The Reel Take Podcast

It's that time of year again when although there may be many things from which we have not profited, I dare say, when it has come round, I have always thought of this time of year as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when Sinead, Ross and Niall seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to thi...

It has been a little difficult to get this episode out in a timely fashion as we had recorded it when the seventh part of the series was still in cinemas... ...and taking on all seven films in the MI franchise could be said to be taking on a mission that some might see as difficult... ...and there's three podcast hosts that on their best days could be called difficult... ...but then this is no...

It's time for spotlight, and this week we're shining it on the 2017 thriller directed by Tommy Wirkola WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY starring Noomi Rapace as not one, not two, but seven characters. In a world where overpopulation has compelled governments to adopt the one-child policy, a set of identical septuplets live a hide-and-seek life, swapping out their central identity on different days...

This week we have noticed a gap in the podcast market. No one seems to be discussing Star Trek! So who better than three podcast hosts to fill that gap... Niall who has seen every Trek episode, film, animated series and owns several collectibles... Sinead who doesn't know her Treks from her Wars from her Gates and Ross who just wants to get lost in Chris Pine's deep blue eyes. We're go...

THE SNAPPER turned 30 this year and has probably got a job in the finance sector but will never be able to afford their own house! Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, part of the Barrytown trilogy that also brought us The Commitments and The Van, the story of 20-year old Sharon Curley and her unexpected pregnancy is a classic slice of 90's Ireland. Starring Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe and the l...

It's the spookiest time of the year.... but that doesn't mean we can't have a good old guffaw. This All Hallows Eve we're back and looking at some great Horror Comedies! (...mostly because we're big old fraidy cats). Frights and laughter go hand in skeletal hand this episode as we talk about some great movies that will bring a rictus smile to your zombified face this Halloween....

Worn Out, Played Out, Strung Out. No, not your three podcast hosts, but the characters in Baz Black's DUBLIN CRUST, the story of a punk band who reunite for one last gig. After our summer holidays we're back with a bang and a special guest. We don our Doc Martens, pull on our tartan trousers and stick a safety pin through our nose as we talk to Actor/Writer/Producer/Drummer Baz Black about...

They said it couldn't be done.... they said it shouldn't be done. But yes, THE REEL TAKE has hit 100 episodes... So what better time to sit back, take stock, and indulge in a well deserved round of self congratulations. We've covered topics as diverse as 'Films we love but everyone else hates' and 'Films we hate but everyone else loves', we've shone a spotlight on m...

Leonardo DiCaprio is an earthy type who wants to come up in the world. Kate Winslet is a free spirit, unwilling to confine herself to the norms of society. But this time there's no big boat, and no tragic end. After their icy dip Kate and Leo reunited for 2008's REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, based on the novel by Richard Yates and directed by Sam Mendes. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler...

This week we welcome back guest SNILLOC NOSAJ to finally put to bed the question of whether Christopher Nolan's time bending 2020 film TENET is a classic of cinema or just too difficult for Ross to understand. The case for the prosecution features Jason and Ross, who spend the entire episode repeating over and over "We didn't understand it, it's a bad film" and scratching the...

This week Niall and Ross are a pair of renegade Chicago cops (one's funny and one can tap dance), living on adrenalin and the edge as they take down the bad guys. But when the duo have one close call too many, their hard-ass captain Sinead rips them a new one and insists they take a vacation. Cut to a montage of roller skating/drinking/fishing all set to an 80's classic by a Doobie Brother...

RMS  Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912, and has fascinated the world ever since. Not least of all James Cameron, whose multi million blockbuster TITANIC, made for an estimated $200 million is now 25 years old. "I made  Titanic  because I wanted to dive to the shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie. When I learned some other guys had dived to the...

This week we're heading off for a relaxing getaway south of the border. Lots of sun, salsa and cerveza as all our troubles melt away. Actually, we've been recruited by an elite government task force to aid in the war on drugs as we put the spotlight on Denis Villeneuve's taut and tightly wound thriller from 2015, SICCARIO. Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro lead a top notch...

