Carruthers, Leggetter & Whoever

For our second episode this Christmas, we have chosen to look at Tom’s second favourite Xmas film; Richard Donner’s seminal modernisation of the classic Christmas Carol tale – “Scrooged”. Bill Murray’s winter themed proto version of “Groundhog day”, is filled with hilarious gags, marvellous special effects and as much genuine horror as great heart filled Xmas warmth.  Do us a favour and like...

It sure does feel like Christmas and we bring to our first Christmas episode for this year, and ever for that matter, so what better way to bring the season in with a few special guests (Nathan Sloane and Katrina Unitt) and Tom and Will, to discuss one of Will’s favourite Christmas movies, from one of Tom’s favourite group, 'The Muppet Christmas Carol'. We get into it everything about this marvell...

With a heavy heart we conclude our fortnight celebration of William Goldman with the seminal and controversial thriller classic; “Marathon man”. With one of the greatest villain performances of all time and some of the most horrific and tense sequences of the seventies, the film is a sure fire classic and is more than fitting to conclude our selection of films by this late legend. Is it safe? Do u...

We reach our penultimate episode of our William Goldman fortnight with the absolute family classic, 'The Princess Bride'. It’s got everything: torture, revenge, romance, fencing and fighting. All that any adult or child could ever want in a film and it’s all discussed here for your viewing pleasure by our two intrepid hosts. Do us a favour and like and subscribe, aswell as following us on all of o...

We now have our first Goldman screenplay based upon an adaptation of his own work, the terrifying and unsettling love story-thriller, 'Magic'. The astounding trio of Anthony Hopkins, Ann Margaret and Burgess Meredith are brought together by Goldman and Richard Attenborough for a truly creepy, darkly funny and disturbing film about a man and his puppet. It’s time to meet FATS! Do us a favour and li...

Our celebration of William Goldman continues with our first screenplay of his working in the world of adaptation, this time adapting Stephen King’s seminal horror-thriller novel, 'Misery'. The film features one of the all time performances from Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes, and the boys are joined by Sam Mandi-Ghomi to discuss and dissect why Tom likes the character so much. As well as discuss how...

The Goldman fortnight continues with the seminal newspaper film, 'All the President’s Men'. Returning to team up with Robert Redford, the film now tackles another famous real life twosome, except this time, they are the brave reporters of the Washington Post who attempted and succeeded in unravelling the Watergate conspiracy, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Follow the money and follow the boys as...

We begin another fortnight long celebration of a marvellous artist with a selection of films written by our first screenwriter in the spotlight, William Goldman. The essayist, author and screenwriter is one of Tom’s great idols and what better way to start off this celebration of his contributions to film with his Oscar winning screenplay for the 1969 western classic, 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundan...

A companion piece to our previous episode, we now have The Godfather Part II. Some say it’s better, some say it’s a lesser film, but there is one thing that is certain – it’s another masterpiece and more than a worthy sequel to the incredible first film. The boys even give some lip service to the much maligned third instalment. Do us a favour and like and subscribe, aswell as following us on all o...

It’s time to tackle two of the greatest films ever made, 'The Godfather' (this episode), followed by The Godfather Part II later this week. Both films are tied at number 5 in Tom’s all time ranking and Will adores them too. We will ask the famous questions. Best performance? Which film is better? The true nature of Michael Corleone, along with the remainder of the absolute masterpiece that this fi...

We welcome you tour first foray into both the world of Steve Coogan, one of Tom and Will’s favourite comedians and actors, and the world of Alan Partridge, one of Tom and Will’s favourite comedy creations of all time. The fumbling’s of the Norwich based radio host begin with 'Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge' – Tom’s favourite iteration of Partridge and a much beloved beginning to the l...

It’s a titanic episode this week, naturally, for the film 'Titanic'. The epic romance, the visual spectacle, the all-out masterful piece of film that as oddly as it sounds, the guest don’t think gets enough credit and this is a film than won over ten Oscars. See what Tom, Will and return guests Becky and Alice, have to say about this much-talked about and much-reviled film.  Do us a favour an...

Working on a six for Tom, one for Will basis, we now have 'Chicken Run', with return special guest Nathan Sloane. This Aardman classic is in both Will and Nathan’s top ten’s and it burdens with it a fun episode, let’s see if it’s another 'About Time' situation and Tom gets bullied for disagreeing. We’ve gone from dissecting faith in an immoral world to discussing stop-motion chickens. So let’s see...

