Spoiler Filled Film Conversation, Hooray!

Brett Easton Ellis does like his stories about young, borderline sociopathic yuppies doesn’t he? We’ve weirdly enjoyed most of his film adaptations up to this point, but we’ve never experienced his debut Less Than Zero. We’ve heard that it’s as dark and controversial as his other work, but perhaps 1987 controversial does not hit quite … Continue reading "497: Le...

This week we tackle one of Martin Scorsese’s least talked about films, Bringing Out The Dead from 1999, mainly because its stars podcast favourite Nicholas Cage and we need to see what Scorsese can bring out of him. Turns out, he’s playing, probably, one of the least interesting characters in this film, to our great … Continue reading "496: Bringing Out The Dead [1999] Movie&#160...

“Yo Dawg, I heard you like Anime, so we put some anime in your anime so you can weeaboo while you otaku…” Dated memes aside, we wanted some dark, 80’s, sci-fi anime this week and what better way to get our fill than an anthology movie, namely Robot Carnival from 1987. Now, we don’t claim … Continue reading "495: Robot Carnival [1987] Movie Discussion"

Disney have almost exclusively hit it out of the park with their live action meets animation films. They’ve got: Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. And then there’s Pete’s Dragon. To be fair, it’s a respectable attempt to recapture the magic of some of those movies with a much reduced budget, but … Continue reading "494: Pete’s Drag...

Only three podcasting musketeers this time around to wage battle with The Four Musketeers from 1974, the sequel to the unexpectedly delightful comedy movie The Three Musketeers. Unfortunately, what surprised us about the first one is no longer present and the film descends to the low brow laziness we expected from the start. Surprising, considering … Continue reading "493: The Four Musketeer...

We go back to the dark ages of comic book movies as we tear into Spawn from 1997 and we regret every second. We heard that it was notoriously bad, but we were still totally unprepared for it’s terrible impenetrableness. This time, expect: nobody being allowed to say the word ‘Hell’ despite entirely revolving around … Continue reading "492: Spawn [1997] Movie Discussion...

Get ready to check off your 80’s bingo cards as we scry upon Teen Witch from 1989, probably the most painfully derivative high-school movie ever made; a film so bad it almost feels like a parody of 80’s teenage nonsense movies. It’s a guilty nostalgic pleasure for one of the crew, but can they win … Continue reading "491: Teen Witch [1989] Movie Discussion"

The “Popular Tv Character Gets a Movie” genre keeps resurfacing every few years despite almost always being unentertaining messes. But if their is one personality that this podcast thinks could pull it off it would probably be medical doctor come surreal stand-up Harry Hill, a comedian we all have affection for. Have we found the … Continue reading "490: The Harry Hill Movie [201...

After a short tangent on classic British sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo (can’t imagine why!), we dive into a semi-informed discussion of The Three Musketeers from 1973. And by semi-informed we mean one of us actually read the book for a change. Up for discussion this time: dog chess, carpet ripping, chicken skewering, laundry duels, Roy Kinnear … Continue reading "489: The Three Musket...

The Razors Edge was supposedly the reason that Bill Murray went on hiatus for 4 years in the 80’s, even though it came out the same year as Ghostbusters. The reception from audiences was poor at the time, so we are curious whether there is something there that people missed. Well, we definitely found some respect … Continue reading "488: The Razor’s Edge [1984] Movie Discuss...

With this podcast’s mild obsession with the live action “Super Mario Bros.” movie it was all but inevitable that we would at some point tackle the “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” movie. Does this film succeed any better at making a cohesive story and world out of all the videogame nonsense than it’s predecessor? Well, … Continue reading "487: The Super Mario...

After some vegetable talk and Vic Reeves club singer impressions we get around to discussing The Defiant Ones from 1958, a film about two chained together convicts, one black and one white, as they try to elude authorities that we are weirdly much more familiar with the numerous parodies of. This time, expect: wet cigarette … Continue reading "486: The Defiant Ones [1958] Movie Discussi...

