Rage Whale

We love chatting to this charismatic cinephile. We discuss many things in this episode from Eddington, Nolans new trailer, Pedro Pascal, Jurassic Park, F1 and Superman. But we start discussing the loss of Ozzy Osbourne that happened 10 mins before record (we record a month in advance sometimes). We then discuss Peters recent adventure backpacking in the California mountains and visiting little cinemas and friends along the way. We always have a laugh and an entertaining conversation with this man, we hope you agree.

A hilarious conversation as you might expect but also insightful as we discuss how Kayleigh went from wanting to be an actor to venturing into the Stand Up Comedy scene and actually winning competitions where she has now ended up performing in her very first Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her new show. We talk through aspects of her comedy show, how she got started and the strange places she has performed. Comedians she grew up on and musical comedians that keep her inspired and using her real life to find the funny in every situation. We end with a couple of her songs that go down a treat and ask about some of her favourite movies.

Kevs cousin Jude is a very talented man. At just 17 he has been acting for over a decade, appearing is short films, main features, music videos and many live productions. Now he has also turned his attention to music, being the frontman of an Indie band from Scotland called The Claes who are making waves in the industry. We talk about his music and songwriting process as well as his inspiration where you can clearly hear that he has a huge desire to be creating and constantly learning and improving. We also discuss his acting career so far, auditioning for Trainspotting 2 and his future goals to follow both passions. Jude is wise beyond his years and has put the work in becoming a cinephile and student of the greatest musicians throughout history. We think he is going to go far and we're excited to watch him on his journey.

Gareth joins us again as he feels our previous quiz attempts have been disastrous. Entertaining but frustrating. Will he do a better job hosting it? He has just come back from Download Festival a couple of days ago and tell us a little about that before we start. The quiz has a few different rounds and themes to keep everyone engaged. Please play along at home and see if you can answer before us.

We have a fun chat hearing about the joy and the horror stories of working in the TV and film industry. Tash has a career on the production side with organisation and logistics which can be exciting but also incredibly intense and a thankless task that takes up all your spare time. This can eventually affect your health and wellbeing so the main take away message is to take care of yourselves. Please give her a follow on social media as she is a huge movie fan and has many entertaining content that's funny and interesting as well as many reviews and quizzes. She appeared as a supporting actor on the UK his series Skins which we delve into. Her new Career in Gaming gets James excited so we delve into that as well. This is a fun conversation we hope you enjoy.

Gary Oldman is one of the undisputed greatest living actors of all time. He is well known for being able to embody any role and unique voice that when he fully commits, he disappears into the role where sometimes as the audience you don' t recognise him at all. We talk through his personal life with the struggles he has endured as well as his victories. We take a whistle stop tour of his greatest roles and movies he has been part of; from hidden gems, to huge franchises which makes you realise the quality and body of work he has mastered is beyond exceptional. All this and he is still such a down to earth, funny guy which makes you appreciate his acting even more especially in the 90s when all he did was play 'The Bad Guy'. He is very cool and worthy of great respect in the movie industry.

This is a fun conversation on behind the scenes of the writing and creative process. We discuss working on The Apprentice for the last few years as well as other Reality TV programmes like Geordie Shore. The amount of work and juxtaposition between the creative control of them both. We start on how Jonny and Kev met working on his short film 'Ethel' starring Miriam Margolyes, Professor Green and previous guest Elijah Baker (from Episode 59) and then discuss Jonnys many ideas for new short films and features including the behind the scenes of his pitch to producers. We love having a guest on so knowledgable and full of interesting and fun stories, therefore we know you will enjoy listening to this him too.

Be Warned: This is a spoiler review. James is excited to talk about 28 Years Later but we try to discuss the first 2 films from 2002 and 2007 to put the new movie into context. This new movie has really divided opinions including the 3 of us. We enjoyed the experience, but question many of the choices on plot and cinematography.

Kirstie runs an Instagram page called 'Kirstie's Weekly Revue' which has insightful and funny reviews of new movies. She with Kev and Rage Whale take part in a friendly online community of movie reviewers who talk and share thoughts in respectful ways. We discuss her thoughts on recent releases of 2025 and then about her job as a Radio DJ for Radio Warrington especially with Eurovision 2025 currently happening. Kirstie is very charismatic and funny leading to some great conversations around Marvel, Trailers, Nostalgia and the emotional and controversial scenes in Disney Cartoons.

Drews friend from their younger years working as an Usher at Theatres in London who went on to work with esteemed Theatre Directors tells us many interesting stories about that world as well as working with a huge number of high calibre actors in the movie industry.