This week Abi was hoping for a nostalgic flirtation with an old childhood favourate as she brings Romancing the Stone, an action-adventure romance movie, to the table. However, it seems a little more experience in the adventure genre over the years has revealed the flaws in this one. The crew are underwhelmed by Robert Zemeckis’ … Continue reading "268: Romancing The Stone [1984] Movie Review"

Start with a some romantic mysticism, add a few harrowing social issues, sprinkle in some laughable dialogue and garnish with a good helping of psychic interactions with ground-up plants and you have the recipe for The Mistress of Spices; a bizarre romantic drama about an Indian woman torn between her love for a handsome architect … Continue reading "262: The Mistress of Spices [2005] Movie Review"

What could be so scary about two old ladies living alone in a suburban house? Well, that’s what we’re going to discover this week on SFFCH as Rich brings to the table the wonderfully tense and discomforting What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, a movie famous for it’s its off screen antics just as much … Continue reading "261: What Ever Happened To Baby Jane [1962] Movie Review"

Well, seeing as the only thing you can do with movie trilogies these days is to awkwardly stretch them out into quad-rilogies, that’s exactly what we’re doing here at Spoiler Filled with our own New Zealand Trilogy. How could we talk about Kiwi Cinema without covering the main man himself Peter Jackson and his unique … Continue reading "258: Braindead a.k.a Dead/Alive [1992] Movie Review"

Jamie is truly in his element this week as he brings Singles from 1992 to the table, a film steeped in the music scene of early 90’s Seattle. Abi, too, is in here element as the film features Matt Dillon. Rich should be in his element given his track record with offbeat Rom Coms, but … Continue reading "257: Singles [1992] Movie Review"

The novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, written in 1954, has been a major influence on sci-fi and horror media since its inception, from vampire and zombie culture to apocalyptic disaster. The Omega Man [1971] is one of a number of more direct adaptations of the novel over the years, and seeing as we … Continue reading "256: The Omega Man [1971] Movie Review"

And the Award for Greatest Film Title goes to…The Man Who Killed Hitler And The The Bigfoot from 2018. Rich loves all things Bigfoot, not so much Hitler, and he certainly loves insanely weird film names with hefty promises. Well, despite the extremely ‘B-Movie’ premise there is a lot of quality to it, but can … Continue reading "255: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot [2018]"

We had to purge the memory of Dan Aykroyd’s turn in Nothing But Trouble last time on the podcast, so this time we turn to one of his most loved movie outings, The Blues Brothers. Despite it being one of Aykroyd’s and John Belushi’s famous movies, it still remains firmly a cult classic, even though … Continue reading "254: The Blues Brothers [1980] Movie Review"

After watching the trailer for Dan Aykroyd’s only directing credit Nothing But Trouble, the Spoiler Filled Crew figured the film couldn’t possibly be as bad as the trailer made it look. And we were right! It was sooooooo much worse. Some of the crew can kinda see what he was going for, but all of … Continue reading "253: Nothing But Trouble [1991] Movie Review"

We follow on with the theme of Girl Power from our previous episode in the most subversive way we could think of. That is to say we’re reviewing a film about men dressed as women. And if you think this looks like a cheap rip-off of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, then you’re not wrong, … Continue reading "252: To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar [1995] Movie Review"