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Today’s darker pick was one of the reasons for the creation of the PG-13 certificate. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick is the first film to use one of the best selling Christmas songs of all time. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick is a Netflix animation feature. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick is a family gathering which turns into a comic horror. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick is a British black & white classic. Can you guess what it is?

Merry Christmas and welcome to the At The Flicks advent calendar. Everyday from 1st December, up to and including 24th December, we will be giving you a recommendation for a Christmas film to watch to get you in that festive mood. Some will be films you know, some you won’t. We hope there is something for everyone in our Festive Film Advent Calendar. Merry Christmas from; Graham, Jeff, Neil and sp...

Neil cannot unfortunately be with us this month, but the show must go on. The regular team shuffle in for the reviews continue. As always we have the quiz and this time Jeff amazes the rest of the team (there is a first time for everything) with his Bond knowledge. Our Bond guests over the years have taught him something, or maybe he is the only one that listened? For film reviews this month we ha...

Belated compliments of the season to you, faithful listeners. Our carry on streaming expert Dec returns to tell us what is worth watching in this darkest of seasons. True not all the selections are horror, however, most have unsettling notes to them. Like that glass of thick red wine even Graham won’t drink! What is included in the show you may ask? Well, Dec gives us the details and recommends (a...

184: Darren's Halloween Party by At the Flicks

Welcome to Darren’s Dash, the show where Jeff reluctantly let’s go of the reins and hands control over to Darren. That is a harder act for him to do than you might imagine. It takes three weeks of the right type of pills to get him back to normal (or what is classed as normal for him) after one of these shows. Even better, Darren has selected a film which has managed to cause a Jeff meltdown altho...

In the always bustling At The Flicks news room we sometimes joke about other shows we listen to where critics are “phoning in” their reviews. Well, this month the joke is on us. Neil has gone off on holiday (again) and phoned in his reviews (or more accurately musings) along with his answers to last month’s extremely complicated quiz. Where did he go in this Covid infected world you may well be as...

WARNING : Podcast takeover alert : WARNING For this show the old ones who usually run things have been given a rest as the young team of Emily and Kieran take over. Earlier this year Emily and Kieran were working as students on the Cheltenham International Film Festival. On this podcast they talk to various people connected with the festival. They speak to festival founder Leslie Sheldon, the team...

Welcome to our spin off review show – Darren’s Dash. Regular listeners to our shows will know that Darren’s Dash used to be a regular feature in our monthly review round up. In that section, Darren would talk about four films most of the other members either never got out of their chair to watch or were unable to view because of limited release. The Dash has become so popular that we have now deci...

A warning for all listeners. Maybe against our own best judgement, we have allowed Neil to present his own quiz. A little-known fact about Neil. In real life there has been many a time Neil when he has been mistaken for Jeremy Paxton. Until this quiz we were unaware of much he wanted to emulate his doppelganger. This can be the only reason why Neil has created a movie quiz in the style of Universi...

Welcome to the At The Flicks review show, no film is too good or too bad for this motley team. Although, it is safe to say never had a show where the team disagree as strongly as they do here about some of the films discussed. Two of the reviews are the subject of hot debate, as is one of those under discussion for Darren’s Dash. In fact, Jeff, hated one film so much, it has forced him to change h...

Steve Knibbs is the top BBC reporter in Gloucestershire (certainly in our opinion). A very busy man who was able to squeeze in some time to talk to your At The Flicks team. You see, Steve is a huge film fan.  When we found that out we just had to chat about his favourite movies.  It turns out Steve is a MASSIVE Star Wars fan.  In the interest of fairness and the generally annoying way At The Flick...

Welcome to the At The Flicks review show, with a show this good, why would you ever need anyone else? This month Jeff goes all Welsh on us in not one but two movies! Darren believes we sent him to review one movie as a joke, Phil gets very worried when he starts agreeing with Jeff, Graham does the quiz and Neil is, well, Neil. So the usual mayhem prevails and we only get serious when we talk movie...

Welcome to the June edition of At The Flicks movie news. This month : Graham gives us an update on David Cronenberg’s latest film Neil tells us what is coming from the world of animation. Enjoy

The first decade of our James Bond retrospective comes to a close as we discuss the last of the 1960’s films – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Given the gravity of this episode, Elijah, Jeff, Graham and Neil have all turned up in their tuxedos. Together they give their views on the film and the new actor playing James bond. Yes, Sean Connery has left the role and been replaced by newcomer George...

Welcome to the At The Flicks review show, the only review show you will ever need. Our batch of films were mainly selected before that joyous day when cinemas reopened. Not that this is a reflection on our selection. Most are given high praise from the team. Even Jeff seems sane until his meds faded out and then he goes full straight jacket for his last review. Don’t worry listeners, we have him b...

Stephen Cookson’s excellent film Brighton is the closing film at this year’s Cheltenham International Film Festival on 5th June. The At The Flicks team were given the opportunity of interviewing Stephen about his film, which is based on the play Brighton Beach Scumbags, written by Steven Berkoff. This is a powerful slice of life as a group of 4 sixty somethings return to Brighton, the place where...

Welcome to the May 2021 edition of At The Flicks movie news. This month we are calling the show our exclusive edition, as most of the news is indeed, exclusive. The team have split their original assignments accordingly - Jeff talks to Last Chancers director Phil Stubbs about his new project - Graham speaks to Cheltenham International Film Festival director Leslie Sheldon about the delights of the...

In this special episode of At The Flicks, the team talk to award winning sports journalist Jon Palmer about his favourite sports movies. I have had both the pleasure and the privilege of knowing Jon for over twenty years. He is dedicated and impassioned about his craft. Jon is currently, amongst other things, the football writer for Gloucestershirelive.co.uk. Those that know Jon, are very aware he...

Welcome to the continuing adventures of the At The Flicks team as they talk Star Trek movies. After the modest success of Star Trek III : The Search For Spock (At The Flicks episode 152), there was to be one more medium budget movie to complete a trilogy. This was a Star Trek film which went in a very different direction than the movies that proceeded it. It went backwards. In time that is. Yes, t...

In this show we catch up with Caz, the creator of the excellent Let’s Go To The Movies website. One of Caz’s articles really caught our eye and imagination. It was her list of 50 favourite films. Now, there is nothing we love more at At The Flicks than reading personal top movie lists. You go down the list and pick out matches. Favourite movies that connect you with another person, another person...