Podcast appearances and mentions of omar majeed

The music NEVER stopped.On this episode we dive into one of the better pop culture documentaries that we have seen in recent memory in 'Disco's Revenge'.In the early 70s, the beat child of New York's Black and LGBTQ+ communities was born on the city's underground dance floor. Disco emerged as an exuberant musical genre, a vital social movement and a vibrant culture before enduring a vicious backlash nearly a decade later. In our collective pop-culture imagination, Disco's merely a fad relegated to soft-focus memories of  Saturday Night Fever and Studio 54.  It is a pulsating deep dive into the very soul of disco music and its enduring impact across genres and history, told by the people who created it, nurtured it, and in turn, discovered themselves on the dancefloor. The film asks: Why does disco matter and, in these divisive times, why does disco matter now more than ever?  Featuring interviews and performances by Nile Rodgers and Chic, Billy Porter, Nona Hendryx and LaBelle, Grandmaster Flash, Fab Five Freddy, Nicky Siano, Earl Young and The Trammps, Jellybean Benitez, Kevin Saunderson, Sylvester and Martha Wash and many others. Never has a film really got as anthropological when looking at a slice of music culture and that's what makes 'Disco's Revenge' so damn special. With sit down with writer/direcfor's Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara to get deep into the groove of it all.'Disco's Revenge' is on all VOD platforms.

Directed by Peter Mishara and Omar Majeed, DISCO'S REVENGE takes us back to the 70s. Caught in a time of social change, the rise of disco offered more to the world than driving beats and catchy rhythms. In this 1on1, we speak to Mishara and Majeed about disco's dance with social justice and people that fear disco.

Send us a Text Message.For this week's episode, we're taking you to one of the best film festivals our city of Toronto offers: the Hot Docs Film Festival.We share some of our hits from the festival, including Disco's Revenge (directed by Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara), Union (directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing), Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (directed by Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson) and Look Into My Eyes (directed by Lana Wilson). We also discuss a bit about the culture of Toronto, how Robin Williams was ahead of his time (RIP to a legend), and Ama briefly recaps her trip to NYC which included getting to see Jinx Monsoon on Broadway in The Little Shop of Horrors. So, sit back, press play, and savor the rich tapestry of pop culture—one heartfelt tribute, one pulsating beat, and one provocative discussion at a time.Support the Show.

Welcome to the sequel to our wildly popular episode on the most underappreciated comedies of the 2000s except with a radical new twist; instead of the 2000s we cover the 1990s! Upon writing that sentence I recognize its probably not that radical, BUT WE DID IT ALL THE SAME! Joining us is the crew from that 2000s episode, filmmaker Omar Majeed and Mongrel Media bigwig Tom Alexander with films ranging from Clifford (yes, that Clifford), The Watermelon Woman, Joe vs the Volcano and The Butcher Boy (yes, that The Butcher Boy). So strap on a scrunchy, pull out your Reebok Pumps, tell an authority figure to "eat your shorts" and let's all go back to that bygone era when MTV still played actual music and Leonardo DiCaprio played second fiddle to boob tube superstar Kirk motherf***ing Cameron.

If you're anything like the Mutiny of Preverts crew, and you've spent decades watching and appreciating all the great cinema of the world, there is one question you find yourself returning to time and again: What exactly does it look like when Rip Torn has vigorous, athletic coitus with a coed? Well,  lucky for you the films of Nicolas Roeg have the answer. And they also have the answer to similar copulatory questions about Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Theresa Russell, David Bowie, Candy Clark, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Rutger Hauer... We could go on. Despite the wealth of boning related topics, Azed, Jay and unofficial third host Omar Majeed also make time to discuss many of the formal and thematic elements of Roeg's films that make him one of the all time great directors. Azed, in particular, makes an astute connection between Roeg's fragmented visual and auditory style and the deeply alienated and traumatized characters that inhabit his films that you will not want to miss.

In the first of our new series of "micro-episodes", MoP favourite, Omar Majeed defends the much maligned Adam Sandler movie, Billy Madison (1995).  The conceptual reasoning behind these micro-episodes is to up our production output by doing, what the kids call, a "hot take" on a movie or topic within the cinematic discourse.  Less work, less impressive but a hell of a lotta fun! And these days, don't we all just want a little more fun in our lives? Still, it wouldn't be an MoP episode without some random Lacan references and some unnecessary psychoanalytic cultural theory thrown in there to impress the elites! So don't panic pseudo intellectuals, we will never forget about you, as we are one of you!  NOTE: MoP highly recommends that you re-watch the film in question while high, with multiple shitty snacks, wearing either a "onesie" a "slanket" or just in your underwear, as long as you've been wearing them for at least three days straight.  ENJOY!

