All four CMCers are back this week, and we’re dishing on Judd Apatow’s newest, yet-to-be-released flick: This Is 40. We also chat about our group outing to last week’s Marina & The Diamonds‘ concert at the Kool Haus.
Intro Music: Serena Ryder – Stompa
Outro Music: Marina & The Diamonds – Radioactive (Extended Edit)
Total run time: 1:03:19
File Size: 32.2MB
Hey, did you hear? Lady Gaga released a new album.
Ryan and Corey discuss Gaga’s music (Born This Way, track-by-track), her image, her fame, and her place in a culture that thrives on the creation and destruction of Superstars.
VIDEO: Lady Gaga – Inside the Outside
“In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation… The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” - Guy Debord, La Société du Spectacle (via Sean Adams)
Total run time: 1:03:19
File Size: 91.7MB
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.
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
Welcome back to CriticalMassCast for Episode 37!! In this episode, Corey and Greg provide a full break down of director Joe Wright’s electronica-twinged action epic, Hanna starring Saorise Ronan, Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett. We follow up with a chat on what we have been watching lately including Corey’s recent trip to one of Toronto’s newest repertory theatres: The Toronto Underground Cinema for their Defending the Indefensible event- an exciting and unique film series that reinforces the value of film critique with a live debate on the value of a film before the screening, whether you love it or hate it. Corey defends one of their recent offerings: The Wachowski Brothers cult classic, Speed Racer.
Other films reviewed: Rubber, the Scream series, Arthur, Your Highness
Intro Track: The Devil is in the Details- The Chemical Brothers- Hanna OST
Outro Track: Hanna’s Theme- The Chemical Brothers- Hanna OST
Total Run Time: 1:17:46
File Size: 71.2 MB
The Cast of "Peter's Friends"
Before we record and post our first anniversary show and final episode for 2010, we thought it would be fun to post our holiday show from last year where Ryan and I waxed nostalgic on the holiday films nearest and dearest to our Christmas hearts. Some of the films we cover include: Peter’s Friends, The Holiday, A Christmas Carol, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Love Actually and even the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special... and that is just for starters!!
Total Run Time: 53:18
File Size: 51.2 MB
The return of Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair has us waxing nostalgic for the 90s, a decade full of music we love/hate. We discuss the evolution of girl pop over the last two decades, review several new releases and TV shows, and provide an update on the TIFF 2010 gala presentations.
Concert Review: Lilith 2010
Film Reviews: Despicable Me, Salt, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
DVD Reviews: Winter Light (Criterion Edition), BBC’s Beautiful People
TV Reviews: Mad Men (Season 4), Pillars of the Earth
The New York Times – Girl Pop’s Lady GaGa Makeover
Press Release - TIFF 2010 Gala Presentations
Intro Music: Sarah McLachlan – Building a Mystery
Outro Music: Lady GaGa – Bad Romance
Total run time: 1:07:27
File Size: 98.1MB
This week, we sound off on Canadian pride at the 2010 Olympics Games, review our latest TV obsessions (1 Girl 5 Gays and American Idol), and introduce an artist poised for superstardom in 2010: Marina and the Diamonds. We also review Dear John and The Road, and talk about the second coming of Toronto’s iconic Carlton Theatre.
| 1:00 | Golden Moment: Vote Betty White for SNL! |
| 6:33 | Olympics 2010 |
| 15:10 | TV Reviews: 1 Girl 5 Gays, American Idol |
| 36:20 | Music Review: Marina and the Diamonds |
| 47:00 | Film Reviews: Dear John and The Road |
| 58:37 | Toronto’s Carlton Cinema Rises from the Ashes |
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