Buenos días á los freaks, perverts, travestis y mums and welcome to a new episode on the films of Spain's premier John Waters-type: Pedro Almodóvar!

Colours. Women. Gazpacho. Big silicone tits. Big telephones. Kidnappings. Punk bands. The three cities of the world (Barcelona, Madrid and Estockholm). Antonio Banderas as a sex criminal. Amelia reads to us from an autobiography. What more could you want in a Film Podcast? Well, there is more and it's a mambo taxi. Oh, and a game to play at home.

Pepi, Luci, Bom and the Other Girls on the Heap (1980), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (1989), All About My Mother (1999), Talk Tuah (2002), The Skin I Live In (2011), Julieta (2016), Parallel Mothers (2021), Strange Way of Life (2023), The Room Next Door (2024)

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NEWSFLASH it's a regular episode recapping films recently released in cinemá. Amelia has an update about medieval scrolls or something. We hear about Disney and Broadway producer Marc Platt and his large adult sons, one of whom Amelia refers to as Jared which is not his name. Rebecca compares The Room Next Door and Severance not realising it's the same actor in both. Amelia is writing an article about vintage NZ cooking shows so that comes up a lot. WARNING: Partially committed East London accent impersonations. GUEST HOST: Maggie B (cat).

Hard Truths (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), Mickey 17 (2025), Babygirl (2024), Bird (2024), The Last Showgirl (2024), Queer (2024)

Olá e bem-vindo ao Cinema do Binge Bong – It's the night before the Oscars and Rebecca is crying because I'M STILL HERE has a predicted 2% chance of winning Best Picture. Amelia has finally woken up to the South American continent like a reverse Paddington. The gals had a rough week so there is a stark reckoning on the state of New Zealand cinema.

I'm Still Here (2024), The Invisible Life of Euridíce Gusmão (2019), Central Station (1998), Black God White Devil (1964), Limite (1931), Fake Blonde (2007), Hard Paint (2018), Araby (2017), also mentioned City of God (2002) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Cinema Bing Bong is back for a new year with all the latest celeb news (as of 31/01). The Oscar nominations are out and everyone's gone racist. Yucko: we talk about the sociolinguistic limitations of AI as a catch-all term. We continue to watch films about people who are not that famous where we come from. Can there be spoilers for real stuff that really happened? What was the worst part of Emilia Peréz? Amelia is the world's biggest Pete Seeger defender. We go through songs that are way more popular in New Zealand than anywhere else.

Listen right to the end for an important PS

Anora (2024), The Brutalist (2024), Conclave (2024), A Complete Unknown (2024), Emilia Peréz (2024), Better Man (2024), A Real Pain (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), Memoir of a Snail (2024), In Fabric (2018), Hard Truths (2024)

* A Bonus Christmas Episode about the best and worst of Christmas cinema *

The only podcast celebrating Jesus Christ, the leader of the Christian faith (Berry, 2024). We strayed from God's light and now we're back with a Christmas special. Amelia does not know how to pronounce Will Ferrell or Zooey Deschanel. Shirley MacLaine saw a UFO and Rebecca talks about Christmas as if she were an alien. Amelia claims the Bing Bong listeners love campy bullshit and are afraid of horses. There are too many Todds. Amelia compares immigrating to Australia to being Buddy the Elf. The guys share their favourite Christmas songs. 

*The Apartment (1960)
*Carol (2015)
*Elf (2003)
*How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
*Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
- The Family Stone (2005)
- Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
The Children's Hour (1961)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
May December (2023)
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Amelia's Christmas Music Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNIx7ABUAU85hlGmG_tuU4J8HrgYUDSgR&si=0w6N3pafGyTl7gJp

LIVE from Australia: It's the musical episode! And Cinema Bing Bong has been enjoying a refreshing lemon taste with an alcoholic kick. Amelia spends forty minutes pandering to Wicked fans. We learn about the racist musical Amelia was in about 25 years ago. Rebecca needs the listeners to know how dedicated she was to work as a 12 year old. Warning: there's singing.

Wicked (2024)
The People's Joker (2022)
Gladiator II (2024)

The Boyfriend (1971)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
West Side Story (1961)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Zero Patience (1993)
Dames (1934)
Shredder Orpheus (1989)

Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

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A24 is a US film production and distribution company named after an Italian motorway and it's time to rank the movies they've produced and distributed. Are they known more for their touching family dramas or their shouty dick movies? When you hear Franco do you think first of the dictator or the disgraced actor James Franco? Are the irony poisoned youth ruining tiered rankings? Is there a movie about an evil phone or did Amelia just make that up? Rebecca recounts a heartbreaking story about not being Pynchonesque after all. Amelia tries to make up a name for Peter Strickland fans. A new A24 movie is pitched.

