There's been a lot of critical love for Logan, a final gritty outing for Hugh Jackman as everyone's favourite growly mutant. Film Chat, however, spends 15 minutes slating it because it features no references to the 1990s X-Men animated cartoon series. Where is Morph??Danny also reviews Paul Verhoeven's Elle, which he describes repeatedly as "an electric piece of cinema" in an obvious and shameless attempt to get quoted on the poster. They've all been printed already, Danny!Plus, we try to talk o...
Mar 12, 2017•45 min
Strap yourself in listeners because this bumper edition of Film Chat is longer than fucking Leonard Cohen song (R.I.P).This week Sam reviews two films which are adaptations of plays. First up is La La Land!...... Sorry I mean Fences, Denzel Washington's adaptation of the Pultizer prize winner play by August Wilson. Then he casts his discerning eye on La La Land!....Sorry I mean It's Only The End Of The World, the latest film by director and child, Xavier Dolan. Meanwhile Danny continues his ques...
Mar 05, 2017•55 min
A veritable bevy of reviews this time! Danny delves into 20th Century Women, director Mike Mills' tribute to his mother and sisters, and music documentary We Are X, which charts the terrifying lows, dizzying highs, and creamy middles of Japan's foremost prog metal band. Sam just wanted to see a dude shoot some dudes, so he went to check out hip thriller sequel John Wick: Chapter 2.Plus! We chat about the Oscars, in a discussion that's going to seem pretty darn irrelevant if you listen to this ep...
Feb 26, 2017•53 min
This week we review Taxi Driver the classic film about the iconic loner, Travis Bickle. Then we review what would quite possibly be Travis Bickle's least favourite film, the universally acclaimed Moonlight. We also try and get our heads round the news of the Toni Erdmann remake, confess our weird movie crushes and examine the filmography of one of modern cinema's greatest storytellers, Steve Bannon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 18, 2017•55 min
This week, we review Alice Lowe's revenge thriller Prevenge and declare pregnancy to be "weird", and Sam tries to say smart things about Kirsten Johnson's "woman with a movie camera" documentary Cameraperson.We also wonder what esoteric collection of objects Mica Levi will use for her next film score, get excited about the prospect of a David Bowie art-crime musical, and suggest some killer lines for Stephen Fry to use at tonight's BAFTA ceremony. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Feb 12, 2017•43 min
On this week's episode Danny catches up with T2:Trainspotting the belated sequel to the era defining classic. Did the film make him as angry as Begbie? As regretful as Spud? Or as happy as... err actually everyone is a bit miserable in the film.Then he and Sam join forces to review festival darling Toni Erdmann. I don't want to pre-empt the review but lets just say it's one of the best 2hr 40min Germany comedies of the year.....so far. PLUS we wonder whether Michael Bay is man to take down Trump...
Feb 05, 2017•46 min
The relentlessly upbeat Film Chat duo dive headfirst into some of the doomiest and gloomiest films currently on release. Rebecca Hall plays a depressed newsreader in Christine, Casey Affleck an unhappy janitor in Manchester By The Sea, and Natalie Portman a grieving First Lady in Jackie. Everyone is having a tough time of it -- except for cinema-goers of course, as all these films are good.PLUS! We take a look at the Academy Award nominations and decide that #OscarsStillTooWhite, a long-delayed ...
Jan 29, 2017•52 min
Featuring La La Land, a film for which its star Ryan Gosling spent months learning Jazz piano and Lion, a film for which its star Dev Patel spent months growing a beard.We also examine whether using cutting age CGI to de age De Niro for an upcoming film is a bad idea or a really bad idea, postulate which film would be best to show a football team before a match and pitch a radical hard sci-fi take on What Women Want. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 22, 2017•48 min
Happy New Year folks!! Brimming with optimism for the year ahead, we skip and gambol our way through a chortlesome review of Martin Scorsese's Catholic torture drama Silence, a 2.5 hour meditation on suffering and isolation that left us both with a spring in our steps. Also! One of Sam's old reviews gets a subtle makeover, we ask what the hell is wrong with Ryan Gosling, and Danny grills Sam with an Obama-themed film quiz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 14, 2017•35 min
It's the Film Chat Christmas special!! Third time round and it's already widely considered a seasonal staple, as essential as Ray Winstone’s Televised Eggnog Festival. AND it's an extra special special this year as it coincides with our 100th episode, a major milestone and a testament to our dedication to the sounds of our own voices. Armed with mince pies and cava, we look back over the year, discuss our listeners’ faves and worsties, hear from some legendary directors, and attempt some quickfi...
