MonoRants @The Movies

It's Arnie's turn on MonoRants as we take a trip to the far off dystopian future of 2017/19. That's right, it's loads of wrestlers, tiny cars and gratuitous televised deaths with 1987's The Running Man. So grab your bread and join this circus for a rant about whether Arnie is a character in the movie or just IN the movie, Mono's (apparent) least favourite choreographer, Cia...

[I don't care if you're not here for comics or superheros, we got to talk to Darick Robertson over on our other feed so you get to listen] F**k know how we pulled this off lads, but I've pinched myself loads and I'm not dreaming. We are delighted to present: The MonoRants Darick Robertson Ranterview. We pinned him down to get the behind the scenes info from The Boys comics that eve...

We're back in our comfort zone this week with fantastic visuals, amazing scores and gore filled zombie rage. It can only be Danny Boyle's instant zombie classic, "28 Days Later". So grab a bag of cans and join us for a rant about terrifying zoombies, assaulting the clergy, killing non zombies in a zombie apocalypse, reading too much into one bit of ADR, going the full Artilleryma...

We're staying with alternate ancient history Sci-Fi this week as we talk a film that pays the utmost respect to it's source material with 1993's "Super Mario Bros.". It's 30 years old, there's a new Mario film and it's a childhood favourite for Mono & Ciara. So grab your incredibly important plumbing tools and devolve with this rant about Lizard Trump & Kr...

It's a big one this week. No, not hitting Episode 50. We're finally talking the one and only action, sci-fi, Egyptology classic (shut the f**k up it's a classic) 1994's Stargate. So step through the gate with us for a rant about a Ha'tak's worth of unexplained SG1 references, Ancient Alien BS, Amazing music from a beginner composer, Daniel's consent issues, Ra being jus...

Listener Discretion: The film is for your kids. This podcast isn't! It's time to wrap things up on the Don Bluth Birthday Month and we're rounding things off with a Don Bluth film about an emigrating protagonist with an important object trying to find their family.... you know the one. It was a hard watch in the Mono household seeing cats as the Villains, but we powered through to brin...

Listener Discretion: The film is for your kids. This podcast isn't! It's Week Three of the Don Bluth Birthday Month and Mono gets a reprieve (from musicals, not from his cold) to discuss Ciara's favourite animated film and the film that started it all for Don Bluth, "The Secret of NIMH". Get ready for Moving Day with this rant about being so pretty it hurts (certainly for thr...

Listener Discretion: The film is for your kids. This podcast isn't! It's Week Two of the Don Bluth Birthday Month and we're talking what is possibly his Disney-est Film since leaving Disney with 1997's "Anastasia". Don't fret though, it still has the orphans, animals and adorable fat men that we've come to expect from Don Bluth Films. So come with us Comrades for a rant about singing your hated fo...

Listener Discretion: The film is for your kids. This podcast isn't! We did warn you... So lets launch straight into the Don Bluth Birthday Month (Ciara's, not his) and ease Mono into things with the Dom DeLuise heavy "All Dogs Go To Heaven". Ciara has a lifelong love for Don's films and Mono hasn't seen this in about 30 years. Find out what he thought in this absolutely not safe for kids rant abou...

What kind of film podcast would we be if we didn't podcast about Kevin Smith? But we're shitty Kevin Smith fans so we brought in an expert in ThatFkingGuy to chat Mallrats; the house-partiest of his early films (even if none of us ever saw it at a house party). So grab your chocolate covered pretzels and enjoy this rant about Brodie the incel, TS the 'nice' guy, Brandi the boring & Gwen the be...

What? Shut up, what? We like it. Plus we needed something to get the Valentine's day taste out of our mouths. And what could be a better palette cleanser than 2009's surprisingly not too gory "The Human Centipede"? This week we make the case it's actually a pretty damn good horror film in this rant about Germans being quite nice actually, idiot girls, the importance of tire changing knowhow, keepi...

Well folks, this is as close as you get to a romantic Valentine's Day film from us. Even then it's only happy coincidence because we're far more concerned with the comedy part of this rom-com, as we chat the lesser known of Jake Gyllenhaal's 2001 films "Bubble Boy". But that won't stop us from mentioning Donnie Darko a bunch in this rant about a vague amount of time followed by some vague geograph...

