It’s Hallowe’en but we’re dispensing with horror and opting for some time with Hollywood heavy-weights with reviews for Fury (Brad Pitt), Interstellar (Matthew McConaughey) and Nightcrawler (Jake Gyllenhaal). Aside from those People magazine-friendly faces, we’re also looking at The Babadook, ’71 and Gone Girl. Wondering about what’s coming our way in November? We preview The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Imitation Game. As part of our Watch With Spooool series we also tackled two ea...
Oct 31, 2014•54 min•Ep. 23
To mark the IFI’s Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival , our latest Spooool.ie podcast saw us looking at two classic documentaries, Hoop Dreams which is celebrating its 20th anniversary next month, and Errol Morris’ seminal work The Thin Blue Line. There’ll be details of our next Watch With Spooool.ie here on the site later. We also go crazy with new reviews tackling The Equalizer, I Origins, Maps to the Stars, The Riot Club, Ida, Wish I Was Here, Pride and The Guest. And as always we look...
Sep 30, 2014•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 22
It’s September and a nation of boys and girls are heading back to school. To celebrate we had another Watch With Spoool viewing for the 1968 British boarding school drama If…. and Michelle Pfeiffer-starring Dangerous Minds from 1995. We stick with the education theme and honour Robin Williams with our Scene It selection for the month which comes from Dead Poets Society . We’re also reviewing Obvious Child, Million Dollar Arm, Lucy, Two Days One Night and Mood Indigo and previewing some of the be...
Aug 31, 2014•49 min•Ep. 21
It’s the summer time! What better way to celebrate than to a tackle your nearest fire hydrant with a crowbar and cool off with the latest Spooool.ie podcast on your (hopefully waterproof) headphones. This month we’re celebrating the looking at two films considered modern classics as Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing are on the slate in the latest Watch With Spooool. We’re also reviewing Guardians of the Galaxy, Boyhood, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and J...
Jul 28, 2014•46 min•Ep. 20
Our June/July podcast comes slap bang in the middle of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but we’re doing our best to pretend it isn’t happening with our reactions to Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Cold in July, The Fault in Our Stars, 22 Jump Street and A Million Ways to Die in the West . At the 26 minute mark we’re also dipping into the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh programme to see what treats lie in store out west, including Patrick’s Day, Get Up and Go, Glassland, Begin Again and th...
Jun 30, 2014•47 min•Ep. 19
This month we’re going all low brow and ordering a kilogram of buttered popcorn and a tankard of Coca-Cola to do our now annual summer blockbuster discussion. Up for discussion are reviews and reaction to X-Men: Days of Future Past , Edge of Tomorrow and Godzilla and a look ahead to Transformers: Age of Extinction, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Guardians of the Galaxy. We also briefly put the blockbusters to one side to highlight two great films from May – A Touch of Sin and Blue Ruin. With...
May 29, 2014•52 min•Ep. 18
The May podcast takes a special look at Irish movies in 2014 as we try to work out whether we’re living in some sort of golden age or if it’s just coincidence that there are so many popular home-grown titles at the moment. Up for discussion are (deep breath)… Frank, Calvary, Run & Jump, The Stag, Living in a Coded Land, The Sea, Last Days on Mars, Patrick’s Day, Out of Here and Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie. Following on from this we relay some of the talking points of the IFI’s Spotlight event ...
Apr 29, 2014•43 min•Ep. 17
The March/April podcast… We tackle Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and we go back into the archives to watch the David Bowie’starring cult classic The Man Who Fell to Earth , featuring the thin white duke’s mickey March movie reviews of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Muppets Most Wanted, The Double, Starred Up and The Grand Budapest Hotel . April movie previews of Noah and The Raid II: Berandal Preview of a few upcoming Sci-Fi films that are due our way this year A nod to Stanley Kubrick’...
Mar 31, 2014•58 min•Ep. 16
In the latest Spooool.ie podcast, Nigel and Páraic are on the couch to talk about… The 2014 Oscars! Hollywood’s big night is this Sunday and we run through EVERY SINGLE FEATURE NOMINEE, share awesome trivia, recollect some Oscar memories from the past and make our final picks for the big categories. Highlights from the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival including Under the Skin, The Past, Circles and Only Lovers Left Alive. February movie moments from The LEGO Movie and Robocop. March pi...
Feb 28, 2014•38 min•Ep. 15
The first podcast of 2014 and number 14 in our series features… A preview of the forthcoming Jameson Dublin International Film Festival , including Calvary (pictured above), Stag, The Double, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Gold A yack about the big Oscar contenders that came at us week after week this January – American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis Nigel reviews Peter Berg and Taylor Kitsch’s follow-up to Battleship – Lone Surivor Páraic’s practice paid...
Jan 31, 2014•50 min•Ep. 14
Listen to the review of the year podcast using the player above or on soundcloud. The real reason we decided to do a Spooool top five last year and have our own separate lists was because there was no way Argo would be coming top of Páraic’s poll nor The Master at the top of Nigel’s list. Also we wanted to create a list that would show what best represents what we, as a website run by two people, like and look for in a film. This year there was very little argument about what we would include, p...
