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Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit (SVU)

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Sep 1, 2014 • 1h 17min

SVU #67: The Visitor / WTF Movies

You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts! On the new SVU, Matt and Alison recommend some of the craziest, weirdest, most WTF movies you can watch at home right now. Plus, their Listeners Choice Review of the trippy sci-fi/horror oddity THE VISITOR. Then they will use their mind powers to unleash devil birds on one another. You don't want to miss this one. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Night Moves The Zero Theorem Starred Up Queue Shots: WTF Movies Even Dwarfs Started Small The Apple Dune House Listeners Choice Review The Visitor Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: The Spanish Prisoner The Unknown Known Zero Hour! Alison: The Cosmopolitans Blue Ruin Mars 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: A Touch Of Sin Side Effected Alison: The One I Love Rectify: Season 1 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Wish You Were Here Alison: Adore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 19, 2014 • 1h 24min

SVU #66: Southcliffe / Small Town Movies

Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, listening to the new Filmspotting: SVU, as Matt and Alison recommend some movies set in small towns. Plus, a review of the Netflix miniseries SOUTHCLIFFE from "Martha Marcy May Marlene" director Sean Durkin. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Coherence Locke Frankie & Alice Queue Shots: Small Town Movies Show Me Love Bernie Waiting For Guffman Shadow Of A Doubt Listeners Choice Review Southcliffe Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: A Hard Day's Night Mud Midnight Run Alison: You're Next Nancy, Please Lyle 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: The Paradise Lost Trilogy Pilgrim Song Alison: Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Ping Pong: The Animation 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Basquiat Alison: Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Aug 5, 2014 • 1h 32min

SVU #65: Manhunter / Hannibal Lecter Onscreen

Hello, Clarice... and SVU listeners with other names. Matt and Alison review Michael Mann's MANHUNTER, and go film-by-film (and TV show) through the Hannibal Lecter franchise, picking their favorites that you can rent or stream at home while considering why the series has aged better than a nice chianti. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 22, 2014 • 1h 22min

SVU #64: They Came Together / Spoofs

Surely they can't be serious: a whole episode about spoofs? They are serious--and don't call them Shirley. They're Matt and Alison, and on the latest episode of Filmspotting: SVU, they're recommending some spoofs you can watch at home right now, and reviewing the new David Wain rom-com spoof THEY CAME TOGETHER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 8, 2014 • 1h 19min

SVU #63: Under The Skin / Aliens Walk Among Us Movies

Scarlett Johansson prowls the streets of Scotland looking for men in UNDER THE SKIN, this week's Listeners Choice pick on Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit. After reviewing the latest film from director Jonathan Glazer (and vowing never to get into a creepy white van with Scarlett Johansson), Matt and Alison also recommend some other movies about aliens walking among us on Earth you can rent or stream at home right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 18, 2014 • 1h 30min

SVU #62: Orange Is The New Black (Season 2) / New TV Recommendations

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Put down that prison shank you made out of a toothbrush! The new episode of Streaming Video Unit is here! Matt and Alison review the second season of Netflix's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK and recommend some other recent television shows you can rent or stream at home (or in jail) right now. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Ernest & Celestine The Final Member Hellion Queue Shots: Recent TV Recommendations Fargo Last Week Tonight Terriers Review Listeners Choice Review Orange Is The New Black: Season 2 Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: World War Z The Girlfriend Experience Conan O'Brien Can't Stop Alison: Burning Bush The Missing Picture Ishtar 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: The Intouchables  The Trouble With Harry As The Palaces Burn Alison: Bob's Burgers The Borgias Robinson Crusoe On Mars 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Frozen Ground Alison: Drinking Buddies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 2, 2014 • 1h 29min

SVU #61: The Big Chill / Friendship Movies / Cannes

You just call out Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit's name, and you know wherever you are, we will be there (assuming you've downloaded the podcast to your smartphone). On the new SVU, Matt and Allison review THE BIG CHILL and recommend some other movies about friendship you can rent or stream at home. Plus, Alison's report on the recent Cannes Film Festival. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Tim's Vermeer Ping Pong Summer The Pretty One Queue Shots: Friendship Movies The Wood Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Kings Of Summer Sideways Listeners Choice Review The Big Chill Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: Annie Hall Escape From Tomorrow Birth Of The Living Dead Alison: Big Bad Wolves My Own Love Song God Loves Uganda 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: Fatal Attraction The Rocket Alison: Ravenous Show Me Love 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 Alison: I Killed My Mother Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 21, 2014 • 1h 5min

SVU #60: Crocodile Dundee / Fish-out-of-Water Movies

Copy: That's not a podcast. THIS is a podcast. Matt and guest host Mike Ryan from ScreenCrush.com review the 1980s comedy CROCODILE DUNDEE. And inspired by everyone's favorite Australian bushman, they also recommend some other fish-out-of-water movies that you can rent or stream at home right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 6, 2014 • 1h 21min

SVU #59: The Past / Marriage Movies

Matt and Alison review Asghar Farhadi's powerful domestic drama THE PAST. Plus, the SVU team recommends some more movies about marriage that you can rent or stream at home right now. If you're thinking about skipping this podcast, just remember that vow you took to listen to us until death do us part. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Apr 22, 2014 • 1h 19min

SVU #58: Alan Partridge / British Comedy

Alison and Matt get to know comedy alpha papa Steve Coogan as they review ALAN PARTRIDGE. Inspired by the film, they'll also recommend some other British comedies from film and television you can rent or stream at home right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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