I wasn’t able to go to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but I was at least able to follow the whole thing through social media and see what films were worth getting hyped up over. Here is my list of 20 Sundance titles to look out for in the future.
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Oh god, January movie releases are so bad. Please save us, based listeners. To tide us over from the January Dead Zone, we review lots of old stuff, including some looks at new releases like HBO’s True Detective, Oscar hopeful August: Osage County, and more!
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EPISODE TIMELINE
(0:00) Tank! (Cowboy Bebop Intro)
(0:33) Intro
GAMES
(6:51) Fallout: New Vegas
(23:16) Rust
TV
(38:14) True Detective
(44:58) Cowboy Bebop
(56:51) Hannibal
MOVIES
(1:05:22) Rear Window
(1:10:25) August: Osage County
(1:18:21) Lone Survivor
(1:38:27) Metropolis (1927 and 2001 versions)
(1:51:47) Outro/Links
(1:55:13) Coming Soon…
(1:57:50) Far From Any Road (True Detective Intro)
2013 may be over, but is it really over? Christopher Runyon and Alex Clarke year-end extravaganza concludes as we count down our Top 10 Films of 2013.
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2013 may be over, but is it really over? Christopher Runyon and Alex Clarke make way for the new year by listing their ten favorite games of 2013.
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Our Top 10 Films of the year episode will be posted soon. Stay tuned for that.
The Studio Ghibli Retrospective continues into what’s likely the most underseen and underappreciated work from the animation company: Yoshifumi Kondô’s debut/swansong Whisper of the Heart. Click here to read the full article.
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Quite a packed show this week as we talk movies, games, and even some television too! Some Spike Jonze, some Coen Brothers, some Studio Ghibli, David Cage, Dan Harmon, and other such subjects, along with quick reviews of Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks and the intriguing indie game The Swapper. Fun times all around!
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EPISODE TIMELINE
(0:00) Hang Me Oh Hang Me by Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis OST)
(0:36) Intro
GAMES
(2:34) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PC Version)
(7:26) The Swapper
(16:45) Beyond: Two Souls
TV
(49:49) Community Season 5
(55:55) True Detective Hype
MOVIES
(58:11) Pom Poko
(1:08:22) Saving Mr. Banks
(1:23:37) Inside Llewyn Davis
(1:35:22) Her
CONCLUSION
(1:55:38) Coming Soon To Theaters
(1:56:48) Links/Promotions
(1:57:52) The Moon Song by Karen O (Her OST)
It’s been a while, but the Studio Ghibli Retrospective is still moving forward with a look at Isao Takahata’s deeply strange and culturally specific family film, Pom Poko. Click here to read the full article.
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Hey guys! I know you already read my own piece in which I listed my favorite films of the year, but you should still check out all the individual lists from all the Movie Mezzanine writers to see what they thought. Click here for the individual ballots.
Another thing you should check out: the site’s aggregated list of the 50 Best Films of 2013. Each film has a blurb written for it, and I wrote three of them: one for Wolf Children, one for Leviathan, and one for The Wind Rises. You should still read them anyway because all the blurbs are very well written and a large cavalcade of great writers have chipped in on it. We worked very hard on it to commemorate such a great year for movies. Click here to read that.
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First show of 2014! Aren’t January movie releases great?! (Hint: They aren’t. Please send help.)
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EPISODE TIMELINE
(0:00) Complicated by Heavns to Betsy (Gone Home OST)
(0:45) Intro
GAMES
(4:34) Gone Home
(18:51) Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
MOVIES
(26:44) The Grandmaster (Chinese Cut)
(37:28) The Past
(42:41) Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
(58:49) Computer Chess
(1:13:06) Coming Soon to Theaters and Games…
(1:20:35) Links/Outro
I watched 341 films over the course of 2013. Here’s a list of them all, if you’re interested in what dumb crap I watched. This coming year, I’ll make it easier to discern which films were rewatches, blind-spots, and new 2014 films. Here goes…
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