The Intermission

The Intermission - VFX Bakeoff 2015 - We recap the goings-on at this weekend's VFX Oscar "bake-off," and make our predictions.

The Intermission - Grab Bag 6 - This is about as loose as we have ever been on any show. My god.

The Intermission - What You Missed in 2014 (Pt. 2) - Let's finish this year off right, shall we? These episodes are fun.

The Intermission - What You Missed In 2014 (Pt. 1) - We go through our collected lists of the best movies of the year.

The Intermission - 2014 Oscar Shortlists - Let's run down the short lists for Oscar nominees in the categories of Visual Effects and Documentary. Predictions time!

The Intermission - Hollywood Positivity - Maybe the "What Are You Working On?" episode was too negative. Hollywood's definitely not ALL bad, so let's talk about the good stuff!

The Intermission - The Suggestioning - Three men. Twenty topics. One hour. Five golden rings. Seven deadly sins. One hour photo. Six.

The Intermission - "What Are You Working On?" - Boy, do we hate that question.

The Intermission - Grab Bag 5: three - This is about as loose as we've ever been.

The Intermission - Plot Hole Film Criticism - We have a nice, long, sliiiiiightly meandering conversation about the state of online film criticism.

The Intermission - The Future of Star Wars - Alright, let's touch base. Where we at with all this? (As with all new episodes, this can also be viewed on YouTube. Click the forum button below.)

The Intermission - Grab Bag 4: Grabfourmers - We talk about things!

The Intermission - Tokes & Stokes - Exhausted after a long day of filming, we sit down to discuss the cinematic masterpiece that is TOKES & STOKES, our April Fools gag for the year.

The Intermission - Best / Worst of 2013 - It's a huge Intermission, to recap all the movies we loved and hated in 2013. Strap in, it was a pretty crappy year.

The Intermission - VFX Bakeoff 2014 - We break our regularly scheduled Potterness for our yearly recap of the VFX Oscar Bakeoff. Sorry for the hot audio on this one, we're out of practice.

The Intermission - Programming Childhood - For this episode of The Intermission, in preparation for next week's Potter marathon (friendsinyourhead.com/potter, y'all), we talk about film and TV we'd love to introduce children to.

The Intermission - #62 - Texters and Shushers - We have a conversation about the apparently hot-button issue of texting in movie theaters.

The Intermission - #61 - Kickstarter - The pros and cons of this cultural shift in democratic filmmaking, as well as stories from one of our own who raised tens of thousands of dollars for his own project.

The Intermission - #60 - "Grab Bag 3" - This time we go for two hours. Yeah, man. There's a LOT of grabbing in this bag.

The Intermission - #58 - The World of Film Scores - Teague and his score-enthusiast pal Matt sit down with composers Kyle Newmaster and Alex Smith to talk everything film scores. A group of composers hanging out around a piano with some beers apparently results in four-hour-long episodes of Down in Front.

The Intermission - #57 - "And Then We Made A Movie" - Damn near everyone on DIF, and many of the friends we've made from the DIF community, holed up in Eddie's house to make a documentary in five days. Insanity ensued.(Watch this episode on YouTube)

The Intermission - #56 - Film Gear - We talk a bit about toys. Cameras, jibs, dollies, the fun stuff.

The Intermission - #55 - Grab Bag 2: Bagging Grabbier - Oh, another one of these? Damn, Down in Front, you used to stand for something.

The Intermission - #54 - Is the VFX Industry Imploding? - With Rhythm and Hues filing for bankruptcy, the VFX industry is slow-panicking and hyperbolizing. This banner doesn't help, but I felt like being all clever with the R&H logo. This is invisible text. Shh.(Also, try this episode in video!)

The Intermission - #53 - Film Criticism - We discuss our (apparent?) role as film critics, in the aftermath of an odd encounter with a filmmaker, and explore the full spectrum of authority in film criticism over the years.

The Intermission - #52 - Grab bag! - We talk about the news of the week, because we can. JJ Abrams on Star Wars, Celebrity Twitter Moment Pt. 1, House of Cards, and Mike hates geeks now.

The Intermission - #51 - The Best / Worst of 2012 - We sit down and do a year-in-review recap on the best and worst movies of last year.

The Intermission - #50 - VFX Oscar Bake-Off 2012 - Every year, Trey goes to the selection meeting for what films will get VFX Oscar nominations. This year, everyone went.

