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Trumix.com listings available of Mamo! Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Mamo #120: Blood in the water Everybody's got a move to make this week - Warner Bros. shuffled Harry Potter to take advantage of next summer's tentpole gap, and signaled their intent to change the way they develop comic book movies in light of Dark Knight's continuing success. Meanwhile, United Artists fell apart, Tropic did Pineapple business, and Kevin Smith is ridin' the wave. It's all in this week's Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #119: Mamo a Mamo Back so soon? Well, when we have something more to say we damn well say it. Thank goodness we continue to be provided with life's rich tapestry, here's another installment. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #118: Batmamo! Three whole years of Mamo's extraordinary amazingtude have brought us right back to the beginning: Christopher Nolan's done a Batman movie, and holy shafizzle, they don't come any better than this. It's an extra-long anniversamamo, and we are so glad to have you! (Join our Facebook page!) (Pleeeeeaaaase!) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #117: June's Done Busting Out All Over After SATC came and went, it's been a little too quiet out there in summer movie land. Is june always like this, we seem to remember that there was more going on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #116: Sex and the Single Guy Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of women went to see Sex and the City and - there's no other way to describe it - geeked out. Do the girls need their Indy too? Is a core audience component being sorely underserved (again)? Does a movie have to be good if it already has great shoes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #115: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Unwieldy Title That Robs the Movie of a Certain Elegance Required for this Kind of Thing to Work It's hard not to just degenerate into a mass of fanboy complaining when one of our real heroes is at stake, but hey man, we don't even try. SPOILERS! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #114: Mamo GoGoGo! Speed Racer didn't get out of the starting blocks, didn't win, didn't place, didn't even finish the race. Why? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #113: Iron Mamo. Iron Man opened this weekend with a higher take than even the optimists have expected, and Marvel celebrated by unveiling their plans for the rest of "phase 2" of their movie-making career. What does this hold for the future of comic book movies? Let's find out. Or at least, speak as though we know things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #112: Fight the Future The Matt's weigh in with their big summer movie boffo b.o. predictorama, vying once again for the title of prognostication professional. As always, the eventual winner will be named Matt. But don't let that stop you, throw your own predictions into the comments below! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #111: The Doldrums, Part 2 In which, very notably, nothing is still going on! But our intrepid hosts are winsome and upbeat as they talk about all things Pixar, Clooney, and summer '08... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #110: Call me Porn King Vogel Our definition of a weekly show continues to evolve, as do the two of us. If only something about the movie business excited us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #109: Requiem for a Jamomo Having skipped our annual Oscar show, we recap the night nonetheless, with hits and misses, surprises and outrages, and absolutely no fashion commentary whatsoever (except for a tiny bit about Ben Affleck's shirt). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #108: Returning from our irregularly scheduled lives... After another prolonged absence, we make yet more excuses and then get right down to Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #107: Light a candle No other way to say it: losing Heath Ledger just sucks. We'll do our level best to commemorate, and then look at the Oscars and the comings and goings of 1-18-08. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #106: What if they gave an awards show, and nobody came? The Golden Globes yawned their way out of a press conference last night, and we took the time to comment whilst the show was not going on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #105: The one where we go too far 2007 is at a close, so it's time for a year-end wrap-up, as the Matts find themselves on opposite sides of a pair of top ten lists, as well as union rights, and a certain format war. Happy new year! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #104: For a Compass, it's got a lousy sense of direction. Alvin. ALVIN! AAALLLLLLVIIINNNNNNN! Good lord it's quiet out there, but there's more than enough to discuss in recent failures to make a show out of. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #103: We were on strike No we weren't. But life got in the way bigtime for most of November; now we're back to cover what we missed. Ridley! Beowulf! Compass! Sweeney! We missed ya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #102: There is no more barrel, there is only gun The writers strike looms large, and what will become of our delightful business that we call show? How long can hollywood exist without the written word? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo 101: The TV Show, episode 3 As has become an annual tradition, the Mamo crew takes a break from the movies and looks at the idiot box for a roundtable recap of new and returning fall shows. And hey, nary a snide Grey's Anatomy comment in the bunch. This is progress! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #100: Black Tie Affair Auspiciously, the Matt's have reached their milestone 100th episode of a little show called the Mamo! Break out some champagne and celebrate with us, as this day will be talked of in song and stories forevermore! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #99: Without a map Inadvertently robbed of their plans to close the summer in this episode, our Mamo hosts instead must do what they do best: make it up as they go along. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #98: Back to life, back to reality. TIFF gets the big send-off with our last show of coverage. We wrap up the last of our films, and give some overall impressions of this year's crop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #97: The Door of Recollections We're on the run once again, grabbing breakfast and going over films until the last possible second before we run off To another screening. More film fest, more Mamo. The wrap up show is still to come. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #96: Reacted The boys are back after another rewarding 48 hours to give updates on everything that's happened to them since the last time. Many films are discussed, and coffee is most definitely consumed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #95:Recovery Resuming right where they left off from last night, the Matts eat a crappy breakfast together and dish the sitch on all that's fit to print. Flm Festival report, part deux. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #94: Juno, Interrupted Our first fest report focuses on high school, but must be marked incomplete. This is what happens when you try to grab a mamo between screenings. The line went in early, and we cut it short. We'll be back tomorrow with the rest of this installment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #93: Festivus Prevestivus We're gettin ready to do it again! That's right, Matt & Matt cover the toronto international film fest for the third year running! Check out our hopes and dreams this time around. We'll be back all through the week to let you know how it goes down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #92: A Dry White Season In tonight's humid Mamo, our heroes consider "the dumping ground" - that infertile corridor between August 15 and October 1 when every single movie that Hollywood would rather forget gets abandoned to the disinterest of an exhausted and embittered public. Or something. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #91: Quality will out Under cover of night the Matts assemble to discuss the impact of everything happening exactly the way they thought it would. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #90: ...D'oh? The Simpsons movie is a scant four days away when our intrepid Mamokateers realize... that they know absolutely nothing about the plot. What cunning reversal of last week's show is this? Also: Bourne, Bob Zemeckis, and Book Seven. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #89: TMI Five is in theatres, Seven is imminent, and so we send out a missive from the eye of the Harry Potter perfect storm. Is it even posssible for us to be surprised by anything anymore? The internet, production journals, AICN, and the everpresent SPOILER ALERT! culture say no. We have our own things to say. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #88: Philly Cheese Steak Live from Philadelphia, the boys of Mamo slice the meat nice and thin, slap it on a bun, drizzle it in gooey melted cheese whiz, and then add the sauteed onions. Oh baby, enjoy that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #87: Yippee Ki Yay, Monkey Suckers! An expected downfall for Evan Almighty leads us to wonder why that particular sequel came so spectacularly off the rails, which leads to our expectation that Die Hard will be following suit in just a few days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #86: The boys of summer Mamo hard - with a vengeance! Now that we can see a bit more clearly, it's time to look at whether May's threquelpalooza was a good idea, or a horrific miscalculation. Also: whither Nancy Drew, the Madness of King Roth, and did we actually forget to mention this weekend's lead release altogether? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #85: Goin' down faster than the '95 Blue Jays The slow death march of theatrical exhibition is chronicled once more, from the disappointing hangover of May's sequelitis to the ongoing attempts to woo us back with flash instead of substance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #84: And that was without a single drop of rum Pirates arrives, guns blazing - and at least one Matt is willing to call it his favourite thing ever. Sailing against stiff competition the numbers are still respectable out of the gate, but how long can it hold in the ever-deepening tidal wavefront of the summer of 2007? Wait: what's a tidal wavefront? