Exciting times here at Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd: hot on the heels of our recent special episode we have another one for you. Our special guest making their return to the pod is actor, stunt performer, fight choreographer and all round gent Jamie B Chambers. Jamie is back to discuss his new film the dark action-horror I Am Rage. Jamie gives us the run down on the making of his new film, what to expect and some great stories from his time on a range of...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 7
Issue 41 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, where the Adamsons discuss a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we mark the recent passing of legendary director William Friedkin with a retrospective on his films. The other instalments of this month's episode are already available to download as well as a special interview with Mitch from new film discussion channel Primetime Mitch.
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 6
An extra special episode of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. Our guest is Mitch from Primetime Mitch, a brand new video channel dedicated to discussing your favourite crowd-pleasing films. Mitch talks about what you can expect from his shows, as well as his own movie watching life, and kindly agreed to nominate some films that fit our usual feature categories of Classic, Hidden Gem, Remake Hatewatch and a remake he'd like to see. The first two instalments of our latest ...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 5
Issue 41 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with our regular features, which this month have a connecting theme of apocalyptic films. Our Classics and Recommended feature is the legendary Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker; our Hidden Gem is Take Shelter; The One That Got Away looks at David Lynch's decades-long attempts to make Ronnie Rocket; our Remake Hatewatch is 2007's I Am Legend; and finally we ask whether Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome needs to be remade to get it...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 4
The Adamsons bring you the latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This first instalment is Double Reel Monthly, with news, a look at new releases coming our way and reviews of new films Scrapper, The Equalizer 3, Barbie (again) and They Cloned Tyrone. We also bring you the fiendish Penalty Shootout Film Quiz and the latest in our year long film projects The Cronenberg Institute with Maps to the Stars, and Legal Age of Consent with Leaving Las Vegas. Next week ...
Sep 25, 2023•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 3
In case you weren't aware James and James do another podcast, The Adamsons Versus, in which we take an offbeat look at non film related topics. We're sharing our latest episode on this feed to give you a chance to listen to it - hope you enjoy it. In this episode we talk about the good, bad, scary and funny sides of AI, before rambling off onto other topics and ending with our regular look at what Florida Man has been up to. The rest of our episodes are available on the Adamsons Versus feed....
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 2
Issue 40 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with a long chat in which the Adamsons offer to fix all of Hollywood's problems for them. Pitch Me A Blockbuster is our shot at suggesting some great films the studios could make to get them out of their current malaise. We throw out ideas, see if they'll work and indulge in some fantasy casting. Parts one and two of this issue are already available - Double Reel Monthly and the Features.
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 42 min
Issue 40 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with our regular Features episode. In our Classics and Recommended feature we look at the hugely influential 50s western Rio Bravo; our Hidden Gem is Tom Cruise's comparatively underseen American Made; The One That Got Away looks at British auteur John Boorman's failed attempt to make a live action version of Lord of the Rings in the 1970s; our Remake Hatewatch demolishes the execrable 2011 version of Conan the Barba...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Issue 40 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd starts here! As usual we're releasing it in three parts through the month to keep your feed fed regularly, and we begin with Double Reel Monthly. It's a bumper episode thanks to a long discussion on Oppenheimer, as well as our usual look at news, new releases, reviews of other new films including Barbie and Heart of Stone and the fiendish Penalty Shootout Film Quiz. We finish with our year-long projects Legal Cage of Consent i...
Aug 25, 2023•2 hr 20 min
Issue 39 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, in which the Adamsons tackle a topic from the film world in more detail. This month it's how casting affects a film and how different some of your favourite films would have been if the original choice had been cast. Sometimes it's a fascinating Sliding Doors moment; or it just proves what James (no, the other one) says, that often filmmakers are lucky they didn't get what they wanted. The ...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Issue 39 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with our regular features, all of which feature horror or disturbed characters. Our Classics and Recommended feature is the hit South Korean psychological chiller A Tale of Two Sisters; the Hidden Gem is Peter Jackson's horror comedy The Frighteners; The One That Got Away tells the story of Joe Carnahan's unrealised project White Jazz; the Remake Hatewatch lays into the insipid 2005 version of The Fog - and in our bo...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Issue 39 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd is here! As usual we release it in three parts, released a week at at time to keep your feed fed through the month. We start with Double Reel Monthly, including news, a look at new releases, reviews of new films Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse and (deep breath) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, our fiendishly difficult Penalty Shootout Film Quiz and the latest films in our annual projects The Cronenberg Institute an...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Episode 38 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with our Big Conversation. In keeping this this issue's theme of animated films we look at the Golden Age of Animation. This phrase used to be applied to the early Disney Classics from Snow White to the Jungle Book, but we're here to argue that the Golden Age of Animation started with the Little Mermaid in 1989 - or with Toy Story in 1995. James and James aren't 100% agreed on that. But they are agreed that the new...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Episode 38 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the regular Features and this month's animation theme. Our Classics and Recommended film is 1988's anime masterpiece Akira; the Hidden Gem is the Iron Giant which became a family favourite but was hardly seen on its theatrical release; the One That Got Away is the story of how A Princess Of Mars nearly became the first ever animated feature film; the Remake Hatewatch is of the execrable 1992 version of Tom and...
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr 33 min
The Adamsons are back with Issue 38 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This part one of three, Double Reel Monthly, with news, a look at new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and the compelling and incredibly complicated Penalty Shootout Film Quiz. We also check in on our film resolutions for 2023, in which we each watch a selection of films as part of annual projects. For James (no the other one) it's Legal Age of Consent, where he watches a Nic Cage film p...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Issue 37 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, where we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we discuss film trilogies, including what qualifies a film as a trilogy (is it still a trilogy if they make a fourth film?). We look at some of the best and worst examples and wonder if they're still a thing in the age of streaming prestige TV shows. The previous parts of this issue are out now, including Double Reel Mon...
