Our Latin American journey leaves the South American mainland behind this week, and dips into Caribbean cinema with a 2007 film from the Dominican Republic, YUNIOL.
Our Latin American journey leaves the South American mainland behind this week, and dips into Caribbean cinema with a 2007 film from the Dominican Republic, YUNIOL.
After reviews — some more fervent than others — we talk about drama, found families, and whether or not we might have a Eurocentric view of this film’s politics.
After something of a hiatus: we’re back! With the award-winning 2015 Colombian film EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT.
Another Small Batch episode, looking at the the 2021 horror film, Titane
The next stop on our journey through Latin America is 2005’s MADEINUSA.
The title for this episode comes from something Rob says towards the end of this chat, which I think sums up this film brilliantly.
Our film this week is the slacker comedy/drama 25 WATTS, from Uruguay.
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Die Hard In The White House...again?
....and really bad eggs....
We launch into Season 5 (FIVE!!! madness, I tell you) and our ‘world tour’ with a film from the country at the southernmost tip of the Americas, Chile, and Pablo Larraín’s 2019 film EMA
Some six years after our first episode — and fourteen years after the…’discussion’ that prompted us to start doing this podcast (eventually), we’re revisiting Zach Snyder’s 2007 epic 300
The final film in our Disney-animation-and-remakes sub-season is the 2020 iteration of MULAN.
Our final Disney film is 1998’s MULAN. After some reviews, we talk about the ways in which this film starts from a position of naivety, but grows into a much more adult movie: which leaves us both intrigued as to what the reboot will be like.
This week, after some...reviews of Disney’s most recent take on THE LION KING, we talk about how colour and contrast can make or break a film, the importance of myth to the original movie, and what it means to consider style versus substance when the film is as hyperrealistic as this one.
Our film this week is the 1994 award-winning classic THE LION KING.
After…mixed reviews, we talk about the ‘clean’ visuals, what it feels Disney wants from a re-make, and how watching this involves something of the same pretence shown by the characters themselves.
This time, our focus is on the 1992 Disney film ALADDIN.
This week our focus is he 2017 live-action version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST