Apologies for the lax Film Chat service lately! Some technical weasels and gremlins have been clogging up our efforts to transfer to premier podcasting platform Acast, and it's caused a couple of delays. Don't worry though, a team of expensive nerds is working on the problem and we've been assured it will all be sorted soon.Until then, here is the latest chat! Consisting of reviews of a trio of independent films -- lyrical coming-of-age documentary All This Panic, arthouse torture porn The Eyes of My Mother, and mockumentary thriller Operation Avalanche. Something for everyone, except explosion fans. Not many explosions.We also discuss whether Robert Downey Jr. will make a good Dr. Dolittle, we talk about fairy tales' backwards attitudes to interracial marriage, and we spend a surprisingly long time discussing racial purity, in the sort of tangent you have to save until episode 111 if you want to keep any listeners whatsoever.

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This week Danny reviews not one but two documentaries; Gleason, all about former football star Steve Gleason's ongoing battle with ALS and Uncertain, all about an American town in the middle of nowhere. If you like to cry for 90 minutes and then stare at beautiful shots of nature for another 90 minutes then this is the double bill for you!We also, being the woke, white, middle class guys that we are, check out Jordan Peele's inventive horror film Get Out. It's no Eat Pray Love but it's still very good.We also wonder how they could possibly reboot The Matrix seeing as it has already sorta come true and report on the last uncompleted film of genius film director/frozen peas salesman Orson Welles.

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There's been a lot of critical love for Logan, a final gritty outing for Hugh Jackman as everyone's favourite growly mutant. Film Chat, however, spends 15 minutes slating it because it features no references to the 1990s X-Men animated cartoon series. Where is Morph??Danny also reviews Paul Verhoeven's Elle, which he describes repeatedly as "an electric piece of cinema" in an obvious and shameless attempt to get quoted on the poster. They've all been printed already, Danny!Plus, we try to talk over the ear-splitting gushing of the entire film industry at news of a potential Spielberg film starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep; we examine the IMDb's new feminist classification; and we unveil Hugh Jackman's extremely downbeat theme song for Logan.

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Strap yourself in listeners because this bumper edition of Film Chat is longer than fucking Leonard Cohen song (R.I.P).This week Sam reviews two films which are adaptations of plays. First up is La La Land!...... Sorry I mean Fences, Denzel Washington's adaptation of the Pultizer prize winner play by August Wilson. Then he casts his discerning eye on La La Land!....Sorry I mean It's Only The End Of The World, the latest film by director and child, Xavier Dolan. Meanwhile Danny continues his quest to watch every film with the word "women" in the title by reviewing Kelly Reichardt's latest film La La Land! No wait that's wrong what I meant to type was Certain Woman.We also dissect the Oscars in forensic detail, report on the casting for Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film and learn everything there is to know about the film watching habits of US Presidents.

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A veritable bevy of reviews this time! Danny delves into 20th Century Women, director Mike Mills' tribute to his mother and sisters, and music documentary We Are X, which charts the terrifying lows, dizzying highs, and creamy middles of Japan's foremost prog metal band. Sam just wanted to see a dude shoot some dudes, so he went to check out hip thriller sequel John Wick: Chapter 2.Plus! We chat about the Oscars, in a discussion that's going to seem pretty darn irrelevant if you listen to this episode after today, we get excited for the return of still-alive Dick Van Dyke to the world of Mary Poppins, and we try rather unsuccessfully to talk dirty with a robot Christian Grey.

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This week we review Taxi Driver the classic film about the iconic loner, Travis Bickle. Then we review what would quite possibly be Travis Bickle's least favourite film, the universally acclaimed Moonlight. We also try and get our heads round the news of the Toni Erdmann remake, confess our weird movie crushes and examine the filmography of one of modern cinema's greatest storytellers, Steve Bannon.

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This week, we review Alice Lowe's revenge thriller Prevenge and declare pregnancy to be "weird", and Sam tries to say smart things about Kirsten Johnson's "woman with a movie camera" documentary Cameraperson.We also wonder what esoteric collection of objects Mica Levi will use for her next film score, get excited about the prospect of a David Bowie art-crime musical, and suggest some killer lines for Stephen Fry to use at tonight's BAFTA ceremony.

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On this week's episode Danny catches up with T2:Trainspotting the belated sequel to the era defining classic. Did the film make him as angry as Begbie? As regretful as Spud? Or as happy as... err actually everyone is a bit miserable in the film.Then he and Sam join forces to review festival darling Toni Erdmann. I don't want to pre-empt the review but lets just say it's one of the best 2hr 40min Germany comedies of the year.....so far. PLUS we wonder whether Michael Bay is man to take down Trump through the power of cinema, speculate about a remake of Any Which Way But Loose and debut an exclusive musical preview of Liam Neeson's latest angry-old-man-killing-machine movie.

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The relentlessly upbeat Film Chat duo dive headfirst into some of the doomiest and gloomiest films currently on release. Rebecca Hall plays a depressed newsreader in Christine, Casey Affleck an unhappy janitor in Manchester By The Sea, and Natalie Portman a grieving First Lady in Jackie. Everyone is having a tough time of it -- except for cinema-goers of course, as all these films are good.PLUS! We take a look at the Academy Award nominations and decide that #OscarsStillTooWhite, a long-delayed message brings us news of the world's first YouTube-only documentary, and Shia LaBoeuf offers his thoughts on Nazi-punching.

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Featuring La La Land, a film for which its star Ryan Gosling spent months learning Jazz piano and Lion, a film for which its star Dev Patel spent months growing a beard.We also examine whether using cutting age CGI to de age De Niro for an upcoming film is a bad idea or a really bad idea, postulate which film would be best to show a football team before a match and pitch a radical hard sci-fi take on What Women Want.

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