3 Women (1977)
20th Century Women (2016)
A Different Man (2024)
Aftersun (2022)
Beau is Afraid (2023)
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Certain Women (2016)
Civil War (2024)
Climax (2018)
Close (2022)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Dream Scenario (2023)
Eighth Grade (2018)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
The Farewell (2019)
The Florida Project (2017)
Funny Pages (2022)
Ghost Story (2017)
Gloria Bell (2018)
In Fabric (2018)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Janet Planet (2024)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Ladybird (2017)
La La Land (2016)
The Lighthouse (2019)
The Lobster (2015)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Lucy (2014)
Menashe (2017)
Midsommar (2019)
Moonlight (2016)
Past Lives (2023)
Pearl (2022)
Priscilla (2023)
Problemista (2023)
Spring Breakers (2012) 
Stop Making Sense (2023)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Talk to Me (2022)
Uncut Gems (2019)
Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Under the Skin (2013)
The Whale (2022)
White Noise (2022)
The Witch (2015)
The Zone of Interest (2023)

Trap
Maxxxine
Longlegs
Kinds of Kindness
Chime
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Alien ROMULUS sorry it's Romulus not Resurrection 

Julio Torresbong, Japanese pharmacy, the fourth dimension, what are the most spiritually evil films

The Film Festivals are over and what have you done? Besides Google 'so this is christmas lyrics'. Amelia and Rebecca have seen some films and have been rewarded with not only depression and influenza, but also an awareness of the latest trends in cinemâ (Canada, interpretive dance and so on). Amelia reports live from a kebab shop. Warning for misophonia: she was still eating the kebab at the time of the report.

The Shrouds (2024), Rumours (2024), Kneecap (2024), Megalopolis (2024), My Sunshine (2024), Janet Planet (2024), The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), All We Imagined As Light (2024), Problemista (2023), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Armand (2024), The Teachers' Lounge (2023), Cuckoo (2024), Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)

Cinema Bing Bong returns a second time this month to go through the programme of the New Zealand International Film Festival, beginning with quite an extended discussion about what in Gosden's name is going on with the festival and finishing up with some motivational brain-drain content about what's showing at Melbourne International Film Festival. Featuring an interactive aspect where you can email in and say if you think Amelia was the asshole in two situations, the new phrase 'doing my coming to terms with myself', the innovative concept of not seeing movies if you can see the same stuff outside and some recommendations for listeners in loveless marriages.

Note: if you are in a hurry with the NZIFF booking page open, skip to ~48'

Films mentioned:

NZIFF
Janet Planet (2023) US
Problemista (2023) US
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) US
Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) Canada
A Different Man (2024) US
All We Imagine as Light (2024) India
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Iran
Armand (2024) Norway
Tatami (2024) Georgia *NOTE: On further research, may have an anti-BDS plot which CBB does not support*
The Teachers’ Lounge (2023) Germany
Crossing (2024) Sweden/Georgia
Opus (2023) Japan
The Haka Party Incident (2024) NZ
Naughty Little Peeptoe (2000) NZ
The Substance (2024) US
Sleep (2023) South Korea
The Universal Theory (2023) Germany
Kneecap (2024) Ireland
The People’s Joker (2022) US
No Other Land (2024) Palestine
My Favourite Cake (2024) Iran
Brief History of a Family (2024) China
The Village Next to Paradise (2024) Somalia
Wild Diamond (2024) France
The Monk and the Gun (2023) Bhutan
Explanation for Everything (2023) Hungary
Dìdi (2024) US
Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) US
The Sweet East (2023) US
Gloria (2024) Italy
Head South (2024) NZ
We Were Dangerous (2024) NZ

MIFF
The Cars that Ate Paris (1974) Australia
My Sunshine (2024) Japan
Megalopolis (2024) US
The Shrouds (2024) Canada
Dream Team (2024) US
Rumours (2024) Canada

Other
Tenebre (1982) Italy
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) France
Flux Gourmet (2022) UK
Black Narcissus (1947) UK
In Bed With Madonna (1991) US
World on a Wire (1973) Germany
The Desert Bride (2017) Argentina/Chile
Las Herederas (2018) Paraguay
Anatolian Leopard (2021) Türkiye
D’Jon Afrika (2018) Portugal/Cape Verde
Mid90s (2018) US
The Saddest Music in the World (2003) Canada
Doctor Strange (2016) US / Doctor Sleep (2019) US