Cinema Bing Bong

Sometimes there isn't enough time in a month to watch new movies but CINEMA BING BONG perseveres! With a Very Special Episode where Amelia has made up twenty film-related questions to answer.  Memes from 2007, Amelia's book of linked essays, uncredited re-writes of Blue Moon (2025), the NZ government's Successful Women's Sustainability Egg Freezing Fund, Amelia tries to impress...

Amelia thinks the listeners won't believe that she's actually busy and isn't just doing crosswords all the time. The microphone the podcast was spoken into was not the microphone the computer decided to record from. Is 35 the right age for a sexual awakening? Is let me sniff ya fingers, Mrs  a sexy concept? Wuthering Heights (2025), The Secret Agent (2025), A Little Princess (1995),...

It's not what you know now, it's what you're prepared to learn now. That's the sign of a person who is able to grow — Amelia Berry, 2026 Hullo! Happy awards season and welcome to Cinema Bing Bong: the only podcast prepared to ask the big questions by Googling stuff. The Oscar nominations have been set free into the world. Amelia doesn't know any celebrity memes or red carp...

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Buenos días á los freaks, perverts, travestis y mums and welcome to a new episode on the films of Spain's premier John Waters-type: Pedro Almodóvar! Colours. Women. Gazpacho. Big silicone tits. Big telephones. Kidnappings. Punk bands. The three cities of the world (Barcelona, Madrid and Estockholm). Antonio Banderas as a sex criminal. Amelia reads to us from an autobiography. What more could...

NEWSFLASH it's a regular episode recapping films recently released in cinemá. Amelia has an update about medieval scrolls or something. We hear about Disney and Broadway producer Marc Platt and his large adult sons, one of whom Amelia refers to as Jared which is not his name. Rebecca compares The Room Next Door and Severance not realising it's the same actor in both. Amelia is writing an...

Olá e bem-vindo ao Cinema do Binge Bong – It's the night before the Oscars and Rebecca is crying because I'M STILL HERE has a predicted 2% chance of winning Best Picture. Amelia has finally woken up to the South American continent like a reverse Paddington. The gals had a rough week so there is a stark reckoning on the state of New Zealand cinema. I'm Still Here (2024), The Invisibl...

Cinema Bing Bong is back for a new year with all the latest celeb news (as of 31/01). The Oscar nominations are out and everyone's gone racist. Yucko: we talk about the sociolinguistic limitations of AI as a catch-all term. We continue to watch films about people who are not that famous where we come from. Can there be spoilers for real stuff that really happened? What was the worst part of E...

* A Bonus Christmas Episode about the best and worst of Christmas cinema * The only podcast celebrating Jesus Christ, the leader of the Christian faith (Berry, 2024). We strayed from God's light and now we're back with a Christmas special. Amelia does not know how to pronounce Will Ferrell or Zooey Deschanel. Shirley MacLaine saw a UFO and Rebecca talks about Christmas as if she were an...

LIVE from Australia: It's the musical episode! And Cinema Bing Bong has been enjoying a refreshing lemon taste with an alcoholic kick. Amelia spends forty minutes pandering to Wicked fans. We learn about the racist musical Amelia was in about 25 years ago. Rebecca needs the listeners to know how dedicated she was to work as a 12 year old. Warning: there's singing. Wicked (2024) The Peopl...

A24 is a US film production and distribution company named after an Italian motorway and it's time to rank the movies they've produced and distributed. Are they known more for their touching family dramas or their shouty dick movies? When you hear Franco do you think first of the dictator or the disgraced actor James Franco? Are the irony poisoned youth ruining tiered rankings? Is there...

Trap Maxxxine Longlegs Kinds of Kindness Chime Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Alien ROMULUS sorry it's Romulus not Resurrection  Julio Torresbong, Japanese pharmacy, the fourth dimension, what are the most spiritually evil films

The Film Festivals are over and what have you done? Besides Google 'so this is christmas lyrics'. Amelia and Rebecca have seen some films and have been rewarded with not only depression and influenza, but also an awareness of the latest trends in cinemâ (Canada, interpretive dance and so on). Amelia reports live from a kebab shop. Warning for misophonia: she was still eating the kebab at...

Cinema Bing Bong returns a second time this month to go through the programme of the New Zealand International Film Festival, beginning with quite an extended discussion about what in Gosden's name is going on with the festival and finishing up with some motivational brain-drain content about what's showing at Melbourne International Film Festival. Featuring an interactive aspect where y...

A very special episode! As Cinema Bing Bong takes to the actual cinema and comes to you Live from Event Queen Street and a bench outside Atrium on Elliott. Then it's back to the studio where Amelia's bragging about how many films are screening in Melbourne and Rebecca can't remember the name of anything just which crimes were involved. Featuring a fun new time travel segment: favour...

May's Cinema Bing Bong is a treasure trove of delights: After seven years Amelia has finally listened to Rebecca about the films of Alice Rohrwacher and immediately turned bisexual looking at Josh O'Connor. The tables have turned and Rebecca has overthought how to pronounce Franz Rogowski so much she forgot it has a g in it. A damning report on the cinemagoers of Auckland's North Sh...

A thrilling new episode of Cinema Bing Bong, which includes two new games to play along with! Spooky scary! Amelia's been watching horror movies by herself, in April. Luckily for the listeners who are yet to see Immaculate (2024) or any of the other American Nun Movies, she's bleeped out the spoilers. Rebecca cried all the way through Civil War (2024), but the real thing to cry over is h...

Beware the Ides of March—awards season is over and no one in Australasia can agree on how to pronounce Dune. Amelia has become the nation's foremost Frank Herbert fanatic and can't stop filling her boots with geriatric spice. The only Sandra Hüller movie Rebecca saw in 2023 was the unpopular Sisi und Ich. This episode contains a dramatic reading of FRISCO, the script that might seem like...

Amelia and Rebecca are back with a new podcast that's tenfold less niche. It's just about movies! In this episode, we find out what was good and what was a waste of 25 Australian dollars in 2023. We hear a summary of all the Best Picture nominees but for some reason only what Amelia thinks should win Best Animated Feature. Amelia refers to movies as the picture play. Rebecca says which f...