VHS & Chill

Today, we are taking it back to the wicky-wicky-wild with Sonnenfeld's steampunk disasterpiece. Hold onto your hats!

For this spooky Halloween edition of Reviews From The Closet, we're talking wooden stick figures, unexpected cairns (which could be either a pile of small rocks or an Irish jig), inconvenient ectoplasm, tent rustling, corner murdering and the world's first up-the-nose monologue. And if all that doesn't whet your appetite, we've also got a few crude Rasputin riffs to boot. Get your handheld cameras and beanie hats ready - it's the Blair Witch Project.

Great title + bad film = excellent podcast fodder. Strap in for this swashbuckling edition of Reviews From The Closet where the gang goes in on Sandy Bullock and St Kitts and Nevis.

The gang is back - and this time we're in a hillside cabin talking Bond, James Bond. Sit back as we discuss frumpy interns, lust killings, and confusing plot devices. 

The Kevins, the rewrites, the steel scrounging - 1995's Waterworld is an epic to remember for all the wrong reasons. Roisin, Rudi and Jeff dive headfirst into this bloated adventure from men's rights to digital hairlines.

In today’s episode we’re not smokin’, we’re breathin’ (the stuffy closet air). Between breathes we’re zigging and zagging around those catty East Germans, John Candy’s grizzledness and some heavy handed Disney morals. So feel the rhythm, feel the ride, get on up, it’s bobsled time. Cool Runnings!

In today’s closest, the lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh… staggers us. But so too does Dr Malcolm’s chaos theory pick up line, Mr Arnold’s on-screen chain-smoking and John Hammond’s complete disregard for the safety of his lowly paid workers. Hold onto your butts and welcome to Jurassic Park.

In the closest today it’s you, me and Flubber makes three. But we mostly sidestep that little scamp and dissect the troubling subplot of Professor Brainard and his sexually amorous robot, discuss if this represents the first case of the singularity, ask what it means to be sentient and, most importantly, question if it’s ever ok to have sex with something you’ve created. Life can be hard when you’re in love with Professor Brainard.

Are you ready, ready for the big ride baby? Well, we are. In today’s pod we’re leaving our knowledge of basic medical science at the closest door and reviewing John Woo’s 1997 breakout hit, Face/Off. There’s comically-camp Travolta, onscreen incest and a very unnecessary third act boat/off all to unpack. It’s what Hell-A deserves.

In our inaugural episode we analyse 1996’s smash hit Independence Day. From the most pompous soliloquy ever committed to film (not our words), to bashful Smith being all bashful (our words), we cast a critical closet eye on one of our favourite ever films. So let’s not go quietly into the night with this bombastic, unabashed piece of pure jingoism. Two words Mr President….