Year 2016

Reviews of Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad, Midnight Special, Jason Bourne, Independence Day 2, Finding Dory, and Star Trek: Beyond await in our latest episode. Search your feelings, you know it to be true. Download direct | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe… Continue Reading →

In this exciting episode we take a look at two films that bend both the audience and the lead character’s minds, with Jacob’s Ladder and Shutter Island. Spoilers aplenty for both, so please don’t listen before viewing both of these… Continue Reading →

No planet has proved more fascinating to science fiction than Mars, so we thought it high time to look at some of the prime examples of Martian culture. We’re blabbing about Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Total Recall, Mission to Mars,… Continue Reading →

This month’s assortment of recent releases for the cinema and the home sees us cover Gods of Egypt, The Legend of Tarzan, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, and Green Room. Four films enter. One film leaves. That makes three films… Continue Reading →

In this exciting episode, current events compel us to compare two political satires about dodgy dealings in the march to war with Wag The Dog and In The Loop. Just how do the Yanks and the Limeys deal with comedies… Continue Reading →

We deal with the enduring, sometimes mystifying appeal of Disaster Movies in this episode, covering films from the 50’s right through to modern day, with a variety of dooms for us, fire, flood, earthquakes, volcanoes, asteroids, … and bees. Millions… Continue Reading →

We unleash our opinions on Captain America: Civil War, The Colony, Eye in the Sky, Alice: Through The Looking Glass, 10 Cloverfield Lane, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Boss, The Nice Guys and Warcraft: The Beginning in our latest podcast. Your attention… Continue Reading →

Off the back of our Tech Noir podcast, this month’s commentary track is for Terry Gilliam’s excellent 12 Monkeys, with the time travelling Bruce Willis on the trail of a deadly virus, or possibly just off his rocker. Join us!… Continue Reading →

The time has come for us to step into the future simultaneously with the past as we look at the intriguing Tech Noir sub-genre – science fiction content with Film Noir stylings, which hits upon some of our favourite movies… Continue Reading →

It’s the second part of our French New Wave crash course, as we look at the works of those in the rather more loosely defined Left Bank group – Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy and Chris Marker. Are they… Continue Reading →

Tirez Sur le Pianiste. Ne Tirez Pas Sur le Pianiste. Shoot the Piano Player. Shoot the Pianist. Don’t Shoot the Piano Player. A movie with more names than Prince (rest his purple soul.) This offering claims to be a commentary… Continue Reading →

In an arbitrary celebration of the Auld Alliance, we’re spending this month talking about the French New Wave of cinema, widely hailed as the most influential movements that the art of filmmaking has yet seen. Join us as we look… Continue Reading →