Elitist Bastards: The Good, The Bad and the Perfunctor­y

In this week’s podcast: Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther discuss new films Toy Story 3, Mother And Child, Jonah Hex and The Good, the Bad, the Weird; get chatty about the merits of Brian De Palma’s classic musical horror parody The Phantom of the Paradise and the often-overlooked Francis Ford Coppola drama Tetro; and speculate on upcoming releases Grown Ups and Knight and Day.

Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies: The Unbearable Lightness of the A-Team

This week, Hanke and Souther: share their views on The Karate Kid, The A-Team, The Secret in Their Eyes, Please Give and Survival of the Dead; explain why The Sentinel isn’t as gory as you may have heard; make the case for the classic Howard Hawks comedy The Twentieth Century; and express a deflated optimism about soon-to-open flicks Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex.

Elitist Bastards: Of Marmaduke And The Gorgon

his week, Asheville’s most elite of film reviewers: discuss Marmaduke, Splice, The Killers, Get Him to the Greek and Casino Jack and the United States of Money; exchange thoughts on the Asheville Film Society screening of Woody Allen’s Manhattan; delight in the dated effects of the Hammer horror flick The Gorgon; consider a reader question about directors whose recent work have earned them a fresh look; and consider soon-to-be-released films The A-Team, The Karate Kid and The Secret In Their Eyes.