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It s difficult to believe that another ten years has flown by and your gracious hosts are digging through an entire decade of film for the second time in this podcast s illustrious lifespan. But for this go-around, Kurt and Andrew (and oftentimes our good friend Matt Gamble) have gone through these obstreperous ten years more or less together. For us, this has been a lifestyle; a marriage if you will. Not to each other, but to this web site, this podcast (what s left of it) and to the art of film. We ve spent a third of our lives(!) breaking down scenes, bickering about scripts, quoting Walter Sobchak and Mark Rumsfield, debating ambition versus actual, deriding the Transformers series, lavishing praise on everything from Almodóvar to Zahler, lamenting the loss of some of our greatest heroes and wondering why there isn t more of Rosario Dawson in pretty much everything. And for ten damn years we ve done all of this together always wishing there was additional time to see and do more of all of it.So in this episode we breakdown the decade that was. If we figured out one thing, it s that there s nothing much to pin down on the last 3650 days. No matter where you look, there s something new and interesting or different and obtuse. It might not all be good, but it s uniquely its own and there s art to be found all over the place. It s in camera and out. It s in our personal subconscious and society at large. For better or worse, it s shaped who we are as people and it s fun to go back over all of the ups and downs, strikes and gutters and what-have-yous from the past ten years. Nothing before has been like it and nothing moving forward will be the same. It s glorious; warts and all.As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening! The one in which we break down the past twelve months of film. We ve done it before and we will might do it again. We start off the show saying that we ll spend the second half of the show talking about the past decade. But this thing goes on long enough and we call an audible and decide we ll record that conversation at a later date. But for this episode, we come up with a few thoughts about what 2019 had in store for us; just off the cuff: horror movies are actually hilarious, the poor eat the rich, Eddie Murphy sparked a personal renaissance, streaming reigned supreme, Bombshell wins our casting award and Disney can just fuck right off. This is just a taste of all the goodies we uncovered. Of course, no year in review would be complete without the obligatory top ten (or so) list that requires some amount of breakdown.As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening! If you re a regular listener to The Cinecast of yesteryear, you ll know that Kurt s been on Andrew s case since forever to get his ass up to Montreal for the annual Fantasia Film Festival. Apparently all it took was the better part of a decade and the closing of RowThree to secure a festival badge and train ticket. And from what we can remember, it was a pretty good time with friends and flicks; a full recap is attached hereto. But first, folk horror rears its evil head in Scandanavia with Ari Aster s Midsommar and Quentin Tarantino wows us with his ninth tenth ninth(?) newest film with yet another foray into revisionist history. This time it s late 60s California in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. So don your flower crowns, light up a Red Apple® and sit back and enjoy; it s time for the Cinecast Special!As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening! We miss it. So we gotta do it. And what better time to get the Cinecast brothers back together than for the end of the year recap? After some much needed catch-up and chit-chat, we talk about some of the themes and overall thoughts on what a great year 2018 has been for cinema and what cinema even means in 2018. A top performances list is almost exclusively ruled by women this year and the boys find a lot of common ground in their final top ten films of the year. Apologies in advance for literally yelling at you for not liking Widows, but that s your own fault.As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts about the year in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening! We thought we were done. You thought we were done. And we are. But we got a little homesick for some good ol fashioned Cinecast magic. And today s films up for discussion could not have scratched that itch any better. It s been close to ten months since the boys last spoke and so naturally we need to take some time to play catch-up with our cinematic lives over that time. 2017 stand outs, what s been on the radar for 2018 and so forth. And then we get into full SPOILER discussions of Boots Riley s magnetic Sorry to Bother You as well as Tom Cruise s stunt extravaganzza, Mission: Impossible Fallout. Kurt, once again, visited Montreal for the always entertaining Fantasia Film Festival while Andrew stayed home and watch Kevin Costner on the small screen. The Cinecast is resurrected one more time and there s a lot to catch up on here folks, so let s get to it As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!We re now available on Google Play! To all the writers, contributors, podcasters, and community members on ROWTHREE.COM: We would like to thank you for making RowThree such as special space to shoot the shit about movies, cinema, soundtracks, directors, cinematographers, editors, mega-franchises, and poster art. It has been just a hairs breadth over a Decade since RowThree.com swung open its doors, and invited the internet in to sit down and have a movie discussion. In that time, a community blossomed, friendships were made, arguments were had, viewing recommendations were made and ideas were discussed. We were happy to play host to the writers, talkers and cue-card artists that have livened up the place. What started with a few amateur writers assembling (John