Movie The Needle

Movie The Needle goes to the Movies...again!! It's been a while since our last Movie the Needle date night, but we are back from the cinema to talk F1 Colon The Movie. What can Bradley Pittstop do to wow us on the Biiiiiiiiiig (IMAX) screen?

All the usual sections you know and love but a more condensed format. It's bright, it's breezy, it's still two morons who don't know what they are talking about. Enjoy!

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This week, it's Edgar Wrights 2017 action crime caper which sees Ansel Elgort as a young getaway driver who must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love, and freedom. ipods and tyre screeching ensue - it's Baby Driver!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we have fun with the often used trope of "one last job"!

We ask whether style wins out over substance.

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This week, it's our second monthly retrospective episode, where we look back on the episodes released in the last month (Moulin Rouge, The Big Short and Casablanca) and discuss anything we missed, some listener feedback and discuss some data.  Repetition, Lingering thoughts and repetition ensue - it's the Movie The Needle June 2025 Retro!

We revisit our initial thoughts from the episode to see if anything has changed, open up the mailbag for listener feedback and thoughts, as well as covering some data.

Plus we reveal our top 3 Steve Carrell movies and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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That's the end of season 3!

To close things out we are pitting the 16 movies we have covered in this season against each other in a tournament to find out the overall winner, that will proceed to the champion of champions tournament where it will face the winners from seasons 1, 2 and 4!

We've ranked all the movies based on their cast, production and plot and let them battle it out.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

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A preview of season four of Movie The Needle, with Carl and Simon returning for another run of film discussions.

A quick intro to season 4 of the Movie The Needle podcast…coming soon!

This week, it's a quote-tastic, black and white classic from 1942 which sees Humphrey Bogart play a cynical, expatriate, American bar owner who struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Fezzes and human trafficking ensue...it's CASABLANCA!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week it all goes horribly, horribly wrong!

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This week, Adam McKay directs an all star cast as we enter the thrilling world of the United States housing bubble, which, spoiler alert, caused a global financial crisis in 2008. Subprime mortgages and synthetic collateralized debt obligations ensue - it's THE BIG SHORT!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week Carl has decide which actors are Bigger or Shorter than each other.

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We're trying something a little different this week. To go alongside our new (ahem) slimmed down(??) regular episodes, each month we will do a little retrospective of the movies covered in the month. This month it's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullet Train and Sinners.

We revisit our initial thoughts from the episode to see if anything has changed, open up the mailbag for listener feedback and thoughts, as well as covering some data.

Plus we reveal our top 3 Morgan Freeman movies and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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This week, we warm up our vocal cords and don our stockings for Baz Luhrman's 2001 jukebox musical about a poor bohemian poet in 1890s Paris who falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star, coveted by a jealous Duke. Absinthe and musical mashups ensue - it's MOULIN ROUGE!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week Carl tries to remember his school French lessons by translating movie titles into their more familiar English ones.

Plus we reveal our top 3 Ewan McGregor movies and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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Movie The Needle goes to the Movies!It's been a while since our last Movie the Needle date night, but we are back at the cinema to cover a movie that is causing quite a stir with audiences around the world. It's a Ryan Coogler film starring Michael B Jordan and Michael B Jordan - Is it a horror? Is it a musical? Blues and plenty of red ensue - It's SINNERS!

All the usual sections you know and love but a more condensed format. It's bright, it's breezy, it's still two morons who don't know what they are talking about. Enjoy!

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