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149. Downsizing & The Post
31/01/2018 Durata: 01h03minIt's white saviour week on Film Chat as we review two film which pinpoint the world's problems with laser like focus and tell us all how to solve them.First up is Downsizing, in which Matt Damon plays an everyman who undergoes an experimental shrinking process to increase his wealth and decrease his carbon footprint. Danny SIZES the film up, decides that despite its BIG ambitions it has very LITTLE to say and is ultimately kinda AVERAGE*.Then he and Sam tackle The Post, a timely picture all about the free press standing up to a corrupt president. Not since that time a few days ago when Hillary read an extract of Fire and Fury has Trump been so thoroughly and conclusively owned. I assume that in the time it takes me to click "post" Trump will have been impeached and this paragraph will just serve as reminder of the darkest chapter in the history of the republic.Plus we examine the surprisingly good Oscar nominations, give you the lowdown on Charlie Kauffman's next slice of existential despair and tell you whic
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148. The Final Year, All the Money in the World & Darkest Hour
22/01/2018 Durata: 01h46sJanuary blues continue to afflict either us or the slate of current releases, as our thumbs remain firmly down for this week's trio of reviews. Danny was unimpressed by documentary The Final Year, a would-be puff piece about Obama's foreign policy team that struggles to sell its message in the face of the massive celebrity baby who is currently destroying everything they achieved. Sam enjoyed the seamless Spacey-to-Plummer transplant that Ridley Scott performed for All the Money in the World, but was underwhelmed by pretty much everything else. The most concentrated bile however is reserved for Darkest Hour, the Churchill jingo fest which offended Danny so deeply it turned him into a Nazi. Plus!! We also discuss the first 45 minutes of The Rock, what films that haunted us as kids, and some of the stuff Chadwick Boseman and the Safdie brothers are working on. Finally, Winston Churchill celebrates in song his most famous catchphrase. Up your bum!!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out inform
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147. Three Billboards..., The Disaster Artist, & Molly's Game
16/01/2018 Durata: 01h13minWe ring in the new year with a bumper episode packed to the rafters with thumbs-down reviews. Danny did not care for James Franco's The Disaster Artist, a vanity project about the making of another vanity project (cult "worst film ever" The Room), and Sam was unimpressed by Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, the drabbest showcase yet for Sorkin's unchanging repertoire of grating dialogue tics. Nor were we much endeared to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in which an admittedly barnstorming Frances McDormand performance gets sunk by dated, offensive humour and misjudged racial politics.We also discuss the awards season and find that it has been an absolute crock, we marvel at the gumption of greedy-guts Mark Wahlberg*, and we check in with everyone's favourite contrarian film critic Armond White. Plus we say "up your bum" a lot.We're doing a quiz next week, and you should come!!! It's on Tuesday, January 23, at the Social Bar in London. Here is the link with all the details: https://www.f
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Christmas Special 2017 - The Last Jedi & Bright
31/12/2017 Durata: 01h09minOn this special yuletide episode, we give our scorching hot take on The Last Jedi a mere 16 days after it was released. Fear not though, the belated nature of this episode just means we had more time to ponder all the questions the film provoked. Questions such as " Why is General Holdo's hair purple?" , "Can Porgs fly" and "Is it good?"We also review the Netflix blockbuster Bright in which Will Smith proves that he can somehow make a film as bad as Suicide Squad and Collateral Beauty. The man is an absolute legend.Plus we look back at 2017 and decide which films stood out for all the right reasons and which ones stood out because of comically bad CGI upper lips. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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145. Stronger & Blade of the Immortal
13/12/2017 Durata: 47minThis week, eat your reviewing greens in the form of Stronger, an admirably almost-unsentimental drama charting the recovery of one of the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing. Then, tuck into the tasty, mindless dessert that is Blade of the Immortal, a samurai epic whose IMDb page is the first Google result for the phrase "orgy of bloodletting".Elsewhere in this episode, we talk about Mr Dick Pants himself, John Oliver, and his interrogation of Dustin Hoffman; we ask whether the TV series Twin Peaks, created for TV and broadcast solely on televisions, is a film; we make interested noises about Tarantino and Star Trek; and we wonder about Bryan Singer's suspiciously timed health-related departure from the Freddie Mercury biopic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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144. Battle of the Sexes & Happy End