Allison, Jonathan Burdick, Andrew James, Marina Antunes and Kurt Halfyard) to consolidate their blogs into a community space has resulted in over 10,000 articles and 100,000 comments, hundreds of archived episodes of The Cinecast, Mamo!, After The Credits, and a potpourri of other podcast efforts. They will all locked and preserved in this space for a couple years. Feel free to enjoy them.You can find Marina The After The Credits players over at their new site: ATCPOD.CAYou can find the Mamo! Matt s over at the Modern Superior Podcast Network with their DeathWatch podcast, as well as other side projects.You can find Ariel Fisher also over at Modern Superior with A Frame ApartYou can find David Brook and his writing over at BluePrintReview.You can find Matthew Gamble at Where The Long Tail Ends.You can find Andrew very active at his Letteboxd Account.You can find Kurt s writing over at Screen Anarchy.If you are itching for that Cinecast/Rowthree vibe, there is an effort underway to resurrect The Movie Club Podcast in the new year and put out episodes on a monthly schedule.It was a privilege and a blast to work and play in this space. Cheers. While it s true that RowThree.com is going static after a decade of updates, a milestone by any measure, we re not done!After the Credits has a new home and we re happy to announce that going forward, you can find new episodes of the podcast at atcpod.ca beginning with the December preview which will drop next week followed by some coverage from the Whistler Film Festival.Come January, we ll be re-launching Girls on Pop and Dale has been cooking up a side-show for a few months that we re hoping to launch in the very near future all this to say that we re not going anywhere!For the most part, you won t need to make any changes to your feed but if you don t see fresh content popping up before November 30th, or to prevent missing any awesomeness, update your feed to http://atcpod.ca/feed/.http://rowthree.com/audio/ATC/2017/AfterTheCredits-SE.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Ten damn years! The Cinecast has been around for ten years totaling (more than) 500 episodes. We ve argued over, bickered about, tongue-bathed, laughed about and quoted movies for close to 2000 recorded hours. We ve made loads of new friends, lost loved ones, earned degrees, visited other continents, entered the covenant of marriage, written books, attended countless festivals, interviewed celebrities and even starred in a couple of low budget films in that time. And the amount of alcohol consumed I don t even want to think about it. We have some of the most devoted listeners in podcasting and I have to believe we re in the running for most hours recorded of one series in the history of podcasting at this point. Therefore, of course we have a good hour of reminiscing and say thanks to a few important folks. But as we hit this momentous milestone we, for the most part, treat it like any other episode except for one big in-house announcement. We have three theatrical reviews: Thor: Ragnorak, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Murder on the Orient Express. Then we take some time to look back at the year that is 2017 which of course includes a top five list. We also fulfill on a years-old promise (or at least half of it) with a retro-review of Tyrannosaur in return for a generous donation from listener Len Fearnside. This is The Cinecast 500. Yes, have some.As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!We re now available on Google Play! Trends are a funny a thing. Whether you realize it or not, they are constantly forming right in front of your eyes and what s more, some are more easily explained than others. In terms of the fashion industry, for example, there are many well-known trendsetters who only need to be seen holding a garment of interest before every man and their dog are wearing the item in question. However, when it comes to film and in particular television, the forming of trends is much more complex, especially with the emergence of on demand streaming platforms such as Hulu and Netflix.IMAGE SOURCE: PixabayTV Is Now Borrowing From The Big Screen More Than EverIn the US, box office takings for August 2017 totaled $625m according to the BBC, which indicates a 35% decrease when compared the same month last year. Whilst much of this is down to a perceived lack of high quality content, it s also due to the fact that television series are borrowing the best elements and themes from the cinema and then simply doing a better job of incorporating them into their own programming. Many of the most popular current themes of programming within the television industry first found success on the big screen. Take the superhero genre for example shows such as Jessica Jones, Daredevil and The Flash have enjoyed considerable success on the small screen and yet, it s arguable that these shows would have never come to fruition had it not been for the success of flagship franchises such as X-Men and The Avengers on the big screen. Furthermore, a recent report from USA Today estimates that around 1 in 8 Marvel TV/Netflix show watchers are new to the superhero genre. All of this serves to show that while our interest in the superhero genre was rekindled by the cinema, it has been undoubtedly further whetted by television.Familiarity Breeds Enjoyment?While there are many different names for it, the familiarity principle or mere-exposure effect within social psychology could also go some way to explain how trends in television are set. The theory has it that an individual will develop a preference for something for no other reason than the fact that they are already familiar with it, whether this be on a conscious or unconscious basis. Take for example the iconic figure of Elvis Presley, his figure at Las Vegas combined with slot games have made for one of the most popular places to gamble. All you need is the comfort that there is a big brand behind the title and you