What happens when a celebrated French director makes a Spanish language opera about a Mexican cartel leader’s gender transition journey? You get the cinematic… film that is Emilia Perez, a movie that has garnered the second most Oscar nominations of all time while also being one of the most masochistic viewing experiences imaginable. Join us this week as we attempt to make some sort of sense of Emilia Perez.

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On another thrilling episode of “Far From Ideal colon Sofa Spuds”, we run the gamut from The Muppets all the way through Ricky Gervais and explode out the other end with the recent horror movie offerings of Nosferatu and Heretic. There’s something for everyone! As long as you’re interested in The Muppets, Ricky Gervais, Nosferatu or Heretic. End bracket.

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Madame Web has been trashed by pretty much everyone, including some of those involved with making the film. But is all that criticism entirely fair? Are we simply jumping on the bandwagon? Didn’t all of our mothers go to Peru to extract magic spider venom to cure us of a genetic disease in utero… Metaphorically?

If you were worried that we don’t spend enough time criticising Benedict Cumberbatch, put those fears to rest.

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This week we ask important questions about the core of high art and cinema such as: Is Spy Kids cool? How many Marvel films have we each seen? And was the score of The Butterfly Effect entirely composed by Limp Bizkit?

Be careful not to miss this episode, you may end up in a Slumdog Millionaire situation one day and need to recall information from it. FYI we do not discuss Slumdog Millionaire in this episode. We do, however, touch on: Challengers, Dear Santa and The Ghostbusters Franchise. Lucky, lucky you.

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If Greta Gerwig’s 2023 ode to Mattel isn’t ready for the Far From Ideal treatment then too bad because here it is. Classic moments of this episode include: the infamous Oscars ‘snub’, an extensive examination of Max’s Barbie History knowledge and the introduction of our new, original and entirely patented game Six Degrees of Nicholas Hoult. With all that and more we still manage to mention the Fast and The Furious Franchise.

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This week Hannah and Max go full free association. From lazily watching the first film that pops up on any given streaming platform to half remembered bits and pieces of decades old TV shows: if you're not wearing a hat then put one on so that you can hang onto it. If you're already wearing a hat, get in touch to let us know what kind.

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On this week's thrilling episode Hannah and Max barely mention Bradley Cooper's egregious prosthetic nose in the 2023 Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. A slew of other actors, topics and films come up throughout including: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I'm Not There, Elvis and many, many more.

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A new weekly podcast where Hannah and Max pick cinema to pieces and feast upon its bloated corpse. Sometimes there are games.