The Stinking Pause Podcast

A special double bill this week as Scott, Paul and Charlie celebrate the life and work of Sean Connery Join us as we chat about captains, cat burglars and coffin polishers with a review of The Hunt For Red October(1990) and an almost complete avoidance in trying to review Entrapment (1999) "When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen w...

Brace yourself...it's time for a tale of platform boots, perverted uncles and pinball….teens, beans and Acid Queens. Ladies and gentlemen, the Stinking Pause podcast is proud to present some very  mixed opinions on Ken Russell's vision of the classic rock opera, Tommy. Nora Walker is told that her British fighter-pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day,...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul and Charlie to chat about turkey dinners, Van Morrison's amazing resemblance to Rick Flair and Neil Young's airbrushed coke booger. As lockdown restrictions ease, hopefully this will be our final episode recorded over Skype as, quite frankly, the sound quality is definitely not up to scratch with several drop out...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul and Charlie to chat about Gallic gastronomy, fractured champagne flutes and elusive olives. It's 1954, it's Audrey Hepburn, it's Humphrey Bogart, it's William Holden….it's a slice of classic Hollywood. Join us as we take a look at the Billy Wilder directed 'Sabrina'. "Chauffeur's daughter Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn)...

After an absence of over fifty episodes and nearly three years the restraining order has finally been lifted. Ladies and gentlemen…like a phoenix from the flames…yes he's back. Join us as we welcome Charlie back into the ample bosom of the Stinking Pause family. It's an old school Stinking Pause episode – the original theme tune, all the old jingles, the return of Jim from Swanscombe and Six Degre...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about Cannes, cat burglars and Cary Grant It's 1955, it's Hitchcock, it's Cary Grant, it's Grace Kelly, it's the south of France….a truly great combination for a truly classic movie – To Catch A Thief For more than a decade, the dashing, retired jewel thief, John Robie, previously known as "The Cat", has...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about hot, mad rabid dogs, holes in trees and Halloween ham costumes It's back to 1962 for a genuine Hollywood classic with an Oscar winning performance from the legendary Gregory Peck in the big screen adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Steven and Anthony In this episode, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast and Anthony from the Glass Onion:On John Lennon podcast are with Scott in the Balaban Sound Studio talking about the 1962 version of Mutiny On The Bounty, starring Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando "You remarkable pig. You can thank whatever pig g...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul and Liam In this episode, Paul and Liam are with Scott in the Balaban Sound Studio talking about the 1980 comedy, Airplane starring Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges "Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?" Drowning his sorrows after that botched mission during WWII, the traumatised for...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul and Liam to discuss Superman The Movie from 1978 starring Christopher Reeve Is it a bird…is it a plane? No it's three guys sitting round chatting about possibly the finest superhero movie ever made (That's Scott's opinion. No one elses.) "Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul and Liam to celebrate our 150th episode. It's something a little different as we hit episode150…a review of a movie less than a year old – Joker (2019 ) "The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't." Arthur Fleck works as a clown and is an aspiring stand-up comic. He ha...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast and Anthony from the Glass Onion: On John Lennon podcast for what is seen by many as one of the greatest westerns ever made…or is it? Join us as we take a look at John Ford's epic, The Searchers from 1956 starring John Wayne. "That'll be the day" After a long three-year absence, t...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about conmen, car chases and Coney Island hot dogs. It's back to 1973 for a look at Paper Moon starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn and John Hillerman…directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal team up as slick con-artists Moses Pray and Addie Loggins i...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about delinquents, dog killers and deranged dustmen. It's back to 1973 for a look at Badlands starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen and Warren Oates….directed by Terrence Malick. "He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A young couple goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terre...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Steven and Antony to chat about Hitchcock, high rise hijinks and homicide. It's 1948 and we are discussing the master of suspense's most technically challenging movie to date. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, join us as we take a peek in the trunk and chat about Rope. "You're quite a good chicken...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about Catholic nuns, crazy Nazis, Chicago Illinois and both kinds of music; country…and western. It's 1980, it's Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi on a mission from God. Directed by John Landis with support from a whole host of musical legends….ladies and gentlemen, The Blues Brothers. "We had a band powerful...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about high school proms, pig's blood and bat-shit crazy mothers. It's back to 1976 for a look at Carrie starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy Allen and John Travolta….directed by Brian de Palma. The story of Carrie White, a girl brought up, almost in isolation, by her domineering, relig...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Antony, the host of the Glass Onion: On John Lennon podcast to chat about Scorcese, DeNiro, method acting and boxing. It's back to 1980 for a look at Raging Bull starring Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorcese. When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefight...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfus and UFOs It's back to 1977 for a look at Close Encounters Of The Third Kind starring Richard Dreyfus, Teri Garr, Francois Truffaut and Bob Balaban Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure abo...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about the first in the series of movies featuring Peter Sellers as the bumbling detective, Inspector Clouseau. It's back to 1963 for a look at The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, Capucine and Robert Wagner. The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a gl...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by his co host fron the Reel Britannia podcast, Steven.     Join us as we review one of Billy Wilder's greatest movies, with an Oscar winning performance from William Holden, Stalag 17 (1953) One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul for a trip back to America in 1962 with hamburgers and milkshakes, drive-ins, fast cars and some of the best rock and roll music ever created. This episode we are joining Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfus with Wolfman Jack playing the tunes as we rock around the clock with American Graffiti (1973) – directed by Georg...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul to discuss the original version of a movie remade thirty years later by Martin Scorcese – Cape Fear. Join us as we take a look at the original version of Cape Fear (1962) starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to ja...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by his Reel Britannia co-host, Steven to discuss one of Frank Capra and James Stewart's finest movies. It's back to what many see as the greatest year in Hollywood history….1939. The year that brought us Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, Goodbye Mr Chips and today's featured movie, Mr Smith Goes...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul In this episode, Paul is back with Scott in the Balaban Sound Studio talking about the 1999 detective thriller, The Bone Collector starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. "There are five basic contaminants in a crime scene. I'll skip to the worse one. Other cops." Quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looki...