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 Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
It's Elaine's pick for Date Night.
And there's really only one question to ask. Can we shoe-horn a reference to 90s sitcom The Upper Hand into our review of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical drama? Yes, yes we can...
Enjoy!
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Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Der-ner der-ner der-ner der-ner BATMAN!
We start with our general thoughts, then at 15:25 head straight into Arkham Asylum with full spoilers. We cover the style, the content, the cast and... yes... the length.
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Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Mark is feeling overwhelmed with the amount of good telly he needs to catch up with. So we did the only obvious thing, and recorded a podcast to remind him how much he hasn’t seen. He was happy, however, to wax lyrical (again) about Ted Lasso (4:45). And we’ve watched the first two episodes of mystery-horror Yellowjackets (13:11). Finally, for TV, we reflect on Series 1 of The Book of Boba Fett (22:13). We do touch on major spoilers, so please skip over our review if you haven’t seen this show yet.
In our film section (31:55), we were only meant to review Ken Branagh’s Belfast but ended up having a discussion about the Oscar and BAFTA nominations. As part of this, we unexpectedly had a chat about Liquorice Pizza and Mass. But don’t worry, we do get to Belfast eventually!
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Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
All great men have moustaches, and all great Date Nights feature a film requested by our magnificent pod-chum Mr Rob Daniel from The Movie Robcast.
Spoilers from pretty much straight after the trailer plays, so if you don’t want to know anything about Hot Rod best to leave us there, watch the film, and then come back…
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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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