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The Semi-Professionals follows four filmmakers as they talk about the movies you like and the movies you pretend to like in front of your friends. They dip in and out of conjecture, intoxication, and ... more
FAQs about The Semi-Professionals:How many episodes does The Semi-Professionals have?The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.
August 14, 2023Semi Cine 5 - OppenheimerWe've been to the pictures again! We embrace our full inner dads in Christopher Nolans 2023 historical drama/thriller "Oppenheimer" starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Emiliy Blunt and Matt Damon.Logline: During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history....more1h 57minPlay
August 07, 2023076 - Alien³We embark on our first Fincher film of the podcast. Logline: Ellen Ripley's escape pod crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a penal colony planet terrorised by an alien. She rallies the inmates into killing it but realises that she is carrying an alien embryo herself....more1h 45minPlay
July 31, 2023075 - AliensWe return to LV-426 in James Cameron's 1986 hit film "Aliens"Logline: Ellen Ripley is sent back to the planet LV-426 to establish contact with a terraforming colony. Once there, she encounters the Alien Queen and her offspring and has to fight them to survive....more1h 21minPlay
July 24, 2023Semi Cine 4 - Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OneRemember the leaked audio clip of Tom Cruise yelling at his crew for breaking protocol, while he is single handedly trying to save the film industry? Well, the saving grace has been released. Today we discuss Christopher McQuarrie's 2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.Logline: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission -- not even the lives of those he cares about most....more1h 32minPlay
July 17, 2023074 - AlienFinal report of the commercial starship "Semi-Professionals"...Join us on an adventure on LV-426 as we pick apart Ridley Scotts 1979 sci fi masterpiece Alien.Logline: The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress signal from a planet and set out to investigate it. However, to their horror, they are attacked by an alien which later invades their ship....more2h 17minPlay
July 10, 2023073 - One Flew Over The Cuckoos NestAnother classic “Matt’s reading the book" episode. Logline: In order to escape the prison labour, McMurphy, a prisoner, fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for the mentally unstable. In this ward, he must rise up against a cruel nurse, Ratched....more2h 9minPlay
July 03, 2023072 - The Card CounterThis week we try to figure out what happened one of 2022's highest anticipated movies, and why no one knows anyone who actually has seen it. We take a look at Paul Schrader's "The Card Counter" starring Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish and Willem DafuckingfoeLogline: William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk....more1h 37minPlay
June 26, 2023071 - American PsychoThere is an idea of a Podcast; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real us: only an entity, something illusory. And though we can hide our cold gaze, and you can shake our hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... We simply are not there.This week we tackle Mary Harron's interpretation of Bret Easton Ellis 1981 novel "American Psycho" starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny, Justin Theroux and Reese Witherspoon.Logline: Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker, hides his psychopathic ego from his friends. Later, his illogical fantasies escalate and he submits to an uncontrollable bloodlust....more1h 47minPlay
June 18, 2023070 - The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael CorleoneGodfather Trilogy Part 3.Logline: When realisation strikes Micheal Corleone, he takes a tough call and decides to end his family's criminal empire. He chooses his nephew as his successor, however, the mob refuses to let him go....more2h 2minPlay
June 12, 2023069 - The Godfather Part IIGodfather Trilogy Part 2. Logline: Michael, Vito Corleone's son, attempts to expand his family's criminal empire. While he strikes a business deal with gangster Hyman Roth, he remains unaware of the lurking danger....more2h 14minPlay
FAQs about The Semi-Professionals:How many episodes does The Semi-Professionals have?The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.