First Look, Final Word

Pete and Trevor opted for an overcut strategy to take an early pole position in their trip to see F1. Will Joseph Kosinski strike gold again and give us another Top Gun: Maverick? Not quite, but it was pretty close! Listen to our immediate reactions to F1 after leaving the theatre. This is also the ninth week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein we watch every single live-action theatrical Su...

Pete and Trevor went to see 28 Years Later, approximately 26 years later than when Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later first debuted in 2002. Can Britain’s rage infected screaming running people still be angry all these so very many years later? Listen to our immediate reactions after leaving the theatre to find out. This is also the eighth week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein we watch every sin...

Pete and Trevor want to take this opportunity to thank Charles Krantz for 39 great years! Thanks Chuck! And thanks for Mike Flanagan for making this little miracle of a movie that we were lucky enough to see in theatres. Listen to hear our immediate reactions (while giving you plenty of warning before heading into spoilers). This is also the seventh week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein w...

For those of you who are excommunicado, exiled from The Continental, and out of favour with The High Table, this is the podcast for you. Pete and Trevor saw Ballerina, the latest entry in the John Wick universe. Listen for our immediate reactions to the movie after immediately leaving the theatre. This is also the sixth week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein we watch every single live-acti...

Turn car on, turn car off. Pete and Trevor took a trip to see the Karate Kid: Legends, another legacy sequel (but one that Pete loves). Will this live up to the high-expectations out of Cobra Kai? How will the Will Smith/Jackie Chan remake fit into this? Listen for our immediate reactions after leaving the theatre. This is also the fourth week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein we watch eve...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to Pete and Trevor travel to see Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eighth and potentially last instalment in the MI franchise. Christopher McQuarrie is back with Tom Cruise to single-handedly save stunt work and the movies and the world. Listen to the episode for our immediate spoiler-free reactions to the movie before heading...

The window creaks, the fire extinguishers rattles, maybe the hedge clippers turn on or something…you get the idea. Pete and Trevor saw Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth installment in the "death is everywhere and everything can kill you" franchise. Which means a lot of fun, creative deaths to talk about.   Listen to the episode for our immediate spoiler-free reactions to the movie before hea...

Pete and Trevor saw Fight or Flight, the new action comedy starring Josh Hartnett and directed by James Madigan is his directorial debut. Listen for our immediate reactions after leaving the theatre. We also discussed Richard Donner’s Superman (Christopher Reeves, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman) as part of our ongoing Project Superman to cover ever single live-action theatrical Superman. Don’t forget...

Castaways and perpetual B-team members Pete and Trevor take a trip to see Thunderbolts* (or is it The New Avengers maybe?). Thunderbolts is the 36th entry in the MCU and the 4th covered on this podcast, but how does it stack up? (Really, really well!) This week also marks the beginning of Project Superman, our ongoing project to watch every single live-action Superman film. We are starting right a...

May the 4th be with you! Time for another bonus Star Wars episode in honour of Life Day! Returning to the pod is Ben and Delaney, our Star Wars experts on retainer. Today we watch Revenge of the Sith on full-screen DVD and provide our immediate reactions. In celebration of this day, we also performed a short play recapping the events of Revenge of the Sith. Be sure to enter our draw to win a subsc...

Pete and Trevor saw Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii in IMAX for the 4K restoration. Along the way we also discussed other classic concert films like The Band’s The Last Waltz and Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. Be sure to enter the draw to win a year’s subscription to Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/Gbt3O Intro (0:00) Preview of Project Superman (5:05) The Last Waltz (14:13) Stop Making Sense (21:01) Re...

Pete and Trevor (and special guests Justin and Anthony) went to see the Ryan Coogler original vampire period piece Sinners in glorious 70mm IMAX. Written and director by Coogler (his best effort to date), Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as the “Smokestack Twins”, with supporting performances by Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo. The movie...

Take a swig of applejack, strap on your snowshoes and spit in your spittoons, because Pete and Trevor saw Hundreds of Beavers. The independent comedy was made for just $150,000 but may be one of the most original comedies ever made. Listen for our immediate reactions to the film (and please watch this movie!). This episode also marks the end of Project Aardman as we discuss Chicken Run: Dawn of th...