For the week that's in it, as Ireland's premiere film podcast (are there others? we're not aware...) this week we thought we'd serve you up a bit o' the old blarney as we look at Walt Disney's 1959 celebration of Irish folklore and myth DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE  starring Albert Sharpe and Jimmy O'Dea along with some Scottish fella. From the director of MARY POPPINS and BEDKNOBS AND...

It's time for another spotlight episode kids! And as some certain Banshees of a certain Inisherin are getting such acclaim, we thought it a good excuse to look at 2012's SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, from director Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell, among others. Colin Farrell is Marty, a man in search of a screenplay. He has a title but no story to go along with it. His friend Billy played by Sam Rockwell ma...

We're back baby, for a whole new season in 2023 and what better way to kick things off than discussing one of the most seminal film directors of the last 50 years. A certain Stephen Allan Spielberg... perhaps you've heard of him. His new semi-kind-sorta-autobiographical film THE FABLEMANS is still in cinemas and is poised to take home a few little gold men, but whatever happens, it's undeniable th...

Inspired by VIOLENT NIGHT (in cinemas now) we decided to devote this year's Yuletide episode to Christmas Action Movies! And of course, if there's one of the Reel Take triumvirate who loves an actioner, it's Ross Leahy! He's hoping to spend Christmas with his estranged podcast hosts who have gone on to bigger and better things, but when a group of international thieves... I mean terrorists, they'r...

This week we're turning our attention to 1988's Midnight Run, a buddy action comedy in which Robert De Niro finally got the chance to fully try out his comic talents. In a cinema landscape of Lethal Weapons, Beverly Hill's Cops and 48 Hours', Midnight Run remains a forgotten gem. Director Martin Brest brings the brest out of De Niro as bounty hunter Jack Walsh, happy to subvert his tough guy perso...

One of the premiere names in film for the last 50 years, Martin Scorsese has just turned 80. So it's about time he got a little scrutiny from The Reel Take. If you think he's all about gangsters and gritty crime drama, we can't blame you. But there's a lot more to his CV than that. Unfulfilled wannabe singers no longer known at this address, yuppies who go into the wrong part of town after dark, a...

Anthony Hopkins became history’s oldest best actor Oscar-winner in 2021 for his role in THE FATHER from writer/director Florian Zeller. The story of Anthony, a mischievous 80 year old, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), insists he needs. Adamant that he doesn't need help, Anthony's grip on reality is unraveling. Or is he being gaslit by those c...

Film: a series of static images creating the illusion of movement. And what purer form of that definition is there than animation. In many ways, it could be argued that all film is animation. A trompe l'oeil, deceiving the brain into thinking that what the eye sees is a representation of reality. If all that seems a little high-brow, it's because this week we're taking a look at animated movies ai...

This week we're looking at Edward Norton's 2019 neo noir MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN. He produces, he directs, he stars, he adapts the original novel! No wonder people find him difficult to get on with. Based on Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling crime thriller published in 1999, Norton liked the book so much he got a copy of it before it was published, immediately bought the rights and proceeded to transplan...

This week it's order up as we get you to pull up a booth and look at those iconic movie scenes set in Diners. Whether you're a criminal cartel planning a heist, a group of muppets trying to make it big on broadway, or just a pair or friends faking an orgasm, there's no better place to sit down, grab a cuppa kwoffy and some grub and progress the plot of your movie. So sit right down and make yourse...

This week we turn our attention to the 1992 gem SNEAKERS. Robert Redford leads an all star team of a high-tech (for the time) hackers in this caper made in a post-cold war, pre-internet world when virtual reality was in its infancy and fears surrounding domestic surveillance and cyberwarfare were mounting. Luckily we don't need to worry about that 30 years later! So spill out all the scrabble tile...

Well, Guys and Ghouls, it's the most Spooktackular time of the year once more! And do you know what the most shocking thing bout this Halloween is? It's that your three terrifyingly terrible podcast hosts all have blind spots when it comes to famous horror franchises! So despite their fraidy cat hearts, they have undertakered to watch those pillars of the horror genre which they have heretofore av...