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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

By: Corbin Smith and Matt Ellis
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A Podcast about movies from the fine folks at the Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation, with Corbin Smith (The Famous Writer) and Dr. Movies, Matt Ellis (A Professor of Movies)2023 Art
Episodes
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Rachel Getting Married" (2008, Dir: Jonathan Demme)
    Jun 18 2025

    Eyy! Rachel Getting Married! It's a heavy movie! We talk about Ann Hathaway playing into public type, the incredibly strange casting, Demme as a phyical filmmaker working in a kinetic-digital world, rehab, European family vs American Family, 'Realism,' and other stuff.

    Hey: there's a weird little background sound in this episode. Sorry we hope it doesn't drive you insane. We were recording at Workers' Tap and the music was a little loud. We swear the episode is good enough that you will be able to ignore it.

    Intersting interview about the movie's sound mixing here. Good essay comparing the movie to Mike Leigh's work here.

    Matt recommends the new Adam Curtis thing. It's called 'Shifty.' Corbin recommends "On Fire" by Galaxie 500. Our Next Episode is about "Che," a movie that is very hard to watch on the internet. More information on this in the audio of the episode.

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: Post-Continuity (With a Special Focus on Deja Vu, Tony Scott, 2006)
    Jun 6 2025

    Some big news: Corbin and Matt lost their minds and recorded about film academy stuff for two hours. Our topic is Hollywood Continuty and its accelerants and defectors, which we process thought the frame of Tony Scott's 2006 Sort-of-sci-fi movie Deja Vu. Topics are wide and varied and include: comic book storytelling, film scanning, the digital console, Jim Cavizel, Ozu (again), and Michael Bay, the angel and the demon in one manifestation and the role of superhero movies in rebelling AGAINST post-continuity.

    Read Bordwell on late continutiy here. Read Shaviro on Post-Continuity here.

    Corbin recc's Mulaney's latest special, which is not NEW. Matt recc's his own Substack.

    Next week's episode is about RACHEL GETTING MARRIED. check that out it's great

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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • DIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007, DIR: Jake Kasdan)
    May 30 2025

    We still got a will and a burning rage to win, folks, because Ellis and Corbs are talking about WALK HARD! Topics: Non-linerar editing and audience testing, Judd Apatow, John C. Riley, paralell world Phil Hoffman, the evolving form of the comedy star during this time, the superior but rarely seen director's cut of this movire, and the weird line between parody and pastiche the movie straddles. Weirdly long?

    Corbin's Recco Here. Matt reccommends The Ankler, a newsletter about Da Movie Buziness.

    Next week's episode is an episode about post continuity. Check out "Deja Vu" by Tony Scott and one of the Michael Bay Transformers movies if you want to be totally abreast of the thing we're doing but it's not necessary.

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    1 hr and 48 mins
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