Time for me and Mark Plant from 100 things we learned from film to call up Roy Castle and tell him about our world record attempt to do the most banter in a podcast, certainly safer and easier than traversing a large body of water in the smallest boat known to man.

It's been a while! I've not had any time off, it's just that everything has been under an embargo and we've not been able to actually release anything. Festival season INNIT!!!???

Yes, I am back on Acast, and as all my episode numbers disappeared in the move, lets just call this a new season.

PRESS STUFFS

Friday 6th May, London, UK: Kaleidoscope Entertainment is delighted to announce that ROW, their upcoming oceanic survival-thriller, will celebrate its World Premiere at the 33rd Raindance Film Festival on 21st June.

Directed by Matt Losasso, ROW stars Bella Dayne (Humans), Sophie Skelton (Outlander), Akshey Khanna, Nick Skaugen, David O'Hara and Mark Strepan.

ROW has been nominated for four awards at the festival; Best Performance in a UK Feature (Bella Dayne), Best UK Feature, Best Director of a UK Feature (Matthew Losasso) and Best UK Cinematography. 

Washed ashore in Scotland on a blood stained rowing boat, a young woman suffering from severe memory loss appears to be the sole survivor of a doomed trans-Atlantic World Record attempt. With all of her crew mates missing, presumed dead, she must try and piece together her fractured memories in order to prove her innocence. 

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Nona found an advert for this film online, SWERVE!!! turns out the advert WAS the film. Join us as we fall down a rabbit hole of bizarre micro “films” that make us yearn for the days when Heather Graham was telling us about her sister being a drug addict.

Also includes a little wrestling talk. Apparently Rhea Ripley looks like she can carry a sofa bed upstairs by herself. Which is why I’ve added a gratuitous picture of her on the cover art to get a few bonus hits.

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A little summer break and the worst of the heat has passed, not enough that Myself or Captain J want a laptop on our actual laps to watch an entire film though. We rage a little about a screener app, talk coffee and tea, then disagree on Bloodsports status as a legendary film before talking about 40 Acres… this film

Monday 7th July, London, UK: Vertigo Releasing is pleased to announce that they will be releasing the post-apocalyptic thriller 40 Acres in UK and Irish cinemas from 1st August.

Hailey Freeman (Deadwyler) and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in 1875 in rural Canada after the first Civil War. In a famine-decimated future they struggle to make their last stand against those intent on taking their home.

Starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till, I Saw The TV Glow, Carry-On), Kataem O'Connor (Murdoch Mysteries, Time Cut, Heartland), and Michael Greyeyes (The King Tide, 1923, Wild Indian), the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year to rave reviews from critics. 40 Acres is certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 91% critic score*.

40 Acres was directed by R.T. Thorne (Blindspot, The Porter), who brought over 20 years experience in directing to the production. 40 Acres is his feature debut, with a script he co-wrote with Glenn Taylor, and a story by Thorne and Lora Campbell (#Interns, Yoga 101).

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Boo is back and were talking about the same film as last time. Well… not really but we may as well be. A comedy western featuring a large beloved actor who died before the release of the film (in this case before it was finished) and a Co-Star that died in 2024.

Wagons East!In the 1860s Wild West, a ragged bunch of misfit settlers decides they cannot stand living in their current situation and they hire a grizzled cowboy to take them on a journey back East to their hometowns.

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On the hotline today, Nona and myself try to get sponsored by Relentless Energy drinks… if they do a sugar free version, deny Tiktok trends, eat knockoff kit kats, Bing things and attempt to sneak jammie dodgers in between talking about some other famous little monsters.

Oh, and we also review a movie called Frankie Freako

Monday 9th June London UK: Lightbulb Film Distribution is pleased to announce that Frankie Freako will be released in the UK & Ireland from July 14.

Written and directed by Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman, The Void), the comedy-horror is a homage to classic 80’s movies like Gremlins, Ghoulies and Critters.

After calling a late-night party hotline, Conor must battle the pint-sized forces of evil – led by Frankie Freako – unleashed through his phone line.

The film stars Conor Sweeney (Psycho Goreman), Adam Brooks (Dark Harvest) and Kristy Wordsworth (States of Mind).

Kostanski recently served as prosthetic makeup and effects lead on In A Violent Nature.

YouTuber Rich Evans (RedLetterMedia) voices Frankie’s nemesis, President Munch.

The World Premiere took place at Fantasia International Film Festival.

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The council of crappy movies congregate and convein once more to watch another terrible movie in the hopes that it’s not as bad as everyone says it is. this time around Joe, Ian and Dean are joined by fellow trash movie sufferer Mark to slog through 90 minutes of awkward Fish paste and jam sandwich jokes.

Featuring the gameshow “Spud or Sex act” not hosted by Adrien Chiles

Potato salesman Dave is ejected from his home for his slobbish behavior. He meets up with his friend, Ferris, and the pair drive around Birmingham, attempting to find sexual partners and sell potatoes.TOTALCULTZONE.COMgive me cash so I can buy even more terrible movies to torture these guys with

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Time to have a look at a film from the 90’s we’ve never heard of, which for Farley fan Boo Lemont is kind of shocking.

