Some slight disagreement and perhaps some slight insight into two of the films of the Summer: THE AVENGERS and THE CABIN IN THE WOODS.

Running time:  38 minutes and 26 seconds – 35.3mb

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Here it is Dear Listner, Episode 200 in glorious MP3 form! A review of TITANIC plus a brief look at COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN’S HOPE.

Running time:  44 minutes and 39 seconds – 41mb

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Hard to believe, but true, but Gareth and I talk about an actual Adult Drama in this week’s show: A SEPARATION.  We also discuss briefly the astonishing THE RAID and the less astonishing MIRROR MIRROR.  Plus a listener’s email gets a direct response in THE HUNGER GAMES Revisited.

Running time:  31 minutes and 20 seconds – 30.2mb

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My goodness there’s some disagreement over THE HUNGER GAMES Dear Listener and some agreement, kind of, regarding 21 JUMP STREET.  Plus a frankly odd tangent of discussion into the filmography of Tony Scott.  You’ve been warned.

Running time:  44 minutes and 17 seconds – 40.7mb

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It’s an action packed show in more ways than one Dear Listener.  Tune in as Gareth and I fawn over the new $250,000,000 Disney release JOHN CARTER, and discuss matters of slightly smaller budget with LOVE LETTERS TO THE END filmmaker Peter Dean and ProductionHub Head of Marketing Katrina Diamond.

Running time:  54 minutes and 33 seconds – 52.4mb

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Oh my goodness, will we ever agree on anything again?  Not from the sounds of this episode as Gareth and I discuss the Steven Spielberg family film WAR HORSE, and the all smoking all the time espionage pic TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY.

Running time:  34 minutes and 48 seconds – 33.5mb

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It’s a bite-sized, easy to digest, shorter, briefer and perhaps even more exciting version of TFT this week.  Please do enjoy our reviews of CHRONICLE, THE DESCENDANTS, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN and THE ARTIST.

Running time:  27 minutes and 40 seconds – 26.6mb

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Gareth and myself take an in-depth look at three blockbusters, one of which is great, the other good and the third just rubbish.  Yep, it’s reviews of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 4: GHOST PROTOCOL.

Running time:  46 minutes and 24 seconds – 44.6mb

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Which isn’t to say it’s all fun-and-death, but the heavy bits are your basic cycle-of-violence stuff topped with a pitiable portrait of monomania. In 15 years, Cataleya never sways from her revenge mission, and as we prepare for the final showdown, her relationships transform into Achilles heels. All this exposed vulnerability requires its fair share of hand-wringing and worried staring, packing a bit too much fat on the muscular flick’s midsection, but it sure makes its point: Ahab had it better.

Of course, the real point is spectacular action, and COLOMBIANA gets right to it: Zoe Saldana’s entrance opens the film’s untoppable setpiece, a ludicrous ninja number that singlehandedly makes up for CONAN. If it weren’t already clear Megaton knows what he’s doing, the match cut from a trash can lid to Saldana slinking her way through an air vent suggests some wit behind that visual bluster. It also introduces the basic feminism of a SALT-style thriller about a woman whose womanhood comes in handy in a society that fails because it underestimates her. A lipstick flower is her calling card, but the cops maintain their mystery killer is a man, a stubborn attitude that Saldana turns into one of the film’s best punchlines. Like Angelina Jolie, Zoe Saldana delivers confessions as well as she does concussions, and her charisma is so strong it even subdues the film’s moralistic impulse (though that particular pendulum leads to such exploitative highlights as a closeup as Saldana’s lips twirl a lollipop). But so what? There’s a few laughs, a couple of surprises, and a fat guy walking on a glass sheet across a shark tank. The B-flick is back.

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Brandon Nowalk writes about film and television for the Maroon Weekly in College Station, TX and at his blog But What She Said and Twitter @bnowalk. His favorite films beyond the usual suspects include Henry King’s The Gunfighter, Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad, Orson Welles’ The Trial, Jan Nemec’s Diamonds of the Night, and David Lynch’s Inland Empire.

It’s almost too much action for one show  Dear Listener:  Gareth and I disagree more than a little bit on RISE OF THE PLAENT OF THE APES, cannot disagree for reasons that are obvious about Fassbinder’s WORLD ON A WIRE and explore a novel take on Stanley Kubrick’s THE KILLING.

Running time: 40 minutes and 52 seconds – 39.3mb

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