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A podcast for people who enjoy watching, talking, and fighting about film in all its many forms.
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ExplicitThe 3,000 Fathers Of Tarantino Edition | Despite diminished box-office grosses, laments about Hollywood’s addiction to sequels and remakes, and portents of doom from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Dissolve podcast host Scott Tobias had a really good time at the movies this summer. But what of the other Dissolvers? On this week’s podcast, we discuss the hits and misses of Summer 2014 and cast an eye on the future. And with the site heavy on Elmore Leonard coverage—namely, our Movie Of The Week, Steven Soderbergh’s Out Of Sight, and Life Of Crime, a new adaptation of Leonard’s The Switch—we thought it would be a good time to reflect on the author’s fascinating legacy on screen. The game this week asks our panel to differentiate between Troy McClure movies, straight-to-video movies, and made-up movies, and we wrap it up as usual with our quick-fire recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 8/28/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 26: The Produced By Jack Abramoff Edition | In theaters and/or On Demand now, you can check out new films by Alex Gibney, Michael Winterbottom, Woody Allen, and Joe Swanberg. Last year, you could also check out one or more new films by Gibney, Winterbottom, Allen, and Swanberg, and the year before that, too. This week’s podcast delves into the work habits of our most prolific filmmakers: Are they that inspired, or is something lost by working too fast? This week also sees the release of yet another YA adaptation, this one Lois Lowry’s 1993 YA standard The Giver. Though the film breaks from the book, Hollywood has been conservative about staying faithful to popular texts. But at what cost? The Expendables 3 inspires a game this week about its mostly ancient action stars, and we wrap it up as always with our quick-fire recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 8/14/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 25: The Infinite Possibilities, Infinite Gauntlets Edition | Guardians Of The Galaxy opens in theaters this weekend, Marvel True Believers, and we all enjoyed it so much that we sat down to an enthusiastic (and spoiler-free) conversation about what it means for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and where we hope the only partly fleshed-out Phase Three will go, now that Marvel has successfully taken the action off Earth and opened up a bigger, more complicated world. Joining us for the conversation: Eisner-nominated comics critic Oliver Sava. Our second segment also brings in a guest: L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, discussing her new book Tom Cruise: Anatomy Of An Actor, and how writing it turned her from a dubious Cruise detractor to a fan of his work ethic and ambition. The Movie Game Movie Game stumped some of the participants and led to a brief shouting match; we welcome your feedback over whether the rules of the game (so to speak) were fair play. And we brought in some enthusiastic new blood with our first all-intern edition of 30 Seconds To Sell. Speaking of feedback, we’re looking to launch a feedback and discussion segment on the podcast. Anything on the site, or in the broader field of movies—anything you’d discuss in The Dissolve's comments—is fair game. Email us at feedback@thedissolve.com to kick off a conversation. | 7/31/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 24: The Muffing Up The Sex Talk Edition | This week, it’s APES APES APES APES, as Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes prompts our resident Planet Of The Apes superfans to look back on the long-running series, from its grim, heady 1970s longueurs to all the tie-in products that kept kids absorbed between films that likely went over their heads. Sex Tape has us talking about America’s awful record with sex comedies for or about adults, and wondering why it’s so hard for sex comedies to talk about sex in a remotely mature way. (Hee hee, “so hard.”) Our game this week, In A World, asks contestants to identify films by listening to trailer snippets—which in one case, happened in literally two seconds. And we close, as always, with our competitive-recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 7/17/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 23: The Frosting On Top Of Frosting Edition | With the flourish of Scary Movie sequels and Friedberg/Seltzer productions like Meet The Spartans and Date Movie, the spoof hit rock bottom a few years ago, but our Movie Of The Week discussion of Airplane! and David Wain’s new rom-com riff They Came Together inspire a fresh look at the art of film comedy’s least respected subgenre. Another near-future MOTW (and Greatest Blockbuster poll winner), Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, has