will automatically be drawn to it, says researcher Dr Mark Griffiths. Author Margrethe Bruun Vaage s Amazon bestseller The Antihero in American Television argues that the feeling of familiarity is pleasurable and that television series activate mental mechanisms similar to those activated by friendship in real life. In other words, viewers develop a shared bond between themselves and the characters on screen and the familiarity principle allows them to maintain this sympathetic attitude once it has been initially established. Would you like to know more ? Despite the fact that their portrayal can sometimes be considered somewhat cheesy and a little cliche-filled, some of the most gripping and absorbing scenes in film to this day still revolve around the casino. Whether it s someone betting their last few chips on a single number in roulette or taking their chance with the river card when it comes to a game of Texas Hold em poker, we simply can t get enough of the tense atmosphere generated by the portrayal of casino on the big screen.According to a report by the UKGC, mobile casino is now one of the largest gambling sectors in Britain due to firms such as 32red mobile casino employing an increasingly creative approach with regards to technology that both engages and entertains users. With that being said, the demand for more casino-related content, in general, has never been greater and so below are a selection of a few films which contain casino related scenes in some capacity.The HangoverThe Hangover franchise has been hugely popular in recent years owing to its ability to make light of even the most serious situations. The same can certainly be said when it comes to the casino scene in the first film, with Zach Galifianakis s much-loved character Alan casually pulling out a Guide to blackjack book before hitting the casino and amassing a large number of chips.Of course, the most hardened players will know that simply reading a book is not enough to be successful when playing online blackjack over at sites such Allslotscasino, but nevertheless, the movie s light-hearted take on the casino is a nice change of pace whilst still reminding the audience that the stakes are high no matter which game you choose to play.Source: The Hangover via FacebookLock Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsPerhaps the most realistic and gritty film on this list, Guy Ritchie s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was considered to be a huge turning point in the history of British cinema. The movie marked the beginning of a new crime genre, which was both sleek and stylish and aimed to compete with the glitz and glamour of the movies coming out of Hollywood.The casino scene within Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is of particular interest due to the fact that the up-close camera work employed by Ritchie offers both a surreal and unique insight into the inevitable highs and lows of the gambling. What s more, the main protagonist finds himself losing out in a game of poker to a powerful crime lord and duly pays the consequences for biting off more than he can chew. If you re looking for a truly immersive psychological journey centered around the casino then you could do a lot worse than revisit what is perhaps Ritchie s finest work to date.Casino RoyaleDaniel Craig s debut as James Bond was considered by many to be a watershed moment in the history of the Martini-loving British agent. The film was praised for its more realistic approach to the character when compared to the recent somewhat cheesy efforts of Bond s gone by. Nevertheless, the portrayal of the high-stakes poker game within the film is still pretty outrageous.Bond is competing for a staggering £115m ($152m) pot and yet somehow manages to beat his opponent s full house with a straight flush whilst simultaneously trying to survive numerous attempts on his life. Whilst this is extremely impressive if not a little cheesy, online Texas Hold em over at sites such as Maxgames engaging enough without having your enemies trying to snuff you out. Fantastic scene but also fantastically cheesy.Variety is Still the Spice of LifeLet s be perfectly honest it would be quite dull if the casino was interpreted in the same way every time. The fact that there are numerous sites celebrating the best casino scenes within the film industry suggests that these moments are long lasting in the memory because of the variety on offer.As with every other hobby, casino games offered by sites such as at 32red are primarily meant to be a fun and enjoyable way of spending your spare time and the fact there are so many different approaches to the casino within the film industry is indicative of how multi-faceted games such as Texas Hold em and blackjack really are. It is no secret, I love negative space in poster design. Here is the key art for Steven Spielberg s Nixon Era document leak movie, The Post, starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and a slew of others. The poster offers out of the boxes of all the actors hack style poster, and goes for the large steps of an institution image, with a tiny Hanks Streep (facing away from the viewer) dwarfed by those steps. In light of the crisp Helvetica typeface, I do like the included handwritten signature of a release date, particularly because it seems that the story of the film is to obtain that signature to publish the secret government documents. I have tucked the trailer below the fold to give you an idea of the kind of Oscar-bait America-Feel-Good exercise that the film might be. Cynicism aside, it feels clearly motivated by something like previous Oscar-winner Spotlight (And in the rich history of movies about newspapers, Zodiac and All The President s Men) and that is pretty fine. It also feels a bit like a spiritual sequel to Bridge of Spies, one of Spielberg s more underrated recent films. Would you like to know more ?

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