Double Reel Film Podcast

The latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features, which this month all have a comedy theme. Our Classics and Recommended film is Irish buddy cop film The Guard; our Hidden Gem is the 1986 film Down and Out in Beverly Hills; The One That Got Away features Bruce Willis in the disastrous cancelled project Broadway Brawler; our Remake Hatewatch...

The fiendish monthly quiz where the Adamsons test each others film knowledge and battle to avoid a vicious forfeit. Previously we included the quiz as part of Double Reel Monthly but now we're releasing it as a separate episode. The score currently stands at 4-0 to (young) James, and (the other) James is desperate to claw back some respectability. The stakes are high. If (young) James loses this q...

The monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd is back with another issue packed with cinematic chat and opinion. As always we release the latest issue in instalments to keep your feed fed through the month, starting here with Double Reel Monthly.   We have news and a look at new releases; reviews of new films including The Creator, The Lesson, Nimona and How to Blow Up A Pipeline; the...

Exciting times here at Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd: hot on the heels of our recent special episode we have another one for you. Our special guest making their return to the pod is actor, stunt performer, fight choreographer and all round gent Jamie B Chambers. Jamie is back to discuss his new film the dark action-horror I Am Rage. Jamie gives us the run d...

Issue 41 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, where the Adamsons discuss a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we mark the recent passing of legendary director William Friedkin with a retrospective on his films. The other instalments of this month's episode are already available to download as well as a special interview...

An extra special episode of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. Our guest is Mitch from Primetime Mitch, a brand new video channel dedicated to discussing your favourite crowd-pleasing films.  Mitch talks about what you can expect from his shows, as well as his own movie watching life, and kindly agreed to nominate some films that fit our usual feature categories of Classic,...

Issue 41 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with our regular features, which this month have a connecting theme of apocalyptic films.  Our Classics and Recommended feature is the legendary Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker; our Hidden Gem is Take Shelter; The One That Got Away looks at David Lynch's decades-long attempts to make Ronnie Rocket; our Remake Hatewatch is 2...

The Adamsons bring you the latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This first instalment is Double Reel Monthly, with news, a look at new releases coming our way and reviews of new films Scrapper, The Equalizer 3, Barbie (again) and They Cloned Tyrone. We also bring you the fiendish Penalty Shootout Film Quiz and the latest in our year long film projects The Cron...

In case you weren't aware James and James do another podcast, The Adamsons Versus, in which we take an offbeat look at non film related topics. We're sharing our latest episode on this feed to give you a chance to listen to it - hope you enjoy it. In this episode we talk about the good, bad, scary and funny sides of AI, before rambling off onto other topics and ending with our regular look at what...

Issue 40 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with a long chat in which the Adamsons offer to fix all of Hollywood's problems for them. Pitch Me A Blockbuster is our shot at suggesting some great films the studios could make to get them out of their current malaise. We throw out ideas, see if they'll work and indulge in some fantasy casting. Parts one and two of t...

Issue 40 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with our regular Features episode. In our Classics and Recommended feature we look at the hugely influential 50s western Rio Bravo; our Hidden Gem is Tom Cruise's comparatively underseen American Made; The One That Got Away looks at British auteur John Boorman's failed attempt to make a live action version of Lord of t...

Issue 40 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd starts here! As usual we're releasing it in three parts through the month to keep your feed fed regularly, and we begin with Double Reel Monthly. It's a bumper episode thanks to a long discussion on Oppenheimer, as well as our usual look at news, new releases, reviews of other new films including Barbie and Heart of Stone and th...

Issue 39 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, in which the Adamsons tackle a topic from the film world in more detail. This month it's how casting affects a film and how different some of your favourite films would have been if the original choice had been cast. Sometimes it's a fascinating Sliding Doors moment; or it just proves what Ja...

Issue 39 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with our regular features, all of which feature horror or disturbed characters. Our Classics and Recommended feature is the hit South Korean psychological chiller A Tale of Two Sisters; the Hidden Gem is Peter Jackson's horror comedy The Frighteners; The One That Got Away tells the story of Joe Carnahan's unrealised pr...

Issue 39 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd is here! As usual we release it in three parts, released a week at at time to keep your feed fed through the month. We start with Double Reel Monthly, including news, a look at new releases, reviews of new films Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse and (deep breath) Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, our fiendishly difficul...

Episode 38 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with our Big Conversation. In keeping this this issue's theme of animated films we look at the Golden Age of Animation. This phrase used to be applied to the early Disney Classics from Snow White to the Jungle Book, but we're here to argue that the Golden Age of Animation started with the Little Mermaid in 1989 - or...

Episode 38 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the regular Features and this month's animation theme. Our Classics and Recommended film is 1988's anime masterpiece Akira; the Hidden Gem is the Iron Giant which became a family favourite but was hardly seen on its theatrical release; the One That Got Away is the story of how A Princess Of Mars nearly became th...

The Adamsons are back with Issue 38 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This part one of three, Double Reel Monthly, with news, a look at new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and the compelling and incredibly complicated Penalty Shootout Film Quiz. We also check in on our film resolutions for 2023, in which we each watch a selection of films as part of annual...

Issue 37 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation, where we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we discuss film trilogies, including what qualifies a film as a trilogy (is it still a trilogy if they make a fourth film?). We look at some of the best and worst examples and wonder if they're still a thing in the age of...

Issue 37 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd, and this week it's the Features, our regular discussions to enrich your film watching and help you escape the confines of the algorithm. Our Classics and Recommended feature is Drive, Nicholas Winding Refn's tribute to the characters of the 70s and styles of the 80s. Our Hidden Gem is the underrated and underseen Vietnam War fi...

The Adamsons are back and so is the May 2023 issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The first part is Double Reel with news, a look at new releases, reviews of new films and our 12 month film projects. This month we review new films The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Boston Strangler and Ghosted. We also bring you our Penalty Shootout Film...

The Adamsons bring you the third part of the latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the Big Conversation, in which we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail. This month we ask who we think are the most overrated directors, and what makes a director overrated? The previous parts of Episode 36 are already out as well, including Double Reel Month...

The second part of this month's edition of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The Adamsons bring you their regular features, including: Classics and Recommended: we finally get round to watching Spike Lee's 25th Hour; Hidden Gem, where we tell you why should get round to watching the underrated Matchstick Men; The One That Got Away, concerning Elizabeth director Shekar Kapu...

The Adamsons are back with another edition of the monthly podcast magazine for the discerning film nerd. We deliver the pod in three parts and this is the first, Double Reel Monthly. In the next hour and a bit we aim to set you up for the next four weeks of film watching with news, new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and more besides. As always our aim is to help you escape the confin...

The third part of this month's edition of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is our Big Conversation in which we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail, and since it's that time of year we're having a chat about the Oscars. We recap the latest ceremony, and how it compare's to last year's scandalous show, we talk about winners and losers and snu...