For this episode we shake off the contrarian attitude we took towards Midsommar and join in with the hordes of critics lavishing praise on Céline Sciamma's period romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire. We agree with the professional chumps - it's good! Plus, Sam offers his take on the Suicide Squad spin-off Birds of Prey and the Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel, which plucks Margot Robbie from the bland grimy macho nonsense of the original and puts her in the centre of some colourful sisterly nonsense instead. Sam also follows a listener recommendation and checks out Ben Wheatley's A Field In England, a low-budget oddity featuring some English Civil War deserters taking psychedelic mushrooms and facing off against a wizard. He's a bit nonplussed by it.

We also give a belated thumbs up to the ex-staff of French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, we audibly tear up and struggle to finish our sentences discussing the current situation with Indiana Jones 5, and Danny dunks on Josh Gad.

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On this episode of Film Chat we finally review the recent Best Picture winner Parasite and answer the question everyone's been asking themselves - is this as good as Green Book?

THEN Jake Hoskyns joins Sam in the Film Chat podbooth to review Armando Ianucci's latest film, The Personal History of David Copperfield? Did Armando Barnaby FUDGE this latest Dickens adaptation or was it a tale of two pretty satisfied film goers? Tune in to find out!

PLUS we discuss the news that Bradley Cooper has been approached to play Barry Gibb in an upcoming Bee Gees biopics and wonder how many litres of helium he'll have to inhale in order to record the soundtrack.

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Nazis! Lighthouse keepers! Pagans! This episode of Film Chat has it all!

FIRSTLY, Danny reviews Oscar winning "anti-hate" satire Jojo Rabbit and finds it a real kampf to think of anything positive to say about it.

THEN, Danny and Sam review The Lighthouse which goes straight into their top 5 of black and white lighthouse-based films that they’ve seen this year.

AND THEN, Danny and Sam reappraise the classic British Horror film The Wicker Man and decide that Oh God Oh Jesus Christ is that a great movie!

PLUS we look at the news about the latest instalment in the PWHCU - The Pee Wee Herman Cinematic Universe and catch up on all the latest correspondence from our legions of fans.

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On this week's episode, we place the acclaimed, much-memed Uncut Gems under our critical loupe and check it for flaws. We also add to our collection of awards-season related opinions by reviewing the widely nominated historical epic 1917, in which Roger Deakins stalks a pair of young soldiers around wartorn France, refusing to cut away. And we address a listener complaint by finally reviewing last year's well-received horror Midsommar, although neither of us thought it was that great so the review might not have been worth the wait (sorry Tom).

PLUS we talk about the not very good Oscar nominations.

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On this episode of Film Chat, Sam and Danny review the deeply misleadingly titled Little Women. Which, contrary to it's title, is about a group of regular sized sisters growing up during the civil war. Seriously the smallest one is probably round 5'2, absolute bullshit*

PLUS Danny gives belated hot takes on two of the most talked about films of last year, Joker and Cats. He found one of them to be a bizarre film with full of nonsensical plotting and hammy performances and the other one was Cats!!!!

AND we generally moan about the state of the British Film industry whose idea of a perfect film would be a drama about a bunch of albinos in a snowstorm reciting Churchill speechs - they're white as fuck.

*The film itself is excellent.

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It's the Film Chat Christmas Special, as we reflect on the year gone by accompanied by messages from our listeners, some seasonal sound effects, and surreptitiously munched mince pies. We offer our own top 10, or top 7 or so in Sam's case since he didn't see enough good films to fill out the list. We also dip our toe into looking back on the whole decade but Sam chickens out of that challenge entirely.

Plus, of course, we review the two big holiday releases: the once-in-a-lifetime mindfuck that is Tom Hooper's Cats, and the simultaneously frantic and cautious climax to the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker.

Merry Christmas everyone! It's 12 days long and we're not even at New Year yet so you must accept it's still Christmas! Listen to this episode while it's still festive! Listen now!

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On this belated episode of Film Chat we review 3 films, some of which may still be in cinemas!

Danny saw The Nightingale, a film that taught him that colonialism is wrong through a gruelling narrative which contain multiple scenes of extreme and rape.

Meanwhile Sam saw Frozen 2, a film that taught him that colonialism is wrong through a zippy narrative which contain multiple scenes of extremely catchy tunes and bright colours.

Then they join forces to review franchise-killing feminazi soyboy beta cuck Rian Johnson’s latest pathetic attempt at making a film. Despite the film being completely original it somehow ruined my childhood – why are studios giving this man money?!?!?

PLUS we discuss the BBC’s recent poll of the 100 best films directed by women and shake our heads at the news of an upcoming, strikingly tasteless sounding Michael Jackson stage play.

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In an episode recorded some time ago - before everyone in the UK lived in Hell - we review The Irishman, the epoch-spanning gangster epic from Martin Scorsese. Marty has brought together most actors he's ever worked with and used cutting-edge effects to make them younger and older, and there is no denying that all that is fun. But is it good? That is the question with which our review wrestles.

PLUS! We compare the digital fur technology of two thrilling trailers, we touch on deep fakes, and we look forward to a new Star Trek film and a Netflix prequel nobody needs.

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On this episode Danny reviews Doctor Sleep the not remotely anticipated or long awaited sequel to classic horror film The Shining which finds Ewan McGregor as a grown up Danny Torrance battling demons from his past, as well as literally battling demons from his past! Review spoiler alert- this film rules.

Then he join forces with Sam to review The King, the latest attempt by Netflix to justify it's subscription fee. It's a medieval war film starring so-hot-right-now actor Timothée Chalamet as so-dead-right-now King Henry and contains a lot of mud and mumbling and cod Shakespearen dialogue. Review spoiler alert - this film sucks.

Plus we discuss the new project from exciting veteran director Spike Lee and then also discuss whether every veteren director is a tired washed up hollow shell of their past selves.

Enjoy!

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It's our 200th episode!!! We celebrate this massive landmark by acknowledging it. Otherwise this episode is just like the other ones.

REVIEWED: Monos, an acclaimed, surreal arthouse film about child guerrillas that Peter Bradshaw called "deeply mad" in a five-star review. Danny condemns the film and everyone who liked it. Plus, we review The Laundromat, a star-studded Steven Soderbergh movie that broadly speaking does for the Panama Papers scandal what The Big Short did for the subprime mortgage crisis, that is tell a detail-rich story of financial corruption in a breezy, fourth-wall-breaking way that makes you feel like you're learning even if you're not.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Two films for which we cannot wait: A sexy sounding drama in which Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth play a romantic couple, and Daniel Kaluuya's collaboration with toy company Mattel on a presumably-soon-to-be-Oscar-nominated Barney the Dinosaur movie.

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