The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

Orson Welles stars in the film Compulsion.  And by "stars" I mean he shows up about 2/3rds of the way through the film.  So obviously we're using "stars" in a sort of abstract sort of way.  Better to use the word "saves".  Tune in to hear our review!

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Castle (1997 film)
Sarah: Saltburn (2023 film)
Cameron: Ordinary People (1980 film)

A searing courtroom drama this is not.  Peter Sellers and David Attenborough both play rather sad and lonely characters, one a murderer, one a barrister.  We haven't really sold it that well here.  Tune in and see if we do any better.

Recommendations:
Glenn: Talking Pictures (film podcast...traitor!)
Sarah: Northern Exposure (1990 television series)
Cameron: The Last Hurrah (1958 film)

In this week's episode, the beloved Jimmy Stewart plays the accordion-wielding hero we never knew we needed in our lives in a searing and quite heavily train-based Western, Night Passage. 

Recommendations:
Glenn: Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981 film)
Sarah: Godless (2017 Netflix series)
Cameron: Women Talking (2022 film)

A searing depiction of the real life consequences of buying cookies from Girl Scouts.  At least that's what we got from the film.  But did we like it?  Tune in and find out!

Recommendations:
Glenn: Sicario (again) (2015 film)
Sarah: Anatomy Of A Fall (2023 film)
Cameron: The Holdovers (2023 film)

So sometimes we end up watching a serious movie on the BWB Film Club podcast.  On this week's episode, we will be taking a look at a film about the Attica Prison riot.  I was going to make a pun about the cohosts rioting, but it seems a bit inappropriate given the subject matter, so you better just tune in and find out if we like the film!

Recommendations:
Glenn: Sicario (2015 film)
Sarah: Nyad (2023 film)
Cameron: The Eagle Has Landed (1976 film)

A British murder mystery that clocks in at less than an hour long? How bad could that be? If only there were a way to tune into something and find out...

Recommendations:
Glenn: Alien (1979 film)
Sarah: Fighting With My Family (2019 film)
Cameron: Once Upon A Time In the West (1968 film)

Robert Duvall plays a curmudgeonly Scottish football manager in this plucky sports film about a plucky sports team being plucky.  But just how plucky was it? Tune in and find out!

Recommendations:
Glenn: Rocky (1976 film)
Sarah: Eileen (2023 film)
Cameron: Sunderland 'Til I Die (2018 series)

Michael Caine realizes he can kill people with the incredible wizard-like powers of being really lucky.  Mild mannered chaos ensues.  Do we like the shock that we got from watching A Shock To the System?  Tune in a find out!

Recommendations:
Glenn: The Return Of the Pink Panther (1975 film)
Sarah: The Stranger (2020 Netflix miniseries)
Cameron: Godzilla Minus Zero (2023 film)

Meanwhile in a television development meeting...
"Hey so we've got this idea for a reclusive archvillain that lives on a remote island in Scotland and experiments with deadly sound waves.  Who do you think we should cast?"
"Sean Connery?"
"Oh and they have to be female."
"Uh...I think Deborah Kerr is Scottish?"
"Oh and they need to be Chinese."
"Bette Davis?"
"Perfect!"

Recommendations:
Glenn: Secondhand Lions (2003 film)
Sarah: Brideshead Revisited (1981 television series or 2008 film)
Cameron: Air (2023 film)

It's the end of the year and your favorite podcast cohosts are taking a moment to look back at the films we watched in 2023.  Also we discuss some holiday classics and we become far too sentimental about spending time together!  It's all in this week's special end of the year episode! Tune in!