Cinema Bing Bong

Sometimes there isn't enough time in a month to watch new movies but CINEMA BING BONG perseveres! With a Very Special Episode where Amelia has made up twenty film-related questions to answer. 

Memes from 2007, Amelia's book of linked essays, uncredited re-writes of Blue Moon (2025), the NZ government's Successful Women's Sustainability Egg Freezing Fund, Amelia tries to impress the listeners by pretending she uses a keep cup, best and worse smells in a cinema, the screening of Paddington 3 for dogs, everyone's talking about Project Hail Mary, should children be in movies, Amelia's Most Controversial Opinion, the Arabian Prince of Plugs (2028), Rebecca reads out the whole plot summary of the 2020 film Unhinged.

Films mentioned:

How to with John Wilson (TV, 2020)

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Smashing Time (1967)

Once (2007)

The Drama (2026)

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

Pillion (2025)

Amelia thinks the listeners won't believe that she's actually busy and isn't just doing crosswords all the time. The microphone the podcast was spoken into was not the microphone the computer decided to record from. Is 35 the right age for a sexual awakening? Is let me sniff ya fingers, Mrs a sexy concept?

Wuthering Heights (2025), The Secret Agent (2025), A Little Princess (1995), Blue Moon (2025), The Sound of Music (1965), Sorry, Baby (2025)

It's not what you know now, it's what you're prepared to learn now. That's the sign of a person who is able to grow — Amelia Berry, 2026

Hullo! Happy awards season and welcome to Cinema Bing Bong: the only podcast prepared to ask the big questions by Googling stuff.

The Oscar nominations have been set free into the world. Amelia doesn't know any celebrity memes or red carpet looks. Rebecca has no idea who won a Golden Globe. Every movie has someone falling through the ceiling or a big hole or both. Should children be depicted in film as having personalities? Should every movie have a rapper in it? Is Hamnet awful? Is Marty Supreme the first film to demonstrate an American self-awareness? Amelia gives an overview of New Zealand copyright law and an update on her relationship with her dentist. Yet curiously tries to stop Rebecca talking about the film Ferrari again. Rebecca's news source is South American twitter. Amelia asks the listeners for four hundred dollars.

[Slight audio issues due to climate change torrential rain, sorry ! ! ]

[Recorded before the Safdie article in Vanity Fair AND Odessa A'Zion being cancelled and pulling out of a film where she was slated to play a Mexican character]

Films discussed:

Hamnet (2025), If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025), Sorry, Baby (2025), Marty Supreme (2025)

Other films mentioned:

Sinners (2025), Frankenstein (2025), One Battle After Another (2025), Titanic (1997), La La Land (2016), All About Eve A Different Man (2024), Anatomy of a Fall (2024), Casablanca (1942), Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), Wicked for Good (2025), Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), Grand Tourismo (2023), Bugonia (2025), F1 (2025), Ferrari (2023), Ford vs Ferrari (2019), Train Dreams (2025), The Secret Agent [O Agente Secreto] (2025), I'm Still Here (2024), Sentimental Value (2025), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Blue Moon (2025), Boyhood (2014), Song Sung Blue (2025), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Uncut Gems (2019), Good Time (2017), Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983), A Complete Unknown (2024), The Brutalist (2024), What a Girl Wants (2003), Call Me By Your Name (2017), Bones and All (2022), Beautiful Boy (2018), Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019), Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022), The Lady in the Van (2015), Forrest Gump (1995), Maestro (2023), Invictus (2009), Bend it Like Beckham (2002), Mighty Ducks (1992), Eddie the Eagle (2016), Swimfan (2002), Black Books S1E05: The Big Lockout (2000)

Coming soon:

Sirat (2025), No Other Choice (2025), Pillion (2025), Is This Thing On (2025), It Was Just an Accident (2025), The Choral (2025)

Amelia's recommended video games: Perfect Tides; Perfect Tides: Station to Station

Rebecca's recommended band: Champion Trees

I'll do this bit tomorrow

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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