Soft Spot Cinema

'Soft Spot Cinema' returns, with a few changes!

This episode, Dan & Pete are joined by talented young actor and magician Oscar Leonard (@oscar_leonardd) for a rambling conversation that starts at 2019's 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', but quickly gets off track...

You can follow Competent productions on Twitter at @CompProds and catch our weekly 'Karaoke Quiz' every Monday night at the Liverpool Arts Bar!

An unrelated bonus, while Sean gets his act together to record more 'Soft Spot Cinema'...

What started as some line recordings as a learning exercise became its own little radio play. Sean Henry performs 'DOGBERRY: CONSTABLE OF THE WATCH', combining new writing with dialogue from Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'.

You can catch Sean as Dogberry in a new adaptation of 'Much Ado About Nothing' - directed by Matt Holt - at Great Open Air Theatre's Summer Shakepeare Festival. Coming to Manchester, July 28th - August 15th 2021. For more information, visit www.thegoatmcr.co.uk

"DOGBERRY: CONSTABLE OF THE WATCH"

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Yorkshire-born poet, educator and activist Matt Abbott would like you to know that he's never been a football hooligan. As a younger man, however, he did watch Danny Dyer in 'The Football Factory' a worrying amount of times. In episode 10, he joins Sean to discuss the film and give you an insight into life on the fringes of a bizarre sub-culture...

Check out Matt's work at www.mattabbottpoet.com and follow him on Twitter at @MattAbbottPoet

You can follow Competent Productions on Twitter at @CompProds and Sean at @shorn_henry x 

Stuart Crowther is an actor, writer, lecturer and Vegan Queen, known on the drag scene as Creeping Miasma. Stuart joins Sean to share their passion for the arguably underrated 'Grease 2', starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield and Eve Arden.

You can follow Stuart on Twitter at @stuARTcrowther, and check out the exploits of the Vegan Queens at veganqueens.co.uk x

This episode contains short performances of 'Cool Rider' & 'Charades' from 'Grease 2', for the purposes of parody/review. Material property of RSO Records and Paramount Pictures.

Pete O'Keeffe is a complex character. A talented actor and musician, he is also one of Liverpool's foremost 'Spider-Man 3' apologists. In episode eight, he does his best to convince us that Sam Raimi's great failure was nothing of the sort...

This episode features a short clip from 'Spider-Man 3' for the purposes of review. Property of Sony Pictures. Also featured, a short excerpt of 'Mr. Sandman', performed by Dickie Valentine. 

Actor and musician Christopher Arkeston's love for the 'High School Musical' franchise runs deeper than his best mate Sean ever knew. When he was a young lad, he found himself in a position not unlike Troy Bolton's - standing at a crossroads, torn between making magic on the stage and continuing with the local rugby club... All is revealed in episode seven, as the 'Soft Spot Cinema' podcast continues.

Original song 'Crossroads', written by Christopher Arkeston & Sean Henry, performed by Christopher Arkeston. You can follow Chris on Twitter at @ChrisArkeston and see him onstage in the West End's 'Only Fools & Horses: The Musical'. Tickets are back onsale at onlyfoolsmusical.com.

This podcast features short audio clips of Zac Efron for the purposes of parody/review. No infringement intended.

Actor, comedian and artist Hugh Raine swings into the cinema to see a film that, for some reason, holds a special place in his heart - 1987's 'The Secret of My Success', starring Michael J. Fox. Hugh is currently the writer/illustrator behind the Beano's 'Betty and the Yeti' comic strip and one of the hosts of the Disney-centric podcast '37 Disney Street', available where most good podcasts are. You can follow him on Twitter at @Hugh_Raine.

This episode contains short clips of dialogue from 'The Secret of My Success' for the purposes of parody/review. Property of Universal Pictures. No infringement intended. 

You might not be able to go to Benidorm for your holidays this year, so why not step inside the wardrobe and visit your local whimsical fantasy land instead? Actor Kudzai Mangombe drops into the cinema to see what she describes as "the BEST film ever made" - 2005's 'The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe'. You can see what Kudzai's up to on Instagram at @kudzai_mangombe and Twitter at @KudzJM x

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Viral sensation Grace Long drops into the cinema to see the live-action remake of '101 Dalmatians', featuring the mighty Glenn Close! If two deadpan northerners talkin' misplaced raccoons is your thing, you may well like it.

Grace's viral video series 'Northerners giving bad news' can be found on her Twitter page at @gdiddlydog

This episode features short clips from '101 Dalmatians' for the purposes of parody/review. No infringement intended. Property of the Walt Disney Company. 

In episode three, Laura Noble (YouTube's 'The Book of Laura') joins Sean to watch one of her soft spot classics, 2004's 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins, Jared Padalecki and Eugene Levy!

Follow Laura on Twitter at @lauraenoble and find Competent Productions at @CompProds x