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #83: This could go either way. So far so good for the beleaguered summer blockbuster. Another weekend past, another record set. But this week we realize that the giants are going to be nestled in awfully tight, with 3 different films each occupying 4000+ movie screens. Just how many records can be set, just how big is the current marketplace? All this and more, in this week's Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #82: Amazing, Spectacular, Sensational The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout, down came the rain to the tune of a hundred and fifty-one goddamn million dollars. Yup, the spider's back, but in the face of stiff reviews and a lacklustre weekday performance, how long is he going to last? Also: doc soup and preview prevention. Mamo! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #81: Valenti relenties Goodbye, Jack Valenti. Hello, high definition. Also, look out, because Spiderman will be here soon. Mamo spends the time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #80: The Laughing Dictator One thing we forgot to mention in any great detail in our Grindhouse show a couple of weeks ago was the involvement of the Weinsteins, now a Company in their own right, in this mini-fiasco of mismarketing. Well, let's correct that mistake! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #79: Block Bluster Summer 2007 really is almost here, and it's our annual chance to make utter fools of ourselves, go way out on a limb and let everyone see just how bad we are at predicting the future.Matt's Picks1. Spider Man 3 ($350M)2. Shrek the Third ($330M)3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End ($320M)4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ($280M)5. Ratatouille ($185M)6. Transformers ($160M)7. Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer ($150M)8. Ocean's 13 ($140M)9. The Bourne Ultimatum ($130 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #78: Grinding with the boys Cinema fans should be in hog heaven this weekend with the release of the Rodriguez/Tarantino double-feature Grindhouse... so where the hell is everyone? Also, Will Smith, Courtney Solomon, and the one film Dakota Fanning can't get sold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #77: Critical Mass Fantasy worlds, anticipated films, and criticism junction. Next stop, Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #76: Watch for the Watchmen Back so soon, Mamo? Oh yes. A $70 million opening weekend for300draws our hosts once again to the microphone, but it's hard to talk about naked Spartans without at least partially getting into insane vigilantes and fat middle aged men dressed up like owls. Oh wait... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #75: Explaining the unexplainable, whilst just a little drunk. A post gustatorial Mamo finds us slightly tipsy and more than a little opinionated. It was touch and go, would we make it without a major verbal slip up? Listen, and see how we managed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #74e: The Road to the Oscars is a Long Road Indeed And that's the show, folks. An absolutely baffling year with surprise after surprise after surprise, and also Martin Scorsese. That's showbiz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #74d: The Road to the Oscars is a Long Road Indeed more more more oscarpalooza Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #74c: The Road to the Oscars is a Long Road Indeed And it keeps on going! Alan Arkin takes Supporting Actor, as at least one Matthew predicted! It's a wide open horse race now, kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #74b: The Road to the Oscars is a Long Road Indeed installment 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #74a: The Road to the Oscars is a Long Road Indeed It's our annual Oscar tradition of recording little Mamolets every half hour or so, and upload them to the web in the vain hope that someone will listen. Clip 1 is the one where we lay out our foolish, foolish picks in this unguessable Oscar year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #73: The Bullshit Our reluctant Mamo-kateers are dragged off their couches to comment on the first momentous box office surprise of 2007... the overwhelming and counter-common-sense weekend take forGhost Rider. Honestly: what in a thousand flaming skulls is going on here??? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #72: Adult Swimfan Shows that write themselves are just about our favorite kind. Mooninites, Oscars, and Warner's superhero headaches in the latest and greatest Mamo of them all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #71: The Jig Is Up Mamo returns with startling revelations about film ratings, studio ledgers, and Eddie Murphy. Oh, and our own ill-advised tomfoolery! We shall never kid again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #70: Unhappy Feet Okay.... so Matt P. here, posting up our latest Mamo offering. YouTube, Cameron, Avatar, filmmaking democratization, and I can't possibly forget Happy Feet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #69: Of Penguins and Abortion 2006 is over, and yet we can't let it go without a fond farewell. Here's what kept us going lo, these past twelve months. