Film and TV Reviews and Podcasts
Before watching the pilot episode of American Crime, I had a passing familiarity with it. I’d seen a preview and thought it looked interesting enough. However, something about the preview’s abundance of tense emotional clips and vague plot details screamed melodrama to me. Unfortunately melodrama wasn’t the worst thing about the pilot episode of American Crime. John Ridley, who won […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV98 – Extended Potpourri – Power Rangers, The Lazarus Effect, Coherence, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and American Crime This week, Tiny misses out on an extended potpourri episode due to food poisoning. So Matt and Mike have a chat about a bevy of topics. Mike talks about his rekindled appreciation for […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV97 – Avengers Trailer, Jupiter Ascending, Blomkamp’s Alien, The Last Man on Earth, and The Walking Dead Friend of the show Robert Fekkes (from our Interstellar episode) fills in for Mike to talk about Jupiter Ascending, the latest Avengers trailer, the peril of video game movies, The Walking Dead, The […]
January 15th marked the beginning of Amazon Studios’ 4th “pilot season” (the first being in April 2013). Each season, Amazon puts prospective series pilots on their Prime Instant streaming service for members to watch and vote on. Of the 13 pilots this season, Amazon has greenlit 5 for a full season order.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV96 – Post Oscars Potpourri, Kingsman, Citizenfour, Whiplash, and Power Rangers The guys breakdown their thoughts on this year’s Academy Awards in this week’s episode before going into a few rounds of Potpourri. In Potpourri, Matt gets excited about The Man in the High Castle, Star Trek: The Original Series […]
In The Theory of Everything, director James Marsh paints a gripping and beautiful portrait of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his relationship with wife Jane (Felicity Jones). The movie chronicles the pair’s relationship from its beginning and into the present day, charting the toll that Hawking’s amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) takes on their marriage.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV95 – 87th Academy Awards Nominee Showcase The Oscars are this weekend and in what’s become one of my favorite Obsessive Viewer traditions, we’ve invited fellow podcasting friends to submit clips discussing this year’s Oscar nominees. This year’s showcase includes Intermission Podcast from MovieGuys.org, Poor Man’s Process from supraliminalfilms.com, Nerd’s […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV94 – Bonus Ep – Spider-Man, Jon Stewart, and Fantastic Four with Dustin Mattingly In this impromptu bonus episode, the guys welcome their friend Dustin Mattingly to discuss the breaking news involving Spider-Man being included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They also share their thoughts on the Fantastic Four trailer […]
Last year I reviewed Lone Survivor and found it to be an offensively jingoistic piece of American military propaganda that disrespected most of the people who lost their lives in the real life incident the movie depicted. As such, my expectations going into American Sniper really weren’t that high. I also made a conscious effort not to research Chris Kyle […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV93 – Special Ep with Matt Quiett from Nerd’s Domain In this episode, Matt sits down (sans Mike and Tiny) with Matt Quiett from Nerd’s Domain for a chat about podcasting, movies and TV. They talk at length about taking their podcasts to conventions, the merits of Google Chromecast, their […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV92 – Football Movies, Parenthood, Orange is the New Black, and Black Mirror In honor of this weekend’s Super Bowl, we discuss some of our favorite football movies. Listen as I (Matt) try to understand professional sports fandom while Mike and Tiny bond over their love of the game. For […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV91 – Notable Movie Deaths, Selma, The Imitation Game, Star Wars This week we discuss some of our favorite and most notable movie character deaths. Beware of spoilers, obviously. We mark them pretty clearly. For Potpourri, Mike and Tiny watched Selma and The Imitation Game, respectively. While Matt talks up […]
“I don’t know. Maybe we were doomed from the beginning. I mean, it’s not like dad was Mr. Sunshine. Sometimes I think all our problems came directly from him. But a lot of the good stuff did too. Remember what he always called us? The Gruesome Twosome. He told us to stick together. No matter what. God, what the hell […]
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE, SAVE LINK AS TO DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE… OV90 – 2014 in Review Part II – Best Movies of 2014 Here’s part 2 of our 2-part review of 2014 in movies! In this episode, we share our honorable mentions and the best movies we saw in 2014. We also share our excitement for 2015. Find back episodes of the […]
Tusk’s origin is fascinating to me, both as a podcaster (check out The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, by the way) and as a movie fan. On June 25th 2013, Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier recorded “The Walrus and the Carpenter“, an episode of their Smodcast podcast in which they stumbled into developing the movie that would become Tusk. A year later […]
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