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We love movies and hope you do too! Join long time film-going buddies Maddie Gould and Ed Howells as they forge an unbroken chain of motion pictures - one link at a time. Movies that make you laugh, movies that make you cry, movies that make you punch the air and, just occasionally, movies that scare the almighty living hell out of you!
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Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Welcome to Alabama, land of guns, grits and the electric chair. Don’t accidentally confess to any murders while you’re here, or it’s death row for you... and if you don’t have a fast-talking New York lawyer for a cousin, you’re a goner. That’s the predicament we find ourselves in this week as we take a look at cult 90s courtroom comedy My Cousin Vinny. Featuring mud, inappropriate courtroom attire and Barry off Friends!
Also:
- The Exorcist, The Shining, American Werewolf in London and other Halloween treats
- Gould’s Shocktober Challenge roundup
- Charlton Heston… actor?
“What is a grit?” - Gould
“Is it a punch? It doesn’t look like a punch. The sound effect is definitely a punch.” - Ed
“The more we’re talking about it, the more I love this film.” - Gould
Link
Pet Sematary 🔗My Cousin Vinny
Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall to Fred Gwynne as Judge Chamberlain Haller
CONTENT WARNING – Should be fine here
SPOILER WARNING – Don’t think we dropped any major clangers this week
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Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Pet Sematary (1989)
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Tuesday Nov 07, 2023
Sometimes dead is better. For this week’s episode we’re continuing our dalliance with the undead as we peak from behind our hands (at least, the more squeamish of us did) at the 1989 version of Stephen King’s most horrifying novel… Pet Sematary. Featuring terrible parenting, inevitable roadkill and the most adorable zombie in cinema history.
Also
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The joys of film festivals
- Gould has an idea for a cosy mystery
“The cat comes back with big yellow eyes, which means it’s evil now.” - Ed
“The pet sematary looks like a Halloween display outside someone’s house.” - Gould
“It’s basically anti-truck propaganda.” - Ed
Link:
Frankenstein 🔗 Pet Sematary
The raising of the dead
CONTENT WARNING – Can’t talk about this movie without talking about untimely death of all varieties, so we do. We try to keep it light, though.
SPOILER WARNING – One of us drops a spoiler for The Da Vinci Code. The other has never seen it.
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Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
BONUS: Top 10 Movie Monsters
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
What’s your favourite movie monster? This week we’re shamelessly jumping on the Halloween bandwagon to bring you a special bonus episode… counting down our all time favourite movie monsters. Will we agree on what constitutes a monster? Gould can barely agree with herself!
Also
- Which actor pops up no fewer than three times during this discussion?
- Gould has a bet with herself.
- Confusion over aliens and inter-dimensional entities
“I think you’ve set yourself some bonkers criteria.” - Ed
“He is so charismatic… he’s very, very sexy!” - Gould
“The thing that gets me most, is the noise.” - Ed
CONTENT WARNING – Some scary monster noises… ooooh
SPOILER WARNING – Ed dropped some Lord of the Rings spoilers, the damn fool.
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Monday Oct 23, 2023
Frankenstein (1931)
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
It’s alive!! This week we’re getting down and dirty with the resurrection men to retrieve bodies for reanimation, then sitting back to watch the horror unfold in James Whale’s 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein. We all know that Frankenstein’s the doctor and his creation’s the creature, right? But which one’s the monster? We try to untangle this conundrum while examining the film as an early example of queer cinema, before tackling the real burning question… why on earth did they rename him Henry???
Also
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Gould somehow found time in her Shocktober challenge to catch up with a comedy classic
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Saltburn, The Lesson and The Creator
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The relentless movie factory that was the studio system blows our minds
“Even some of the most respected publications say Frankenstein and are referring to the monster” - Gould
“It’s interesting how we’ve moved on, because I wouldn’t have a problem showing this movie to anyone over the age of about eight.” - Ed
“It made me cry. And you know how I don’t like to feel my feelings.” - Gould
Link:
Jurassic Park 🔗 Frankenstein.
John Hammond’s hubristic desire to play God to Henry Frankenstein’s identical hubris.
CONTENT WARNING – The film deals with death and resurrection, including the death of a child. We also touch on director James Whale’s suicide.
SPOILER WARNING – Bride of Frankenstein
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Monday Oct 16, 2023
BONUS: Big Summer Roundup
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
What did you watch this summer? We’ve been on our holidays and we came back with so much to talk about that we decided to put our highlights (and lowlights) in a special bonus episode. Kicking off with a long overdue discussion of the summer’s biggest hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer, we then take a whistlestop tour of the best, the worst, and the weirdest films we watched over the summer. Featuring subway breakdowns, comedy familicide, shuttlecock football.
“There was a brief period in the middle where I was quite cross with the film.” - Gould
“It kind of revels and glorifies something really quite awful… what a thoroughly depressing movie.” - Ed
“I cannot tell you how surprised I am to discover I loved this film as much as I did,” - Gould
CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to worry about here.
SPOILER WARNING – Spoilers for Barbie, Oppenheimer, Football Factory, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Monday Oct 09, 2023
Jurassic Park (1993)
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Hold onto your butts! This week we’re off on prehistoric safari through Jurassic Park – featuring Laura Dern’s lopsided running, Samuel L Jackson’s severed arm and Jeff Goldblum’s bare chest. Will we be consumed by our nostalgia for childhood dino-thrills? Only one way to find out!
Also
- Giving up on bad movies
- Gould’s controversial thoughts on Scorsese
- Past Lives and Scrapper
“I don’t know how to love something critically, I only know how to gush.” - Gould
“Yul Brynner is a clever girl.” - Ed
“Do you mean Muldoon, and how I want him to be my husband?” - Gould
CONTENT WARNING – Nothing we can think of to warn you of.
SPOILER WARNING – Some mild spoilers for the subsequent movies in the Jurassic Park franchise
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Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
BONUS: Top 10 Animated Movies
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Another bonus episode for you, and this time we’re letting our imaginations go wild as we run through our all time favourite animated movies. These movies have everything: talking animals, dancing skeletons, soaring dragons… and Satan’s beautiful singing voice.
“There are a lot of really wonderful, wonderful, wonderful films that are not on my list.” - Ed
“With animation you’ve got the scope to tell the biggest stories in the world.” - Gould
“There’s arguably not been a better Batman movie.” - Ed
CONTENT WARNING – You’ll be fine here
SPOILER WARNING – Some mild spoilers for the Lion King and The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Monday Sep 25, 2023
Little Women (2019)
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Wait, what happens to Beth? In the latest episode we tackle Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel (or, more accurately, pair of novels) Little Women. Featuring marriage refusals, narrative whiplash and Beth’s Death.
Also
- Asteroid City leaves us cold.
- The horrors of a Festen/The Hunt double bill.
- Ed tries to sell Gould on Christopher Nolan.
“It’s nice to know what I’ll be complaining about when I’m 50.” - Ed
“That’s the thing everybody knows about Little Women.” - Gould
“I wanted her to achieve Laurie.” - Ed
CONTENT WARNING – This is a wholesome discussion of a wholesome movie.
SPOILER WARNING – No significant spoilers for anything!
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HELLO AND WELCOME!
We're longtime film-buddies Maddie Gould and Ed Howells, and we're on a mission to forge an unbreakable chain of movies.
Each episode we take a good hard look at a movie - some classic, some not so classic - and then select another movie based on a connection to the one we've just watched. The connection could be something obvious like a memeber of the cast or crew, or it could be thematic... or even based on simple word association!
Join us!