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Todays pick is an animated film, featuring a dark alternate Santa. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick won the Oscar for Best Make-up. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick went by another name when first shown on American TV. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick could have been inspired by many Christmas shopping trips. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick has a very limited human cast. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick is very bad. Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick is about the creation of a holiday favourite, Can you guess what it is?

Today’s pick became a Christmas favourite because of a copyright error. 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?

And so our short Halloween season draws to a close.  Before we return to our crypt, we have one more treat for you. Niall Browne from Movies In Focus joins us to discuss what would make his perfect Halloween triple movie bill.  He selects a very diverse and entertaining trilogy of vampire films. We have  - Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Terror – probably the vampire film that started it all. Niall talks...

Recently Graham and Jeff recorded a podcast about the science fiction films of Stephen King.  That podcast will shortly be available as part of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe series – thanks Jo for inviting us to participate. One of the comments made during the recording was “you’re wrong” (frequently said to us) “Stephen King is horror not science fiction”.  On such statements worlds turn.  We t...

What’s better than one Carry On Streaming a month? You guessed it – two!  Velcome to our annual Halloween Carry On Streaming special for 2024.  Dec is back to tell us what’s best on the various streaming channels for this spooky channel.  And being the second streaming of October it’s only fitting we release this on the second night of our Halloween specials. This year Dec’s selection is mainly sc...

Welcome to the start of our annual Halloween season. Halloween is famous for its tricks and treats. So, for regular listeners to the show, we start off with a treat, a Phil and Jeff movie review. It’s the box office hit of the season, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which has just been released on streaming (and is still showing in cinemas if you fancy the big screen experience). Before you...

Our Autumn Carry On Streaming show has finally arrived! Not just a show, more life counselling guidance.  Host Declan is back, giving you something to be entertained by as the nights draw in and the constant rain dampens everyone’s mood.  To make this selection, Dec spent his Summer wading through the mire to make sure we only recommend the very best.  Shows you may have missed from earlier in the...

Way back in episode 220, we spoke to American novelist and journalist Jared Feldschreiber about his excellent novella Reckless Abandon. One of the strengths of the story is how it weaves real life and fictional characters together in its tapestry. One of those real-life characters who crosses the pages is legendary actor Dustin Hoffman. It is well known that Dustin Hoffman is something of a perfec...

The At The Flicks team have often been referred to as Brats (ok, just one member in particular), so when Darren suggested we review a movie called Brats, it was too good an opportunity to pass up. It is not however our origins story.  Instead, it is a documentary about the mid 80’s movie brat generation, told by one of their own.  Actor turned director Andrew McCarthy (who appeared in St Elmo’s Fi...

The hot horror movie ticket this Summer has been Longlegs, a film directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Anthony), which stars Maika Munroe and Nicolas Cage.   For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s a serial killer movie (which becomes something much darker as it progresses), set in the early 1990s.  Ah, I hear you say, doesn’t that sound like the Oscar winning Silence Of The Lambs? Indeed, there...

It’s been a long time since we revisited the classics with Elijah (the last one was show 174 where we talked 60’s Bond). It’s way past time we returned to that fascinating series and our return is SUPER. Yes, we are talking Superman The Movie (1978) starring the late, great Christopher Reeve. A film so big we also had to bring in the talent that is Niall from Movies In Focus. Not only is Niall a f...

On previous episodes we have spoken to Phil Foster aka Phil The Bear about his fascinating series of director profiles. That’s where Phil watches all of the films linked to a major director and writes an in-depth article analysing both their career and their output. Following the article being published, we at At The Flicks then bring a small team together to discuss the work and the director in q...

Let’s start with a big thank you to you, all our listeners. The previous show, our rather explosive Challengers review, has proven to be a great download success. The confrontation between Jeff and Phil has proven so popular we have made the controversial decision to go back into our archives and expose a review we thought we couldn’t release. Asteroid City. Regular listeners know that Phil and Je...

Welcome to our new format At The Flicks review show. The big change is that we now concentrate on one film per show, not five. Don’t forget, we are mainly senior citizens and reviewing five at a time was just proving too much for us in our advanced state! Especially when you factor in all the toilet breaks we have to have when watching in the cinema (except Neil who has his own catheter). Also, th...

Welcome to the second of our shows which discuss the James Bond films of the 1960’s – a time when the ever-innocent Neil thought Pussy Galore was a gang of cats As a reminder back in 2020 we had a number of episodes with our American friend Elijah discussing these very Bond films.  Elijah had never seen a Bond film before we started that series and it was interesting to get his perspective of a se...