Drive-By Cinema

Groundhog Day meets Scream by way of Edge of Tomorrow, this week's review topic is Happy Death Day .  Paul and Rick have started using a website to track movies for review, check out letterboxd , maybe start your own list.

For Paul 'Netflix and Chill' means getting a free projector, more on TV detector vans, and in-passing a discussion of animated film Your Name .

Gambling fallacies and unknowable information: what's inside a TV detector van? Paul and Rick marvel at the masterpiece animated film Spirited Away . 

Paul reveals the full extent of his gambling experience while Rick tries to get ChatGPT3 to create a Blur song. True story "drama" Jerry & Marge Go Large is the backdrop to all of this. Here are the lyrics for the song "Parklife" by Blur (by ChatGPT) Verse 1: London's a rip-off You pay for the privilege of living in the capital The North West is cheaper But they don't have the same opportunities C...

Back to 1990 for Hal Hartley's Trust .  Warning for themes of suicide. Rick bangs on about patents again, while revealing to Paul how they had both failed to notice some critical film-making techniques in last week's movie, Decision To Leave.

Trigger warning for themes of suicide as Paul and Rick discuss Korean film-noir Decision To Leave . Rick tests ChatGPT vs Paul in puzzle solving, while Paul expresses his dislike of sushi, but his love of conveyer belts. 

Paul and Rick discuss design protection and cakes in the shape of mushrooms, along with bribing border guards as they navigate the infected zone of Gareth Edwards' 2010 film Monsters . Search for registered designs on the Design View website .

Ben Wheatley's take on J G Ballard's High Rise , on the dissection table in this episode. Paul proves himself again to be much better read then Rick.

Episode 22 the first one of  2023. It's all about 2010 sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go . Except for the bits about Avatar and design protection. 

Asymmetric intelligibility, Aldi vs M&S, and other stuff are discussed along with Norwegian movie Troll .

F**king magnets, how do they work? And how do Paul and Rick keep ending up watching these lock-down style movies with a cast of 3 or 4 people? It's Vivarium this time. Mentioned in this podcast - controversial explanation of electricity on the Veritasium YouTube channel, and the concept of the " McMansion ".

Paul discusses fake colonic irrigation TikTok videos for some reason, thinks the ship of Theseus could have done with some stone cladding, and fails to resolve Rick's dinner party etiquette conundrum. He also reveals that he has lost his visual imagination though still has vivid dreams. None of which has anything to do with The Block Island Sound .

It's not a recent movie, but The Core has an infamous relationship to scientific accuracy. How do Paul and Rick take to it?

A Dutch future Greta Thunberg goes back in time to our near-future to stop arctic fracking in  Captain Nova . Paul and Rick discuss the noble sacrifice of teleportation.

Every so often, Paul and Rick find themselves reviewing a film which has a name of more than one word. It's confusing and difficult for them, but somehow they muddle through. This time they tackle Everything Everywhere All At Once to see if it justifies the profligate use of words.

Splosh, Mukbang, nightclub whales, Paul reamins unconvinced by ranking algorithm enthusiasm in Cam.  Warning: This film depicts fake suicides which we mention during the discussion.

No this isn't episode 10, instead Paul and Rick discuss 2022 horror shocker 'X' and discuss vintage porn. 

Paul teaches Rick all about Mae West as they review the spectacle of Sextette . Rick recounts his weekend helping to run the QED conference . Paul knows a lot about big cats. 

Possibly missing the point of 2015 horror It Follows Paul and Rick discuss the importance of toys. Happy Halloween for those listening along live!

Low-key chiller I Came By is the next horror for the month of October. As Paul says, 20 quid for a heated jacket is better than 15 quid for a jacket potato.  Rick listens to the alarmingly similar Alan Partridge podcast From the Oasthouse .

Japanese zombie horror(?) One Cut Of The Dead has Paul revealing how excruciatingly honest he is. We don't usually give spoiler warnings, we always spoil, but if you were planning to see this film you should maybe do so before listening to Paul and Rick explain it to death.

The past sucks, but does Synchronic ? Rick introduces Paul to the NBA. Any listener wishing to own a heated gilet can buy one from Paul's eBay shop . And the Radiolab episode Rick mentions is this one .

Two Gen-Xers discuss the Gen-Z study Bodies Bodies Bodies .  Paul is hoping to keep bodies warm this winter with his heated gilet concept. 

Not the '90s helicopter-based gameshow TV series with Annabel Croft, but the much maligned Netflix vanity project Interceptor . For some reason, stories of nuclear missile defence systems seem pressing and relevant just right now. 

True story of the 2018 cave rescue of a Thai junior football team, Thirteen Lives prompts Paul and Rick to discuss caving. Risk recommends the Dive Talk youtube channel , hosted by Woody and Gus. It's on Amazon Prime, not Netflix as Rick may have previously suggested.