Drive-By Cinema

Somehow managing to see The Invisible Man (2020), Paul makes a spirited defence of the much-maligned sociopaths, and reminisces about cell phone ringtones. Rick wonders how people correct things without tipp-ex.

Content advisory for themes of suicide in the extremely long and rather moving Chinese film An Elephant Sitting Still . Rick recommends Ally From China YouTube channel for her analysis of the St Pancras piano incident.

Horticultural thriller Little Joe has Rick and Paul contemplating the authenticity of happiness. Paul invents the condition of pterydactyly, Rick asks about the Chinese game phenomena Jubensha, which is discussed in detail on the People Make Games YouTube channel .

Spanish container survival Nowhere makes Paul and Rick wonder about cell-phone reception mid-ocean and shipping economics. "The seagulls around here have mobility scooters" Find out about the fate of lost containers on the Casual Navigation YouTube video What Happens To Lost Containers?

Cyberwarfare armageddon in Leave The World Behind . And also a detailed explanation of how GPS works, to Paul's horror. Trump's expertise on magnets and the Kevin Bacon game. TV show Mr Robot . Flatliners . Listen to the end-title song on the Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist .

Bathtime fun with Saltburn.  Paul regards eggs done over-easy as a health threat, Rick reveals that there are no anuses in 2-dimensions. The latest Bobby Fingers video is a must-watch.

Paul and Rick watch Rebel Moon part one - A Child Of Fire and also discuss Hong Kong fishing villages and remaking Kurosawa's Seven Samurai . Neither of them could remember the name of Milo Yiannopoulos, thankfully. Paul mentioned 80s Rob Lowe movie Oxford Blues .

Alien abductions, in both this week's movie The Fourth Kind , and also on SNL . Rick and Paul tackle the ethics of truth and fiction in movie-making and the found-footage genre, hypnosis and repressed memories. Connect to our discord server here .

One-take wonder Victoria astounds Rick and harrows Paul. Discussion of organisation in criminal enterprises and Paul loses his phone and gets it wet in unrelated incidents. A reminder that there is a Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UJHbXm32onhruZSsjNTn9?si=81cdd516da714b83

Gore horror comedy Psycho Goreman delights Rick and Paul, and comparison is made to the precocious talent shown in this O'Keefe Music Foundation cover of Korn's Freak On A Leash .

Let's do the time-warp again with Totally Killer . Rick talks about hyperwatches, Paul shops for carriage clocks and explains a meme to Rick.

This week we watch Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) . Rick has two points he wants to make 3 times, for up to 6 good points. He also reveals his manifesto for removing subjectivity in sports. Paul reveals he broke his arm trying to skateboard once. Explore maps of music genre on pages like Music Map . 

The movie: Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose. A Dream of Death William Butler Yeats I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand; And they had nailed the boards above her face, The peasants of that land, Wondering to lay her in that solitude, And raised above her mound A cross they had made out of two bits of Wood And planted Cypress round; And left her to the indiffe...

Rick rapidly explains the intricate plot of Triangle while Paul goes "whoa" a lot. The end of pan news. "I only wish I could lucid-dream so I could do light chores."

Paul and Rick caught in an endless loop with Palm Springs this week. Also pans   make a reappearance, as well as underwear and sports attire etiquette and The Lonely Planet Guys "Like A Boss"  and instrumental tracks from bands with vocalist like The Breeders "Flipside" and of course Genesis "The Brazilian"

Australian malevolent spirits abound in Talk To Me . Paul has been binge-watching King of Stonks and Founder . Rick has been binge-watching Taskmaster . Also briefly mentioned is the podcas t and now TV series Uncanny . 

Paul discusses planned obsolescence, the Queen Mother's fridge and frying pans with Rick, which is a peculiar introduction to a discussion of creepy horror sci-fi mystery The Endless . The Jonestown related podcast is actually Transmissions From Jonestown .

Paul becomes The Creator after watching the film, coining two neologisms "counterflicting" and "countervention", but makes up for it with a public safety warning about riding elephants from different villages.

Paul claims that green skittles and purple skittles have the same flavour, while Rick admits to once having sex in a forest. The movie under discussion is 2008 thriller Eden Lake .

Not telekinesis, but Korean superhero drama Psychokinesis . Rick reveals his recent brush with the dreaded covid, Paul explains the east-Asian love for good food has a neurological cause, gutter-oil and HS2 also feature. 

With a covid sick-note from our podcast hosts, and anticipating the next Dune movie next month, wait November, no wait now next year! Oh never mind, here's the episode on the second first Dune movie.

Paul means small, and Rick mentions the Radiolab episode on Chinese keyboard input all while analysing Korean baby-selling road movie Broker . 

Paul recalls hunting boar in the Chinese mountains with the PLA. Rick talks about Intensified Continuity , The movie is British cringe-fest All My Friends Hate Me .

UPDATED*** Watching Korean monster thriller The Host , Paul exposes a surprising ignorance of US politics, Rick apologies for mis numbering the episodes, Paul describes how to shoplift with self-checkout tills, behaviour which the podcast does not endorse. Phrase of the week is "Fume cupboard"

Near future AI thriller Upgrade has Rick talking about mass surveillance like Gorgon Stare , while Paul explores culturally acceptable kissing.