At the Flicks

Recently the At The Flicks team had to hold an emergency meeting. The Summer movie season was about to start, Neil was worried there would be no highbrow films, Jeff was annoyed there would be weekly superhero features and Graham was fuming as no Mel Gibson movies were in the lineup. What were we to do? Suddenly the answer became clear. The first ever Cheltenham International Film Festival was tak...

Nothing separates the men from the boys in the At The Flicks podcasts more than the subject of superheroes. Graham and Neil constantly try to use logic and fandom to give weight to their point of view. Then there is Jeff. No logic, no fandom, no sense (most of the time)! A podcast to discuss Marvel Vs DC and the current state of the superhero could be seen as risking total meltdown within the team...

We are back to business as usual! After a month of detailed work on a large podcast project we are planning to release soon, we return to our classic end of month movie review show. This month Jeff and regular contributor Lucy discuss "strong female leads" in movies based on the books of Stephen King. We review Avengers Endgame with friend of the pod Phil Foster. The Tolkien biopic, imaginatively...

This month we have a high water mark where we talk about our nomination at the British Podcast Awards and a low water mark (well, Graham does) as we review Dragged Across Concrete. A Mel Gibson review was always going to be trouble, but who would have thought our three intrepid reviewers would almost come to blows over Mel! There are other more standard reviews - Shazam and Hellboy, for those who...

In this month’s “Phil’s view of the movies”, Phil and the team discuss the three main movie awards of this year: The Golden Globe, The BAFTA’s and of course, The Oscar’s. We rate the winners and talk about who in our opinion should have won the major awards. We also discuss this year’s biggest snubs and go back to the 1980’s to discuss the relative merits of Ordinary People versus Raging Bull. Thi...

For our mid month show we interview animator Ken Blakey about his work on Louisa An Amazing Adventure and the incredible true story behind the film. Also Elijah returns for “Rediscovering the Classics with Elijah”. This month we are in the Tron universe to talk Tron and Tron Legacy. We decide which one we like the best and go off topic for a brief talk about film music in fantasy movies. Finally t...

The name is Q – Q The Music. They are the world’s leading James Bond Tribute Band. For this podcast special, we have an interview with the band’s founder and manager Warren Ringham. Warren tells us how this very special tribute band came into being, where its name come from, their very special night playing at Sir Roger Moore’s memorial event and much more besides. As a special treat to our listen...

Buckle up for part two of the great Vice / Adam McKay debate as Jeff brings up the subject of The Big Short with Lucy and Josh. Let’s hope there isn’t as much drink flying around! Our main reviews this month are Fisherman’s Friends, Captain Marvel and Us. In case you are thinking – what Graham and Neil made it to a horror film. Nope. Jeff and Lucy discuss this because the other two were in hiding...

Welcome to a new series of monthly podcast shorts – Phil’s Look At The Movies Friend of the show Phil Foster (aka Phil The Bear) will be talking to us about aspects of the movies which interest him. For our inaugural episode, we chat with Phil about the films he is most looking forward to in 2019. Yes we know that we are now a quarter of the way through the year, however you may well be surprised...

For our mid month show we interview the very knowledgeable Philip Raby – the creative director of the Bath Film Festival. We introduce a new contributor, Elijah, who joins us with a new feature called “Rediscovering the Classics with Elijah”. For our first talk, the focus is on Bladerunner, a film that's viewed very differently by Philip and Elijah!

Writer / Director Phil Stubbs (Last Chancers) joins us again, to talk about another of his favourite directors. For this show we talk to Phil about director Stanley Kubrick. From ‘Paths of Glory’ to ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, we discuss in depth the career of a director that some critics say is the greatest of all time!

his month Jeff manages to miss one of the three films reviewed (slacker), and we travel to London to meet Lucy. The meeting went very well until we started talking about Adam McKay’s movie Vice. What happened next makes for interesting listening as the pros and cons of Vice are discussed. This discussion was of course enhanced by the amount of alcohol consumed and the result makes a fascinating ad...

