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All posts by Josh Spiegel
Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 189: “The Country Bears”
It's bear-ly spring, friends, but for some of us, the weather has become truly unbearable! Oh, come on, you're not really that surprised that it took bear-ly two words for some choice bear puns in this podcast description, are you? And why would you be, with o...
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Blu-ray Review: “Into the Woods”
Into the Woods, on the stage, is a lovely and mature tale about accepting responsibility in the darkest of circumstances, filtered through some of the most memorable characters of storybook lore. The film version is less successful at communicating the message...
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“Backcountry”
Actor Adam MacDonald’s debut film as a writer-director, Backcountry, walks down the same road so many horror films have to the point where the subgenre has been parodied in films like The Cabin in the Woods. Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop), a young ...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 188: “Cinderella”
Make sure you're dressed to the nines, dear listeners, because we've got quite the high-class tale to talk about on this week's episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. Did you ever see the film about the beautiful, kind, and silently suffering young woman who, with th...
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“Spring”
A profound and unshakable sense of unease pervades the entirety of Spring, from the opening scene all the way to the unexpected finish. Ostensibly, the film starts out somewhat like Before Sunrise, if that Richard Linklater film took place entirely in the head...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 187: “Mr. Holland’s Opus”
OK, friends, sit up straight. Backs up. Instruments high. And a-two, and a-three, and a-...OK, fine, no actual performing required today, but we are in a musical mood thanks to the movie of the week on Mousterpiece Cinema: Mr. Holland's Opus, starring Richard ...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 186: Pixar Shorts Collection, Vol. 2
We'd like to tell you that this week's episode of Mousterpiece Cinema is short in keeping with the tone and scope of our topic of discussion, but does "short" sound like it fits with our podcast? Of course not. That aside, Gabe and Josh tackle the second volum...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Lucasfilm Bonus Episode Four: The “Star Wars” Prequels
Grab your cloaks and lightsabers, folks, because the Force is strong with this special bonus episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. After months of waiting and hoping and plugging our Facebook page, we've finally reached the point where we can talk about--yes, really...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 185: “McFarland, USA”
The best way to listen to this episode of Mousterpiece Cinema is to do so while running, so get thee to a treadmill, listener. This week, Josh and Gabe are racing to the finish line to debate the new based-on-a-true-story Disney sports drama, McFarland, U-S-A!...
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Blu-ray Review: “Big Hero 6”
The magic of the newly minted Best Animated Feature Oscar winner Big Hero 6 is that it finds a way to be exciting, clever, and genuinely emotional in spite of being wholly inevitable. One of the film’s directors, Don Hall, mentions in one of this Blu-ray’s spe...
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