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Each episode, from a secret location in London, Joe and Dee discuss thematically-linked classic, epic or curious movies, ably assisted by producer Ruth and distracted by housecat #PERL.
Update frequency:
every 19 days
Average audio length:
85 minutes
English
United States
88 episodes
since Dec. 3, 2017
episodic
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This week we’re looking at movies centered around a “perfect” crime that isn’t Strangers on a Train (1955). We start with French crime à trois Les Diaboliques (1955) by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Next up is difficult to sympathise with Gwyneth Paltrow, married to Michael Douglas with a side helping of …
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This week we’re looking at second attempts at what Disney is now calling the “Marvel Legacy” universe. We start with James Mangold’s bloodier edit of The Wolverine (2013). Next up is The Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) which restores an entire subplot involving Anna Paquin’s characte…
This week we’re looking at big angry houses with guns. We start with the star-studded World War II caper Kelly’s Heroes (1970), behind enemy lines, chasing $16m in gold. Next up is a stranded Russian T-55 crew isolated on the hostile terrain of Afghanistan and learning about the Pashtunwali honor c…
This week we’re joined once again by Carlos Boellinger of Tin Cowboys Productions on the eve of the cinematic release of Clay’s Redemption (2020), a future noir fantasy film shot guerrilla style on the streets of London; so we’re discussing future noir films. We start with James Cameron’s The Termi…
This week we’re looking at America’s favorite pastime: baseball. We start with John Badham’s The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) featuring Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones reclaiming the means of production. Next up is Barry Levinson’s The Natural (1984) with Robert …
This week we’re looking at several animé movies that involve civil unrest. We start with Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s masterpiece Akira (1988), the pinnacle of animated city destruction porn. Next up is Hiroyuki Okiura’s alternate reality underground political thriller, Jin-Rô: The Wolf Brigade (1999), from a…
This week we’re looking at films directed by stuntmen. We start with the grand-daddy of the stunt caper; Hal Needham, who doubled for Burt Reynolds before directing him in Hooper (1978), their second of six collaborations. Next up is Chad Stahelski who doubled for Brandon Lee in The Crow (1994) and…
This week we’re looking at superhero movies that were spun off from major franchises. We start with Jeannot Szwarc’s Supergirl (1984), where Helen Slater plays a very well-informed cousin to Superman. Next up is Tim Miller’s Deadpool (2016), with Ryan Reynolds breaking fourth walls like a meta wrec…
This week we look at the future of incarceration. We start with John Carpenter’s nihilistic antihero Snake Plissken attempting to Escape From New York (1981). Next up is Stuart Gordon’s blue goo and Explodium-filled coed panopticon; Fortress (1992). We finish with Martin Campbell’s privately-run, c…
This week we cover four actors who died before the age of 30. We start with James Dean in George Stevens’ Texas oil epic Giant (1956), next up is River Phoenix in Gus Van Sant’s soporific retelling of Henry IV My Own Private Idaho (1991), then Brandon Lee in Dwight H. Little’s early American Hong K…
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