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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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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
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
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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Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
In this, our first ever bonus episode, we run through our top ten favourite screen performances. Including a crossdressing musician, a sweary scotsman and a mountainous magic man.
“There’s the overblown romance of one of the relationships and this is the quiet, subtle romance that touches my heart” - Gould
“If he doesn’t end up on my top 10 list when we do villains, then something’s gone wrong for a lot of other people in a lot of other movies.” - Ed
“You almost make me want to go and watch it, but I can’t because it upsets me too much.” - Gould
CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to see here.
SPOILER WARNING – We’re so sorry, we couldn’t do this without spoiling a bunch of stuff: Spoilers for Batman Returns, The Godfather, The Green Mile and The Wicker Man.
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Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Which character’s which? On this episode of The Unbreakable Movie Chain we get lost in Sofia Copolla’s hazy, dreamlike debut feature The Virgin Suicides. Featuring sack-like prom dresses, questionable parenting, and Josh Hartnett’s Lego hair.
Also
- David Fincher’s Zodiac, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, and the indie-horror double whammy of Last Shift and its remake Malum.
- Which film franchise has been Gould’s decorating companion?
- Ed’s confusion over the literary awards circuit and it’s ability to bend time
“To be perfectly frank, if the film doesn’t care about these boys, neither do I.” - Ed
“There’s long hair, there’s short hair and there’s the other one.” - Gould
“It’s a nonsense to refer to this as her breakthrough performance.” - Ed
CONTENT WARNING – As the title suggests, suicide is key to the plot of this film so we do touch on it.
SPOILER WARNING – Ed spoiled Zodiac, but it’s history so he says it doesn’t count. He also spoils an episode of classic 90s childrens horror series Eerie, Indiana.
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Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Here’s to you, dear listeners! On this week’s Unbreakable Movie Chain, Gould and Ed come of age chatting Mike Nichols’ The Graduate. Taking your date to a strip show while doing the dirty with her mum? We call that a summer well spent.
Also:
- Ed went to see the 4k restoration of The Wicker Man.
- The omnipresence of the actor Kevin Eldon.
- Why wasn’t Sidney Poitier nominated for an Oscar at the 40th Academy Awards? I think we can guess.
“My frustration was with my own rampant disorganisation.” - Ed
“You wanna lick the screen.” - Gould
“He’s a neurotic mess, he’s a complete weirdo… I relate hard.” - Ed
CONTENT WARNING – If chat about marital infidelity is a problem for you, give this one a miss, otherwise you’ll be fine.
SPOILER WARNING – We spoil the end of Titanic but, really, if you don’t know how Titanic ends by now go away and watch it immediately, before someone ruins it forever. It’ll only take three hours of your life.
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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
On this week’s episode, Gould and Ed head out on the campaign trail for Clinton era satire Primary Colors. Featuring sex scandals, apple fritters and John Travolta’s dad-dancing.
Also:
- Thoughts on the blood-drenched war epic Sisu and Hereditary director Ari Aster’s latest Beau is Afraid.
- Our hosts lose their minds over a single long shot of a diner.
- The art of seguing from American politics to Peter Andre and back.
“He has an instinct to over-indulge on the smell of his own farts.” - Ed.
“I just find John Travolta really creepy. He’s really creepy.” - Gould.
“I think he's probably the person you don't want to end up sitting next to at dinner.” - Gould.
CONTENT WARNING – Contains references to suicide
SPOILER WARNING – No little accidents this week, well done us!
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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Strap on your two-way wrist radios and get ready to hit the streets with Gould and Ed as they face off against cinematic crime – in the form of 1990’s Dick Tracy. Featuring painted backdrops, gratuitous nipples and all the latex in the land!
Also
- Did our hosts enjoy their recent trips to the theatre?
- Which of us let the side down by sitting in the sun rather than watching Beau is Afraid?
- What on Earth are the Oscars for?
“If a whole other team of people did a Dick Tracy film that was completely separate from this, I’d be intrigued… but I don’t want it to have anything to do with this.” - Gould.
“Either you abandon the ice cream sundae or you see it through to the end and regret it for the rest of the day” - Ed.
“He’s just a man who wants to choreograph a dance routine... that’s all he wants.” - Gould.
CONTENT WARNING – We can’t find anything in here to warn you of, sorry if we’ve missed anything!
SPOILER WARNING – Big spoiler for Batman (1989) and Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) Ed begs your forgiveness.
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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!