Fuds On Film

We examine what's surely the definitive buddy cop franchise in our latest episode, with a look at Lethal Weapons one through four. Join us and revisit these slices of extra-judicial mayhem!

The bell has tolled for The Suicide Squad, Lost in the Moonlight, Gunpowder Milkshake, Pig, and Jungle Cruise. Let's see which ought to be washed away by the sea, and which should remain involved in mankind.

We investigate six of Austrian director and screenwriter Michael Haneke's outpu, namely Caché, The White Ribbon, Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, Amour, and Happy End. Will our report be positive? Negative? Both? Neither? Tune in and find out!

Some time ago we did a whole episode on time travel films without mentioning Robert Zemeckis and ‎Bob Gale's Back to the Future series, their bold updating of Oedipus, so today we remedy that oversight and see if the pride of 1985 and its follow-ups live up to their reputations, and their posters. Remember when movie posters were good?

Another month, another batch of films present themselves for judgement. What will we make of Black Widow, Fast & Furious 9, Luca, The Tomorrow War, The Dead Don't Die, and Censor? Tune in and find out!

We take a trip back to the nineties with a look at Ronin and The Rock, two action thrillers notable for having their dialogue punched up by luminaries you may not expect. Do the hold up in the harsh light of 2K21? Tune in and find out!

In this exciting episode we are taking a look at some selected works of Álex de la Iglesia, after a number of stars came into alignment that hinted at him being worthy of further investigation than our brief exposure to him at the EIFF many moons ago. So, we should do that then.

Loaded into this month's arbitrary film review roulette are Wrath of Man, Cruella, and Army of the Dead. Which of them clean up, and which gets swept into the trash? The answer to this confusing, poorly constructed hypothetical can only be found out by listening in! Rien ne va plus.

Can the pupil can match the teacher? We compare and contrast Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and J.J. Abrams' Super 8 in our latest episode. Check it out!

It's an open secret that the podcast slot we nominally refer to as "Compare and Contrast" is normally twisted into a way to cover a couple of films we fancy taking a butchers at, but we do keep a list of a few candidates that are more directly comparable than most. Some of these cover that Hollywood phenomenon where, by coincidence or design, films with closely related subject matter are released mere months apart, like Deep Impact and Armageddon, or Volcano and Dante's Peak, covered in our Disaster Movies extravaganza back in 2016. Another such example, of course, takes place in the Wild West, with Wyatt Earp's 1994 release fairly closely following from 1993's Tombstone. So, lets get to lookin'.

It's that time again. Film review time. As it it every time. This time: Nomadland, Palmer, The Human Voice, Without Remorse, Stowaway, Nobody, and Mortal Kombat. It's about time.

In this episode we're going to be taking a look at the sadly sparse work of the Japanese animator, writer and director, Satoshi Kon, a favourite around these parts. Get our takes on Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika forthwith!

If you're feeling generous you could call today's episode a mash-up, or more accurately, the remnants of a couple of different music related ideas that never quite gelled into a full episode. It was resurfaced recently in the morass of my mind by the sad passing of rap-man DMX, rendering him unable to deliver to ya. Alternate delivery services must now be sought. He was also the poster child of an idea for covering films where the soundtrack is significantly better than the film it came from, but seeing as that is perhaps limited entirely to _Cradle 2 the Grave_, perhaps that's best left to a Jet Li retrospective. But it also brings to mind the crossover between musicians and actors, going back arguably to the dawn of "Talkies", through the Rat Pack, The Beatles and Elvis up to modern times, leveraging their celebrity in one field for success in another. That's a bit vague, though, but it does lead to the rat hole of musician's vanity projects, also recently brought to mind by the opprobrium levelled at Sia

We are living in a material world, and we are a material podcast. This episode's material - Judas and the Black Messiah and Godzilla vs. Kong. If they can't raise our interest then we'll have to let them be.

With the recent release of Zack Snyder's Justice League, we thought it was high time to see what the deal was with that, and indeed have a bit of a post-mortem on the Synderverse and what strategy, if you can call it such, Warner and DC have been following. Join us!

In this extravagently exciting episode, we take a butcher's at some choice cuts of David Mamet's work. Find out what we make of House of Games, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, Heist, Spartan, and Redbelt by tuning in!

We warily approach the back end of March, which can only mean that it's time to review the movies that have crossed our paths this month. Tune in for our takes on The Mauritanian, Ride Your Wave, and Minari.

Who Goes There? Well, various alien Things, naturally. We shapeshift through four takes on the novella with The Thing from Another World, Horror Express, John Carpenter's The Thing, and its 2011 prequel/remake. Join us as we test them with some heated copper wire and see which ones recoil.

We take a hopefully representative cross section of Howard Hawks' voluminous output and run it through our extensive analytical suite to determine the truth of it. Join us as we poke and prod at Scarface, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes until they stop wiggling and give up their secrets. For science!

We get our laughing gear around In and Of Itself, Earwig and the Witch, The Kid Detective, The Dig, The Endless Trench, and Promising Young Woman. What revs our motors and what blows our gaskets? Tune in and find out!