Cinema Misfits Podcast: Bonus Best Picture Predictions Episode

Without benefit of a suped-up DeLorean, the Misfits do their best to look into the future and predict what the Best Picture nominations will be.


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Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 39: Fred Koenekamp Interview, The Help, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Crazy, Stupid Love

6 ‘n 90!  Da Man reviews six films in ninety seconds.


The Help.  Kathryn Stockett’s blockbuster best seller gets the Hollywood treatment.  Does Tinsel Town get it right, or does the movie need a little…help?


Fred  Koenekamp interview.  Academy Award winner and cinematographer on such films as Patton, Papillon, and The Adventures Buckaroo Banzai talks about his early days in the industry.


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Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 38: Rubber, Friends With Benefits, Cowboys and Aliens, and Captain America

6 ‘n 90!  Da Man reviews six films in ninety seconds!


Rubber.  Bargain basement Buñuel or a Firestone commercial with edge?


Friends With Benefits.  Just what the world needs, another romcom about a couple who want to have sex but no commitment.  No.  Really.  I’m serious.


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Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 37: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, X-Men: First Class, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon

6 ‘n 9o!  Da Man reviews six films in ninety seconds.


Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger tides.  Maybe it’s only natural that this franchise, which is getting a little long in the tooth, goes looking for the Fountain of Youth.


X-Men: First Class.  The next step in the evolution of the X-Men film series or a genetic throw-back?


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Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 36: Jim Morton Interview Part 2, Super 8, Larry Crowne, and Green Lantern

6 ‘n 90!  Da Man reviews six films in ninety seconds.


The Islander.  Jim Morton, expert on extreme cinema, shares the remainder of his movie picks to take with him on a deserted island.


Super 8.  Kids vs. the army.  Alien vs. the earth.  Pickup vs. train.  The only one who comes out of this looking better than expected is the truck.


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Jim Morton Bonus Audio Interview

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Jim Morton talks about Trashola, Incredibly Strange Films, and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies.  For more from Jim Morton, check out his blogs at East German Cinema Blog, Pop Void, and The Museum of Modern Mythology.


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Cinema Misfits Podcast, Episode 35: Jim Morton Interview, Midnight in Paris, Kung Fu Panda 2, Bridesmaids, and The Tree of Life

6 ‘n 90!  Da Man reviews six films in ninety seconds.


This week’s guest on The Islander is author Jim Morton.  He was a contributing editor to Incredibly Strange Films and in the early 80s put out the fanzine Trashola.  He has forgotten more about horror and sexploitation films than most people will ever know, and his picks definitely reflect his eclectic tastes.


Midnight in Paris.  Paris might be a “movable feast,” but Midnight In Paris is more like a buffet stuck in the 20s.


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