The 2019 Stroud Film Festival starts on the 9th March and to discuss the programme for this year we sat down with Andy Freedman who is a Co. Director of the Festival to talk about the films, venues, competitions, events and workshops that make this festival such a unique experience. Please be aware there is a brief spoiler in this show relating to Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back.

This month we have a BIG interview - Midge Ferguson, one of the top British location managers.  You may not have heard of him, however you have all been impressed by the results of his work.  Merlin, Atlantis, The Man From UNCLE and King Arthur : Legend Of The Sword.  Midge was involved with all of those and many more.  In fact, we recorded the interview just before Midge's latest hit series Sex E...

Welcome to a new pod short monthly series – Director on Director. Writer / Director Phil Stubbs (Last Chancers) will be joining us to talk about some of his favourite directors. For this first edition we talk to Phil about director Peter Jackson. From Bad Taste to They Shall Not Grow Old, we discuss in depth the career of New Zealand’s most successful film director.

We start the New Year looking forward to the Movies that we hope will delight us, even though Jeff gets one wrong! Lucy joins us to discuss the trends we hope to see in 2019. Forget the Oscars, as we introduce our very own Awards Ceremony. We get details on what's coming up from Cineworld Manager Steve. We review our first three Movies of the year and unanimously agree on which one is our movie of...

Our regular At the Flicks feature “What else have we been watching” has become a surprise hit with our listeners. So much so, that we decided to ask some of our Listeners what else have they been watching?. In this short. We phoned three friends of the Pod, Katie and her Dad Steve in the UK and then travelled over the pond to the US to talk to long time listener Nick, to find out what had caught t...

In this Podcast Short, Jeff leads the team in a discussion of how films in the UK came to be regulated by the BBFC. We discuss the advisory nature of the certification and the gulf between certificates in the UK and US. We ask the question, "why is the BBFC so frightened of Horror Movies"?

A final present for you in this festive season - our last podcast of the year. Jeff and Neil fight over the last mince pie as we introduce you to the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy. Also there is Lucy's top five films of the year and a report on the recent London Korean film festival. In the movie news Graham, after too much whiskey, goes on and on about Mel Gibson, and we also get an update from Phil...

As we look back on 2018 one of the most gratifying developments of the year has been the community of listeners and movie enthusiasts, that have come together to support our Podcast? The listener feedback that has been the most satisfying and fun element of the year. Providing a lot of that feedback are the duo of Phil Foster, from the Phil the Bear’s film review site, and Friend of the Pod Declan...

In this Podcast SHORT we are returning to a recoding we made back in September with Nick Wilkes. Nick is the playwright in residence at the Malvern Theatre. We had such a great time interviewing Nick that we ended up with a lot more material than we could ever possibly use in our main show. So we decided to split the interview into two parts. The parts relating to his cinema memories we included i...

Nicky Price of BBC Radio Gloucestershire hosts a Friday afternoon show called "Classic Film Friday". Jeff and Graham have been guests on this show and in this short we turn the tables on Nicky and interview her about the inspiration behind the show and future plans.

In this months packed show we interview writer director Phil Stubbs about his movie "Last Chancers", currently in post production. Lucy talks about the joys and horrors of London's FrightFest. We review Slaughterhouse Rulez, Peterloo and Widows. Our Movie News features new projects from Sam Mendes, Neil Marshall, and Mel Bloody Gibson. We get an update from Steve Wright on movies for the Christmas...

This short is a review of the latest version, of the World War I film "Journey's End". The team discuss the impact this powerful movie had on them following a team evening out at the Stroud Film Society. At this showing Jeff stood up and delivered an introductory speech on the growing reverence for this particular conflict.

In this months show we have an interview with actor and playwright Nick Wilkes who has some fascinating stories about some famous Hollywood names. Lucy takes on Jeff over his dismissive view of Hereditary. Our movie news is a real scoop as we report back from the set of a movie which recently filmed in Cheltenham