Jun 07, 2023•53 min
Issue 37 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd, and this week it's the Features, our regular discussions to enrich your film watching and help you escape the confines of the algorithm. Our Classics and Recommended feature is Drive, Nicholas Winding Refn's tribute to the characters of the 70s and styles of the 80s. Our Hidden Gem is the underrated and underseen Vietnam War film Casualties of War. In The One that Got Away we discuss how John Carpenter almost made the definit...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 31 min
The Adamsons are back and so is the May 2023 issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The first part is Double Reel with news, a look at new releases, reviews of new films and our 12 month film projects. This month we review new films The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Boston Strangler and Ghosted. We also bring you our Penalty Shootout Film Quiz where the loser has to watch a film they're going to absolutely hate. This month's visit to th...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 31 min
The Adamsons bring you the third part of the latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the Big Conversation, in which we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we ask who we think are the most overrated directors, and what makes a director overrated? The previous parts of Episode 36 are already out as well, including Double Reel Monthly where we bring you news, reviews of new films, a penalty shootout film quiz and our annual projec...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min
The second part of this month's edition of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The Adamsons bring you their regular features, including: Classics and Recommended: we finally get round to watching Spike Lee's 25th Hour; Hidden Gem, where we tell you why should get round to watching the underrated Matchstick Men; The One That Got Away, concerning Elizabeth director Shekar Kapur's twenty year quest to make the Indian cyberpunk sci fi epic Paani; And the Remake Hatewatch, wher...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 29 min
The Adamsons are back with another edition of the monthly podcast magazine for the discerning film nerd. We deliver the pod in three parts and this is the first, Double Reel Monthly. In the next hour and a bit we aim to set you up for the next four weeks of film watching with news, new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and more besides. As always our aim is to help you escape the confines of the Algorithm and watch something new or different. Coming up: - A look at some recent news he...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 18 min
The third part of this month's edition of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is our Big Conversation in which we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail, and since it's that time of year we're having a chat about the Oscars. We recap the latest ceremony, and how it compare's to last year's scandalous show, we talk about winners and losers and snubs, and we imagine what the future Oscars awards show would be like as a more multiplatform future b...
Apr 08, 2023•1 hr 28 min
The Adamsons are back with the March Edition of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the second part including our regular features carefully picked out just for you. Our Classics and Recommended feature is Michael Clayton, the Oscar-winning legal thriller starring George Clooney and Tilda Swinton; The Hidden Gem is After Hours, Scorsese's lesser known dark comedy from the 1980s; The One That Got Away is the tale of Steven Spielberg's alien invasion thriller Night S...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 20 min
The Adamsons bring you the latest edition of their monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the first of three parts, aiming to set you up for your month in film and find you something to watch that the mighty algorithm might not have picked out for you. Coming up in this issue: Latest news and highlights of new releases arriving in cinemas this month; Penalty Shootout Film Quiz; Reviews of new films Cocaine Bear, Creed III and Luther: The Fallen Sun, and look back at award...
Mar 25, 2023•1 hr 16 min
The Adamsons conclude episode 34 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd with the Big Conversation. This is where we get our teeth into a topic from the world of film in more detail and this month we look at who we think are the best filmmakers working today. All such lists are entirely subjective, and ours is made up of our favourite directors, with a natural bias towards those whose films we've seen the most. Our long list (in no particular order) consists of: Lynne Ramsay...
Mar 11, 2023•1 hr 34 min
Issue 34 of the monthly magazine podcast the discerning film nerd continues, with the second weekly drop of our top film content. This week it's our regular features including: Classics and Recommended: James (no the other one) finally gets round to watching Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri having been put off for years by a previous bad experience with this director's work; Hidden Gem: We remind people that Tony Scott and Denzel Washington did another collaboration, the lesser known but...
Mar 04, 2023•1 hr 13 min
The Adamsons are back for February 2023 with a fresh format for the premier monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the first part of this month's issue, Double Reel Monthly. We bring you news, a look at upcoming new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and how we're keeping up our New Year's resolutions for this year. James and James review new films Babylon and The Pale Blue Eye, Oscar contender All Quiet on the Western Front and look back at recent hits Top Gun:...
Feb 25, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Reel 2 of the monthly magazine style podcast for the discerning film nerd. Our Big Conversation this month concerns the 2nd Annual Double Reel awards, for excellence and otherwise in the world of film. All the big contenders are discussed and chosen, and in a possible first in the history of film, a major award is decided upon by two dogs.
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 19 min
The Adamsons get 2023 off to a flying start with the latest episode of the monthly magazine style podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is Reel 1 of the podcast packed with news, reviews and our regular features to keep you busy in the depths of winter. Included in our features: Reviews of new films including Avatar The Way of Water and Glass Onion; A new year long film project at the Cronenberg Institute, starting with 1975's Shivers; Classics and Recommended Feature Green Room; Hidden Gem...
Jan 25, 2023•2 hr 2 min
A special anthology episode for our year long project featuring all the films directed by the great Stanley Kubrick. Each month we've been watching and discussing his films from his low budget debut Fear and Desire to his notorious final film Eyes Wide Shut. We've collected all the discussions of his films that were originally featured on our regular monthly episodes, into a single mighty episode for you to binge. Full list of films: Fear and Desire Killer's Kiss The Killing Paths of Glory Spart...
Dec 28, 2022•2 hr 18 min
