What a year it’s been. Lots of dead musicians, more Enda, some Brexiteering and a Trump in the White House. However at the cinema, life seemed to continue as normal. We saw over 160 new films that hit screens this year and have picked out our favourites and chatted about them in the podcast. We will also publish individual lists – Nigel’s Top 10 and Páraic’s Top 10.

Looking for a consensus pick of our joint films of the year? Seems hard to look beyond Paterson, 13th, Mustang and Sing Street.

Thanks as always for listening every month, and reading our increasingly sporadic and middle-aged musings. Friends of Spooool lists will be posted Thursday 22nd.

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A special spoiler-tastic review of the new Star Wars film (if indeed it is a Star Wars film).

Stay tuned for a week of Best of 2016 coverage!

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It’s December so all the “awardsy” films are coming our way with some stellar performances from Adam Driver and Amy Adams currently on our screens.

This month we’re also previewing the new Star Wars film, remembering Arnold’s delightful Jingle All the Way and of course yacking away about some of the best (and worst) films we’ve seen in the last few weeks.

Next time around we’ll be summarising our favourites from 2016 – got a list? Email it to [email protected] or tweet @spool and we’ll feature it here!

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It’s winter!

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We recently travelled on Ireland’s tempestuous River Shannon and decided to watch a Werner Herzog double-bill of his 1982 South American adventure Fitzcarraldo which starred the enigmatic Klaus Kinski and the supporting making-of doc Burden of Dreams from director Les Blank.

@spool is watching BURDEN OF DREAMS while on a boat moored in Leitrim village. #WernerHerzog #Shannon #leitrim #WatchWithSpooool

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It’s a half century of podcasts. Crikey. Anyway we’re carrying with business-as-usual with a look through some of the films that got us talking in the last month!

Mattress Men
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Little Men
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Girl with all the Gifts
The Magnificent Seven

The Girl on the Train
American Honey
I, Daniel Blake

IFI Horrothon 2016
Light House – David Lynch Season

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After a nice bit of a breather in August, we’re back with a bang with in-depth, expert, often patronising, discussion of 15 films!

Reviews
Sausage Party
Don’t Breathe
Julieta
Strange Occurrences in a small Irish village
A Date for Mad Mary
Viva
David Brent
Suicide Squad

Movie Moments of the Month
– Born to be Blue
– Lights Out

September Preview
– Hunt for the Wilderpeople
– Blair Witch

IFI Documentary Festival 2016
– Mattress Men
– Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
– Camerperson

Scene It
– Gene Wilder (The Waco Kid, Willy Wonka)

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In this month’s podcast… reviews of Justin Lin’s entrant into the Star Trek film series as Páraic and Nigel reach a difference of a opinion… Is the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters worthy of all the talk that it’s been getting?… Some thoughts on Nicolas Winding-Refn’s The Neon Demon and a look ahead to the Blake Likely shark film The Shallows…. A few minutes for reviews of Ken Wardrop’s Mom & Me and some other Irish films worth talking about that played the 2016 Galway Film Fleadh… And lastly August previews in the form of Bourne, The Purge: Election Year and Suicide Squad. Phew.

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Amidst the madness of Euro 2016 we dip in to see what’s worth your time at the local multiplex (or independent house of cinema).

Also we wrap the podcast with a few moments to digest the Galway Film Fleadh 2016 lineup.

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In the latest podcast we round up the films that stuck with us from the last few weeks and chat about the new Shane Black film The Nice Guys.

Also It’s June! While the European Championships are on in France to feed the football fans, you can treat yourself to some Shakespeare at the Irish Film Institute.

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