The Cold Open Podcast

In the Cold Open #23, the Maximum Security Media Edition, Matt Reynolds and Robert Sickels reveal the five essential pieces of media they’d each choose to have for the rest of their lives were they forced to make that choice.  In addition to innumerable digressions about a little bit of everything, this includes discussions on the output of The Fall and The Avett Brothers, Max Ophüls’ The Earrings of Madame de…, the films of Jimmy Stewart, The Simpsons, The Oakland Athletics via MLB.tv, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, the collected works of Jane Austen, the films of Robert Altman, and the collected works of Ed Brubaker.  Our outro this episode is The Avett Brothers’ “Open Ended Life.”

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In the Cold Open #22, the Doc Days of Summer Edition, Matt Reynolds and Robert Sickels begin with a discussion of their recent early summer movie going experiences, including both Pitch Perfects, Mad Max: Fury Road (as well as its antecedents), Tomorrowland, Hot Pursuit, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, and It Follows.  From there we move on to a close look at three documentaries recently released on HBO: Alex Gibney’s Going Clear, Brett Morgen’s Montage of Heck, and Nick Broomfield’s Tales of the Grim Sleeper. Our outro this episode is Nirvana’s cover of the Vaseline’s Jesus Don’t Want Me For a Sunbeam.

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In the Cold Open Podcast #21, The Fast and Furious Edition, Matt Reynolds and Robert Sickels discuss their diametrically opposing points of view about Furious 7, the latest installment of the Fast and Furious franchise.  This leads to our talking about the prevalence of comic books as source material for movies and TV shows and whether or not we may be reaching a saturation point.  We then wrap things up with our thoughts on what’s it like being media obsessed while living life as a cord cutter.  Our outro this week is Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” from the Furious 7 soundtrack.

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In The Cold Open Podcast #20, The March Madness Spring Break Edition, Matt Reynolds and Robert Sickels revisit Television Delivers People, Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman’s landmark 1973 video art piece.  We look at it as a work of art in an of itself and also consider it in light of its considerable prescience as it applies to the rapidly changing landscape of contemporary television.  Our outro this week is The Kinks’ “Celluloid Heroes.”

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In The Cold Open Podcast #19, The Winter is Coming Edition, Matt Reynolds and Robert Sickels start with an old man digression about weather that unexpectedly leads to our naming our favorite gambling movies, Robert Altman’s California Split and John Dahl’s Rounders.  We then go into a spoiler heavy break down of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar as a singular film and in the context of both his career and science fiction films in general.  This is followed by our takes on Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, which, as professors at a small residential liberal arts college, is more than a little bit in our wheel house.  We touch briefly on Dear White People and other college set films before concluding with Robert’s obsession with the video game Shadow of Mordor and Matt pledging to play The Last of Us from start to finish, which we’ll discuss in a future pod.  In homage to Mike Nichols, our outro this episode is Simon & Garfunkle’s “Sound of Silence,” a director both Matt and Robert adore.

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