Drive-By Cinema

Trigger warning for themes of suicide as Paul and Rick discuss Korean film-noir Decision To Leave. Rick tests ChatGPT vs Paul in puzzle solving, while Paul expresses his dislike of sushi, but his love of conveyer belts. 

Paul and Rick discuss design protection and cakes in the shape of mushrooms, along with bribing border guards as they navigate the infected zone of Gareth Edwards' 2010 film Monsters. Search for registered designs on the Design View website.

Ben Wheatley's take on J G Ballard's High Rise, on the dissection table in this episode. Paul proves himself again to be much better read then Rick.

Episode 22 the first one of  2023. It's all about 2010 sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go. Except for the bits about Avatar and design protection. 

Asymmetric intelligibility, Aldi vs M&S, and other stuff are discussed along with Norwegian movie Troll.

F**king magnets, how do they work? And how do Paul and Rick keep ending up watching these lock-down style movies with a cast of 3 or 4 people? It's Vivarium this time.

Mentioned in this podcast - controversial explanation of electricity on the Veritasium YouTube channel, and the concept of the "McMansion".

Paul discusses fake colonic irrigation TikTok videos for some reason, thinks the ship of Theseus could have done with some stone cladding, and fails to resolve Rick's dinner party etiquette conundrum. He also reveals that he has lost his visual imagination though still has vivid dreams. None of which has anything to do with The Block Island Sound.

It's not a recent movie, but The Core has an infamous relationship to scientific accuracy. How do Paul and Rick take to it?

A Dutch future Greta Thunberg goes back in time to our near-future to stop arctic fracking in  Captain Nova. Paul and Rick discuss the noble sacrifice of teleportation.

Every so often, Paul and Rick find themselves reviewing a film which has a name of more than one word. It's confusing and difficult for them, but somehow they muddle through. This time they tackle Everything Everywhere All At Once to see if it justifies the profligate use of words.