Latest Carina magyar Podcast Episodes
Dances with Wolves with Trish Herrmann
Thanks, Academy! - March 17, 2020 20:27 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe skipped out on the 4-hour director's cut and opted for Kevin Costner's 3-hour theatrical juggernaut, the movie that launched a thousand bloated Kevin Costner epics and put a hard stop on Hollywood's one-sided treatment of Native Americans. While Trish and I weren't qualified to really examine ...
Forrest Gump with the Murphys
Thanks, Academy! - June 19, 2019 04:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI'm joined by 2019's Funniest Person in Austin Andrew Murphy and his brother Alex for a family tag team fresh look at this notoriously sappy gloss through the Baby Boom generation's childhood. The movie surprises us with how dark it is when you peer just beneath Robert Zemeckis's thick layer of V...
The Best Years of Our Lives with Mason Pitluk
Thanks, Academy! - June 11, 2019 06:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis movie did not play into our worst fears -- it's not war propaganda, it has redeeming and surprisingly strong female roles, and it contains more than a few genuinely entertaining scenes with good acting -- but it's still way too long for the extremely thin plot it's hung on. Basically a slice...
Wings with Asaf Ronen
Thanks, Academy! - May 28, 2019 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAt one point, Asaf calls this the 1920's version of Fast & the Furious, and he's absolutely right. Despite being a 2-and-a-half hour silent movie, there's plenty to watch: real airplane dog fights, male nudity (really), female nudity (really!), lesbians on a date (really!!!), men kissing each oth...
Gigi with Hunter Duncan
Thanks, Academy! - May 21, 2019 10:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHunter and I had less than zero idea what we were in for, which turns out to be easily the most misogynist musical we've ever seen. Even allowing for the '50s, and allowing for the setting of France, and allowing for the conventions of musicals, this film goes out of its way to reiterate, in ever...
Green Book with Chris Cubas
Thanks, Academy! - May 14, 2019 07:48 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is an excellent example of how to be tone deaf in 2019. In a year when African-American filmmakers and actors dominated both the box office and the awards shows, this white-bread corn muffin of a throwback warms over a '90s approach to race relations and passes it off as drama. Not only are ...
The Godfather with Adam Hrabik
Thanks, Academy! - May 07, 2019 10:32 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOne of the most celebrated films of all time ... only works if you're inherently interested in the Italian mafia. That's the conclusion we came to in this blockbuster episode that also covers ninja moves, Trump's posture, Christmas, and other junk. Sometimes the magic of two people watching a fam...
Hamlet with Erica Shultz
Thanks, Academy! - April 30, 2019 10:06 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIt feels weird to be surprised by this, but what a good movie! Turns out the most celebrated play of all time, when handled with straightforward care and interpretation, is a pretty damn good tale. There is the requisite amount of stilted 1940s acting, but all-in-all, it delivers what a Hamlet ve...
Amadeus with Mike Wiebe
Thanks, Academy! - April 16, 2019 17:21 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsMike Wiebe drops by to watch a 3-hour+ movie about opera, but we had a great time because the movie's themes of jealousy, mediocrity, petty revenge, and sex / drugs / rock-n-roll struck a deep chord inside both of us. Definitely one to tune into if you've ever dwelt in that uncanny valley between...
An American in Paris with Weird Brunch
Thanks, Academy! - April 09, 2019 06:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsGene Kelly should have won for "Singin' in the Rain," probably the greatest movie musical of all time, but the Academy blew its wad the year before on this outing, which was pretentious enough to be Best Picture material, but not nearly as entertaining and full of, dare we say it, problematic rel...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with JJ Summers
Thanks, Academy! - April 02, 2019 10:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFor our halfway point, I searched high and low for someone who would be able to watch this movie with NO knowledge of what's going on, either from the reading the books or seeing other adaptations. JJ fit the bill perfectly, and with a rule in place that he could ask a maximum of 5 questions abou...
Schindler's List with Roxy Castillo
Thanks, Academy! - March 26, 2019 10:57 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is easily the most intense episode of the podcast to date, matching the tone of this relentlessly graphic movie. Roxy and I are both sensitive, but we share a defense mechanism of humor that we use to keep each other from falling apart during the more excruciating sequences. We laugh a lot o...
The French Connection with Enzo Priesnitz
Thanks, Academy! - March 19, 2019 10:39 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is easily the most action-packed Best Picture we've watched yet, with car chases, shootouts, stakeouts, and all the primal elements of a cops-and-robbers movie. There's a freshness to it, though, a sense that the genre was being invented before our eyes with no conventions yet in place, no h...
Driving Miss Daisy with Zac Brooks
Thanks, Academy! - March 12, 2019 10:33 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsJoin me and Zac Brooks for the first-ever drunk episode, as we stumble through this cheesy '80s movie about race that's also somehow not at all about race. "Driving Miss Daisy" is a pleasant enough confection, and miles less offensive than other more recent confections (like "Shakespeare in Love"...
Terms of Endearment with Mac Blake
Thanks, Academy! - March 05, 2019 12:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is a movie that now feels like a fairly mediocre network television drama. There must have been something positively sparkling about it in 1983 when it won practically every award out there, but aside from one or two iconic Jack Nicholson scenes and a handful of good lines, this is a plain o...
