CRITICALMASSCAST

Life has been busy with all the CriticalMassCast crew,especially now that the summer blockbuster season has officially arrived with the unveiling of Marvel Studios’ “The Avengers”,  which has been creating great critical and commercial buzz, plus keeping the fanboys salivating (Corey had another term for it, listen in to find out).

Corey and Greg help to dissect the phenomena as well as catch up on some Hot Docs screenings of note from this year’s festival including: G.L.O.W. (The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling), Scarlet Road, and The Queen of Versailles.

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Intro music: Theme from “The Marvel Super Heroes” (1966)

Outro Clip: Opening Rap from G.L.O.W. (The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling)- 1986

Total Run Time: 1:06:20

File Size: 60.7 MB

This week, Greg, Corey and Ryan tackle a super-sized episode to review the latest documentaries and films we’ve seen, including an in-depth look at Marvel’s latest: THOR. We also do a quick review of Tina Fey’s bestseller Bossypants and take a sneak peek at Lady GaGa’s upcoming album Born This Way.

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Films Reviewed: THOR, Scream 4, Fast Five, Beauty Day, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, C.R.A.Z.Y., Far From Heaven, In Bruges, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bill Cunningham New York

Clip: Design Director Stephen Frankfurt, on the creation of the opening credit sequence for 1962′sTo Kill a Mockingbird

Intro Music: Foo Fighters – Walk (THOR OST)
Outro Music: Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Total run time: 1:33:58
File Size: 137.1MB

As the Canadian federal election quickly approaches, CriticalMassCast offers up its last two cents on recent events which have seen Jack Layton’s NDP surging ahead of the Liberals as the new centrist party in the country.  We haven’t forgotten about our film/pop culture news though… Cindy is back on the show and gives us her views on Joe Wright’s “Hanna” and we also discuss recent Hobbit news, the final Harry Potter trailer, Hot Docs sensation “Beauty Day” and much more…

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Intro track- The Littlest Hobo theme song

Outro track- The Crystal Cat- Dan Deacon from the album Spiderman of the Rings

Total Run Time: 1:07:34

File Size: 61.9 MB

Greg, Cindy, Ryan and Corey bid farewell to screen legend, gay icon, and bona-fide superstar Elizabeth Taylor. Plus: a sneak peek at this year’s Hot Docs festival (featuring an in-depth look at Beauty Day), more film reviews, and a recap of Sarah McLachlan’s concert at Massey Hall.

TCM: 24-Hour Elizabeth Taylor Movie Tribute

Film Reviews
Beauty Day, How Do You Know, I Am Number Four, Jane Eyre, Dogtooth, The Village, Paul, I Saw The Devil

Concert Reviews
Sarah McLachlan @ Massey Hall

 
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Beauty Day Trailer from Jay Cheel on Vimeo.

Intro Clip: Captain Planet Theme
Outro Music: Sarah McLachlan – Ice Cream
Total run time: 1:03:15
File Size: 92MB

Erin Donovan, documentarian and editor of the Steady Diet of Film website and podcast joins Gregory Ashman of CriticalMassCast for a fun chat to discuss and review a varied selection of documentary film from Toronto’s recently wrapped Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival.

Films reviewed include:

- And Everything is Going Fine…
- 1991: The Year that Punk Broke
- Space Tourists
- The Kids Grow Up
- Sex Magic: Manifesting Maya
- Dreamland
- Farewell
- Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of The Rural Studio
- Into Eternity
- The People Vs. George Lucas

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Total run time: 57:54

File Size: 54.7 MB

It finally happened: Betty White fever invaded the Saturday Night Live stage. Cindy Alexander joins us this week to discuss the golden girl’s performance (spoiler alert: she killed it!) and the episode’s most memorable moments. And – because Betty puts us in a nostalgic mood – we review three films that had an impact on us growing up. All that, plus Toronto Talk and some pop culture jabber.

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