Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit (SVU) – Details, episodes & analysis

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 about in their first episode (yup) back in 2012, they take a look at a movie that owes a lot to that documentary — Lonely Island's POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING. Then they devote the rest of the podcast to answering listener questions about everything from the future of the film industry to THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE. Thanks for listening, everyone! Hosts' Choice Review: "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" Useful Links: Older Filmspotting: SVU Episodes Remnants of the IFC News Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, Matt and Alison take a look at the 1990 TV miniseries version of Stephen King's IT, now available on Hulu, and then recommend some other clown movies, scary and otherwise, available to rent or stream right now. They also share some important (and sad) news about the future of the podcast. Listener's Choice Review: "It" (1990) Queue Shots: Clown Movies Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Streaming Releases Alison: The Young Karl Marx / A Star Is Born / Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael Matt: Lady Bird / Yellow Submarine / Paramount2 Listener Recommendations 1 Random Film From Our Netflix "My Lists" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 longer looks at two recent acquisitions — the Hungarian Best Foreign Language Film nominee ON BODY AND SOUL and the studio-discard-turned-Super-Bowl-stunt movie THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX. Listener's Choice Review: "On Body and Soul" A Special Occasion Second Longer Review: "The Cloverfield Paradox" Behind the 8-Ball:  3 New Streaming Releases 2 Listener Recommendations 1 Random Film From Our Netflix "My Lists"  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts! On the new SVU, Matt and Alison recommend some of the craziest, weirdest, most WTF movies you can watch at home right now. Plus, their Listeners Choice Review of the trippy sci-fi/horror oddity THE VISITOR. Then they will use their mind powers to unleash devil birds on one another. You don't want to miss this one. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Night Moves The Zero Theorem Starred Up Queue Shots: WTF Movies Even Dwarfs Started Small The Apple Dune House Listeners Choice Review The Visitor Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: The Spanish Prisoner The Unknown Known Zero Hour! Alison: The Cosmopolitans Blue Ruin Mars 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: A Touch Of Sin Side Effected Alison: The One I Love Rectify: Season 1 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Wish You Were Here Alison: Adore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, listening to the new Filmspotting: SVU, as Matt and Alison recommend some movies set in small towns. Plus, a review of the Netflix miniseries SOUTHCLIFFE from "Martha Marcy May Marlene" director Sean Durkin. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Coherence Locke Frankie & Alice Queue Shots: Small Town Movies Show Me Love Bernie Waiting For Guffman Shadow Of A Doubt Listeners Choice Review Southcliffe Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: A Hard Day's Night Mud Midnight Run Alison: You're Next Nancy, Please Lyle 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: The Paradise Lost Trilogy Pilgrim Song Alison: Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Ping Pong: The Animation 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Basquiat Alison: Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Clarice... and SVU listeners with other names. Matt and Alison review Michael Mann's MANHUNTER, and go film-by-film (and TV show) through the Hannibal Lecter franchise, picking their favorites that you can rent or stream at home while considering why the series has aged better than a nice chianti. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surely they can't be serious: a whole episode about spoofs? They are serious--and don't call them Shirley. They're Matt and Alison, and on the latest episode of Filmspotting: SVU, they're recommending some spoofs you can watch at home right now, and reviewing the new David Wain rom-com spoof THEY CAME TOGETHER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scarlett Johansson prowls the streets of Scotland looking for men in UNDER THE SKIN, this week's Listeners Choice pick on Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit. After reviewing the latest film from director Jonathan Glazer (and vowing never to get into a creepy white van with Scarlett Johansson), Matt and Alison also recommend some other movies about aliens walking among us on Earth you can rent or stream at home right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Put down that prison shank you made out of a toothbrush! The new episode of Streaming Video Unit is here! Matt and Alison review the second season of Netflix's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK and recommend some other recent television shows you can rent or stream at home (or in jail) right now. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Ernest & Celestine The Final Member Hellion Queue Shots: Recent TV Recommendations Fargo Last Week Tonight Terriers Review Listeners Choice Review Orange Is The New Black: Season 2 Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: World War Z The Girlfriend Experience Conan O'Brien Can't Stop Alison: Burning Bush The Missing Picture Ishtar 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: The Intouchables  The Trouble With Harry As The Palaces Burn Alison: Bob's Burgers The Borgias Robinson Crusoe On Mars 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Frozen Ground Alison: Drinking Buddies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You just call out Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit's name, and you know wherever you are, we will be there (assuming you've downloaded the podcast to your smartphone). On the new SVU, Matt and Allison review THE BIG CHILL and recommend some other movies about friendship you can rent or stream at home. Plus, Alison's report on the recent Cannes Film Festival. Filmspotting: SVU is brought to you by Movies On Demand On Cable. Opening Break Tim's Vermeer Ping Pong Summer The Pretty One Queue Shots: Friendship Movies The Wood Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Kings Of Summer Sideways Listeners Choice Review The Big Chill Behind the 8-Ball: 3 New Releases Matt: Annie Hall Escape From Tomorrow Birth Of The Living Dead Alison: Big Bad Wolves My Own Love Song God Loves Uganda 2 Listener Recommendations Matt: Fatal Attraction The Rocket Alison: Ravenous Show Me Love 1 Random Film From Our Queues Matt: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 Alison: I Killed My Mother Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices