100 episodes
Filmbound Filmbound: Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff
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- TV & Film
Film critics Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff, formerly of the long-running TV show NOW PLAYING, get wrapped up in the journey into cinema with FILMBOUND. Each episode features their film discussions focusing on current releases, with additional time devoted to recommendations of new and old titles and conversations about hot topics in the world of cinema.
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Tenet
John David Washington tries to bring an end to a war being waged on those in the present by people in the future in Christopher Nolan’s TENET.
In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s four features (CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE, DIVINE INTERVENTION, THE TIME THAT REMAINS, and IT MUST BE HEAVEN) and Columbus, Indiana's architecture and tours, as seen in Kogonada’s drama COLUMBUS. Paul Markoff picks director Michael Showalter’s romantic comedy THE BIG SICK starring and co-written by Kumail Nanjiani.
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TENET clip courtesy Warner Bros.
THE BIG SICK clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded October 11, 2021. -
Soul | Over the Moon
After an accident, a jazz pianist desperately wants his situation to return to normal so he can enjoy the big career break he’s finally received in Pete Docter and Kemp Powers’ animated film SOUL.
Also, a girl builds her own rocket ship and sets sail for a lunar landing in Glen Keane and John Kahrs' animated musical OVER THE MOON.
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SOUL clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
OVER THE MOON clip courtesy Netflix
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded December 14, 2020. -
Gremlins
On this special holiday episode, a teenage boy receives an unusual creature as a Christmas gift. In director Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy GREMLINS, chaos ensues in a small town when the rules for caring for the Mogwai are violated.
Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look back at their film-related wishes for 2020 and share those they hope might be granted this season and in 2021.
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GREMLINS clip courtesy Warner Home Video
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded December 14, 2020. -
The Truman Show | Real Life
On this themed episode, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look at two movies exploring the nature of filming realism for mass entertainment. Jim Carrey stars as a man unaware that his known reality has been built around and is the subject of a long-running and popular television series in director Peter Weir’s THE TRUMAN SHOW.
Also, Albert Brooks plays himself as an acclaim-seeking filmmaker trying to document the day-to-day ins and outs of a regular American family in his 1979 comedy REAL LIFE.
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THE TRUMAN SHOW and REAL LIFE clips courtesy Paramount Pictures
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded August 31, 2020. -
Tesla
Starring Ethan Hawke as the famous inventor, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s experimental biopic TESLA covers about twenty years of Nikola Tesla’s time in the United States, from working for Thomas Edison in 1884 to his J.P. Morgan-funded experiments in Colorado Springs in the early 1900s.
In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects the Martin Scorsese short film compilation Blu-ray set SCORSESE SHORTS. Paul Markoff picks Cameron Crowe’s family drama WE BOUGHT A ZOO.
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TESLA clip courtesy IFC Films
WE BOUGHT A ZOO clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded August 31, 2020. -
The Old Guard
Charlize Theron leads a team of immortals trying to fight the good fight and find a new, emerging one of their kind without detection by those who might exploit them in director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE OLD GUARD.
Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss how they they’re feeling about not going to movie theaters during the pandemic and what the future may hold for the theatrical experience.
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THE OLD GUARD clip courtesy Netflix
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded July 20, 2020.