Dec 25, 2016•52 min
Have you ever asked yourself any of the following questions:1. What are better X-Wings or the wings of an eagle? 2. What is more exciting, watching a 13 year old girl steal a baby eagle from a nest on mountainside or watching a fully grown woman steal the plans to the death star? 3. What is a cooler name, Jyn Erso or Aishol-pan?4. What is a better film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or The Eagle Huntress ( A documentary about the 1st female eagle hunter)?If the answer to any those was yes, then th...
Dec 20, 2016•47 min
This week, we review a pair of movies about race, violence and oppression in America — its history in the case of Nate Parker’s rousing historical epic The Birth of a Nation, and its legacy in the case of Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, equal parts bawdy battle of the sexes and anguished cry for peace. Plus Danny lets us know what he made of Snowden, Oliver Stone’s Hollywoodified recounting of the adventures of swashbuckling dork Edward Snowden.With the help of Film Chat pal Dougal MacQueen, we also discus...
Dec 12, 2016•51 min
It's a a diverse week on film chat as we discuss 3 films of disparate genres, tones, languages and quality. Firstly Danny reviews A United Kingdom a film which indulges David Oyelowo's two favourite pastimes, namely; giving inspiring speeches and crying. Coincidentally watching the film allowed Danny's to indulge in two of his favourite past times, namely; watching films and talking about them at length.Then they both review The Wailing a Korean horror film which generated numerous reactions fro...
Dec 07, 2016•48 min
Harry Potter is back! At least, in franchise form. JK Rowling and director David Yates have extended the cinematic Potterverse by just a smidge with Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, a Hogwarts textbook turned glittering 1920s-set romp. Sam's review will help you decide whether its mix of jolly magical critters, delightfully stereotypical culture clashes, and Nazi analogues is for you.Danny also reviews Paterson, in which rising star Adam Driver fully embraces the spirit of nominative det...
Nov 29, 2016•50 min
This week we review two zoological themed films involving death, betrayal and men of varying attractiveness.First of Danny reviews Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog, a crime film in which Nicholas Cage and Willem Dafoe compete to see who can look more haggard and wearing. Then Sam reviews Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals in which sexy people look sexy while dressed sexily. I hear it's pretty sexy.Plus we discuss the comic book reboot we're all champing at the bit to see and have an exclusive interview wit...
Nov 20, 2016•55 min
This week, we review Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi head-scratcher Arrival, in which humanity is thrown into a tizzy by the sudden appearance of twelve massive, featureless grey shells with aliens inside them. The film acts as a timely plea for global cooperation, although in light of recent events we spent most of it wishing the shells would spray some kind of deadly virus into our atmosphere and put us all out of our misery.Meanwhile, Danny recalls a time of classier would-be tyrants as he reviews ...
Nov 14, 2016•46 min
On this episode Sam reviews Doctor Strange, the latest offering from Marvel in which Benedict Cumberbatch plays a man with a PHD in kicking ass and traversing the astral plane.Meanwhile Danny fills us in on two new release which he originally saw at the London Film Festival. The disarmingly sincere Ethel and Ernest (he went in scornful, he came out tearful) and Werner Herzogs latest doc Lo and Behold, which sees the German Auteur successfully interviewing people weirder than him.Plus they wonder...
Oct 29, 2016•41 min
What would you rather see, Jeremy Corbyn's favourite film or Ian Duncan Smith's least favourite film? Don't worry you don't have to choose you just have to go see I, Daniel Blake - Ken Loach's brilliant, powerful film about the failures of the welfare state. We spent most of the review just crying and applauding, but apparently Katie's edited that out and just kept the bits where we talked.Meanwhile, Danny reviews Queen of Katwe, the Ugandan set drama starring Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo. I...
Oct 23, 2016•42 min
This week Danny learns that being young in America can be a profound, thrilling, dangerous, heartbreaking and uplifting experience if Andrea Arnold's latest film American Honey is anything to go by. While Sam learns that being Black in America sucks if Ava Duvernay's documentary 13th is anything to go by.They also discuss the latest Disney Animations that are being prepped for live action remakes. (Perhaps they could do a live action version of Oliver and Company where they're victorian urchins ...
Oct 16, 2016•45 min
This week, we review a film in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a magical corpse that farts and gets boners — no, not “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” but the whimsical philosophical comedy Swiss Army Man. Danny also tells us many fun Brian De Palma facts he learned watching the eponymous documentary directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. Did you know Brian loves the smell of acorns? Interesting.Plus, we reaffirm our performative wokeness with a discussion about Tim Burton, Star Wa...
