Woody Allen’s Newest & A Postmodcast Tribute To Robin Williams

Woody Allen's new film MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT, his 45th feature as writer/director, releases today in the Triangle area. Here's where my review can be found:


“A little moonlight but no magic in Woody Allen’s latest” (Raleigh News & Observer, 8/14/14)



A subject that's been impossible to shake this week has been the devastatingly sad and shocking death of actor/comedian Robin Williams.

I posted my picks for his top 10 films (Film Babble Blog's Top 10 Robin Williams Films), then discussed William's illustrious yet fairly spotty career with Kevin Brewer on the podcast, postmodcast, which you can access here: 



Postmodcast: Robin Williams (Raleigh & Company, 8/13/14)



Coming soon: A review of THE EXPENDABLES 3, which also opens today, and a three episode series of postmodcast celebrating the 30th anniversary of 1984, in which Kevin and I will look back at the music, movies, and TV of that banner year. Please stay tuned.



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BOYHOOD, Linklater, & Monty Python Discussed On The New Postmodcast

On the newest episode of postmodcast, a podcast that I am now co-hosting with Kevin Brewer (Twitter handle: @RealKevinBrewer) I talk about the new movie BOYHOOD, touch on the career of its director Richard Linklater, and discuss Kevin's experience seeing MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL for the first time (I've seen it so many times that I think its the #1 movie I've seen the most). That's Kevin and I pictured above at a Halloween party at my house few years ago (I'm in the Devo garb).

These are a few subjects near and dear to my heart as BOYHOOD is my favorite film of the year so far, I'm a big fan of Linklater, and HOLY GRAIL is my all time favorite comedy. 



There was a great moment in the last episode of Judd Apatow's one season cult classic TV series Freaks and Geeks when a teacher (played by Steve Higgins, later Jimmy Fallon's announcer on Late Night/The Tonight Show) consoled the lead geek characters, who were so tired of getting bullied, with a “it all gets better” speech. Higgins then offers up an 18 mm print of HOLY GRAIL (pictured above) that he just scored, saying for now that they should “enjoy the simple pleasures in life.”

On this episode of postmodcast I find out that one person's idea of the simple pleasures may be as foreign as can be to another. It was a lesson I had to learn.

If you didn't catch the links above, click here to listen.

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