October is, of course, the spookiest month, Halloween Kills month itself, and Johnny has once more taken the reins to show Andrew a series of scary motion pictures. We begin with the Matthew Lillard-starring ‘I remember this from back at school’ movie 13 Ghosts, where Johnny reads descriptions for each of the Ectocean’s gang, and the duo discuss No Time To Die, a film they had definitely watched before recording.
252 - DAY WATCH
Johnny is forced back into the fantasy lore of Russian trilogy-turned-two-film-franchise Nochnoy Dozor, and he’s being at his best behaviour, but will he last the 2 hour follow-up? Andrew discusses the death of cinema, at least as he waves goodbye to a Cineworld Unlimited card, and the Comic Con hunt for a DVD of Day Watch in 2006.
251 - NIGHT WATCH
Andrew takes the reigns of the nostalgia-buster-fantasy-action programming this week, with Timur Bekmambetov’s weird Russian piece of cinema. Will it hold up? Probably not. Will Disney+ offer kinetic subtitles? Of course not. What will be left of hope when the film comes to an unthrilling climax?
250 - HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING - RENEGADE CUT
It’s EPISODE 250 and Johnny’s dream from 150 episodes ago is finally coming true. Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod is on the podcast as we watch the extended, and only-available, cut of Highlander’s infamous sequel. Will Andrew take to a second film to a franchise he doesn’t care for? Will Johnny’s nostalgia be busted by a new look and a different edit? Will Queen create a whole new soundtrack using Christopher Lambert’s chuckle? What kind of party would it be without Michael Ironside anyway? Come for the sword fighting, stay forever because you’re an immortal human or alien or something.
249 - HAPPY GILMORE
Don’t you want to go home? Well, sports month goes home in Sandman fashion, as we swing for the hockey-to-golf-player Adam Sandler classic, Johnny hasn’t gone into the 90s era of Sandler and Andrew is excited to revisit his youth with this one. The debate of Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler rages on, who will win?
248 - FIELD OF DREAMS
Kevin Costner hears a voice and turns his farm into a baseball diamond. You hear voices and listen to a podcast about Kevin Costner doing this. Normal behaviour. If you listen, he will come.
247 - BASEKETBALL
We’re getting psyched out by a multi-sport as we approach the release of the new Space Jam movie, and find ways to bring Sports Month in to some kind of relevance. Johnny has seen this film, but remembers nothing. Andrew has seen this film a lot, but doesn’t know how much holds up anymore. What will come of the players this week?
246 - JERRY MAGUIRE
It’s the first week of July, and plans change fast. Sports are all intersecting out in the world, so the podcast is turning its eye to the athletic achievements out there, starting with a Tom Cruise drama about a money man turned humanist, and his grab-bag of friends. Who doesn’t want to watch some Cameron Crowe right now as the world continues to dissolve around us?
FAST FRIDAYS - EPISODE 09 - FAST AND FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW (WITH SARAH O'CONNELL)
The Fast Saga is continuing in two strands, you can now enjoy F9 in the cinema, but this podcast is reuniting two titans, Andrew and Johnny, to deal with one last mission: Talking spin-offs. How many pages of notes can be written on this adventure? Who gets the best insults? Will special guest Sarah delve into the madness of the family timeline, or will sense finally prevail? Nothing will be revealed!
245 - LOVE NEVER DIES
Musical Month 2021 ends with Johnny’s defying return to the Phantomverse, forcing Andrew to sit through another Lloyd Webber musical, but hark there’s The Phantom Of The Podcast coming in to take over matters. Will we survive the show intact? Will music ever be the same again? Will Love ever Die? NEVER!
FAST FRIDAYS - EPISODE 08 - THE F8 OF THE FURIOUS (WITH KATIE SMITH-WONG)
It’s time to split the family up, as the Fate turns Dom against Letty, Roman, Tej, Hobbs, Ramsey and DECKARD SHAW?!? Yup, bad guys is family now. Joining us is film writer Katie Smith-Wong to unpack a film full of submarines, zombie cars and TWO Academy Award winning actresses, yet no Corona in sight.
