ON THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL FEATURE-LENGTH PROJECT A+
We survey the entire sweep of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (to date) before sinking our teeth into the most successful god damn thing on the planet: The Avengers: Endgame.
Out of the Woods
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We assign each other two films: one we think the other will like (Taipei Story, To Sleep with Anger) and one we think the other will hate (Life is Beautiful, Captain Fantastic). Bonus features: The Perfect Date, High Life and more!
The Unicorn Store Murders
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We fumble around with two recent attempts at cinema, Jordan Peele's Us and Brie Larson's Unicorn Store. Bonus features: No Fear, No Die, Mystic Pizza and more!
The Squirt
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We set our sights on Netflix's The Dirt and Czechflix's The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. Bonus features: Paris Is Burning, The Nice Guys and more!
Savage Love
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We turn the spotlight on Garth Evans' not-that-new Apostle and Edgar G. Ulmer's not-at-all-new Detour. Bonus features: Ash is the Purest White, Song to Song and more!
Captain Redfly
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We meander our way through Disney's Captain Marvel and Netflix's Triple Frontier. Bonus features: Black Mother, The Decline of Western Civilisation and more!
Re: Wanda
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We dive into Neil Jordan's Greta and Barbara Loden's Wanda. Bonus features: Mamma Mia, Smiles of a Summer Night and more!
Gigolo Stardust
ON THIS WEEK’S VERY SPECIAL (IF BRIEF) PROJECT A+
We assess two of Bowie's cinematic excursions, D.A. Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and, er, Just a Gigolo. Note: this episode was originally recorded in April, 2018.
High Flying Box Cutter
ON THIS WEEK’S AURALLY IMPAIRED PROJECT A+
We delve into two more Netflix releases: High Flying Bird and The Night Comes for Us. Bonus features: Hanagatami, If Beale Street Could Talk and more! Note: the yank tried out the mic on his new Fortnite gaming headphones and the results were worse than usual.
Jake and the Dead Man
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We determine the essential worth of Dan Gilroy's horror-satire, Velvet Buzzsaw. Bonus features: some stuff Hunter watched, wasn't really listening.
The Podcast Who Would Be Good
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We gnaw on Joe Cornish's second feature, The Kid Who Would Be King. Bonus features: Spirited Away, Can You Ever Forgive Me? and more!
Eric Roma
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We tackle Netflix's Alfonso Cuarón's Roma and make scant progress on our IMDb project. Bonus features: The Godfather Part III, Modern Times and more!
Project IMDb
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We commence a new project: re-ordering the IMDb Top 250 Movies list. Before we can knock The Shawshank Redemption off its perch, however, we must first go through the entire list, in tedious detail, and note down which films we have and have not seen. And then go away and watch all the films we haven't seen. And then come back ten years later and get to the actual re-ordering part. It’s an hour and a half of us reading a list! Featuring uneven audio levels, poor compression and episode-spanning typing sounds!
Loving the Drake
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We attempt to capture the feeling (yes, feeling! The very thing that makes us human!) of watching competent yet tedious Drake Doremus films in podcast form after wilfully subjecting ourselves to 2015's Equals and 2017's Newness. Bonus features: The Thin Red Line, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mule!
2018 Christmas Special
A FEATURE-LENGTH PROJECT A+ EXTRAVAGANZA
In this geography-defying seasonal special (released just in time for Christmas!) we gather before a crackling fireplace, sip hot buttered rum and try to impose some order on the shit-smeared garbage pile that was 2018. Want to know our top 15 favourite films of last year plus a bunch of other nonsense? Take two hours out of whatever precious time you have left in which to do things and find out!
First Man and His Friends
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
This week, we dive into Damien Chazelle's First Man and prematurely wind up our Fassbinder series with Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Fox and His Friends. Bonus features: Taipei Story, The Conversation and more! Plus a VERY SPECIAL GUEST!
The Bitter Tears of That Guy from the Merchant of Four Seasons
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We dive into the next two films in our Fassbinder series, The Merchant of Four Seasons and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Bonus features: Strike, A Brighter Summer Day and much more!
A Star Is a Director Now?
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
We wonder if the world needs a fourth A Star Is Born and begin a new series on the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder with a look at Love Is Colder Than Death and The American Soldier.
Eat the Negatives
ON THIS WEEK’S EXTRA-SPECIAL PROJECT A+
We luxuriate in the cinematic output of Bob Dylan. Almost all of it! Featuring Don't Look Back, Eat the Document, Renaldo and Clara and Masked and Anonymous. Plus we unearth four hitherto unheard Dylan originals!
Hold the Severed Penis of Passion, Mr. Lawrence
ON THIS WEEK’S PROJECT A+
A maybe-bad chat about Hold the Dark and the final films in our Nagisa Oshima series, In the Realm of the Senses, Empire of Passion and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Bonus features: nope! With sincerest apologies to Ryuichi Sakamoto and anyone who can't stomach mouth sounds.