Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 052: Prisoners (2013), The East (2013) and an Interview With Writer-Director Matt Thompson

In Episode 052, your favorite Movie Podcast Weekly hosts get back to the basics with their usual format and two great Feature Reviews of “Prisoners” and “The East.” Also, Andy and Jason bring you an interview with writer-director MATT THOMPSON, whose new, indie horror film “Bloodline” is scheduled for a Limited release on Friday, September 27, 2013. We’ll bring you our feature review of “Bloodline” next week during Episode 053. But in this show, we bring you our Mini Reviews and our Specialty Recommendation Segments. Very fun. Continue reading

Reconsidering Jody Hill’s “Observe and Report”: Is It Transgressive Cinema?

by Andy and Jason Pyles
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Andy and Jason Pyles, the authors of this essay, are two of the hosts of Movie Podcast Weekly, a new movie podcast that launches on October 1, 2012. Andy and Jason revisited Jody Hill’s dark comedy “Observe and Report” (2009), and then had the following discussion via e-mail. Here is Jason’s perspective:

The Flawed Defense of Transgressive Cinema. There’s a phenomenon called “transgressive cinema.” It’s not new. I believe that term was originally coined in the ’80s, but transgressive cinema has been around since the birth of the medium. Indeed, Georges Méliès (“A Trip to the Moon”) used to make nudie films, Continue reading