05/12/2017 Durata: 55minCan women play tennis? Are rich people arseholes?If you've ever asked yourself those questions then this is the podcast for you as we review two films that tackle them head-on. First up is the Emma Stone sports drama Battle of the Sexes, in which the recent Oscar winner plays Billy Jean King facing a series of adversities, namely: a failing marriage, rampant misogyny, and really unflattering glasses.Then we examine Michael Haneke's ironically titled Happy End, in which a group of sexy French people (and for some reason Toby Jones) act in increasingly deplorable ways. Plus we discuss our favorite 4th wall breaking moments in movies, discuss the latest project from Chris Morris and exhaustively break down every pixel of the Avengers: Infinity War trailer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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143. Mudbound & Justice League
30/11/2017 Durata: 53minJustice League, one of the most hotly anticipated car crashes of all time, has arrived. The DC cinematic universe has given off bad vibes from the start, but even the staunchest pessimists could not have predicted that its flagship $300 million team-up would go so wrong that Superman's face had to be covered in a kind of emergency CGI silly putty to disguise his bristling moustache. And yet here we are. Danny and Sam pore over the wreckage with horrified fascination.We also challenge the near universal critical acclaim lavished on Mudbound, a sprawling drama examining racial tensions and PTSD in post-war rural Mississippi. Sam in particular did not care for it, but he was quite tired when he watched it on Netflix and he reserves the right to produce a more nuanced assessment in future if necessary. And in case everyone else changes their minds, he also reserves the right to crow about having got Mudbound's number straight off the bat.PLUS!! We coo over a pair of lavish upcoming TV series and get transported,
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142. Paddington 2, Good Time & Ingrid Goes West
22/11/2017 Durata: 01h07minOn this week's episode, Film Chat reviews the widely acclaimed crime thriller Good Time but when they watched it did they have.....a pleasurable viewing experience? Yes.Then Danny gives his verdict on Ingrid Goes West a satire of the Instagram culture but did he....... "like" it. No.And then they join forces once more to talk Paddington 2 the latest film about everyone's favourite Peruvian, duffle coat wearing bear but they did think...........it was fucking delightful. Yes.Plus they wonder discuss all the news surrounding the latest Tarantino project and have an in-depth discussion about whether the twinkle in Christopher Plummer's eyes burns hotter than the sun. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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141. Murder on the Orient Express, No Stone Unturned & The Florida Project
14/11/2017 Durata: 55minIt takes a genius to play a genius, which is why Kenneth Branagh cast himself as Poirot in his adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Murder on the Orient Express. Don't be surprised if you find yourself spontaneously weeping or wracked with uncontrollable spasms of laughter as you watch the legend hunt for clues—that's just the power of Branagh. The slightest furrow of his noble brow can melt the coldest heart and stir the most inert loins. It's hard to find words that do justice to the Great Man and his film (probably the greatest ever made), but we do our best in our review.We also look at the new Alex Gibney documentary No Stone Unturned, in which he investigates an unsolved massacre in Ireland with the tireless patience and forensic attention to detail of a Kenneth Branagh. Finally, we review The Florida Project, another delightful slice of "pop realism" from Tangerine director Sean Baker—who in my opinion is a Kenneth Branagh in the making.Plus, we check in with our fave hubristic corporate
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140. The Silence of the Lambs, Thelma & The Killing of a Sacred Deer
