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Equilibrium
This week we look at another box office bomb, Equilibrium. A fairly standard movie where Christian Bale impersonates Keanu Reeves and battles a totalitarian emotionless system. This really is a complete rip off of the matrix. Some good fight scenes though plus this movie uses a professional dog impersonator. 40 mins
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
On this week’s episode, we cast our gaze back to the twilight years of the studio system and one of the most pleasant and enjoyable westerns ever made. We both found ourselves entirely in love with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in particular its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. 28 mins
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Apocalypto
After the larky Disney animated comedy version of Mesoamerican civilisation last week, we decided it was time on this week’s episode to have the pendulum swing as far as possible in the opposite direction, with our discussion of Mel Gibson’s unflinchingly brutal Mayan pursuit movie Apocalypto. We found a problematic and flawed film that nevertheless…
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Star Wars – The Force Awakens
So an important point to note, THIS PODCAST HAS A SPOILER SECTION. It is well marked and you are well warned when we will move into it. It occurs around the 25:30 mark. Merry Christmas everybody! As our present to you all, we’ve made good on the promise we’ve been making all year and done…
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The Warriors
A classic of its time, The Warriors had to contend with real gang violence during filming. Gang problems pursued the movie into the cinema with many gang going to watch the movie upon release and fighting other gangs inside the cinema. Although this movie really hasn’t aged well in certain aspects, it has stood the…
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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. 42 mins
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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 shame really as a movie should…
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Star Wars – The empire strikes back
The second of this wonderful trilogy (trilogy at time of writing because the prequals suck and the new movie isn’t out yet). We return once again to the welcoming busom of Star Wars, this time to talk about the inimitable The Empire Strikes Back – whether you consider there to be six or only three…
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Star Wars – A New Hope
Months back, we delved the darkest depths of the prequel trilogy – now we see fit to reward ourselves with another trio of podcasts on the original, good Star Wars trilogy in anticipation of Episode VII, beginning today with A New Hope! Donald rejoins us, muscling through the influence of heavy painkillers to add his…
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Ninja – Shadow of a Tear
NINJAS! NINJAS EVERYWHERE! There’s one behind you right now! In all seriousness, fans of highly choreographed martial arts action owe it to themselves to catch this collaboration between director Isaac Florentine and B-movie legend Scott Adkins – we both loved it in spite of – perhaps even partly because of – its paucity of plot.
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