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
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
This week, Cindy, Corey, Greg and Ryan recap the latest in entertainment news (a Dirty Dancing remake? Seriously?) and review the summer’s latest offerings at the theatre and on the tube. Stay tuned for next week’s very special 50th episode, when we’ll be previewing the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival!
Film Reviews: Friends with Benefits, Crazy Stupid Love, The Devil’s Double, Super, Thirteen Assassins, Fright Night 3D
TV Reviews: Eagleheart, Children’s Hospital, NTSF:SD:SUV::
Intro Music: Eric Carmen – Hungry Eyes (Dirty Dancing OST)
Outro Music: Semisonic – Closing Time
Total run time: 58:12
File Size: 83.8MB
Episode 40 brings us back to doing what we do- reviewing the bejeezus out of popular media! Luckily this week we had a lot of tasty morsels to chew on in the accomplished comedy confection “Bridesmaids” starring Kristin Wiig and Maya Rudolph (as well as a host of established comediennes). Cindy and Corey also dive into a detailed discussion of the HBO swords and sorcery epic “Game of Thrones” that has everyone talking. Our conversation then leads into a larger discussion of the state of current television programming and the obsession with the 80′s that continues to draw interest from Hollywood and our own nostalgia. Enjoy!
Check out the Clone on the Range photoshop blog Corey mentioned here
Intro Music: Hold On- Wilson Phillips (from the album Wilson Phillips)
Outro Music: Back to the 80s- Aqua (Aqua- Greatest Hits)
Total Run Time: 1:31:29
File Size: 83.7MB
This week, we share our favorite moments at the cinema and discuss the evolving role of the movie theatre in our lives. Plus, we chat about movie “twofers” – think Armageddon & Deep Impact or Dante’s Peak & Volcano – and what we think Rebecca Black’s foray into music says about our culture.
New York Times Film Critic Manohla Dargis discusses the state of things at the cinema in her April 6, 2011 article, The 24-Hour Movie and Digital Technology
Intro Clip: John Williams – Superman Theme (1978)
Outro Music: Rebecca Black – Friday
Total run time: 1:09:31
File Size: 101.9MB
We’ve got horror on our minds this week, with reviews of Paranormal Activity 2, Alien, Planet of the Vampires, Persona, and Let Me In. We also review the new John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, preview the Scream 4 trailer, and – the horror! – discuss last week’s episode of Glee.
Intro Music: Teenage Dream (OST Glee)
Outro Clip: The Golden Girls – Letter to Gorbachev
Total run time: 59:01
File Size: 85MB
In a continuation episode, Shawn and I continue our discussion of big budget blockbusters with reviews of Clash of the Titans (uuugh), Sherlock Holmes and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We then finish up with a talk on the Marvel and DC comic book film universes with a special emphasis on the upcoming Green Lantern adaptation coming in Summer 2011.
Intro music- Tessellate- Tokyo Police Club
Total Run Time: 59:41
Total File Size: 57.3 MB
In this special episode of CriticalMassCast, my good friend Shawn Keown lends his co-hosting talents to help bring a different flavour to the show with a discussion of the blockbuster movies of summer that just make you smile (and in some cases shudder violently). Stay tuned for a fun chat of Iron Man 2, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and finally the A-team. We will join you in part B with reviews of Clash of the Titans and less recent films like Sherlock Holmes, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We will end with a chat on the mythology of DC comic book superhero Green Lantern and his upcoming big screen adaptation coming in Summer 2011!
Intro music: Youthless- Beck- from the album Modern Guilt
Total Run Time: 33:02
File Size: 31.7 MB
Say hello to the 80s! Our first week with a new format (weekly shows instead of biweekly) finds us revisiting this very special decade. We discuss 80s remakes currently in theatres, and some upcoming 80s-remake projects that tickle our fancy (or make us shudder).
Films Reviewed: The Karate Kid, The A-Team
The Twilight Saga: Thoughts & Reflections
Upcoming 80s Projects
Total run time: 44:55
File Size: 65.4MB
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