earned praise for keeping the shark off screen until the final third, but we question whether the decision to withhold information from an audience is always the right one. The game this week is “Oh, Roger,” which digs into the reviews, positive and negative, where Roger Ebert broke radically from consensus. And finally, Tasha Robinson and Nathan Rabin square off in the recommendation octagon that is 30 Seconds To Sell. | 7/2/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 22: The Disintegrating Rubber Frog Edition | On this week’s podcast, the release of Clint Eastwood’s version of Broadway’s mega-hit Jersey Boys gets us talking about how fidelity, staginess, and Gerard Butler affect our appreciation, or lack thereof, for stage-to-screen musical adaptations. Crash writer-director Paul Haggis returns to the hyperlink-cinema well for Third Person, which gets us talking about what we call everything-is-connected movies: From Nashville to Short Cuts to Babel, the films that sprawl across a scene or a theme, linking disparate characters in sometimes-hokey ways. Our game this week, Name That Tune Without That Tune, proved unexpectedly rough; we hope you’ll do better, or at least leave the podcast humming along. And we wrap this time out with a record-breaking 30 Seconds To Sell. | 6/19/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 21: The Death By Octopus Edition | The podcast is turning 21 this week and the poor dear is crying into its beer. Why? Because The Fault In Our Stars, an adaptation of John Green’s YA romance about teenagers with cancer, is poised to become a box-office hit this weekend. This week, we wonder if that movie gets around our cultural resistance to feel-bad cinema, and guess at the source of that resistance. And with the threat of a future where patrons will have to pay a little extra to weep in the middle seats, we discuss the range of amenities (and hassles) that theater chains are devising to increase revenue and keep people coming to the movies. The game this week is “The Crying Game,” in which Dissolvers have their knowledge of tearjerkers—and 1980s TV theme songs—tested. And we sober up as always with our quick-fire recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 6/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 20: Everyone’s Playing Wolverine Edition | We got our blood angried up a little when Disney Chairman Alan Horn started referring to his studio's new wave of nostalgia-mining films, like Saving Mr. Banks and Maleficent, as "brand deposits." But what does that phrase really mean for Disney? How long can it go on converting quaint, beloved animated films into big live-action spectacles without watering down the brand it's trying to deposit? Our special guest, Mousterpiece Cinema podcaster, Sound On Sight film editor, and newly appointed Movie Mezzanine critic Josh Spiegel, helps us sort out Disney's past, present, and future. Then, in honor of Memorial Day, we ask, "War movies: What are they good for?" Or at least, what's good about them? This week's game, Ex-X-Men, asks participants to sort out all the people who were almost-but-not-quite involved with the X-Men franchise throughout the years, and we close out with a blatantly pandering edition of our competitive-recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 5/22/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 19: The Temperamental Magic Edition | We’re all going to die, but how are we going to die? On this week’s podcast, the new documentary Fed Up, about the terrifying rise of obesity rates, prompts a discussion of other activist docs that push the panic button on climate change, contaminated water, peak oil, and any number of other threats. On a lighter note, the Seth Rogen/Zac Efron comedy Neighbors gives us a reason to revisit the topic of improvisation in film comedy and how effectively it’s deployed by various filmmakers and performers. The game this week is “Kisses And Disses,” a rundown of quotes from famous (and infamous) reviews that tests our critics’ knowledge of other critics’ work. And we wrap up as usual with an especially competitive edition of our rapid-fire recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 5/8/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 18: The Neat, Tidy, Acceptable Masterpiece Edition | Recently, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips made some provocative comments about Lars von Trier on the Filmspotting podcast, calling him a perpetual 14-year-old, while still praising him highly. With The Five Obstructions and Breaking The Waves getting new home-video releases, and both volumes of Nymphomaniac still sparking debate, it seemed like a good time to have Michael join us on the podcast to talk over von Trier’s peculiar obsessions and fascinating career. We also preview our Summer Movie Preview with a quick-hit look at some of the summer films we’re most looking forward to. As always, we wrap with