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Filmcast Without a Cause breaks down the best films of the year! 2011 that is. Confused? Stay tuned. In the News: The Hobbit HFR screenings get highest average of viewing options, Star Trek Into Darkness viral easter egg discovered, Wachowskis casting next project, and Guardians of the Galaxy close to signing it's Starlord. No feature this week, but plenty of take home from our extended special segment.   

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause prepares to battle a sleeping dragon with a feature review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. With Jacob out sick P@ brings in two guests to tackle: An Angry Birds movie, The Golden Globe Nominations, The Justice League villian leaked and Tron 3 being touted as the "Empire Strikes Back of the series." Closing out this week's cast, P@ and crew discuss how faithful filmmakers must be to source material.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:30am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause heads to the motherland with a review of Anna Karenina. Before we tackle Joe Wright's latest, THE NEWS: Kevin Smith decides to round out his filmography with a threequel, Tartino starts talking his next film, Rise of the Guardians spells a huge loss for Dreamworks, and Tom Cruise's next NEXT film could have some serious implications. Finally, Jacob and Pat round the show out writing letters to Santa.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 8:58am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause is anything but subtle with our review of Killing Them Softly. In the News: Independent Spirit Award nominations, Sundance lineup announced, Oscar Doc shortlist reduced to 15 films, and more Xmen and Star Wars news. After the review we discuss Hollywood mysterious metric known as CinemaScore.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast without a Cause fends off predatory cats for this week's review of Life of Pi. In a slow news week we discuss 2012 Box Office Flops, Joe Carnahan teasing Nemesis and Andrew Dominik's next film, a disturbing Marilyn Monroe biopic featuring Naomi Watts. Let's FWOAC!

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 7:33am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause does the biopic boogie reviewing Lincoln. IN THE NEWS: Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic could be an interesting experiment, Quentin Tarantino looks to quit after directing 10 films, and Mission Impossible 5 may have a director. And For Your Consideration... the Holiday Movie Preview.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause's two rats fight for who's Skyfall opinion is right. In the News: Star Wars Vii has a writer, Guillermo Del Toro may direct a DC comics movie and Jacob and Pat give their reactions to the World War Z trailer. Finally, since Bond has now appeared in 25+ films and televisions show, Jacob gives us a little history lesson on the character.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause retreats into the world of classic videogaming after the debacle that was missing the Lucasfilms-Disneyannouncement. Jacob and Pat start the news with a rumor round-up of Disney purchasing LucasFilmsChristoph Waltz getting cast in The Muppets sequel, and Jamie Fox in The Amazing Spiderman 2. FWOAC's feature review for the week is Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. Finally, since this episode is dropping the day after the election we break down politicians in the movies; who's are favorites and who would we vote for if they ran.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause straddles the time/space continuum with its review Cloud Atlas. In the news we tackle buzz about the next James Bond, Arnold Schwarzenneger returning to the Conan film world, and the new Xmen movie is in trouble. Finally we close out the show with a little freaky film discussed thanks to the holiday.  

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause is all messed up in the head after tackling the new film Seven Psychopaths and closing out our inaugural FWOAC Franchise Flashback with Prometheus. The news this week discusses the funny pages jumping to the silver screen, documentaries being adapted into feature films, Marvel Studios issues with supporting actors, and Nicholaus cage possibly becoming a warrior for Christ in a new Left Behind adaption.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 2:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause is about to cause an international incident with its review of Argo. But as always, the show starts with the news. Redbox turns 10 years old, the A/V Club names the best films of the 90s, Jurassic Park is proven impossible, and David Fincher is "Kickstarting" his next film. And for those who have been playing along, Prometheus comes out on DVD and Bluray this week and that means we're closing out our FWOAC Franchise Flashback with Alien Resurrection. So if you're child of the 90s, a fan of Ben Affleck or enjoy films that nearly kill beloved franchises you've come to the right place.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 1:30am CDT

Filmcast Without A Cause loves its sequels and this week we discuss Taken 2 and Alien3.What new in the film world? NetFlix to release its own original series titled "House of Cards," Buzz is mounting for the documentary Room 237, Michael Bay is getting into the found-footage trend, and an artist reverses Disney's princess films with a series of winning Villian films. Lots of news, a feature review and our FWOAC Franchise Flashback keeps on rolling, not an episode you'll want to miss.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause talks golden paydays with a review of Rian Johnson's Looper. This week's news? Dumb and Dumber To has a script, Mark Millar is the Fox's superhero savant in resident for future Marvel films, and Jacob and Pat talk prospective cast for the lady Expendables film in the works. After the review the FWOAC Franchise Flashback continues with James Cameron's  Aliens. And post-credits the FWOAC After Party Spoil session returns to carve up some time-travel turkey. 

