Is there a movie you like that no one else gets? Or hasn't even heard of? Cinema Limbo is the home for movies whose time has come for revaluation. Hosted by Jeremy Phillips.
Jeremy is joined in the first of a new run of the podcast by Paul Morris, podcaster and scriptwriter, to discuss 2002's sci-fi action Equilibrium, with their conversation covering such matters as stimulating statues, insufficient purity of concept, the word "phenomenological" and the world's most surprising cameo.
Below are the original trailer and a playlist of the pilot and first series of The Grimleys, the ITV sitcom that briefly comes under discussion for spoiler reasons.
Joined once again by writer and podcaster Paul Morris, he and Jeremy discuss the 1984 comic book adventure and superhero spinoff Supergirl, directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter Cook and Peter O'Toole. Their discussion covers broad range of topics including illegal hockey play, Jaws heresy, mundane motivations, the Super-Universe and Billy Jor-El.
Below are the original trailer, and videos of the opening titles and original score by Jerry Goldsmith, while here are links to the two other episodes of Cinema Limbo referred to, on Santa Claus: The Movie and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
Jeremy is joined by writer and podcaster Paul Morris to discuss the 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, starring Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Willliam H Macy and Anne Heche. Their discussion covers such ground as the Psycho franchise opportunities, the Invisible Christmas, cover versions, a stage adaptation and when men stopped wearing hats all the time.
Below are trailers for some of the other entries in the series.
Jeremy is joined again by author and podcaster Paul Morris to discuss the 1945 suspense drama Detour. Their discussion of this semi-forgotten B-picture covers such topics as double features, celebrity fans, low budget economics, unreliable narrators, murderous actors and Marion Crane's absent father.
In error, Jeremy refers to the “quota quickies” and the Eady Levy as being interchangable. Although they were both part of an effort to safeguard the British film industry, they were separate efforts.
Jeremy is joined again by writer and podcaster Paul Morris to discuss the 1992 crime farce Blame It on the Bellboy, starring Dudley Moore, Richard Griffiths, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Patsy Kensit and Bryan Brown, with a conversation that takes in the logistics of Venice, the evil of Tom Good, the British cinema brain drain and the mathematics of comedy.
Linked to here and mentioned in the podcast is Jason Hazeley’s blog about that neglected titan of television, Ever Decreasing Circles, while fellow Podnosers The Sitcom Club offer their own analysis of the first two series of this masterpiece here.