This week’s film is one of Rob’s favourite Disney films (so no pressure, there) 1991’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

The Best Of The Pandemic Year

The first film in our final mini-season of Season 4 (we’re getting old!) is the 1967 Disney animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s THE JUNGLE BOOK.

The final film in our mini-season of heist film’s is Steve McQueen’s 2018 movie WIDOWS.

Our penultimate heist film is the 2004 teen movie THE PERFECT SCORE. We talk about how this film doesn’t take itself too seriously, and doesn’t deserve the panning it got from the critics, as well as the idea that this is a mash-up of the heist film genre with teen films about progress of various kinds.

Our film this time is Guy Ritchie’s 1998 break-out film, which spawned a host of not-always-successful imitators — even among the work of Ritchie himself!

This week, we focus on a doubly discredited (director and star) but undeniably classic film: THE USUAL SUSPECTS.

This week’s film is an early one from Michael Mann, king of the crime genre: THIEF.

This week’s film is the 1973 multiple-Oscar-winning classic THE STING.

This week, our focus turns to the 1969 classic THE ITALIAN JOB. After our usual opening reviews, we go on to talk about the development of the on-screen working-class criminals, British v Italians on film, and the continuing evolution of the heist genre.

This week we discuss the landmark historical film BONNIE AND CLYDE. Our reviews are followed by discussions about how this film was a cultural jumping-off point, and how it’s filled with examples of iconoclastically pushing back against society.

This week we tackle the original OCEAN’S ELEVEN — over 40 years before the Soderbergh re-make, and set in a very different time.

This week, we begin our heist movies mini-season with the 1955 French film noir RIFIFI.

The final film in our ‘high school’ sub-season is the Olivia Wilde film from last year BOOKSMART.

This week we discuss the 2016 musical-comedy-drama-fantasy (who knows?) SING STREET

This week, in a change to the film we had been going to feature, it’s Emma Watson’s 2012 (post-HP) breakout role

With Sam off being a dad, Rob ropes in some guest hosts, this week Naomi from Power Word Roll talking up a storm about the gothic horror/love story, Crimson Peak

This week’s film is the 2007 re-boot of the anarchic ST. TRINIAN’S franchise.