Join Darryl for this From the Vault episode, revisiting Salt, the 2010 espionage thriller directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer suddenly accused of being a Russian sleeper agent, and whether this lean, relentless chase through Washington still holds up as one of the best pure action showcases of its era.

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In this review, Darryl shares why Angelina Jolie's balancing act between innocence and guilt left him completely convinced either way, why Liev Schreiber's conflicted mentor stuck with him long after the credits rolled, and why he still can't get over the fact we never got the sequel this story so clearly set up.

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Join Fraser as he reviews The Invite, the 2026 dinner-party comedy from director Olivia Wilde, an English-language remake of Cesc Gay's The People Upstairs starring Wilde herself alongside Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, and finds out whether this single-apartment, four-hander earns its place among this year's best A24 releases.

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In this review, Fraser shares why Seth Rogen's quietly wounded dramatic turn caught him completely off guard, how the film's closing piano duet became his favourite moment of the whole year so far, and why he walked away wanting to track down both Carnage and the original Spanish film for comparison.

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A quick one from Fraser — Frame 70 now has a home outside the podcast feed. frame70.com is live, with written companion reviews for every episode, the new Frame Index rating system, the Frame 70 Wire for movie and TV news, and a coming up next section so you always know what's on deck. Plus a first look at what's landing over the next few months, including Whalefall, Clayface, Digger, Lanterns, Android and a new season of Reacher — and a look ahead to December, with Avengers Doomsday, Dune Part Three, and a Richard Curtis Christmas run leading into Love Actually.

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Join Fraser as he reviews Star City (2026), the Apple TV series that spins the For All Mankind universe on its head by flipping the space race lens onto the Soviet side, tracing the cosmonauts, the KGB minders and the secretive machine behind the Soviet lunar triumph, and whether this first season earns its place alongside the parent show.

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In this review, Fraser shares why Agnes O'Casey's performance as Irina left him completely hooked, how the Venus descent sequence gave him chills for days after finishing the season, and why by the end of episode two he'd stopped noticing the accents entirely and just fell straight into the story.

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Join Darryl as he revisits The Notebook, the 2004 romantic drama from director Nick Cassavetes starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner and Gena Rowlands, for this From the Vault look back at one of the most beloved love stories in modern film.

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In this review, Darryl shares why James Garner's quiet devotion as the older Noah left him speechless, how the reveal that Allie wrote the notebook herself changed the way he saw the entire film, and why, having been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's himself, watching this story hit far closer to home than he expected.

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Join Darryl as he reviews Song Sung Blue, the 2025 film from director Craig Brewer that turns the real story of Milwaukee's own Neil Diamond tribute act, Lightning and Thunder, into a full blown musical drama starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, and asks whether their journey from bar circuit dreamers to genuine tragedy and triumph earns every tear it asks for.

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In this review, Darryl shares why Kate Hudson's descent into grief left him floored, how the real Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam connection turns out to be even more moving than the movie's version, and why he walked away wishing more than anything he'd gotten to watch Lightning and Thunder perform in person.

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Join Fraser as he reviews Sugar (2024), the Apple TV show that returns for a stylish second season, following Colin Farrell's alien private investigator as he digs deeper into a case that starts to cost him more than he bargained for.

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In this review, Fraser shares why Colin Farrell's performance as John Sugar keeps getting better with age, how he correctly called the season's final twist episodes before it happened, and why that last shot of the machine finally lighting up left him half annoyed and half grinning.

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Join Darryl as he revisits The Beekeeper, the 2024 action thriller from David Ayer starring Jason Statham as a former operative turned vigilante, in this From the Vault look back at one of the most satisfying action movies of recent years.

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In this review, Darryl shares why the film's opening scam sequence hit uncomfortably close to home given his own experience with fraud, what makes the shed fight one of his favourite action sequences in years, and why the quiet final moment between Verona and Adam Clay landed harder for him than any explosion in the movie.

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Join Fraser for his review of The End of Oak Street, the 2026 film from director David Robert Mitchell that turns the dinosaur movie into an eighties suburban nightmare, following an ordinary family whose street is torn out of time itself.

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In this review, Fraser shares why the creature effects left him floored, which raptor stalking sequence had him gripping the armrest, and why one gut-punch death scene is still rattling around in his head days later.

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Darryl turns to television this time, reviewing Alley Cats (2026), Ricky Gervais's new animated series for Netflix. It's a six-episode look at Gus, a foul-mouthed ginger stray, and his gang of feral cats trying to get a lost kitten home through a hard London street life.

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In this review, Darryl shares why the Puke storyline had him laughing at something he probably shouldn't have, how hearing the After Life cast reunited in one room completely changed the way the show landed for him, and why the scene with an old cat named Pete waiting in a carry basket left him thinking about mortality long after the credits rolled on episode six.

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