ESTABLISHED MELBOURNE, 2018
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.
We sink our teeth into The Predator and two more Oshima films, Death by Hanging and Diary of a Shinjuku Thief. Bonus features: I can't remember.
We ponder Crazy Rich Asians and continue our Oshima series with a look at Night and Fog in Japan and The Pleasures of the Flesh. Bonus features: Run Lola Run, They Came Together and the movie Citizen Kane!
We discuss Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman and commence our exploration of the films of Nagisa Oshima with a look at A Town of Love and Hope and Cruel Story of Youth. Bonus features: Naked Lunch, Jade, An Elephant Sitting Still, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and more!
We celebrate the release of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (a while ago) by looking back on the entire Mission: Impossible series, including the one without a colon, and come up with the definitive ranking of all six films. Will your enthusiasm for this series survive our tortuous feature-length discussion? No! Bonus features: none! I cut them out! Plus no ads and a picture of Tom Cruise that would fool his own mother!
We tackle some film called Zoe and Park Chan-wook's erotic thriller The Handmaiden. Bonus features: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Blergh Runner 2049 and one more!
We vaguely recall a mumbling Sam Worthington doing… something? And we discuss the Joe Dante classic Innerspace, co-starring Martin Short—although it’s actually Dennis Quaid who is ‘short’ in the movie! In more ways than one! Because he is inside Martin Short and he tells him what to do! Bonus features: A Page of Madness, Thief and more!
We jump into two Paul Rudd vehicles, Ant Man and the Wasp and This Is Forty. Bonus features: Just Friends, The Tale of Zatoichi and more!
We celebrate our tenth anniversary by tucking into Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and the Netflix romantic comedy everybody is talking about (three months ago) Set It Up. Bonus features: The Eternal Breasts, Saturn 3, The King of Comedy and more!
A timely discussion of War Machine (2017), Clifford (1994) and nothing else. The Australian host would like to apologise for overindulging in crisp dry white prior to recording, owing to a scheduling conflict with the World Cup.
We tackle two Palme d'Or winners: 2014's Winter Sleep and 2010's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Bonus features: The Band Wagon, The Departed and more!
A long, discursive discussion about Solo: A Star Wars Story and nothing else. For the record, your trans-Pacific hosts also watched (and talked about) the Netflix Original romantic comedy When We First Met and Takashi Miike's Visitor Q, but these darlings were excised from the final edit. The book we failed to name was The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film by J. W. Rinzler—highly recommended.
We doggedly attempt to discuss the films Deadpool 2 and... Special Correspondents? Really? The Netflix Original Ricky Gervais-Eric Bana vehicle that everybody remembers?
We tackle the Netflix Original film Anon (remember Anon?) and the Brian De Palma classic, Body Double. Bonus features: Funny People, Dog Eat Dog and Odd Man Out. What audio-impairing activity will the American co-host engage in this episode? Tune in to find out!
We talk about the greatest triumvirate of cinema: Avengers: Infinity War, Chasing Amy and Breakfast of Champions. Bonus features: Busby Berkeley and other things!
We pair the fruit-forward Amy Schumer vehicle I Feel Pretty with the decomposing carcass that is A Zed & Two Noughts. Bonus features: Sweetie, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and more.
An extended discussion of Spielberg's latest effort, Ready Player One. Bonus features: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, the Dead or Alive series and more!
We cover Alex Garland's Annihilation and the dependable-comic-actor-stuffed satire The Death of Stalin. Bonus features: The Book of Henry (briefly!), Pierrot le Fou and more!
We explain who we are, what this podcast is and why you should maybe listen to it. You know, if you want.
