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A twice-weekly Film Podcast from Chicago with Adam Kempenaar and Sam Hallgren
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FS #253: Adventureland / Bonnie and Clyde / Top 5 'Bad Job' Movies
April 10: Step right up, come one, come all, ladies and gentlemen, everybody's a winner when they listen to Filmspotting! Just turn the dial on that iPod for your chance to hear a review of Greg Mottola's ("Superbad) new comedy "Adventureland," starring Jesse Eisenberg ("The Squid and the Whale") as …
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FS #252: Goodbye Solo / Jules and Jim / Top 5 Films of 2004
April 3: This week on Filmspotting, find out what happens when two film critics stop being polite, and start being neo-neo real. A review of director Ramin Bahrani's newest film "Goodbye Solo" begins innocuously enough, but quickly devolves into a soul-searching, cacophonous, theoretical debate on t …
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FS #251: After Hours (Stray Dog)
April 1: On this edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of Akira Kurosawa's 1949 procedural "Stray Dog" and your transcendent moviegoing experiences feedback.Thanks again to all of our donors for your tremendous support! Winners on this show were chosen from episodes …
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FS #251: Monsters vs. Aliens / Duplicity / Top 5 Sister Movies
March 27: It's hard to know who was more excited at the screening of DreamWorks' latest animated spectacle "Monster vs. Aliens" in 3-D: the two Kempenaar children, or Papa Adam Kempenaar and Uncle Matty? Needless to say, all four left the theater charged up and fighting over the promotional giveaway …
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FS #250: I Love You, Man / Brothers at War / The Great Buck Howard / Top 5 Buddy Movies
March 20: Hello? Oh, hey man, what are you up to? Listening to Filmspotting? That’s awesome, dude, I love their early stuff. What? Ha, I know it’s a podcast. I was just... I was just yanking your clavicles, man, just, you know, stroking your chains... uh... Do I listen to Filmspotting? Uh, dude, tot …
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FS #249: Watchmen / Angry Young Men Marathon Awards / Top 5 Deconstructors
March 13: It's a little known fact that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, creators of the "Watchmen" graphic novel that redefined the comic book industry, actually based their fictionalized characters on the exploits of your beloved Filmspotting duo. In the '80s, Adam and Matty were known to dress up in …
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FS# 248: Gomorrah / If.... / Top 5 Movies We Probably Got Wrong
March 6: On this 4th Anniversary episode of Filmspotting... Adam and Matty go to the mattresses for a review of "Gomorrah," the acclaimed new Italian gangster film that demystifies and strips any pretense of romance from cinema's beloved depictions of the mafia. Next, the guys wrap-up their Angry Yo …
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FS# 247: Two Lovers / Oscars Recap / Billy Liar / Top 5 Love Triangles
Feb 27: Adam and Matty are no strangers to sordid love triangles -- who can forget Nanette Burstein, the Asian performance artist who almost single-handedly broke up Filmspotting? So the lads were covering familiar territory when they entered into director James Gray's latest "Two Lovers," a film th …
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FS #247: Coming Soon
Filmspotting #247 with discussions of "Two Lovers" and "Billy Liar," plus a quick Oscars recap and our Top 5 Love Triangles, will be posted soon. If you absolutely can't wait to listen, visit our Message Boards for a link.
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FS #246: The Class / Viola Davis Interview / Top 5 Best Picture Nominees of the Decade
Feb 20: A is for Adam. B is for Ballgame. C is for "The Class." Get out your primers, this week Filmspotting goes back to school and finally delivers on its promise to review "The Class," France's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Your intrepid reviewers spent two hours with teacher Fr …
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FS #245: Coraline / This Sporting Life / 2009 Oscar Picks
There once was a boyWho listened to FilmspottingFor all of his movie reviewsBut then one day he tired of their gamesAnd yelled, "Come on guys, get a clue!"But Adam and Matty -- not to be crossedCame in the still of the nightNext day his parents searched high and lowOf the boy could be found not a si …
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FS #245: Coming Soon
Filmspotting #245 with discussions of "Coraline," "This Sporting Life" and our 2009 Oscar Picks is delayed and won't be available until sometime this afternoon. Thank you for your patience!
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FS #244: After Hours (Crossing Delancey)
Feb. 11: On this pre-Valentine's Day edition of Filmspotting After Hours... Our Listener's Choice discussion of the 1988 romantic comedy "Crossing Delancey" and more of your great feedback!Thanks again to all of our donors for your tremendous support! Winners on this show were chosen from episodes # …
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FS #244: Taken / The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner / Top 5 Abduction Movies
Feb 6: Now listen very carefully, Filmspotters. If you ever want to see Matty and Adam again, you will do exactly as we say. First, you will listen to their review of "Taken," the new film starring Liam Neeson as an uber-intense ex-CIA agent chasing down the men who kidnapped his daughter. Be sure t …
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FS #243: Waltz With Bashir / Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / Top 5 Movies About Hope & Change
Jan. 30: This week, in anticipation of the upcoming Academy Awards, Filmspotting takes a look director at Ari Folman's Oscar-nominated "Waltz With Bashir" (Best Foreign Language Film, Israel). Adam and Matty agree the film offers a very personal, dissociative look at the Lebanon War of 1982, but the …
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FS #242: Notorious / Look Back in Anger / Top 5 Most Anticipated 2009 Movies
Jan. 23: "When we say Film, you say Spotting!" This week Matty "Big Fiddy" Ballgame and Adam "White Shadow" Kempenaar pile forty of their closest friends and groupies into the studio and lay down some hot, fresh cinematic critiques. They'll rock the mike with a review of "Notorious," the new biopic …
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FS #241: Che / Steven Soderbergh Interview / Top 5 2008 Blowout
Jan. 16: This week's four-hour roadshow production of Filmspotting -- OK, 90-minute roadshow production -- is brought to you without an intermission, though it does feature musical interludes from Ezra Furman and the Harpoons. Adam and Matty recorded their epic review of director Steven Soderbergh's …
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FS #241 Coming Soon
Filmspotting #241 with a review of "Che" and an interview with director Steven Soderbergh... plus our Top 5 2008 Blowout... should be up before noon CT. If you are craving that Filmspotting fix, however, the show is accessible via our message boards. Thanks for your patience!
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FS #240: The Reader / Top 5 Lead Performances of 2008
Jan. 9: Oddly enough, the 2008 cinematic holiday season sported quite a festive National Socialism theme. Given the choice, Adam and Matty probably preferred spending time with Kate Winslet's sexy ex-Nazi Hanna Schmitz in "The Reader" more than they did Tom Cruise ("Valkyrie") and Daniel Craig ("Def …
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Filmspotting Fix: Revolutionary Road / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Jan. 2: Adam and Matty never did like that strange couple down the street on "Revolutionary Road"... they always just seemed a tad different: never borrowing a cup of sugar, always absent from the neighborhood barbecues. So the lads were hardly surprised to learn the Wheelers (Kate Winslet and Leona …
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