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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

By: Corbin Smith and Matt Ellis
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A Podcast about movies from the fine folks at the Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation, with Corbin Smith (The Famous Writer) and Dr. Movies, Matt Ellis (A Professor of Movies)2023 Art
Episodes
  • DIGITAL FONTIERS: "Avatar" (Dir: James Cameron, 2009)
    Jul 4 2025

    We had to do it, so we did. Topics include: the insane camera setup they used on this, Cameron: Movie Napolean, the... particular aesthetics, and the faint nostalgia for Michael Bay real heads feel while watching this thing. There's stuff we like about it to.

    Read this if to learn stuff about Avatar.

    Ellis recc here. Corbin recc'd a video game, again. Next week: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.

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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Speed Racer" (Dir: The Wachowskis, 2008)
    Jul 2 2025

    Speed Racer. It's a masterwork. It also might give you a headache. We must live in that contradiction. Topics: Comic Books and post-continuity cinema, the movie's collagey qualities, the alternate Hollywood it presents, and the movie as a product of globalization.

    Matt's reccomendation. Corbin's. Next episode is about "Avatar," which you can watch on Disney+, if you dare.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Che: Part One" (2008, Dir: Steven Soderbergh) (W/ Eric Marsh)
    Jun 27 2025

    Ellis and Corbin and ERIC MARSH discuss "Che: Part One," Steven Soderbergh's process oriented tale of the Cuban Revolution, first movie ever shot on a 4K Movie Camera. Topics include: Oakley Sunglasses, Soderbergh during this time, digital cinemtography blessing his particular way of working, and why CAPITALIST STREAMING PLATFORMS make this movie hard to watch.

    Ellis: 'Song at the end is "Carlos Puebla – Hasta Siempre, Comandante," which is about Che.'

    Our next episode is about SPEED RACER. Tremble in fear.

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    1 hr and 51 mins
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