The Intermission - #49 - Recommendations - We like things, you like things, we like you, so we tell you things we've liked lately.

The Intermission - #48 - Setiquette - There's a lot of little do's and don'ts about being on a film set. We treat this episode more like a "if you've never done that, here's some oddball stuff you might not know" conversation.

The Intermission - #47 - Book Recommendations - With a bunch of plane rides in our collective futures, we sit down and chat about some of our favorite books and what we recommend that's come out lately.

The Intermission - #46 - "Backyard Blockbusters" - John Hudgens made a documentary about fanfilms, which we here at DIF are all a part of. Today we sit down with him to discuss the Hollywood premiere of said documentary, and talk inside-baseball shop. Check the forum for clips.

The Intermission - #45 - Unpopular Opinions - We sit down with the chat room and have a frank discussion about things we have to defend to others, and our opinions that, well, offend others.

The Intermission - #44 - Disney Buys Lucasfilm - We convened an emergency meeting of Down in Front, even pulling out old equipment to patch a Skype call in, to discuss the breaking news. Audio quality is a bit weird, but hey, we needed to use cables from the '70s to make this happen!

The Intermission - #43 - "Dem Hollywood Blues" - People asked, and hey, why not. Steel yourself for this one: we're keeping it real. Click here for a picture of a kitty.

The Intermission - #42 - "Ten Things We Hate About You" - We're fans, all of us, but there's a few things about fandom that get under our skin. We try not to be too self-loathing.

The Intermission - #41: "DIF in Spaaaaaace" - We sit down to speak as non-commentators do on the subject of space, science, and hope for the future. For some reason.

The Intermission - #40 The Pink Five Story - We sit down with Trey to discuss Pink Five, on this, the week of his grand unveiling of the Kickstarter to get the last episode off the ground. Funny anecdotes and coolness ensue.

The Intermission - #39 - "Comic-Con Recap" - No movies, nuthin' fancy, we just share the stories from our collective Comic-Con experience.

The Intermission - #38 - "On Aurora, Colorado" - Like everyone else, we were horrified and saddened by the shooting in Colorado last week. We're not here to discuss breaking news, but the social fallout of this is something we have a bit to say about.

The Intermission - #37 - "Are We Worried About Pixar" - Just today (in other words, AFTER this recording) it was announced that Finding Nemo 2 is also happening. We have an informal, uninformed, completely speculative conversation about our...concerns.

The Intermission - #36 - "Musicals" - After Mike and Trey enjoyed Rock of Ages, it got us to thinkin'... why don't we talk about musicals more? Not just us, I mean, everyone.

The Intermission - #35 - "Comic Con!" - With Comic Con coming up, we sit down to share stories and fun anecdotes about the nerd supernova, and give some tips for folks going for the first time.

The Intermission - #34 - "On Snow, White, and Hunstmen" - Let's talk about adaptations. Specifically, let's talk about Snow White and the Hunstman. (Here's Dorkman's actual-review.)

The Intermission - #33 - "The People vs. The People vs. George Lucas" - We sit down to discuss the documentary "The People vs. George Lucas," which is available (in the U.S., at least) on Netflix streaming.

The Intermission - #32 - "Talkin' Battleship" - After this recording, we all agreed: never again shall we go see a movie just because it'd be so bad we'd have fun making fun of it on the show.

The Intermission - #31 - "Chat: The Avengers" - We sit down opening weekend to discuss our thoughts. Commentary to come later. No spoilers, then a spoiler warning, then spoilers. Have fun!

The Intermission - #30 - "Are Video Games Art?" - This isn't a debate, it's just a conversation, but we take it several interesting ways and forsake movies for a week to get all abstract.

The Intermission - #29 - "Chat: Cabin in the Woods" - Since we can't do a commentary for this one yet, we sit down and talk the hell out of Cabin in the Woods. No spoilers for a few minutes, there's a warning.

The Intermission - #28 - "Film vs. Digital" - Chris Nolan called congress of the secret culty order of the director brotherhood to talk film vs digital. We do the same with less goat's blood.

The Intermission - #27 - "Some Hunger Games" - Is it just another Intermission? Is it just another DIF? It's both! This week we talk at length about Hunger Games, and a bit about John Carter.