This week's massive Episode of The Countdown comes courtesy of top-level patron Sally Vaughan, who wanted the discussion to be about the very best Ambiguous Endings to Films! This one could have gone completely off the rails folks, but aside from teasing the end of the podcast (or did they?), Paul and Wayne are surprisingly civil with one another's choices.

 

The big news, however, is that history is made on the show as the guys bury the hatchet on a long-running argument/debate/movie fight they've had since they became friends! This is truly momentous! So hit play to find out what 29 year old issue is finally put to bed as The Countdown continues ...

 

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Ben Affleck looks glum and world-weary, Oscar Issac has a plan, Charlie Hunnam is less annoying than usual, Pedro Pascal has a weird callsign and Garrett Hedlund has none... and these five little soldiers went wee wee wee, all the way to the drug dealer's stash in Netflix's new big budget action-thriller, Triple Frontier.

 

Is it a triumphant success of a release or yet another Netflix disappointment? The boys answer that question as they weigh in with their review ...

 

Time Stamps:

Triple Frontier NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 9:43

Triple Frontier Spoiler-Filled Thoughts: 9:43 - 17:06

Final Thoughts: 17:06 - 17:42

 

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Warm up the fireplace, put on the kettle, and order in from the local fish and chips shop because this week Paul and Wayne are talking their Top 10 British films of all time! How many horrors will Paul try and work onto his list? And will there be more rom-coms on Wayne's? Plus: What contemporary film-maker will feature the most between the two lists?

 

Find the answers to all these questions and a whole lot more (including whether Four Weddings and a Funeral has any long-term merit) as The Countdown continues ...

 

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Australia got a film before the rest of the world! So to celebrate this fact, the boys headed out to the cinema to catch this dramatisation of the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai to determine whether said rest of the world should make the effort.

Time Stamps:

Hotel Mumbai NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 14:46

Hotel Mumbai Spoiler-Filled Thoughts: 14:46 - 23:07

Final Thoughts: 23:07 - 23:50

 

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Have you ever found yourself holding your breath while watching a movie that you were left gasping for oxygen? Have you caused ligament strain in your hands from holding the arms of your seat so tightly? And have you found yourself leaning so far forward on that seat that your ass was in danger of sliding off? Well, Wayne and Paul have, so for this week's show they're celebrating the very best films which never let up with their countdown of the Top 10 Most Intense Films!

Aliens, Misery, Saving Private Ryan and The Thing are just some of the films that did NOT make the lists, so find out what films trumped these much celebrated classics as The Countdown continues ...

 

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Despite the determined trolls out there, Captain Marvel has killed it at the box office and Paul and Wayne give their thoughts in an in-depth review of the 21st film in the MCU! Is it top-tier Marvel or does it slide down the list when compared to the last ten years of releases? And what will the guys' final scores be when one of them is relatively unimpressed and the other seems quite enamoured with the film?

Time Stamps:

Non-Spoiler Review: 0:00 - 15:57

Spoiler-Filled Thoughts: 15:57 - 21:44

Final Scores: 21:44 - 23:03

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Ever been so totally shocked by a moment in a film you struggled to process it? What about being unable to speak out of sheer consternation at what you've just seen? Or maybe you were just so angry at a choice a movie made that you wanted to rail at the stars? (Which, for the record, is still better than becoming an internet troll.)

 

Well, Paul and Wayne have experienced all of the above, so this week they're counting down their Top 10 WTF Movie Moments! Which is your cue to strap yourselves in as the boys cover everything from shocking deaths to a particular animal's breasts. (Yes, sadly, you read that correctly).

 

In other words, it's more of the chaos you've come to expect, as The Countdown continues ...

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Green Book: the best film of 2018, according to the Academy. But is it? Wayne and Paul this week dive into this polarising film and give their verdict on whether it should have won the Oscar for Best Picture and go down in history as such.

NOTE: This whole review is spoiler free (though Wayne tries his absolute best at one point before Paul shoots him down).

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The Top 10 Last 10 returns for the first time in 2019 as Paul and Wayne each countdown ten films they've recently seen (but have yet to talk about on the show) from worst to best. Among the films discussed in the Ep are: Anna and the Apocalypse, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, The Sisters Brothers and King of Thieves.

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Once again, the box office has failed the boys, so they're turning the clock back to late 2018 to take a look at Steve McQueen's Widows and its all-star cast. The boys give their thoughts amid hypothesising why this film was such a failure and failed to garner the Oscar buzz that it was anticipated to generate. And find out who changes their tune (to some degree) through the course of the review ...

 

Time Stamps:

Widows NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 11:50

Widows SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 11:50 - 17:49

Final Scores: 17:49 - 19:05

 

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