We're back with Part 2 of our discussion with Omar Majeed, Tom Alexander and Raul Pinto on our favourite films of 2020. In this part we discuss categories like The Film You Wish You Made, Biggest Disappointment, Most Original Film and Best Old Film You Watched. Same rules apply as last time, no biting, pinching or hair pulling, but crotch shots wholly encouraged! We hope you enjoy.

If there's one thing that Mutiny of Preverts prides itself in is our ability to read the cultural moment. And what do people want to do now more than reminisce about what a splendiferous and joyous experience that was the year 2020? But what might be hard to believe is that after looking back we realized that a lot of bad stuff happened and 2020 wasn't really that splendiferous after all. Maybe even the opposite of splendiferous which I'm going to say is something like drinking a big puddle of dog water filled with napalm and used bandaids. So we decided to have some fun with this one and instead of doing a simple best of list we mined the Preverts back catalogue and used the same format that we did for our best of the decade by organizing the episode around a series of unusual, but hopefully insightful categories including The Crypto-Fascist Award, Most Original Film, The Film That Made You Skip Pornhub and a bunch more. To help us ensure that we didn't miss any hidden gems we also invited three of our favourite guests from past episodes, Omar Majeed, Tom Alexander and Raul Pinto to join us. With these three devoted cinephiles we ended up with a diverse and sprawling discussion on everything from Mank to Another Round to First Cow and a whole lot more. So much more that we had to break the episode into two parts. But we won't leave you hanging for long. Part two will be out in a week.

The last several months have delivered an overwhelming dose of hard knocks and brutal reality. With COVID-19 dominating our every social interaction many people including the Preverts crew have been turning to the films that promise some kind of respite from the stress-filled anxiety of our everyday lives. With special guests Ishmael and Omar Majeed we each pick a few films that help make life just a little bit brighter including Spirited Away, The Life Aquatic, Duck Soup and Singin' in the Rain, among others. In the process of discussing what escapism means and what it offers to each of us we discovered how each of these films manage to capture some aspect of our deeply ingrained fantasy lives. The films discussed explore dance, myth, adventure and pandemonium in ways that soothe our dread and excite our spirits. The benefits of which often last far beyond the length of the films themselves. You'll have to forgive us for the quality of Omar's audio. He was piping in from Operation Hennessy's Underwater Sea Laboratory. We apologize to Kieran Dick for cutting our discussion of the Gary Busey classic DC Cab due to time constraints.

Welcome back to another episode of Mutiny of Preverts where we scratch that preverted itch for all you cinema lovers out there! In this episode we brought back two of our favourite guests in Omar Majeed and Kieran Dick to break down the career of Quentin Tarantino. We get into some heated debates regarding the merit and intentionality behind some of his biggest hits. Is he a straight forward revisionist or is he engaging in the rich history of uchronia, a kind of speculative fiction that explores alternate histories of our world? We tackle that question in a general discussion then get into a film by film breakdown from Reservoir Dogs to Jackie Brown (and even a little nubbin of content covering My Best Friend's Birthday, his debut short film). In Part Two we'll cover the rest of his filmography from Kill Bill to Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. As an extra treat Jay put together a playlist of a fictional Tarantino soundtrack featuring all kinds of the funk, psych, soul, surf, pop nuggets that Quentin packs into every frame of his films (including a smattering of Ennio Morricone of course). Click here to check it out.  