07/11/2017 Durata: 54minTHIS week we pour ourselves a nice glass of Chianti and cook some fava beans to enjoy as we give a reappraisal of The Silence of the Lambs. It's generally considered to be a masterpiece but does that FilmChat hivemind agree? THEN, Danny casts a critical eye over the supernatural coming of age film Thelma by Joaquim Trier. Was he bewitched by the film or did he think it should be drowned in a well? FYI the film is about witchcraft so that the last sentence was a brilliant joke.AND we give a scorching hot take on Yorgos Lanthimos latest slice of cultural satire/bleak tragicomedy in the form of The Killing of A Sacred Deer. Is Colin Farrell's performance in it better than his iconic turn as Bullseye in Dare Devil? I mean obviously of course not but it's still pretty good.PLUS we detail Disney's strongarming of cinemas in the build-up to the new Star Wars release, chat about the latest heads to roll in the ever-unfolding sexual harassment scandal and debate whether Antony's Hopkins performance as O
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139. Call Me By Your Name, The Death of Stalin, & Thor: Ragnarok
30/10/2017 Durata: 54minThis week, we review the one millionth Marvel film, Thor: Ragnarok — a breezy, colourful adventure that shows that the studio has finally developed the confidence to include jokes in its movies. We also give our verdict on Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous and incredibly horny drama Call Me By Your Name and Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, which sees the veteran satirist transferring the "sweary bureaucrats" mode of comedy he honed in The Thick of It to Soviet Russia, with bizarre results.PLUS! We discuss whether Woody Allen's newest project suggests he felt the romantic age gap in his film Manhattan was simply not wide enough, and Mark Wahlberg's inexplicable guilt over starring in by far the best film of his career. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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138. The Party, Brawl in Cell Block 99, The Meyerowitz Stories & The Mountain Between Us
25/10/2017 Durata: 01h01minThis week Film Chat sharpened its knives to deliver four career ending eviscerations of four mediocre projects that have the audacity to call themselves "films".First up Sam takes on The Party, Sally Potter's film about a bunch of middle-class twats bumming about. He didn't like it.THEN Danny reviews The Meyerowitz Stories, Noah Baumbach's film about a bunch of boring New Yorkers gazing up their own arses. He didn't care for it.THEN Sam tackles Brawl in Cell Block 99, S. Craig Zahler's film about Vince Vaughn being a righteous white guy doing some murders or something. He despised it.THEN Sam gets to grips with The Mountain Between Us, Hany Abu-Assad's film about a couple of self-obsessed rich wankers wandering about the wilderness. He thought it was shit.We also discuss how much we all fancy Colin Farrell. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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137. Blade Runner 2049 & Daphne
17/10/2017 Durata: 50minAs Denis Villeneuve kept saying on the set of Blade Runner 2049: "It's Blade Runner time!" The much-anticipated sci-fi sequel has been hailed as a "cortex-wobbling spectacle of pure hallucinatory craziness" by the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw—but did we deem it worth of such lofty rhetoric or describe it merely as "not bad"? Tune in to find out. Plus! Sam reviews Sam the lowkey British drama Daphne, we survey the unfolding horror of the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal, and we talk about some Star Wars stuff. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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136. Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle
02/10/2017 Durata: 52minIt's no secret that Film Chat were not fans of the first entry into Matthew Vaughn's laddish spy franchise but, with our minds firmly closed, we trudged to the Peckham Plex to view Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle. What we witnessed was perhaps a Film Chat first - a film that was not at all disappointing and yet utterly shit at the same time. We also report the exciting news that the filmmaking wunderkinds Lord and Miller having just been left a film about a space smuggler are gearing up to shoot a film about a different space smuggler. That's the plan at least, there are rumours that Ron Howard has cleared his schedule for next spring.... PLUS a look at the latest film from Dr Sexy himself Joe Cornish and a thorough examination of the recent films that have grinded the gears of our listeners. In the words of genius auteur Matthew Vaughn "This is fucking brilliant and everyone will love it!" See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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135. mother!, The Villainess, & Dispossession
25/09/2017 Durata: 56minThis week we review Darren Aronofsky's divisive psychological horror film mother!, a half-hearted effort by a timid hack who would've given his movie title at least three exclamation marks if he was committed to the sky-high concept. Just one "!"? Give it some welly Darren. Plus, we discuss, and give thumbs up to, the operatic Korean thriller The Villainess and social housing documentary Dispossession; we evaluate the prospects for a Watchmen TV series; and we ask why horror films love to put women through the ringer so much more than men. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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134. IT & Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast feat. Reel Politik
