Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit (SVU)
Filmspotting: SVU was a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Alison Willmore and Matt Singer focusing on the world of online movies. Part of the Filmspotting family of podcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 78 minutes
- Episodes
- 159
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2018
SVU #167: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping / Ultimate Listener's Choice
It's been six (mostly) wonderful years of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, but on this episode, Matt and Alison say goodbye. First, in honor of JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER, which they talked ab…
01:45:53 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
SVU #166: It (1990) / Clown Movies
Remember how when we were kids we battled a nightmare clown terrorizing our small town and devouring children? No? Maybe it was just us then. On this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Ma…
01:09:21 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
SVU #165: I, Tonya / Movies (And One TV Show) Involving Ice Skating
Get your skates straight and put out that cigarette, because on this week's show, Matt and Alison are talking 2017's Tonya Harding biopic I, TONYA, which was recently added to Hulu. Then, inspired by…
01:16:20 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
SVU #164: Manhunt / Hong Kong Action Movies
Is John Woo's latest movie a return to form for the director, or something closer to self-parody? On this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison debate the merits of MANHUNT, …
01:05:26 |
Tue 22 May 2018
SVU #163: Thelma / Supernatural Coming of Age Movies
There comes a time when a young girl blossoms into a woman, and sometimes that woman turns out to possess terrifying powers that are some kind of allegory for the female sexuality. On this episode, M…
01:18:04 |
Tue 08 May 2018
SVU #162: The Iron Giant / And More Movies Referenced in Ready Player One
"People come to the Oasis for all the things they can do, but they stay for all the things they can be." Presuming, that is, those things are licensable bits of IP. On this episode, Matt and Alison u…
01:11:08 |
Tue 24 Apr 2018
SVU #161: Wild Wild Country / Movies Made By Brothers
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 …
01:30:23 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
SVU #160: The Thin Man / Movies About Drinking
Pour a row of martinis and ready your finest 1930s repartee, because on this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison sample THE THIN MAN, available via TCM's new partnership wi…
01:29:32 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
SVU #159: Babylon Berlin / Berlin Movies
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome — in this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison pay a visit to Weimar-era Berlin by way of the German period drama BABYLON BERLIN, co-created b…
01:25:19 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
SVU #158: Good Time / Movies That Take Place In One Night
It's no sleep 'til Rego Park, Queens, in this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, in which Matt and Alison consider the uneasy charms of the Safdie brothers' New York set-thriller GOOD TIM…
01:28:26 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
SVU #157: On Body and Soul / The Cloverfield Paradox
What is the future for original movies on the world's largest streaming service? In this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison wonder where Netflix is headed as they take lon…
01:12:32 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
SVU #156: Brawl in Cell Block 99 / Neo-Exploitation Films
Sometimes you've got to talk your pain and frustration out — and sometimes you've got to punch a car. In this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison consider a film that tries…
01:10:21 |
Tue 30 Jan 2018
SVU #155: A Ghost Story / Ghostly Movies
Ghosts — not just good for scares! In this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison take a look at A GHOST STORY, David Lowery's exploration of grief, time, and the afterlife as…
01:10:56 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
SVU #154: Bright / Will Smith
Orcs, elves, fairies, and racial allegories — on this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison delve into the deceptively muddled waters of BRIGHT, Netflix's first homegrown att…
01:13:11 |
Tue 02 Jan 2018
SVU #153: The 2017 SVUvie Awards
2017. It was... quite a year. But at least there were some good films? On this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison look back at the past 12 months of movies by way of their…
01:44:14 |
Tue 19 Dec 2017
SVU #152: A Very Special Flopspotting Live
Alison gets to take a break this time around as Matt makes his triumphant return by stepping up to the (live) mic for a very special episode recorded on stage at the inaugural Brooklyn Podcast Festiv…
01:32:13 |
Wed 06 Dec 2017
SVU #151: Mudbound/Black Female Filmmakers
Eric Kohn of IndieWire and the Screen Talk podcast joins Alison while on the road in the Florida Keys to discuss Dee Rees’ Netflix original MUDBOUND. Matt is still off on paternity leave, so this epi…
01:08:44 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
SVU #150: The Meyerowitz Stories / Movies About Grown-up Brothers
While Matt is off on paternity leave, this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit turns the responsibility for picking the main review to our guest host, who opts for the Netflix original movi…
01:29:10 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
SVU #149: Raw / College Movies
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/c…
01:13:19 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
SVU #148: The Bad Batch / Cannibalism Movies
On this episode of Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit, Matt and Alison run off to the desert to start their own Keanu Reeves-centric rave cult in preparation for their discussion of Ana Lily Amirpour…
01:13:52 |
Tue 10 Oct 2017
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