The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

A post-James Bond Sean Connery teams up with a pre-James Bond Christopher Walken and a somewhat lackluster group of other robbers to knock over an entire building's worth of apartments.  It goes...poorly.

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Gentlemen (2024 series)
Sarah: Baby Reindeer (2024 series)
Cameron: Stand By Me (1986 film)

Ah 1970's Disney.  A time when the eligible pool of well known television characters was so great that they could make as many live action films as they wanted.  Does that mean sometimes the creative well might have gotten a little dry? Sure.  But if it hadn't, we wouldn't have gotten The Cat From Outer Space!

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Sting (1973 film)
Sarah: Challengers (2024 film)
Cameron: The Last Kingdom (2015-22 BBC/Netflix series)

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week.  But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast!  Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the original cohosts!  She joined us officially on Episode 15 of the original show, which we are sharing with you now as a special treat! Or perhaps as a device of torture! Depends on your view on Sarah and the rest of us.  Have fun and see you next week!

Excitement meanders across the screen as a seemingly geriatric Gary Cooper wanders around trying to fight a court martial with varying degrees of confusion and self-righteousness.

Recommendations:
Glenn: Death At A Funeral (2007 film)
Sarah: Hacksaw Ridge (2016 film)
Cameron: Waterloo (1970 film)

If you really like Alec Guinness, then this film is for you.  Two Alec Guinness for the price of one.  Throw in a deranged Bette Davis, and you have yourself a deal!

Recommendations:
Glenn: Aliens directors cut (1986 film)
Sarah: The Da Vinci Code (2006 film)
Cameron: Feud: Betty and Joan (2017 television series)

If you thought the title was questionable, when until you find out that the plot involves a celebrity tv dinner entrepreneur who travels back to WWI to stop a secret German sonic superweapon.  Titles not so bad now, is it?

Recommendations:
Glenn: Cinema Paradiso (1988 film)
Sarah: Lovely, Dark and Deep (2023 film)
Cameron: The Prisoner (1967 television series)

If you think the United States has a sometimes messy political system, this movie reminds us that others can suffer from the same problems, albeit in this case in a more stiff upper lip, British sort of way.

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Wrecking Crew (2008 film)
Sarah: Arrival (2016 film)
Cameron: Staged (2020 television series)

Leslie Nielsen as the baddy.  Sort of.  But not really.  A searing depiction of the harm reckless journalism can have on an innocent man.  Sort of. But not really.

Recommendations:
Glenn: The God's Must Be Crazy (1980 film)
Sarah: Focused (2015 film)
Cameron: Jojo Rabbit (2019 film)

It's that old cliche: classical pianists loses hands in a cab accident and needs to have the hands of a potential criminal attached to him and it somehow it turns him into a revenge filled serial killer. Yawn.

Recommendations:
Glenn: Moonstruck (1987)
Sarah: Knives Out (2019)
Cameron: The Insider (1999)

So what would you do if you were given a million pound note and told that if you held on to it for one month and returned it intact, you could have some sort of job? Cash the note and take the million pounds? Well that's the obvious answer, but turns out Gregory Peck decided on a slightly different route.  

Recommendations:
Glenn: Bullets Over Broadway (1994 film)
Sarah: Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993 film)
Cameron: JFK (1991 film)