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Today on the site, we're running one of our most ambitious Dissolve Canon lists to date, The 50 Most Daring Film Roles For Women Since Ripley. The process behind making the list was unusual: On this week's podcast, we go behind the scenes to ta
This week, the vocal online dubiousness about Crystal Moselle’s debut feature documentary The Wolfpack started us talking about the difference between cynicism and skepticism, how both reactions help us select and react to movies, and when they
Two different kinds of disaster movies enter theaters this week: San Andreas, which imagines the long-dreaded earthquake that will turn California to rubble, and Aloha, a Cameron Crowe project that’s been hobbled by bad buzz and low expectation
This week, the guy puttin' on the dots and prancin' around with us is Chicago critic and podcaster Josh Larsen, of Larsen On Film and the Filmspotting podcast and NPR show. He dropped by our office to talk about how much action movies have evol
Bees’ll buzz and kids’ll blow dandelion fuzz, and we’ll be doing whatever cinephiles do in summer. (Going to the movies, in an air-conditioned theater.) With The Avengers: Age Of Ultron kicking off the summer movie season in earnest, this week’
Given that you’re almost certainly accessing this website and this podcast with some form of complimacated electronic whosis, you probably don’t think technology is an unremitting, soulless terror that’s out to end humanity. But that’s the att
Hollywood is in love with sequels and franchises, but what happens when those sequels start to approach double digits and beyond? With Furious 7 looking certain to carry that series forward indefinitely, we look at how long-running franchises h
This week's podcast does a lot of “checking in on the state of”: A special guest, sci-fi (and sci-sci) fan Chris Klimek, joins us to check in on the state of science-fiction movies in the wake of a long string of box-office failures for anythin
AARP members (or the old at heart): This is the podcast episode for you. Former he-seems-like-a-nice-young-man Will Smith is now dealing with his mid-40s the same way many aging stars have in the past: By pairing up with an on-screen partner (M
Still hungover after Oscar night, The Dissolve staff gathered in the Chicago studio for this special podcast mini-episode about a dramatic and fascinating ceremony—even if the evening didn’t end the way we’d hoped. Topics on the table include N
As this episode posts, the Oscars are just two days away, and everybody’s talking about who’ll win. So we decided to skip the prognostications and talk about what we hope the winners will say and do, and what we hope for from Oscar speeches in
Though Michael Mann’s Blackhat and the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending opened to mostly tepid notices, there are pockets of intense interest among critics and fans of their respective bodies of work. On this week’s podcast, we talk about filmmake
Hey, remember when we had a podcast? Now’s your chance to relive those memories and make some new ones, because it’s back. We’re jumping back into the deep end with a discussion of the roiling debate over all the history-based Best Picture nomi
Despite diminished box-office grosses, laments about Hollywood’s addiction to sequels and remakes, and portents of doom from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, Dissolve podcast host Scott Tobias had a really good time at the movies this summer.
In theaters and/or On Demand now, you can check out new films by Alex Gibney, Michael Winterbottom, Woody Allen, and Joe Swanberg. Last year, you could also check out one or more new films by Gibney, Winterbottom, Allen, and Swanberg, and the y
Guardians Of The Galaxy opens in theaters this weekend, Marvel True Believers, and we all enjoyed it so much that we sat down to an enthusiastic (and spoiler-free) conversation about what it means for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and where we
This week, it’s APES APES APES APES, as Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes prompts our resident Planet Of The Apes superfans to look back on the long-running series, from its grim, heady 1970s longueurs to all the tie-in products that kept kids abs
With the flourish of Scary Movie sequels and Friedberg/Seltzer productions like Meet The Spartans and Date Movie, the spoof hit rock bottom a few years ago, but our Movie Of The Week discussion of Airplane! and David Wain’s new rom-com riff The
On this week’s podcast, the release of Clint Eastwood’s version of Broadway’s mega-hit Jersey Boys gets us talking about how fidelity, staginess, and Gerard Butler affect our appreciation, or lack thereof, for stage-to-screen musical adaptation
The podcast is turning 21 this week and the poor dear is crying into its beer. Why? Because The Fault In Our Stars, an adaptation of John Green’s YA romance about teenagers with cancer, is poised to become a box-office hit this weekend. This we
We got our blood angried up a little when Disney Chairman Alan Horn started referring to his studio's new wave of nostalgia-mining films, like Saving Mr. Banks and Maleficent, as "brand deposits." But what does that phrase really mean for Disne
We’re all going to die, but how are we going to die? On this week’s podcast, the new documentary Fed Up, about the terrifying rise of obesity rates, prompts a discussion of other activist docs that push the panic button on climate change, conta
Recently, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips made some provocative comments about Lars von Trier on the Filmspotting podcast, calling him a perpetual 14-year-old, while still praising him highly. With The Five Obstructions and Breakin
As baseball season starts, so begins the months-long torment of wading through losing streaks, blowouts, and forgettable matinees for those few transcendent moments that make it all worthwhile. But movies can skip right to the big moments, and
This week, we were repeatedly inspired by Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, but not in the ways listeners might hope. First, the film's two-episode serial structure gets us talking about how film and TV are drifting closer together in form, conten
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