17/09/2017 Durata: 01h17minIt's a podcast crossover episode as Tom and Jack from the Reel Politik podcast join us to review the Kickstarted documentary Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast. It's an intimate portrait of the fearsome socialist MP that really nails why he is known as the Beast of Bolsover: his lilting singing voice, his Woody Allen fandom, and his love of trees. Then we review IT, the horror smash about a gang of youths being terrorised by a demonic clown. Most audience members have gone bananas for this latest adaptation but as a paedophobe, I found the children's treatment of Pennywise deeply upsetting. PLUS we wonder if Benedict Cumberbatch is capable of playing a non-posh, non-genius character, speculate about an exciting collaboration between Spike Lee and Jordan Peele and give British auteur Peter Strickland some fantastic title ideas for his next film. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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133. Nocturama & Wind River
13/09/2017 Durata: 52minThis week we take a look at the ponderous crime thriller Wind River, which most critics seem to have liked but we thought was trite and pretentious—thus proving once and for all that we are smart and everyone else is dumb. Danny also reviews controversy-baiting terrorist drama Nocturama and finds time to teach Sam several elephant-related metaphors in the process. Plus! We mourn the death of Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars dreams, discuss Alice Lowe's high-concept follow-up to Prevenge, and marvel at the latest on-set japes of mercurial method-acting prankster Jared Leto. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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132. American Made & Logan Lucky
04/09/2017 Durata: 48minIt's outrageous caper week on this week's Film Chat as we review two films about working for, and sticking it to, the man. First up Sam reviews American Made the latest film from the ancient demonic entity known as Tom Cruise. You've seen this old man hang from planes (Mission Impossible 5), hang people from planes (Mission Impossible 3) but can he fly a plane? Of course he can, he's Tom Cruise. Then Sam and Danny join forces to review Logan Lucky the new film from Hollywood's hardest working retiree, Steven Soderbergh. In it Adam Driver is missing an arm, Seth MacFarlane has an English accent, but perhaps most strangely of all Daniel Craig is asked to do some acting. The results have to be seen to be believed. Plus, we discuss whether Ed Skrein is woke now, pore over the line-up for this year's London Film Festival and report a shocking expose of the unethical lengths Christopher Nolan goes to to realise his cinematic ambitions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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131. Final Portrait & Lady Macbeth
30/08/2017 Durata: 45minThis week, Danny reviews Final Portrait, a well crafted and intelligent biopic of the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in which he says “fuck” a lot in a funny accent, and Sam gives us his thoughts on the indie drama Lady Macbeth, which came out ages ago but there’s no time like the present for a podcast host to explain vaguely why he didn’t like it. We also discuss the ethics of watching a film on your phone, we gawp at a tell-all interview with the director of Air Bud, and we muse on the latest coke-fueled brainwaves from the executives in charge of the DC and Star Wars cinematic universes. Obviously we also talk about Tom Cruise’s fake bum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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130. A Ghost Story & Le Doulos
21/08/2017 Durata: 46minHow do you like your movies? New and spooky or old and French? Either way this episode of Film Chat has got you covered.First off we review ultra stylish French noir Le Doulos by acclaimed director Jean Pierre Melville but did we think it was merde or le merde! Tune in to find out.Then we tackle David Lowery's elegiac ghost story....A Ghost Story starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara but did we think it was merde or le merde! Tune in to find out.Plus we discuss the news that Trump is about to get royally owned by the director of Whiplash on Twitter. I think we all know the answer to whether he's Russian or dragging!!!! #FuckingSatireMate....and investigate news stories featuring three immortals, namely; Dracula, Dorian Gray and Tom Cruise. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.