Dec 19, 2013•52 min•Ep. 13
The penultimate Spooool.ie podcast sees us looking back at November’s most notable releases including Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Parkland, The Butler, Drinking Buddies, The Counsellor and The Broken Circle Breakdown. We’ve also got info on the Christmas film screenings in and around Dublin this December (Jimmy Stewart gets a look in) and preview a few of the regular releases coming our way over the next few weeks. We’ve also got… Music from Lykke Li and The Nati...
Nov 30, 2013•45 min•Ep. 12
A few weeks ago we shared our first Watch With Spooool feature which saw us tackling three horror classics – Rosemary’s Baby (1968), The Haunting (1963) and Suspiria (1977). In this latest edition of the podcast we spent twenty minutes yacking about them and listening to their creepy scores. Also up for discussion this month is the Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass collaberation Captain Phillips and Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd’s understated 1980s Texas roadmen film Prince Avalanche. There’s even a fe...
Oct 29, 2013•50 min•Ep. 11
It’s a bit of a double celebration alert in Spooool.ie Towers as we’re ten episodes in and have reached double figures AND we have just received news of our nomination for Best Podcast in the 2013 Irish Blog Awards . In this month’s podcast we’re previewing all the big winter films which are now playing festivals and likely to shape the awards conversation in the coming months, including Mr. Clooney in Gravity , Mr. Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave and Mr. Hanks in Captain Philips . We also look b...
Sep 30, 2013•48 min•Ep. 10
We kick things off this month with a BACK TO SCHOOL special discussing our favourite teachers from the movies. In part two we look back on the month that just was with discussion of The Way Way Back, Elysium, The Conjuring, What Maisie Knew, Only God Forgives, Upstream Colour, The Heat and *shock horror* some unanimous love and respect for The Lone Ranger . In part three we read out some of our listeners’ Jurassic Park memories and give away a Spooool.ie mug to one lucky winner, we preview Ain’t...
Aug 31, 2013•53 min•Ep. 9
Shush! I’m listening to Podcast #8! We figured what better time than now to hop in a time machine and see what films were rocking our world exactly a decade ago. X2, The Hulk, Tomb Raider and the original Pirates of the Caribbean are some of the titles picked apart in the first part of the podcast. In part two we look back on the month that just was with discussion of Frances Ha, The World’s End, Pacific Rim, The Wolverine, The Act of Killing and Life’s a Breeze. Then finally in part three we ch...
Jul 31, 2013•58 min•Ep. 8
We’ve reached the halfway point in the year so are doing a quick look back at the best and worst of the year so far, will many of the films still be around by the time of the end of the year lists? We also reveal the big films we’re looking forward to during the year. We take a few minutes to chat about June’s notable films including World War Z, Man of Steel, Citadel, This is the End, The East, Byzantium and The Purge . And lastly a look ahead to what delights lie in store in July including Fra...
Jun 29, 2013•52 min•Ep. 7
It’s the height of summer and what better way to celebrate than with us yapping away in your ears while you’re at the beach. We’ve finally sorted out our iTunes act, so you can find us there by searching for spooool or clicking here . In this latest end-of-month podcast we chat about Fast & Furious 6, Mud , Simon Killer, Star Trek , The Great Gatsby and My Neighbour Totoro . We also chat about the 70mm season at the IFI and preview the upcoming films The Iceman and Before Midnight . Páraic i...
May 31, 2013•35 min•Ep. 6
Last day of the month, so as always we say… have a podcast! In part one we review three big American movies ( Iron Man 3 , Olympus Has Fallen and Evil Dead ), part two sees us taking a special look at the current state of Irish cinema with a particular focus on Mark O’Connor’s King of the Travellers . And we wrap things up with a look ahead to Jeff Nichols’ Mud and Pedro Almodovar ‘s I’m So Excited! . As always feel free to add your comments/suggestions here on the page or on the soundcloud play...
Apr 30, 2013•43 min•Ep. 5
It’s the end of the month, must be Spooool.ie podcast time! In part 1 we look at some of the films from the month of March that left an impression including Trance , Good Vibrations and Compliance . In part 2 (starting at the 15 minute mark) we take a few moments to consider two classics – Vertigo and Life of Brian, one of which is very relevant to this weekend. And finally part 3 (from 25:00) has us peering ahead toward the coming month to talk about The Place Beyond the Pines and Evil Dead . F...
Mar 30, 2013•37 min•Ep. 4
It’s a slightly earlier but also extended podcast for February as we discuss the very important issue of the 2013 Academy Awards. Does Helen Hunt’s forehead deserve a price? What about “Poor Ben Affleck”? Maybe sad Bobby De Niro? Listen in and you’ll also get some top-notch Oscar trivia about Warren Beatty. We also look back on February’s best films (Free Chile! Keanu!) and the worst (John McClane and Judd Apatow should take cover) and suss out what’s going to make an impact in March (it may wel...
Feb 20, 2013•40 min•Ep. 3
Last month we published the first episode of our new podcast series where we yacked uncontrollably about our favourite films of 2012 . This time around we’re looking back on the main films to be released in the past month, previewing JDIFF and peering into our crystal ball to see what catches our eye from the month ahead! Use the player above or click here for a direct link to stream/download . We’ve commented on the soundcloud clip to show chapter points so if you’re in the mood for skipping… t...
Jan 31, 2013•34 min•Ep. 2
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Dec 18, 2012•24 min•Ep. 1
