Commentary Club

To mark the 40th anniversary of the BBC's The Box of Delights, an adaptation of the classic novel by John Masefield, we are rewatching the classic TV series one episode at at time, week by week just like back in 1984. In this episode we see how young Kay Harker encounters the mysterious Cole Hawlins, and some sinister folks who are very interested in his old magic...

In this show, we revisit a modern cult favourite, the dark comedy In Bruges ( 2008) starring Colin O'Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes.

For our traditional Hallowe'en special, we watch a modern Hallowe'en favourite - Hocus Pocus (1993) starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as three Salem witches from 1693 resurrected to wreak havoc in the modern age!

Like the addicted customers of Mr Hilary Briss, the butcher, we are back for more, as we watch the second episode of The League of Gentlemen TV series, The Road to Royston Vasey... 

"It shakes me! It quakes me! It makes me feel goose-pimply all over!" In this show we revisit a true classic - The Seven Year Itch (1955) a romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder, starring the legendary Marilyn Monroe!

"It shakes me! It quakes me! It makes me feel goose-pimply all over!" In this show we revisit a true classic - The Seven Year Itch (1955) a romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder, starring the legendary Marilyn Monroe!

"We didn't burn him!"    We begin an epic rewatch of the classic comedy series,  The League of Gentlemen , beginning with the very first episode - Welcome to Royston Vasey...  

In this episode we look at one of the all classic so bad its good movies from the 1980s - The Toxic Avenger (1984) from the legendary Troma Films!

For our cult film selection we watch The Purge (2013) the low budget action horror flick, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey, that spawned a brand new franchise

For our hundredth episode we revisit one of the greatest science fiction films of all time - the original Planet of the Apes (1969) starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell. 

For our classic film selection we go back the 1980s for the legendary collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg - the very first Indiana Jones adventure  -   Raiders of the Lost Ark ! 

Did you know there was a Titanic II? In this podcast we wish we didn't, as we tackle this dubious 2010 mockbuster pretend sequel from The Asylum! 

After recording our Rollerball episode we thought it would be a good idea to sample some vintage Top of the Pops, and hence we pit June 1977 against July 1978! 

This week we are are revisiting a slice of 1970s scifi in the shape of cult classic Rollerball (1975)

We are back into classic film territory and we are looking at one of the greatest sequels of all-time - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)! 

In another special show, we revisit another movie from the late great Roger Corman - The Terror (1963) a gothic fever dream which stars Boris Karloff and a very young Jack Nicholson!

After recording the Zombie Creeping Flesh episode, it seemed like a good idea to keep on drinking and watch a Top of the Pops from November 1980 the same week as the film's release. And we had such a good time, we sampled another episode from 1981 for good measure!

In a special show, we revisit an early classic from the late great Roger Corman - Not of the Earth (1957)

It's crap movie time and we are looking at a legendarily shoddy movie - a 1980s Italian Dawn of the Dead knock-off which you may know as Zombie Creeping Flesh AKA Virus AKA Zombie 3 AKA Hell of the Living Dead AKA Night of the Zombies AKA That Bloody Terrible Film

We thought we'd revisit a Top of the Pops from 1988 the week Big was released... and it didn't go so good. So we also had a look at an earlier episode from 1985 to right the balance! 

For our classic movie selection, we are watching classic 1980s comedy Big starring Tom Hanks

We celebrate Easter this year with an 1980s British scifi horror about eggs and rebirth... sort of...  Yes, we are doing Norman J Warren's infamous alien shocker - Inseminoid (1981)

We celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a new Irish scifi comedy - Apocalypse Clown! When a mysterious cosmic event destroys all electronics and the  world plunges into chaos, will a bunch of failed clowns be our saviours? 

For our crap movie selection, we are watching an all-star cast go to hell in a hand-basket in Judd Apatow's pandemic misfire The Bubble (2022)

For our traditional wildly inappropriate movie for Valentine's Day this year, we picked a romantic comedy... from Tommy Wirkola, director of the Dead Snow films! The Trip (2021) has Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie as a couple off for a romantic break where they plan to kill each other!