The Horror Cut

Welcome to episode 044 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary are joined by filmmaker Delilah Niel to discuss the wonderful, heartwarming Little Miss Sunshine. 

Synopsis
The Hoover family puts the fun back in dysfunctional by piling into a VW bus and heading to California to support their daughter in her bid to win the Little Miss Sunshine Contest. The sanity of everyone involved is stretched to the limit as the group's quirks cause epic problems as they travel along their interstate route.

Links in conversation
INSTA - @delilah_rniel
YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpkee-OTo-CZ8V5wgkkr9FA

Creative Recommendations

Kill Your Darlings
https://thetempohouse.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/kill-your-darlings-an-interactive-audio-play/

Short Film - Rabbit
https://www.charlottehenderickx.com/rabbit

Short Film - The Lift
https://youtu.be/toKzmYKAcbI

Delilah Bio
Photographer and Experimental Videographer based in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Welcome to episode 043 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Grab your microphone and join us for Mamma Mia, picked by Danish creative Karoline Daae Christensen

Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile Sophie, the spirited bride, has a plan. She secretly invites three men from her mother's past in hope of meeting her real father and having him escort her down the aisle on her big day.

Links in conversation
INSTA - @karolinedaae94 / @capturedbykaroline
capturedbykaroline.wordpress.com

Creative Recommendations

Making Movies is HARD
http://www.makingmoviesishard.com

live theatre: BARD IN THE BOTANICS 2021
https://www.bardinthebotanics.co.uk

just get a real job podcast
https://justgetarealjobpodcast.podbean.com

Creativity, Inc: 
Overcoming the Unseen Forces

Karoline Daae Christensen Bio
Karoline Daae is a Danish creative chameleon. She is currently studying a Master in Screenwriting and hope to bring joy to the world with her animated family stories and romantic comedies. She has previously worked in journalism and published a poetry collection called “Sparks To Ashes”. At 27 Karoline is excited to continue her career in the creative business and see where it takes her. Musicals are a soft spot especially if ABBA is the soundtrack!

Welcome to episode 042 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Grab your sunscreen and flip flops as Rebecca and Gary are joined by actor Jamie B. Chambers to discuss Danny Boyle's underrated film - The Beach

Synopsis
Richard (Di Caprio) is an American backpacking through Asia with a handful of friends from Europe. While in Bangkok, he meets a mad Scotsman who calls himself Daffy Duck (Robert Carlyle). Shortly before Mr. Duck kills himself, he gives Richard a crude map to a place in Thailand that he claims is paradise on earth: beautiful, unspoiled, and uninhabited. For lack of anything better to do, Richard and his companions try to locate the spot, which, after a dangerous and taxing journey, takes them to a beach as beautiful as Duck said it would be. Richard and his friends settle in, but before long they discover that they are not alone; a large group of fellow travelers has already dug themselves in, and they have established a community with the same social evils that Richard was hoping to leave behind. Just as important, there is an army of natives who grow marijuana in the nearby hills and do not appreciate the presence of these visitors.

Links in conversation
Instagram: @jamiebchambers
Twitter: @jamiechambers_
Website: www.jamiechambers.co.uk

Wilson Easter Egg
https://www.reddit.com/r/eastereggs/comments/kemt1v/cast_away_wilson_easter_egg_in_danny_boyles_the/

Creative Recommendations

Breathe | Lockdown Short Film - Sarah Grant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvas91k8Wjw

Just Get A Real Job
https://justgetarealjobpodcast.podbean.com

https://efap-podcast.fandom.com/wiki/The_Critical_Drinker

Room 16
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13587192/

Jamie's Bio

Jamie is an actor, performer and film producer from West London. He has been acting since 2010, working in TV and Film.
He trained at the Actors Temple, studying Meisner technique.
In the following years, he has worked steadily on Festival and Feature films, including Beyond Redemption, Fury and Star Wars.
A trained martial artist, with an international black belt in PKA Kickboxing and experience in Judo and Krav Maga.
He is also a film producer with Rayzor Edge Films, with his current project "The Beast" featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eddie Hall due for release in 2020.

Welcome to episode 041 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary are joined by local filmmaker Charlotte Daniel to discuss the heartwarming, emotional 'Call Me By Your Name'

Synopsis
It's the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Links in conversation

chardfilms.com
Twitter - @ChardFilms
Twitter - @cdaniel2
Insta - @chard_films
Twitter - @charlottedanielfilm

Creative Reccomendations

short film - Judas Collar
https://judascollar.com

Queerativity
https://queerativity.art
Insta - @queerativity.art

Short Film Shine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lc-lV5LEVQ

Charlotte's Bio
Charlotte is an independent writer/director from Paisley, Scotland. She has self-produced two short films: sci-fi drama CARMEN, and EYES DOWN, and LGBT+ Drama which follows a trans woman taking a journey on a bus. EYES DOWN recently won the audience award at the 16days16films Festival 2021, as well as the Audience Award and ‘Most Creative/Original’ at the Scottish Short Film Festival 2019. She began her career as an Assistant Location Manager in Film and TV Productions, including MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 5, THE HUNTSMAN and BOURNE

THIS SEASON’S THEME: SUMMER

Welcome to episode 040 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary are joined by Actor and fellow podcaster from With Mates Podcast & 100 Film Reviews Andrew Grayson to discuss the hilarious, British comedy: The Inbetweeners. 

