Crouch Cinema Corner

Hold onto your high heels and saxophones, folks—we’re diving into the fast-talking, jazz-blasting, gender-bending comedy classic Some Like It Hot ! This week, Peter introduces Tim to the 1959 Billy Wilder masterpiece for the very first time. Car chases! Gangsters! Hot jazz and colder disguises! We break down the plot (two musicians on the run from the mob find themselves in a very unconventional w...

Welcome back to Crouch Cinema Corner , where brothers Peter and Tim Crouch take their semi-regular plunge into the world of film — with no better outlet than this podcast to hash it all out. In this episode, we dive into DreamWorks’ 2024 hit The Wild Robot , directed by Chris Sanders ( How to Train Your Dragon , Lilo & Stitch ). What starts as a simple story about a robot named Roz crash-landi...

Welcome back to Crouch Cinema Corner , where the Crouch Brothers—Peter and Tim—dive headfirst into films. This episode, we’re cracking open 2024’s The Order , a bleak and brooding procedural from Aussie director Justin Kurzel ( Macbeth , Nitram , Assassin’s Creed —yes, that Assassin’s Creed). Set in the Pacific Northwest and based on chilling true events, the film follows Jude Law as a worn-down e...

Here we go! The Crouch Cinema Corner is here. In this episode, we dive into Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and break down its unique approach to filmmaking—improvisation on set rather than a fully scripted story. We discuss how this aligns with the franchise’s high-stakes, ever-changing narratives but also where it may have fallen short. Was this latest installment thrilling or just exhausting...