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Merry Christmas from the ChatFlix team! To celebrate James. Chris and Brose discuss one of the most famous bad Christmas films ever; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). Yes, the year the Beatles invaded the USA, GI Joe was invented and this film... so many things! So, if you need to block out the noise of Last Christmas and avoid Whamaggeddon this year, plug in your noise cancelling earbuds...

The bees, the bees! Not only is Neil LaBute's 2006 remake of the 1973 masterpiece with the same name unnecessary, not only is it ham fisted and not only is it badly acted, shot and scored, if you watch the wrong version of the film, you won't even see the most famous scene with Nicolas Cage. Brose has assembled the cultish Man Bites God to discuss this mid-naughties, smoking trash pile in a conver...

Somewhere out there... thataway (motions to space) in the 2270s, a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. The human adventure is just beginning in… Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Brose-Unit resumes command of the Starship Chatflix in order to intercept, discuss and hopefully stop it with some assistance from carbon-ba...

A missing girl, a puritan policeman, a Pagan community and a man... made from wicker combine to produce a mystery film with a horrific outcome in Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973). Virginal Brose flies his seaplane to a Scottish island t James and his raffish Pagan cult members confuse, tempt and distract him in a ritualistic episode of ChatFlix. Round up your hobby horse, dress the fool and pop...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Only in Stanley Kubrick's epic Nightmare of horror, The Shining (1980) Brose accepts a caretaker job at the ol' Overlook Hotel where he, along with Ben and ABC's own film critic, Zak Hepburn must live isolated from the rest...

Get creepy, kooky, mysterious & spooky all over again when members of the fam get up to more macabre antics in the Barry Sonnenfeld sequel; The Addams Family Values! (1993) Brose welcomes the arrival of The Addams Family baby boy, Pubert. Allan & Ben are shipped off to summer camp and Nanny / Black Widow, Kayleigh plots to marry (and murder) their wealthy Uncle. Pop on your spooktacular best, clic...

The survivors of the last Ghostface killing spree, leave Woodsboro in their rearview mirror starting a fresh chapter in the Big Apple for a whole other slew of kills in; Scream VI (2023) Brose, Stu and James take a stab at the sequel to Scream (2022) which is also the sixth in the franchise but it's New York, which means, new rules. New brutal and relentless rules.  Embrace this spooky season, don...

A famed adventurer is recruited by the British Empire for their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in order to find the a cunning villain before he ignites a world war in an adventure in a league of its own; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Stu is an extraordinary spy & hunter. Ben is an immortal, vampiric beast. With Brose's gentlemanly roguish, scientific smarts they'll chat this flic...

A ship has been lost in space for 7 years (a little more than a three hour cruise!) and the team from Lewis and Clark (no, not Lois and Clark) have been sent to rescue the crew and the: Event Horizon (1997). With Rescue Technician Shaun and Chief Engineer Harry on board, Commanding Officer Brose is trying to stymie a mild demonic possession and salvage the long lost spaceship. So jump into your pr...

He's been called the drifter, also the shape shifter, the master chef, the chameleon, the problem child, the hard one, the white Indian, the giant midget, regardless he is definitely Guilty as Charged. Dewey Cox follows a long, hard walk to music stardom in the up-and-down-and-up-again musical biopic parody: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) Life made Brose tough. Love made Allam strong. Music...

For those of us STILL sitting in the theatre as the credits continued to roll at the end of Iron Man (2008) we were welcomed into something grander, Nick Fury stepped out of the shadows and proclaimed "You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe" and boy o' boy, was he not kidding… And here we are a 15 years on, 32 (!!!) movies, 9 streaming...

The man, the myth, the ethically complicated womaniser; Robert J. Oppenheimer comes to life courtesy of Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy in the epic adaption of American Prometheus: Oppenheimer (2023). Brose manages an elite team of quantum cinephiles, Dr. Ben and Prof. Margherita at Los ChatFlixamos, as they delineate between fission and fusion. Slip on your sunglasses, slap on some sunscreen...

Hi listeners  (Hi Chatflix ) Welcome to the best day ever! As was yesterday and so is tomorrow and every day from now until forever! Why?  Because for our NEWEST episode we're chatting the flick based on the iconic Mattel doll (no, not He Man), directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig: Barbie (2023)! Kayla is everything, there's only one Kayleigh …and Brose... well, he's just Brose. Grab your rolle...

This mission brings Cruise Down Under, plunging him smack bang in centre of an international crisis and armed only with some impressive Woo-Fu! Only in Mission: Impossible II (2000) With computer genius, James at his side and beautiful thieves Chris and Mark on his mind, Brose races from Spain to Sydney to stop a rogue m IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon. Your mi...

Dun da na na, dun da nah! Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny FACTS: The fifth and final (?) Indiana Jones film has finally been released. FACT The film stars Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen. FACT This episodes features Stuart Wilson (author), Stephen Rowley (author) and Brose Avard (something something). FACT The Dial of Destiny was released 42 years AFTER Raiders of the...

Knives Out was Chatlifx Ep 198 Some of us loved it and some did hate Well, there's another sequel to see ChatFlix 353   Friends meet on a picturesque isle Murderous lockdown in style Talking about Glass Onion!   The crew from Mystery Radio Theatre, Nick, Esther and Chris, join Brose to unravel the mystery that is Glass Onion! Who loved it? Who hated it? Who was somewhere right in the middle? Liste...

As Easter creeps ever closer (or should we make that hops?!) Melbourne comes ALIVE with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (29 Mar 2023 – Sun, 23 Apr 2023) And with that in mind we turn our attention to a couple of acts as Brose chats with comedians Steph Teitelbaum & Stephen Hall about their shows Hello, Who Is It? and Letters From My Heroes respectively. Check the MICF website for which...

Private Dick, Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he'll have seen murder, blackmail and what might be love only in; The Big Sleep (1946) Brose & James are back together again to unpeel this "Bogie and Bacall" film noir all-time classic WHOO- dunnit! Adapted from the novel by Raymond Chandler Pop on your trenchcoat, slap on a hat and pop in your headphones...

A once-celebrated child investigator is now a washed-up 30-something PI still dealing with the same ol' trivial mysteries… until a client brings him his first murder mystery in our next in a series of under appreciated Murder Mysteries (0r Whoo-dunnits!); The Kid Detective (2020)  Brose is no longer a kid. And James ain't much of a detective but together they'll chat this oddball noir Mystery / Th...

It is AWARDS SEASON!! Before Hollywood's night of nights, we get Tony Coca Cola from Lights, Camera, What's The Action? Podcast to wax on with @brosewavard about this year's Academy Awards  Nominations  What did the fellas think of The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once, Sarah Polley's Women Talking, Baz's Elvis biopic, the dramatic musical Tár, Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin,...

After moving to a new town, the Emerson brothers soon discover the one thing that makes Santa Carla, California so unappealing to live in. Sure the People are Strange but things get even stranger in Joel Schumacher's horror/comedy; The Lost Boys (1987) Brose sleeps all day. James parties all night. Kayleigh never grows old. And Floyd from Ang Fang Quartet never dies. It's fun to be a vampire. Spla...

Identity is a secret. Identity is a killer. Identity is a thriller and also a mystery. In fact it's this weeks Under-rated Murder Mystery chat; Identity (2003) Brose and James find themselves stranded at a motel in a storm. They become acquainted with 10 strangers before they start getting knocked off one by one. Get in out of rain, pop in your headphones and listen to our latest episode for FREE....

A wealthy widow invites a group of his friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game in our next in a series of Breezy Murder Mysteries; The Last of Sheila (1973) However, things turn ugly when the game changes into a true murder mystery. Good thing we have Brose and James aboard to sort the fact from the fiction. Slip on a pair of boat shoes, slop on some sunscreen an...

Ahh, Paris! A city of romance …and suspense?! When a woman is pursued for a fortune her murdered husband stole, expect the unexpected when they play; Charade (1963) Brose and James will be your tour guides as their words take you on a merry-go-round of love, laughter, thrills and adventure. Give yourself a break, pop in your headphones and listen to our LATEST episode TODAY. All for FREE!

Jane is the go-to gal whenever anyone needs help with their wedding plans and she's got the bridesmaids dresses in her closet to prove it. All 27 of them! In the rather appropriately titled; 27 Dresses (2008) Brose has found the perfect fit to chat this 00's rom-com, the hosts from Scalpels and Tequila Podcast, Maid of Honour Ayla & Ring Bearer Tamzen to their mics for our LATEST EPISODE. So, plea...