SYNOPSIS
Now that their final year of school is over, friends Will, Simon, Neil and Jay are off to Crete for a holiday. Hoping to get as much sun, sea and sex as possible, the boys quickly find more trouble than they had bargained for.

LINKS IN CONVERSATION

INSTA - @100filmreviews
INSTA - @withmatespodcast
INSTA - @andalfthegray
TWITTER - @AndalfTheGray
TWITTER - @100FilmReviews
TWITTER - @WithMatesPod

CREATIVE PROMOS

Chris Greig & The Merchants (MUSIC)
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tjlZsteSkg89UyuFyikDb?si=DbwL5A9ATy-4YX3YOYdqrA&nd=1

Kodak Ghosts (MUSIC)
https://show.co/cdR9mnQ

Disney Short film FEAST on Disney+

Andrew's Bio
Andrew Grayson has been working as a performer for 9 years after graduating with a BA Honours degree in acting from Motherwell college.  He has performed up and down the UK on stage and screen. Andrew started his own podcast, The With Mates Podcast, earlier this year and is also part of The 100 Panel Show.  Currently involved in a series pilot Lads and looking forward to the world opening back up fully to get back to gigging as an Olly Murs tribute and in a Jersey Boys tribute, The JerseyTones.

THIS SEASON’S THEME: SUMMER

Welcome to episode 039 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary are joined by Actor Reuben Joseph for a brand new season: SUMMER

We discuss the haunting, folklore, classic MIDSOMMAR

Synopsis
A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

LINKS IN CONVERSATION
insta - @reubenljoseph

turbine theatre mt fest
https://www.theturbinetheatre.com/whats-on/mt-fest-uk-2021-submissions-open

Scriptnotes Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scriptnotes-podcast/id462495496

Lockdown links
https://www.instagram.com/lockdown.links/?hl=en

Reuben's Bio

THIS SEASON’S THEME: Cop Thrillers

Welcome to episode 038 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary are joined by Actor Amber Conway to discuss the mind-boggling, backwards telling Shimmer Lake.

Synopsis
An inventive crime thriller told backwards -- reversing day by day through a week -- following a small-town sheriff tracking three bank robbery suspects, one of whom happens to be his brother.

LINKS IN CONVERSATION
Insta
@bambimconway
@ber.womenswear

Short Films
Neighbours Window Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vCrsZ80M4

The Silent Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbxFIVQv8c&t=1s

Mia
https://vimeo.com/248511627

AMBER'S BIO
Amber is an actress based in Glasgow. She graduated from Langside College In 2018 and has since been working on various small projects in the arts.  Throughout 2021 she has been working on her small business making custom handmade face coverings and is looking forward to expanding into clothing.

THIS SEASON’S THEME: Cop Thrillers

Welcome to episode 037 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary are joined by Writer & Artist Ashley Rose Nova to discuss the hard-hitting, gritty Street Kings

Synopsis
Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), a veteran member of the LAPD, is still mourning the loss of his wife and trying to navigate through a world that does not make much sense anymore. When evidence implicates him in the death of a fellow officer, Ludlow begins to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

LINKS IN CONVERSATION
Twitter @ARoseCPE
Insta @arosecpe
https://cultureplusentertainment.com/author/ashleyrosenova/
https://www.twm.news/author/ashley-rose-nova/

SHORT FILMS
The moonlight man 
https://youtu.be/qKpLOfgwpsU

2009 new boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs

God sleeps in Rwanda P1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJkIsvcu5Fk

ASHLEY'S BIO
Writer &Journalist that has contributed to over 8 platforms from pro-wrestling to gaming. Loves horror, sci fi, and 80s- 90s action. Probably has more Kubrick tattoos than you. Enjoys ramen & is a fight game lover. Considered slightly edgy but that’s just her style.

THIS SEASON’S THEME: Cop Thrillers

Welcome to episode 036 of Choose Film: A Reel Retrospective podcast. Rebecca and Gary discuss the fast-paced 1994 classic SPEED, which may or may not have been released on Rebecca's birthday. 

SYNOPSIS 
Los Angeles police officer Jack (Keanu Reeves) angers retired bomb squad member Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) by foiling his attempt at taking hostages. In revenge, Payne arms a bus with a bomb that will explode if it drops below 50 miles per hour. With the help of spunky passenger Annie (Sandra Bullock), Jack and his partner Harry (Jeff Daniels) try to save the people on the bus before the bomb goes off, while also trying to figure out how Payne is monitoring them.

POP QUIZ HOT SHOT!!!!!! Gary quizzes Rebecca on the film followed by our LISTENERS REEL.