October 2011
1 post
Mamo #222: Winter is Coming →
We’re joined by Row Three Summer Box Office Contest winner Toro913, Miran Terzic, for a look ahead at the jam-packed Christmas box office season for 2011. Who thought up this twenty-car pileup?
August 2011
1 post
Mamo #214: Previewing TIFF 2011 →
The Toronto International Film Festival 2011 is roaring towards us, and Mssrs. Brown and Price are joined by Mr. Mike Cameron for a roundable discussion of this year’s offerings. What’s good? What’s…
June 2011
1 post
Mamo #205: X-Mamo →
The mutants who kicked off the comic book superhero genre are back, except they’re younger, more devil-may-care, and one of them is played by James McAvoy. We see what’s the what in the X-universe,…
May 2011
1 post
Mamo #203: On Stranger Bridesmaids →
The Pirates of the Caribbean are back, and in piratey style they are going to try to lift a whole lot of your money out of the multiplex this weekend. Do they deserve it? Plus: Bridesmaids, Batman,…
April 2011
8 posts
Mamo #201: Fast Five Guys →
The Fast and the Fiveiest! The Five and the Furimost! Five Guys Burgers and Furious! Giddy nonsense of this type can only be due to one thing: has summer come early? Plus a few words on Hot Docs and,…
Mamo #200: Lord Knows, I've Been Wrong Before →
The 200th episode of Mamo! We kick off the summer box office season with our look at what will - and won’t - make money in the summer of 2011, including some picks for #1 from some very special guest…
It approaches
Hello friends of Mamo, We will be recording our 200th episode early next week. We would like to invite you to be a part of this milestone event for us. Episode 200 will be this year’s summer box office preview. We will handicap all the entrants and make our picks and predictions for the top ten at the box office. Here’s what we’d love to include from you: 1) Pick the movie YOU...
Mamo #199: Across the Sea →
The show about movies and popular culture takes a step back during a long drive home, and talks about nothing very much besides every thing that happens by. This is our little detour on the eve of…
Mamo #198: The Goods →
We post-cap ActionFest 2011! Bellflower, A Lonely Place To Die, Largo Winch, Tomorrow When the War Began, Bangkok Knockout… it’s all here! A big thanks to the good people of Asheville, and the…
Toronto to Asheville
Left at 8 am.
Grabbed US cash at $99 on the hundred.
Picked up @ tederick.
Grabbed an oatmeal at timmys, got on the road.
Made my only wrong turn of the day less than 15 minutes from the house.
Crossed the border at Fort Erie, waiting patiently as the guard took a Winnebago apart like a jigsaw puzzle in front of us.
Took the 90, drove clean through New York and Pennsylvania without...
Mamo #196: In Brightest Day, In Blackest New York... →
Live from the road! Mamo comes to you from a small car speeding down the sleet-swept highways of New York State, as we wend our way southwards to the balmy climes (and fists) of ActionFest 2011. We…
March 2011
2 posts
Mamo #195: You Suck (er Punch) →
It’s Sucker Punch vs. Superman, with Snyder in the middle, and once again, the Boys of Mamo weigh in with their thoughts on all things Man of Steel in light of the travesty of the Girls of Plastic….
Mamo #194: To The Far Shore →
Not always, but every once in a while the veil of despair lifts and the big connective tissue of the universe is revealed. We’re not saying that happened in this episode, but we aren’t saying it…
January 2011
2 posts
Mamo #189: We Want Slightly More Accurate B.S. →
Catmamo! The cat is out of the bag; Hollywood’s finest Cheshire grin has a brand new job; paging Ms. Kyle for life #4 of 9; further cat-related puns to follow. Anne Hathaway joins The Dark Knight…
2010: Movies I Liked
Section the first: The Top Ten (these are in order)
BLACK SWAN
TRUE GRIT
INCEPTION
COLD FISH
SOCIAL NETWORK, THE
THE TRIP
BLUE VALENTINE
THE AMERICAN
TOY STORY 3
TABLOID
LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM
Section the second: The next group (no order, these are all narrow misses)
PEACOCK
RARE EXPORTS
SHUTTER ISLAND
KICK-ASS
BALADA TRISTE
TANGLED
RED RIDING
A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE
THUNDER SOUL
GHOST WRITER
I...
