Movie The Needle

This week, it's the 2022 action comedy starring Brad Pitt as one of five assassins who board a swiftly moving BULLET TRAIN and find out that their missions have something in common - Thomas the Tank Engine and snake bites ensue - it's BULLET TRAIN!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we recreate a UK game show - where Carl has to navigate the Train BRIDGE OF LIES...all does not go well.

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

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This week we tackle a 1968 epic science fiction film , widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential ever made. Directed by Stanley Kubrick , it sees a mysterious artifact uncovered on the moon, leading to a spacecraft manned by two humans and one super computer being sent to Jupiter to find its origins. Hominids and psychedelic sequences ensue, it's 2001: A SACE ODYSSEY!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a game called A Space Oddity, where we put Carl's knowledge of space movies to the test!

Plus we reveal our top 3 space movies and review some more potential entries to the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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This week, it's the Ron Howard directed 2006 globetrotting adventure mystery which sees Tom Hanks' professor of symbology follow clues inside Da Vinci paintings to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society, which could shake the foundations of Christianity - Flashbacks and self-flagellation ensues - it's THE DA VINCI CODE!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we enter the world of blind rankings - where Carl blind ranks Tom Hanks movies.

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

We also discuss the casting.

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This week, it's the 2014 psychological drama/mystery from David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck as a husband who becomes the chief suspect when his wife Rosamund Pike disappears suddenly. Wine bottles and box cutters ensue - it's GONE GIRL!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a silly game, imaginatively called "Gone Girls" where Carl has to name the actress who has disappeared from the limelight from a series of clues .

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

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This week, it's the 1975 comedy from the Monty Python crew which sees King Arthur and his knights of the round table embark on a surreal, low budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles along the way. Shrubberies and swallows ensue - it's MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a silly game, imaginatively called "It's a Sir" where Carl has to identify the knighted actor from a series of clues .

Plus we reveal our top 3 movies starring any of the Monty Python crew and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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This week, it's the 1999 darkly satirical drama from Sir Sam Mendes about a depressed suburban father in a mid life crisis, who decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend - Rose petals and smiley burgers ensue - It's AMERICAN BEAUTY!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a prison-based movie game, imaginatively called "American Beauties" where Carl has to name the American actress from a series of clues .

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

We discuss whether style wins out over substance.

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This week we are haphazardly dissecting a movie that we believe has been errrr...ciminally(??) underrated by critics with a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 2%. Surely it must be better than that...right?

It's the third sequel to an absolute classic. As a shark deliberately takes revengeagainst a family responsible for the previous horrific murder of at least two members of its species. Archive footage and exploding shark ensues...it's Jaws: The Revenge!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a game called Name that Shark, where we put Carl's knowledge of shark movies to the test!

Plus we reveal our top 3 Monster movies and review some more potential entries to the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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This week, it's the 2013 team-up of 80's/90's action legends, as Sylvester Stallone plays a prison security expert who finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world' most secret and secure prison, where he has ro use his skills to escape with help from the inside in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger - mumbling and Arnie-patented screaming ensures - It's ESCAPE PLAN!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a prison-based movie game, imaginatively called "Finish the Sentence" where Carl has to guess whether jail time in a movie is higher or lower than the previous one.

Plus we reveal our top 3 Stallone movies and induct another two movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

Vinnie Jones also comes up in our discussion.

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Movie The Needle goes to the Movies!

Carl and Simon had another little date night, so thought we would record our reflections on the movie we saw, which was the science fiction, black comedy directed by Bong Joon Ho ,following the story of Mickey Barnes, an expendable worker on a space colony ,who is cloned every time he dies - hair sniffing and macarons ensue, it's MICKEY 17.

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 a 1974 Roman Polanski movie as he directs Jack Nicholson as a private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles and finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. -  nose bandages and water politics ensues - it's Chinatown!

We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a game, imaginatively called "Private Detective or Private Browser" where Carl has to distinguish between names of private detectives or porn stars.

Plus we reveal our top 3 detective movies and induct another two movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!

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