FS After Hours #12 (Part 2): Listener Feedback / "Dudewood"

November 28: In Part 2 of the latest Filmspotting After Hours, Adam and Matty make their way through another batch of glorious Listener Feedback, including responses to their Top 5 Nostalgia Movies, Bad Day Movies and Bad Screen Parents. Plus, long-lost Filmspotting co-host Sam Van Hallgren checks in via phone to help the guys perform a listener-scripted scene from "Dudewood" ... and the latest batch of Filmspotting winners! Thanks to everyone who donated to the show. Winners were selected from episodes #276-282. Warning: This episode contains some profanity starting around the 40 minute mark.

Programming Note: The Filmspotting 'Best of' edition guest hosted by Slashfilmcast's David Chen is being held for a later date. Look for it to be published around Christmas.



NOTES

- Read Greg Kot's article about the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir and their accident.

- Re: "Clash of the Titans": Olivier was indeed in the film as Zeus... it was Harryhausen's last work on a feature film... and it's apparently being remade starring Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson as Zeus.

- You can read Steven Soderbergh's quote about "Cannonball Run" here.

- Thanks to our partners and former partners: PixarTalk.com, Creative Screenwriting and InReviewOnline.

- Thanks, as always, to Candace, Lindsay and Golden Joe DeCeault... and to listeners Greg Burland and Kevin Vazquez for their work previewing this show and many others to make sure everything sounds good and the show notes are up to snuff.

FS #277: Zombieland / Capitalism: A Love Story / Top 5 Bad Day Movies

Oct. 16: This week Filmspotting celebrates Matty's 100th episode by playing catch-up and sitting down with two films currently creating a lot of buzz at the box office. First up, our heroes hole up in the abandoned Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois to fend off an invasion of the undead. If they follow the rules they gleaned from watching the new horror/comedy "Zombieland," odds are the intrepid duo might just hold out for a solid six hours. Much more harrowing than any zombie infestation (and requiring the same amount of shotguns kept at hand) is the current state of the United States economy. Fittingly, Filmspotting sends its in-house socialist, Matty "Ilyich" Ballgame, to take in Michael Moore’s latest piece of agitprop, "Capitalism: A Love Story." Suitably sobered by both zombies and economics, the lads transmit their Top 5 Bad Day Movies via Morse Code from their underground bunker located one hundred feet below 1060 W. Addison. And for the record, Filmspotting really hates Illinois Nazis.

Also on the show: Listener Feedback, music by The Dead Milkmen and Massacre Theatre -- presented by Pixar Talk. This week's winner will get the Pixar DVD of their choice.


Filmspotting #277
:24-13:20 - Review: "Zombieland"
13:21-16:29 - Poll Questions
16:30-23:22 - Review: "Capitalism"
Music: Dead Milkmen, "Air Crash Museum"
24:15-29:20 - Massacre Theatre (Winner: K. Spahr)
29:21-45:44 - Feedback (Tearjerkers)
Music: Dead Milkmen, "Punk Rock Girl"
46:19-55:54 - New DVDs/Donations
54:55-1:10:08 - Top 5: Bad Day Movies
1:10:09-1:13:54 - Close/Next Show
1:13:55-1:16:07 - Bonus: Matty's Movie Minute

NOTES

- Annie Proulx wrote the short story "Brokeback Mountain."

- Stuart Gordon directed David Mamet's "Edmond" -- but it's definitely a Mamet film.

- Jeff Goldsmith's Creative Screenwriting Podcast can be accessed through iTunes here.

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