December 2010
1 post
Mamo#185: Untangled →
Breakfast at our new Mamo HQ, the inimitable Caplansky’s Deli, just a 2 minute walk from the new digs of one half of us. What was on the table? Besides gargantuan amounts of smoked meatery, we have…
November 2010
1 post
Mamo #184: Harry Potter and the Deathly Mamo, Part... →
Harry Potter 7 (of 8) is here to gobble up your November moviebucks, and it’s a great experiment - part one of two, with no narrative closure to be found. Not since the heyday of Back to the…
October 2010
4 posts
Mamo #183: We Owe it to Ourselves →
October brings forth the unlikely successes of both Jackass and Paranormal Activity. 3D is back, and so is a terrifying movie made with a camcorder and an air gun. And so is the rapacious love of…
Real-life prosecutors to press charges in... →
It’s a brave, beautiful, crazy post Rob Ford world.
Mamo #182: War of the Supermen →
Three Matts, no waiting! Our summer box office contest winner - and longtime listener - Matthew Fabb joins Matthew Brown and Matthew Price at the round table, for a freeform discussion of all things…
Mamo #181: We Bet it All on the Wrong A-Team →
Even though TIFF is over, that’s no reason for us to return to our humdrum workaday lives. For one thing, after taking off for 10 days to sit and watch movies, some of us are unemployed. For another,…
September 2010
3 posts
Mamo #178: For the Love of Natalie Portman →
The Black Swan, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Trip, Vanishing on 7th Street, Tabloid… TIFF is starting to get good, folks. Join the Matts over lunch for the mid-Tuesday update.
Mamo #177: For the Love of Mid-Festival Rantings →
Wanna hear a really short Mamo? We only had 16 minutes to talk between screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, and we got interrupted by a lovey member of the festival staff at the…
Mamo #176: For the Love of Midnight Madness →
The Toronto International Film Festival is here! Matt and Matt sneak away from a pre-Midnight Madness party to talk about… Midnight Madness. And TIFF. And everything else. Join us for some eggs!
August 2010
1 post
Mamo #175: Previewing TIFF 2010 →
The Toronto International Film Festival 2010 is just around the corner! Join Matt Brown and Matt Price, hosts of Mamo!, as we take a tour through Toronto’s date with the movies. What’s good? What’s…
July 2010
3 posts
Mamo #173: A Fresh Pen to the Eye →
Comic Con. Lately, the two greatest words in the geek dictionary. At panel after panel celebrities frenzy crowds with tales of that-which-is-yet-to-come. Even Angelina Jolie went there. And so did…
Mamo #172: The Dream Is Mamo →
I had a dream that Matty Price and I got together over breakfast and talked about Christopher Nolan’s Inception. And the dream was real.
Mamo #171: Twilight of the M. Night →
Shyamalan fever has come roaring back, as audiences and critics alike are enthralled and delighted by his latest… Oh wait, it’s not 1999. In 2010, The Last Airbender is also looking like the last…
June 2010
2 posts
Mamo #170: Anniversamamo →
Live from Chicago, Illinois! Land of Lincoln! Land of Ebert! Land of Mamo! Join us for our five-year anniversary show, where we’ll discuss Toy Story 3, The Karate Kid, Jonah Hex(ed), and The…
Mamo #169: Mamo no Guillermo →
Memorial Day weekend comes and goes like the rest of May, with an underwhelming thudding noise. Then, to cap it off there are major changes revealed for the most important fantasy adaptation in the…
May 2010
2 posts
Mamo #168: Lost Our Lost →
In which the Matts depart from moviedom to mark the passing of the television series of the decade.
