At the Flicks

his month Jeff manages to miss one of the three films reviewed (slacker), and we travel to London to meet Lucy.

The meeting went very well until we started talking about Adam McKay’s movie Vice. What happened next makes for interesting listening as the pros and cons of Vice are discussed. This discussion was of course enhanced by the amount of alcohol consumed and the result makes a fascinating addition to our regular feature Lucy’s State Of The Movies.

There was a much more sedate conversation with Phil Foster who joined us for what our listeners have been watching. As for our reviews, listen carefully for a clever new feature Graham has added this month. Enjoy!

The 2019 Stroud Film Festival starts on the 9th March and to discuss the programme for this year we sat down with Andy Freedman who is a Co. Director of the Festival to talk about the films, venues, competitions, events and workshops that make this festival such a unique experience. Please be aware there is a brief spoiler in this show relating to Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back.

This month we have a BIG interview - Midge Ferguson, one of the top British location managers.  You may not have heard of him, however you have all been impressed by the results of his work.  Merlin, Atlantis, The Man From UNCLE and King Arthur : Legend Of The Sword.  Midge was involved with all of those and many more.  In fact, we recorded the interview just before Midge's latest hit series Sex Education was released on Netflix.  So, if you were wondering where that very funny show was filmed, we have the answer for you.

One of our regular features, the movie news, moves to this mid month slot.  This month Jeff is talking about the expanding Kingsman cinematic universe and Neil has some interesting information about Paramount pictures.  As for Graham, I am sure regular listeners will guess the subject of his news.

Welcome to a new pod short monthly series – Director on Director.

Writer / Director Phil Stubbs (Last Chancers) will be joining us to talk about some of his favourite directors. For this first edition we talk to Phil about director Peter Jackson. From Bad Taste to They Shall Not Grow Old, we discuss in depth the career of New Zealand’s most successful film director.

We start the New Year looking forward to the Movies that we hope will delight us, even though Jeff gets one wrong! Lucy joins us to discuss the trends we hope to see in 2019.

Forget the Oscars, as we introduce our very own Awards Ceremony. We get details on what's coming up from Cineworld Manager Steve. We review our first three Movies of the year and unanimously agree on which one is our movie of the month. We also have our regular features: Movie News, What else have we been Watching and Jeff's Quiz! This month a guest joins us for the recording of the show.

Our regular At the Flicks feature “What else have we been watching” has become a surprise hit with our listeners. So much so, that we decided to ask some of our Listeners what else have they been watching?. In this short. We phoned three friends of the Pod, Katie and her Dad Steve in the UK and then travelled over the pond to the US to talk to long time listener Nick, to find out what had caught their eye this month.

In this Podcast Short, Jeff leads the team in a discussion of how films in the UK came to be regulated by the BBFC. We discuss the advisory nature of the certification and the gulf between certificates in the UK and US. We ask the question, "why is the BBFC so frightened of Horror Movies"?

A final present for you in this festive season - our last podcast of the year. Jeff and Neil fight over the last mince pie as we introduce you to the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy. Also there is Lucy's top five films of the year and a report on the recent London Korean film festival. In the movie news Graham, after too much whiskey, goes on and on about Mel Gibson, and we also get an update from Phil Stubbs as to the editing progress on Last Chancers. Finally, over a glass of fine red wine we tell our our combined top ten movies of the year (without too much family squabbling).

A happy new year to all our listeners and thank you for all your support.

As we look back on 2018 one of the most gratifying developments of the year has been the community of listeners and movie enthusiasts, that have come together to support our Podcast? The listener feedback that has been the most satisfying and fun element of the year.

Providing a lot of that feedback are the duo of Phil Foster, from the Phil the Bear’s film review site, and Friend of the Pod Declan Shiels. As two of our most engaged listeners, we decided to give this podcast over to them to discuss their top five movies of the year.

In this Podcast SHORT we are returning to a recoding we made back in September with Nick Wilkes. Nick is the playwright in residence at the Malvern Theatre. We had such a great time interviewing Nick that we ended up with a lot more material than we could ever possibly use in our main show. So we decided to split the interview into two parts. The parts relating to his cinema memories we included in our October podcast and Nicks stories and recollections about his time in the theatre have been collected into this short. We hope you enjoy this second helping of the wit and wisdom of the Malvern Bard as much as we did.