We’ve got mixed feelings about December’s theatrical releases, so this week we’re revisiting the month’s best and worst offerings.
Film Reviews: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Carnage, The Adventures of Tin Tin, Pina, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, War Horse, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Book Review: Super Sad True Love Story
Intro Music: Mission Impossible Theme
Outro Music: Collective Soul – December
Total run time: 50:44
File Size: 50.5MB
The whole CMC team is together this week, and we’re counting down our favourite films of 2011. Check out the post below for a complete list of our Top Tens!
Intro Music: Dr. Rockit – Cafe de Flore
Outro Clip: Benny Goodman – Sing Sing Sing
Total run time: 1:26:14
File Size: 126MB
We were a little late to the party on this… but here it is… our crew’s Top Ten Films of 2011: Stay tuned for our next podcast where we dish on all of our picks.
RYAN (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
“The Tree of Life” (USA, d. Terrence Malick)
“Melancholia” (Den/Fr. d. Lars Von Trier)
“Weekend” (UK, d. Andrew Haigh)
“Bridesmaids” (USA, d. Paul Feig)
“Carnage” (Fr/Ger/Pol, d. Roman Polanski)
“50/50″ (USA, d. Jonathan Levine)
“Another Earth” (USA, d. Mike Cahill)
“Take Shelter (USA, d. Jeff Nichols)
“Cafe de Flore” (Canada, d. Jean Marc Valee)
“Shame” (UK, d. Steve McQueen)
Honorable Mentions: The Muppets, Crazy Stupid Love, Super 8, The Descendants, My Week With Marilyn, Midnight in Paris
CINDY
1. “The Artist” (France, d. Michel Hazanavicius)
2. “Anonymous” (Uk/Ger, d. Roland Emmerich)
3. “The Help” (USA, d. Tate Taylor)
4. “My Week With Marilyn” (UK, d. Simon Curtis)
5. “Midnight in Paris” (Sp/USA, d. Woody Allen)
6. “J. Edgar” (USA, d. Clint Eastwood)
7.”Jane Eyre” (UK/USA, d. Cary Fukunaga)
8. “Hanna” (Ger/UK/USA, d. Joe Wright)
9.” Bridesmaids” (USA, d. Paul Feig)
10.” The Muppets” (USA, d. James Bobin)
COREY
1. “The Artist” (France, d. Michel Hazanavicius)
2. “The Interrupters” (USA, d. Steve James)
3. “Melancholia” (Den/Fr. d. Lars Von Trier)
4.”The Descendants” (USA, d. Alexander Payne)
5. “The Guard” (Ireland, d. John Michael McDonagh)
6. “Beginners” (USA, d. Mike Mills)
7. “Moneyball” (USA, d. Bennett Miller)
8. “Contagion” (USA, d. Steven Soderbergh)
9. “Hanna” (Ger/UK/USA, d. Joe Wright)
10.”Beauty Day” (Canada, d. Jay Cheel)
Honorable Mentions: The Muppets, 50/50, Attack the Block, Hobo With A Shotgun, Captain America:The First Avenger, Tabloid, Bridesmaids, Project Nim, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
GREG
1. “Melancholia” (Den/Fr. d. Lars Von Trier)
2. “Cafe de Flore” (Canada, d. Jean Marc Valee)
3. “The Artist” (France, d. Michel Hazanavicius)
4. “Monsieur Lazhar” (Canada, d. Phillipe Falardeau)
5. “I Saw The Devil” (S.Korea, d. Kim Jee Woon)
6. “Bridesmaids” (USA, d. Paul Feig)
7. “Incendies” (Canada, d. Denis Villeneuve)
8. “Attack the Block” (UK, d. Joe Cornish)
9. “Hanna” (Ger/UK/USA, d. Joe Wright)
10. “Young Adult” (USA, d. Jason Reitman)
Honorable Mentions: Super 8, Meek’s Cutoff, Beginners, Take Shelter, The Muppets, Rango, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Devil’s Double, The Descendants, Tyrannosaur, Contagion, Margin Call, X-Men:First Class, Submarine
Top Documentaries (Greg):
1. “Senna” (UK, d. Asif Kapadia)
2. “The Interrupters” (USA, Steve James)
3. “Urbanized” (USA, d. Gary Hustwit)
4. “Beauty Day” (Canada, d. Jay Cheel)
5. “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” (Can/USA/Fr/Ger/UK, d. Werner Herzog)
6. “Project Nim” (USA, d. James Marsh)
7. “Conan O’ Brien Can’t Stop” (USA, d. Rodman Flender)
8. “Into the Abyss” (USA, d. Werner Herzog)
9. “I’m Caroline Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful” (USA, d. Jonathan Demme)
10.”Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff” (UK, d. Craig McCall)
It’s a week full of technical difficulties here on CMC, but we’ve salvaged our reviews of two new releases: Shame and Young Adult. Happy Holidays, everyone!
