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Welcome back to Cocktails & Shattered Dreams for #86 on Kev’s list, The Insider. It’s a high-stakes look at corporate ethics and the 90s era of journalism. We’re going deep on Al Pacino staying just below "ranting caricature”, and Russell Crowe delivers an epic performance. We end up with a "dead heat" rewatch score, and the mashup blends Big Tobacco with a WWI propaganda football match.

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This week on the pod we discuss the difference between a Channel 4 and an ITV childhood when there’s only 4 channels. We discuss how long a 1 liner can be and still be a 1 liner, as well as the difference between 80s and 2000s action.

We get into the details of how a helicopter works, how Andy's scoring works and which is more complicated. How do you compare an action movie with a semi documentary about a financial crash...with ease apparently as this week, at number 87 on Kev's list, we talk about 1987's The Running Man.

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This week at Cocktails and Shattered Dreams, Kev, Andy &MCU guru Freddie shrink down #88 on Kev's Top 100: 2018's "Ant-Man and the Wasp" – his "least fave fave" Marvel (baffling the expert 😂).

Kev digs Rudd's everyman charm, quantum gimmicks, and comedy beats; Andy brands it "fine" (his fave MCU slur 😁), with too much exposition, ghost villain flop, and post-Rudd fatigue. They roast villain overload, FBI truth serum comedy gold, quantum everything, and why Kev only has one more MCU film on his list, which one could it be?
We cover all the reactions, with magic fun from Freddie! Beige homework from Andy. And perfect comedy-action balance from Kev. Catch school shrinks, Pez dispenser chases, grandma heists, and Whiplash mashup 🥳🥳

On the menu: Freddie's tequila rose shots (smallbut punchy), Kev's sake bombs for shrinking vibes, Andy's vodka sprite – standard, like the film

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This week at Cocktails and Shattered Dreams, we tackle #89on Kev's Top 100: 1989's Tom Hanks suburban nightmare "The 'Burbs". Kev's nostalgic for its zany Gremlins vibes and stacked cast (Hanks! Fisher! Feldman!); Andy calls it bizarrely all-over-the-shop, with zero chemistry, weak plot, and Hanks edging into Saviour mode too soon.

Alongside guest Dani, we debate satanic panic, Carrie Fisher's meh wig, typecast army nuts, and why Kev skipped Splash, Big, and Turner & Hooch, for this "funny" Hanks flick 🤯 Dani graciously calls it amusingly weird; while Andy clocks it as Scooby-Doo gone wrong with Rear Window pretensions; Kev admits it crumbles on rewatch.

Expect Rear Window riffs, werewolf red herrings, product placement overload, and an ending that reveals... nothing much 😂😂
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This week at Cocktails and Shattered Dreams, Kev and Andy tackle #90 on Kev's Top 100: 2024's Pharrell Williams "Piece by Piece" – their first ever documentary showdown, and naturally it's the one made entirelyof Lego 🥳. Kev's mesmerised by the tiny plastic beats,swirling colours, and to quote an epic film, I don’t think he can “handle the truth" about the last part of the film; Andy's debates whether this "happy" flick dodges the big topics, and will we ever find out why theNeptunes broke up?​

On the menu: Kev cracks open pure childhood nostalgia with Um Bongo straight from the carton, while Andy rolls up with a piña colada that kicks off like a party high but crashes into a sugar slump – much like the film's second half. They dive into tackling massive topics in a fun Lego world, Pharrell still hustling for his mates, and if that insanely creative synaesthesia opener just... quietly bricks it later on.​

Poppy phones in a flawless 100/100 rewatch score 🥳,Kev ribs Andy's romance heart for turning to coal, and we learn Andy's life story is pure Fast & Furious chaos while Kev dreams of an animated midlife meltdown 😂. Catch Snoop in Lego glory, Pharrell's eternal niceness, Andy's finally spot-on scores, and an ending flatter than ourpost-cocktail vibes 😂😂.

Quote: "Relevance is a drug"

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This week Arnie heads to Mars in Total Recall, but the real question is: did he actually go there, or is this whole podcast a dream? 🤔

Andy's back with his hilariously high standards and controversial scoring system. This week, guest Rob joins us at the bar to discuss whether Ben Affleck should be the next Terminator, why the remake makes the original look like a masterpiece, and—most importantly—would you actually go to Recall and get your memory implanted?

We dive into body horror (so much body horror), mysterious suitcases full of stuff, and Andy's completely unhinged belief that Sinners and From Dusk Till Dawn are totally different films. Spoiler: they're not, and yes, Andy is definitely dreaming.

Plus: Rob gets an unexpected education in Lego movie lore. Strap in. It's 1990. It's violent. It's confusing. And honestly? We're not sure any of this actually happened.

Quote: "A man is defined by his actions not his memory"

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This week at the bar, Andy and Kev take on Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn’s neon-drenched crime thriller and possibly the quietest film to ever cause this much disagreement. With Ryan Gosling barely saying a word, Andy questions Kev’s long-standing obsession with strong, silent types — accidental pattern or window into his soul?

Is Drive home to the greatest lift scene ever filmed, rivaling The Apartment? We dig into the real Ryan Gosling (not the deep-fake one from Season One), asking whether he’s the leading man Hollywood keeps searching for — or the Patrick Swayze of his generation hiding in plain sight.

Top Trumps descend into chaos as Andy tries to be generous with scores for a film he doesn’t love, Kev refuses on principle, and the pair debate the perfect ratio of violence to action. Somewhere along the way, evidence emerges that Kev may have time-travelled back to 2011 to influence Andy’s opinion.

Number 92 on Kev’s list. Satin jackets, synths, and existential staring ensue

Quote: "No...It's bad luck"

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This week Andy and Kev dive into the cult 80s action classic Road House (1989) starring Patrick Swayze, exploring bouncers, bar fights, mullets, monster trucks and small-town villains in one of the strangest movies of the decade.

We ask whether Swayze is the zen martial-arts philosopher of his generation, why every 80s bad guy owns a helicopter, and whether Tai Chi is an acceptable form of nightclub security training. Kev questions how many films Andy has actually seen, whether he’s watched them in the correct order and if Road House represents the absolute peak of late-80s cinematic excess.

It’s cocktails, shattered dreams and roundhouse kicks as number 93 on Kev's lists heads into the dive bar to find out if Road House is a masterpiece, a disaster, or somehow both at once.

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This week we review Jim Carrey's The Mask—a chaotic '90s masterpiece with a dog in a suit, swing music, and Cameron Diaz's film debut. Andy's scoring is all over the shop (we're talking D- territory. He's giving serious Roger Ebert energy 😁). The dice stage a fightback, and we somehow detour into Avengers territory for some reason.

Fair warning: Andy's scoring has never been more confused.

🎲 Dice drama included.

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This week at the bar we talk about how hard it is to get a good snake tattoo (especially in the 80s) and how much action do you need in a film for it to be considered an action film? We discuss how 80s films don’t really bother explaining plot, even when a POTUS has an inexplicable English accent. We agree best not to have any question on this one as, at #95 we watch Escape from New York.

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