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #68: Mamo doesn't know If there's anything we've proven over the years, it's that we rarely know what we're talking about, and yet we can talk up a storm. A storm is thus summoned tonight that involves James Bond (again), Apocalypto, Charlotte's Web, Eragon and the future of non-Potter fantasy movies, Will Smith, John McClane, and Rocky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #67: It's beginning to look a lot like Jesus The Nativity show we've been threatening to do for at least a week is finally upon us. Enjoy as we head into December and do our last non-year ending wrap up show! Also, we are both fully aware now that at least in the US, The Nativity did get a sensible rating. Listen, and you'll see what we mean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #66: The Flick of Destiny The One Minute Film Festival, Robert Altman, Michael "Kramer" Richards, Borat, James Bond, Happy Feet, and Tenacious D. What do all of these wide and varied things have in common? Only Mamo 66, the great bringer-togetherer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #65: All this has is a guy being tortured and beat up and fighting with knives Mamo, November Mamo. Yes, Bond is upon us, as is The Simpsons trailer, Happy Feet, and the questionable morality of Borat. Join us in a rambling free form discussion of all of this plus more as we round out our 65th installment of Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #64: Very nice, Borat After the Borat Incident claimed our ability to see Sacha Baron Cohen's film in its entirety at the Toronto International Film Festival, the reputed comedy event of the century finally hits the big screens, and the big screens hit back with a phenomenal gross. Was YouTube responsible? Will Bruno pull a repeat? What the hell is going on anyway? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #63: Grizzled, Gritty, Glorious Oscar hopefuls abound, and zounds it's time to take a peek at that venerable workhorse, the war picture. Since the box office onslaught of Saving Private Ryan, nobody seems to be able to hit the target for the greatest generation. Why not? Plus, Superman Returns some more, and our meals arrive with extra lemon. So gird yourself for a stirring shot of Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #62: Industrial Light & Mamo They talk about "the magic of the movies"... but is it all just sleight of hand? Tonight's show is a round-robin card game between Georges Melies' advanced trickery, Harry Knowles' industrial light, and Christopher Nolan's prestige, with a healthy dollop of post-digital uncertainty thrown in for good measure. Abra kadabra! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #61: The Very Nearly Departed Martin Scorsese has a hit movie, for the first time since the other George Bush was president, so we take the opportunity to examine the history and continued potential for Americas oldest living master filmmaker. Also, we recap our TV discussion from last week and answer our critics. Matt and Matt, back to the movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #60: The TV Show Annually, we turn our laser wit to the small screen, this year being in no way an exception. Why are the new shows the way they are, and what can be done about it? All this and much more, It's TV through the eye of the Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #59: All the Weinsteins love Mandy Lane The Toronto International Film Festival is over, and now it's time to figure out what to go do with ourselves. Some Hollywood hotshots already have some ideas of their own, revolving around nubile teenagers, Viet Cong prisons, and Jennifer Lopez. What got sold and why? It's the TIFF '06 marketplace show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #58: Fest is the best Our last installment from TIFF 2006 gives us a chance to survey one of the best, and surely most controversial films of the fest, Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain. Plus interlopers, French futuristic nihilism, and when is something a classic ahead of it's time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #57:Fest that sells sex After 7 days and more than 30 movies each, we stop off to talk about everyone's favorite subject. Sex sells, so they say, but who's buying? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #56:Fest without guests Day 4 of the Toronto International Film Festival and we're back for more coverage and discussion of what it all might mean. Plenty of films in the last 2 days, and the only mix-up being that we missed Chris Bales, who's blogging the fest himself and who was waiting to join us. due to our own incompetence, he is not a part of mamo, but we're hoping he will be in future. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #55: Fest without rest The first of four podcasts coning at you from the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Both Matt's are seeing 50 films, but we still have time left over to get together, have the coffee, and cast the pod. Enjoy, at least 3 more to come before it's all over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #54: Summer's in for school If Snakes on a Plane is on the big screen, then clearly, summer's over. It's time to gaze back at our somewhat addle-headed picks for what was going to do what in the big, scary summer of 2006, and declare an UNDISPUTED CHAMPION. Or at least, a vaguely marginal victory.For the record:Matt's score: PointsDifferentialTotalMission Impossible 32.490.975 Cars 10 .89 8.889 Superman Returns 8 .81 6.467 X3 9 .98 8.846 Pirate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #53: News, and other happenings. We're back after a short hiatus with a rambling examination of all that is August of 2006 at the movies. Some news about our favorite hero, some trends are emerging, and the careers of two of Hollywood's biggest directors, Michael Mann and Oliver Stone are on the line this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #52: By George I Think