The Film Cynics

Everything you wanted to know about comic book movies…and we mean Everything!

eastmav — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:08:45 +0000

With no new releases to review, and with special guest Gareth Gaudin from Legends Comics in the studio, we devote our entire hour to talking about comic books and the movies that they’ve inspired. We set our sights primarily on the impending releases of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Losers and Kick-Ass and then cram in Steve’s picks for comic book writers who deserve an Oscar. We wrap everything up with some comic book related Vault picks: Todd MacFarlane’s Spawn and Kevin Smith’s Mallrats, both classics.

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Capitalism: A Love Story – Bite Sized

eastmav — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:08:37 +0000

The sparks fly when Steve declares his indifference to Michael Moore’s latest scathing endictment of American greed.

Where the Wild Things Are – Bite Sized

eastmav — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:08:04 +0000

While Brian wasn’t blown away by Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, he still wants to reserve a spot for it in his collection.

Our examination of Capitalism takes us to Where the Wild Things Are

eastmav — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:08:57 +0000

Besides our obligation to talk about the Oscars at least a little bit, we manage cough up two DVD reviews this week: Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are – with Brian feeling comfortable having both titles in his collection and Steve… well, not so much. Steve also tells Brian all about St. John’s Newfoundland sleuth family dramedy Republic of Doyle (with a detour about the state of his cable service) which leaves us just a sliver of time to break two very special titles out of the Vault, Joy Division biopic Control and underground documentary (literally) Dark Days.

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The Vampire’s Assistant – Bite Sized

eastmav — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:08:17 +0000

Despite having all the elements of a fun filled gothomedy, John C. Reilly as a vaudevillian vampire couldn’t elevate this film beyond its amateurish script and weak leading players.

The Cynics discover a Vampire in desperate need of Assistance

eastmav — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:51:09 +0000

Incredibly, the Olympic Gold Medal Hockey game wrapped up just in time for The Film Cynics to go on the air and deliver one of their most scathing reviews for The Vampire’s Assistant. We also had time to talk about The Hurt Locker’s Oscar troubles, the possibility of an Unbreakable 2, David Goyer writing the new Superman movie, and even speculations about what’s going on with Lost.We geek out over still cameras that can shoot HD video, then break Night Watch and In Bruges out of the Vault, and wrap it up with the trailers for Get Him to the Greek and Nightmare on Elm Street.

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Shutter Island – Bite Sized

eastmav — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:40:47 +0000

Rather than a DVD review this week, Steve and Brian checked out opening weekend of Shutter Island and have their review ready for your listening pleasure.

After Olympics on the mainland we head to Shutter Island

eastmav — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:08:19 +0000

We did things a little different this week and start off the show chatting about the Winter Olympics. Hey, it’s a pop-culture event that’s televised, so it’s kind of under our purview. We also break down Brian’s picks for Joss Whedon’s best projects (for some reason, we don’t talk about Alien Resurrection) in honour of the cancellation of Dollhouse. With no fresh DVD’s delivered to our door this week, we checked out opening weekend of Shutter Island and man did we like it, even if it seemed to go over some people’s heads. We actually Geek Out this week and discuss the merits of the upcoming iPad, then break out Taxi Driver and Goodfellas from our Scorcese Vault and shed light on the trailers for Centurion and Defendor.

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The best of the last decade

eastmav — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:08:42 +0000

We’ve got something a little different this week. Instead of our usual format we’re running down our 10 favourite films of the past decade – Steve’s 5 and Brian’s 5. We might have been a little short on some of the facts, and Brian might lose count a couple times, but there’s some great films in here, and some great ways to critique proof your collection. You might notice that this show sounds a little different than the others – that’s because it was pretaped so we could take a little vacation this week.

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Couples Retreat – Bite Sized

eastmav — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:08:47 +0000

With it’s impressive array of talent, Couples Retreat’s failure to deliver laughs took us completely off guard. For a movie written by a talented team of married guys, who knew they knew so little about what was funny about being married?