Aussie and the Scotsman - Unfiltered Movie Podcast

This week we review the 2015 biographical drama film Steve Jobs directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film covers fourteen years in the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, specifically ahead of three press conferences he gave during that time: the formal unveiling of the Macintosh 128K on January 24, 1984; the unveiling of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988; and the unv...

It's a "Best of" week - this week The Best of Tom Hanks. The Scotsman kicks off by telling us about his recent trip to Scotland and JApan for his dad's 80th birthday - but just as he gets going the Aussie has a coughing fit and for the first time since the podcast started we have to stop the broadcase for a brief intermission. Hilarious chaos ensues as the Aussie fails to adhere to the microphone...

This week review the 1981 historical sports drama film Chariots of Fire directed by Hugh Hudson. It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson star as Abrahams and Liddell. Chariots of Fire was nominat...

This week we discuss the 1957 American legal drama film 12 Angry men directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Ed Begley, E G Marshall and Jack Warden. The film tells the story of a jury of 12 men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder on the basis of reasonable doubt; disagreement and conflict among the jurors forces them to question...

This week we review the 1980 biographical drama film The Elephant Man loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick (referred to as "John" in the film), a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century. The film was directed by David Lynch. It stars Sir John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Sir John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, and Freddie Jones. Ma...

This week we discuss the 1985 American comedy Brewster's Millions directed by Walter Hill and starring Richard Pryor and John Candy. What a concept this is....what would you do? Spend the $30m in 30 days for a chance to win $300m or take $1m up front (1985 values). Did you know this is based on a 1902 novel? The story is over 120 years old. No, neither did we. It has been re-made 7 times and this...

This week we review the 2003 comedy film School of Rock directed by Richard Linklater. The film stars Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, and Sarah Silverman. Black plays struggling rock guitarist Dewey Finn, who is fired from his band and subsequently poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. After witnessing the musical talent of the students, Dewey forms a band of fourth-grad...

This week we review the 2016 American coming-of-age drama film Moonlight written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali and it won the Acaademy Award for best Picture. For once we...

This week we review the 2019 American psychological thriller film Joker directed by Todd Phillips. It stars Joaquin Phoenix and provides an alternative origin story for the Joker. The film follows Arthur Fleck, a failed clown and aspiring stand-up comedian whose descent into mental illness and nihilism inspires a violent countercultural revolution against the wealthy in a decaying Gotham City. Rob...

This week we discuss the 2009 American comedy film The Hangover directed by Todd Phillips and starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong and Jeffrey Tambor. It tells the story of Phil Wenneck (Cooper), Stu Price (Helms), Alan Garner (Galifianakis), and Doug Billings (Bartha), who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party to celebrate Doug's impend...

Today we are reviewing the 1987 American war comedy film Good Morning Vietnam directed by Barry Levinson and starring Golden Globe winner Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, JT Walksh and Bruno Kirby. Set in Saigon in 1965 , during the Vietnam War, the film stars Williams as an Armed Forces Radio Service DJ who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infurates his superiors. This is Williams at hi...

This week we review the 2000 American biographical sports drama film Remember the Titans produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The screenplay is loosely based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971. Will Patton portrays Bill Yoast,...

This week we discuss the 2014 American psycholigcal drama music film Whiplash starring Miles Teller and J K Simmons. Considered one of the best movies of the 2010's this won Simmons every award going. The Aussie takes over - he hadn't see it but being a movie about excellence in performance and pushing as hard as you can to get the most out of yourself he talks about his own personal experiences a...

This week we review the 2017 absurdist psychological horror thriller film The Killing Of A Sacred Deer directed and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos. It stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, and Bill Camp. It follows a cardiac surgeon who introduces his family to a teenage boy with a connection to his past, after which they mysteriously...

This week we review the 1993 American coming-of-age crime drama film A Bronx Tale directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play of the same name. It tells the coming-of-age story of an Italian-American boy, Calogero (Lillo Brancato Jr), who, after encountering a local Mafia boss (Palminteri), is torn between the temptations of organized...

This week we review the 2012 American political action thriller film Zero Dark Thirty directed and produced by Kathryn Bigelow. The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks. This search leads to the discovery of his compound in Pakistan and the U.S. military raid where bin Laden was ki...

This week we review the 1979 American legal drama Kramer vs. Kramer starring Dustin Hoffman (oscar winner for this movie) and Meryl Streep. It tells the story of a couple's divorce, its impact on their young son, and the subsequent evolution of their relationship and views on parenting. Kramer vs. Kramer explores the psychology and fallout of divorce, and touches on prevailing or emerging social i...

This week we discuss the 2014 biographical war drama film American Sniper directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller This film is loosely based on the memoirs 'American Sniper' by Chris Kyle who became the deadliest marksman in US military history. The Aussie and the Scotsman discuss life in the military, the horror of war and the devastating impact that PTSD can have...

This week we review the 1999 American psychological thriller Fight Club directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is unhappy in his white collar job. He forms a 'fight club' with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt) and starts a relationship with Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). This is one of our early podcasts from...

This week we review the 1981 sports war film Escape to Victory directed by John Huston and starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow and Pelé. The film is about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during the Second World War who play an exhibition match of football against a German team. The film received great attention upon its release, as it starred...

This week we review the 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely car...

This week we review the 1957 epic war film The Bridge on the River Kwai directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Alec Guinness stars as Colonel Nicholson, a British officer imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp run by Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), where he's forced to build a railway bridge. After initially resisting Saito's demands that officers perform manual l...

This week is a 'best of' week. The best Injustice Movies. We review and discuss our favourite Injustice Movies. From Bombshell to Richard Jewell to Shawshank Redemption. The Killing Fields to The Pianist. Mississippi Burning to The Accused. The Hurricane to the Elephant Man and much more     We finish with our top 10. As the Aussie says - these types of movies are the only ones we seem to agree on...

This week we discuss the 2023 American biographical sports drama film Air directed by Ben Affleck and starring Ben Affleck , Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker and Viola Davis. The film is based on true events about the origin of Air Jordan, a basketball shoeline, of which a Nike employee tries to strike a business deal with rookie player Michael Jordan. Heads up...

This week we review the 2023 American biographical romantic drama film Maestro that centers on the relationship between American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre. It was directed by Bradley Cooper, from a screenplay he wrote with Josh Singer. It was produced by Cooper, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The film stars Carey Mulligan as Montealegre alongside Cooper as...