In Film We Trust

So listeners, for episode 11, we're taking an extra deep-dive into the career and controversies of Buffalo '66 director Vincent Gallo - his early start as a painter, dancer, the No Wave Scene in NY and films he has kept hidden from the public.  We also take a long look into his 1998 directorial debut Buffalo '66, which he also stars in as Billy Brown - a man who has just been released from pr...

Threads is set in Sheffield in the 1980s, where the threat of a nuclear strike constantly looms as people go about their everyday lives. Committees of poorly qualified individuals are amassed to deal with the effects of an impending attack, and when one does eventually come, the country is decimated. Millions are killed by the blast and even more by the fallout that follows. A harrowing docudrama...

A first time watch for both of your heroes here at IFWT. We had much fun discovering and discussing Richard Franklin's Ozploitation Hitchcockian road thriller Roadgames. In Roadgames we follow Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach) as he both follows and is being followed by a mysterious man in a green van whom he comes to suspect as being responsible for a spate of murders. Quid is joined by Pamela 'Hitch' (...

Writer/Director Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade takes place in the year 2046, in a world is dominated by technology, computers and robots. Grey Trace, a self-described technophobe, is widowed and paralysed after a car accident is immediately followed by a near fatal shooting. Feeling depressed and useless, he is given the chance to walk again by a renowned tech innovator, who places a state-of-the-art ch...

David Robert Mitchell's Under The Silver Lake casts a vast web, which its protagonist Sam (Andrew Garfield) gets lost in - as do your humble IFWT hosts. Sam, an unemployed pop-culture junkie gets caught up in a vast conspiracy as he searches for his missing neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough) that will include a dog killer, a comic book writer, all the way to the top(or under) the Hollywood hills. A fi...

Charlie Kaufman's 2015 stop-motion animated film, Anomalisa, traverses Kaufman's usual themes of identity, memory and existentialism. Following protagonist Michael Stone, a middle-aged customer service expert as he travels to Cincinnati for a corporate speech. A film told almost entirely from Michael's subjective, we soon find out that not only does everyone else bar Michael have the same face, th...

We dive into, and have many laughs, as we explore Jon Favreau's 1996 indie classic, Swingers. A story that can, essentially, be summed up, as an examination of friendship during the swing revival scene of the mid 1990s. 

We explore Prano Bailey-Bond's debut feature film Censor. Set during the height of the 1980s 'video nasty' controversy, Enid, a film Censor, thinks she has spotted her long-missing sister in a video nasty she is classifying. A psychological horror that weaves hysteria and grief into a bloody denouement. 

We take a dive and explore Peter Strickland's second feature film Berberian Sound Studio. Set in the milieu of an 1970s Italian giallo production, British sound engineer, Gilderoy(Toby Jones), takes a job at the titular Berberian Sound Studio. As tension rises during production between the Italian crew and Gilderoy, the production, and Gilderoy himself, will start to unravel in this psychological...

For episode 2 we're taking a deep dive into Michael Sarnoski's debut feature film Pig, starring Nicolas Cage. 

For our debut episode here at In Film We Trust, we're taking a deep dive into British director Ben Wheatley's 2011 horror/crime film Kill List.