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Aspect Radio #89: Corey’s Nashville Film Festival Recap

Corey recaps the 2013 Nashville Film Festival where he saw more than 25 feature films in less than a week.

Whew!

He saw several of his current favorite movies from 2013 so far, including “Mud,” “Stories We Tell” and “Laurence Anyways.”

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Music heard in AR #89:
Keith Carradine - “I’m Easy” (from the film “Nashville”

Aspect Radio #88: Iron Man 3, Summer Movie Preview

Ben and Corey look ahead to the rest of the 2013 summer movie season, picking their must-sees in a loaded landscape.

Blockbusters like “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “Man of Steel” populate their list alongside indie hopefuls “Before Midnight,” “Only God Forgives” and “The Bling Ring.”

The guys also take a look at the film that kicked off the summer, Marvel’s “Iron Man 3,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and directed by Shane Black.

Ben’s brother and Bloomberg producer Graham Flanagan also drops a parting shot on why he thinks “Oblivion” is his favorite movie of 2013 so far and a brilliant new sci-fi adventure you can’t miss.

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Music heard in AR #88:
Hans Zimmer - “An Ideal of Hope”
The Black Keys - “Long Gone”
Vampire Weekend - “Diane Young”

Aspect Radio #87: Movies About Faith & Religion

Ben and Corey are joined by FilmNerds.com maestro Matt Scalici to talk about their favorite movies about or related to faith and religion.

They list the top five films that force them to contemplate their own faith or religion in general, many of which have stuck with them since they saw them as children.

Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, the Coen brothers and other filmmakers often express their personal beliefs in these films, thus moving us to think about and further discuss their arguments and make our own.

Aspect Radio and FilmNerds.com contributors Graham Flanagan and Ben Stark also offer their favorite films about faith during the discussion.

This episode was filmed in front of a live audience at First United Methodist Church in downtown Tuscaloosa, as part of Ben’s dad Steve Flanagan’s six-part series “God at the Movies (And Other Platforms.”

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AR Nugget: Ben on ‘Man of Steel’ trailer

Ben breaks down his anticipation for Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan’s take on legendary DC character Superman in this summer’s “Man of Steel.”

He considers the latest trailer one of the best he’s seen in a while and Hans Zimmer’s accompanying music some of the best he’s ever heard.

But he argues there hasn’t been a truly memorable Superman movie we can really take pride in watching, and he thinks Snyder’s might be the one.

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Posters by Coasters: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s…been done

Most everything about the MAN OF STEEL marketing feels excitingly different from Bryan Singer’s SUPERMAN RETURNS and previous incarnations. Of course, at some point, it will all resemble Superman in one way or the other.

The latest MOS poster is fine, just a little disappointing for me, especially following that badass trailer we got a couple of weeks ago.

Here, you have Superman flying at you with Metropolis far below him. Pretty standard Superman stuff, right? It happens to resemble ONE of the one-sheets from Singer’s campaign.

I’m not really complaining. Superman flying over Metropolis is just what the guy does.