February 2012
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OSCAR SPECIAL
Kourtney and Macy chew the fat (Jonah Hill) and dish out this years underwhelming Oscar contender list.
October 2011
4 posts
Since We've Been Gone: A CuteMeat Update
CuteMeat missed you so! But they’re back with an all new Movie Update Podcast!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
Happy Halloween! Kourtney's spooky movie picks!
Horror movies should make you feel like you won’t survive their run-time; and if you do they’ll come back through your mail-slot, out of their Netflix casing and kill you in your sleep. Here are 10 of my favorites I’ve watched lately (classics like The Shining are omitted).
Don’t Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
The Vanishing (Sluizer,...
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Not Forgotten Men!
Dear Cutemeat Followers,
You now number 4000! Thank you so much for following and keeping the dream of a quasi-academic weekly diachronic film criticism podcast/blog alive!
<333333,
cutemeat
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The Zugzwang of Desire
How What’s Your Number? Reveals the Horrible Undead Fundament of the Romantic Comedy Genre.
In his Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Alexandre Kojeve provides the groundwork by which Lacan will later determine lack to be the foundational character of the subject. Kojeve writes: “To desire Being is to fill oneself with this given Being, to enslave oneself to it. To desire non-Being is to...
September 2011
1 post
Best/Most Anticipated films of 2011 (So Far)
Ah! It’s been a cruel, cruel end of summer, as Macy had to return home to Buffalo, NY and leave Kourtney in friendless Portland, OR. Right before Macy’s venture home, our heroes sat down to discuss their favorite films of the year, up to now, as well as place bets on which upcoming movies would rock their worlds.
Enjoy the last podcast your CuteMeat hosts will record in the same...
August 2011
2 posts
Another Earth/Stalker
CuteMeat delves into the world of Sci-fi and review Another Earth and Stalker!
Project Nim/Congo
Your CuteMeat co-hosts happily take a walk on the wild side this week and review James Marsh’ Project Nim alongside the 1995 train-wreck classic, Congo.
July 2011
5 posts
Friends With Benefits/Palm Beach Story
Your CuteMeat co-hosts take a walk on the surprisingly mundane side and review Will Gluck’s follow-up to a 2010 CuteMeat favorite (Easy A), Friends With Benefits. Then to alleviate the frustration, Macy and Kourtney discuss Preston Sturges’ marriage-screwball, The Palm Beach Story. As Always Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet, Kourtney Recites a GOOP entry, and both hosts throw on their...
You CAN Take Us With You (on your iPod)
Hello! CuteMeat would like to thank you for your support here on Tumblr and also invite you to follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cute-Meat/170712246315024, Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/cutemeat and most importantly, iTunes… http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391 CuteMeat’s main venture is a weekly podcast available for free download- we’re growing...
Troll Hunter/[Rec]
Your CuteMeat co-hosts stumble on two found footage films (Troll Hunter and [Rec], and discuss whether the gimmick is worth the shaky-cam headaches. As always, Macy Reads a David Lynch Tweet and Kourtney recites this week’s GOOP entry. Both hosts compete to find The Worst Trailer of the Week.
The Trip/My Best Fiend
Up on iTunes now! Your CuteMeat co-hosts sit side by side to review two buddy movies- Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip and Werner Herzog’s My Best Fiend. Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet and Kourtney recites the week’s GOOP entry, as always the two fight to find the Worst Trailer of the Week.
Tree of Life/Wild Strawberries
Cutemeat climbs Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life and complains the whole way up and down it. Then the pair review Igmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries- another film about the crisis of mortality. As always Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet and Kourtney recites this week’s GOOP entry.
June 2011
5 posts
CuteMeat Turns One!
It’s been a wild year, full of ups (The Killer Inside Me) and downs (The Tourist) but Macy and Kourtney have come out the other end of it better friends, and therefore, better people. Your two hosts celebrate their first podcasting anniversary in style- with Diet Cokes, a screwball comedy (Twentieth Century) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Don’t...
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Cutemeat Podcast: Midnight in Paris (2011) and An...
Woody Allen made a good romantic comedy, and that means Kourtney and Macy are in a good mood as they compare Midnight in Paris with Gene Kelly’s Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 classic, An American in Paris. Stick around for the end where Macy reads a nigh incomprehensible David Lynch tweet, and Kourtney reads some completely inexplicable Gwenyth Paltrow restaurant reviews.
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Cutemeat Podcast: X Men First Class / Ocean's 11...
Kourtney and Macy are in the same city for the summer, and as such, the podcast is livelier, funnier, and meaner to Gwyneth Paltrow than ever. Take a listen here as they review X Men First Class and compare it to the original Rat Pack Ocean’s 11.
