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It’s difficult to believe that another ten years has flown by and your gracious hosts are digging through an entire decade of film for the second time in this podcast’s illustrious lifespan. But for this go-around, Kurt and Andrew (and oftentimes our good friend Matt Gamble) have gone through these obstreperous ten years more or less together. For us, this has been a lifestyle; a marriage if you will. Not to each other, but to this web site, this podcast (what’s left of it) and to the art of film. We’ve spent a third of our lives(!) breaking down scenes, bickering about scripts, quoting Walter Sobchak and Mark Rumsfield, debating ambition versus actual, deriding the Transformers series, lavishing praise on everything from Almodóvar to Zahler, lamenting the loss of some of our greatest heroes and wondering why there isn’t more of Rosario Dawson in pretty much everything. And for ten damn years we’ve done all of this together… always wishing there was additional time to see and do more of all of it. So in this episode we breakdown the decade that was. If we figured out one thing, it’s that there’s nothing much to pin down on the last 3650 days. No matter where you look, there’s something new and interesting or different and obtuse. It might not all be good, but it’s uniquely its own and there’s art to be found all over the place. It’s in camera and out. It’s in our personal subconscious and society at large. For better or worse, it’s shaped who we are as people and it’s fun to go back over all of the ups and downs, strikes and gutters and what-have-yous from the past ten years. Nothing before has been like it and nothing moving forward will be the same. It’s glorious; warts and all. As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!       TIME TRACKS: Opening: 0:00 – 2:06 The New: 2:07 – 11:07 General Decade chatter: 11:09 – 1:03:29 Top Ten Lists: 1:03:31 – […]

The one in which we break down the past twelve months of film. We’ve done it before and we will might do it again. We start off the show saying that we’ll spend the second half of the show talking about the past decade. But this thing goes on long enough and we call an audible and decide we’ll record that conversation at a later date. But for this episode, we come up with a few thoughts about what 2019 had in store for us; just off the cuff: horror movies are actually hilarious, the poor eat the rich, Eddie Murphy sparked a personal renaissance, streaming reigned supreme, Bombshell wins our casting award and Disney can just fuck right off. This is just a taste of all the goodies we uncovered. Of course, no year in review would be complete without the obligatory top ten (or so) list that requires some amount of breakdown.

As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!

If you’re a regular listener to The Cinecast of yesteryear, you’ll know that Kurt’s been on Andrew’s case since forever to get his ass up to Montreal for the annual Fantasia Film Festival. Apparently all it took was the better part of a decade and the “closing” of RowThree to secure a festival badge and train ticket. And from what we can remember, it was a pretty good time with friends and flicks; a full recap is attached hereto. But first, folk horror rears its evil head in Scandanavia with Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Quentin Tarantino wows us with his ninth tenth ninth(?) newest film with yet another foray into revisionist history. This time it’s late 60s California in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. So don your flower crowns, light up a Red Apple® and sit back and enjoy; it’s time for the Cinecast Special!

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We miss it. So we gotta do it. And what better time to get the Cinecast brothers back together than for the end of the year recap? After some much needed catch-up and chit-chat, we talk about some of the themes and overall thoughts on what a great year 2018 has been for cinema… and what “cinema” even means in 2018. A top performances list is almost exclusively ruled by women this year and the boys find a lot of common ground in their final top ten films of the year. Apologies in advance for literally yelling at you for not liking Widows, but that’s your own fault.

As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts about the year in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!

We thought we were done. You thought we were done. And we are. But we got a little homesick for some good ol’ fashioned Cinecast magic. And today’s films up for discussion could not have scratched that itch any better. It’s been close to ten months since the boys last spoke and so naturally we need to take some time to play catch-up with our cinematic lives over that time. 2017 stand outs, what’s been on the radar for 2018 and so forth. And then we get into full SPOILER discussions of Boots Riley’s magnetic Sorry to Bother You as well as Tom Cruise’s stunt extravaganzza, Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Kurt, once again, visited Montreal for the always entertaining “Fantasia Film Festival” while Andrew stayed home and watch Kevin Costner on the small screen. The Cinecast is resurrected one more time and there’s a lot to catch up on here folks, so let’s get to it…

As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!

