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Smug Film Podcast Episode #7 – Acting Class / Steven Seagal / Homegrown Cinema
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On this episode, I am joined by fellow Smug Film contributors John D’Amico and Jenna Ipcar. We discuss an acting class John took, Jenna’s foray into the films of Steven Seagal, and for our main topic, we tackle the idea of homegrown cinema. As always, we go on tangents along the way, take a quick break for a movie joke by comedian Anthony Kapfer, and then close the show with questions from our mailbag.
If you have a movie-related question you’d like answered on the show, leave it in the comments or email us at Podcast@SmugFilm.com.
If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to subscribe on iTunes, and leave a rating and a comment on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely as far as our ranking on there, which is what allows people to be able to discover us. Word of mouth is always best of all though, so spread the word!
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Tagged 2000 Maniacs, 30 for 30: Muhammed and Larry, 30 rock, above the law, adaptation, annie hall, anthony kapfer, Baghdad Cafe, be kind rewind, Beautiful Girls, Black Swan, blade, Block Party, Blue in the Face, Bored to Death, breaking bad, buffalo 66, clerks, Cobra, cody clarke, Deep Blue Sea, deliverance, Die Hard, do the right thing, dog day afternoon, Drive, excessive force, film podcast, film podcasts, fire down below, first blood, frances ha, Gator, goodfellas, hard to kill, Highball, Homicide, House of Games, Inside Llewyn Davis, Interview with Joan Darling by John D'Amico, jenna ipcar, john damico, justified, Kids, Last Night at the Alamo, Law and Order, Let's Dump Water On A Dead Pig With Maggots, Lethal Weapon, Little Fugitive, louie, Louisiana Story, mad men, mary tyler moore, mash, master and commander, movie podcast, movie podcasts, Mr. Jealousy, My Winnipeg, Naked City, Nebraska, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Night Fever, on deadly ground, out for justice, Pete and Pete, red hook summer, Resident Evil, rocky, Saturday, seinfeld, Serpico, shame, Smoke, Smokey and the Bandit, smug film, smug film podcast, smugfilm, sopranos, speed, Spider Baby, spring breakers, Street Scene, Suddenly, Taking of Pelham 123, Taking of Pelham 123 remake, terminator, the avengers, The Cruise, the dark knight, The Greatest, The Karate Kid: Part III, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, the matrix, The One, The Road Warrior, The Savage Eye, The Squid and the Whale, The Toxic Avenger, The Wanderers, The Warriors, the we and the i, The Whole Shooting Match, twin peaks, Ugly Betty, ugly betty green screen, Vampires, Wake in Fright, White Lightning, wild at heart, Yellowneck
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Smug Film Podcast Episode #6 – Good Movies, Bad Directors / Bad Movies, Good Directors
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On this episode, I am joined by fellow Smug Film contributors John D’Amico and Jenna Ipcar. We discuss movies we like by directors we don’t typically like, as well as movies we dislike by directors we typically like. As always, we go on tangents along the way, take a quick break for a movie joke by comedian Anthony Kapfer, and then close the show with questions from our mailbag.
If you have a movie-related question you’d like answered on the show, leave it in the comments or email us at Podcast@SmugFilm.com.
If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to subscribe on iTunes, and leave a rating and a comment on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely as far as our ranking on there, which is what allows people to be able to discover us. Word of mouth is always best of all though, so spread the word!
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Smug Film Podcast Episode #3 – Movies That Got Us Into Movies (4/21/14)
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On this episode, I am joined by fellow Smug Film contributors John D’Amico and Jenna Ipcar. We discuss the movies that got us into movies, and were our gateway into obsession. As always, we go on tangents along the way, take a quick break for a movie joke by comedian Anthony Kapfer, and then close the show with questions from our mailbag.
If you have a question for the show, leave it in the comments or email us at Podcast@SmugFilm.com.
If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to subscribe on iTunes, and leave a rating and a comment on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely as far as our ranking on there, which is what allows people to be able to discover us. Word of mouth is always best of all though, so spread the word!
