Carruthers, Leggetter & Whoever

Who doesn’t love “Elf”? It’s the ultimate joyous modern Christmas classic and Will and Tom have a ball discussing it on today’s episode, I mean what’s not to love? Ferrell, Steenburgen, Caan, Deschanel – and everybody’s favourite Bob Newhart! FOLLOW US! Facebook: Carruthers, Leggetter & Whoever https://www.facebook.com/clw.podcast/ Instagram: @clw.podcast https://www.instagram.com/clw.podcast...

Tom is joined today by Rhian Holmes, musical lover to discuss this year’s biggest Oscar front runner, the already critically acclaimed remake of “West Side Story”, what did this pair of musical lovers think of the remake? Does it deserve the acclaim? Could it possibly best the masterpiece Best Picture winning original? There’s only one way to find out and that’s to dive into our longest episode ye...

It’s a Tom choice now for our next Xmas episode, and what better film to pick than for him and Will to discuss Joe Dante’s glorious creature feature horror comedy masterpiece “Gremlins”, a fun-filled family delight. FOLLOW US! Facebook: Carruthers, Leggetter & Whoever https://www.facebook.com/clw.podcast/ Instagram: @clw.podcast https://www.instagram.com/clw.podcast Twitter: @clw_podcast https...

Will boldly proclaimed on a previous episode that “Spiderman: No Way Home” would be better than “Endgame”, well for this event film we had to get the best – Known Marvel and Spiderman lover Katrina Unitt, known Marvel hater and Raimi Spiderman love Tom Carruthers and known fence-sitter Will Leggetter. I personally can’t think of a bigger trio to come together this month, or maybe... FOLLOW US! Fac...

“Nativty!” has long since cemented its position as the little British comedy Christmas classic gem that could! Tom and Will are both big fans of the film and are joined to discuss the film on the podcast with another huge fan, and a return guest from last years Christmas episodes, Lauren Stevenson! FOLLOW US! Facebook: Carruthers, Leggetter & Whoever https://www.facebook.com/clw.podcast/ Insta...

Last Chritsmas episode Tom introcued Will to one of his favourite Christmas movies of all time “Far From Heaven”, this episode Will introduces Tom to “Deck the Halls”. One film is a sweeping, beautiful romance from the golden age of the Sirkian melodrama, directed by Sirk himself. And the other is “Deck the Halls”. FOLLOW US! Facebook: Carruthers, Leggetter & Whoever https://www.facebook.com/c...

Tom and Will kick of the Christmas season with a look at the truly beautiful, touching and powerful romance “All That Heaven Allows”, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman. This beautiful story is told with a touch of elegance and class like no other of the melodramas of the time. Tom adores the film and thinks its the perfect choice to kick of the winter season for the...

Tom has always felt that Season 5 may very well have been the finest season of his favourite show of all time; “Mad Men”. The peak of drama, humour and depth may very well lie within this season and Tom’s greatly intrigued to find out whether or not Will agrees as they continue discussing and ranking episodes of this glorious, glorious television show. Do us a favour and like and subscribe, aswell...

Now three time guest Garth Oates comes back to discuss one of our finest directors, or rather pairs of directors, with incredible our FIRST Coen brothers movie. What better choice than spending some time with the dude himself, with “The Big Lebowski”. The classic neo-noir odyssey into the bizarre and at times completely unintelligible world of L.A and the ever expanding mysteries at the heart of t...

For a show that started from episode 1 with a brand of excellence almost unparalled in dramatic television, it constantly astounds Tom that that quality only continued to increase more and more as the series continued. The show; Mad Men. The series; 4. The Tom; Thomas Carruthers. The Will; William Leggetter. It’s about time this marvellous show was done on the show and the boys have a blast discus...

The show just keeps getting better and better and Tom and Will are enjoying talking about it more and more as they get deep inside Series 3 of Mad Men, one of the simply finest shows of all time. Is Will going to come around to Tom’s way of thinking about this, or is Tom going to remain alone in his opinion? The only way to know is to watch the show! Do us a favour and like and subscribe, aswell a...

When it comes to Pixar, it’s Will that holds the flame for the boys and for our first Pixar choice, what better selection than one of his favourite films of all time; “The Incredibles”. This wonderful animated superhero modern classic is a perfect starting point for the boys to discuss not just this brilliant film, but also the legacy of this incredible film company. Do us a favour and like and su...

