Sweet Gin-Ger Brown, we got a Matt Dillon film. Abi likes him. Ant doesn’t. Rich has no strong opinions on the guy. So we have a fairly balanced view coming into this week’s film, 1984’s ‘The Flamingo Kid’, a coming-of-age story about a Brooklyn teenager’s Summer working at a ‘posh’ beach resort and the various … Continue reading "124: SFFCH – The Flamingo Kid"

We’re film fans here at Spoiler Filled, not football fans. But perhaps we are football film fans? Although this weeks focus, ‘Looking for Eric’ by acclaimed British director Ken Loach, isn’t what we would consider your typical sports movie, seeing that no sport is really played. Instead we have a kind of gateway sports movie … Continue reading "123: SFFCH – Looking For Eric"

We’re film fans here at Spoiler Filled, not football fans. But perhaps we are football film fans? Although this weeks focus, ‘Looking for Eric’ by acclaimed British director Ken Loach, isn’t what we would consider your typical sports movie, seeing that no sport is really played. Instead we have a kind of gateway sports movie … Continue reading "123: SFFCH – Looking For Eric"

We delve back into obscurity this week with the awkwardly named ‘That Championship Season’ from 1982. Written and Directed by Jason Miller, famous for playing an angsty priest in The Exorcist (that’s right, it’s Jamie’s pick again!), the film follows 4 men who were part of a championship-winning, high school basketball team meeting up with … Continue reading "122: SFFCH – That Championship Season"

We delve back into obscurity this week with the awkwardly named ‘That Championship Season’ from 1982. Written and Directed by Jason Miller, famous for playing an angsty priest in The Exorcist (that’s right, it’s Jamie’s pick again!), the film follows 4 men who were part of a championship-winning, high school basketball team meeting up with … Continue reading "122: SFFCH – That Championship Season"

Want to make a moralistic tale that makes you question stereotypes and prejudices? Better get yourself some Henry Fonda! Here, we have him playing Juror Number 8 in 1957’s ’12 Angry Men’, a film that all cinema books tell us is a ‘must see’. So  join us as we poetically analyze, scrutinize, argue over and … Continue reading "121: SFFCH – 12 Angry Men"

Want to make a moralistic tale that makes you question stereotypes and prejudices? Better get yourself some Henry Fonda! Here, we have him playing Juror Number 8 in 1957’s ’12 Angry Men’, a film that all cinema books tell us is a ‘must see’. So  join us as we poetically analyze, scrutinize, argue over and … Continue reading "121: SFFCH – 12 Angry Men"

What happens when a great character actor plays a character-less character…? Well, that’s what Rich, Abi and Jamie are here to find out this week with one of Peter Seller’s final films ‘Being There’. Come and listen about this slow, subtle and strange satire of upper-crust society as it is accidently infiltrated by Sellers’ simple … Continue reading "120: SFFCH – Being There"

Even though he does keep popping up in some dodgy films, we all need a little more Christopher Walken in our lives, and ‘Spoiler Filled’ is here to oblige you with Ant’s choice of ‘The Prophecy’ plucked out of the late-Nineties weird movie obsession with angels and demons. You best find yourself a good perching … Continue reading "119: SFFCH – The Prophecy"

Who doesn’t wanna talk about the toileting habits and sexual proclivities of dogs, am I right? I know we do. Join Abi and Rich as they talk about this animation from 2009 based on the memoir of writer J.R. Ackerley, recounting his relationship, in frank and explicit detail, with a rescue dog named Tulip. If … Continue reading "118: SFFCH – My Dog Tulip"