The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

This week we take a look at Cary Grant's very first film role.  And right off the bat he is typecast as an Olympic javelin thrower.  But is that enough to carry an entire 1930's romantic comedy/dystopian musical nightmare?  Tune in and hear what we think!

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Fall (2006)
Sarah: Call the Midwife (2012-)
Cameron: The Two Popes (2019)

Hey remember all those supporting actors you loved from Casablanca? Well they're back! And still desert adjacent! But instead of Humphrey Bogart we have Burt Lancaster and instead of Ingrid Bergman we have...Corinne Calvet? Tune in and listen to find out whether we think this reunion is worth the celluloid it's printed on!

Recommendations:
Glenn: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Sarah: Legend Of the Guardians (2012)
Cameron: Casablanca (1942)

A very old Katharine Hepburn teams up with a very young Jason Bateman in a made for television romantic comedy.  Fear not, the romantic relationship isn't the one between Bateman and Hepburn.  Unless that's your secret fanfic fantasy.  In which case sorry to disappoint.  But does the film disappoint?  Tune in a find out...

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Congressman (2016)
Sarah: Spellbound (1945)
Cameron: Jungle Fever (1991)

So you know how Robert Shaw always played really cool, bad(ish) guy characters that you still kind of rooted for? Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like if he played a boring character that didn't really do much? Well have I got the answer for you!  Tune in and learn more!

Recommendations:
Glenn: Waking Ned Devine (1998)
Sarah: Black Mirror (namely Season 6 from 2023)
Cameron: Donnie Brasco (1997)

So fun fact: Tom Hanks began his career with a movie about Dungeons and Dragons.  And yet somehow he managed to become Tom Hanks.  A remarkable feat considering this film is basically the equivalent of rolling a natural one.  If you know, you know.  So just how bad is it?  Tune and in and find out!

Recommendations:
Alastair: The Century of the Self (2002)
Sarah: Searching (2018)
Cameron: The 'Burbs (1989)

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of three podcast castaways trying to make sense of a film starring everyone's favorite actual castaways.  All credit to Gilligan's Island that a show that had only ran for three seasons and had ended over ten years earlier was still popular enough to warrant a film.  Not just one film, but three! Sure they were made for television, but still!  But is goodwill enough for us to recommend actually watching it? Tune in a find out!

Recommendations:
Josh: John Mulaney: Baby J (2022)
Sarah: The Outfit (2023)
Cameron: Treasure Island (1990)

This week's offering comes from one of the godfather's of indie filmmaking, none other than Charles B. Pierce.   From the legendary mind that brought you The Legend of Boggy Creek and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues comes The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a film about a serial killer terrorizing a small town.  All of the ingredients are there for a good bad film,  or perhaps even a halfway decent film.  But did it live up to expectations? Tune in and find out.

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Guard (2011)
Sarah: The American President (1995)
Cameron: Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment) (1999)

A trio of past their prime British acting legends join the did he ever have a prime Jack Palance in a horror thriller about a pretty needy statue of an African god.  For those of you who are curious, the statue somehow racked up a higher body count than the people doing the sacrificing on its behalf.  Not really a spoiler alert.  If you want the actual spoilers, tune into our podcast episode and find out what it's all about!

Recommendations:
Glenn: The In Laws (1979)
Sarah: Open Range (2003)
Cameron: Theatre of Blood (1973)

In this, our first episode of the relaunched Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we tackle the coming together of that guy who would go on to play Perry Mason and that woman who would go on to play Jessica Fletcher.  Shockingly, it is a murder mystery.  Didn't see that one coming.  But what did we think?  Tune in and find out!

Recommendations:
Glenn:  The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995)
Sarah:  Whiplash (2014)
Cameron:  Delirious (1991)