In this week's Pop Culture Imports, we have a classic sushi documentary, a surreal Turkish nightmare, a Hindi adaptation of Hamlet, and much more.
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Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the greatness of Orange is the New Black, the terribleness of Grown Ups 2, and the pleasant surprise that is Dreamworks Animation's Turbo. Also, Adam says goodbye. Special guest Laremy Legel, author of Film Critic, joins us for this episode. Be sure to read up on Orson Scott Card, Laremy's 10 reason's why Pacific Rim was…
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I'll read anything by Tim Ferriss -- The bestselling author of the Four Hour series of books (Workweek, Body, and now, The 4-Hour Chef) is part genius, yet equal part mad man. In his books, Ferriss explains how to hack your life to happiness by accomplishing more with less work. Some of his insane theories…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam muse on the pleasures of space jail, ponder the virtues of a filmic canon, and explain why Total Recall represents everything that's wrong with cinema today. Special guest Matt Singer joins us from Criticwire and Filmspotting: SVU. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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