Cinematic Leap

Back to the action films this week with Mike's first of three leaps - 2005 action adventure Sahara starring Matthew McConaughey, who we last saw in We Are Marshall way back in episode 8. Listen now to discover if we enjoyed this forgotten modern action classic, or if it should stay forgotten...

Number one on our all time top 5 movie podcasts is clearly this one, not only because this week we leap to 2000 music drama (comedy?) High Fidelity starring John Cusack and Jack Black, but also because we had a lot of fun making it! Glenn's third film of his three leaps. Not sure this will be in the top 5 films we've reviewed this season, although Glenn certainly thinks it should be up there. 

We could have leapt to almost anything when Rosario Dawson was chosen as this episodes leaper, she's amazing and done so many great films, but Glenn took us to the 2001 classic comedy music film Josie and the Pussycats. Something a bit lighter than the last three films Scott had chosen. A nice change! Who knows where he will take us with his next two picks...

This week we discuss Unstoppable, the 2010 film starring Denzel Washington. Unstoppable was the last film directed by Tony Scott, and also the last of three films chosen by our Scott for his leap of three. Unstoppable opens up many possible leap directions for Glenn to chose from but which way will he go...? We arrived at Unstoppable through composer Harry Gregson-Williams.

This episode we discuss 2010 crime thriller The Town. Not the best bank robbery movie out there, but not the worst either. We leapt to The Town through actor Ben Affleck even though he's done plenty of better films. This is far from his worst though...

This week Scott actually chooses a good movie again and we leap to Gone Girl - the David Fincher thriller starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike and based on the book by Gillian Flynn. We leapt here from Starship Troopers through actor Neil Patrick Harris.

This episode we leap to something much more frightening than bad ghost effects - space bugs - with the leaper Jake Busey to the classic sci-fi film Starship Troopers. 

This episode we leap with Michael J. Fox to The Frighteners - Peter Jackson's comedy horror film from 1986. Why didn't we just go straight to Back To The Future 2? No idea!

We couldn't resist leaping to the 80's time travel classic Back To The Future. As soon as Glenn noticed the composer for The A-Team the leaper was chosen. What more can be said about this film that hasn't been said before? Probably nothing, but that didn't stop us taking this on anyway.