This week Danny learns that being young in America can be a profound, thrilling, dangerous, heartbreaking and uplifting experience if Andrea Arnold's latest film American Honey is anything to go by. While Sam learns that being Black in America sucks if Ava Duvernay's documentary 13th is anything to go by.They also discuss the latest Disney Animations that are being prepped for live action remakes. (Perhaps they could do a live action version of Oliver and Company where they're victorian urchins instead of dogs? Just a thought.) And Danny gives the latest lowdown on everything that's been happening at the London Film Festival and tells you which upcoming films are total pantyhose.

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This week, we review a film in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a magical corpse that farts and gets boners — no, not “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” but the whimsical philosophical comedy Swiss Army Man. Danny also tells us many fun Brian De Palma facts he learned watching the eponymous documentary directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. Did you know Brian loves the smell of acorns? Interesting.Plus, we reaffirm our performative wokeness with a discussion about Tim Burton, Star Wars, and diversity; Danny goes on and on about all the brilliant films he is seeing at the London Film Festival that Sam isn't; and we follow in Swiss Army Man’s footsteps by finding poetry in flatulence.

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THIS week Danny reviews The Magnificent Seven, the seventh instalment in the Magnificent series. Will it be up there with Magnificent 3: Blinkey Did It! or will it be even worse that Magnificent 4: Corn For All? MEANWHILE Sam reviews Hell or High Water the acclaimed neo western which has more gruff men in it than Clint Eastwood can shake an invisible chair at.THEN they both review The Girl With All The Gifts an inventive British post apocalyptic zombie thriller/road movie/morality play. Yes, another one!PLUS we discuss the latest stage is Disney's plan to remake their back catalogue in every conceivable form, Danny bloviates about the London Film Festival and Sam produces his sexiest song yet.

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On this week's episode, reviews of two life-affirming films guaranteed to warm your cockles and tickle your funny bone, leaving you hot and discomforted. Danny went to see long-awaited threequel Bridget Jones's Baby and connected with it so deeply he now self-identifies as a pregnant woman; and Sam sought out Kiwi indie comedy Hunt For The Wilderpeople, which made such an impression on him he has abandoned civilisation and now lives in a dirt pit deep in the New Zealand bush.Plus! Jared Leto takes on his latest role guaranteed to set an audience's teeth on edge; Danny gets a tour of the London Film Festival from Ken Russell's ghost; and Sam does his best to channel John Hannah with a heartfelt ode to Brangelina.

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All the awesome people are dying, the economy has tanked, hate crime is on the rise and Bake Off is leaving the Beeb.....but Film Chat is....very late BUT still here.We try and divert you from this cluster fuck of a year by discussing whether Will Smith's latest film will be his most powerful yet, whether Woody Allen's new film is his laziest yet and whether Johnny Depp is capable of playing man who isn't drunk or weird.

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This week, a triple whammy of reviews! Childhood of a Leader, which lusty teens and Danny flocked to at the promise of some brooding, dreamy R-Patz action, only to discover to their dismay it's a historical psychodrama about a mop-haired fascist boy; Brotherhood, the final part of Noel Clarke’s Hood trilogy in which poor Noel gets pulled back in just when he thought he was out; and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Lonely Island’s parody of megastardom featuring more man-baby silliness and celebrity cameos than you can shake a booty at.We are delighted to be joined this week by special guest Dougal Macqueen, who wows us with his knowledge of Catherine Breillat’s oeuvre and the xXx franchise. He also helps us discuss Paolo Sorrentino love of making films about rich old men and James Franco’s efforts to make a yucky movie about everyone’s favourite predatory subculture, pickup artists. Plus, Sam attempts to write a Lonely Island song in 10 minutes.

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This week we review the latest Pedro Almodovar film Julieta, a film that features everything we like in films, namely; sexy women, sexy men, sexy women having sex with the sexy men and life shattering grief.We also investigate how many chickens have to die for Dwayne Johnson to maintain his hugeness, give our sympathies to Chinese audiences forced to watch the latest Bourne film in 3D and wonder how it possibly came to pass that Shaun the Sheep: The Movie wasn't voted the best film of the 21st century.

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This week we enter a magical world of giants, dreams, sea monsters, fleas, and horny French kings, as we review a pair of cinematic fables -- Spielberg's sparkling Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG and Matteo Garrone's dark fairy-tale anthology Tale of Tales.Also! We discuss John Turturro's plans to make his classic "The Jesus" character extra creepy and whether movies are irresponsibly encouraging young people to declare war on that much-maligned demographic, middle-aged white dudes. And we are treated to some mini essays on popular music videos from legendary director-cum-philosopher Werner Herzog.

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EPISODE 83 OUT NOW!!This week we review a meticulously made, brilliantly structured, supremely confident and hugely influential film. I'm either referring to Barry Lyndon or Suicide Squad but you'll have to listen to find out.Plus we discuss the news of an upcoming remake of one of Al Pacino's most shouty films and yet another oestrogen laden reboot of a beloved bro franchise.LIKE! SHARE! DOWNLOAD! PLAY! LISTEN!

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This week on our currently somewhat irregular podcast, we boldly go over colourful space romp Star Trek Beyond, a film bravely acting as if its poorly received predecessor (2013's Star Trek Into Darkness) doesn't exist. We also take a peek at fly-on-the-wall political documentary Weiner, a film about a driven candidate for New York Mayor bravely acting as if public photographs of his penis don't exist.ALSO! Aquaman visits Whole Foods, Guy Pearce comes out with some sick quips, Mrs Brown falls victim to Brexit, and we talk at length about dick pics.

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