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Hard one, this. An absolute staple of our boys movie watching uni years. Where does it sit today? Test of time/has it aged/in hindsight... All the cliches. Kevin Smith is a talented filmmaker. He is an even better writer. Let's see what Back to the Pictures thinks in this deeeep analysis of 1997's comedy...romcom? stoner flick? What was it? And what is it today? Chasing Amy. Guest Starring our own...

Hard one, this. An absolute staple of our boys movie watching uni years. Where does it sit today? Test of time/has it aged/in hindsight... All the cliches. Kevin Smith is a talented filmmaker. He is an even better writer. Let's see what Back to the Pictures thinks in this deeeep analysis of 1997's comedy...romcom? stoner flick? What was it? And what is it today? Chasing Amy. Guest Starring our own...

There has been a lot thrown at Batman and Robin over the past 28 years. The question we try to break down in this episode is - is the hate and vitriol deserved? Actually, that question takes less than a minute to answer. The review itself is more focused on how on earth certain decisions were made, agreed on and survived cross-examination from all involved. And despite the negativity surrounding a...

Is this the most controversial movie reviewed on Back to the Pictures? It certainly feels like it. Tune in this week as our three movie sommeliers react to a movie that was already prime for Cancelation in 2008, let alone in 2025. Ben Stiller leads the way in a movie so incredibly difficult to process, as Grossman points out, will need to get a fucking binding resolution from the United Nations!

Someone once wrote "This podcast is a fine thing and worth fighting for". We agree with the second part. A decaying megacity. Perpetually dark, rain soaked and its streets are unforgiving. No, we are not reviewing Salford. This is 1995's incredibly twisted (trust us) crime noir thriller (horror?) SE7EN. The movie that made a certain David Fincher a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. Not just...

This episode is so Fetch. Drop in for a banterful review of an early naughties cultural phenomenon - it's Tina Fey's Mean Girls. And to help the terrific trio of Ben, Anthon and Ian navigate through this reevaluation of high school social dynamics and clique culture is a special guest of the week - May To. This is a teen comedy known for its ability to be analysed on many unique levels - are the l...

Rarely does a movie come along that encapsulates the BTTP's 30-somethings sensibilities. Here, this episode, Ben, Ian and Anthon are faced with the ultimate franchise from their childhood and beyond. What do they make of the bodacious, tubular and spectacular looking animatronic Ninja (sorry, Hero) Turtles from the 1990 independent Comic Book-Superhero-action movie that would have defined their mo...

It's a long walk, the Green Mile. Yes, it is. But in a change of pace from recent outings, this go around sees the BTTP lot inducted into a story of compelling narratives, profound themes and complex characters - not to mention a balls-to-the-wall performance by the late MCD! This is all true. But, fuck, this movie is long! This episode, Ben, Ian and Anthon refrain from throwing too much shade at...

You want to remember something a certain way, but that memory can only preserve as long as you do not revisit it. In 2025, the BTTP fellas are at it again - rewatching a long-time favourite Vampire-Superhero-Action-Horror flick, Blade (1998). It's going to be a tough one. This episode, Anthon, Ian and Ben prepare to enter the Temple of Eternal Night and attempt to figure out the art of applying su...

A short time ago, in a recording studio far far overpriced... Join Ian, Anthon and Ben once again for more side-splitting, knit-picking, bollocks-calling shenanigans as the boys from P2, Oxford Court recall some of their bestest and some of their lamest movie adventures. And why not start with the movie that divided a generation. Actually, at the time, there wasn't much of a division - it was pann...

What is the story here? The planet Naboo is under an attack... Why? It's political. How? It's macro economics. Who? Essentially, Amazon in Space When? A long, long time ago Where? a Galaxy Far, Far Away And that is how we kick of Season 4 of Back to the Pictures? Join Ian, Anthon and Ben once again for more side-splitting, knit-picking, bollocks-calling shenanigans as the boys from P2, Oxford Cour...

Unfortunately, still no one can be told what this Back to the Pictures review on 1999's the Matrix is. You still have to hear it for yourself.

Unfortunately, no one can be told what this Back to the Pictures review on 1999's the Matrix is. You have to hear it for yourself.

