This time while we queue at the Popcorn Counter, we talk all about actors who play actors who like actors who play actors. What’s the difference between an actor and a movie star? And who’s the Queen of the Hall of Mirrors?

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Join us as we hit each other over the head with a big stick with ‘IRONY’ written on it. This episode we watch the new Nic Cage picture The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and line it up against 1999’s Being John Malkovich. Is it possible to die from too much irony? Because it kind of feels like that’s possible.

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We always have ideas left over from recording main episodes, so we're going to start sharing some of them at the Popcorn Counter.  This time: our favourite meals in movies.  And is it the food or the company that's most important?

Hold onto your aprons as blood pours off the screen in this episode: Robert Eggers’ new, hyper violent Viking revenge tale The Northman draws a sword to challenge Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic The Seventh Seal. Which of them has the most to say about love, faith and death? And which of them has some naked dudes fighting near lava?

Everyone’s favourite rotoscope animator Richard Linklater returns to screens with Apollo 10 1/2 this month.  How does his new film about weightlessness measure up against his rather heavier 2006 picture A Scanner Darkly?

Three men, one woman, an isolated house, a gun. This episode we watch Netflix's new 90 minute thriller Windfall, and measure it up against 2004's German indie feature The Edukators. Lots of ideas in common here, but how do the body counts compare?

Two Afghan refugee stories this time, comparing current release Flee with 2002's In This World.  Both detail harrowing journeys across borders and through the hands of traffickers.  Have we learned anything in the last twenty years, or does the story remain the same?

Two Almodovar movies this episode: 2021's Parallel Mothers and 1999's All About My Mother.  What's changed in 22 years of Almodovar's career, and how much do the two films have in common? (Spoiler: a lot.)

This episode we watch the much acclaimed new Paul Thomas Anderson film Licorice Pizza and take it for a date with one of its primary influences, Amy Heckerling's debut feature Fast Times at Ridgemont High.  Two groups of teenagers from the 1970s and the 1980s: will they party on down by the pool or will they get into a fight over who scratched their older brother's car?

This episode we watch the famously expensive new Netflix feature Red Notice, and measure it up against 1955 French noir classic Rififi.  Two heist movies, but do they have more in common than that?