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The Theory of Everything
British biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Wilde Hawking. This is a serious well acted, well developed, and thoroughly enjoyable film. Beware of Donald’s “Rocky” build up at the very end, it’s intense! 47 mins
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Video Game Movies
Bit of a different style to this weeks episode, Donald and I have a semi-focused discussion on why theVideo Game movie industry produces fairly consistent poor quality movies. 31 mins
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Sicario
Not sure what I was expecting but this wan’t it. A very powerful and rather bleak look at the War on Drugs. This film is about a principled FBIagent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutalMexican Drug Cartel. This film (and the episode) touches…
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America's Sweethearts
In what I believe is Andrew’s last podcast with us for a while, we finish his run with a bit of an odd choice of movie,America’s Sweethearts. A 2001 Rom-Com with a very strong cast but a rather weak story and Romantic plot. I does have Christopher Walken playing a rather eccentric director. 26 mins
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Blade Runner
In this week’s episode we review Blade Runner, one of the greatest science fiction films ever made and of course one Daniel hasn’t seen. Instead of the Judge Dredd-esque action film its title suggests we find a deep and thought provoking movie with an awful lot worth discussing. 47 mins
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Lucy
Watch as a script nine years in the making completely wastes some of the best acting talent on offer. This mess of a film has no idea what it wants to be and leans so heavily on obviously fake pseudo-science it hurts. Regardless of all its problems it still managed to make eleven, yes eleven,…
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The Lobster
Our first episode of 2017 proper, we’ve decided to tackle another difficult art film – this time, it’s the English language debut of the acclaimed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Lobster.” A clinically observed, pitch-black comedy on the nature of monogamous relationships, we found it easy to admire but difficult to love.37 mins
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Rogue One
Merry Christmas? Happy New year? Happy Valentines? Yeah sorry everyone for this incredibly late episode. Everything in the universe from internet issues, computer issues, software issues, work issues, etc, etc got in the way of this episode. Also sorry for the Audio quality, you wouldn’t believe the editing involved just to get it to this…
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John Wick 3