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Paul is fascinated to hear about IP addresses and the danger of the pseudoscience of polygraph tests as both our hosts learn to deal with criticism.  The movie is The Signal (2017). 

Paul invents the word "foreload" while we discuss Gaspar Noe's 2018 drug-dance-horror Climax . The film references drug use, suicide, infanticide and rape, and has strong sexual content, so be warned, or foreloaded, if you will. 

Warning! This podcast contains political views. Listener discretion is advised.  Rick reveals his radical political manifesto while Paul, squeaking in his leather chesterfield armchair throughout, suggests abolishing furlough. All while discussing the refugee horror movie His House .

The pros and cons of dressing for sex and the etiquette of massage arousal are issues provoked by 2014 horror/thriller Creep . 

"All the flowers have been put in the pie!". The Boards of Canada music in the soundtrack of Sinister (2012) causes Rick to explain number stations to Paul. "Fireworks for a Colin-the-caterpillar cake".  

Not a Robin Hood film, but a spooky social-media ghost story The House In Sherwood causes Paul to discuss Sheilaism and Rick to explain orbs and rods.

Covid lockdown special Songbird causes Paul and Rick to discuss how dirty dishwashers are. Paul apologises to the indigenous people of North Sentinel Island.  During the episode, a real-life YouTube songbird Anne Reburn is mentioned.

Paul shares hints on handling recalcitrant servants, the joys of sitting down to pee, and discusses with Rick some bold menu suggestions for a potential cafe. Meanwhile, in the movie, Nothing Really Happens .  A poem was inspired by talk of peeing methodologies: A bladder is a bladder and it wouldn't really matter Whether sitter of a stander What you're saying is just crazy, seems to me that you'r...

Some people's foreheads are too big for Paul's liking in 2017 horror Get Out . Gamestop and squeezed shorts, 80's sitcoms and what foley is.  A discord server is available to allow communication on matters Drive-By Cinema, available here .

Is The Beyond beyond the pale? This is not that The Beyond, this is the 1981 gore horror by Lucio Fulci. Paul shares his model railway metaphor for free-will and predestination with Alastair and Rick. A discord server is available to allow communication on matters Drive-By Cinema, available here .

Paul and Alastair swerve Rick's lawyerly question about time travel as the 2015 film Alistair 1918 is analysed. Be baffled by talk of time diameters and Paul name-dropping Will Smith's neighbour. A discord server is available to allow communication on matters Drive-By Cinema, available here .

Paul recounts the tale of being the victim of a voodoo hex, and explains the significance of red solo cups as Rick and Alastair discuss the 2018 movie Hereditary . 

They do make them like they used to: 1970s horror wannabe The Conjuring (2013) has Rick exercised about exorcism. All aboard the ghost train, but make sure you can get a good grip on your stiff round doorknob with wet hands in the bathroom.

A journey to the sunlit uplands, a society led by a blond-haired inbred idiot, all ending up in a horror-show. Sound familiar? Ari Aster's 2019 allegory for Brexit Midsommar is the film. Paul scorns the swedes for finding amusement in gory horror, and yet laughs heartily all the way through. 

Have a Christmas bonus episode, with un-released clips from previous recordings, although come to think of it all recordings are previous. Find out why these bits were edited out in the first place, and hang on for next week where we really will review Midsommar.

Is 2013 dinner-party mystery Coherence coherent? Alistair joins Paul and Rick again and we spend so long talking about a film we enjoyed that Alistair's microphone suffers a terrible degradation in quality toward the end. 

Paul and Rick are joined by guest-host Alistair to discuss 2016 film Infinity Chamber . Paul discovers that it has no wikipedia page, but it does have an imdb page, as you can see. A romantic comedy set in an independent coffee shop. 

Paul and Rick receive a thorough dressing-down having their homework marked by listener and special guest Alistair. 

2019 Nicolas Cage movie Color Out Of Space , a HP Lovecraft horror story - Paul is bored by Rick faffing around explaining colour vision. He is also capable of identifying an alpaca fused with a dog, but cannot explain the difference between a llama and an alpaca.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to give it its full name. the 2017 Luc Besson film causes Paul and Rick to discuss the ethics of workplace relationships. 

Straightforward guide to lockdown etiquette, Right At Your Door (2006) gives Paul and Rick ideas about plastic bags. Paul shares an unsanctioned medicinal use for bleach. 

High Life (2018) - the sentence is life, but time flies when you're having this much fun. Join Paul and Rick as they discuss this sci-fi horror. "It's defining in the sense of hotdog/not hotdog" - Paul explores the law of the excluded middle. 

Earth breaks social distancing with Jupiter and starts to fall apart. Paul and Rick reach their Roche limit with each other as they discuss the second most popular thing to emerge from China in the last couple of years,  The Wandering Earth . Drive-By Cinema introduces the fourth joke of the series, listen out for it!

Dystopian Sci-Fi for people who watched Thomas the Tank Engine as a child, Snowpiercer by Korean director Bong Joon Ho has Paul enraptured by Tilda Swinton's portrayal of a strong northern woman. Are human infants a sustainable food source?

Would be more accurately titled "Sleepless in IO "? Why geothermal energy and why a balloon? Paul is compared to a velociraptor.