• 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
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Rachel Getting Married" (2008, Dir: Jonathan Demme)
    Jun 18 2025

    Eyy! Rachel Getting Married! It's a heavy movie! We talk about Ann Hathaway playing into public type, the incredibly strange casting, Demme as a phyical filmmaker working in a kinetic-digital world, rehab, European family vs American Family, 'Realism,' and other stuff.

    Hey: there's a weird little background sound in this episode. Sorry we hope it doesn't drive you insane. We were recording at Workers' Tap and the music was a little loud. We swear the episode is good enough that you will be able to ignore it.

    Intersting interview about the movie's sound mixing here. Good essay comparing the movie to Mike Leigh's work here.

    Matt recommends the new Adam Curtis thing. It's called 'Shifty.' Corbin recommends "On Fire" by Galaxie 500. Our Next Episode is about "Che," a movie that is very hard to watch on the internet. More information on this in the audio of the episode.

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: Post-Continuity (With a Special Focus on Deja Vu, Tony Scott, 2006)
    Jun 6 2025

    Some big news: Corbin and Matt lost their minds and recorded about film academy stuff for two hours. Our topic is Hollywood Continuty and its accelerants and defectors, which we process thought the frame of Tony Scott's 2006 Sort-of-sci-fi movie Deja Vu. Topics are wide and varied and include: comic book storytelling, film scanning, the digital console, Jim Cavizel, Ozu (again), and Michael Bay, the angel and the demon in one manifestation and the role of superhero movies in rebelling AGAINST post-continuity.

    Read Bordwell on late continutiy here. Read Shaviro on Post-Continuity here.

    Corbin recc's Mulaney's latest special, which is not NEW. Matt recc's his own Substack.

    Next week's episode is about RACHEL GETTING MARRIED. check that out it's great

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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007, DIR: Jake Kasdan)
    May 30 2025

    We still got a will and a burning rage to win, folks, because Ellis and Corbs are talking about WALK HARD! Topics: Non-linerar editing and audience testing, Judd Apatow, John C. Riley, paralell world Phil Hoffman, the evolving form of the comedy star during this time, the superior but rarely seen director's cut of this movire, and the weird line between parody and pastiche the movie straddles. Weirdly long?

    Corbin's Recco Here. Matt reccommends The Ankler, a newsletter about Da Movie Buziness.

    Next week's episode is an episode about post continuity. Check out "Deja Vu" by Tony Scott and one of the Michael Bay Transformers movies if you want to be totally abreast of the thing we're doing but it's not necessary.

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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007, Dir: Sidney Lumet)
    May 23 2025

    Corbin and Matt ride their horses across the Digital Frontiers and arrive at BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD, a world historic bummer that legendary director Sidney Lumet stages in a series of disgusting interiors. Also PSH drops a bunch of rocks on a glass table. It's excruciating.

    Corbin recommends a donut shop. Matt recommends "The Studio," on Apple TV. Next week's episode is about "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," which you might have to rent? Sorry.

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: 'Zodiac' (2007, Dir: David Fincher)
    May 16 2025

    We got a live one here, folks! Matt and Corbin talk about 'Zodiac,' David Fincher's digital cinema landmark that also happens to be one of the best movies of the aughts. Topics include: slip sliding into the place where no knowledge can validate you and the terror that remains, Fincher's San Fran past, ILM, a smoking fetus, digital's capacity to enable control freaks in directors chairs and executive's offices alike, and Matt's buckwild thesis on how the Zodiac killer is digital cinema.

    Corbin recommends this game. Matt recommends the second section of the second season Andor, which you can watch on Disney+.

    Next Week's episode is about 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," which you can watch on Prime, if you're into that kind of thing.

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    1 hr and 44 mins