Robs Daniel and Wallis give their take on Oscars 2020, aka The 92nd Academy Awards, aka the year that a film not in the English language finally won the Best Picture statue, not just Best Foreign Film. Sorry, Best *International* Film, as the Academy are now calling it.…
Tag: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
PODCAST: Top 10 Films of 2019 [Movie RobCast]
The Electric Shadows Podcast has re-branded! We’re now The Movie RobCast, a more befitting title for a podcast about movies by two guys named Rob.
It took us 76 episodes to reach that realization… thanks for sticking with us.
But, fear not.…
REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
POSSIBLE SPOILERS THROUGH IMPLICATION
Quentin Tarantino has, perhaps, the most iconic voice in all of modern cinema – literally so.
His dialogue is slangy and irreverent, immediately quotable; loaded with pop culture references and yet oddly timeless for it. Part of that is Tarantino’s range of influences: Pulp Fiction, for instance, borrows from both the Golden Age of Hollywood – as with the briefcase inspired by Kiss Me Deadly – and the French New Wave, Mia’s “comfortable silences” bit being directly lifted wholesale from Vivre Sa Vie.…