Shot/Reverse Shot

In honour of this year's big game, this episode is all about Sports movies, from earnest documentaries to rousing crowdpleasers, with a sprinkling of talk about how insane it is that Joseph Fiennes has been cast to play Michael Jackson. 

00:00:00 - 00:01:50 - Intro00:01:51 - 00:23:57 - Discussion of Sports Movies00:23:58 - 00:29:58 - SRS Recommends & Outro

To mark the end of the Sundance film festival for another year, Matt and Ed discuss some of the big news coming out of Park City, what films from the festival have piqued their interest, and what Sundance's place in the culture is now compared to its heyday in the mid-to-late '90s. They also establish the many ways in which Kevin Smith is exactly the same as a cartoon dog.

00:00:00 - 00:00:50 - Intro00:00:51 - 00:24:38 - Discussion of Sundance00:24:39 - 00:31:32 - SRS Recommends and Outro

Here is a link to the Nathan Rabin article mentioned towards the end of the episode which also inspired Matt and Ed's recommendations for the week.

This week's episode is all about hot-button topics as Matt & Ed start with a discussion of the ongoing controversy over the Academy Awards' lack of diversity, as well as the soon-to-be-implemented  changes to the Academy's membership rules. (Ed also gets to talk about being branded an "SJW Sheep" by some dickhead on Twitter.) Then they delve into the world of piracy: why people do it (and why they say that they do it), how it has altered the film industry, and how it will continue to alter the ways in which people consume media.

00:00:00 - 00:14:36 - Intro & Discussion of the Oscars controversy00:14:37 - 00:45:41 - Matt & Ed discuss Piracy00:45:42 - 00:51:22 - SRS Recommends & Outro

A.K.A. "Shittiest Week Ever" Minisode.

Like seemingly the entire world, we were deeply saddened to hear of the death of David Bowie this week, then knocked right on the fucking floor by the death of Alan Rickman a few days later. We had hoped to put together a fuller episode about the two men, but unforeseen circumstances made that impossible. However, we submit this minisode, in which Ed talks about what Bowie and Rickman meant to him growing up and now, as a modest tribute. With apologies to Camilla Long, we're really sad about these two artists passing and we're going to go on about it.

Happy New Year! As is customary, a new season of Shot/Reverse Shot starts by looking at the release schedule and considering what cinematic delights the year ahead has in store. Matt and Ed run down the blockbusters, independent curios and outright oddities that will be hitting screens in 2016, and make the first reference to So Solid Crew that anyone anywhere has made in at least 10 years.

Another year has come and gone, and now we need to try and make sense of it. Fortunately, Matt and Ed are up to the task, and in this bumper round-up of the year they talk about some of the big film and TV stories, pitch some ideas for Episode VIII to Rian Johnson (#QuiJohnCandy), before finishing with a countdown of the Shot/Reverse Shot Top 10 Films of 2015. 

It's a silly, joyous end to a long, strange year, and we hope that you've enjoyed listening to the show as much as we have enjoyed making it.

00:00:00 - 00:01:58 - Intro00:01:59 - 00:11:05 - Round-up of film news in 201500:11:06 - 00:22:26 - The big hits and colossal misses at the box office00:22:27 - 00:27:07 - Disappointments00:27:08 - 00:41:59 - A rundown of the worst films of the year00:42:00 - 00:50:54 - The year in TV00:50:55 - 01:41:30 - The SRS Top Ten films of 201501:41:31 - 01:43:26 - Outro

Seeing that Matt and Ed spent the better part of a year talking about how much they were looking forward to a new Star Wars movie, it would be downright silly for them not to talk about the film now that it's actually out in the world.

To that end, this bonus episode is a spoiler-filled one in which the boys talk about The Force Awakens: what they liked about it, what didn't work, and how it compares to the other films in the saga.

Here is a link to the Mike Ryan article, "The Redemption of Han Solo in The Force Awakens", that Ed mentions towards the end of the episode.

Annoying real-life things like families and that prevented Matt and Ed from being able to record a full episode this week. Instead, they decided to talk before the release of The Force Awakens about what they hope to see (and not to see) in one of the most anticipated films of all time, their favourite (and least favourite) Christmas movies, and how shit turkey is. Think of it as a stocking stuffer ahead of next week's bumper end of year spectacular!

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and have a lovely time from Shot/Reverse Shot!

Matt and Ed finish their year-long series of artist profiles with a discussion of the work of British director Michael Winterbottom, a filmmaker who seems determined to take on every genre imaginable, and who will invent genres if he has to. In addition to discussing how fun his meta experiments can be and how dull his hardcore sex experiment was, they discuss British cinema's inferiority complex, which bands offer the modern equivalent of national service, and reminisce about awkward romantic(?) encounters.

00:00:00 - 00:02:29 - Intro00:02:30 - 00:44:56 - Discussion of the work of Michael Winterbottom00:44:57 - 00:46:43 - Outro & Deleted Scene

Inspired by Spectre and its insistence on squandering the scenery-destroying talents of Christoph Waltz, Matt and Ed are talking about Wasted Potential this week. They discuss artists who don't fulfill their potential due to the actions of others (Orson Welles), because of their own choices (Marlon Brando), or just because they stopped trying (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino etc.). They also wonder if Jesse Eisenberg's awful-looking performance as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman is secretly brilliant, share their #hottake on the recently announced BIFA winners, and accidentally create a mashup of Night of the Hunter and Shadow of the Colossus.

00:00:00 - 00:12:57 - Intro & News00:12:58 - 00:51:09 - Matt and Ed discuss Wasted Potential00:51:10 - 00:55:38 - SRS Recommends & Outro 

- Here is the Nathan Rabin article on Wish I Was Here that Matt references during SRS Recommends.