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Category Archives: FilmCouch

The Film Couch is a weekly show from spout.com, a website where people help other people discover great movies. Featuring the founders and film-lovers from spout.com’s community, they cover film reviews and movie culture.

FilmCouch #85: Death Race, Crispin Glover’s What is It?

Some movies are violent, some are disturbing, and others are just plain wrong. Paul W. S. Anderson’s Death Race is a fun ride with some gnarly crashes, but it can’t hold a candle to its demented predecessor, Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 (1975).
Cinema’s favorite weirdo, Cripsin Glover, is taking his film across the country, personally [...]

 
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FilmCouch #84: Primary, The Rape of Europa, Nastia Liukin

The epic battle between McCain and Obama will shape America’s future. To prepare, we look at an eerily similar battle from America’s past, the 1960 primaries between JFK and Hubert Humphry, as portrayed in Robert Drew’s verité classic, Primary.
Karina stays in for the weekend watching back-to-back movie marathons to settle an age-old debate: Who’s better, [...]

 
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FilmCouch #83: Tropic Thunder protest, The Clone Wars

Tropic Thunder and its fiasco retardo. The Clone Wars assaults weary Star Wars fans, but Karina’s watch list saves the day.

 
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FilmCouch #82: Pineapple Express and Foot Fist Way

Pot and taekwondo, the pursuits of a Southern gentlemen named Danny McBride.

 
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FilmCouch 81 - Comic-Con 2008 and Mardi Gras: Made in China

Keanu Reeves tells Kevin Buist–in very inhuman terms–what it’s like to be an alien getting in touch with his “humanness,” just before Kevin gets melted by a cosmic glare for being near Keanu at Comic-Con. So, what’s up with all these A-list Hollywood types going to a comic book convention? Kevin tells the story of [...]

 
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FilmCouch 80 - Wholphin 6 and Dark Knight Indigestion

WHOLPHIN 6 is a must see DVD and listeners unpack THE DARK KNIGHT (now that they’ve seen it).

 
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FilmCouch 79 - The Dark Knight

This week’s show is devoted to all things THE DARK KNIGHT

 
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FilmCouch 78 - /Filmcast, Karina’s Picks, and The Apocalypse

What are our friends watching? We check in with /Filmcast’s David Chen and Devindra Hardawar and our own Karina Longworth.

 
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FilmCouch #77 - WALL-E the Snake, YouTube gets sophisticated

WALL-E = Mad Max for kids and find the next Herzog on YouTube

 
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FilmCouch #76 - The Comedies of Our Lives

If you had to choose one comedy that depicts what you wish adulthood could be, would you pick DUMB & DUMBER or GROSSE POINTE BLANK?

 
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