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You couldn’t find two more different people — from opposite sides of the world — with completely different takes on what’s entertaining, serious, heartfelt, or funny. Rohan (the Aussie from Melbourne) loves his romantic comedies. Rob (the Scotsman from Glasgow) loves his action films. Each week, the boys deep dive into a new movie — unpacking the themes, cast, awards, controversies, and a heap of trivia along the way. They don’t hold back. Sometimes they agree, often they don’t — but it’s al ...
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After 10 months and 127 shows we have made it to the end of season 2. And we have uploaded our first video of the podcast - on You Tube now - End of Season 2 It has been a roller coaster of a year. We've had hits and misses both in the movie's we have reviewed and in the conversations and robust discussions we have had between ourselves. It's not a…
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This week we are talking about the 1979 American psychological epic war film Apocalypse Now produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vi…
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This week we are talking about the1976 American comedy drama film Network directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky. It depicts a television network struggling with poor ratings until the nightly live broadcast of its longtime news anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch) inadvertently showcases his breakdown into increasingly psychotic beha…
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This week we bring you our top 10 movies between 2010 - 2025. Not a bad 15 years - better than the previous decade at least in our eyes. Turns out that 2019 and 2022 is our favourite. Django Unchained Zero Dark Thirty Captain Phillips Three billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Dunkirk Mission Impossibles The Marvel Movies Creed Avengers Endgame Spotl…
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This week we give you our personal top 10 lists from our recent review of all movies from 1970 to 2025. A little different this week - we have prepared 2 lists. 1) The top 10 movies you would take to a desert island with you - the fun, entertaining ones. Popcorn movies, love stories, action and adventure - really anything you want that you could wa…
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This week we bring you our top 10 list of Best Movies between 2000 - 2010. The discussion starts when The Scotsman drops the Aussie right in it early on Couple of crackers from the Aussie: "Ewan McGregor sings Your Song better than Elton John in Moulin Rouge" This is not our favourite decade of movies - and if you tune in you will find out why. The…
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This week we review the Best Movies of the 1990s - we thought the 1980's was hard. Wow - this was nearly impossible to choose a top 10. How do you condense 50 of your favourite movies into a top 10. No easily - which leads to some great and fairly heated discussions towards the end of the podcast. What a decade with the likes of: The Shawshank Rede…
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This week we review the Best Movies of the 1980s - and this was hard. "I've never been more excited" says the Aussie "This will be show of the year" he declares. "The hardest top 10 I've ever had to write". replies the Scotsman. Well the lines have been drawn - no starting stories. The Scotsman starts reeling them off year by year. The Shining, The…
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This week we review The Best Movies of the 1970s - and there are so many to choose from. Before we run through them and list our top 10 the Aussie tells us tales of old girlfriends and he is surprised if not weirdly excited - nae aroused - when the Scotsman tells him about a new movie coming up called Marty Supreme starring Timothy Chalamet - which…
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This week we discuss all Robert De Niro's movies to date The Aussie kicks up off by chatting about his Aussies bad memory and then we ....eh I can't quite remember but I think we run through De Niro's incredible volume of work, his biography, our favourite De Niro lines and we finish with our top 10 countdown. From old classics like The Godfather 2…
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This week we are reviewing the 2022 black tragicomedy film The Banshees of Inisherin directed, written, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh. Set on a remote fictional island off the west coast of Ireland in 1923, The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their fr…
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This week we review the 1992 American romantic thriller drama film The Bodyguard directed by Mick Jackson, starring Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston (in her movie acting debut), Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, and Ralph Waite. The film follows a former United States Secret Service agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect a famous actor and singer from a…
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This week we are delighted to chat with Leigh Illfand and Leigh Livingstone from Popcorn Podcast. Having just reached over 500 podcasts, we probe Leigh and Tim about their journey to success. Having interviewed a huge number of celebs from Hugh Jackman to Nick Offerman, To Justin Baldoni the list goes on and on. You can find them on all the social …
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This week we review the1996 American comedy film The Birdcage produced and directed by Mike Nichols. Elaine May's screenplay adapted the 1978 French film La Cage aux Folles, itself an adaptation of a 1973 play. It stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple whose son (Dan Futterman) is set to marry the daughter (Calista Flockhart) of a con…
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This week we review the 2010 American thriller film Unthinkable directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen and Carrie-Anne Moss. The film focuses on the sanctioned torture of a man who has threatened to detonate three nuclear bombs, planted in three large U.S. cities. This is all about that ultimate question: "how far w…
