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All posts by Josh Spiegel
Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 216: “Escape to Witch Mountain”
We're on the move this week, friends, and we're headed to a mysterious place full of wild and inexplicable happenings. (No, Burning Man was earlier this summer.) That's right, we're headed to Witch Mountain. Specifically, Josh and Gabe are watching and discuss...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 215: “Signs”
Grab as many glasses of water as you can, a baseball bat, and your inhaler, because it's time for a very special, spook-tacular episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. (What? If Starbucks can start the Pumpkin Spice Latte in September, we can start our October theme n...
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“Everest” Loses Its Footing Despite Looking Great
A great mystery of mankind is why we feel the desire to tackle the impossible, to face off against a challenge that few, if any, men or women could surmount. Why do people climb Mount Everest? The familiar adage, courtesy of Edmund Hillary, is “because it’s th...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 214: “Cars”
Keep a weather eye open, friends. It sounds like thunder is approaching. And you know what comes after thunder, don't you? That would be...lightning! Ka-chow! And also dad-gum! Yes, the day is finally here. We're sure you've been waiting with bated breath and/...
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Blu-ray Review: “Cinderella”
We have entered a brave new world of Disney live-action filmmaking, which you can choose to take literally or ironically depending on your point of view. Disney’s recent, splashy re-do of Cinderella is the latest entry in what appears to be an expansive genre ...
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“The Visit” Is M. Night Shyamalan’s Best Film Since “Signs”
In the late summer of 1999, two low-budget movies intended to scare audiences helped change one aspect of the mainstream-cinema landscape: the bare-bones found-footage horror film The Blair Witch Project and the spooky psychological thriller The Sixth Sense, w...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 213: “Fun and Fancy Free”
Gabe and Josh are feeling lighthearted and laid-back today, so what better film to discuss on Mousterpiece Cinema than the 1947 package film Fun and Fancy Free? Your hosts tackle the two short films, about a circus bear in nature and Mickey and friends facing ...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Marvel Bonus Episode One: The “Iron Man” Films
Happy Labor Day, everyone! While you take a load off on this holiday, Josh and Gabe have been hard at work on a new bonus episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. As they pause their exploration of the Lucasfilm canon, Josh and Gabe turn their eye to some of the early ...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 212: “The Rookie”
The crack of the bat, the smell of freshly mown grass, the sound of an umpire calling a strike on a pitch that is so far outside, how could that be a strike, you bum? HOW? Oh, sorry, just got into the heat of the moment, because it's the tail end of a very goo...
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Why Fan Theories Are Destroying Film Discourse
Did you know that, in The Dark Knight, the hero was actually the Joker? It’s true—if you buy into this recent theory posited by a user on Reddit. And did you know that Andy’s mom in Toy Story is also the grown version of the girl named Emily in Toy Story 2 who...
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