Fuds On Film

Today we are looking at a pair of near contemporaneous films that chose to focus on Truman Capote around the period where he writes what becomes his most celebrated novel, In Cold Blood, 2006's Infamous and 2005's Capote. Check it out!

We left our last look at the Star Trek franchise with the Next Generation crew untouched, so join as we give them a right old touching and no mistake in our ongoing mission to boldly review all films Trek.

For this month's round-up, we turn our attention to Logan, The Founder, Arrival, and Certain Women. What verdicts shall we render? You simply must listen to find out!

It's time for the second part of our coverage of Hayao Miyazaki's career, as we examine Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, and The Wind Rises.

In this episode we are turning our eyes to the east, and specifically to the work of Japanese filmmaker Miyazaki Hayao, legendary animator, storyteller and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. This episode will cover his career from his feature debut The Castle of Cagliostro up to the inter-war aerial hijinks of Porco Rosso.

Welcome, everybody, to the wild Wild West, a state that's untouchable like Elliot Ness. Or, at least, welcome to our catch-up podcast where we touch a number of Oscar contenders in their tender areas. Check out these lukewarm takes on La La Land, Hidden Figures, Trainspotting 2, Hacksaw Ridge, Moonlight, Split, and Fences.

Borag Thungg, Earthlets. Thrill-Power aplenty awaits in this episode of the Fuds On Film podcast as we look at the two film outings for Mega City One's top lawman, 1995's Judge Dredd and 2012's Dredd.

One of the most celebrated directors of recent times, David Fincher, gets a thorough examination in our latest podcast. From Alien 3 to Gone Girl, let's see how his career has progressed...

It's that time of the month again, where we round up the movies roaming the multiplex and streaming plains and brand them with our unique opinions. This time around, we corral A Monster Calls, Snowden, Hands of Stone, The Lobster, Elle, and Rogue One. Check it out!

Movie adaptations of video games have a hard won reputation for being entirely dreadful, as evidenced by, well, all of them. Puzzlingly, one of the most popular genres for plundering is the one on one fighting game, where any plot is relegated to an unread blurb in the manual. Not, you'd think, prime candidates for making movies from, but we're here to talk about them regardless as we cover Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and DOA: Dead or Alive.

A new year stretches out in front of us, and the way things are going it's probably humanity's last. Before we deal with that carnival of terror, let's look back at the best and the worst films we caught during Space Year 2016.

We're dropping truthbombs on Kubo and the Two Strings, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Mechanic: Resurrection, Your Name, De Palma, and Sully in this exciting episode - dare you listen?

Today we're browsing through the case files of MK ULTRA, or at the very least taking a look at two very contrasting films based around brainwashing, with Joe Wright's 2011 outing Hanna and John Frankenheimer's 1962 classic, The Manchurian Candidate.

Star Trek has earned itself a place in popular culture thanks to its endless television syndication run in a way that we might not see again, now that media has spread itself across so many channels and platforms and we're not all stuck with the same four channels of our youth. Today we're taking a look at the big screen outings for the original cast.

Another month has passed, so again we congregate to discuss what horrors cinema has unleashed on us. Get our takes on The Light Between Oceans, Captain Fantastic, Bastille Day, Doctor Strange, The Shallows, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Supersonic, Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and The Infiltrator.

We're looking at The Prestige and The Illusionist this month, two films with fairly similar high level plots but very different executions as they explore rivalry, love, and obsession through the world of illusion. And we don't mean the old Megadrive game. See the full show notes at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/illusionist-prestige/

We're all used to the Technicolor realities of modern cinema by this point, but there's still more than a few examples where, either by economic necessity or stylistic preference, it's monochrome in the multiplex. Today we're looking at some notable examples, namely Pi, The Good German, Good Night and Good Luck, Schindler's List, The Mist, The Man Who Wasn't There, and La Haine. Find the full show notes at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/modern-black-and-white/

As October draws to a close, it's time for us to reconvene and pass judgement on an assortment of films: Blood Father, Bridget Jones Baby, Soy Nero, Inferno, The BFG, The Girl on the Train, The Red Turtle, and The Free State of Jones. Full show notes are available at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/intermission-october-2016/

Now, on this podcast we love a bit of Dick, ol' Phil K being a favourite author in this neck of the woods, with some of our favourite films based on his work. We've already discussed Blade Runner and Total Recall, but it's fair to say that these are both only very loosely based on the works that inspire them. We thought we'd take a look at two films rather more adherent to the source material, with Richard Linklater's 2006 adaptation of A Scanner Darkly and 2014's Radio Free Albemuth, directed by John Alan Simon. Full show notes available at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/scanner-darkly-radio-free-albemuth/

We thought we'd return to the horror genre's heyday in the 70's to look at six of the most highly regarded horrors the world has yet seen. Join us as we discuss Don’t Look Now, The Wicker Man, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Omen, and Halloween. Get the full show notes at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/70s-horror/