Going My Way with Brett VerVoort
Thanks, Academy! - February 26, 2019 11:34 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis Bing Crosby vehicle shoehorns in several chances for the crooner to croon, but in a neutered way since he plays an oh-so-saintly progressive priest sent to save an old New York parish from the crotchety ministrations of its elderly founder. Bing proves he's better at everything than everyone...
Gentleman's Agreement with JT Kelley
Thanks, Academy! - February 19, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAnother '40s drama, another barn-burning polemic on societal ills. This time, it's Gregory "Atticus Finch" Peck in his younger days solving anti-Semitism by posing as a Jewish journalist. While JT and I find and express every possible way in which that is an uncool thing to do, the movie still su...
A Man for All Seasons with Joe Hafkey
Thanks, Academy! - February 12, 2019 11:42 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOh boy, oh boy, a movie about a lawyer having a dumb argument with an idiot. The story of Thomas More vs Henry VIII is not without its charms and intrigues, but you wouldn't know it from this dull plodding Kodachrome movie that feels like a cheap community theater edition. The acting is mostly du...
Oliver! with Melody Shifflet
Thanks, Academy! - February 05, 2019 11:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhat a strange movie. It combines truly delightful cheesy Broadway song-and-dance numbers with some of the darkest human misery and bleakest human behavior possible. The movie feels aimed at kids sometimes, with the chipper children engaging in Bednobs & Broomsticks-style hijinks, and at other ti...
Spotlight with Lea'h Sampson
Thanks, Academy! - January 29, 2019 11:23 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe were supposed to watch 3-hour Mozart marathon "Amadeus," but couldn't find a legal copy to stream, so we quickly rolled the dice again and landed on this recent winner about the Boston Globe's expose of the Catholic church's worldwide conspiracy to aid and abet child abuse. As a former newspap...
Casablanca with Austin Smartt
Thanks, Academy! - January 22, 2019 11:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIt sure was great to see a classic live up to its billing for once. This is just a fantastic movie, and -- BONUS -- there's a great and quite explicit gay romance driving the plot. Oh, sure, Humphrey Bogart's Rick is still getting over his summer camp fling with Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa, but once he...
Annie Hall with Bonnie Ambers
Thanks, Academy! - January 15, 2019 20:06 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI've hated Woody Allen my whole life. Anytime I told people that, they'd ask if I'd seen this movie. I'd say no. They'd tell me to see this movie and then decide. So now I saw the movie. He still sucks, maybe even harder than ever. I capture Woody Allen agnostic Bonnie Ambers and bring her over t...
Ordinary People with John Rabon
Thanks, Academy! - January 08, 2019 11:57 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhat do you get when you cross no plot with no music and a very small cast of characters all acting against type? You get paint drying. Robert Redford's directorial debut was impressive to somebody the year it came out, but in retrospect it drags like a student film and is full of inexplicably bl...
Gladiator with Brendan K. O'Grady
Thanks, Academy! - January 01, 2019 11:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsGladiator is an okay 90-minute acton movie stretched out to epic proportions and shot in an epic style without any epic content. The story and the stakes are strangely small -- one dude wants revenge on another dude, but first he has to show off how invincible he is. There is also a woman who bot...
Titanic with Ky Krebs
Thanks, Academy! - December 25, 2018 11:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsTitanic is a movie that seared itself so deeply into the world consciousness, it hardly seems worth revisiting. But it turns out there was a reason it blew away all records and became the biggest movie of all time (at the time): it's pretty damn good. Tune in as Ky Krebs watches for the first tim...
The Sound of Music with my kids
Thanks, Academy! - December 18, 2018 11:50 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe're about a third of the way through this project, it's Christmas season, and I'm stuck at home recovering from a major surgery, so I decided to abandon the "random order with random friends" part and watch the ONLY Best Picture winner that's fully suitable for young children, 1965's "The Sound...
Mutiny on the Bounty with Derek Kopswa
Thanks, Academy! - December 11, 2018 17:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBased on a true story that's been told a hundred different ways, this 1935 version stars Clark Gable and presents the infamous mutiny as a battle between nice and mean. Gable's (comically American) Fletcher Christian believes the crew of the HMS Bounty should be treated with carrots, but Charles ...
In the Heat of the Night with Rob Gagnon
Thanks, Academy! - December 04, 2018 11:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsA fascinating look at the hard-headed racism of the 1960s South. Unflinching, unrelenting, but also grounded in enough reality to avoid being a mere polemic, this film basically tortures Sidney Poitier's Detective Tibbs as he tries to solve a high-profile murder case in a low-profile Mississippi ...
The Lost Weekend with Allen Edwin Butt
Thanks, Academy! - November 27, 2018 12:18 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe most depressing Billy Wilder film for sure. This trudge through the story of one man's recidivist bender exposes the impossibility of living with alcoholism, and walks Ray Milland right up to the brink of suicide. Frightening -- indeed it's shot and scored like a horror film -- and bleak, the...
All About Eve with Cassidy Wienecke
Thanks, Academy! - November 20, 2018 12:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIf you like intelligent verbal sparring, overly dramatic personalities, sizzling put-downs, Shakespearean plotting, gorgeous outfits, wisecracking sidekicks, high-falutin' accents, drunks, intense bathroom conversations, facial masks, or just movies in general, then this is the flick for you. ...
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