our competitive-recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. Sadly, no game this week, due to technical difficulties during taping, but that just gives us more time for our favorite thing: Talking about films and filmmakers. | 4/24/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 17: The Spontaneous Choreography Edition | As baseball season starts, so begins the months-long torment of wading through losing streaks, blowouts, and forgettable matinees for those few transcendent moments that make it all worthwhile. But movies can skip right to the big moments, and on this week's podcast, we’ve gathered The Dissolve's only sports fans to talk about it. Then, we're pleased as heck to welcome The New York Times' Dave Itzkoff to discuss Mad As Hell, his new book about the making of Network. The game this week is "Where Did I Leave My Keyword?", in which contestants are asked which of four IMDB Keywords to various 1990s high-school movies doesn’t belong. And finally, Tasha Robinson and Nathan Rabin battle it out in a particularly close 30 Seconds To Sell. | 4/10/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 16: The Bad Time To Be A Purist Edition | This week, we were repeatedly inspired by Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, but not in the ways listeners might hope. First, the film's two-episode serial structure gets us talking about how film and TV are drifting closer together in form, content, and presentation. Then we play a special Nymphomaniac-inspired game of Parental Guidance Suggested, using the user-submitted parental warnings on the IMDB—in this case, for films so violent or sexually graphic that parents should already know to steer clear. We also interview Pictures At A Revolution author Mark Harris about his stellar, ambitious new film book Five Came Back, and close with our speed-round recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 3/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 15: The Distinctive Scar Edition | It took him over a quarter-century in movies, but with the profane comedy Bad Words, Jason Bateman has completed his evolution from teen wolf to successful actor to director. On this week’s podcast, we talk about what we’ve come to expect from actors-turned-directors, and why they can’t all be like Charles Laughton. The arrival of the Veronica Mars movie completes its unlikely ascension from ratings-challenged cult TV show to feature film, all thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that mobilized fans to the tune of $5.7 million. We wonder what types of movies deserve crowd-funding, and what fans should expect from their investment. With apologies to Saturday Night Live, our game this week is “Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney,” which is a 50/50 question that’s much trickier than it seems. Then we wrap up with a 30 Seconds To Sell segment that panders shamelessly to the host. | 3/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 14: The Deep Armageddon Edition | The Oscars are this Sunday, and as always, we have our hopes for the broadcast—some of which might come true, and some of which decidedly won’t, since they’d involve write-in candidates and party-crashers. This week, our Oscars columnist and film reviewer Jen Chaney joins us to talk about our wildest Academy Awards 2014 dreams. Then, with Non-Stop and Grand Piano currently in theaters, we uncomfortably box ourselves into talking about the art of the claustrophobia film—the great ones, the unheralded ones, and the infuriating cheaters. We return to our Double Vision game by making contestants distinguish between the two big comet-about-to-smash-Earth blockbusters of 1998, then finally get Genevieve Koski to make her 30 Seconds To Sell debut, against the reigning champ. | 2/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 13: The Grand Romantic Gesture Edition | But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It’s the Valentine’s Day edition of The Dissolve Podcast, and our hearts are swelling. (We’re on antibiotics for that. Should clear right up.) But is love dead at the movies? Two recent pieces on the modern rom-com and disappearance of the “woman’s picture” suggest as much, and we invite Criticwire’s Sam Adams, who addressed both articles in a piece called “Who Killed The Woman’s Picture?” to talk about it. But love certainly isn’t dead on the podcast, as we discuss some of our favorite romantic gestures in movie history—those big and small moments that have made us swoon over the years. The game this week, dubbed “I [Heart] Hollywood,” asks panelists to match the rom-com with its gimmicky premise, which sounds trickier than it is, because the gimmick is always more memorable than the title. And finally, we drive the love theme into the ground with 30 Seconds To Sell. | 2/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 12: The Worrisome Cave Of Lepers Edition | As home theaters get more and more