Siobhan McDonnell, founder and director of HeteroDocs, take us through her highlights and takeaways from IDFA, the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With a growing focus on VR and immersive technologies, Siobhan and Jake discuss some of the most cutting-edge immersive experiences of IDFA 2019 - and among these, Victoria Mapplebeck’s VR documentary, “The Waiting Room” which just won the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling. Listen to learn more about how VR and new technologies are changing storytelling in documentaries, get insights from panel talks and industry events at IDFA, If you want to see more of Siobhan’s work with HeteroDocs, check out her website: https://heterodocs.com/ Bonus info: Victoria Mapplebeck is also featured in our first Real Stories podcast episode, as the director of the BAFTA- winning Real Stories documentary, “Missed Call.”If you want to check out the documentaries and directors that are being mentioned in this episode, we’ve listed them here for reference:From IDFA 2019:Waiting Room - VR documentary by Victoria Mapplebeck (Winner IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling)Ayahausca: Kosmik Journey Dome Experience - VR documentary by Jan Kouen 'Jawline' debut feature by Liza Mandelup Other:Travelling While Black - VR documentary by Roger Ross WilliamsTaqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam by Omar Majeed - you can see this documentary on Real Stories YouTube.Kim Longinotto, documentary filmmakerSean McAllister , documentary filmmakerNonny de la Peña, journalist and immersive documentary filmmakerAlso, if you’re interested in the numbers around VR and immersive technologies, Digital Catapult recently released a report on the immersive economy in the UK 2019, which can be found on their website. Real Stories is available on Youtube and Facebook, and you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram too - and don’t forget to subscribe to our podcast, available on Spotify, Itunes, Player FM, and Acast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks marks a high point in television history. The merging of Lynch's experimental film background with the more conventional TV landscape created a mesmerizing series that continues to defy any attempt at a simple interpretation. Azed & Jay and returning guest Omar Majeed welcome special guest philosopher/author Tamler Sommers from the popular podcast Very Bad Wizards to take a deep dive into the world of Twin Peaks. Note: no mention of poop or vomit in this episode. Apologies.

In an unprecedented episode for Mutiny of Preverts Azed and Jay invite not one, but two guests to join us on this episode about the most underappreciated comedies of the 2000s. We each make a list of five films that we think has been overlooked and deserves just a little more love. Our guests, Mongrel Media director of theatrical releasing Tom Alexander and MoP favourite Omar Majeed, are pitted against each other in a film podcast duel to the death. Tune in to find out which of them wins the honour of having made the definitive list and which one is deemed the loser and subsequently disemboweled on air. We think you'll be surprised. We also discuss the beloved careers of Doris Day and Tim Conway and some of the exciting films playing at this year's Cannes Film Festival. You'll also have to excuse some of the sound on Jay's mic. This is our first time recording four people at once and we simply lacked the equipment to do it properly. We hope it's not too much of a distraction. And if it is, well you can just skip his parts like usual.

The world of cinema has lost some true giants with the deaths of Stanley Donen, Agnes Varda and actor Seymour Cassel in the past few months. But Larry Cohen, one of the most overlooked filmmakers of his generation, also passed away recently. Aside from a few outlier critical voices like Robin Wood, Cohen's work has had a great deal less critical analysis than it deserves. Jay, Azed and guest host Omar Majeed try to do their own small part to rectify this oversight giving particular attention to the films Bone, God Told Me To and It's Alive. A trio of films that make indelible criticisms of race, religion and the nuclear family and expose cracks in the dominant social order with an acuity rarely seen before or since. The hosts also briefly discuss Agnes Varda's death, Julian Assange's arrest and, most importantly, how Omar's recent CSA award really classes up the show. A tastefulness we suspect Cohen would have found oddly inappropriate considering his own stubborn commitment to his status as the ultimate schlockmeister.

Is there a canon for cinema? What metrics are used to determine the best films out there? Are there objective criteria or is all down to what hits you? And most importantly, does porn count? In this episode Azed and Jay are joined by filmmaker, Omar Majeed to discuss these ideas and to reveal our own lists of the best films of the 2000's thus far. IMPORTANT NOTE: Azed's list is the best of the three. 

Azed, Jay and guest host and filmmaker Omar Majeed get together to discuss, and solve, one of the most complex issues of our time - laurel or yanny? The answer is laurel, obviously. They also find time to discuss the blockbuster hit Black Panther and a few other seminal films made by black filmmakers including Get Out and Moonlight. If those topics interest you and you want to find out which ethnic group Jay is most racist against listen in to find out.

This month's edition of the Ninja Tune Podcast finds Nabihah Iqbal in conversation with Kieran Yates, a music and politics journalist and co-author of 2011’s ’Generation Vexed’. Coming off the back of a panel discussion at a recent screening of Omar Majeed’s ‘Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam’, the pair discuss communicating themes of resistance in their work during an age of worldwide political upheaval, and how simply expressing your identity can be an act of defiance in the current climate. Iqbal traces back the influences of new album ‘Weighing of the Heart’, exploring what it means to make guitar music after throwing off her initial moniker and unabashedly inhabiting her own skin.