The MacGuffin

In honor of Tintin, Spencer and Greg share alternative comic movies. Then they discuss the magic of murder mysteries and give DVD picks of the week.

Spencer and Allen discuss Zoe Saldana in advance of Colombiana, look at Guy Pearce for Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and give their DVD picks of the week.

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Brandi and Allen share their top 5 nonlinear films.

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Spencer and John discuss the rise of Gore Verbinski for the release of his film Rango, they consider what it takes to make a good film, and give their DVD picks of the week.

Another MacGuffin Film Podcast web-exclusive Top 5′s segment.  In this episode, Brandi and Allen share their top 5 favorite revenge films.

“Are you watching closely?” – Alfred Borden, The Prestige (2006)

They pass us everyday, like ghosts.  We see them, we are aware that they are there, but we know nothing about them; they are covers to books without anything written on the pages.  Who am I referring to?  People.  These are normal, regular, everyday people.  We pass dozens, maybe even hundreds of them everyday.  We are around people constantly, but how many of them do we actually know?  What are other people like, what are their stories, what are their secrets?  If we had the chance to learn about the life of a complete stranger, would we like what we see?  This is the question that obsesses the main character of Following (1998), director Christopher Nolan’s first full-length feature.

Spencer is joined by guest host Laremy of Film.com for an in depth discuss of Inception, with the first half being an overview that is spoiler free and the second half where they gets down to the details that include spoilers, and finally the episode closes with its own twist – the anti-dvd picks of week.

My mind has just been blown.

Inception (2010), the latest film from writer-director Christopher Nolan, is a mind-boggling exercise of epic proportions.  Not since David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (2001) has a film left me so utterly speechless; I do not even know where to begin with this review.  The film is a combination of all the best parts of The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), Dark City (1998), and the television show Lost, put together in one spectacular whole.  This is a film that will remain with you for days, trying to put all the pieces together.  Even now, hours after watching the film, my mind is still racing, wanting to learn more. It is a film that must be seen to be believed.

***WARNING: MINOR SPOILERS BELOW***

Spencer is joined by guest host Brandi Sperry to take a look back at Christopher Nolan’s career, discuss the upcoming release of Inception, and think about the future of his career, before closing the show out with their DVD picks of the week.

Eraserhead is the first feature length film from writer/director David Lynch, who has brought us Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr. While I have heard great things about both of those films and Mr. Lynch in general, this was the first of his movies that I took the time to watch. If I only had one word to describe this movie, it would be bizarre. One type of movie that I am always a huge fan of is bizarre, but this film took it way over the edge. It took the weirdness so far that it distracted from the plot which there was not much of anyway. David Lynch has gone on record as saying that no one has ever gotten the true meaning of the film and that he likes it that way.