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Listeners, come out to play-ay! We're taking on an all time classic in MonoRants style this week with 1979's "The Warriors". Can You Dig It? We certainly did and could barely contain our praise in this rant about Snitchy Djs, Ajax being a shit, ballsy newspaper girls, Ajax being a shit, a great speech with some bad Maths, aging differently in the 70's, becoming a videogame movie and who the pretti...

We're back to Videogame Movies this week, and while we are apparently unexpected experts on Christophe Ganz films, neither of us have played Silent Hill. So we brought in gaming foul-mouth Deadbeat Punk to help us out as we rant 2006's mixed bag "Silent Hill. We love it (kinda), he hates it, but we still find plenty to rant about from giant Zippo flames to the difficult to understand concept of To...

Ciara can't get enough of long haired 90's action guys (it reminds her of a pre-balding Mono) so we're talking her favourite Nicolas Cage villain filled action fest with 1997's "Con Air". So put the bunny back in the box and join us for a rant about an amazing cast of varied cons, dumbass pilots, floor cocaine for the coke rats, why everyone loves serial killers, Type (not) Diabetes, great pacing,...

They say good things come in threes, and apparently so do apocalypse movies, as this week we take a look back(forward?) at our favourite time travel mindf**k "12 Monkeys". So grab your chemical restraints (DRUGS!!) and relax with  this rant about Mono wanting more ambiguity, Ciara enjoying the working girls, barely referencing the hamster but repeatedly referencing the show, not understanding...

We love zombies and we love Paul WS Anderson (even when he's Len Wiseman), so we combined the two this week with the sequel spawning "Resident Evil". It may not be our favourite of the franchise, but find out why we still love it in this rant about directors naked wives, whether it's really AI if it doesn't murder people, killing too many of your characters in the best scene of the film, zombies t...

We're back and biblical this week as we talk Christmas Apocalypse movie "Legion". Is it deep or is it just angels with guns? Find out in this not so pious rant about flipping the rebellious angel script, surprisingly deep characters, dumbass angel numbers, writing better than it has any right to be and Mono and Ciara wanting to kill a dog...

It's time for more monster mayhem this week with one of Ciara's favourites; 1999's Lake Placid. We brought on some help in the form of proper podcaster Ian from Cult Connections. So dive into this croc infested rant about Hollywood babies, every character being an asshole, Betty White's short horror resume and a very very prolific screenwriter. Find Cult Connections wherever you get your podcasts...

It's time to rescue the president's daughter from space prison with 2012's action sci-fi "Lockout". It may not be the most original, but it's sure as hell fun. So wake up crazy from stasis with this rant about pretending Irish is an alien language, Scottish Psychos being the most fun, stasis not being a good replacement for prison sentences, a very forgettable president, Ciara forgetting just, eve...

We're off to Russia this week to jump back into one of our favourite fictional worlds with 2004's visually stunning, narratively complicated Urban Fantasy "Night Watch". We love the films, we love the books, but we know how to separate the two in this rant about adaptions standing on their own merits, authors with shitty worldviews, a messy protagonist that could teach Tom Hardy a thing or two, ho...

It's well and truly winter now, so we're off to Norway for some good old fashioned undead Nazi mayhem with 2009's "Dead Snow". It's one of the best examples of Scandinavian horror comedy and even though it's a bit of a slow start, we can't get enough. So make sure your Nokia is charged as you follow the snowmobile tracks into this rant about meh characters but amazing deaths, breaking into other h...

After all the doom, gloom and horror of the last few episodes we decided to change things up a bit with a film about... about a world threatening alien invasion (oh well). 2001's sci-fi comedy "Evolution" doesn't get highlighted often enough these days when it really deserves to be. Find out just why we think that in this rant about bad scientists (but good science), visuals that really hold up, m...

We love vampires, we love sci-fi and we love good world building here at MonoRants; and we love that 2009's "Daybreakers" gives us all three. So grab your morning cup of Joe('s blood) and sink your teeth into a rant about bad effects used hilariously, reproducing in the apocalypse, exploding vamps, test audiences ruining everything and Mono going down a vampire rabbit hole.