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This week we are reviewing the best of Denzel Washington movies. From Cry Freedom to his Oscar win in Glory to Malcolm X to The Pelican Brief to Philadelphia to Crimson Tide to The Bone Collector, Remember the Titans, Fences, The Equalizer, Flight to his Shakespearean roles, Denzel is nearly an all rounder. Except for comedy - he doesn't really do …
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This week we review the 2017 crime drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri written, directed, and produced by Martin McDonagh. It stars Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes, a Missouri woman who rents three roadside billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder. Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John…
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Mack Lindon is an Australian actor turned director who first captured audiences with his powerful debut film Rise (2014), inspired by his own wrongful imprisonment. Sentenced to six years in jail in 2008, Mack was released on appeal in 2010. Now, Mack returns with Rise of the Underdog (2025) — hitting cinemas on November 6th — an inspiring new stor…
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This week we have a fun little movie theme tune quiz with The Doc returning once again to the Aussie and the Scotsman studio The Doc schools the Aussie early in this one but the Aussie bounces back. See if you can keep up with the speed of the guesses. The Scotsman moderates with his own unique points system. We rattle through the decades - who wil…
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This week we review the 2009 American biographical sports drama film The Blind Side written and directed by John Lee Hancock. Based on the 2006 book of the same name by Michael Lewis, the film tells the story of Michael Oher, a football offensive lineman who overcame an impoverished upbringing to play in the National Football League (NFL) with the …
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This week we review the 2012 American drama film Flight directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an alcoholic airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board. Although hailed a hero, an investigation soon begins to cast the captain …
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This week we discuss all Tom Cruise's movie's to date. Before we get into Tom - we discuss the Aussie's shocking week. As the most competitive human in Australia this 40 year golf veteran was humbled this week when he was beaten in a golf comp by a novice of only 12 months. A very hard pill for him to swallow. From Risky Business, Top Gun, Cocktail…
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This week we review the 1983 American family tragicomedy film Terms of Endearment directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma Greenway-Ho…
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This week we are reviewing the 1987 American crime film, The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Mamet. It stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. Set in Chicago in 1930, the film follows Eliot Ness (Costner) as he forms the Untouchables team to bring Al Capone (De Niro) to …
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This week we review the 2003 romantic comedy-drama film Lost in Translation written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. There, he befriends another disillusioned American named Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a…
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This week we review the 2008 American drama film Gran Torino directed, produced by and starring Clint Eastwood. It features a significant Hmong American cast, a first for mainstream American films. The score was composed by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens, with Jamie Cullum and Clint Eastwood providing the lead track. Set in Highland Park, Michig…
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This week we review the 2001 American biographical drama film A Beautiful Mind about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe. The film is directed by Ron Howard. In addition to Crowe, the film's cast features Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp,…
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This week we are reviewing the 2016 American musical romantic tragicomedy film LA LA Land written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a struggling jazz pianist and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. The supporting cast includes John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt,…
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This week we review the 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film Joy written and directed by David O. Russell and starring Jennifer Lawrence as Joy Mangano, a self-made millionaire who created her own business empire. We start off by discussing the appropriate dress code for a funeral and somehow we end the conversation discussing masturbating …
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This week we review the 2004 action thriller film Man on Fire directed and produced by Tony Scott. It is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. The film stars Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning in lead roles, alongside Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin and Mickey Rourke in su…
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This week we review the 1996 American legal drama film A Time to Kill based on John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star, with Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appearing in supporting roles and Octavia Spencer in her film debut. The film received mixed reviews but was a com…
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This week we review the 1993 American legal thriller film The Firm directed by Sydney Pollack, and starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn and Gary Busey. The film is based on the 1991 novel of the same name by author John Grisham. The Firm follows Mitch McDeere, a young Harvard…