They've Got It. Well, it only took us upwards of a year, but we finally spent last week's show being nothing but right. Join us, as we bask in our own glow and look ahead to Miami Vice, won't you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #51: Lost weekend What do you do when everything in theatres sucks? Download a Mamo of course, where we will continue our on-the-ground ruminations upon the summer of 2006: the three-way tie between Shyamalan, Monster House, and Kevin Smith; the unstoppable force that is Pirates; the stakes for Superman; and the degree to which at least one of the Matts really can't seem to pick a good box office number to save his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #50: The Biggest Our 50th show, and yet strangely reminiscent of all our other shows. Thanks to everyone for listening, and keeping us going. Here's to fifty more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #49: Poor Superman Is Mamo the kiss of death for quality, big-budget Hollywood spectacle? A year afterBatman Begins' slow crawl to $200 million, and six months afterKing Kong's nut-busting domestic under-performance, the (relatively) tame opening weekend forSuperman Returnscan't help but make a fella wonder if every movie he lovesthe pants off of is going to end up being less than what the public desires. Or maybe it is all just a gigantic coincidence, involving pirates, spiders, and Meryl Streep. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #48: Bryan Singer, You Magnificent Son of a Bitch The wheel loops around and we come back to where we started, at the 24 hour breakfast joint, eating eggs and jazzed about superheroes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #47: Riding around in cars with boys Mamo hits the road and podcasts from Pittsburgh, Pensylvania on the way home from the Hi Mom! Film Festival. It seems like we've had a whole weekend of nothing but cars, but has Cars lost its way? It's a Mamo from the middle (?) of the U.S., and boy are we having fun! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #46: Pulse Check With the biggest month of the year done, and several major releases looming, we take the time to see whether talk of the slump being over is really true, after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #45: Ex Three Mamo returns! X3 sucks! The audiences came to play regardless, but did the summer's first major battle go down as expected? How loyal is a fanbase? And why have we been wasting our time indoors when there's all this nice patio weather to enjoy? It's back to where it all started with Mamo 45. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #44: It's Pus-Wheee-Dun, silly Oh, dude. You put together one gigantically bad idea for a summer blockbuster, and Bam! look what happens. Who's getting fired for the colossal underwater blunder, Poseidon? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #43: The Ick Factor Very near the beginning of Mamo, we did a show about Tom Cruise and his undeniable box office presence, and more recently, at least one of us crowned him the king of the summer... only to watch that crown get royally smacked clean of his monkey-boy head by M:I 3's (relatively) weak grosses. What will become of Mr. Holmes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #42: Young People's Theatre Sprockets, the International Film Festival for Children does everything it can to alleviate the presummer boredom with a veritable gaggle of great young people's films from around the world. Mamo, plus a special small guest, weigh in with our take on the future of filmgoing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #41: Cruel Summer The big hot summer is about to hit us in the face, so it's time to sit down and figure out who's gonna be the prize turkey. Or something. In tonight's fun-filled Mamo, Matt and Matt almost come to blows about their divergent picks for the summer's top ten. And just to keep us honest, here are the picks, to be vetted at the end of the season: Matt's picks: 1. Mission Impossible 3 ($275M)2. Cars ($270M)3. Superman Returns ($240M)4. X3 ($230M)5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #40: Cult Worshippers Can a cult following be cynically manufactured? Just how manipulable are we, anyways? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you show us a singing, dancing cannibal do we not flock? Find out in a multi culti mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #39: I got another couple of Jakes for ya Sequels! In no other arena does Hollywood walk such a razor-thin line between respectability and out-and-out huxterism. Huxterism #1: Basic Instinct #2. Who would wait fifteen years to pay Sharon Stone $14M to uncross her legs again? Huxterism #2: Ice Age 2. Will an audience really watch anything CGI, regardless of relevance, quality, or even common sense? It was a crappy weekend at the movies, all right, and Mamo is pissed.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #38: This ain't no bank robbery! How do we get from Spike Lee's new heist caper to the future of the political machine in North America? Follow us on one mighty mighty tangent in this latest installment of Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #37: the Brothers grim Tonight's podcast about movies and popular culture considers the brothers Wachowski: where they are, where they're going, and whether they're proof that the half-century-old "auteur theory" is as solid as it's ever been. With the summer season kicking off in a revolutionary movie that will inspire no revolutions (nor be released in summer at all, nor spring), it's time to find out whether there's a frickin' spoon or not. Also: Mamo #37 gets posted on the 21st. How weird is that? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #36: It's where we will spend the rest of our lives Tonight we peer into the future, the future of the very cinema itself. Or at least as it concerns 2 of the most prolific and accomplished technicians around. Join us as we carry on the three dimensional kit and kaboodle. And we're photographed while doing it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #35: Oscar the couch It was a wonderful night for Oscar... or an exceptionally boring one, depending on who you ask. The boys from Mamo took to the couch and posted their thoughts live to the internet every half hour or so... until disaster struck and we were forced to pull the whole kit and kaboodle back down to earth for far longer than either of us ever would have wanted. But the good news is: Mamo 35, the Oscar show, is back! This time its an omnibus edition, collecting all 7 installments of our hair-braine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #34: It's a black thing After a two week hiatus, we're back to examine the phenomenon of Tyler Perry, and the general malaise with which the "black" movie is viewed in predominantly white Hollywood. Yup, as 2 caucasians from Canada, we're uniquely qualified. Listen, as we court disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #33: I love you. Accidentally recorded on Valentine's Day, so why not talk about love? Or its bastard antecedent, dating. It's all about The Date Movie tonight: does it still exist, what has it become, and how on earth did we get through an entire Mamo about The Date Movie without mentioning the forthcoming date movie, Date Movie? Truly, we are brainless. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #32: Pot Pourri Some Mo' Pourri Keep out the winter blahs with another fine Mamo, in which our Super Bowl centric conversation ranges from the strange successes of that Camilla Belle chick, to the rather tame slate of "mission statement" movie ads at this year's show. And, of course, a much-needed retraction from the Matt who, erroneously as it turns out, proclaimed the Gospel on last week's show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #31: Oscar Nomination Recap Flap and Gab What are the surprises, what are the of course they woulds, and what was everything in between. The Oscar noms were announced today, and we wade in head first with our take on the whole affair. It's another easy goin' get along Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #30: A Poem About Everything How about a little Mamo pot pourri? Today we play fast and loose with the categories and just let the conversation ride... which can sometimes be the best way to do it. We visit the Oscars again, the shit-hot career of George Clooney, the less-shit-hot career of Terrence Malick, and have a look at just how much ground will be shaken if Disney really does buy Pixar this week. Check us out, its our thirtieth Mamo! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #29: Prelude to a race The Golden Globes may be going on This Very Minute, but so what? What does the big kickoff to awards season have to do with us, joe average, sittin' at home drinking alcoholic beverages and listening to cool jazz, anyways. All this plus we start taking bets on the end of the movie world, in another brand new Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #28: The Star System Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. We shall do the next best thing! Examine the stars, and whether or not they actually make or break movies the way Hollywood thinks they do. Is Cruise worth his price? What about Carrey? Who's making more than they deserve, and who's making less? It's a Mamotacular mix-up, as always! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #27: Say Goodbye To Hollywood We took a little extra time bringing it to you, what with being so exhausted by our marathon session the last time out (50% of us lost our voice that night), but we're back again with an all new year ending smash up derby Mamo. Close out 2005 in style, won't you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #26: Mumbo Jumbo You want a big Mamo? A really big Mamo? A huge, gigantic, Kong-sized six-month-anniversary we're-gonna-talk-till-we're-blue-in-the-faceJumbo Mamo?You got it!Tonight we celebrate our half-centennial on the world wide webby talking all thingsKong: the movie, the monkey, the grosses, the hype, the criticism, the new, the old... and of course, just what kind of a man it takes to make a film this good, and make it look likefun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #25: Redstone vs. God It's Mamo #25, and our charter mission to track the intersections between movies and popular culture leads us from the increasing conglomeratization of Hollywood (most recently exemplified by the Paramount purchase of Dreamworks, which might not have been a studio in the first place) to the attempts to sellNarniaas the nextPassion of the Christ.Will the Jesus-lion scare off the faithful? Either way, you can't say we don't go the distance with our topic range here on Mamo! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mamo #24: Critic Proof Aeon Flux Sux. Or so says Paramount, which found it of paramount importance to keep the film away from the nasty razor toothed critical community until after the film had opened. Does this ever work? And more importantly, does criticism matter anymore. Matt and Matt turn it all inwards and still find time to let everyone know why they're so jazzed about Kong in this, Mamo! episode 24. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #23: Burst into song Musicals used to dot Hollywood's landscape like so much green clover. SinceChicago, they've been making a wee bit of a comeback, but is it for real?Rent's weekend nosedive might say no, but there's no accounting for taste... or is there? Let's carve up a musical turkey for American Thanksgiving and see if it dances. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #22: it turns out a pig can make a lot of silk So, help yourself to a heaping hoping helping of Harry Potter as we examine the uneasy relationship between a fan delighted and another one scorned. Also, we beg you to help us in our ongoing efforts by visitingour home pageand clicking on the listener survey located at the top of the sidebar. All this plus a quick look at the marketingn of some upcoming releases make it our 22nd episode. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #21: Objects in Space Meteor showers have nothing on a $13 million opening weekend - what can we say for the chances ofZathura's continued success, after a weak opening weekend, andHarry Potterlooming on the horizon? Still, sometimes it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #20: Animate This Can an animated film make money just because it's an animated film? Are desperate daddies keeping the Pixar clones in business? Is this Pixar's golden age, Warner's silver age, or Disney's bronze age? Is 3-D better than 2-D, or do we have to wait for 4-D? Can I do this entire post and still have every sentence end with a question mark? Yes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #20: Animate This Can an animated film make money just because it's an animated film? Are desperate daddies keeping the Pixar clones in business? Is this Pixar's golden age, Warner's silver age, or Disney's bronze age? Is 3-D better than 2-D, or do we have to wait for 4-D? Can I do this entire post and still have every sentence end with a question mark?Yes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #19: It's like being locked in a bathroom for 6 hours This week the box office slump is on hold, temporarily, but we don't care because Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith comes out on the very popular home DVD format. Matthew Brown takes the opportunity to correct what he perceives as the show's fatal flaw, the absolute dearth of quality Star Wars discussion. We examine the phenomenon, the relative success of the prequels, and the closing of one of the major chapters in populist filmmaking. It's episode 19 of Mamo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #18: Matthew and Matthew and the Temple of Doom and a baby. The box office lays down for another week, but the one semi bright spot is Doom, the movie of the video game. We take the opportunity to hash out and examine why videogames and movies might play nicely together, but shouldn't get married and make babies. Get your marshmallows on your sticks and join us, won't you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #17: The Horror What's with all these horror movie remakes today? Why can't Cameron Crowe deliver a big-budget blockbuster? Why would an old woman intentionally interrupt two men who are clearly in the middle of recording something, just to satisfy her idle mental ramblings? These questions and many more will be at least partially answered inMamo 17. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #16: The man behind the curtain is licensed and Bonded The box office numbers are in, and it's.... nothing special. So we take the opportunity to riff on the future of the Bond franchise, such as it has become. Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan..... and Craig? What do we make of this? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #15: It's like a movie in your home What? Failed television series become feature films now? Heck, maybe this "TV" thing is really gonna catch on.This week we break the mold a bitand have a look at the fall TV season, what we're watching and what we're avoiding. And in the housekeeping chores, a quick glance at how the summer's box office tallied against our initial predictions... and of course, a bit more blather aboutSerenity. It's a chock-full rub-a-dub-dub mega-Mamo, just for you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #15: It's like a movie in your home What? Failed television series become feature films now? Heck, maybe this "TV" thing is really gonna catch on.This week we break the mold a bitand have a look at the fall TV season, what we're watching and what we're avoiding. And in the housekeeping chores, a quick glance at how the summer's box office tallied against our initial predictions... and of course, a bit more blather aboutSerenity. It's a chock-full rub-a-dub-dub mega-Mamo, just for you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mamo #14: A Certain Age The end of the festival is the beginning of the fall fun-o-rama-rama, and Jodie Foster is back to kick it off with a rare blockbusting appearance. She's made the transition to middle age with style, grace, and most of all incredible success. The Matts try to puzzle through why what she does works, and whether other actresses can follow in her footsteps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website