impressive, studios are fighting back with visually epic films like Gravity, which take the theatrical format to its current limits. Gravity’s huge box-office success and 10 Oscar nominations suggest the renewed focus on scale might work both financially and aesthetically, but what happens when movies made to get people into theaters leave the theaters, and home viewing is the only option? This week, we discuss movies where the presentation might be as important as the content, from Gravity to Jaws 3D. Then we check in with Nathan Rabin and Noel Murray, live from the Sundance Film Festival, for their picks on the best films soon to hit theaters, and their impression of how Sundance has changed since they started attending. We bring back Parental Guidance Suggested, where players have to identify a film from some of its IMDB Parent’s Guide warnings, then have Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias present their dueling recommendations in 30 Seconds To Sell. Spoiler: It’s a really close call this week. | 1/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 11: The Pleasure-Seeking Knuckleheads Edition | Due to the holiday break, we haven’t recorded a new podcast in a month, but the movies haven’t exactly stopped provoking conversation in our absence. In fact, there’s so much to talk about that we decided to forego our usual game and 30 Seconds To Sell segments just to get to a larger fraction of the topics we had in mind. We start the new year with an argument between podcast hosts Scott Tobias and Tasha Robinson, who tend to disagree a lot, but rarely as fervently as they do on Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street. From there, an advertisement promoting Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit as “From The Director Of Thor” has us wondering about directors like Kenneth Branagh, whose career seemed to promise one thing, but delivered something else entirely. And finally, we share what movies, new and old, we watched over the holiday break and offer some good recommendations. | 1/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 10: The 500-Page Handwritten Script Edition | The tepid reception from critics and audiences toward Spike Lee’s recent remake of Park Chan-Wook’s dark, stylish 2003 film Oldboy is indicative of some of the problems and preconceptions surrounding American remakes of foreign films. We try to set aside our knee-jerk dislike for such films to discuss what they say about our filmgoing culture, and try to come up with a few successful Hollywood re-imaginings (other than The Ring). In the second segment, host Tasha Robinson talks to Jason Bailey, writer of the new book Pulp Fiction: The Complete Story Of Quentin Tarantino’s Masterpiece, about the film’s genesis, shooting, and impact on the current movie landscape. Then Tasha asks Keith Phipps, Noel Murray, and Nathan Rabin to perform some movie algebra with a new game called Icon Vs. Icon, whose simple-enough name belies a complicated—but fun—premise. Then Noel and Scott Tobias wrap it up with some rapid recommendations in 30 Seconds To Sell. PLEASE NOTE: The Dissolve Podcast is going on hiatus over the holiday break. It will return in January with new episodes. | 12/12/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 9 — The Auto-Tracking Edition | Despite all of us feeling, at one time or another, that Blockbuster Video was the “Death Star” of video chains, as Nathan Rabin described it, we’re left feeling oddly wistful about the days of clamshell boxes and “Be Kind, Rewind.” But is our nostalgia misplaced? In this week’s podcast, we kick off with a reminiscence of the VHS era and the way it influenced our film education. Then, contributor Sam Adams joins Tasha Robinson and Genevieve Koski for a discussion of the Bechdel test, a metric that’s become an increasingly popular way to determine gender bias in film. In order to pass the Bechdel test, a film must feature at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. But for such a simple rule, it’s full of gaps and exceptions, and cases where it’s misapplied. Our panelists have different ideas about when it’s useful and when it isn’t. This week, we also introduce a new and filthy game called “Nude Review,” in which contestants are given descriptions from the user reviews at the Celebrity Nude Database and asked which perfectly oval-shaped buttcheeks belong to what movie. Then Tasha and Nathan Rabin duke it out in our quick-fire recommendation face-off, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 11/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 8 — The Desire For Chicken Edition | If restaurant menus worked like cinema seasons, any chef serving chicken in the fall or fish in the spring would be given dubious looks, and face nonstop accusations that his food must not be very good, or he’d be serving fish in fall and chicken in spring just like everybody else. But the division of the film year into “studio dumping ground,” “blockbuster season,” and “prestige season” is a fairly recent, entirely artificial, and not particularly nuanced, and can hurt films like Thor: The Dark World, which appear to be on the menu out of season. So in this edition of the podcast, we discuss the film “seasons,” where they came from, and whether they’re making everything taste like fish all summer long. Then we look at a number of recent documentaries that are pushing a little too hard for an artificial narrative framework, and the recent docs that are doing the exact opposite. Then we return to our “How did that character die?” game, Knife/Gun/Other. And finally, a nervous Scott Tobias and a mocking Keith Phipps square off in our competitive recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 11/7/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 7 — The Extreme Horror Edition | With Halloween coming next week, we’ve put together the most terrifying, blood-curdling episode of The Dissolve podcast to date—relatively speaking, anyway. We start by talking about the trend-hopping of the horror genre: Why do certain types of horror movies come in waves—from “torture porn” to found-footage to haunted houses—and where do we hope the genre goes from here? With The Shining coming up as our next Movie Of The Week, we interview Rodney Ascher, the director of Room 237, a terrific documentary that compares and contrasts the many far-out theories advanced by the film’s most obsessive fans. What is it about this particular film, more perhaps than any other in Stanley Kubrick’s career, that inspires such a range of interpretations? The game this week is “Reel Estate,” in which panelists are given descriptions of memorable houses and buildings and asked to name the movie in which they appeared. Then Noel Murray and Nathan Rabin are asked for their scariest recommendations for 30 Seconds To Sell. (They’re not that scary, frankly.) | 10/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 6 — The Path Of Excess Vs. The Sublime Place Edition | The public conflict between the director and actors of Blue Is The Warmest Color has overshadowed discussion of the film, which inspired us to return to a favorite Dissolve topic: how much “extratextual” things like behind-the-scene production stories, directorial intent, or our feelings about a filmmaker should affect how we watch or interpret a film. Then, spinning off the release of Machete Kills, we discuss where neo-grindhouse movies from Black Dynamite to Hobo With A Shotgun are coming from, and what modern audiences get out of all these self-aware retro films. This week’s game is Common Denominator, where players have to identify extremely familiar characters from a list of the actors who played them at various points. Finally, Matt Singer and Scott Tobias throw down in our competitive recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. (Hint: You owe Matt a life. Yes, you.) | 10/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 5 — A Volcano With Attitude Edition | Opening on IMAX 3-D screens across the country today, Metallica: Through The Never goes bigger than most concert films, attaching a post-apocalyptic narrative to the expected Metallica performance footage. On this week’s podcast, we use this opportunity to talk about the evolution of the concert film, unconventional approaches to the genre, and some of our oddball favorites. Then Matt Zoller Seitz, esteemed TV critic for New York magazine and editor-in-chief of RogerEbert.com, joins us via Skype to talk about his new book, The Wes Anderson Collection, a gorgeous hardcover full of essays, interviews, photos, and graphics related to Anderson’s seven features. And our game this week is “Double Vision,” wherein the host gives clues from two movies with a lot in common and asks the panelists to guess which one matches the description. And when those two movies are Dante’s Peak and Volcano, the competition is every bit as explosive as you’d expect. (No adorably scruffy dogs or young Joseph Gordon-Levitts were harmed by lava in the recording of this game.) Finally, Tasha Robinson and Noel Murray touch gloves in the recommendation cage match that is 30 Seconds To Sell. | 9/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 4 — If I’m Winning, I’m Still Losing Edition | According to Aesop, familiarity breeds contempt, but that doesn’t always hold true. In the case of filmmakers, actors, and other creators with long, well-established careers, familiarity can help us isolate their particular talents and interests. Sometimes, though, Aesop’s right, and seeing too much of someone’s work makes us respect it less. This week, we discuss what the long careers of Danny Elfman, Robert De Niro, and many others have taught us about their work. In a second segment, Scott Tobias and Noel Murray report in from the Toronto International Film Festival via Skype, laying out the best films coming to America soon, and the best