Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 129: Run All Night (2015) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

Episode 129

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and welcome to Movie Podcast Weekly, Episode 129. During this show, your hosts bring you Feature Reviews of Run All Night and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Join us!

If you’re new to our show… Movie Podcast Weekly typically features three hosts — Jason, Andy and Karl — along with frequent guests. We give you our verdicts on at least one new movie release from the current year that’s currently playing in theaters, as well as several mini reviews of whatever we’ve been watching lately. And we usually provide specialized genre recommendations. New episodes release every single Tuesday. 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