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This week we review the 1986 American teen comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck, with supporting roles from Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Cindy Pickett, Edie McClurg, Lyman Ward, and Charlie Sheen. It tells the story of a charismatic high sc…
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This week we review the recently released 2025 satirical black comedy film The Roses directed by Jay Roach. It is loosely based on the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, and a re-imagining of the 1989 film. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as a successful couple whose seemingly pitch-perfect marriage begins fallin…
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This week we review the 2021 American biographical sports drama film King Richard directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and written by Zach Baylin. The film stars Will Smith as Richard Williams, the father and coach of famed tennis players Venus and Serena Williams (both of whom served as executive producers on the film), with Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya S…
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This week we review the 1998 American crime drama film American History X directed by Tony Kaye (in his feature directorial debut) and written by David McKenna. The film stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong as two brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements. The older brother (Norton) serves three…
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This week we are reviewing the 1992 American drama film Scent of a Woman starring Al Pacino in his Oscar winning role as a blind, depressed and irritable retired Army Lieutenant colonel. Chris O'Donnell was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as his weekend companion / assistant. We really enjoyed discussing this movie. While it has not aged …
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This week we review the 1987 American crime drama film Wall Street, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider. Stone…
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The week we review the 2010 American action thriller film The Town a tense Boston crime thriller co-written and directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars alongside Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, and Blake Lively and Pete Postlethwaite. Set in the gritty streets of Charlestown — a neighborhood notorious for producing bank robbers — the film fo…
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This week we review the 1994 New Zealand tragic drama film Once Were Warriors based in New Zealand. The film tells the story of the Heke family, an urban Māori whānau living in South Auckland, and their problems with poverty, alcoholism, and domestic violence, mostly brought on by the patriarch, Jake. It explores the detrimental effects of the colo…
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This week we review the 1992 erotic thriller film Basic Instinct directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Wayne Knight, the film follows the detective Nick Curran (Douglas) as he investigates the murder of a wealthy rock star in San Francisco. He begins …
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This week we discuss all Leonardo DiCaprio movie's to date. The Aussie starts off by telling us an incredible NEW story about his time working as a repo-man - yes you heard it right , the Aussie was a repo-man for a year, and boy does he have some stories. Rohan the Repo Man. We run through Lio's volume of work, his biography, our favourite lines a…
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This week we review the 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film Donnie Darko written and directed by Richard Kelly in his directorial debut. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, and Noah Wyle, with Seth Rogen in his film debut in a minor role. Set in October 1988, t…
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This week we review the 2017 biographical crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott. Based on John Pearson's 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty, it depicts the events surrounding the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the refusal of his grandfather, the multi-billionaire oil ty…
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This week we review the 1973 historical adventure drama prison film Papillion directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. The screenplay was based on the 1969 autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. The film stars Steve McQueen as Charrière ("Papillon") and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega. Henri Charrière is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" beca…
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This week we are delighted to welcome Pip Mushin to the studio. Pip is a highly accomplished Australian actor, director, and producer with extensive experience in theatre, film, and television. Pip earned critical acclaim for directing Avenue Q and Falsettos. His major stage directing credits include The Book of Mormon, Evita (starring Tina Arena),…
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This week we discuss the best of Robin Williams. Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama and comedy films. Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He …
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This week we review the 1969 American road drama film Easy Rider written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal with a young Jack Nicholson in tow. The success of Easy…
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This week we review the 1991 American psychological thriller film Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese which is a remake of the 1962 film. This film is awful! It stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange. The film tells the story of a convicted violent rapist who, by using his newfound knowledge of the law and its numerous loopholes, seek…
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This week we review the 1965 American musical drama film The Sound of Music produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singer…
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