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Getting Sent to ELO rehab

This week starts with a bit of déjà vu as we discover everyone's favourite sequels in Question of the Week. After that we dive straight in and say hello to some sailors in "Letter to Brezhnev", then Aidan reviews the Dickens out of Walter Hill's "Hard Times" (apparently that's a highbrow literary joke - don't expect any more of those).

This week starts with a bit of déjà … no! We won't do it!

Instead we'll just find out if our Film of the Week - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - can live up to the expectations of comic book fans and raccoon fanciers everywhere.

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Herbie's Bananarama

This week we're a duo for only the second time ever, but one of us struggles to keep his composure in the latest and sleaziest Question Of The Week.

Moving on as seamlessly as possible we look at a trio of movies including the dreamlike horror classic "Phantasm", the holier-than-thou historical biopic "Ludwig" and the latest from show favourite Park Chan Wook - the deceptively layered and stunning "The Handmaiden".

We're taking a break after this episode, but we will return in two weeks full of beans and with Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 in tow.

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Moon-Faced Super Mario

We span the wheel of directors and out popped William Friedkin, so this week we take a look at the ever-growing cult of 1977's "Sorcerer" (a.k.a. Wages of Fear).

We also discuss one location movies, Fellini's final hurrah in "The Voice of the Moon", Elio Petri's never-ending quest for the most awkward film titles in the business with "Property is no Longer a Theft" before finishing with the inimitable Takashi Miike and his "Dead or Alive" trilogy. Also, we apologise in advance if you leave this week's show with an image involving Fellini and Tarantino rattling away in your brain. Sorry.

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Extreme Wolf Dentistry with the Shaw Brothers

This week's show is all about action!

After an explosive Question of the Week we move onto Off the Shelf featuring the anarcho-feminist bomb-heaving action of Second Run's new release "My Twentieth Century", the retro rubbery gore of British indie horror "The Void", and, erm, a very different kind of action in a church pew in Criterion's reissue of John Waters's filth odyssey "Multiple Maniacs". Is 'distracting the vicar' more or less dirty than it sounds? We'll leave you to decide while we crouch behind piles of rubble for our Film of the Week, "Free Fire" - Ben Wheatley's glorious ode to violence against both people and fashion.

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The Luis Buñuel Drinking Game

The wanderer returns.

After a month away Rob is back, and what a week to return! We kick things off with another trip to Korea with Kim Jee Woon's spy thriller "Age of Shadows", and then everything gets delightfully weird as it seems to be genital week for off the shelf, beginning with Bunuel's "Phantom of the Liberty". The meat in this nonsensicapalooza pie is the Spanish splatter film "Pieces" before we reach the finale of this weird show - Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Endless Poetry". There are no words …

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Oh, Oh, Dean Israelite

We're back with a new platform and some very old features including the long-awaited return of Director's Lottery (this times it's Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder"), and a new set of B-sides. Join us as we dive into Viola Davis' Oscar-winning performance in "Fences", Janelle Monáe's utterly winning character in "Hidden Figures", Liam Neeson's wooden (literally), performance in "A Monster Calls" (he plays a tree), and capping it all off is Jordan Peele's much-anticipated directorial debut "Get Out" (just so you know, we'd have voted for it to be film of the week a second time if we could).

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Northumberland Noir (Hunting the Wild Tosserlad)

Not so much a podcast, more an epic odyssey as we head into the wilderness.

After traversing the outer reaches of Producer Rob's comic collection we hail our slime-mould overlords in the bizarre documentary "The Creeping Garden", before embarking on a Norwegian safari with "Troll Hunter" - with time left for, erm … Northumberland and Roman Polanski's early classic "Cul-de-Sac". After that, it's our berserk Feature Presentation with that old man "Logan" (he keeps on rolling along).

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Four Minutes in Bollywood

This week we treat ourselves to a relaxing spa weekend and say hello to Jason Isaacs with our film of the week.

Before that, we check out psychedelic Czech vampire coming-of-age drama (it's a genre), "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders", and roll a six-sided dice for retro horror "Beyond the Gates". After subjecting those to an auditor's level of scrutiny it's time to book into Chateau Creepy for Gore Verbinski's "A Cure for Wellness".

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Footloose by-the-Sea

There are an awful lot of people plying their trade in film land - some of whom are real, and not made up at all.

This week we negotiate that minefield with film-noir classic "Mildred Pierce", Cuban new-wavisms with "Memories of Underdevelopment", and history picked from the life of Thomas More in "A Man for all Seasons". With time and technology conspiring against us, we finish off with the wonderful Oscar nominee "Moonlight".

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Batsploitation

This week we've shrunk to a threesome and decide to offset the cream of the BAFTAs crop with some 1970s exploitation.

First it's the turn of Roger Corman & Vincent Price with the "Tower of London" before we transition into a hundred super-colourful costume changes with Blaxploitation's one and only "Willie Dynamite". Our Feature Presentation is the much anticipated "Lego Batman Movie".

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