This week Niall and Ross are a pair of renegade Chicago cops (one's funny and one can tap dance), living on adrenalin and the edge as they take down the bad guys. But when the duo have one close call too many, their hard-ass captain Sinead rips them a new one and insists they take a vacation. Cut to a montage of roller skating/drinking/fishing all set to an 80's classic by a Doobie Brother.

Will Niall and Ross get to retire to the sun kissed Florida Keys and run the bar they dream of? Will they make sure their last two weeks on the mean streets see them bring Gonzales to justice? Will Sinead stop being such a hard-ass? And what exactly is a 'Man Sized Love'?

This week we answer all these questions and more as we spotlight 1996's RUNNING SCARED from director Peter Hyams and starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hyams.

Before there was Murtaugh and Riggs, there was Costanza and Hughes.

RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, and has fascinated the world ever since.

The crew were unwittingly dosed with PCP laced chowder, Cameron threatened to fire employees who took bathroom breaks so Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have admitted to relieving themselves in the on-set water tank, and it should have been a disaster.

But it wasn't. It was a film to remember.

This week we're heading off for a relaxing getaway south of the border. Lots of sun, salsa and cerveza as all our troubles melt away.

Actually, we've been recruited by an elite government task force to aid in the war on drugs as we put the spotlight on Denis

Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro lead a top notch cast in a film wound so tightly you'll need a relaxing vacation afterwards... just maybe not to

For the week that's in it, as Ireland's premiere film podcast (are there others? we're not aware...) this week we thought we'd serve you up a bit o' the old blarney as we look at Walt Disney's 1959 celebration of Irish folklore and myth DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE  starring Albert Sharpe and Jimmy O'Dea along with some Scottish fella.

From the director of MARY POPPINS and BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, it was the film that brought a young Sean Connery to the attention of Bond producers, was wheeled out every March 16th in classrooms around the country and traumatised an entire generation of schoolchildren with a still very scary banshee.

Slip through the portal with us now as we visit the realm of the wee folk, fiddle our hearts out and make three wishes, the last of which is that you have a Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It's time for another spotlight episode kids! And as some certain Banshees of a certain Inisherin are getting such acclaim, we thought it a good excuse to look at 2012's SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, from director Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell, among others.

Colin Farrell is Marty, a man in search of a screenplay. He has a title but no story to go along with it. His friend Billy played by Sam Rockwell makes a living by kidnapping rich people's dogs with his friend Hans (Christopher Walken) then returning them and collecting the reward. But when they kidnap the beloved pooch of a gangster (Woody Harrelson) the fur flies.

Sharp dialogue, gleeful violence and a sly commentary on the state of cinema, as one character points out: “This thing’s got layers.”

We're back baby, for a whole new season in 2023 and what better way to kick things off than discussing one of the most seminal film directors of the last 50 years. A certain Stephen Allan Spielberg... perhaps you've heard of him.

His new semi-kind-sorta-autobiographical film THE FABLEMANS is still in cinemas and is poised to take home a few little gold men, but whatever happens, it's undeniable that his influence on cinema has been just as epic as his films.

Whether he's turned his lens on aliens, sharks, whip cracking archeologists, dinosaurs or Tom Hanks, you're guaranteed value for the price of your cinema ticket.

Mister Spielberg, we salute you.

Inspired by VIOLENT NIGHT (in cinemas now) we decided to devote this year's Yuletide episode to Christmas Action Movies! And of course, if there's one of the Reel Take triumvirate who loves an actioner, it's Ross Leahy!

He's hoping to spend Christmas with his estranged podcast hosts who have gone on to bigger and better things, but when a group of international thieves... I mean terrorists, they're definitely terrorists, not thieves, take over the newly opened Reel Take Podcast Tower, one man must crawl through air ducts in his bare feet to save the day.

We may even get to discuss a few films.

Yippee-ki-yay, melon farmers.

This week we're turning our attention to 1988's Midnight Run, a buddy action comedy in which Robert De Niro finally got the chance to fully try out his comic talents. In a cinema landscape of Lethal Weapons, Beverly Hill's Cops and 48 Hours', Midnight Run remains a forgotten gem.

Director Martin Brest brings the brest out of De Niro as bounty hunter Jack Walsh, happy to subvert his tough guy persona and his quarry, deadpan master of drolery Charles Grodin as ex-mob accountant Jonathan 'The Duke' Mardukas. There's a rogues gallery of great character actors lending able support, but the show belongs to De Niro and Grodin.

One of the premiere names in film for the last 50 years, Martin Scorsese has just turned 80. So it's about time he got a little scrutiny from The Reel Take.

If you think he's all about gangsters and gritty crime drama, we can't blame you. But there's a lot more to his CV than that.

Unfulfilled wannabe singers no longer known at this address, yuppies who go into the wrong part of town after dark, and Emergency Medical Technician's who are haunted by their failures...and that's just scratching the surface. 

Happy Birthday Marty!

Anthony Hopkins became history’s oldest best actor Oscar-winner in 2021 for his role in THE FATHER from writer/director Florian Zeller.

The story of Anthony, a mischievous 80 year old, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), insists he needs. Adamant that he doesn't need help, Anthony's grip on reality is unraveling. Or is he being gaslit by those closest to him. As the viewer experiences the ebb and flow of his memory, the film blends genuine fear with overwhelming sadness, and asks the question 'What is it like to grieve for a person who is still alive'.