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Cutemeat Podcast: The Beaver (2011) and Harvey...
The dramatic conclusion to the epic two-part Cutemeat podcast on The Beaver and Harvey is finally here! At least you can listen to the David Lynch tweet of the week, the weekly bit o’ GOOP, and discover what the worst trailer of the week is. Click here to begin the wild ride.
Cutemeat Podcast: The Beaver (2011) and Harvey...
Cutemeat proudly presents its best podcast to date, a two parter deconstructing Jodie Foster’s The Beaver and Harvey Koster’s classic Harvey. Part one is available here.
Don’t forget to check back for part two; this is easily the best thing you will listen to all month.
<3,
Cutemeat
May 2011
5 posts
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New Cutemeat Podcast: Certified Copy
Macy and Kourtney return this week to movies that are actually good. Join in on their praise of Certified Copy and That Obscure Object of Desire — up on iTunes now!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
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April 2011
3 posts
Hanna/La Femme Nikita
CuteMeat’s female-assassin themed show is available on iTunes now!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
Soure Code/Timecrimes
Do Macy and Kourtney wish they could go back in time and see Your Highness, or would they rather watch Source Code over and over again? Find out our latest podcast, where we’re especially cruel to ugly people.
“Are you as glad as I am Katie Holmes turned this role down?”
“This is a chart Christopher Nolan passed down to me, explaining how to get out of explaining...
I Saw the Devil/The Tesament of Doctor Mabuse
CuteMeat’s Maniac-killer themed podcast up now on iTunes!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
March 2011
6 posts
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Farley Granger, 1925 - 2011
Like many, I best remember Mr. Granger as Phillip Morgan in Hitchcock’s Rope. I went to Netflix to see if I could watch it instantly at work:
Unfortunately it’s not availa - wait, what does it suggest instead?
Too soon, Netflix. Too soon.
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Mummified: Macy & Kourtney's Liz Taylor Jokes
10:34 AM: Cat on a Hot Dead Roof (K.P.)
10:37 AM: Father of the Dead (M.T.)
10:38 AM: Suddenly Dead Summer (K.P)
10:37 AM: Deadtree Country (M.T)
10:39 AM: The Girl Who Had Died (M.T)
10:43 AM: Lassie, Come Dead (M.T.)
10:44 AM: Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Ghost (K.P)
10:45 AM: Little Dead Women (K.P)
10:45 AM: The Last Time I Saw Paris (M.T.)
10:46 AM: Reflections in a Dead...
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Cutemeat Podcast
The Cutemeat best of 2010 special is on iTunes now, and it’s our best “best of” podcast to date. Click on the link below to subscribe for free!
Cutemeat Best of 2010 on iTunes
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Cutemeat Best of 2010 on PodBean
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The Death of Radio Raheem
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Two independent incidents caused me to recently revisit Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing. The first was a paper I received from a student this year. The assignment was to write a movie review, and one of the movies this student selected was Lee’s....
We're Back
Our Another Year/Sheltering Sky just hit iTunes today!
We’re back and missed each other greatly! This podcast (a review of Mike Leigh’s Another Year and Bernado Bertolucci’s Sheltering Sky) is filled with giggles and friendly “fuck-you”s. Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet, Kourtney recites a GOOP entry and both hosts compete in finding The Worst Trailer of the...
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Voice of Reason
“I saw the movie Inception and I didn’t understand nothing about it. So when something is difficult for me to understand, I’m super interested in it. And I sat down with somebody and they explained everything to me, and once I did understand what it meant, I was like, ‘I didn’t like it.’”
-Lil Wayne
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The King’s Speech wins Best Picture, and the Whole...
macy.todd: So fucking stupid
kourtney.paranteau: Man
Fuck this
Forest Gump Volume 2
macy.todd: Beautiful Mind 2
kourtney.paranteau: The Other Sister 2
macy.todd: Radio 2
And that’s it for the Best of Cutemeat live chat wrap up! We certainly hope you guys had a good year of film, and here’s looking forward to another year of remakes, superhero movies, and plots unsuitable for video...
February 2011
12 posts
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Gwyneth Paltrow Makes History with her Live...
macy.todd: GOOP IS GOING TO PERFORM!
kourtney.paranteau: I can’t wait for GOOP
YES YES YES
macy.todd: GOOOOOOOOP!
It’s like a war cry
kourtney.paranteau: YES
YES
macy.todd: OH GOD IT’S LIKE THE SUPERBOWL
The song from 127 Hours is performed first
macy.todd: Wait this is that bitch from fifth element
GOOP finally takes the stage
kourtney.paranteau: YES
macy.todd: YES...
