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  • Chris' Film Dump: Transformers: Age of Extinction
    The last Big Budget mess on this week's Film Dump is 'Transformers: Age of Extinction', the almost 3 hour long 4th installment of a series that consists of explosions, gratuitous shots of female characters, and crude racial stereotypes. Mark Wahlberg is Cade Yeager, a struggling inventor who finds the damaged body of Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, and brings him back to health. Then stuff happens and I don’t know how it ends because I stopped watching.-Chris Cost $210m and made over $1.1b at the box office, proving humanity is doomed.
    8 min
  • Chris' Film Dump: Catwoman
    Chris condemns another superhero flick to the 'Film Dump' in his week of big budget calamities, with today's choice being 'Catwoman' from 2004. A shy fashion designer discovers the revolutionary anti-ageing product her company is releasing hides a dark secret, and when she gets in too deep finds herself developing a life changing set of powers. Made for $100m, this dreadful film made back only $82m and won Halle Berry a Razzie Award, which she collected in person. Chris and Danny made the smart choice to discuss the Marvel/DC film series as a whole instead, in this podcast-exclusive episode,
    16 min
  • Chris' Film Dump: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
    Our Film Dump week of 'Big Budget Calamities' continues today with last years 'Batman v. Superman'. Yay. This joyless and great big muddled mess of stupid plot points and ridiculous character decisions is about, you guessed it, Batman and Superman deciding to fight each other. Spoilers, the two make-up and decide to work together because their mothers have the same name! Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams and Jesse Eisenberg star in this $300million gloom-fest.
    8 min
  • Chris' Film Dump: John Carter
    This week the Film Dump continues, as Chris looks at some of the greatest (or worst?) big budget calamities to hit the big screen. Up first is 2012 's 'John Carter'. Costing upwards of $350m to make and based on a Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, the film tells the story of an American civil war soldier who wakes up on the planet mars unexpectedly, and finds himself embroiled in a similar huge conflict. A massive box office flop. the film was meant to make Taylor Kitsch a star. It did not.
    6 min
  • The Radio Verulam Film Guide: Friday 23rd June 2017
    now, fink SIMON, fink. youve got to come up with summint interestin to right about for this heer blog fingy otherwise theyre gonna kick you off hear they aint never gonna let you do it again. what stories cud you tell the reader about that they aint already herd before? maybe the one about the time that you and david van day got drunk on a ski lift in colorado and drew naughty picktures with your wee wee? nah, theyre bound to have heard taht one. what about the one wen sheena easton knocked you down in her car and as a way of saying sorry she TOOK YOU TO VEGAS AND YOU MET DAVID COPPERFIELD OOOPS CAPS SORRY HOW TO YOU TAKE THESE OFF? TECHNOLOGY IS CONFUSING. Ok, I don't know what that was, but Simon was in the studio to talk about the UK box office, new releases in the cinema, and his pick of films on TV for the coming week. Friday The Descent 11.25pm – 1.25am 5STAR Saturday Splash 1.00pm – 2.45pm BBC2 Sunday Her 11.05pm – 1.30am Film4 Monday Mission: Impossible 2 9.00pm – 11.30pm E4 Tuesday The Road 10.05pm – 12.10am ITV4 Wednesday Hot Tub Time Machine 1.25am – 3.20am Film4 Thursday The Deer Hunter 11.05pm – 2.40am ITV4
    27 min
  • Chris' Film Club: The Breakfast Club
    Rounding off a week of raunchy teen comedies, today Chris looks at the ultimate teen movie, 'The Breakfast Club'. Written and directed by John Hughes, it stars Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald as 5 teens from different walks of life, who are all in a Saturday detention and ordered not to talk to each other. Over the course of the day they all get chances to tell their stories, and discover that they have more in common than they thought. Will school ever be the same?
    6 min
  • The Radio Verulam Film Guide: Friday 16th June 2017
    its that time of week again the time of the week when wee all get to gether and talk all abouts films and wotnot and i show everypne how much i know about films and stuff like that and danni and kris are always very impressd wiv me and my no ledge becose i am SIMON the Tangentially Sophisticated (i got a thesawrus for my 82nd burfday the other day so now i know lots of words and can add them in2 my reviews like calling sandra bullock 'mellifluous' and kris a 'fermented stool sample' teheheheheheehehehehehehehehehehuheiuh1heeee) i fink to days film guide went well because so far a mob has yet to form armed wiv pitch forks to try and burned down the studio in protest because that happend once and i did not like it much. bye. Ok, that was a lie, but Simon was in the studio to talk about the UK box office, new releases in the cinema, and his pick of films on TV for the coming week. Friday The Shawshank Redemption 9.00pm – 11.45pm ITV4 Saturday About a Boy 7.00pm – 9.00pm Film4 Sunday The Book of Life 2.30pm – 4.30pm Channel 4 Monday Piranha 12.45am – 2.30am ITV2 Tuesday Sahara 2.20pm – 4.20pm Film4 Wednesday Reservoir Dogs 10.15pm – 12.20am ITV4 Thursday Room 9.00pm – 11.20pm Film4
    31 min
  • Chris' Film Club: Eurotrip
    The antics continue on this weeks 'Teen Comedy' themed Fim Club, as today Chris looks at 2004's 'Eurotrip'. After a brutal breakup at a high-school graduation party, lovelorn Ohio teen Scott goes on a quest across Europe to find his sexy German pen pal, joined by his brainless best friend and a pair of twins they meet in Paris. Things don't turn out to be easy, however, and the backpackers become embroiled in many farcical situations as they hop from country to country. Stars Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester and Jessica Boehrs.
    5 min
  • Chris' Film Club: Pitch Perfect
    Continuing a week of 'Teen Comedies' on this weeks Film Club, today Chris picks 'Pitch Perfect'. This 2012 musical comedy is about Barden Universities all-female a capella group, who try to put their quirkiness and differences aside to win the Nationals. However, their biggest challenge comes from another group from the same University. Stars Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Ester Dean and Elizabeth Banks.
    5 min
  • Chris' Film Club: Superbad
    Chris helms this weeks Film club, setting the theme today as 'Teen Comedies', so be ready for a week of rebelliousness! Today's pick is 2007 release 'Superbad', which features Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as a co-dependent pair of teens desperate to make their graduation-day party booze and babe filled. However, arguments, police involvement and a number of crazy events lead to a severe change in plans for the pair. Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Seth Rogan, Bill Hader and Emma Stone also star.  
    6 min