It’s a Guy hangout when Johnny decides, nay insists, we cover Ritchie’s intended start of a trilogy of London crime flicks and Andrew dons his best ‘East End Accent’ to talk Tom Wilkinson giving it something hard, Mark Strong’s voice, that late 00s colour grading nightmare and just where the proposed rest of the franchise actually went.
275 - PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
Happy Valentine’s Day! This year we’re celebrating with a bromance, both between Andrew and Johnny and Seth Rogen and… James Franco (No problems there, totally fine, all good, mmhmmm) with a stoner action flick that brought David Gordon Green and Danny McBride together, a movie that would lead to Universal spending $400m for Exorcist rights (and rites). We talk weed, Gary Cole at a film junket, Amber Heard, the TV show Sit Down, Shut Up and background artists.
274 - THERE WILL BE BLOOD
WARNING This episode has two hosts sometimes coughing, the sickness is real!
It’s been nearer 2 years than not that we’ve given a regular episode, life has been wild and hectic and the pandemic run broke everything. Now we return to get the waters tested only to find it’s actually oil down there, and we’re watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning masterpiece about Daniel Day Lewis as a messy bitch who lives for the drama.
BONUS - THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3 (FINAL SEQUENCE) COMMENTARY
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
What’s scarier than the notion of another hour and forty minutes in Tom Six’s ‘shocking’ ‘button-pushing’ mind? We’re watching Eric Roberts in a prison-set Centipede movie, and finding anything to talk about whilst what technically counts as video synced to audio running over 70 minutes, and thus is a feature film, plays out. Not worth watching along with us, just listen and play trivia games like a normal podcast.
Commentary begins at 00:07:43
BONUS - THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (FULL SEQUENCE) UK CUT COMMENTARY
First off, legally we can only watch the UK Cut version so there may be sync problems at times due to, ya know, the original cut being rejected over where we record.
Johnny recalls his FrightFest experiences with this film and Laurence R. Harvey, while Andrew spends most of the time playing games because there’s literally nothing in this film to discuss besides ‘Mike Leigh coulda made something with this’.
Commentary begins at 00:11:44
BONUS - THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) COMMENTARY
Halloween season is here, and Johnny’s dreams are coming true. Andrew is surgically attached to a microphone to watch the first of three movies Tom Six dared to dream about putting people arse to mouth in order to craft some sort of us-species insectoid. Erm… Good luck?
Commentary begins at 00:11:34
273 - NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS
Cage March ends with a second dose of Benjamin Franklin Gates, this time we’re dealing with Dame Helen Mirren having to fall back in love with Jon Voight, just why is Ty Burrell here, and what’s the deal with the upcoming series, is it going to be Gates-based? We’re done, at least, with treasure protecting for the moment.
272 - NATIONAL TREASURE
It’s time to steal the Declaration Of Independence as Cage March rolls onto Bruckheimer Blockbuster Season. Johnny has fond but fleeting memories of the adventure movie, but Andrew staunchly fears it’s not as good and fun as all the loud film twitter folk keep insisting it is. How will time tell us all?
271 - LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Pour one out for our thespian Nic Cage as he wins an Oscar bloating and stumbling to a decidedly devastating end, whilst Elisabeth Shue suffers so much throughout. Johnny takes his first stroll through, Andrew meanwhile faces up to watching a film he never wanted to return to. Heavy heavy stuff.
270 - MATCHSTICK MEN
It’s CAGE MARCH (Cage Madness) and we’re kicking off with Ridley Scott’s con artist drama featuring a dancing Sam Rockwell and Bruce McGill. Andrew and Johnny talk a trip to see The Godfather, Nic Cage pops in for a spot of thespian chat and The Upcoming Oscar Fan Favourite poll is brought into discussion.
269 - ADAM
It’s a late night recording for Andrew and Johnny, as they take a look at perfect goddess Rose Byrne’s career, and discuss Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham performance. There’s tangents aplenty in reminiscing about 2000s twinkly indie music, space room decorations and Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows (OH MAN).
268 - HOT SHOTS PART DEUX
Things get raw in a strange episode, Andrew is spiraling and considers which Muppets are hanging back at an orgy, whilst Johnny considers Rowan Atkinson’s comedy iconography. In the end who will be on Topper and who will be Harley there at all?
267 - HOT SHOTS
There are those out there who can fly, then there are those that can fly well, then of course there are those who can fly the best. This is a podcast about a film about those people. Andrew’s childhood comedy bible is brought to Johnny on a plate, wherein discussions of Charlie Sheen’s career, body horror in cinema and the film Top Gun help pad a run time. Topper Harley Forever!
266 - TITAN A.E.
Well, look, we’re embarrassed. We were certain that covering Roar instead of Raw was a one-off, and we were gonna watch the Palme D’or winning Titane this week, but… Disney+ didn’t have it, I was misled, and so we watch Don Bluth’s mega-flop 2D-3D hybrid space animation. In our defense, it has a gender-fluid lead, a bunch of crazy people together believing this person to be someone they aren’t and a prologue with childhood trauma, so it’s basically the same film as Titane, ok?
265 - 2021 - A YEAR IN REVIEW
As 2021 closes up, Andrew and Johnny look back at the year’s episodes, the good, the bad and the forgotten entirely. It’s a chill overview of year 5 of the podcast, a good way to get settled in to the next run of the show if you’re wanting an entry point.
BONUS - TICK, TICK... BOOM! COMMENTARY
Happy holidays to all! Johnny and Andrew are back in-person, and opening presents, as they watch their favourite film of 2021, talking Sondheim, Cats, Lin-Manuel Miranda, adventures in Oslo, Vanessa Hudgens’ filmography and also a nice pop-in of friend of the show Richard Kind. Come join the fun by syncing up with the film on Netflix, the commentary starts at 00:18:29
264 - ROAR
Ok, so, there was a bit of a mistake, this was meant to be us watching Julia Ducournau’s Raw in the build-up to us covering Titane next year, but it seems we got the wrong disk in so here’s us watching a movie about living with lions and tigers and hairy men, oh my! Andrew discusses seeing this film in a packed cinema, and Johnny rates animals based on how he’d most be comfortable living with them.
263 - RENO: 911!: MIAMI
It’s time to take a trip back to the mid-noughties and one of those TV-show-movie-spin-offs that is full of big cameos, big laughs, and weirdly unknown beyond those that are aware of the original show, or the Quibi reboot from 2020. It’s the first in-person recording since March 2020, and Andrew has made Johnny a red velvet cake, they taste it on-air! Johnny rates the Venom Burger from a promo event, whilst Andrew demonstrates a pitch-perfect Kristen Stewart As Princess Diana impression.
262 - PRIVATE PARTS
We’re tuning in to the most shocking of disk jockeys for a biographical picture episode regarding that old rapscallion Howard Stern, and this of course means the return of beloved guest Paul Giamatti to discuss Jungle Cruise and the name “Pig Vomit”.
261 - THE IRON GIANT
Vin Diesel returns to the podcast to talk guns and ships, and so the balance shifts. Johnny prepares for a holiday by watching a modern childrens’ classic, Andrew coming back from holidays trying to remember film information, and also a nice tangent on Space Jam, because it’s always gonna be a part of us now.
