At the Flicks

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 turn the tables and ask some of our listeners the question “what else have they been watching?” In this podcast short, we phoned three listeners; Dec, Sarah and Rich, to find out what had caught their eye this month at the cinema and on the small screen.

In this SHORT the At the Flicks team travelled to a country pub near Newbury to interview friend of the Pod, Phil Foster, AKA, Phil the Bear, about his retrospective on the career of legendary director Wes Anderson.

A packed show this month. Local author Adam Baker talks about the sadly, now demolished Cheltenham Odeon. Our new contributor Lucy joins us for the first time, to discuss horror movies. Cineworld Manager Steve tells us what’s showing over the next three months. We have our usual irreverent take on Movie News. Reviews this month are; The Happy Time Murders, The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Craz...

In this Short Jeff and Graham interview Leslie Sheldon, who is currently working to establish a Film Festival for Cheltenham. Leslie and his team are at the very early stages of planning the festival and we took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk about his hopes and aspirations for the Cheltenham Film Festival. This is a very exciting project and we will endeavour to keep all of our li...

In this Episode of the, At the Flicks Podcast, Jeff argues that SPORTS MOVIES don't work. Neil defends the sports movie and Graham referees. Things get heated before the final whistle. Pick your side and enjoy the audio action. This months movie reviews are Christopher Robin, The Equalizer 2 and Ant-man and the Wasp. In Movie News, Jeff returns to Wales, Neil has breaking news on David Copperfield...

In this Sort, Graham & Jeff discuss, the time before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A time when the majority of Superhero movies lost money and ruined careers. We discuss the Origin Story of Superheroes from Print comics in the 30s to the importance of radio in the 40s to TV in the 50s and finally to the Silver Screen. We also play a game of “Bargepole or Belter” where Jeff lists 25 pre MCU Superh...

In this At the Flicks Short, Jeff returns to his favourite movie genre, Horror. He goes back to the very beginning of Cinema to look at the origins of the horror movie in the silent era.

This latest horror podcast short has Jeff discussing the highly acclaimed horror feature Hereditary with Neil and Graham. In his own unique wayJeff answers the following questions ; is it worth seeing, what are its merits and could Jeff persuade the horror phobic duo to check it out?

For the July Podcast (Whitney Tags the Incredibles), we recorded an interview with musical arranger Robin A. Smith. Due to time constraints we could not include all of the material we recorded with Robin. In particular there was an outtake about the legendary singer Elvis Presley, that we felt we just had to share with our listeners.

This months show features two interviews. We review Incredibles 2, Tag and Whitney. In News, Graham talks "Mel Gibson", Jeff muses on ice cream photos in Wales and Neil gives us his Best Actor predictions for next years Oscars.

Welcome to the very first At the Flicks, “Short”. Shorts, are created by the At the Flicks team as additional movie related material, that did not fit into the format of the main monthly Podcast. These Shorts, are brief single topic discussions on subjects that are very close to our movie going hearts. Unlike the monthly podcast there is no set delivery date for Shorts. As we think of an idea for...

In this month’s, "*At The Flicks*", we conduct our very first interview. We sit down with Phil Cook, former manager of the now, sadly demolished Odeon Cinema Cheltenham. Phil recounts details of his time as front of house manager, in the 90's and early 2000's! He talks about the technical challenges of projecting movies from reels of actual Celluloid! Meeting the cast of Harry Potter and a number...

In this month’s At The Flicks, the team discuss some of their favourite cult Movies. At least one of them is a choice you wouldn’t expect! Our cult movies cut a meandering path through time and genre, from 70’s disco, via 80’s French noir thrillers to end up at a 21st century animated Japanese bath house. We hope you enjoy the journey? Our reviews this month are Avengers Infinity War, Deadpool 2 a...

This month, At The Flicks asks, (and answers), the weighty question, "What is the future of cinema"? Our reviews this month are Ready Player One, A Quiet Place and Isle Of Dogs. New this month are our recommendations of what else is worth watching if you enjoyed the three films under our review microscope.

In this show, we discuss the decline and fall of the Summer Blockbuster season. What caused it, who we blame and what is the future for the traditional Summer Movie Season. Our Movie reviews are Peter Rabbit, Tomb Raider and I, Tonya. Following the positive feedback on our caustic look at Movie news last month, we continue this month with three more news items that fell under our cynical gaze. We...

In our latest show, we discuss who we would nominate for awards this season and give our reviews of Early Man, Black Panther and The Shape of Water. This month we introduce our News Section, commenting on the latest stories from the Movie Industry. Given the popularity of the last quiz, (last months answer is given at the start of this show) we have set another small quiz at the end of show to tes...

In our first show, we discuss movies we are looking forward to in 2018 and give our reviews of The Post, Kingsman: The Golden Circle and Blade Runner 2049. We've even put together a small quiz at the end of show to test your movie knowledge. Artwork Created by "Chanut is Industries, from the Noun Project"