films they’ve seen that are still looking for distribution. Our game segment this week is Famous Last Words, in which panelists struggle to identify a film character from the last lines they speak before dying. Finally, Nathan Rabin and Keith Phipps square off in our competitive recommendation segment, 30 Seconds To Sell. | 9/12/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 3 — The Sprained Tongue Edition | What connects the new One Direction 3-D concert movie and the later films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, besides Kevin Bacon? Both are for-fans-only propositions that appeal strongly to a niche audience without seeking to broaden the base. We discuss the freedoms and limitations of making films for some and not for all. Inspired by the humorlessness of Elysium, this week’s second segment examines the leavening effects of comedy in action movies and what happens when they get too jokey. We also play a game called Parental Guidance Suggested, where the host throws out descriptions from the IMDb Parent’s Guide and asks the panelists to name the buttock-laden movie in question. Finally, Matt Singer and Nathan Rabin pitch their rapid-fire recommendations in 30 Seconds To Sell. | 8/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 2 — The World Is Bad And I Hates It Edition | This week, as blockbuster season careens to a close, we discuss blockbuster culture, whether Steven Spielberg’s alarmism is on point, and whether it could all be turned in a more positive direction. Our second segment focuses on the singing-and-dancing party endings of films from Beetlejuice to This Is The End to Despicable Me 2, and asks what these endings accomplish for a film, and which ones make us groan, as opposed to which ones make us chair-dance in the theater. We try out a gory new game that tests the players’ ability to remember how characters die in films, and we let Nathan Rabin unleash his inner moo-cow. Finally, Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps are given 30 Seconds To Sell us with their film-related recommendations: Keith on an iconic soundtrack, and Scott on the concept of negativity, apparently. | 8/16/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 1 — The Nostalgia Menace Edition | Inspired by the throwback teen romance of The Spectacular Now and the Summer of ’93 period comedy The To Do List, we begin the inaugural episode of our biweekly podcast with a discussion on how nostalgia enhances (or maybe distorts) our perceptions of a movie. In the second segment, Tasha Robinson’s two-star review of the majestic Patrick Swayze vehicle Road House has us wondering about the “guilty pleasure,” and whether movies we enjoy can also be called bad movies. We also play a game called “Double Vision,” where participants are given two very similar movies—in this case, Pretty In Pink and Some Kind Of Wonderful—and asked to tell which detail came from which movie. And finally, Tasha and Nathan Rabin have “30 Seconds To Sell” their movie recommendations. | 8/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Mature discussion of film
This is a terrific podcast. As a cinema and media studies major in college, I have felt a void of high level cinema criticism in my life since graduating in 2012. I have been searching for a podcast that could help fill this gap. The Dissolve podcast is the first time I have found this in a package that is both intelligent and accessible. I listen to 6 or 7 film podcasts a week but this has easily jumped to being my favorite. I can't wait to see what these guys offer in the future!
Intelligent discussions
Guys, I really like this podcast. Tasha Robinson is my critic hero.
But, please, tell me I’m not alone. Nathan Rabin has an incredibly annoying way of talking. I mumbles and is always sounds like he is about to run out of air. It’s super hard to understand anything he says. Please Nathan, you’re a broadcaster now, learn how to speak properly.
Please, Nathan Rabin ...
An intelligent film podcast with inventive topics. BUT. Nathan Rabin. Buddy. Puh-lease be more mindful of the way you speak. I'm a huge fan of your writing ("My Year of Flops" is fantastic) but your pattern of speaking communicates that you'd rather not be communicating at all. You mumble very quickly and then suddenly SPEAK REAL LOUD to make a point, then dip back down in the lower register, as if suddenly embarrassed, racing to your point, mumbling and mumbling, then SPEAK REALLY LOUD again, and you always undercut it with ending nearly every sentence with a question mark. As if to say, Please don't hate me? Driving and listening to The Dissolve is simply impossible; I can't keep adjusting the volume. I apologize if this is coming off harsh, but seeing that you're a movie critic and makes a career criticizing others, and you devoted a year of your life to "flops", I'm sure you can handle the constructive criticism.
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