244 - RENT
We’re counting musical month in cups of coffee as it becomes the turn of Chris Columbus’ movie adaptation of the groundbreaking 90s Broadway show to be viewed and skewered. Will Andrew’s third attempt to make it through go well? Will Johnny be able to separate this version from The Office’s parody song? Will the landlord from Spider-Man 2 ever get what he deserves?
FAST FRIDAYS - EPISODE 07 - FURIOUS 7 (WITH IAN LORING)
A mega-sode dealing with the epic events of Dom, Brian, Roman, Tej, Letty, Mia, Ramsey, Mr. nobody and Han’s threat from the Shaw family’s older brother, Jason Statham. Film Basterds podcast host Ian Loring tangents the discussion with pivoting race-start women, was Roman of any use in Fast 5, and we all finally dig deep into the TIMELINE OF THE FRANCHISE properly.
We also tackle the Fast And Furious Supercharged Universal Studios ride/experience, which happens sometime between Furious 6 and… Furious 6?
243 - IN THE HEIGHTS
Humpweek of Musical Month and we’re finally celebrating a couple of days in Washington Heights properly. We hang out with best friend BENNY! Discuss the changes from the stage show, some of the adaptations that worked for the nature of cinema, and prepare for the opening of big screen theatrical experiences again. Get ready for a lot of hot, heavy musical talk in this fan-friendly episode.
FAST FRIDAYS - EPISODE 06 - FURIOUS 6 (WITH JOE CUNNINGHAM)
London Calling for the Family on the exciting crew-versus-crew showdown blockbuster, and we’re joined with Furious 6 ultra-fan Joe Cunningham (Cinematic Universe podcast) to drive the extended runway of plot beats, Rock/Vin feuding, LA-based detours and which characters get less to deal with in the long run. Grab a corona once again and put pedal to the metal for this final Chris Morgan/Justin Lin family action movie.
242 - WALKING ON SUNSHINE
Remember Mamma Mia!? Well, it was such a huge hit that the UK tried to make an independent version, and nobody talks about the 80s music jukebox summer sun movie that came out of that. We, here, are the podcast that dares to examine the lost archives of summers past, in musical month’s triumphant second episode.
FAST FRIDAYS - EPISODE 05 - FAST FIVE (WITH BRADLEY PORTER)
We welcome a new member of the family with filmmaker Bradley Porter, who kindly actually drives during a conversation on the epic Avengers-style Fast And Furious Family Team-Up movie, whilst discussing Netflix’s creative control problems and how many punches it takes for Vin Diesel to smash Dwayne Johnson through a wall.
This is when the franchise goes from Mission: Impossible to Mission: In-Freaking-Sanity
241 - TOMMY
Podcast can you hear us? It’s musical month once again, and stretching the definition of cinema, we watch the Ken Russell’ed The Who rock opera about a pinball wizard featuring Jack Nicholson and Elton John. Weird? Of course. Good? Well, that’s for the courts to decide.
FAST FRIDAYS - EPISODE 04 - FAST AND FURIOUS
The family is coming back together with the 4th installment in the Fast Saga, and along with it Vin Diesel’s short film prologue Los Bandoleros is on the viewing order of the week. It’s time to discuss Dominic Toretto’s Will Graham-level crime scene envisioning, casting John Ortiz in a film that’s actively redoing the Miami Vice movie and the podracing vibe from a tunnel-based car chase sequence. Also, welcome to the franchise Gal Gadot!
240 - LA CONFIDENTIAL - WITH GEORGE GRIMWOOD
What’s new with the hit honchos of Hollywood? They’re returning from a long break to watch a movie full of movie stars, hot gossip, criminals, coppers and sins in the city of angels. Joining their escapades is Podnose owner George Grimwood, bringing his expertise of the LA architecture and the city’s legacy.
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