Man. Marvel as we link our trunks and tails and walk in a circle for your entertainment. As if all that weren't enough, we find the time to give out our Weekly Movie Recommendations before lying down for a permanent sleep.  Just kidding! We'll see you all next week!

01:32 –  The Cobbler

08:06 - It Follows

31:28 - The Elephant Man

1:08:17 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

The month of March arrives with cold temperatures, unforgiving snow, and two horrendous new movie releases in Chappie and Unfinished Business.  We discuss Neill Blomkamp's new sci-fi misfire and what it means to truly be Chappie before tackling Vince Vaughn's new culturally tone deaf new road trip comedy, the aforementioned Unfinished Business.  Then we wash our hands of all that swill and finish off our Kathryn Bigelow Director's Series in grand fashion with her 2012 politics-of-war film, Zero Dark Thirty.  Does the film live up to the high expectations of the last film in this series, Strange Days? Yes, it does.  Strange Days was a terrible movie. Find out what we thought of the film and then take our hands as we guide you through the week with our Weekly Movie Recommendations.

01:46 –  Unfinished Business

11:18 - Chappie

23:05 - Zero Dark Thirty

1:09:03 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

We're comparing and contrasting two new films that opened this past weekend:  Focus, the Will Smith-fueled conman drama and The Lazarus Effect, the budget-conscious PG-13 horror film starring Olivia Wilde.  Surprisingly, there are few surprises!  Will Smith charms his way through Focus while The Lazarus Effect fails to have much of an effect at all aside from persuading audiences to avoid it in droves.  Then we jack into Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 cyber-punk nightmare (based off a dream James Cameron had in the 80s), Strange Days.  How strange are these days?  Let me put it this way: Tom Sizemore has his wig ripped off and no one bats an eyelash!  As if all this weren't enough, we leave you with our Weekly Movie Recommendations to see you through another week.

01:50 –  Focus

8:21 - The Lazarus Effect

20:44 - Strange Days

59:33 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

Oh my!  The 87th Academy Awards have come and gone and we're here picking up the pieces of everyone's broken hearts.  That is, if you aren't involved with Birdman, Whiplash, or The Grand Budapest Hotel.  Or if you aren't Julianne Moore.  You know what, it was a great night for films that actually deserved to be awarded.  Of course, the Oscars wouldn't be the Oscars without some nonsense and unbelievably low low points.  Neil Patrick Harris did his best to shine up the dreadfully humorless material he was given but to not much avail.  Come listen to our reactions to the Oscars winners, losers, musical performances and much more on this week's episode.  As always, we give you our Weekly Movie Recommendations to see you through the cold, dark night.

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01:00 –  The Oscars!

1:00:07 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

It was a huge R-Rated Valentine's Day weekend at the box office as the BDSM phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey was released to the tune of $90 million!  The hyper-violent Kingsman: The Secret Service also came out this weekend with a healthy box office take of $41 million.  After discussing these unlikely wintertime hits, we look toward next week's Oscars ceremony and give our predictions for who will win as well as our personal picks for who should win.  In the end, the real winner is you, the listener!  Then we start a brand new Director's Series featuring the films of Kathryn Bigelow.  In this first installment we're discussing her surf-heist action film Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.  Did we find the film radical or did we pray for a tidal wave to snap our necks after watching?  You'll have to tune in and find out.  Naturally, we wouldn't leave you high and dry without signing off with our Weekly Movie Recommendations.

01:38 – Kingsman: The Secret Service

09:22 - Fifty Shades of Grey

13:18 - Oscar Predictions

42:37 - Point Break

1:19:09 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

Bad news everyone; it's February!  That means we're smack-dap in the middle of bad movie season.  To celebrate, we're discussing Jupiter Ascending, the new sci-fi space-fantasy epic starring Mila Kunis as a janitor-turned-queen of the cosmos and Channing Tatum as an dog-man creature thing.  With characters like that at your film's core, what could possible go wrong?  After we recover, we wrap up our Robert Altman Director's Series with a discussion about his 1985 film Fool for Love, based on the play by Sam Shepard.  Did we fall head over heels for the film or did we hop in our trucks and drive 3,000 miles just to escape our Fool for Love DVD?  Listen to find out and as an added bonus, we've thrown in our picks for our weekly movie recommendations!  What more could you ask for?

04:55 – Jupiter Ascending

19:32 - Fool for Love

54:54 - Weekly Movie Recommendations

The Sundance Film Festival has come and gone and with it comes a brand new batch of independent films that were snatched up by the studios.  We go over some of the films coming out of Sundance that we're looking forward to seeing in the near (and not so near) future.  In other news, the all-female cast for the Ghostbusters reboot has been announced and we weigh in with our thoughts.  Finally, we discuss the 1973 neo-noir film The Long Goodbye as part of our ongoing Director's Series on the genrebusting Robert Altman.  Does his deconstruction of the 50's detective story charm the pants off of us or does it leave us out in the rain?  Who knows?  (We do).  And as always, we leave you with our Weekly Movie Recommendations to get you through the week.

01:26 – Ghostbusters reboot

12:20 - Sundance Film Festival favorites

25:00 - The Long Goodbye

1:10:08 - Weekly Movie Recommendations