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Billy Crystal shows up to tell some jokes, and...
kourtney.paranteau: A sight for sore eyes
macy.todd: Don Rickles called, he wants his head back
He looks like a jack o lantern from last year.
kourtney.paranteau: He looks like Michael Keaton to me
macy.todd: The Michael Keaton painting in the film where Michael Keaton plays Dorian Gray.
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Inception wins another technical award, to Macy...
kourtney.paranteau: think of a netflix category for inception
macy.todd: How often do you watch movies about SMALL DICKED PSYCHOBABBLE?
kourtney.paranteau: “Mindbuttfuckingly-overworked-chubbyfaced-thriller”
macy.todd: It’s such an upset that you said chubbyfaced and I didn’t
kourtney.paranteau: thanks man
nicest thing you’ve said to me all night
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Luke Matheny wins Best Short Film
kourtney.paranteau: Tim Burton stepped into a time machine and won an Oscar!
macy.todd: IS IT TOO LATE TO STOP HIM FROM MAKING BIG FISH?
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James Franco Seems Uncomfortable
macy.todd: James Franco looks like Burt Reynold’s Face had sex with James Dean’s balls
kourtney.paranteau: James Franco = James Dean’s death mask
macy.todd: no joke
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Christian Bale wins Best Supporting Actor
macy.todd: I hope he does the acceptance speech in his batman character
kourtney.paranteau: I hope he does it in his Christian Bale character
two minutes later
macy.todd: He seems to be doing it in his Colin Farrell character
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Best of Oscars 2011 Cutemeat Live Chat
For your enjoyment, throughout the day we will be posting the best of our live chat during the 83rd Annual academy award. Come relive the awkwardness, complete lack of jokes, and ultimate disappointment of the 2011 Oscars!
(David Seidler wins Best Original Screenplay for The King’s Speech)
kourtney.paranteau: “I would like to thank the Nazis for being so horrible”
macy.todd: “I...
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Cutemeat Oscars 2011 Extravaganza
For those of you still unaware, Cutemeat will be producing a live commentary on the 83rd Academy Awards. To follow along and holler back at us, head over to twitter and follow us immediately (@cutemeat). That way, you will be right there when Kourtney and Macy start making fun of the horrible gags Franco and Hathaway are about to inflict on us all.
For those of you who do not have twitter...
Illusionist/Limelight Podcast Up!
Kourtney and Macy compare two films that make you feel bad for reasons you’re not quite comfortable with. Come take a look deep into your own guilt and fear of death as we investigate how well Chomet and Chaplin can twist a knife.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
Hey!
Cutemeat is taking a very brief break, but don’t despair! We will have brand new podcasts and reviews up in the coming weeks.
And don’t forget to follow us on twitter (@cutemeat) so you can keep up with us as we live blog the Oscars. We promise to make fun of all your favorite actors and directors.
<3,
Cutemeat
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Endangered 2010: The American
Anton CORBIJN
Now that my two favorite films of 2010 (Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me and the Joosts’ Catfish) have officially been eliminated from Oscar contention, my rooting interest in the awards ceremony is entirely invested in hoping that Inception is barred from receiving anything other than technical awards. Christopher Nolan, in a bald attempt to build an “original” film, decided...
January 2011
13 posts
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Blue Valentine/Faces Podcast Up Now!
Should Ryan Gosling have been nominated for an oscar? Is Blue Valentine an archetype or a specific case? Can Cassavetes write dialogue sober? (SPOILER ALERT: no). Find out the answers to these and other questions in this week’s Cutemeat podcast.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cute-meat/id372087391
Worst Trailer of the week
Cutemeat wants you to decide this time.
Cutemeat's Oscar Nomination Special
We met up the day the Oscar nominations were announced to chatter about this years most probable winners and biggest over sights. Podcast up on iTunes now!
The King's Speech podcast
Cutemeat’s podcast review of The King’s Speech is up n-n-n-now! Also reviewed is David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, Macy reads a David Lynch Tweet and both hosts compete to find the Worst Trailer of the Week.
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Endangered 2010: The Fictional Documentary
I’m Still Here
Casey AFFLECK
Catfish
Henry JOOST Ariel SCHULMAN
Exit Through the Gift Shop
BANKSY
Netflix has discovered my true relationship to documentaries. Perusing the selection of those that I have not watched yet, I realized suddenly that the program designed to predict my reaction to these films had, without fail, predicted them all at three stars. That is to say, the...
Attack 2010: A Year in Homosocial Complications...
There have been many years when cinema reflected our culture’s preoccupations, deepest desires, and most relied-on ideologies. Last year, America’s guilt over her impoverished and too often ignored populations accumulated into two narrations of the same story. Precious (Lee Daniels), a tragedy of a woman who is overtaken by the social caste in which she was born, and The Blind Side (John Lee...