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause starts its first round of processing with a feature review of The Master. This week's news? Guardians of the Galaxy has a director, Looney Tunes back in the movies, Michael Bay doesn't want anyone screwing up  Transformers, The Great Gatsby gets moved and apparently Hollywood has lost its creativity. Plus we continue our FWOAC Franchise Flashback with a discussion of Ridley Scott's Alien.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:30am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause puts a stop order stock purchase on the new thriller Arbitrage for this week's feature; however before we cook the books with Richard Gere we talk ninjas, robots and James Bond in the news. But the biggest development in the show is the debut of the FWOAC Franchise Flashback with our review of Dark Star, the genesis of Ridley Scott's Alien franchise.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:00am CDT

Follow FWOAC into the depths of indie heart break and onto the small screen for the review of J.J. Abbrams latest TV show, Revolution.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 7:22pm CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause travels to the wettest county in the world with this week's feature review of John Hillcoat's Lawless. The show starts with a sad piece of news as we learn of Michael Clark Duncan's passing, but we recover quickly to discuss Michael Keaton in the Robocop remake, Shia Labouf's "non-simulated" sex scene in an upcoming Lars Van Trier film and discuss the guidelines to successful screenwriting, developed by Pixar. After the review we tackle the cinema world's "Double Threats" and a fall movie preview.

Direct download: FWOAC_10_-_Lawless.mp3
Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause returns to celebrate the films of summer with the inaugural "Golden AC" awards. At the top of the show we discuss the coolness quotient of Star Wars, Gus Van Zant's sneakiness and other fun before getting to the feature review of the week, Premium Rush. Feature review aside, the highlight of this show is the "Golden ACs" where Jacob and P@ present awards to the best films of summer. More FWOAC than you can shake a stick at.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause drops the bomb on two midsummer release. As always the show starts with news, sad news this week with the unexpected passing of Tony Scott. The feature review for this week is The Bourne Legacy followed by a guest featured review of the Expendables 2. Who is the special guest? Let's just say he's a shadowy figure from Pat and Jacob's film reviewing past. And before the show clock counts down to zero, Jacob give Pat and our special guest an expendables trivia challenge with life threatening stakes... You don't want to miss this action packed episode of FWOAC!

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:00am CDT

FWOAC 7: Beasts of the Southern Wild / TearJerker Films

Filmcast Without a Cause is taking you down to the dirty south! Or at least a fictionalized version of one. The news this weeks talks about films being adapted into T.V. shows. Jacob and Pat's feature review for this week? The highly lauded Beasts of the Southern Wild. For fun and games our heroes recount films that made them cry and the stories that go with those tears.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 10:31am CDT

FWOAC sets its critical eye on Akiva Schaffer's sophomore directorial effort The Watch! This week Patrick and Jacob keep all guests out deliver an easily digestible -super power free- filmcast. First up, our reactions to the release of an extended trailer for Cloud Atlas, than we talk about the minefield that could be Warner Brother's potential The Shining prequel, and then we breakdown three Bad Robot films (J.J. Abrams production house) currently in the hopper. Our second act is where we discuss The Watch, before closing out the show with some personal film adventures and cinematography discussion.

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 6:00am CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause returns to exact film criticism on the summer's most anticipated film The Dark Knight Rises! Dan Boberg joins our dynamic duo to share his fanatical Batman insights into the character and its film back catalogue. The trio discusses the impressive line-up for this year's Toronto International Film Festival and Dreamworks purchase of Classic Media. Finally, since this week's film is a veritable mine-field of spoilers, after the closing music, our anti-heroes hold nothing back from the details of the Christopher Nolan's film installment in his much-lauded bat trilogy. 

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Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 8:08pm CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause has its first guest! Jason Burns from Midwest Nerds gives us his insight on a slew of video game movie announcements and news bits from this years San Diego Comic-Con, and finally we tackle our first real film (no capes, no talking animals), Woody Allen's To Rome With Love.


Filmcast Without a Cause has decided against rebooting the show and instead produced EPISODE 2! What can you expect? Jacob and Pat react to San Diego Comic-Con teases and expectations, a new web series being produced by Bryan Singer and eventually getting to Michael Fassbender headlining an adaptation of the Ubisoft game "Assassin's Creed." For our feature review we break down Marc Webb's The Amazing Spiderman, followed by a discussion of pie-in-the-sky, dream announcements from Comic-Con, and if you're still with us after all of that we spoiled The Amazing Spider-man rotten at the very end of the show.

Direct download: EP_2_-_The_Amazing_Spiderman___Dream_Comic-Con_1.mp3
Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 12:00pm CDT

Filmcast Without a Cause has survived the bumps and bruises of its pilot episode to bring you EPISODE 1! What can you expect? Jacob and Pat react to Looper Directer Rian Johnson's tweet to avoid the trailers for his film, we bemoan the financing setbacks Charlie Kaufman's latest project is experiencing and discuss the cinematic game of hot-potato that Edgar Wright is currently playing. For our feature review we break down Seth MacFarlane's Ted, followed by a look at the second half of the cinematic calendar, and we round out the show by taking you out to the ball game with our fictional filmmaking all star teams, following the Major League Baseball Allstar Game model.

Direct download: Ep_1-TED-Cinematic_Allstar_Teams_1.mp3
Category:Film Review Podcast -- posted at: 4:02pm CDT

Prepare yourself for the pilot episode of Filmcast Without a Cause! In this episode we'll run you down on what to expect, give our thoughts on Kick-Ass 2 starting to percolate, our casting suggestions for Daredevil 2, and the possibility social media can predict box office success. For our feature review we break down Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Our second act includes DVD reviews, general nerdery, a quick overview of a local film festival and finally we'll wrap it up.

As this is the pilot, we are learning as we go. There are some audio issues but we have already devised the fix for next episode, so have no fear! We have some idea what we're doing. Enjoy the show and make sure to leave us some comments/feedback so we can make this puppy sparkle.


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