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Special guest star Shelagh Rowan-Legg joins us on Day 4 of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012! We discuss Argo, Much Ado About Nothing, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Liar's Autobiography, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, Blancanieves, All That Matters is Past, The Deep, Room 237, Far Out Isn't Far Enough, Spring Breakers, Hotel Transylvania, Hannah Arendt, Fin, and more!

Live from the Toronto International Film Festival 2012! Join us as we grab a bite to eat between shows and discuss the American Beauty live-read, Midnight Madness' Dredd 3D, Peter Mettler's The End of Time, and the nautical goings-on of Kon-Tiki, along with the importance of being in the moment. You will believe two men can order dinner.

We return for our annual preview episode for the Toronto International Film Festival, reading the book so you don't have to. Vanguard! Contemporary World Cinema! Reel to Real! Midnight Madness! We highlight our top picks for the festival, and - somewhat inexplicably - give unsolicited functionality advice to 4 different web sites, including Row Three.

We mourn the passing of Tony Scott and try to track his influence on the world of film, while pondering the return of '80s beefcake with The Expendables and its brethren. Plus, the latest and greatest wrinkles in the TIFF ticket ordering process.

Total Recall and The Bourne Legacy have both underperformed at the summer box office, but are audiences sick of remakes and reboots, or just sick of crappy ones? Plus, is Ben Affleck the man for the Justice League?

Mamo returns to the table and makes it round, essaying such topics as the third Hobbit movie, the recent TIFF '12 announcements, Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation blu-rays. Grab a coffee and join us.

The Dark Knight rises again! Our last show on The Dark Knight Rises dealt necessarily with serious and troubling events offscreen. We return to the topic of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy to uphold and celebrate the vast achievements and influences of this genre-defining enterprise, and to look ahead - to Superman, Man of Steel, Nightwing, and any other thing that might be waiting in the (bat)wings.

It wasn't the show we were expecting to do, but here we are anyway: in the wake of the murders in Colorado, we discuss Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises.

With no big news out of Comic Con yet, we briefly discuss the Hobbit's 48fps woes before diving into an off-the-cuff discussion of suspension of disbelief, haters, and whether we've all just become too cool for movie school, before tying a bow on it with thoughts on Shorts That Are Not Pants, the Shinsedai Film Festival, and all the other soldiers bringing light to the screen out of nothing more than their pursuit of bliss.

Turbo-top-secret Prometheus has landed! Love it or hate it, there's a whole lot to say about it, and arguments to be made for why the empirical narrative of its failure, currently being written all over pop culture, is just... wrong.

We stop en route to Refocus Films' screening of Onur Tukel's Richard's Wedding to catch up on the latest announcements out of Marvel and DC, look back on Snow White and the Huntsman, and look ahead to the long-awaited Prometheus.

We circle back in 360 Screenings (previously featured on the podcast here) and discuss our reactions to the inaugural event, where we stepped into the world of Ghost. Plus, the summer 2012 box office shenanigans just keep coming: Men In Black 3 underpeforms, and G.I. Joe 2 clears clean out of the year altogether. Battleship might've sunk, but was Titanic the year's most significant success?

The Avengers keep on avenging, obliterating expectations and creating a perfect storm of box office success. Meanwhile, Dark Shadows, What To Expect, and Battleship have all come and gone, filling May with bombs and clearing the way for bigger fights in June and July. Whither Spider-Man? Whither the Dark Knight? Plus, Dan Harmon's TV clustercuss, all on tonight's brand new Mamo!

THE AVENGERS! Iron Man! Thor! Captain America! The Incredible Hulk! Matt Brown! Matt Price! Not really. But we take the opportunity - having been talking about this film in some form or another in more podcast episodes than any other project in Mamo history - to have a big conversation about everything that Joss Whedon (and Marvel Studios) did right in finally assembling the Avengers... plus, we circle back on Cabin in the Woods, and tie off our previous non-spoiler conversation with some genuine observations about the strengths of the film. Spoiler warning throughout: we heartily recommend seeing BOTH The Avengers and Cabin in the Woods before listening to this show.

We wrap up our Ebertfest 2012 coverage from the Valois Cafeteria in Chicago IL, with an in-depth chat about A Separation, Take Shelter, Higher Ground, and the meaning of faith in the universe. Special bonus: surreptitious Q&A audio clips!