ESTABLISHED MELBOURNE, 2018
We weigh the new Disney+ re-imagining of Lady and the Tramp against the 1955 original before embarking on an exhaustive analysis of Agnès Varda's masterful Vagabond. Bonus features: Barbara Hammer's shorts, Dolemite Is My Name and no more!
We digest the Panama Papers in Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat before wrapping up our less-than-comprehensive series on Iranian cinema with A Moment of Innocence and A Separation. Bonus features: Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon, The Seventh Curse and more!
We examine Bong Joon-ho's Palme d'Or-winning Parasite before settling in with two more stomach-turning classics, Society and Organ. Bonus features: Paterson, The Lighthouse and more!
A medley of songs from the previous episode that a 10-year-old iMac running Logic Pro X spectacularly failed to process correctly.
We scrutinise the work of time-pressed VFX artists in Ang Lee's Gemini Man before scaring ourselves silly with two horror classics, Angst and In the Mouth of Madness. Bonus features: Jojo Rabbit, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and more!
We consider the cinematic merits of In the Shadow of the Moon before continuing our survey of the Iranian New Wave with Forough Farrokhzad's The House Is Black and Marzieh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman. Bonus features: The Cotton Club, Going the Distance and tons more!
We climb aboard with Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker and continue our Jafar Panahi series with Offside and This Is Not a Film. Bonus features: Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Seconds and more!
We explore the distant reaches of James Gray's Ad Astra then continue our Jafar Panahi series with The Circle and Crimson Gold. Bonus features: so, so many. Plus, a new theme song for season 2!
We look back on our first 49 episodes and craft two new lists: the 10 best and 10 worst films we have featured on the show. Plus, exclusive clips from never-released episodes and a supercut of every single dumb film-themed song we've made so far!
We interrogate Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and continue our series on Iranian cinema with the first two features of Jafar Panahi, The White Balloon and The Mirror. Bonus features: Jurassic Park, A Talking Cat!?! and more!
We have a civilised discussion about Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and complete our survey of Abbas Kiarostami with Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love. Bonus features: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Transit and more!
We contemplate Víctor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive and continue our exploration of Iranian cinema with two more Abbas Kiarostami films, Taste of Cherry and Ten. Bonus features: In Fabric, Heat and more!
We chew on Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and continue our exploration of the Iranian New Wave with two more Abbas Kiarostami classics, Life and Nothing More and Through the Olive Trees. Bonus features: Sátántangó and The Foreigner.
We arbitrarily assess Nicholas Roeg's Bad Timing and embark on a new project centred around the Iranian New Wave. First up, Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend's Home?. Bonus Features: Killing, Trouble in Paradise and more!
We test-drive the latest in a long line of Spider-Man vehicles, Spider-Man: Far From Home, then we dredge up all the other vehicles in order to arrive at a definitive ranking! Or rather, we make two individual lists, because we neglected to consolidate them. Bonus features: god no!
We delve into Danny Boyle's Yesterday and Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent. Bonus features: yes there are! Plus an we unearth a lost Beatles track!
We clinically assess Grant Sputore's I Am Mother and Larisa Shepitko's Wings. Bonus features: Donkey Skin, Don't Look Now and more!
We take on two, count 'em, two, direct-to-Netflix releases: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese and Murder Mystery. Bonus features: Chef, Model Shop and more!
We leap rhythmically into two new releases: Paramount's Rocketman and Netflix's Always Be My Maybe. Bonus features: Animal Crossing: The Movie, Non-Fiction and more!
We drink in Anna Biller's The Love Witch and Amy Pohler's Wine Country. Bonus features: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Top End Wedding and more!
