Film Chat

On this belated episode of Film Chat, Danny reviews anticipated threequel Bill and Ted: Face the Music in which the internet's boyfriend Keanu Reeves teams up with that guy who was in the previous films to give you a hit of nostalgia laced joy. It's basically fine.

THEN we do a deep dive into I'm Thinking of Ending Things, the latest existential offering from America's saddest director, Charlie Kaufman. Y'know, given the past few years it can often feel like the world is going to hell but Kaufman's film is a reassuring reminder that this isn't true because existence itself IS hell so it would be impossible for itto get any worse.

PLUS exciting hot takes on David Fincher's Zodiac, Netflix series Umbrella Academy, and that one-off Channel 4 documentary about dogging that got repeated last month.

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Film Chat episodes are just like buses. You wait 3 months for one and then two come along within a week of each other. That's the saying right?

On this belated ep we give scorching hot takes on the latest Judd Apatow man child dramedy The King of Staten Island, Alex Garland's robo chamber piece Ex Machina and Amy Heckerling's seminal 90's teen flick Clueless. We also find time to discuss a proposed Princess Diana biopic and wonder whether it'll be shit or the shit.

Next episode due April 2025. Keep watching the seas!

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After an editing process longer than those of the the last three Christopher Nolan films combined, this archive audio recorded back in May 2020 is now ready for consumption by contemporary audiences. Remember May? It was a lot like now except barbers weren't open and Tenet hadn't come out. This blast from the past covers:

-- Maybe Christopher Walken's best performance ever in King of New York

-- Horror classic Witchfinder General

-- Patrick Keillor's 1992 documentary London, which features a voiceover from a man very sad about the general election result and is consequently a mood

-- Travolta's 30 different epic wigs in Gotti

-- The Snyder cut

-- Us being happy about what a dick Richard Curtis appears to be

-- Sam's self haircut

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The latest missive from the lockdown bunker contains:

-- Danny's views on the festive anti-Brexit rom-com Last Christmas, featuring Emilia Clarke and a very literal interpretation of some George Michael lyrics

-- Some dunking on Extraction, the gritty urban shoot-em-up on Netflix whose epic single-take action sequence is frankly trying too hard

-- Chat about Billy Wilder's late period comedy The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

-- Brainstorm session for a film pitch for Coronavirus: The Movie, including a little diversion into a discussion of the Josie Long film Super November

-- Sam calling himself out for tolerating the mid-season lull in the third series of Castlevania

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This time in our respective lockdown bunkers, we discuss:

- Quiz, the TV show about the coughing man who cheated on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

- Castlevania, Netflix's cartoon about very softly spoken vampires and even more softly spoken vampire hunters

- Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows, probably not as good as the Netflix cartoon but nevertheless a classic

- Netflix's Four Weddings knock-off Love Wedding Repeat

- #MeToo era horror The Invisible Man, which is one of many good films with "man" in the title

- The best film with "man" in the title

- Good voice-overs in animations

- 6 Underground, intensely stupid Michael Bay film

- Firewall with Harrison Ford and Paul Bettany, you all remember that one

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Several weeks into the lockdown the cracks are starting to show in the Film Chat machine so prepare for yourself for an episode which is somehow even less well prepped and even more free wheelin' then the last one. Our conversation covers the following classic films that you've been dying to hear our takes on:

• Confused and irritating Viggo Mortensen drama Captain Fantastic

• Lightweight Netflix rom-com Set It Up

• Sly and Arnie buddy film Escape Plan

• Classic Kung Fu movie The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

• Recent Austen adaptation Emma

• Loving 50's rom-com homage Down With Love

Stay indoors and keep washing your hands

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We may be hunkered down inside forts made of panic-bought loo rolls and egg cartons, but we're still in contact with one another and we have the ability to record ourselves, so the podcast goes on!!! In this loose, even less prepped edition of Film Chat, we meander around what we've been watching lately instead of making physical contact with other humans. Conversation covers:

--Mark Wahlberg's Netflix oeuvre

--fash buddy cop film Dragged Across Concrete

--sexy 70s Italian cop film Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man

--Studio Ghibli's Laputa Castle in the Sky

--the classic film everyone's always talking about, A Simple Favour

--the other oft-mentioned culturally relevant movie, Yes Man

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With the Coronavirus forcing us all to self isolate everyone has more time to do one thing.

Knitting.

Unfortunately, like idiots, we made this podcast where we watch films, an activity nobody was doing before the pandemic and has only decreased as a result of it.

Nevertheless we pointlessly review Escape from Pretoria, a South African real life prison drama which contained none of the excitement of nailing a purl ridge stitch.

We also review Bacurau a brilliant genre bending fever dream come political allegory. Is it as good as successfully executing a herringbow lace rib? Of course not.

Plus we find time to discuss how Covid 19 has impacted the box office and give a hot take on Nicholas Cage’s latest acid infused genre piece Colour Out Of Space.

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