In the penultimate review of Season 3, our trusted trio delight in disagreement as a relic of Ben's film student days rears its beautiful or ugly head, depending on who you ask! Sofia Coppola's understated, cinematic love letter to Tokyo, Lost In Translation (2003) is in the firing line this time round. And the boys have a jovial time dissecting the nuances between loving a film where hardly anyth...

Mellow Greetings Fellow Citizens! Enhance your calm and be well...by downloading and enjoying our review of DEMOLITION MAN - the 1993 dystopian sci-fi action movie. Our first go around with the iconic Wesley Snipes & Sly Stallone! Join us as we dust off the three seashells, turn up the wall-to-wall mini-tunes, and devour those oh-so-sumptuous rat burgers. In this episode we dig deep into the c...

A touchstone of the despicable, deplorable and degeneration of the time the BTTP crew grew up in. Is South Park the last bastion of equal opportunities offending left in this burnt out burgh we call society? Or is it a relic of a decayed era, now a stain on our more refined culture? Or is it a bit of both? We dive into 1999's South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut to pose these questions and so much...

This time round, the Back to the Pictures lot focus on James Bond's return to the big screen and his reclaiming of the crown as the go-to in the espionage action genre. This Bond is different. Different then all those that came before him. Listen in as we breakdown what's changed, what's sharper, what's edgier and perhaps what still lingers from the past...this is not your dads James Bond...or is...

If you weren't even supposed to be here today, suck it up, download this episode and lose yourself to the banter of Ben, Ian & Anthon joined by special guest Noah Jordan - this movies primary superfan. This week, the guys work their way through Kevin Smith's divisive, but undoubtedly seminal, 1994 indie classic - Clerks. It's a comedy as outrageous as it is incomparable. The first Smith film r...

It's an ugly planet, a bug planet! Remember your training and you will make it back alive! Zegama Beach! Come on you apes, you wanna live forever? Medic! Take a trip down washout lane! Someone made a big goddamn mistake! The only good bug is a dead bug! You trying to be a hero Sgt? Just trying to kill some bugs sir! Service Guarantees Citizenship. At least I got to have you. Everybody fights, no o...

Join us for another showdown with Ben, Ian and Anthon and a genre rarely dipped into on Back to the Pictures. With only Hitch & The Girl Next Door for company, this time round, the romcom arena gladly receives 10 Things I Hate About You. Yes, the 1999 teen classic straight from the reimagining of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. This episode, BTTP Alumnus, Heath Ledger returns and is lauded...

Well, this one hurts. Benthonian return for episode 2 of Season 3 to review a movie that has haunted them for nearly 20 years. In this super-heroic session, the guys come out swinging with the deepest philosophical questions from a painfully abstract movie - what's with the Emo hair & eyeliner? Why does Peter act like a dick even before he meets the Symbiote? What was Harry's plan blackmailing...

We're back, back from the future! Or the past...or days of futures past? Either way, Back to the Pictures returns for Season 3 to once more take a stroll down movie memory lane...Ben, Ian & Anthon buckle up for another round of movies they once watched together as clueless uni students between 2005 & 2009. And episode 1 starts off with a big bang. Metaphorically speaking, of course, as the...

We finally cover all the bases in the second and final part of our review of 1972's epic Mob Drama, The Godfather. In the final part of this instalment, the guys are ready for war on where this movie stands on their List of greatest movies. In the final episode of Season 2, we digest by just how far Sonny missed that punch to Carlo and continue our love letter to the Playstation 2 adaption of this...

Time to make you an offer you can't refuse... In Part 1 of the final instalment of Back to the Pictures Season 2, the lads bring you one of their all-time favourites. And let's face it, it's a lot of peoples favourite! Let's see if the movie really does insist upon itself or if there is merit to calling it the greatest movie of all-time... Do we take the gun or the canolli ? Find out on BTTP!

Everything comes to he who waits...and we have waited since 1987 to bring you this review of Masters of the Universe. We are cheating ever-so-slightly this week. As this movie is one Ben and Ian have watched many times over together - so many, it's hard to remember if Anthon was ever in the room! Which makes for a unique episode, where our hosts battle the feel-good of nostalgia while being hit wi...