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After an unscheduled week off, Matt and Ed are back with a vengeance to talk about all the exciting and/or interesting films scheduled to come out between now and the end of the year. In addition to discussing whether or not they're anticipating the likes of The Martian, Crimson Peak, The Revenant and Spectre, they talk about the Emmys, franchises that Ridley Scott could revisit instead of the Alien/Prometheus universe, and whether all movie biopics are built upon the idea that "behind every great man is a great woman in a terrible supporting role."

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:08:56 - Intro & Discussion of the week's news.00:08:57 - 00:55:32 - Matt and Ed talk about the films and TV shows which are going to be hitting screens in the next few months.00:55:33 - 01:00:20 - SRS Recommends & Outro.

Back in March of 2012, Matt and Ed discussed the state of television for the fourth episode of this podcast. Back then, they thought that people seemed pretty excited about working in TV, and that streaming might catch on. A little over three years later, they return to the subject to assess their mild predictions and consider the era of so-called "Peak TV", a term coined after FX President John Landgraf talked at the TCA tour about how there is too much good TV. 

They consider the meaning of that sentiment, as well the connection between the fertility of the American alt comedy scene and the current boom for American television comedy, which is going through a remarkably varied and fertile period.

Never ones to stay on topic, they also pitch a Rango/Django Crossover, muse on how unlistenable the Goldeneye score is, and try to expand into the area of audience participation.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:11:58 - Intro & Discussion of the week's news00:11:59 - 00:59:30 - Discussion of the notion of "Peak TV" and what has changed in television since 2012.00:59:31 - 01:04:07 - SRS Recommends & Outro

In the wake of Force Friday, which saw thousands of people going bonkers for toys for a film which isn't even out for three months, Matt and Ed take stock of Star Wars as a long-running franchise, a cultural monolith, and as significant part of their own personal development as film fans. 

Along the way, Matt discusses the justly forgotten Matthew Weiner movie Are You Here, Ed describes one of the most enjoyably crazy Star Wars Expanded Universe stories (it involves Jabba's Palace and disembodied brains!), and they workshop an ending to the pending Michael Winterbottom-directed Roger Ebert/Russ Meyer movie. They also pay tribute to Wes Craven, talk about how good Idris Elba would be as James Bond, and drop some deep Simpsons references throughout. It's a packed episode, all told.

00:00:00 - 00:19:20 - Intro & discussion of the week's news.00:19:21 - 00:54:29 - Discussion of Star Wars.00:54:30 - 00:58:52 - SRS Recommends & Outro

This week's episode finds Matt & Ed discussing evolution. Not the actual scientific theory, but the ways in which artists change over the course of their careers, and how changes in an artist's style or genre impact their relationship with their audience. They also take the opportunity to talk about how their own tastes have changed, Matt coins the most baffling campaign slogan ever, and Ed has some choice words for Peter Bogdanovich.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:18:08 - Intro and discussion of this week's news.00:18:19 - 00:52:45 - Matt and Ed discuss how artists evolve over the course of a career, and how their own tastes have changed over time.00:52:46 - 00:57:02 - SRS Recommends and Outro

- Here is a link to the interview with Quentin Tarantino discussed in the News segment.- The Paul Haggis film Ed was thinking of was Third Person.

For their seventh artist profile, Matt and Ed step a little bit out of their comfort zone by discussing someone who a) isn't an actor or director and b) hasn't made all that much work that they actually like. The person is question is Jerry Bruckheimer, the uber-producer who came to prominence in the 1980s with films like Flashdance, Top Gun and the Beverly Hills Cop series, and who has remained one of the most successful producers in Hollywood for three decades.

As part of the discussion they talk about Bruckheimer's tendency to forge strong working relationships with filmmakers which end the instant a film fails, his working relationship with the late Don Simpson, and try to discover the truth of what really happened on the Titanic.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:01:15 - Intro

00:01:16 - 00:49:02 - Profile of Jerry Bruckheimer

00:49:03 - 00:50:34 - Outro

To mark the end of season two of HBO's anthology series True Detective, which generated as much discussion online as the first season did, albeit for very different reasons, Matt and Ed decided to dig into how one of last year's most acclaimed shows became one of this year's most derided. 

In addition to figuring out just what went wrong with season two, they discuss the glut of Disney and Star Wars news that came out of the D23 expo this weekend, the possible return of Deadwood, and whether or not Vince Vaughn has become the white Eddie Murphy.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:21:20 - Intro & discussion of the week's news.00:21:21 - 00:54:33 - Matt & Ed discuss the second season of True Detective00:54:34 - 00:58:41 - SRS Recommends & Outro

You can find our episode about the first season of True Detective here. Please bear in mind that episode has some audio issues because we hadn't got a quality set-up at that point (and as opposed to the minor audio issues this week, which were due to us recording during a massive bloody thunderstorm.)

In what will hopefully become a tradition for the show, this week dispenses with having a set theme in order to celebrate one of the hosts' birthday. In this instance, the host in question is Ed.

There's still talk of what's been going on in film and television this week - including discussion about the fallout from Josh Trank's tweet disowning Fantastic Four and Jon Stewart's departure from The Daily Show - but the core of the episode is an amorphous discussion between Matt and Ed about ambitious sequels, indie directors taking on big franchise movies, and what Francis Ford Coppola's Twitter feed would look like in 1979.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:26:30 - Intro & discussion of this week's news.00:26:31 - 00:50:50 - Ed's Special Birthday Discussion00:50:51 - 00:56:33 - SRS Recommends & Outro

In what will hopefully become a tradition for the show, this week dispenses with having a set theme in order to celebrate one of the hosts' birthday. In this instance, the host in question is Ed.
There's still talk of what's been going on in film and television this week - including discussion about the fallout from Josh Trank's tweet disowning Fantastic Four and Jon Stewart's departure from The Daily Show - but the core of the episode is an amorphous discussion between Matt and Ed about ambitious sequels, indie directors taking on big franchise movies, and what Francis Ford Coppola's Twitter feed would look like in 1979.
Show Notes
00:00:00 - 00:26:30 - Intro & discussion of this week's news.00:26:31 - 00:50:50 - Ed's Special Birthday Discussion00:50:51 - 00:56:33 - SRS Recommends & Outro

Marking the culmination of a long-running project for Matt, who has spent much of the last year watching most of Disney's animated movies, this episode focuses on the animated movies of Disney. In addition to that, Matt and Ed talk about Ian McShane going Game of Thrones, pitch a Disney take on the gunpowder plot, and the ways in which Disney's corporate elements make it surprisingly willing to take big risks.

Show Notes

00:00:00 - 00:12:23 - Intro & Discussion of the week's news.00:12:24 - 00:19:00 - The debut of our new feature: Bullshit Lists.00:19:01 - 00:51:23 - Matt & Ed discuss the films and impact of Disney00:51:24 - 00:56:18 -  SRS Recommends & Outro

As promised back in the Burt Lancaster episode, Matt and Ed follow-up quickly with an episode of one of the most electrifying and frustrating actors in film history, Eddie Murphy. In addition to discussing his origins as a standup and on Saturday Night Live, they talk about his meteoric rise in the 1980s, his absolute nadir in the mid-'00s, and the reason behind his anticlimactic return to SNL earlier this year.

Show Notes

0:00:00 - 0:00:46 - Intro0:00:47 - 0:55:45 - Profile of Eddie Murphy0:55:46 - 0:56:44 - Outro

This episode was recorded several months ago, which is why we make no reference to recent news stories such as the Lafayette cinema shooting. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families.