The Conformist
In an attempt to bring a dash of high culture to Two Friends Watch, Andrew elects to watch Bernardo Bertolucci’s famous anti-fascist classic The Conformist. It turns out we’re in over our head and neither of us have any idea what we’re on about – and we flail around...
Waterworld
A disaster of a film for everyone from the cast and crew to the directors and investors. Waterworld has long been considered a terrible movie for many reasons but Andrew and I work hard in this week’s episode to find the enjoyment and brilliance hidden deep within this movie....
A Separation
This week’s episode of Two Friends Watch: we tackle the 2011 drama from Iran that swept up accolades left and right, affording Iranian cinema a previously unprecedented level of exposure in the west. We both agree that although it begins slowly, it eventually reveals a compelling scenario of moral...
Happy Gilmore
A fairly straight forward film about a manic ex-hockey-player-wannabe who intimidates people at golf until he has enough money to save a house. 33mins
The Duellist
With The Martian due out this week and winning plaudits from left and right, we thought we’d take the time to revisit Ridley Scott’s debut feature from 1977. We found The Duellists to stand high in the famous director’s body of work, a must for anyone with an appreciation...
Oblivion
Good morning everyone. This week we are looking at the 2013 movie Oblivion, an interesting end-of-the-world alien-apocalypse story. Although this movie isn’t great I think that the poor reception during it’s initial release was mainly based on general public opinion of Tom Cruise at the time. Which is a...
High Plains Drifter