Posts Tagged ‘VHS’
Film Review – V/H/S/Beyond
Another year, another V/H/S film. At this point, the V/H/S franchise has firmly planted itself in the horror tradition of putting out a new release almost every year, replacing the likes of the Saw (2004) and Final Destination (2000) films. And like its predecessors, the results have been uneven. In a sort of weird…
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Episode 85 – V/H/S/94
For this episode of the podcast, we review Shudder‘s new entry in the anthology V/H/S franchise, V/H/S/94. We put forth a few ideas of horror tropes we’d like to see more of. At the end of the show, for our streaming homework, we review the…
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Rewind This! – Audio Podcast #178
Spencer is joined by director Josh Johnson (Rewind This!). Segments include: picking the film’s subject manner, cinematic inspirations, reveling in the obscure, collecting vs. hoarding, interview highlights, finding treasures while VHS hunting and hitting a cultural zeitgeist. Upcoming Events: Rewind This! at Grand Illusion Cinema: http://www.GrandIllusionCinema.org…
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Film Review – You’re Next
There seems to be a trend in recent years of solid films being released after languishing on the studio shelves for years. It feels like most of them are horror films, which makes sense, as that is one of the genres with the most stable…
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SXSW Film Review – Drinking Buddies
As a fan of independent film, I’m excited when I’m introduced to the work of noteworthy filmmakers. For several years now, I’ve been hearing about the prolific career of Joe Swanberg and have been curious to check out his movies. Finally at SXSW this year,…
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Film Review – V/H/S
V/H/S is a “found footage” anthology film: there are five vignettes and one section that wraps around the others to tie them together. (Each section has a different director.) In this interstitial segment, a group of guys videotape themselves doing awesome things. And by awesome,…
READ MOREEpisode 10 – Bad Reviews, Big Money
Spencer is joined by Jen from Scarecrow. They open the episode with a discussion of the highest grossing, worst reviewed films – inspired by the success of Transformers 2. Next they talk about two new releases: The State on DVD & Harry Potter & The…
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