1 week away from the big 1-0-0 we examine dogs that stole the show with The Artist and John Wick. Many different divergences on this one including the start of film scores as we know them to Brian Butterfield's Shooting Agency. The timings for this...
This week, Andy and Sean delve into the Peter Sellers Comedy/Drama film, Being There (1979) and the most profitable Irish film of all time, The Guard (2011). We also come to a shocking Pink Panther related revelation...
The timings for this week...
Andy and Sean are joined once again by the queen of The Mummy (1999), the fantastic Em, host of the wonderful Verbal Diorama to discuss The Mummy and Bubba Ho-Tep.
The timings for this week are:
The Mummy: (6:30)
Bubba Hotep: (50:47)
Next...
Whilst Sean suffered with Covid-19, he and Andy explore films trapped in singular rooms with 2002's Panic Room - with it's 'soupy' score - and 2015's Room.
The timings for this week are:
Panic Room: (02:35)
Room: (27:53)
Next week's theme will...
This week we examine films set in 90s video rental shops with two oddly similar but very different films. First we look at a film from "The R-Rated Howard Hawks" Kevin Smith's debut in Clerks and Cheryl Dunye's landmark The Watermelon Woman.
The...
This week the boys examine Anchorman actors turning serious with Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction and Steve Carrell in Little Miss Sunshine. Expect talk of Monty Python and Nietzsche - naturally.
The timings for this week are:
Stranger Than...
In an all singing-all dancing episode this week, we discuss reverse engineered musicals (or its full title: comedy films turned into stage musicals adapted into musical films). The films this week are the 2005 adaptation of The Producers and the...
Andy and Sean examine acting performances that steal entire films in less than 10 minutes by looking at True Romance and A History of Violence. Following the sad passing of William Hurt, we pivoted to A History of Violence on short notice to...
Andy and Sean examine two films inspired by the Michael Mann classic Heat. These are the towering comic book adaptation, The Dark Knight and the Ben Affleck helmed The Town.
The timings for this week are:
The Dark Knight (4:53)
The Town: (35:55)...
Andy and Sean look at films set in ski resorts which bring them to two very different films. Hot Tub Time Machine and Force Majeure show just how different one setting can be depicted.
The timings for this week are:
Hot Tub Time Machine: (2:48)...