TIME TRACKS:

Opening: 0:00 – :50

Catching Up: 0:51 – 30:53

Sorry to Bother You (SPOILERS!): 30:54 – 1:07:32

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (SPOILERS!): 1:07:33 – 1:40:14

Fantasia: 1:40:16 – 2:39:56

Watch List: 2:39:57 – 3:12:50

A Bunch of Other Banter and Goodbye: 3:12:51 – 3:37:06

Closing Music (“Meet on the Ledge” – Greta Van Fleet): 3:34:16 – 3:38:03

While it’s true that RowThree.com is going static after a decade of updates, a milestone by any measure, we’re not done! After the Credits has a new home and we’re happy to announce that going forward, you can find new episodes of the podcast at atcpod.ca beginning with the December preview which will drop next week followed by some coverage from the Whistler Film Festival. Come January, we’ll be re-launching Girls on Pop and Dale has been cooking up a side-show for a few months that we’re hoping to launch in the very near future – all this to say that we’re not going anywhere! For the most part, you won’t need to make any changes to your feed but if you don’t see fresh content popping up before November 30th, or to prevent missing any awesomeness, update your feed to http://atcpod.ca/feed/.

Ten damn years! The Cinecast has been around for ten years totaling (more than) 500 episodes. We’ve argued over, bickered about, tongue-bathed, laughed about and quoted movies for close to 2000 recorded hours. We’ve made loads of new friends, lost loved ones, earned degrees, visited other continents, entered the covenant of marriage, written books, attended countless festivals, interviewed celebrities and even starred in a couple of low budget films in that time. And the amount of alcohol consumed… I don’t even want to think about it. We have some of the most devoted listeners in podcasting and I have to believe we’re in the running for most hours recorded of one series in the history of podcasting at this point. Therefore, of course we have a good hour of reminiscing and say thanks to a few important folks. But as we hit this momentous milestone we, for the most part, treat it like any other episode. We have three theatrical reviews: Thor: Ragnorak, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Murder on the Orient Express. Then we take some time to look back at the year that is 2017 which of course includes a top five list. We also fulfill on a years-old promise (or at least half of it) with a retro-review of Tyrannosaur in return for a generous donation from listener Len Fearnside.

This is The Cinecast 500. Yes, have some.

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We missed October due to festival and scheduling craziness but I’d like to think we more than made up for it with a couple of bonus episodes from VIFF. The crew is, however, reunited this month as Colleen, Dale (Letterboxd) and I (Letterboxd) look ahead at November which is a mishmash of everything from action adventure (Thor: Ragnarok) and family fare (Coco) to awards hopefuls (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Subscribe: show content ALL the RowThree Podcasts on one feed All posts and discussions from RowThree We can also be contacted via email – [email protected]! Show Notes: Click on movie title for the trailer. Opening Music: Led Zepplin’s “Immigrant Song“ Opening November 3rd Thor: Ragnarok A Bad Moms Christmas Roman J. Israel, Esq. Last Flag Flying Lady Bird Blade of the Immortal My Friend Dahmer LBJ Opening November 10th Murder ont he Orient Express Daddy’s Home 2 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Thelma Opening November 17th Justice League Wonder The Star I Love You, Daddy Opening November 24th Coco Darkest Hour Polaroid Call Me By Your Name The Man Who Invented Christmas Chappaquiddick Closing Music: Gang of Youths’ “Heroes“

Blade Runner 2049 fixes some things about the original 1982 film. This is exactly why Andrew is happy and why Kurt is pissed off. Also, is it basically a remake in disguise? The boys dissect. Up next, what if The Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino were married and their child was a gore hound? You’d have S. Craig Zahler and Brawl in Cell Block 99 would be his sophomore effort.

Kurt is back from Sitges and we get a little taste of that experience at the beginning of the show. Towards the end of the episode, Andrew has been turning off his brain with mostly junk cinema while Kurt saw his favorite film of the year. Have a listen and make your case/point in the comments below.

As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!

The Vancouver International Film Festival is back for another year and with it, our semi-regular VIFF dispatches. We’re back for our third update and final update from the festival. I’m (Letterboxd) joined by festival correspondent and friend of the podcast Mr. Bill Harris (Twitter), whom you can regularly find on The Green Screen of Death podcast along with Lisa, who joins us for another year as we count down our favourite picks from the festival.