A 10 minute spoiler-free review of Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron – a movie of massive action set-pieces, but far more importantly, emotional heart and intellectual profundity.  The movie stars most everyone you’ve ever heard of but also the slippery, charming, evil James Spader as Ultron, Paul Bethany as the AI Jarvis. A full written … Continue reading B007 Ep 90: Avengers: Age of Ultron →

A 6 minute spoiler-free review of Carol Morley’s first feature film – The Falling – a tale of mass hysteria in a British girls school in 1969 starring Maisie Williams aka Arya Stark from HBO’s Game of Thrones. A full written review can be found at http://www.bina007.com. [MP3] Download or play this episode directly [Archive] View this … Continue reading B007 Ep 89: The Falling →

A 10 minute spoiler free review of the charming historical romantic drama, A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman. Rickman plays a weary King Louis XIV who has commissioned a landscape gardener played by Matthias Schoenaerts to design the formal gardens for his new palace at Versailles. But both men are charmed by a female … Continue reading B007 Ep 88: A Little Chaos →

A 10 minute review of the historical drama Woman In Gold, starring Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor trying to win back her looted Klimt portrait from the Austrian government with the help of a lawyer played by Ryan Reynolds. A full written review can be found at http://www.bina007.com. [MP3] Download or play this episode directly … Continue reading B007 Ep 87: Woman In Gold →

A 10 minute spoiler-free review of the dark fantasy film Lost River – Ryan Gosling’s heavily Lynchian directorial debut starring Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Iain de Caestecker (Agents of SHIELD), Matt Smith (Doctor Who), Saoirse Ronan and Eva Mendes. A full written review can be found at http://www.bina007.com. [MP3] Download or play this episode directly [Archive] View … Continue reading B007 Ep 86: Lost River →

A 10 minute spoiler-free review of the brilliant & acutely observed new comedy from Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha). Ben Stiller & Naomi Watts play a 40-something couple who fall into friendship with 20-something hipsters (Adam Driver & Amanda Seyfried) and question everything they think about their lives. [MP3] Download or play this episode directly [Archive] View this … Continue reading B007 Ep 85: While We’re Young →

A 10 minute spoiler free review of the dystopian teen action drama based on the novels by Veronica Roth and starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet and Naomi Watts. [MP3] Download or play this episode directly [Archive] View this episode’s page on Archive.org [Bina007] The full Bina007 movie review website [iTunes] Subscribe to Bina007 on iTunesFiled … Continue reading B007 Ep 83: Insurgent →

Bina007 and guest host Matthieu have an extended discussion of the 1984 gothic horror film The Company of Wolves, directed by Neil Jordan and adapted from her own short stories by Angela Carter. The movie is a wonderfully subversive and Freudian investigation of the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale and this podcast discusses its plot, … Continue reading B007 Ep 81: The Company of Wolves (1984) →

Bina007 and guest host SJLee have an extended discussion of the Netflix series House of Cards with a particular focus on season three. The podcast spoils both this series & the original BBC series on which it was based. The final section of the aftershow, starting at 1hr 36m also contains some discussion of the … Continue reading B007 Ep 80: House of Cards Season Three (Netflix) →

A 10 minute spoiler free review of Suite Francaise – the movie adaptation of Irene Nerimovsky’s spectacularly popular tale of romance in wartime France.  The movie stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley and Matthias Schoenaerts. A full written review can be found at http://www.bina007.com. [MP3] Download or play this episode directly [Archive] View this episode’s … Continue reading B007 Ep 79: Suite Francaise →