We conclude our six set of Woody Allen films with Tom’s personal favourite, which for him perfectly encapsulates all of the humour and drama and philosophy and wit and pain and tragedy and thoughtfulness that make him the best writer of his generation. Let’s see if Will agrees and then let’s see what Will thinks of the six films that he has seen as the two boys discuss the collection. Enjoy as we...

The new goal of the show is to find a title longer than this week’s film 'Everything you always wanted to know about sex* (*but were too afraid to ask)'.  We rank each segment of this brilliantly farcical and down-right dirty seventies Woody comedy, from the borderline absurdity of Gene Wilder falling head over heels in love with a sheep, to Burt Reynolds as an operator in a man’s brain organ...

We enter the second week of our first celebration of the legendary cannon of the legendary Woody Allen. We now enter the midnight tinted world of Paris, with our second movie where Rachel McAdams is caught up in a romance with a time traveller. Perhaps we will have to do the others down the lines also. Will is similarly excited to discuss the reunion of his favourite film couples: Owen Wilson and...

The Woody fortnight continues on still with the exceptional 'Hannah and her sisters' from 1986.  It won Michael Caine his first Oscar, as well as Dianne Wiest’s first, as well as adding another screenplay win to Woody’s long list of awards nominations and wins (not that he cares about them). It’s a great family saga movie with a truly brilliant ensemble cast and above everything else. It’ll m...

The Woody fortnight continues on with yet another masterpiece, this time the truly exceptional 'Blue Jasmine' starring the truly exceptional Cate Blanchett, along with the truly exceptional Alec Baldwin. This is film is quite simply truly exceptional, there’s just no way around it. It’s Tom’s second favourite Woody film and Will continues his newfound appreciation for the great man himself. Enjoy....

It’s time for the next specialised fortnight and this time we focus in on our first foray into the incredible work of perhaps the greatest film writer of all-time: Woody Allen. He’s probably Tom’s second favourite director and it’s about time that Will learns what all the fuss is about. We begin with the seminal relationship drama, ‘Annie Hall’. It’s Woody’s big Oscar winning film and many see it...

It’s to for some home-grown genius with this week’s episode, 1996’s 'Brassed Off'. A personal favourite of both Tom and Will’s, following the lives of multiple members of a colliery band in Yorkshire as their pit faces closure. It’s a an eminently quotable film that gets much lip service in other episodes and now finally gets it own hour and a bit on the show. Enjoy.  Do us a favour and like...

2013’s “About Time” is officially our longest episode yet! Most of it is argumentative. Will, Becky and new guest Katrina Unitt, all against Tom. They discuss "Curtisms", whether or not the film is actually good and where it sits within the pantheon of romantic-comedies. There is also a brief twenty minutes where Tom and his taste is fully belittled and dissected. It’s fun for everyone, but him, a...

The well of 1973 horror keeps giving us gems, including this episode’s wonderful 'Don’t Look Now', directed by Nicholas Roeg from the short story by Daphne Du Maurier. The film is a turbulent tale of grief and horror in the beautiful and unsettling setting of Venice with incomparable performances from both of its leads, in Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Tom and Will go deep into the editing...

British humour, murder, Shakespeare, camp, Vincent Price – all through a dark seventies lens. Could this very will be the film made for Tom and Will? Well it seems that way when Will describes his newfound adoration of this film.  The two describe the brilliance of the film, as well as the campy joy of it. Will makes an extraordinary pull from nowhere on a fun fact question and the two of the...

The horrors of 1973 continue with the masterpiece of the genre 'The Exorcist'. We discuss its place in the horror genre and the general state of the horror world today, which leads to some very divided debate amongst our two hosts, as well as returning guest Becky Muggeridge. Tom stands his ground in believing that this is not only one of the finest horror movies ever made, but one of the better m...

It’s time for a bonus episode and we are now going to look at the other side of the coin of last week’s episode, by venturing into the horrifically terrible word of the 206 remake of “The Wicker man”. We naturally discuss Nicholas Cage, as well as the very odd carer of Neil Labute and whether or this film is genuinely the “absurdist dark comedy” that those two men claim that it is. Spoilers, we do...