Review by Luke Whitmire The masterful David O. Russell directs another enthralling and compelling oddball drama that centers on a bipolar son and his dysfunctional family. In the hands of Russell, Hollywood’s brilliant humanist filmmaker, Silver Linings Playbook is easily the best romantic comedy of the year. Like his 2010 The Fighter, Russell’s subject […]
Archive for November, 2012
Silver Linings Playbook Will Make You Feel Great About Life and Relationships When the End Credits Role
Posted: 30th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Bradley Cooper, Brea Bee, Chris Tucker, David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter
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Flight soars with Verisimilitude.
Posted: 27th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Back To The Future, Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Flight, Forest Gump, John Goodman, Robert Zeme, What Lies Beneath?, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Review by Luke Whitmire Robert Zemeckis returns to live-action filmmaking after 10 years with Flight, another instant classic on par with his previous cinema- Forest Gump, Back to the Future, What Lies Beneath and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. An absorbing, sophisticated morality play that accentuates real life issues.
Requiem to a Hero
Posted: 24th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Age of Ultron, Curiosity, Cybermen, Earthshock, Neil Gaiman, Proof of Life, Punisher, Russell Crowe, Spare Parts, The Tenth Planet, Thomas Jane
Sadly, Dion was lost in the heroic act of breaking Brian out of the big house, so J and Brian have come to remember and praise their fallen comrade… by pretty much doing what they were going to do anyway and talk about whatever floats their respective boats. Come, join our possibly bereaved duo as […]
Life of Pi is Technically Adept, Wonderfully Entertaining and Thematically Cogent.
Posted: 23rd November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Alexander Schmemann, Ang Lee, Avatar, Ayush Tandon, Faith, God, James Cameron, Peter Pau, Yann Martel
Review by Luke Whitmire Ang Lee, that great chameleon among contemporary directors, confects a visual marvel about a shipwrecked teenage boy stranded with a Bengal tiger on a life boat. Lee weaves a compelling, enchanting fable from Yann Martel’s best-selling novel of the same title published in 2001 that sold over 7 million copies. Like […]
Readers in Paradise: The Wonderful Terry Moore
Posted: 20th November 2012 by Brian in Comic Books, The Comic SpinnerTags: Echo, Rachel Rising, Strangers in Paradise, Terry Moore
Terry Moore deserves some kind of award. No, not the kind you win for making amazing comic books. He’s already won a couple of those. No, I mean he needs an award named after him, an award for skillfully telling addictively entertaining stories in serialized graphic form, stories featuring beautiful, empowered women, stories entirely outside […]
1st-Year Anniversaries, The End of the World & Doing Time…
Posted: 17th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Alf, Brian Michael Bendis, Comics, Disney Sunday Night Movie, Family Guy, Icon Comics, Image Comics, Juan Williams, Lenny's, Marvel Comics, Robert Kirkman, Roman Empire, Rykers Island, Sammy Cahn, Seth McFarlane, Thanksgiving, The Caller, The Walking Dead, Time Travel, Warren Ellis
Where to begin… As the Podwits celebrate their 1 year anniversary, they discuss The Walking Dead, the fall of the Roman Empire, comic books, the decline of society, Family Guy and lay out a treatment for an ABC-Disney Sunday Night movie. Oh yeah, lest we mention that Brian is currently incarcerated on the Rykers Island Prison Barge […]
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Posted: 14th November 2012 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Harrison Ford, Jim Morrison, Paul Rothchild, The Doors, The Doors Live at the Bowl, The Hollywood Bowl
Many critics have recently been bringing up artists’ “quintessential” concerts, citing The Rolling Stones’ Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out or The Who’s Live At Leeds as examples. With the newly-remastered release of the Doors’ 1968 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, cleverly titled, The Doors Live at the Bowl ’68, this filmed performance is being hailed as the closest thing to a “quintessential” […]
Skyfall is the Next Evolution in Bond
Posted: 13th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: 007, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Christopher Nolan, Daniel Craig, James Bond, Javier, Judi Dench, Roger Deakins, Sam Mendes, Skyfall, The Dark Knight, The Joker
Review by Luke Whitmire James Bond celebrates his fiftieth year on the big screen, and we are introduced to all the elements that make the mythology so endearing: the gadgets, the beautiful girls, the exotic locations, and the eccentric villains. Skyfall is the 23rd movie in the most successful film series of all time, and what […]
In Space, No One Can Hear You… Scream
Posted: 10th November 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, Firefly, George Lucas, Indiana Jones, Jewel Staite, Joss Whedon, Lucasfilm, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion, Ron Glass, Serenity, Star Wars, Summer Glau, The Black Hole, The Walt Disney Company, Touchstone Pictures
Lucas may have sold out to the Mouse House, but The Podwits are still independent originals! But that won’t stop us from jumping on the bandwagon of those discussing this earth-shaking media news! After all, we ARE Internet know-it-alls! J and Dion also take a look back at the show that was one of Joss […]
Look… Up In The Sky!
Posted: 6th November 2012 by J. Marcus in Comic Books, The Comic SpinnerTags: Action Comics, Al Plastino, Bob McCloed, Brett Breeding, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Dan Jurgens, DC Comics, Denny O'Neill, Dick Sprang, George Perez, Jerry Ordway, John Byrne, Karl Kessel, Kerry Gammill, Roger Stern, Superman, The New 52, Wayne Boring
This edition of “The Comic Spinner” is guest-written by the Podwits’ own J. Marcus. Please feel free to forward all your complaints to him! With all the on-and-on I have been doing this past year on Podwits.com, Brian has been kind enough to ask me to answer a simple question regarding my favorite comic book […]