Do you want to hear our opinions on The Adam Project, The Batman, Turning Red, and Free Guy? How exceptionally fortunate, that's exactly what this podcast covers. It's very much your lucky day. And such great value! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
For varied reasons both personal and geo-political, we're not able to bring you the fresh podcast meat you've come to expect from us this month, our apologies for that. So, we do what we always do in times of trouble and turn to our spirit animal, Jean Claude Van Damme for inspiration. Here is, I think, his every appearance in our podcast, including a very special look at JCVD taken from this podcast's previous incarnation from all the way back in 2009. Apologies for the somewhat inconsistent au...
It has long been said that there is no better time to talk about Gremlins than now, and we are nothing if not slaves to that axiom. So, listen ye now to our various thoughts on Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, or else we'll tamper with your stairlift.
Against all the odds, humanity has survived another month. Celebrate this remarkable milestone by listening to us talks about The King's Man, Bigbug, and The Worst Person in the World.
Now, we don't know quite why we're doing this either, but today we are talking about Hollow Man 2 and Showgirls 2. If you don't want to hear it we entirely understand. But, c'mon, we both know you're intrigued. Give in to the temptation.
Today we turn our attention to Paul Verhoeven, in particular his most famous, Hollywood era works, namely RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man. Are they worth blabbing about? Would you like to know more? Listen in, then.
We start off the new year hoping that it very much doesn't continue in the same vein, as we examine Don't Look Up and The Matrix Resurrections for any redeeming features. Tune in and find out if we identify any!
What better place for drama to accumulate than the formerly smokey dens of iniquity that were casinos? Of course, they're now mostly free of smoke, if not iniquity. We look at two casino adjacent flicks, Croupier and Hard Eight, and see if they roll snake eyes, hit the jackpot, or indeed any other gambling-centric clichés you have to hand.
Our theme for this episode is the con movie, and why not? Join us for a discussion of Il bidone, The Sting, The Spanish Prisoner, Nine Queens, Confidence, and The Brothers Bloom.
While I suppose we should be glad to see the back of 2021, early previews of 2022 don't look all that great. Take your mind off it all by joining us to chat about House of Gucci, Belfast, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Last Duel, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Last Night in Soho.
We transport ourselves to the far-flung future dystopia of three years ago to take in some Rollerball, and an indeterminate post-apocalyptica for a round of The Blood of Heroes, or The Salute of the Jugger if you'd rather. Are either of these sci-fi sports worth purchasing a season ticket for? Tune in and find out!
With Dickie Davies on stand-by, we return to the world of sport to cast a critical eye over Downhill Racer, Any Given Sunday, Warrior, 42, The Way Back, and Schumacher in our continuing effort to find out which sport is best. There's only one way to find out. Listen in!
Another month, another random assortment of films face our terrible judgement. Get out thoughts on Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Ron’s Gone Wrong, Finch, The French Dispatch, and Dune. Appeals for clemency will be denied.
Sometimes you just can't trust the contents of your own head, particularly in these loosely connected films, Repo Men and Source Code. Listen in and see if they are worth inserting into your mindtank.
In this episode we take stock of Shane Meadow's movie output, and see if his examinations of English working class stories and characters have stood the test of time. Listen in to get our takes of varying temperature on Small Time, TwentyFourSeven, A Room for Romeo Brass, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, Dead Man's Shoes, This Is England, Somers Town, and Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee.
No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to listen to us talk about The Chambermaid, Prisoners of the Ghostland, The Protege, Stillwater, and No Time To Die. Get our activated charcoal filtered opinions in our latest podcast episode!
Following on from our last episode on the films of John Huston, we thought we'd change things up with a look at two more John Huston films. This time it's his first, and still one of his most iconic films, The Maltese Falcon, and a rather more obscure outing from over a decade later that's considered a loose parody of that films form, Beat the Devil.
We take a look at a cross-sectional smattering of John Huston's work in todays episode, namely The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The African Queen, The Night of the Iguana, The Man Who Would Be King, and The Dead. Listen in as we brass it out with bags of swank.
We give a thorough examination to The Green Knight, Reminiscence, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and Enforcement in this latest grab-bag-aploosa. Are they worth your time or not worth a dime? Tune in and find out!
Robert Ludlum was a prolific author of primarily Cold War espionage thrillers, and so in a way it's surprising that so few of his works made their way into cinema screens, and the vast bulk of those were part of the The Jason Bourne Imbroglio. In this episode, for no real reason other than a fondness for espionage bunkum and baroque titling, we are skipping over the various TV miniseries and taking a look at two earlier adaptations, 1983's The Osterman Weekend and 1985's The Holcroft Covenant.
We examine what's surely the definitive buddy cop franchise in our latest episode, with a look at Lethal Weapons one through four. Join us and revisit these slices of extra-judicial mayhem!
The bell has tolled for The Suicide Squad, Lost in the Moonlight, Gunpowder Milkshake, Pig, and Jungle Cruise. Let's see which ought to be washed away by the sea, and which should remain involved in mankind.
We investigate six of Austrian director and screenwriter Michael Haneke's outpu, namely Caché, The White Ribbon, Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, Amour, and Happy End. Will our report be positive? Negative? Both? Neither? Tune in and find out!
Some time ago we did a whole episode on time travel films without mentioning Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's Back to the Future series, their bold updating of Oedipus, so today we remedy that oversight and see if the pride of 1985 and its follow-ups live up to their reputations, and their posters. Remember when movie posters were good?
Another month, another batch of films present themselves for judgement. What will we make of Black Widow, Fast & Furious 9, Luca, The Tomorrow War, The Dead Don't Die, and Censor? Tune in and find out!
We take a trip back to the nineties with a look at Ronin and The Rock, two action thrillers notable for having their dialogue punched up by luminaries you may not expect. Do the hold up in the harsh light of 2K21? Tune in and find out!
In this exciting episode we are taking a look at some selected works of Álex de la Iglesia, after a number of stars came into alignment that hinted at him being worthy of further investigation than our brief exposure to him at the EIFF many moons ago. So, we should do that then.
Loaded into this month's arbitrary film review roulette are Wrath of Man, Cruella, and Army of the Dead. Which of them clean up, and which gets swept into the trash? The answer to this confusing, poorly constructed hypothetical can only be found out by listening in! Rien ne va plus.
Can the pupil can match the teacher? We compare and contrast Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and J.J. Abrams' Super 8 in our latest episode. Check it out!
It's an open secret that the podcast slot we nominally refer to as "Compare and Contrast" is normally twisted into a way to cover a couple of films we fancy taking a butchers at, but we do keep a list of a few candidates that are more directly comparable than most. Some of these cover that Hollywood phenomenon where, by coincidence or design, films with closely related subject matter are released mere months apart, like Deep Impact and Armageddon, or Volcano and Dante's Peak, covered in our Disa...
