Second Take Cinema

The boys tackle this highly-lauded classic of French cinema today. Well known for being a movie fraught with tension; how well does it hold up in the modern day?

Jamie introduces Rory to one of the best high school comedies of the 00s, the very quotable Mean Girls. How has the film aged over the years and what will Rory's reaction be?

It's a double-feature this week as Rory treats Jamie to a biker-themed extravaganza featuring a made-for-TV-movie starring William Shatner as an aging weekend warrior forced out on an unwanted trip by a demanding employer and a late 2000s "comedy" which has a surprisingly stacked cast including Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei!

Jamie and Rory bring you another episode of Second Take Cinema as they take a look at Ridley Scott's sci-fi epic "Alien: Covenant." Can this film bridge the gap between Prometheus and Alien or will the challenge be too much?

Finishing up this year's Halloween specials, Jamie introduces Rory to the hellbilly aesthetic of Rob Zombie's Halloween duology.

Jamie and Rory take a look at the concluding chapter of David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy, a controversial movie to say the least. Does it deserve props for trying something new with a tired old formula or is it better to stick to what works? Would audiences have been more receptive to the movie if it wasn't deliberately mis-represented in the marketing?

Our much delayed series of Halloween specials continues as Jamie and Rory give a second take to the first two entries of David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy.

October is here and all month long Jamie and Rory are going to be looking at movies from the Halloween franchise, starting, of course, with the 1978 original. Joined on their journey by guests Benton Hodges (Haunted: The Audio Drama, The Lurking Fear) and David Gardner (My Invisible Friend, NUTS) the gang revisit the classic to see how well it holds up in today's filmmaking climate.

We're heading back to the early 90s for this week's unusual entry. Jamie and Rory take a look at "Split Second" a weird cyberpunk-buddy cop-cum-alien-knockoff starring Rutger Hauer and set in a perpetually flooded London.

We're pushing the pedal to the metal this week as Jamie and Rory take a look at Soviet-set action thriller Atomic Blonde starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy.