Elaine and Mark met at a movie club and got married in a brewery. Mark loves spreadsheets. Elaine can’t pronounce asterisk. We watch a lot of film and TV.
Episodes
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
To butcher a phrase used by fairground ride operators up and down the country (as well as Geri Halliwell), Scream if you wanna go FIVEster.
We've been to see Scream, the confusingly-titled fifth film in the Scream franchise.
In this podcast we discuss our history with the franchise, then we deep dive into our review of this most meta of meta films out at the moment.
Would you like to play a game?
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Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Happy 100th episode to us. To celebrate this major milestone, we’re catching up with some of the TV shows and movies we’ve watched over the last few weeks.
In TV, we reflect on ITV true-crime drama Four Lives (7:46), get bowled over by Sky Documentary's The Man Who Bought Cricket (18:14), put the lotion in the basket for Alibi’s Silence of the Lambs spin off Clarice (25:28), sing the Willy Fog theme tune (obvs) in our review of the Beeb’s Around the World in 80 Days (33:26), and share our thoughts on Disney’s The Book of Boba Fett (37:06).
In Movies, it’s over to Mark. He’s been to the cinema to see Matthew Vaughn’s spy action comedy prequel The King’s Man (45:13), and then he sat on the sofa and caught up with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog which is available now on Netflix (55:52). It’s a hard life.
As we say on the pod, what a pleasure and privilege it is to reach 100 episodes. We love doing this podcast – thanks so much for all your messages, encouragement, reviews, and good humour. Now, who has the number for the Royal Albert Hall…?
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
We return once more for our round up of 2021. This time we're tackling TV. There's comedy, drama, sci-fi, satire, and - of course - police procedurals!
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Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
As we wave goodbye to 2021, we jump on the podcast to discuss our Top 10 favourite films of the year. Mark has taken this task INCREDIBLY SERIOUSLY. Elaine has not. What controversies lie within Mark's extensively researched and meticulously deliberated list? And will Elaine's laptop - containing her hastily cobbled together rankings - have enough battery to make it to the end of the episode...?
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Friday Dec 31, 2021
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Finally! After our Matrix re-watch (see earlier episodes), we eventually managed to see the fourth Matrix film. Was it worth the wait? You have to let it all go… fear, doubt, and disbelief…
Spoilers at 10:00.
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Friday Dec 31, 2021
Friday Dec 31, 2021
Our review of that little seen indie film Spiderman: No Way Home.
Spoilers from 8:45.
Enjoy!
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Friday Dec 24, 2021
Friday Dec 24, 2021
We complete our Matrix re-watch with The Matrix Revolutions. We get off to a fairly grumpy start (!) but end up having lots to say about cast changes, our indifference to the fate of Zion, and our thoughts on the ending and its implications for The Matrix Resurrections (which we haven’t seen yet, so don’t worry no spoilers here).
Thanks for joining us on our re-watch. And Merry Matrix-mas!
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Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
I'm gonna be iron like a lion in Zion….
Our Matrix re-watch continues with The Matrix Reloaded. Grossing $741.8 million worldwide, The Matrix Reloaded was the eagerly awaited follow up to The Matrix. But how does it fare today? We mull over the plot, visual effects, and character names. We also spend way too much time ruminating on the sex scenes…
Enjoy!
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Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
We're back with a bumper-sized catch up episode, filled with so much TV and film it's like Christmas Day has come early (but not for Elaine).
For TV, we've been watching the latest MCU Disney+ TV Show, the Christmas-themed Hawkeye (4:49). We’re also still agog at the ending of Season 3 of Succession (15:14) – we indulge in a quick spoiler-free chat about the season as a whole.
For movies, Elaine has seen the much-awaited Kilmer documentary VAL (26:30), and Mark has seen Ridley Scott's 473rd film this year, House of Gucci (40:00). Finally we dig DEEP into Stephen Spielberg’s first attempt at a musical with a remake of West Side Story (46:50). As a word of warning, we talk about all the major plot points for West Side Story, but then the original film IS fifty years old, based on a show that's sixty years old, and on a play that's 400+ years old…
The podcast Mark mentions about West Side Story's box office is available here:
You can listen to The Movie Robcast’s Christmas Spectacular here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-134-its-the-supersized-bumper-movie-robcast/id1097546968?i=1000544669572
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Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Welcome to the real world…. and the film that introduced us to Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity. We’re returning to The Matrix, 22 years after we first saw it via a cardboard-backed DVD case. But how does it hold up? Will Mark get all the biblical references this time round? And what exactly is a Nebuchadnezzar?
Enjoy!
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