Film Reviews: Shame, Young Adult
Intro Music: Bing Crosby – Mele Kalikimaka
Outro Clip: The Golden Girls – Blanche Loves Santa
Total run time: 31:09
File Size: 44.9MB
Last week’s CriticalMassCast group outing to A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas left us with some serious potty mouth… so NPH, this one’s for you!
Film Reviews: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Artist, Hugo, Like Crazy
Intro Music: 86 & Classing – Ridin’ (OST Harold and Kumar)
Outro Music: Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
Total run time: 55:33
File Size: 81.8MB
It’s bi-polar week on CriticalMassCast, with Corey, Greg and Ryan taking on two of the fall’s most talked-about releases: The Muppets and Melancholia.
Film Reviews: The Muppets, Melancholia, My Week With Marilyn, Cafe de Flore, Bellflower
Intro Music: The Muppets – Life’s a Happy Song
Outro Music: Lykke Li – Dance, Dance, Dance
Total run time: 1:03:21
File Size: 93.0MB
In this week’s episode, Corey, Greg, and Ryan tackle several new releases currently in theatres, discuss the enduring cultural impact of The Simpsons, and recap some highlights of the fall TV season.
Film Reviews: The Three Musketeers, Paranormal Activity 3, In Time, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Take Shelter
Book Reviews: Planet Simpson
Intro Music: The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
Outro Clip: The Simpsons – The Monorail Song
Total run time: 1:23:06
File Size: 119.7MB
Haaaaapy Halloweeeeeeeeen (in dulcet, creepy Vincent Price tones)!!
Zero Pretension, our sister show recently recorded a fantastic Halloween Horror Movie Special and we thought it would be fun to post it here as one of our extrasodes for your listening pleasure!
Greg Ashman from CriticalMassCast and his Zero Pretension co-hosts Shawn Keown and Frances Maxwell are joined by special guest Ricky D from the Montreal-based e-zine and podcast Sound On Sight to discuss our favourite horror films. We discuss everything from the old classics that continue to send us shivers to the modern classics that offer up great entertainment and cult appeal. So sit back in a dark room and share with us the stuff of NIGHTMARES!!!
Be sure to leave your comments here on the website or feel free to send your comments/questions to either zeropretension@gmail.com or criticalmasscast@gmail.com. If you haven’t been listening to our sister show, Zero Pretension- please check it out at zeropretension.wordpress.com.
Run Time: 1:34:54
File Size: 87 MB
Welcome back to the 
CriticalMassCast Film Series Edition where we take a closer, more in-depth look at films that reveal the best of the power of cinema.
In this edition, CriticaMassCast resident Greg Ashman and podcast guru Mark Perez (formerly of The Devil and Miss Mindy) review director Richard Linklater’s two crowning achievements (and compelling companion films) Before Sunrise from 1995 and his follow up Before Sunset from 2004 starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. It should be noted that the idea for this episode came at the perfect time and is a prelude to another show we hope to do soon on what should be a fantastic film- Andrew Haigh’s relationship drama “Weekend”. Enjoy!!
Opening track: “On Ocean Apart” (Before Sunrise/Before Sunrise OST)
Closing Track “Love Show” (Skye from the album Mind How You Go)
Total run time: 1:06:53
File Size: 61.3MB
In this week’s episode, Corey, Greg, and Ryan discuss the passing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and review some of this fall’s biggest releases currently in theatres (some good, some… not so good).
Films Reviewed: Drive, The Ides of March, 50/50, Moneyball, Real Steel, Good Neighbours, Smiley Face
Intro Clip: Kavinsky – Nightcall (Drive OST)
Outro Music: Radiohead – Just
Total run time: 1:44:26
File Size: 152.2MB
Corey, Greg, and Ryan are back with another week of TIFF talk – we’re sharing our thoughts on this year’s festival, and reviewing some of the films we got to see along the way.
Films Reviewed: Ten Year, Hardcore Logo 2, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Smuggler, From Up On Poppy Hill, The Silver Cliff, God Bless America, Monsieur Lazhar, Tyrannosaur, Violet and Daisy, Where Do We Go Now?
Intro Clip: Ellie Goulding – Little Dreams
Outro Music: Who The Hell Do You Think You Are (Hard Core Logo OST)
Total run time: 1:05:05
File Size: 93.7MB
CriticalMassCast is back with an episode to help close out the last batch of films that helped close out Summer 2011. But before we get to that, we look forward to what could be considered the true Hollywood kickoff to Oscar season with Steven Soderbergh’s virus-outbreak docudrama, “Contagion” which has been creeping out theatre goers with its killer ensemble cast including Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cottillard, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow plus many other seasoned actors.
Stay tuned for our big TIFF review shows coming after the festival wraps Sept. 19th!!
End of Summer wrap-up films include: Crazy Stupid Love, Attack The Block, Another Earth, Senna, The Guard, Red State
Intro Music: I Will Survive- Cake
Outro Music: The First Time I Saw Jupiter- Fall On Your Sword (from the Another Earth OST)
Total Run Time: 1:04:04
File Size: 60.5MB
*** We apologize for the sound quality on this episode everyone- Greg’s microphone was not cooperating during this particular recording- hoping for better luck next time….
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