The Recommendation Game

The Changeling (1980) directed by Peter Medak.

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Composer John Russell (George C. Scott) is vacationing with his family when a car accident kills his wife and daughter. Distraught with grief, Russell leaves his home in New York City for a giant, secluded house near Seattle. Soon Russell starts to feel the presence of a ghost, a boy who drowned in the bathtub there. Russell seeks the assistance of Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), who led him to the house initially, in uncovering the secrets of the boy's death.

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) directed by Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger.

Three teenagers are accused of this horrific crime of killing three children, supposedly as a result of involvement in Satanism. As in their previous documentary, things turn out to be more complex than initial appearances and this film presents the real-life courtroom drama to the viewer, as it unfolds.

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Cry Freedom (1987) directed by Richard Attenborough.

Donald Woods is the chief editor at the liberal newspaper 'Daily Dispatch' in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko, but after having met him, he changes his views and attracts attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

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Murs Murs (1980) directed by Agnes Varda.

When her own mooted U.S. project fell through, Varda found herself stranded back in California, temporarily separated from Demy, and with her seven-year-old son in tow. Rather than give in to disappointment, she got back to work and created Mur Murs and _Documenteur _. A film that, like Thom Andersen’s remarkable Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), is a study of the city through a given medium, it depicts the street art on display, from graffiti to large-scale artworks, and through these, and their role in the local community, builds a picture of Los Angeles at a fixed point of time.

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Godzilla Minus One (2023) directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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Godzilla Minus One (2024) directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling.Catch us on Dublin Digital Radio every second Monday: ⁠listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home⁠Follow us on Twitter: ⁠twitter.com/therecgame⁠

It Was Just an Accident (2025) directed by Jafar Panahi.

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.
We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling.
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Boyz n the Hood (1991) directed by John Singleton.

One of the greatest debuts in American cinema, John Singleton’s first feature is a harrowing and compassionate immersion into the lives of three Black teenage boys grappling with the uncertainty of their futures. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the precocious Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the street-smart Doughboy (Ice Cube), and the athletically gifted Ricky (Morris Chestnut) navigate friendship, first love, the hopes and dreams of their families, and the realities of gang violence in a society where the odds are stacked against them.

Maborosi (1995) directed by Hirokazu Koreeda.

Despite her outwardly happy and tranquil life as a wife and new mother, Yukimo (Makiko Esumi) is regularly troubled by a horrific nightmare about the death of her grandmother. When tragedy strikes her husband, Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano), the stress forces Yukimo into hermit-like solitude until a kindly widower (Takashi Naitô) attempts to draw her from her shell. This is the first scripted film by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, who had previously been been known for his documentaries.

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We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) directed by Peter Weir.

In 1805, aboard the H.M.S. Surprise, the brash Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and his trusted friend, the ship's scholarly surgeon, Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany), are ordered to hunt down and capture a powerful French vessel off the South American coast. Though Napoleon is winning the war and the men and their crew face an onslaught of obstacles, including their own internal battles, "Lucky Jack" is determined that nothing will stop the Surprise from completing its mission.

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This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.
We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling.
Catch us on Dublin Digital Radio every second Monday: listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home
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