The Big Ass Summer Movie Show

FilmCouch #69 [32:05m]:
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Maybe you don’t feel paranoid, but a couple movies beg to differ as they look into our current culture of paranoia

FilmCouch #68 - Paranoia [27:37m]:
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April 25, 2008 – 11:13 am
Talking to Kumar, watching KUNG FU and finding a wise sage to explain what film is all about

FilmCouch #67 [29:11m]:
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The Care Bears, Iron Man and Morgan Spurlock are Hollywood’s new political mavericks

FilmCouch #66 [27:25m]:
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If you’re visiting a theater and tired of the same old movie clichés, conventional wisdom would point you to the independent movie selection. However, a string on indiewood flicks–most recently The Visitor (opening tonight)–are caving in on their own “indie” clichés. Like rogue environmentalists tracking an invasive species in an Appalachian creek bed, we digest [...]

FilmCouch 65 [30:52m]:
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Is “Iraq fatigue” a disgusting phenomenon or a natural dance between real life and movie life? The new WHOLPHIN quarterly DVD magazine is out and needs to be talked about.

FilmCouch 64 [31:24m]:
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Documentaries that don’t suck! An interview with AJ Schnack, founder of new doc award the Cinema Eye Honors. Plus an interview with Cinema Eye winning director Jason Kohn of MANDA BALA.

FilmCouch 63 [30:24m]:
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10,000 BC vs. ONE MILLION YEARS BC: Can 990,000 years of evolution make a better movie? And speaking of better movies, Karina explains why we don’t see good musicals anymore.

FilmCouch 62 [30:42m]:
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An audio interview with Jennifer Phang, director of HALF-LIFE.

Standard Podcast [6:00m]:
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2008 SXSW Special Jury Prize winning documentary Full Battle Rattle manages to find a unique way to examine the War in Iraq. Rather than bring their cameras into an actual war zone, they decided to look at a simulated war zone, the U.S. Army’s training facility in the Mojave Desert. I talked to directors Tony [...]

Full Battle Rattle Interview [6:40m]:
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