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News about TIFF Kids, the Time Bandits Podcast, and Shorts That Are Not Pants; followed by further discussion of narrative and storytelling in the genres we call "video game movies" and "comic book movies." It's a Marvel! Join us.

Oscar fallout! Mamo welcomes special guest star Dan Gorman from See You Next Wednesday to discuss the Kim Novak / plastic surgery issue, as raised in the previous episode. Are women, Hollywood, beauty, youth, and our expectations a circular clustercuss?

Oscars 2014! This omnibus episode stitches together all 9 of the minisodes from last night's Oscar telecast. Ellen, Slave, Gravity, selfies, Blanchett, McConnaughey, Hustle, Menzel, Midler, Minelli, the pizza guy and much, much more!

Mamo tries to get back on belated track as the Oscar ceremony roars toward us... we give you our Oscar picks, in case you still haven't entered your office Oscar pool; talk Guardians of the Galaxy and general awesomeness; and hold a brief memorial for the brave, beautiful Mamo 340. And then Price nearly dies. It's great! It's Mamo.

The troubling weekend just past is pulled apart by the Matts as they try to make sense of Woody Allen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and our cultural relationship with celebrity, for good or ill.

Dinner for five! Mamo welcomes THREE special guest stars to a roundtable discussion of Manohla Dargis' recent contention that the American indie market is overstuffed with product. Kurt Halfyard, Dave Voigt and Ryan McNeil tell the Matts what's what.

Remember the days when a movie like Jack Ryan would come out, do whatever business it would do (or not do), and we would get together and analyze the project in depth in terms of why the audiences were (or weren't) responding to it? These aren't those days. A potpourri episode of Mamo ensues! Ryan! Bats/Supes! Marvel! Ebert! Armond! Time Bandits! And more.

It's Mamo Christmas! The Oscar Nominations for 2013 are announced and as usual, there's a whole lot of people who could've sworn "merit" was going to enter into this somewhere. Mamo discusses.

Never ones to let the grass grow on a new year, Mamo returns for its second 2014 show to talk about the future! Or at least, Netflix. Grab a pint, this one gets boozy.

After a three-week food-and-blackout-fueled hiatus, Mamo returns! It's the first week of 2014 which means, naturally, it's time to close up shop on 2013 with our picks for the best films of the year. We also get in deep on the relative merits of Twelve Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street, wax philosophical on whether films can ever truly be "numbered," and give some thought to Her and the state of science fiction.

Mamo rounds the corner on the second third of its thousand-show output with a free-roaming discussion of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the state of the modern epic, the mega-franchise model, and... well, you'll see.

Special guest star Ryan McNeil joins the podcast for a three-way conversation about the place of canon in a cinephile's life. Are "blind spot" series blinding? Or does the appreciation of the art form improve when you do your homework?

One seems like a situation where there's no way to get it right; and the other a scenario where the studio is determined to get it wrong. Mamo assembles to discuss the future of two Hollywood franchises: The Fast and the Furious in the wake of Paul Walker's death, and the Warner Brothers clusterfuck of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

As Catching Fire catches fire at the box office to the tune of $150 million or more, it's time to call shenanigans on Hollywood's decade-old assertion that women can't open blockbusters - or more to the point, that what a person has between their legs lets you predict what they will and will not do in relation to a good or not-good movie. Correlation and causality get rewired in the latest episode of Mamo!

KRA-KOOOM! Thor returns to wreak Asgardian justice on the mortal world of the box office, and Team Mamo takes a time-out to consider the state of the Marvel empire: Phase 2, Agents of SHIELD, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the NetFlix original series announcement, all suggest a franchise in its prime. So what's going wrong?