Cynema

Cynema

By B. Harrison SmithTV & FilmArtsPerforming ArtsFilm History
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Cynema episodes

  • EP 62 The 80s Road To Cynema: Part 3

    From "Mad Monster Party" to "SpedWoman." How I missed the great new opportunities of the burgeoning video revolution of the mid-80s and got complacent and self-impressed.

    Link to my original early 80s "SpedWoman" films: https://vimeo.com/316614671

    27 min
  • EP 61 The 80s Road To Cynema: Part 2

    Part Two of my limited sub series examining my path into the film industry and avoiding Cynema along the way as I learned more about. This episode features real-life sound bytes from my eighth grade reading teacher who guided me through my first "feature film," a remake of 1967's "Mad Monster Party."

    Video link to the actual 8th grade film: https://vimeo.com/316962105

    29 min
  • EP 60 The 80s Road To Cynema Series: Part 1
    A sub-series look at how I came to understand Cynema as boy filmmaker and my growth into this professional industry. This week's episode ask you: Why do you want to make movies? From "Jaws" through the 80s and to now...how did Get to where I am and not become cynical?
    32 min
  • EP 59 90 Day Accepted Cynema
    "90 Day Finance" and its myriad of spin-offs transcends Cynema and becomes a false message of female empowerment while legitimizing dirty old men, child brides and "legal pedophilia." A look at how the message is not what it seems or can be easily excused as junk food entertainment.
    36 min
  • EP 58 Based on a True Story...Sort Of...

    What exactly does "Based On..." mean? Is there a cynical attempt to pass of non-research as fact and do we notice anymore?

    Links: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-jobs-biopic-20151011-story.html
    Columbus Journal: https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111columbus.html
    Jobs Widow Article: https://fortune.com/2015/10/11/apple-jobs-laurene-movie/
    The Martian, a True Story? https://time.com/4066689/the-martian-tweets-true-story/

    27 min
  • EP 57 Psycho II Dodges Cynema
    Tom Holland's brilliant screenplay for this sequel was a roadmap to success. "Psycho II" is one of the greatest sequels to a classic film made but it didn't have to be. The bar was low at the height of the 80s slasher sub genre, but the filmmakers resisted Cynema.
    27 min
  • EP 56 Attack of the Rotten Tomatoes

    An examination of the 2017 summer box office and the year studios cried foul against aggregate site, "Rotten Tomatoes," citing the website's influence for the less than stellar performances of their films. Is there anything to it or is it a cynical cop out?

    LINKS: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/media/rotten-tomatoes-box-office.html
    http://horrorfuel.com/2017/03/26/critical-thinking-with-film-and-reviews/

    25 min
  • EP 55 Kirk? Picard? Cynema?
    Leonard Nimoy refused to direct "Star Trek VII" for a number of reasons, but the first being a bad script. Was he right? A look at an entry in the franchise which just might be Cynema.
    43 min
  • EP 54 Hope To Do Your Best
    I just wrapped a new horror film...a monster movie and a quick look at fighting not just COVID but Cynema as well. Hope it helps any of you out there in turmoil with your projects because of the pandemic.
    29 min

About Cynema

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The podcast inspired by Jaws the Revenge. Not a movie review site, but rather a look at the effects of cynicism on our entertainment.