Ep. 69- MPAA and SOPA Sitting in a Tree

Aaron and Justin take a look into the bedroom where the MPAA and SOPA are lighting candles and getting ready for their big night!  Since the Film Piracy Funds Terrorism ad campaign went nowhere, the MPAA is up to some new tricks with the new Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd.  They also discuss the Alex Jones method of not copyrighting material and Kevin Smith's public comments about intellectual property.  Oh, and Justin recaps what his brain felt like after finally watching all six Star Wars "films" in order in one day while Aaron fights off sleep.

Ep. 68 - Our Exported Garbage

Aaron and Justin take a look at the top grossing American films oversees and what those films are telling the world about our culture [Hint: It is not good and involves a lot of robots and genetic engineering]  In this installment of Porn Parody, they take a look at the trailer for Not Airplane: A XXX Parody.  Justin's been watching Armadillo, The Objective and Take Me Home Tonight and they play another round of Name that Trailer.

Ep. 67 - Save Our Films

Justin and Aaron revisit the National Film Registry and gush over the film preservation documentary These Amazing Shadows - on PBS 12.29.11 at 10pm as part of the [i]ndependent lens series.  Related episode: Ep. 38 - Dispatch 16 (Film Preservation).

Ep. 66 - Film Piracy...Again

The MPAA is up to their old tricks again, rallying their troops to help pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).  Turns out that if you visit a "rouge site" you are putting your family at risk.  Justin and Aaron also look at the top 10 most pirated films, according the Hollywood Reporter.  The "Name That Trailer" game is debuted as well as some talk about Attack the Block, The Siege and Magic Bus.

For more on piracy see: Ep. 52-Film Piracy Funds Terrorists!

Ep. 65 - (Expletive) Super Heroes

As season 4 starts of The World of Cinema, The Avengers trailer is released and everyone in Cleveland (except for Aaron and Justin) losses their god damned mind.  Captain America rings the opening bell for the NYSE, no joke.
After more than two years of incessant bitching from Justin, Aaron finally watches Guy Richie's Revolver.  They both agree that Mr. Richie should force his religious beliefs into more of his films.  Especially Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows.  This episode is finished up with a look at the trailer for The Graduate: A XXX Parody.

Ep. 64 - Militainment (Hollywood and the Military)

Aaron and Justin briefly discuss their continued obsession with Jody Hill's career, then the get into the marriage of Hollywood and the Military, aka the Militainment Industry.  This episode starts off with a look as who worked for the Office of Strategic Services and it's later incarnation as the Office of Policy Coordination.  Some of the prominent Hollywood names that were working for these organizations were; John Ford, Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille and Daryl F. Zanuck.  We then take a look at Operation Mockingbird and its embedding of military personnel and intelligence officers in all levels of the media, especially motion pictures.

Ep. 63 - Fall Film Predictions

Aaron and Justin take a stab at predictions for the Fall 2011 film season.  What will be a hit.  What will be a flop.  What will win an award.  What will actually get our asses into a theatre seat this fall!  Films discussed include:

Aaron's Picks:
Contagion, Haywire, Drive, Restless, 3, Moneyball, Margaret, Wanderlust, Red State, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Melancholia, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Hugo, The Artist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (USA), Paranormal Activity 3, Magic Trip, In Time, Bernie and Bellflower

Justin Picks:
Apollo 18, Ides of March, The Three Musketeers, Immortals, In Time, The Sitter, J. Edgar, Machine Gun Preacher, Straw Dogs, The Rum Diaries, Khodorkovsky and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Justin's Steaming Pile of ____ List:
The Thing, Real Steel, Fright Night and of course - Footloose

Ep. 62 - Death of the Theatrical Experience

As we enter into another season of summer films at the multiplex, Aaron and Justin take a stroll down memory lane and remember a simpler time when "multiplex" meant 6 screens and theatre chains were expanding all over America. Then they return to the present where the worst multiplex offenders think they are a circus.  In the end we flash forward to the not so distant future and speculate on if a theater is still showing films and no one comes, is it still a theater?

Ep. 61 - Found Footage Films

Yea, it seems as though Found Footage is a legitimate genre.  It has its own Wikipedia page with over 40 examples.  It is also worldwide - Italy, Japan, Uruguay, the UK, USA, Norway and Spain have all given us examples.  Aaron and Justin take a look at what the rules of the genre seem to be and in the process, they discover several more sub-genres; like the "Ghost Hunting Camera Crew Disappears While Investigating Ghosts and Their Footage is Found" genre. 

Films discussed include:

David Holzman's Diary (1967)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
84 Charlie MoPic (1989)
The Last Broadcast (1998)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Zero Day (2003)
September Tapes (2004)
The Curse (2005)
Head Case (2007)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Rec (2007)
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Redacted (2007)
Cloverfield (2008)
Quarantine (2008)
Rec 2 (2009)
The Ritual (2009)
The Last Exorcism (2010)
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
The Troll Hunter (2011)
Apollo 18 (2011)
Area 51 (2011)

Films that use found footage style:
American Beauty (1999)
Afterschool (2008)
Devil (2010)
Catfish (2010)
The Silent House (2010)

All One Shot Films:
Russian Ark (2002)
The Stroll (2003)
The Silent House (2010)

Related Episode: Ep. 4 - Documentary Genres (www.theworldofcinema.com)

Ep. 60 - Porn vs Hollywood

Aaron and Justin do a quick recap of great moments in porn history (from Roman Erotic art found at Pompeii to the earliest surviving silent porn film, El Sartorio [1907]) and then get into films that blur the line between "legitimate films" and porn: The Funeral (1996), Brown Bunny (2003), Anatomy of Hell (2004), Romance (1999), Battle in Heaven (2005), Irreversible (2002), Baise-Moi (2000), and Short Bus (2006). 

Then we discuss the wild world of the porn parody: The Big Lebowski, Star Trek, The Silence of the Lambs, Avatar (in 3D), The Human Sexipede, The Player's Club, Red Riding Hood, Pron, Rocki Whore Picture Show, Scream, Basic Instinct, Scooby-Doo, Slumdog Millionaire, Booty Shop, Justice League, Batman, Boyz in da Hood, The Dark Knight and The Simpson’s (Live Action)...yes, you read that right.  We also touch on the birth of modern porn in the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Celebrity Sex Tape phenomenon and trying to "unwatch" horrific things like Two Girls One Cup (one of the most notorious porn scenes in history).  We finish up with the money shot news of porn coming to the street markets of Iraq with titles like Cheap Meat and The Rape of the Coeds.