Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit (SVU)

On this episode, Matt and Alison talk cults versus communes, xenophobia, sexual liberation, immigration fraud, religious freedom, and also putting beavers into blenders in order to use the resulting goo to taint the water supply. Yes, they're going deep into WILD WILD COUNTRY, Netflix's stranger-than-fiction docuseries about the 1980s clash between the followers of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the locals in Oregon area where they attempted to build a utopian community. Then, as a nod to the series' sibling filmmaking team, Chapman and MacLain Way, they recommend some other brother-director titles available to rent or stream.

Listener's Choice Review: "Wild Wild Country"

Queue Shots: Movies Made By Brothers

Behind the 8-Ball:

3 New Streaming Releases

Alison: AMO / The Killing of a Sacred Deer / The Florida Project

Matt: Reservoir Dogs / You Don't Mess With the Zohan / Nailed It

2 Listener Recommendations

1 Random Film From Our Netflix "My Lists"

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Matt and Alison do battle beyond the stars in Queue Shots and discuss the new Netflix series "Lilyhammer."

Queue Shots

Death Race 2000

Battle From Beyond the Stars

Norwegian Ninja

The Exterminating Angel

Excelsior! Prince of Magicians

I'm Glad My Mother is Alive

Behind the 8-Ball (Expiration)

The Dead Pool (3/1)

Videocracy (3/7)

Barcelona (3/10)

Escape From New York (3/15)

Le Cercle Rouge and Bob Le Flambeur (3/15)

MST3K: Gamera

Listener's Choice Review

Lilyhammer

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The end of 2012 means it's time for Matt and Alison's inaugural SVUvie Awards! Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break All Superheroes Must Die Little Birds The Other Dream Team The Sorcerer and the White Snake (1/3) SVUvie Award Winners You Can Watch at Home Girl Walk // All Day Sparkle Sleepless Night Klown Lawless Magic Mike The Cabin in the Woods Haywire Behind the 8-Ball Sleepwalk With Me Jeff, Who Lives at Home The Devil Inside Red Lights Topsy-Turvy Escape From Alcatraz Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Freshmeeeeen! On this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison haze each other with drunken parties and rabbit kidneys in preparation for talking Julia Ducournau’s body horror/coming of age movie RAW. Then they reminisce about their long-ago undergrad years with some recs of other college movies and TV series, (mostly) available to stream or rent.

Listener's Choice Review: "Raw"

Queue Shots: College Movies

In Theaters: "The Snowman"

Behind the 8-Ball:

3 New Streaming Releases

2 Listener Recommendations

1 Random Film From Our Netflix "My Lists"

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Matt and Alison yell "Stop the presses!!" to discuss Billy Wilder's cynical 1951 film "Ace in the Hole" starring Kirk Douglas, and investigate some of the most compelling journalism movies available via streaming.

Queue Shots: Journalism Movies

The Front Page

His Girl Friday

The Paper

The Manster

Page One: Inside the New York Times

The September Issue

Listeners' Choice Review

Ace in the Hole

Behind the 8-Ball (Expiration Date)

Everything's Gone Green (4/22)

Crospey (4/27)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (5/1)

New Streaming Titles

Tokyo Godfathers (Crackle)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Netflix)

Melancholia (Netflix)

Listener's Choice Options

Sleeping Beauty (2011, Netflix)

Purple Noon (Hulu Plus)

The Woman (Netflix)

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