Life's a Pitch Podcast

We pitch another minibeast movie, then discuss the peculiar realities or misconceptions of filming in NYC. This is the deleted scenes from episode 309 of the Life's a Pitch podcast, if this is your first time watching, consider going back to listen to the main episode. It'll give these clips some context!

This week we pitched a bunch of insect movies. Is that a genre? It is now! Nic Cage and Jeff Goldblum tag-team the lead role as expert apiarist Dr Beefy Chappo delves into a hidden world hidden within the papacy, and a secret that's been buzzing around for the last 200 years! Honourable Mentions: A game of crickets - Mr Baseball, CEO of baseball (Jerry Seinfeld) has noticed his viewing figures are...

We pitch Hollywood's idea of a feminist adaptation of a Margaret Atwood movie, then talk about celebrity rants and book adaptations. If this is your first time listening, these out-of-context clips aren't going to make much sense, we recommend you go back and listen to the main episode first!

This week we pitch movie adaptations of books that we haven't read! Catcher in the Rye is definitely about Baseball and eldrich monsters, right? Honourable Mentions: I hated, hated, hated this movie by Roger Ebert - It's the grinch for Hollywood, Roger (Squintin' Tarantino) doesn't think that anyone should win an award this year, so he's stealing the one thing the Oscars can't go ahead without. Th...

We talk a little more about the rivalry of the various 3D cinematic animation houses, pitch a movie about a very strong baby, and explore some more of your knock-off Pixar movie titles. If this is your first time listening, we recommend going back to the main episode, to give this nonsense some context!

This week we try to make knock-off Pixar movies a-la ANTZ. Danny Devito is obsessed with floating his house into space because he bought some land there. Honourable Mentions: Save Us, Silent Robot! - Where Wall-e had an environmentalist message, this guy's got guns! Land of Talking Motorised Conveyances - A very silly tale about the cars of earth trying to flee the planet and the shackles of human...

This week we pitch another Hallmark style Christmas movie called Aurora Borealis I love you with Eden MW (edensthings)

For our second Christmas episode this year, we were joined by Eden MW (Edensthings)to pitch some Hallmark-style Christmas movies. A big-shot tv producer (Kristen Wiig) of Guy Fieri's Diners Drive-Ins and Dives is scouting locations for a UK series when she stumbles across a bistro like no other. Can she save an ailing eatery in the hostile climate of future-Dickensian London? And will she learn to...

We talk about the genre of Christmas mystery and get very sidetracked by a dumb joke then we pitch a brand new xmas franchise with "Detective Claus" in which Mrs Claus does the hard research to find out who's on the naughty list. If this is your first time listening, we recommend going back and listening to the main episode first, it'll give these deleted scenes some context!

This week we're joined by our regular Christmas correspondent Dave Bulmer to pitch some Chris-Mys-teries! A seasoned detective (Idris Elba) has been hoping to crack a big case, and just as some mysterious Christmas-themed killings begin to happen, he gets saddled with a journalist (Emma Watson) who's documenting his every move! Honourable Mentions: Spies Among the Pies - A precocious child hatches...

We pitch some more Star Wars stories, including another backstory for an obscure background character. This week, the force-sensitive droid R5D4, as chosen by our patrons! If this is your first time listening, we recommend going back and listening to the main episode, it'll give context to these deleted scenes!