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No guest this week as we found off the final film of our 1970s series. Time After Time is an adventure film which see HG Welles travel through time to 1970s San Francisco to stop Jack the Ripper. Directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen, it's a surprisingly romantic adventure film which gained a large cult following after it's release. We also di...

EXCELLENT! We're taking a little break in the 70s miniseries, again, to look at a new film for 2020. The Bill and Ted films were huge inferences on us growing up and a big part of our friendship. So we wanted to take the opportunity, with the third one coming out in UK cinemas this week, to talk about the most triumphant franchise and especially the most bodacious new film. Careful, there are spoi...

CW: Due to the nature of the content of this film we do talk about rape and violence against women. Film maker James Raynor returns to help us discuss the 'video nasties' of the late 70s and early 80s, where because of legislation a whole raft of horror films were made illegal, resulting in fines and in some cases prison sentences for those who owned them and distributed them. The 1978 film, I Spi...

Liam is unavailable with other commitments this week, so Ollie brought in film maker James Raynor to do a special episode on the 1973 British fantasy film, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop motion effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen, starring stars John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, Takis Emmanuel and Caroline Munro. The film follows Sinbad and the vizier of...

Paul Nadin returns for more hot takes on the video game industry in comparison to the movie industry, we also then discuss the 1977 film Sorcerer by William Friedkin and starring Roy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. A film in which four our outcasts from varied backgrounds meeting in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of aged, poorly kept dy...

We are taking a small break from our scheduled 70s miniseries episode, as Ollie is busy in the animation studio for his own film project. So filmmaker Brandon Kahn has come along to talk to Liam about Orson Welles' 1973 docudrama film ' F for Fake ', which focuses on art forger Elmyr de Hory's career and investigates the natures of authorship and authenticity, as a basis of the value of art. The p...

Our guest this week is actress Natalie Gardner, who helps us discuss the 1976 film Mikey and Nicky by trailblazing director and legend Elaine May and starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. The film focuses on the relationship of two gangsters over a single night as they try to evade a hitman. We charter it's trouble production, as cost spiralled out of control and then controversial release, the...

Visionary directory Stanley Kubrick is our director this week as we watch his 1975 epic Barry Lyndon . Set in the 18th century, Ryan O'Neal play the eponymous Irish trickster and rogue, as the films follows his mechanisms as he navigates and climbs European society before charting his eventual downfall. The film s known for it's attention to detail and the look of it and it is a purely unique feas...

One of the biggest action movies of the 70s is out topic this week, as we cover Joseph Sargent's 1974 film  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Where four people take a train hostage, threatening to kill one every minute if they aren't paid $1 million in an hour. It sets the template for 70s action films and has been influencing action films ever since - a...

When it comes to American film makers Terrence Malick is up there as possibly the most poplar enigmatic of them all and his 1973 debut film is covered in this weeks episode, Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as young couple who runs away on a killing spree after killing the girl's father. It may be the best debut film ever made and cemented a young Terrence Malick as an era defining...

We cover a complete cultural icon this week, one of the most important people of the 1970s, the incomparable Bruce Lee. As he fights an imperialist Japanese gang who killed his martial art's teacher in 1972's  Fist of Fury . To guide us through this we have film maker Brandon Kahn on the show who helps us try and cram in as much Bruce Lee content as we can, and explore how he changes Martial Arts...

CW: Due to the nature of the content of this film we do talk about rape and violence against women. If you go down to Cornwall today, watch out for the creepy locals! On Adjust Your Tracking this week we are covering Sam Peckinpah's controversial home invasion 1971 film Straw Dogs , starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as a couple recently moved to Cornwall who are forced to defend their home...

It's a new miniseries on the podcast! We are covering the 70s next, a decade that can be claimed to have invented modern cinema. First up we cover probably the most obscure film yet on the podcast, a film that in recent years it's appreciation has been growing, Wanda , written, directed and starring Barbara Loden, the only film she ever made. The film focuses on an apathetic woman with limited opt...

To wrap up our 90s miniseries we present the Trackies, a small bonus episode where we give out our awards for the films we watched for the 90s miniseries and allows us to put a bookend on it. Who will win a comfortable pair of Trackies?! And we rank the top 10 as we countdown what wins our best picture of the 90s miniseries. See you on Sunday as start our new miniseries on the 1970s. Follow us on:...

Riddle me this! Who's afraid of the big, black bat? As part of our 'classics revisited' episode for the 90s. We take a look back to what Batman was like in 1995's Batman Forever . Directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell. This ain't your Nolan Batman, full wild and unrepentant 1966's camp is on display here with an insane p...

Taking a break from the main adventure, we are going to do another influencer series as we look at an cultural icon Bill Murray, we dig into his career, what made him so iconic in culture, talk about Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and his career with Wes Anderson and then we go back to breakdown the only film he ever directed 1990's Quick Change , co-starring Geena Davies and Randy Quaid. The...

This week we've managed to get to the end of the 90s miniseries, and we are rounding it off with a whopper. Alexander Payne's Election , starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. A movie that has managed to land somewhat in the public zeitgeist after flopping in 1999. Satrying modern politics in the world of a mid-America high school election. We have our friend Paul Nadin on the show and...

We delve into the nightlife of young graduates, Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love in New York in the very early 80s in Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco , starring Chloë Sevigny & Kate Beckinsale, bit of a disagreement this week and Ollie and Liam have different takes on the films, other topics include 80s Gameshows, Bill & Ted, Ewoks and Lethal Weapon. All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking! Foll...

This week we cover our animated film for the miniseries, Perfect Blue . The debut film for iconic Japanese director Satoshi Kon. A completely terrifying film that manages to tear apart the lines between reality, fiction, and dreams in a decent into self-doubt and murder as an obsessive fan torments ex-Pop Idol turned actress Mima as she struggles with her new career path. We also talk DC Comics mo...

This week we catch up with Austin, Texas native Richard Linklater with an early career film that barely exists in the world. SubUrbia , Starring Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey and Ajay Naidu, sounds like it should have everything you need for a classic GenX picture but we go into why this one just misses the mark. We hang out for 2 hours in a parking lot, listen to some sweet 90s indie rock, and ta...

It's the Hughes Brothers sophomore picture with the ambitious Dead Presidents , with Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker and Bokeem Woodbine. The film takes a look at how Black American veterans were treated after they returned from the Vietnam War with a backdrop to the civil rights uprisings in New York City? An ambitious project which still is a very debated by critics how successful it was....

This week it's over to Hong Kong for Wong Kar-wai's iconic Chungking Express , starring Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung and Faye Wong, a film that has so firmly cemented itself as a must what classic of Hong Kong cinema. We follow two stories of heartbreak in the daily lives of two cops in Hong Kong. DO you like pineapple? How does an apartment cry? Is Faye the original Manic Pixie Dre...

This week it's right into the life of English stately homes in the 1930s as Anthony Hopkins alongside Emma Thompson, has to navigate repressed love and Nazi bosses in the Remains of the Day . The film looks at repressed English society and displays the life of a Butler and how he sacrificed everything for his job, but realised too late what it cost him. We also discuss the Sonic the Hedgehog movie...

This week podcasting is only for closers when we dive into the adaptation of the David Mamet Play, Glengarry Glen Ross , starring amongst other Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen and how desperate they become when the corporate office sends a trainer who tells them all expect two of them will be fired. How comfortable are 90...

This week we are in the hood for John Singleton's seminal director debut, Boyz n the Hood , starring an insane cast that features Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, and Angela Basset. The films charts the life of a boy who is trying to navigate life in South Central Los Angeles and the growing gang culture. As we discuss the allusions to Stand by Me, the car...