Oct 09, 2016•41 min
THIS week Danny reviews The Magnificent Seven, the seventh instalment in the Magnificent series. Will it be up there with Magnificent 3: Blinkey Did It! or will it be even worse that Magnificent 4: Corn For All? MEANWHILE Sam reviews Hell or High Water the acclaimed neo western which has more gruff men in it than Clint Eastwood can shake an invisible chair at.THEN they both review The Girl With All The Gifts an inventive British post apocalyptic zombie thriller/road movie/morality play. Yes, ano...
Oct 02, 2016•1 hr 4 min
On this week's episode, reviews of two life-affirming films guaranteed to warm your cockles and tickle your funny bone, leaving you hot and discomforted. Danny went to see long-awaited threequel Bridget Jones's Baby and connected with it so deeply he now self-identifies as a pregnant woman; and Sam sought out Kiwi indie comedy Hunt For The Wilderpeople, which made such an impression on him he has abandoned civilisation and now lives in a dirt pit deep in the New Zealand bush.Plus! Jared Leto tak...
Sep 25, 2016•45 min
All the awesome people are dying, the economy has tanked, hate crime is on the rise and Bake Off is leaving the Beeb.....but Film Chat is....very late BUT still here.We try and divert you from this cluster fuck of a year by discussing whether Will Smith's latest film will be his most powerful yet, whether Woody Allen's new film is his laziest yet and whether Johnny Depp is capable of playing man who isn't drunk or weird. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 21, 2016•47 min
This week, a triple whammy of reviews! Childhood of a Leader, which lusty teens and Danny flocked to at the promise of some brooding, dreamy R-Patz action, only to discover to their dismay it's a historical psychodrama about a mop-haired fascist boy; Brotherhood, the final part of Noel Clarke’s Hood trilogy in which poor Noel gets pulled back in just when he thought he was out; and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Lonely Island’s parody of megastardom featuring more man-baby silliness and...
Sep 11, 2016•48 min
This week we review the latest Pedro Almodovar film Julieta, a film that features everything we like in films, namely; sexy women, sexy men, sexy women having sex with the sexy men and life shattering grief.We also investigate how many chickens have to die for Dwayne Johnson to maintain his hugeness, give our sympathies to Chinese audiences forced to watch the latest Bourne film in 3D and wonder how it possibly came to pass that Shaun the Sheep: The Movie wasn't voted the best film of the 21st c...
Sep 04, 2016•49 min
This week we enter a magical world of giants, dreams, sea monsters, fleas, and horny French kings, as we review a pair of cinematic fables -- Spielberg's sparkling Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG and Matteo Garrone's dark fairy-tale anthology Tale of Tales.Also! We discuss John Turturro's plans to make his classic "The Jesus" character extra creepy and whether movies are irresponsibly encouraging young people to declare war on that much-maligned demographic, middle-aged white dudes. And we are tre...
Aug 21, 2016•49 min
EPISODE 83 OUT NOW!!This week we review a meticulously made, brilliantly structured, supremely confident and hugely influential film. I'm either referring to Barry Lyndon or Suicide Squad but you'll have to listen to find out.Plus we discuss the news of an upcoming remake of one of Al Pacino's most shouty films and yet another oestrogen laden reboot of a beloved bro franchise.LIKE! SHARE! DOWNLOAD! PLAY! LISTEN! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 14, 2016•53 min
This week on our currently somewhat irregular podcast, we boldly go over colourful space romp Star Trek Beyond, a film bravely acting as if its poorly received predecessor (2013's Star Trek Into Darkness) doesn't exist. We also take a peek at fly-on-the-wall political documentary Weiner, a film about a driven candidate for New York Mayor bravely acting as if public photographs of his penis don't exist.ALSO! Aquaman visits Whole Foods, Guy Pearce comes out with some sick quips, Mrs Brown falls vi...
Aug 10, 2016•54 min
EPISODE 81 OUT NOW!!!It took 9 years for Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass to cook up another instalment of the Bourne Franchise so the 5 day delay in releasing this ep is nothing in comparison.Featuring reviews of Jason Bourne and.....nothing else BUT it does have in depth discussions on all things Comic Con, the possibility of a Terry Pratchett adaptation and the news that Michael Caine has changed his name to something less "terrorist-y".PLAY! DOWNLOAD! SHARE! LIKE! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Aug 03, 2016•42 min
It's women-kicking-butt week on Film Chat! Specifically, ladies are kicking the butts of level 4 ectoplasmic apparitions in Paul Feig's reboot of Ghostbusters, and each others' statuesque butts in Nicolas Winding Refn's delirious The Neon Demon.We also discuss Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer's strange epistolary relationship, get caught up in the world-conquering phenomenon Pokémon Go, and find out what the misogynist haters made of Ghostbusters now that they've actually seen it. Turns ...
Jul 18, 2016•51 min