Mamo #167: Nottingwho? →
THWACK! That is the sound of an arrow, not so much hitting its target as the next tree over. Robin Hood in theatres, and the reactions are varied. Tons of money overseas, not so much money here,…
April 2010
2 posts
Mamo #165: Whedo what we wanna do →
This’ll teach us to read the papers. A Star Wars sitcom? Casting for Cap, a suit for GL, and more directors than we can shake our tiny fists at in rage! The boys are back to amuse themselves to death…
Mamo #164: We Bet It All On The A-Team →
The summer box office picks are here! Listen to the Matts do their regular sham job of trying to figure out which movies will win, which will tank, and which will win by blowing aircraft out of the…
March 2010
3 posts
Mamo #163: Leave the Critics, Take the Canolli →
Back again for the third time in a week, because we just stop information that wants to flow like sap on a warm spring day. R.I.P. professional critique day, as we take a hard look at Variety et al’s…
Mamo #162: The Hurt Oscar →
The boys of Mamo sat through what must have been in the top-three worst Oscar telecasts of all time, and babbled incessantly throughout. Were you there? If not, we have conveniently stitched our…
Mamo #161: Mamo in Underland →
It’s 2 days to the Oscars, and our intrepid Mamo hosts consider the decaying nation of 3-D, the sideways evolution of TRON, and zombie career of Tim Burton: been dead for a while, still going. Plus,…
January 2010
6 posts
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What the all time list looks like, if you adjust... →
Since my previous article, I went back and exhaustively reworked the all-time adjusted box office list. New titles to the top 100 are in bold. Most amazing? Song of the South is in the top 20 films of all time. Think Avatar seems racist?
Other highlights - 2001 makes the list. This is Cinerama, a movie that was “The Imax Experience” of its day. Billy Jack at number 31. People forget...
Mamo #159: The Hurt Avatar →
The roll to total world domination continues, as Avatar takes some Golden Globes, some more records, and the increasing ire of some among the filmgoing community. We continue to handicap the…
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Adjusting for Beration
There’s been a lot of talk about the box office the past couple of months, and what it means for cinema in general. Now that the 3D digital monkey puppet movie is on a collision course with the most money ever grossed in theatres. Mostly, this falls into a series of pretty trite and predictable camps, and I wanted to take a look at these and try to see through some of what people are saying....
Mamo #158: We Drink Your Milkshake →
The end of the year, the decade, and oh, conventional filmmaking. The Matts are back to reset the conversation with the list of what we liked in the past 3653 days. As is it impossible to cover…
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Best films of the Zeros
The Absolute Best These dozen or so are in order of importance. They are my picks for the best films released between 2000-2009.
1) There Will Be Blood
2) Enter The Void
3) Speed Racer
4) Oldboy
5) Taxidermia
6) Lord of the Rings
7) Caché
8) The Incredibles
9) Du Levande
10) George Washington
11) Kill Bill
12) No Country for Old Men
13) Happy Feet
14) Peter Pan
15) Unbreakable
...
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Best films of 2009
1) Enter The Void
2) Valhalla Rising
3) Deliver Us From Evil
4) A Serious Man
5) Goodbye, Solo
6) Where the Wild Things Are
7) Avatar
8) Inglorious Basterds
9) Bunny & the Bull
10) Star Trek
Honourable Mentions: Hipsters, Fish Tank, Get Low, The Informant! , The Disappearance of Alice Creed and Harry Brown
December 2009
3 posts
Mamo #157: Baby Boy Blue →
AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAAAAAAAAR!!
Mamo #156: Spicy Mustard →
We finally come to you from the welcoming environs of my favorite Toronto restaurant, Caplansky’s Deli in the heart of the Kensington Market district. Between delectable bites of smoky cured meats we…
Mamo #156: Spicy Mustard →
November 2009
1 post
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Copyfight1: Fairytale Fights
The new action platform game Fairytale Fights was released in October of this year. Based on the Unreal 3 game engine, it features an unnamed hero who creates a swath of bloody destruction through Little Red Riding Hood, The Naked Emperor and various other Grimm creations.
And thank god. For how long have we all sat home, with nothing-very-much to do, and thought “hey, I would love...
October 2009
4 posts
Mamo #154: Ich Bin Ein Mamo →
Hi Mamo listeners, I am in Berlin right now. How, then, have I managed to record this Mamo? Magic and science, that’s how, together at last! In this episode, in honour of my absence, we discuss the…
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