Reel Talk Episode 35: Pet Peeves

YEAH! A surprising amount of Pacific Rim talk this week, which allows me to tie this episode to this headbanging track.

This week we bring you another favourite’s favourites, except the opposite, cos we’re talking Pet Peeves! Listen, as Pete hates on natural history peasants, Zhana despises the Stepford Wives of Hollywood, I moan about stating the theme and guest Alistair MacQuarrie loves to hate on unnecessary romance.

Plus: group analysis of Todd Solonz’s Happiness (no, not the one with Will Smith), some nonsense about Inspector Gadget and everyone really likes Jurassic Park. Sound like your thing? Then click the link below OR subscribe on iTunes!

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-35-movie-pet-peeves/?token=5f49b4f1f2c3f7eef4aa139f2a736327

Reel Talk Episode 34 – We All Love Keanu

Just one of the many excellent Man of Tai Chi fight scenes.

So! This week features extensive discussion of Keanu Reeves films, given its recording following a Reeves marathon. However, though we all love Keanu, there was some division over his filmography, particularly Point Break and Bill & Ted, which was fairly entertaining. Then onto the week’s excellent news (Shane Black Predator film? YES YES YES) and some chat about a couple bafflingly bad films, in the shape of In the Name of the King and Savages, and one good film: Snowpiercer! Honestly, I think it’s a pretty good show – so why not have a listen?

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http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-34-we-all-love-keanu/?token=bd70bb2c51f96d0ab5fbe51ebddb4f7d

 

 

Reel Talk Episode 32 – Cinema Sinning

An episode built on three talk-chunk-foundations.

1) A discussion of Cinema Sins, a YouTube show that takes a particularly nitpicky approach to deconstructing cinema, following their being roundly criticised on Twitter. Pete and Zhana were calm and measured in their analysis. I was…less so. I hold the same gut-level aversion to that show that I do to The Only Way Is Essex.

2) A review of 22 Jump Street by yours truly! It’s a great film, and I saw it with a great crowd – Ice Cube was all the funnier for the havoc he wreaked on the funnybones of the people behind me.

3) A review of Boyhood by Pete! In which he describes the new Linklater film as a film that perfectly judges how to tell a story set in normal life. Goshdarn but I want to see it now.

So, for all this, plus the entertaining nattering going on between the chunks, why not click the link below OR…subscribe on iTunes.

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-32-cinema-sinning/?token=69973828cbb940d9893a19271c027466

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Reel Talk Episode 31: Elegantly Bald

Mark Strong is the kind of human being the world is lucky to have.

I on the other hand have a tendency to derail things – hence this podcast, which is mostly composed of tangents. Damn good tangents though! We talk about the politics of Roland Emmerich, the true nature of auteurs, Pete’s existential crises and Zhana’s condescending sex fantasies, indulging in a smorgasbord of topics. So what are you waiting for? Listen at the link below, OR, subscribe on iTunes.

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-31-elegantly-bald/?token=fa3cf5ac02298cff8cc8e984f549b450

Reel Talk Episode 30: Tweelapse

I honestly spent about 10 minutes at the beginning of this episode talking about how I stopped saying lush. I really need to get my filter checked.

Otherwise! This week’s main review is of X-Men: Days of Future Past, a movie we all seemed ok with at first, until we started talking about it. Then we suddenly hated it. Weird.

We’ve also got Zhana Kuzmina with the Cannes winners, Peter Flynn with singing and compound nouns and discussion of how delighted John Travolta was to be playing Nicholas Cage, in the 90’s classic Face/Off. For all this and even some more, click the link below, or, subscribe on iTunes.

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-30-tweelapse/?token=d1fe0d43b7352768e136a97dd39a4788

Reel Talk Episode 29 – Frozen on Ice…duh

Guess I’m late with the podcast posting again…exams suck you guys. So glad to be done.

Reviews of: Godzilla! With spoilers. Plus some other stuff about the crappiness of the Batman VS Superman title, and other outdated news the internet has thoroughly covered. MOVING ON.

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-29-frozen-on-ice-duh/

Reel Talk Episode 28: Batman’s Bum-Chin

Brought up this short film at some point during recording. Not sure if the mention made it in, but I wanted to highlight it regardless because I adore how expressive the deforming quality of the animation is. Just as in my favourite short of the Animatrix (which we also mentioned) ‘World Record’, the warping and twisting of the human form communicates torment in a manner that makes it harsh and visceral, whether it’s the physical strain of Dan Davis’ running, or the psychological agony contained within this family. As their bodies contort, expand and contract, their pain pours off the screen, immediate and harrowing.

TONE-SHIFT.

So this week we start with discussions of sex-restaurants and end on a review of a Kurt Russell film and somehow these things are not related. Craziness. Otherwise, we criticise Frank for being too normal, fall in love with Johnny Mnemonic, dismiss David S. Goyer, and take bleeding ages to get to the point about Rammstein. Truly, we have ourselves a goddamn show.

Listen to that below, or…subscribe on iTunes!

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-28-batmans-bum-chin/?token=7596a33f1b0197eb167ce10f27432a12

Reel Talk Episode 27 – Movie Music Special

In a show of many excellent jams, this one IMO was definitely the jammiest.

This week’s Reel Talk was all about the music! We each picked 5 songs each from the scores of various movies and chatted about what they did for us, with candidates stretching from Donnie Darko (no, we didn’t pick Mad World…for some dumb reason), to Under the Skin, from Nymphomaniac to Attack the Block. It’s definitely a mixed bag, and hopefully some truly great listening. Also Zhana really cannot stand the new Tarzan trailer.

Listen to all this by clicking the link below, OR subscribe on iTunes.

http://petros0001.podbean.com/e/reel-talk-27-movie-music-special/?token=3ef1193491bbcca8a6e5fe8b0e961a8b

Reel Talk Episode 26 – Vaginal Guns

Pete decided guns were too phallic, so we tried to design an alternative and ended up with something like the District 9 magnet-gun. Only with babies.

This episode, we demonstrate what happens to our brains when we don’t have time to participate in the order of the weekly film release schedule. With Pete finishing a dissertation and myself neck deep in researching empires, we found ourselves a bit behind on our films and so decided to talk about everything else.

MENTIONED. Why Fallout 3 is great. Pete’s weird film ideas get slightly less arthouse. Convoluted Inglorious Basterds theorising. The weird wonders of eXistenz. Why Star Wars casting news is clickbait bollocks. And much, probably too much, more, all to be found by clicking the link below!

http://petros0001.podbean.com/2014/05/02/reel-talk-26-vaginal-guns/?token=6b67a7a930e21f81b20a5f7320f131c3

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Reel Talk Episode 25 – Mia Wasikasshole

Get back into Reel Talk with one of our greatest moments…

Computer death. Essay deadlines. The need to stuff hundreds of years of imperial history into a brain groaning under the strain. All of this conspired to make me super lazy and not post up Reel Talks…

TILL TODAY!

Pete is back from Berlin and brought some film talk with him.  We love The Raid 2, Zhana remembers The Double, Pete is fascinated by the Happening and Locke makes me question my attachment to masculine ethics. We discuss tautologies, dickish computers, magic rocks and for some reason reality television. Listen below!

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http://petros0001.podbean.com/2014/04/25/reel-talk-25-mia-wasikasshole/?token=0ae1591c489ce7b799ffb015c58374e0

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