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Friday One Sheet: Our Favourite Movie Posters of 2015 - Star Wars
Each week in this column we highlight and discuss the design and details of movie posters in this column, this being the New Years Day holiday, and more about taking a day off than launching new...
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Mamo 433: The Power List Of The Force - Star Wars
Happy new year! Mamo closes out 2015 with our annual POWER LIST – an uncategorized ranking of the movers and shakers of the movie universe! Disney! Universal! Star Wars! Ava DuVernay! Listen in!
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Mamo 434: Peter, You’ve Become A Pirate! - Star Wars
As we emerge from CES with news of the resurrection of film AND the advancement of virtual reality, we take a long rambling detour into the world of online piracy, outrage culture, and the...
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Cinecast Episode 427 – Stretching the Bubblegum - Star Wars – Row Three
Was it the weather or is it the shitty inconvenient way films are released in theaters these days? Or does it depend on your geography or disposition? Or a little bit of everything? In short, we...
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Mamo 443: Heroes & Rogues
The rapturous arrival of the ROGUE ONE trailer gives us an opportunity to circle back on BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, and tie together all our thoughts on what audiences actually want from...
View ArticleSunday Video Essay: The Nerd Writer on Intertextuality
Prolific video essayist, The Nerd Writer, tackles the subject of not just Intertextuality, but emotional responses in the age of sequels, reboots, remakes, and shared universe mega-franchises. Or as...
View ArticleTrailer: Star Trek Beyond
As if you need further proof that the rebooted Star Trek universe is flash-in-the-pan pop cultural action-blockbuster-mush instead of boldly attempting any kind of science fiction or social ideas —...
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Mamo 459: Rogue Two
In advance of tomorrow night’s Superticket, the Mamo twosome gather to come down against ROGUE ONE – and the discrepancy between the movie Disney marketed and the movie we actually got.
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Super Ticket Episode 8 – Rowgue Three
Mamo and Cinecast unite to form the Super Ticket! We are one with the force, the force is with us. We are one with the force, the force is with us. We are one with the force, the force is with us. We...
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Carrie Fisher: 1956 – 2016
The galaxy mourns as it’s beloved princess became one with The Force on Tuesday morning at the age of 60; succumbing to complications following a cardiac arrest suffered last Friday while aboard an...
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Mamo 460: THE MAMO !!!POWER!!! LIST 2016
POWER!! Who has it? Who needs it? Who wants it? Who lost it? Team Mamo recaps the year 2016 in movers and shakers as the pop cultural landscape is wracked by celebrity deaths, digital doubles and...
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Mamo 463: Uber Iger
America is dying a very specific “Germany in the mid-1930s” sort of death, and even if we don’t know the outcome, we’re beginning to identify the collaborators. Not so Mamo-related when it’s a taxi...
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Mamo 469: Disney’s 2020 Vision
Building on comments in episode 463 (“Uber Iger”), we have another look at the political landscape that Disney is influencing, with an eye on the long game re: representation, diversity, and...
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Star Wars @ 40
On this day, 40 years ago, George Lucas’s $11M investment on a ‘Kurosawa Chanbara film meets Dambusters’ sci-fi adventure with laser swords, moon-sized battle stations, aerial dogfights in space,...
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