How do you make a film which deals with very depressing and gruesome subjects whilst also making it broadly and bitingly funny? You make a film about Ambulance drivers! Code 3, from 2025, is a hilarious comedy drama featuring slapstick, gross-out and cynical humour that chronicles a 24 hour shift of Emergency Responders, which constantly … Continue reading "485: Code 3 [2025] Movie Disc...

You don’t get many films about the Amish, do you? At least, not ones where they aren’t used solely to be made fun of. It’s also nice to see Harrison Ford in the 80’s not being Indiana Jones or Han Solo. Witness, from 1985, is a bit of a classic thriller these days, but we … Continue reading "484: Witness [1985] Movie Discussion"

When James Cameron made the most expensive and most profitable film ever made about the Titanic, there was only ever one guaranteed outcome: the inevitable rip-off. But what we couldn’t predict was that the rip-off itself would set new standards in laziness, incomprehensibility and not understanding tone. This shipwreck really needs to be seen to … Continue reading "483: Titanic: The L...

After The Nightmare Before Christmas bridged the long gap between Halloween and Christmas, it took movies a surprisingly long time to capitalize on the success by making more stop-motion, spooky family animations to milk this wilderness period. ParaNorman came out at the tail-end of this revival period in 2012 and we all agree it is … Continue reading "482: ParaNorman [2012] Movie Discu...

When you see a title like “I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle” you have no option but to watch it immediately, or at least we here at SFFCH had no option but to devour it whole and live with the consequences. We once again find a movie that the universe has seemingly snapped into existence solely … Continue reading "481: I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle [1990] Movie Discussion"

Total Recall? More like Total Rectal, amirite guys… (pause for laugh)… yeah, this guy knows what we’re talking about… Anyway. Some long lost memories are very pleasant when they come back to you many years later, reminding you of a simpler time with old pals and the crazy things you did. And then there are … Continue reading "480: Total Recall [2012] Movie Discussion"

This week we are proud to present some quality animation from our home nation of Wales. And by ‘proud’ we mean wary. And by ‘quality’ we mean shoddy. And by ‘animation’ we mean… well that one’s still up for debate, we suppose. The Princess and The Goblin probably should have stayed in our dusty attic … Continue reading "479: The Princess and The Gobl...

Enemy of The State seemed like just another far fetched, borderline sci-fi tech thriller when it was released in 1998, bypassing it’s implausibility with intense action and pacey style. But as we cast our watchful eye over it nearly 30 years later we discover that it is still definitely that, but deserves some props for … Continue reading "478: Enemy of The State [1998] Movie Disc...

We wanted a submarine film, but they’re all about the Second World War, or some war at least. But do you know who you can trust for some crazy submarine hijinks? James Cameron. He’s always up mental underwater shenanigans. This week, we watched different cuts of The Abyss by accident and we cant decide which … Continue reading "477: The Abyss [1989] Movie Discussion"

Sometimes we just need to gush about films and there’s really only one director who, if we choose any of their films at random, we can pretty much guarantee will hit a bullseye: Akira Kurosawa. High and Low from 1963 is a crime drama that demands a little more of your attention than usual, but … Continue reading "476: High and Low [1963] Movie Discussion"

Happy New Year, one and all. What better way to begin a new year than to totally disregard the first few films of a major franchise and start watching the third entry. Luckily we all have just enough base knowledge of Pokémon to not be totally confused the whole way through, but my God does … Continue reading "475: Pokemon 3: The Movie [2000] Movie Discussion"

Merry Merry Merriment Season to one and all from the ‘Spoiler Filled Film Conversation, Hooray!’ group. We found some more Wrestling Christmas films, but we’re too scared to do them so instead we turn to Charles Dickens’s seminal A Christmas Carol, a story told so many times in so many different ways, and ask the … Continue reading "474: Scrooged [1988] Movie Dis...

We indulge Jamie’s Exorcist obsession again this week by watching The Nickel Ride, a 70’s crime movie starring Jason Miller (and it doesn’t help that he looks like Jamie’s other obsession Harry Dean Stanton in this) as a criminal gang’s fence who’s professionalism is challenged by the evolving crime landscape and leave us wondering which … Continue reading...