Why Press Play

With the huge amount of content out there in the world at the moment, it can sometimes be daunting to choose a movie or TV show to enjoy from your giant Netflix queues and DVR boxes full to the brim with stuff you don't know if you can trust not to be a heap of muck. Maybe you only have one chance at a 2 hour chunk of time to watch a film this week. Or you want to get into spending a good few hours with a new TV show or computer game, but you aren't sure if you are making the right choice and you dont want to waste your time! Why Press Play dig up the gems from the world of moving pictures and discuss them and their merits, or lack thereof! We will watch that 5th Season of that show you thought about watching that one time. We will watch that rare movie that your friend insisted you have to watch ironically. We will play that game and give you the heads up on what to expect should you decide to invest all that time in it! So join us and the people who brought you Those Conspiracy Guys, for a journey into obscure pop culture, retro TV shows, the good and bad of the big screen and the small, and all the button bashing you can take.

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Episodes

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

On this episode of Why Press Play we put on the Venetian masks of mystery and explore the last movie or arguably the greatest director of the 20th century; Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut from 1999. Definitely not a feel good Sunday evening movie, this challenging and entirely engrossing vignette into the dark world behind the glitzy facade of the upper echelons of high society will make you question everything you think you know about that side of our world (much less nowadays but this is from...

Dec 25, 2021•1 hr 57 min

Metropolitan (1990)

On this episode of Why Press Play we dust off the martini glasses and put on our patent leather shoes for a night on the town with the finest New York beaus and debutantes in a weird movie from director Whit Stilman and graciously shown to me by Gareth Stack called Metropolitan from 1990. In a nebulous time somewhere between 1950 and 1990 a loosely affiliated group of new rich haute bourgeoise calling themselves a 'Rat Pack' of sorts, are flitting from after-party to after-party in the New York ...

Dec 16, 2017•1 hr 48 min

Robocop (1987)

On this episode of Why Press Play you must come quietly or there will be... trouble as we get on the bullet train to Detroit and heavily pad the street with our old pal Murphy, looking for crime in all the wrong places and revelling in the realistic special effects and bitingly witty dialog inthe company of filmmaker and raconteur Anthony Downes. OCP, a multi national conglomerate has created two new types of law enforcement to quell the rising tide of violent crime sweeping the city in order to...

Nov 23, 2017•1 hr 16 min

Highlander (1986)

On this episode of Why Press Play there can be only one, but you get two; Neil and Gordon Rochford talking about the sword wielding grimy New York action drama Highlander from 1986. Christopher Lambert plays Conor McLeod a Scottish mountain man from over 400 years ago who was blessed (or cursed) with the gift of immortality. After being stabbed by The Kurgen on the field of battle he realises he is special and after extensive training from Juan Vilalobos Ramirez (Sean Connery) he is confident en...

Oct 31, 2017•1 hr 21 min

Coach Carter (2005)

On this episode of Why Press Play I chat with Claire Fox about one of the most watched movies on her roster (and not on purpose). The 'against all odds' 'balls in the hood' basketball story that sees Samuel L Jackson whip a sass mouthed band of raggle taggle ghetto gobshites into a respectable and well trained high school team that respect hard work and discipline. Based on a true story Ken Carter (Jackson) somes back to his old award winning high school basketball team to see if he can impart s...

Oct 30, 2017•1 hr 22 min

Super8 (2011)

On this episode we talk about the modern classic science-fi mystery action movie Super8. This movie gives us all the good early teen movie feels and drags us back to the simpler cinema era of Spielberg, Donner and Reiner films where a gang of kids can get into some crazy adventure and not be apathetic or disaffected about it! This heart warming and bearably schmaltzy film comes from the mind of the man who has all our childhood dreams in his hands these days, JJ Abrams. Arguably his first 'solo'...

Sep 30, 2017•1 hr 28 min

Idiocracy (2006)

On this episode we talk about a potential prediction of the future and a movie with a spooky foreshadowing of a crazy US President with time travel, energy drinks and stunted vocabulary its the 2006 cult movie Idiocracy. Directed by Mike Judge, this movie didnt do well in the box office for various reasons, but smashed DVD sales just 6 short months later. Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) is put into cryostasis as part of a US military experiment with hooker Rita (Maya Rudolph) and they both wake up 500 ...

Sep 10, 2017•1 hr 26 min

Misery (1990)

On this episode we talk about a book adaptation that was an oscar winner and one of the only Stephen King movies that stood the test of time! Starring Kathy Bates and James Caan, this is the story of a writer who got into a car accident and was saved, coincidently enough, by his number one fan; this episode is all about Misery! Paul Sheldon (Caan) has just finished the last novel in his Misery series when his car skids off the road, Annie (bates) serendipitously fins him in a snow bank and nurse...

Aug 23, 2017•1 hr 13 min

The Last Boy Scout (1991)

On this episode I chat with comedian and filmmaker Gary White about the early 90s ferocious football flick The Last Boyscout starring Damon Wayans and in arguably his best performance ever, Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis, at his acting and popularity peak, agreed to do this movie only because of the involvement of Tony Scott but after Willis and producer Joel Silver practically took over production, it was a miracle such a clasic film came out of it. Written originally by Shane Black (but massively ...

Aug 13, 2017•1 hr 39 min

The Dream Team (1989)

On this episode we talk about one of my favourite movies from my youth and a hidden and overshadowed diamond in the late 80s movie rough, The Dream Team. Four mental patients get stuck in New York after an accident left their doctor hospitalised and they are now on the run from the police who think they are guilty of the crime! Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen First play this movie brilliantly with strange and unhinged characters to play with and a sense that anything c...

Aug 04, 2017•1 hr 8 min

Memento (2000)

On this episode we talk about a backwards running masterpiece, Memento; the movie that carved out Christopher Nolan's indellible mark on Hollywood with filmmaker Anthony Downes. This is one of the 21st centuries most original films, where we find Guy Pearse suffering from a form of short term memory loss and we experience this with him by way of a disjointed and non-chronological story line in the film. An amazing supporting cast top this movie right off including Joe Pantoliano and Carrie Anne ...

Jul 28, 2017•1 hr 8 min

Monster Squad (1987)

On this episode we talk about the 1987 cult classic Monster Squad with Steve Elliott @lancehandsome. A commercial flop, Monster Squad has had a resurgence in the Comic Con era and we try to unravel the reasons this movie is just so good. We talk about how cool Rudy is and how human Fred Dekker made him look, about Fat Kid (Horace) and his transition to bad ass, and how movie tropes and kitsch movie monsters from the old days of movies got a fresh run out in this classic film. Let us know what yo...

Jul 27, 2017•1 hr 6 min

Teaser Episode

Welcome to the new show from the people who brought you Those Conspiracy Guys! Here is our newest podcast called Why Press Play all about movies, TV and video games! Subscribe to make sure you dont miss an episode and in the eman time follow us on social to keep in the loop with all we are doing in and out of podcast land! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whypressplay Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/whypressplay YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/whypressplay Vidme: http://www.vid.me/whypressplay ...

May 07, 2017•4 min

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