The discussion of perhaps the finest TV ever made continues with Mad Men Series 2. As Don Draper continues to manoeuvre the world, will Will and Tom agree on what episode was the best? Who their favourite character is? It’s Will’s first time, but it’s Tom’s 4th (and maybe a half) – Let’s see what the boys think of the second series of this truly incredible series. Do us a favour and like and subsc...

After tackling the show that Will has spent years trying to make Tom watch with “Peep Show”, it’s about time Tom finally gets Will to watch the show that he’s been asking him to start for just as many years. Except this time it may very well the greatest show of all time; “Mad Men”. The boys start with Season 1 and go about their regular ranking processes to discuss all angles of this glorious sho...

Never thus far in the history of the show’s run has an emergency podcast had to be gone ahead with, but never thus far has there been a more apropiate time for such a thing to happen than the painfully long awaited arrival of “No Time to Die”. Tom and Will are both pretty big fans of Craig’s bond and it’s only fair that they welcome this new entry with a special emergency podcast recording! Let’s...

Rhian Holmes offers us the third and final of her picks, and it’s such a classic that Will had to come out of his hiatus for a recording; Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If you Can”. Hanks and Di Caprio face each other down in this wonderfully taut and very enjoyable farcical decade spanning drama. A brilliant comedy, a great cat and mouse game. Join three hosts to talk about a just plain great film....

It’s time for another one of Rhian’s three picks and this time she has chosen the first of two film that later were adapted into popular musicals, this first pick however is certainly a case where the musical has gone on to become far more popular than its original feature; “Waitress”. This light-hearted drama-comedy-romance is one of Rhian’s favourites, let’s see if Tom likes it too. Do us a favo...

We let another return guest curate a mini triptych of film choices in our 3 Picks series. This time around we welcome back Rhian Holmes, who kicks her 3 picks off with “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”. A coming of age film with a seriously dark heart and one that may or may not be exactly the film that the critics maligned, or may just be one of the better and more serious films of its ilk. Rhian...

Tom and Jay conclude there month of Lynch with a heavy heart with “Inland Empire”, Lynch’s final feature film, but certainly not his final output. The boys discuss this incredibly dense and bizarre feature and all the multitudes that it does contain. A feat of film indeed and a fascinating episode unpacking it all. Do us a favour and like and subscribe, aswell as following us on all of our other p...

Tom recently declared today’s episode’s film “Mulholland Drive” the greatest film of the 2000’s. Paired with that great admiration, it may very well be Jay’s favourite Lynch film. In many ways it’s all been building up to this and it’s time to discuss one of the greatest and most masterful films of the modern era. A perfect film, a divisive wonder – a true masterpiece. Join Tom and Jay as they tal...

Tom and Jay continue their deep dive into the world of David Lynch with what he calls his most experimental film, but this film has no absurd musical numbers, no film dissecting montages and all in all very little oddness about it – “The Straight Story” may very well be Lynch’s ‘straightest’ film. Jay and Tom talk all about this outlier in the Lynch cannon as both of them watch it for the first ti...

The first part of Lynch’s LA trilogy is the disturbing and fascinating “Lost Highway”. This concluding trilogy of feature is some of the most marvellous film work that Tom and Jay have ever seen and they greatly enjoy getting into these incredible films, with “Highway” being in many ways a dry-run for next episodes film, whilst also being an incredible film in it’s own tremendous right. Do us a fa...

Tom and Jay have an absolute blast discussing one of David Lynch’s wildest and most enjoyable features, the dark and brilliant “Wild at heart”, filled with Lynchian familiar faces and Nicholas Cage himself, the film’s bizarre version of “Wizard of Oz” is a one hell of a ride that Tom and Jay can never resist taking. Why not take it with them? Do us a favour and like and subscribe, aswell as follow...

We continue our deep dive into the bizarre world of David Lynch on film (joined again By Jay Reef) with his 1986 masterpiece “Blue Velvet”, a deeply perverse psycho-sexual thriller mystery that may just be the most accomplished and consummate reflection of Lynch’s entire body of work. Aswell as just being up-roariusly funny, disturbing, perplexing and forever watchable.  Do us a favour and li...

Before later this year we finally get our hands on Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel “Dune”, Jay and Tom return to a more maligned adaptation of the novel, David Lynch’s effort from the 80’s. Starring all the Lynchian regulars, along with Sting and many other famous names, the film is a grand sci-fi fantasy, but it does deserve all the hate that it got and still gets....