That it’s a Christopher guest directed movie starring Matthew Perry , a man on the rise at the time makes it even more weird that it past us by. A madcap, screwball, laugh riot and a whole bunch of other 90’s standard tags Comedy that will have you rolling in the aisle with laughter… apparently

In 1804, Leslie Edwards, a foppish aristocrat, and the loud, low-brow Bartholomew Hunt are competing against the renowned Lewis & Clark to be the first to chart and make it across the United States to the Pacific Ocean. In the beginning of the film, Edwards has high hopes to head the first expedition to make it across the United States, but while he has ambition and funding, he has grown up sheltered and knows little of the wilderness he seeks to cross. To aid in his journey, he hires the services of a supposedly knowledgeable wilderness-man and tracker, Hunt, who, once they get underway, turns out to be less than advertised.

They are aided by a crew of varied, rugged and grizzled frontiersmen, including the group's version of Sacagawea, a young Indian woman by the name Shaquinna, who is integral in helping them find their way across the dangerous and unknown terrain ahead, as well as eventually becoming Edwards' love interest. Along the way, the group goes through various mishaps and ordeals such as having to deal with quirky, indigenous Indian tribes and vicious animals, a Conquistador named Hidalgo, as well as running out of food and romantic snafus, as Hunt's ineptness often causes more problems than it solves. Along the way, Edwards and Hunt's shared journey helps Edwards shed his aristocratic, snooty ways and he learns camaraderie and honor, as well as a more humble view of a world he thought he understood. Hunt finds true friendship in Edwards and a sense of self-confidence he had not known before.

After many hardships and setbacks, they eventually make it to the Pacific coast just minutes before Lewis and Clark's expedition; however, once the celebration is over, they find that they do not necessarily want to go back to their old lives and collectively decide to continue their adventure, leading Edwards and Hunt's expedition to further explore the great uncharted world. (wikipedia innit)

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Nona is back and were talking Bagels, Lidl, Aldi Cherry flavour relentless and making a coffee in a jar of peanut butter… also we talk about a film we watched called Cannibal Mukbang

Starring Nate Wise, April Consalo & Clay von Carlowitz

CANNIBAL: "Any animal that eats its own kind"

MUKBANG: "A video, usually posted online, featuring a person eating large quantities of food, often while talking to the audience as if sharing a meal with them"

Shy and looking for love, Mark quickly becomes smitten with the outgoing and mysterious Ash, who somehow, much to his surprise, reciprocates the attraction. But as his feelings for her intensify, so does his unexpected submersion into Ash's biggest love: the wild world of mukbanging. And with it, lots of bloodshed.

Cannibal Mukbang is director Aimee Kuge's debut feature film. It explores our relationships with food, sexuality, and revenge and asks, "How far would you go in the name of love?"

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Nona joins me again this week and we were supposed to just be talking about coffee, cake and the “scary nuns” in consecrated, but then I mentioned I had been given another film which had to be included as well… What is that you may ask?

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Vertigo Releasing will unleash the unholy horror Consecration on Digital Platforms from 16th June.

After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.

The film stars Jena Malone (The Hunger Games franchise, The Neon Demon), Danny Huston (The Aviator, Children of Men, 21 Grams), Thoren Ferguson (Emmerdale, Vigil), Will Keen (Operation Mincemeat, Victor Frankenstein), and Dame Janet Suzman (The Crown, Antony and Cleopatra). Consecration was directed by Christopher Smith (Triangle, Creep, Temple), who co-wrote the film with Laurie Cook (Lord of Misrule, Don't Hang Up, Triangle).

Consecration will be available on UK Digital Platforms from 16th June

Pre-order on Apple TV here

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Robbies back and this time it’s for a film that just his speed, trekking down the west coast of the Americas for a new documentary film about pooping in a hole in the ground… I mean hiking. Totalcultzone presents… The Road to Patagonia

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Links for hiking and conservation type things Rob suggests Watching/Listening

Mile Mile and a half - Free on Tubi

UnBranded - Buy on Youtube

The River and the Wall - Buy on Vimeo

As it happens - Free on Youtube

Ryan Kodak Brown, Patagonia to Alaska - Free on Youtube

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Alternatively, ditch your digital, go out and enjoy the world!

Follow ecologist Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure as he leaves his life in the city behind for the great outdoors. Surfing his way along the west coast of the Americas, his ambitious voyage takes him from the Alaskan wilderness to the tip of Patagonia. But just as the dangers and isolation of such a trip take their toll, he meets the girl of his dreams, a permaculture farmer, Heather Hillier, who throws caution to the wind and joins Matty on his 50,000km odyssey.

Riding south on motorbike and horseback, worlds collide as the duo encounter Zapatista rebels, Amazonian shamans and Mapuche leaders whose salient words crack the adventurers’ cultural veneer, leaving them with many existential questions. Shot over 16 years, the result is a beautiful documentation of the untouched natural world that few get to experience, offering a thrilling new perspective on our place within it.

The film has received widespread acclaim as the “Australian Film of the Year” (The Movie Guys), quickly becoming an AUD $1 million box office sensation in the country. Awards so far include Best Film at Byron Bay Film Festival, Best Documentary at Paris Surf Skate Snow Film Festival, Jury awards at Maui Film Festival and Surf Film Festival, and Audience Choice awards at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and Florida Surf Film Festival.

The Road to Patagonia invites you to take a break from digital life and reconnect with yourself, the Earth and each other. Premiering exclusively on the Icon Film Channel for one month from 30th May, before hitting UK cinemas on 27th June. Sign up for a 7-day free trial on Amazon!

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