#302: Robin Hood / Top 5 Directors of the Decade
Adam-a-dale and Friar Ballgame wear Ridley's Scott's "Robin Hood" for a codpiece this week.
Read More#301: Iron Man 2 / Summer Movie Preview
Filmspotting returns to its regularly scheduled programming this week with a discussion of the Merchant Ivory period set-piece "Iron Man 2."
Read MoreFS Fix: Exit Through the Gift Shop
A lot of people don't realize that the Filmspotting podcast first started as a complementary forum for Adam and Matty to discuss their most recent work as street artists…
Read More#300: Top 20 Films of the Decade
Here it is. Five years and 299 shows in the making... Filmspotting brings you its 300th episode.
Read MoreFS Revisited: American Teen / Sin City / FS University
Who doesn't love a little confrontation from time to time?
Read More#299: Mother / Chloe / Lubitsch Awards / Top 5 Actors of the Decade
There have been many famous movie mothers through the years: Mrs. Bates, Mommy Dearest, Mrs. Doubtfire... V.I. Warshawski, etc... But there probably has been no better example of a doggedly doting mother than Kim Hye-Ja's turn as the over-protective matriarch at the center of Bong Joon-ho’s latest thriller, "Mother."
Read More#298: Greenberg / Hot Tub Time Machine / Top 5 Films of 1986
It was probably a bad idea that Matty convinced Adam to record their discussion of the new Noah Baumbach film, "Greenberg," in the WBEZ hot tub at the end of Navy Pier.
Read More#297: The Runaways / To Be or Not To Be / Top 5 Actresses of the Decade
Matty left for vacation without writing a clever intro, so... please enjoy this show with discussions of the new film "The Runaways" and Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 classic "To Be or Not To Be," plus our Top 5 Actresses of the Decade.
Read More#296: Green Zone / Top 5 Colorful Movie Titles
Director Paul Greengrass is great at two different styles of film: gritty historical "re-enactments" (think "United 93" and "Bloody Sunday") and gritty action thrillers (see: Bourne. Jason Bourne). In his latest, "Green Zone," he audaciously attempts to blend the two.
Read More#295: The Ghost Writer / The Shop Around the Corner / Top 5 Films of 1998
In honor of Filmspotting’s discussion of Roman Polanski’s "The Ghost Writer," this week’s show description is being ghostwritten by long time Filmspotting fan and regional Boggle champion, Linnea Knutsen of Yankton….
Read More#294: Alice in Wonderland / Un Prophet Interview / 2010 Oscar Picks
And then Alice came upon one of the strangest creatures she had ever before seen. Sitting high atop a mountain of marzipan and wearing a flowing robe of postage stamps and chiffon sat a large, bulbous beast with two heads. The two heads, one a tad more handsome than the other, each wore outlandish chapeaus that read "Kritik Hat," and the duo seemed to be arguing feverishly with each other over the merits of director Tim Burton’s latest film "Alice in Wonderland."
Read More#293: Shutter Island / Trouble in Paradise / Top 5 Performances That Should've Won Oscars
What do Michele Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Max Von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson and Jackie Earle Haley have in common?
Read More#292: Fish Tank / Ninotchka / Top 5 Teen Rebels
"Arthouse Adam" is back in his element this week as the Filmspotting duo discusses the new film "Fish Tank." No – not because Michael Fassbender spends the better part of the movie sans shirt.
Read More#291: Love Story / Love Affair / Top 5 Date Movies
Obviously impaled by an arrant Cupid’s arrow, Filmspotting caught Valentine fever this week and called a programming audible. Instead of reviewing their patented “gritty independent film of the week that no one will ever see,” the lads decided to catch up with a pair of classic romances that virtually everyone except your intrepid reviewers have already seen.
Read More#290: Edge of Darkness / Michael Hoffman Interview / Top 5 Career Comebacks
"No, you listen to US!" This week Filmspotting celebrates the return of Mel Gibson to the screen in the new thriller "Edge of Darkness" by delivering every segment of the show as though they were on the phone with the kidnappers who had just nabbed their only son.
Read More#289: Overlooked DVD Picks / Sundance 2010 Recap / Top 5 2010 Movie Preview
The boys haven't been able to get to the cinema recently, so in lieu of a review of a new movie, the lads offer up some Overlooked DVD Picks. Plus, Adam reports back from his Sundance journey.
Read More#288: The White Ribbon / The Book of Eli / 2009 Top 5 Blowout
File under the 'When the cat's away' department. This week Adam is out-of-town kicking off his mandatory two year world-wide Filmspotting mission... or attending Robert Redford's annual Parker Posey film festival in Wyoming.
Read More#287: The Lovely Bones / Top 5 Supporting Performances of 2009
If you were planning on rushing to the multiplex to see Peter Jackson's new film "The Lovely Bones," welllll... why not listen to Adam and Matty's discussion of the film on this week's episode and you just might, perhaps, be moved to use that ten dollars you would have spent on a ticket for a more humanitarian cause.
Read More#286: A Single Man / Top 5 Lead Performances of 2009
Digest the Top 5 Lead Performances of 2009, as determined by Adam, Matty and Steve Prokopy, the devilishly-handsome film critic from Ain't It Cool News.
Read MoreFS Fix: Avatar / Nine
Adam and Matty ring in the new year by finally getting to their discussion of James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar". Plus, the lads find out whether Daniel Day-Lewis can really "be Italian" in Rob Marshall's musical "Nine."
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