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Tagged 2001, 2001 a space odyssey, 29 days later, a clockwork orange, a hard day's night, alan mehrez, albert magnoli, alfred hitchcock, aliens, altered states, anthony kapfer, anthony kapfer comedian, apollo 13, back to the future, batman, batman begins, batman tv show, battlestar galactica, big, blake edwards, bloodsport 2, bloodsport ii, blow, blue velvet, breakfast at tiffany's, breakfast on pluto, brian depalma, bryan singer, buckaroo banzai, casablanca, christian nyby, christopher nolan, chuck russell, cody clarke, commando, danny boyle, david cronenberg, dawn of the dead, dawson's creek, death wish, detour, disco pigs, do the right thing, don hartman, don siegel, donnie darko, ed wood, edgar g. ulmer, edgar wright, eric rohmer, ernest b schoedsack, ethan coen, fargo, ferris bueller's day off, film joke, film jokes, film podcast, forrest gump, francis ford coppola, frank oz, geoff murphy, george romero, going home, groundhog day, hal ashby, handbuilt city, handbuiltcity.org, harold and maude, harold ramis, herbert b. leonard, holiday affair, howard hawks, irvin s. yeaworth, irvin s. yeaworth jr., james bridges, james cameron, jaws, jenna ipcar, joe vs. the volcano, joel coen, john badham, john carney, john damico, john ford, john g. avildsen, john hughes, john patrick shanley, joseph kosinski, jurassic park, ken loach, ken russell, king kong, kirsten sheridan, krzysztof kieslowski, kurt neumann, lee unkrich, lost, lost highway, magnolia, manhunter, mark l. lester, marnie, merian c. cooper, miami vice, michael curtiz, michael mann, mike's murder, movie joke, movie jokes, movie podcast, mystery science theater 3000, nashville, neil jordan, network, night of the living dead, o brother where art thou, o' brother, on the edge, paul thomas anderson, pauline at the beach, pee wee's big adventure, peewee's big adventure, peggy sue got married, penelope spheeris, penny marshall, peter yates, plan 9 from outer space, podcast, podcast ad, podcast advertising, princess bride, pulp fiction, purple rain, quentin tarantino, raising arizona, rambo, rambo; first blood part ii, red eye, ricahrd lester, richard donner, richard kelly, rob reiner, robert altman, robert zemeckis, rocky, ron howard, rushmore, saved by the bell, saving private ryan, scarface, seinfeld, shaun of the dead, sidney lumet, smug film, smug film podcast, smugfilm, smugfilm podcast, spike lee, sponsor a podcast, stand by me, stanley kubrick, star trek, stephen lisberger, steven spielberg, sunshine, ted demme, ted kotcheff, the adventures of buckaroo banzai across the 8th dimension, the big lebowski, the birds, the blob, the blob remake, the boondock saints, the breakfast club, the decalogue, the fly, the fly remake, the friends of eddie coyle, the goonies, the handbuilt city, the lone ranger, the princess bride, the terminator, the thing from another world, the usual suspects, the wind that shakes the barley, the wonder years, thief, tim burton, toy story 3, tron, tron legacy, troy duffy, under siege 2, under siege 2: dark territory, upstream, upstream john ford, w.d. richter, wargames, wayne's world, wes anderson, wes craven, what about bob, where art thou?, who framed roger rabbit, zack snyder
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Rocky vs. Raging Bull
Since Hollywood decided to do Rocky vs. Raging Bull, I figured I’d do the same.
Stories are a template. For practical purposes, the story is the plot (it actually isn’t, but just bear with me). A story is only as good as the way it’s told. Rocky has a decent story, a story we’ve heard a million times, but it’s told with care and craftsmanship. Rocky, the story, executed as the film Rocky, is transcendent—whereas Rocky, the story, executed as the film The Mighty Ducks, is okay I guess. Raging Bull is not a story—it’s information about a guy, dressed up stylistically. That doesn’t make it bad, but, it makes the two difficult to compare.
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Tagged after hours, copland, goodfellas, greg deliso, grudge match, indiana jones, john alvidsen, lean on me, martin scorsese, raging bull, robert de niro, robert deniro, rocky, rocky vs raging bull, smug film, smugfilm, sylvester stallone, the karate kid, the mighty ducks
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The 10 Most Overrated Classic Movies
Nope, not gonna touch this one. Too easy.
It’s easy to pick on classics. In fact, by virtue of being considered ‘classic’, they’re almost assuredly not as good as they’re said to be. Anything so beloved is automatically suspect. This is not contrarianism; it’s healthy skepticism. In an age where most people still aren’t atheists and science is constantly hindered by new age nonsense, skepticism is beyond necessary.
I figured I’d apply that maxim to culture and pick the ten most overrated classic movies ever made. But, like I said, it’s easy to pick on the big ones. Casablanca, The Godfather, and Gone With the Wind all have their place in history, but that doesn’t make them better than Back to the Future. And they aren’t. Not artistically, and certainly not in our collective hearts.
However, here, rather than just list the most acclaimed classic movies and call it a day, I really wanted to hone in on some particular titles that I find obnoxiously overrated:
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Tagged 12 angry men, a prairie home companion, all the president's men, animal house, apocalypse now, back to the future, billy ray, breach, broadcast news, caddyshack, casablanca, classic movies, dawn of the dead, dawn of the dead remake, dementia 13, detroit red wings, dumb and dumber, find me guilty, francis ford coppola, freddy got fingered, george a romero, george romero, george roy hill, gone with the wind, gosford park, greg deliso, hal ashby, harold and maude, indiana jones, ingmar bergman, jack, jackie dinorscio, james l brooks, john landis, judd apatow, kevin smith, mash, nashville, network, night of the living dead, overrated classic movies, overrated classics, overrated movies, paris texas, pcu, poltergeist, red wings, richard donner, robert altman, rocky, rumble fish, shattered glass, short cuts, sidney lumet, slap shot, smug film, smugfilm, stanley kubrick, the burbs, the conversation, the farrelly brothers, the godfather, the godfather part 2, the godfather: part ii, the goonies, the matrix, the seventh seal, there's something about mary, vin diesel, wim wenders
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