Have you seen John Wick? What about The Equalizer? Or even The Beekeeper? Well, you are ready to take on David Ayer’s A Working Man, starring Jason Statham (and not really David Harbour and Michael Peña). That’s right, Pete and Trevor rolled up their sleeves and saw A Working Man. Listen for our immediate spoiler-free reactions after leaving the theatre. This week continues our ongoing Project Aar...

Pete and Trevor, AKA Talley and Watchy, join Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey to see the new live-action Disney remake Snow White. Starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, this is a remake and reimagining of the 1939 animated classic. In a world full of bad remakes, this might be the worst. Listen to hear our immediate reactions after leaving the theatre. This week we continue w...

Pete and Trevor saw Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, but they aren’t really allowed to talk about it, and each of them is suspicious that the other may be compromised and working for another podcast. Things get weird. They also returned to their ongoing project to watch every Aardman film. This week they discussed Peter Lord’s Pirates! movie, and Aardman’s short films from 1996-2008, including A Mat...

Pete and Trevor, or maybe their clones, saw Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s highly anticipated follow up to 2019’s Parasite. Robert Pattinson stars as the titular(s) Mickey, along with Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Anamaria Vartolomei, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. This week we continue our exploration of everything Aardman with Arthur Christmas. Tune in next week for our deep dive on Aardman shorts, incl...

Pete and Trevor, plus special stowaway Justin, saw Michael Mann’s 1995 action epic Heat in 35mm (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer). Listen to our immediate reactions following the movie, to see if the movie plays better on film. We also return to Project Aardman with Flushed Away (Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet). Stay tuned for Arthur Christmas next week. We are giving away a free subscriptio...

Pete and Trevor saw Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce) in 35mm, and can happily report that it does not feel too long! We provide our immediate thoughts on the movie after leaving the theatre. This is also our last week on Project Oscar Catchup, where we look at all the movies nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. This week we discuss James’ Ma...

Pete and Trevor saw Captain America: Brave New World, Marvel’s follow-up to the successful Deadpool and Wolverine, and its first attempt to hand off a mantel to a new character. The movie stars Anthony Mackie as Cap and Harrison Ford as Thaddeus Ross (definitely not Red Hulk). Listen in for our immediate reactions after leaving the theatre. This is week 3 of our Project Oscar Catchup, where we are...

Pete and Trevor saw Companion, a comedy thriller (horror?) from director Drew Hancock, starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid. Listen for our spoiler-free review after immediately leaving the theatre (before giving plenty of warning before heading into spoiler talk). This is the second week of our ‘Project Oscar Catchup’. In this episode we discuss Sean Baker’s Anora (Mikey Madison, Yuriy Borisov...

List of prime directives 1) watch Robocop 2) listen to Pete and Trevor’s conversation about Robocop 3) subscribe to the podcast 4) classified That’s right, Pete and Trevor went for a trip to see Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterpiece Robocop, starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith and Miguel Ferrer.  Listen in to hear our immediate reactions to the movie, while giving plenty of w...

Pete and Trevor augmented themselves with cyberbrains so they could truly appreciate 1995’s ‘Ghost in the Shell’ directed by Mamoru Oshii. Listen for their discussion of their history with anime, in addition to hearing their immediate reactions after leaving the theatre. This is also week four of our ongoing project to watch every Aardman feature and short film. This week we are talking ‘Wallace &...

Pete and Trevor saw two of the greatest horror sci-fi movies ever made. We did a double-header of David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). It’s Jeff Goldblum versus Kurt Russell, Brundlefly versus The Thing from Another World, in an epic showdown of body horror, special effects, and possibly the best use of makeup ever. Listen in for our immediate reaction to these...

Pete and Trevor sat at home with a pot of tea, some crackers, and of course CHEESE (and yes, it was Yorkshire Wensleydale), and watched Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Nick Park is back, along with Merlin Crossingham, directing only the second W&G feature film. Listen to the podcast to hear our immediate reactions to the film (giving plenty of warning before getting into spoilers). ...