Movies and Tea

Kim and Elwood continue their catch up season with Sofia Coppola's "On The Rocks" a comedy drama released exclusively on Apple+ aswell as reuniting her with Bill Murray. Here Rashida Jones plays Laura a novelist struggling with writers block and feeling like she is in a rut who begins to suspect her husband is having an affair. Now roping in her aging Lothario father Felix (Murray) she sets out on...

Continuing our catch up season we look at Guillermo Del Toro's stop motion adaptation of Pinocchio as he delivers a version closer to the original novel than the more well known Disney version.

Continuing our catch up season we now move onto our Season #2 featured director Guillermo Del Toro with Nightmare Alley an adaptation William Lindsay Gresham's novel. Bradley Cooper stars as the down on his luck Stan, who having stumbled into working for a traveling carnival soon begins to the learn the tricks of the clairvoyant. But as his confidence grows so does his ambitions as he soon set...

Kicking off our catch up season we go back to were it all started with Paul W.S. Anderson and his adaptation of the popular video game series "Monster Hunter" as Milla Jovovich stars as Army Ranger Captain Artemis who finds herself transported along with her squad into the realm of giant monsters and were her only ally is soon the mysterious hunter (Tony Jaa)

Kim and Elwood look at the surprisingly numerous Resident Evil Animated films including the mini series Infinite Darkness while also questioning the weirdest zombie animals, how the films link to the games and questionable master plans plus more!!

Our re-evaluation of Hayao Miyazaki's filmography comes to a close with the fictionalised biography of fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi. We also look back at the season as we reveal our favourites, hidden gems and worst films of Miyazaki's filmography.

Kim and Elwood's re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki comes to one of the more overlooked Studio Ghibli titles Ponyo in a which a young boy believing he has found a goldfish in a bottle he pulls from the ocean discovers she is in fact the daughter of an underwater wizard who is keen to find her while she longs to be a human girl.

Kim and Elwood rundown their favourite movie discoveries of 2023 as they reveal the films which left the biggest impact on them, the surprising discoveries and cinema shames they crossed off.

Kim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki this time looks at Howl's Moving Castle a film which argued that there was still a place for hand drawn animation as a young girl is turned into an old woman by a jealous witch with her only hope of being turned back resting with the self-indulgent yet insecure wizard Howl.

Kim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki reaches the Oscar winning Spirited Away and a film which arguably brought an intrest in Studio Ghibli to the mainstream. The film following ten-year-old Chihiro whose parents are turned into pigs when they stumble into an abandoned amusement park which at night becomes a resort for spirits. Now put to work in the bathhouse she must...

The battle between nature and industry is waged in Princess Mononoke a fantasy epic set in the 14th century as Ashitaka having had his arm infected after a demon attack soon finds himself caught up in the war between the ancient forest gods lead by San and the human forces of Lady Eboshi.

Kim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki this time looks at arguably one of the hidden gems of his filmography Porco Rosso. Set in the aftermath of world war 1 were hotshot pilot Porco has been turned into a humanoid pig battling sky pirates only for an American ace to set his sights on taking down the flying pig.

Kim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki takes a look at another Studio Ghibli favourite with Kiki's Delivery Service as 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance for witches in training. But when she looses her powers she begins to question if they will ever come back.

Kim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki arrives at My Neighbour Totoro as Miyazaki drew inspiration from his own childhood to craft a fantastical tale which would also introduce some of Studio Ghibli's most memorable creations including the gigantic forest sprite Totoro. 14/9 - audio issues corrected (Overlap)

Kim and Elwood continue their re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki with Castle In The Sky in which Sheeta an orphan abducted by the government agent Muska might hold the key to finding Laputa the mythical castle in the sky as she teams up Pazu and a group of sky pirates to find it.

Kim and Elwood continue their re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind based on his manga released the previous year. Set in a post apocalyptic future were the survivors of humanity live in scattered settlements while giant insects roam the desert landscape which the teenage princess Nausicaä has learned to communicate with. But when a rival kingdom pla...

Kim and Elwood kick off their season long look at the films of Studio Ghibli co-founder and legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki starting with his directorial debut The Castle of Cagliostro The second movie adaptation of the long running Lupin the 3rd series as the legendary thief finds himself caught up in a counterfeiting plot while attempting to rescue the kidnapped princess Clarisse and finally d...

Elwood and Kim don their best deer stalker hats to look at Knives Out the first of Rian Johnson's Benoit Blanc mysteries as he attempts to undercover who is responsible for the death of a crime novelist and the suspects are plentiful.

Kim and Elwood look at the sci-fi horror Virus in which a tugboat crew escaping a storm discover a seemingly abandoned Russian communication ship only to soon discover that the ship has been taken over by an alien presence which plans to us the crew for spare parts. Regarded by Jamie Lee Curtis as the worst movie she ever made, we find out if it's as bad as she claims while looking at it's...

Shark Week returns to the podcast as Elwood and Kim finally sit down to talk about Jaws which not only created the summer blockbuster but also spawned hundreds of imitators in it's wake. We look at what make this film stand out compared to it's counterparts, draw comparisons to the book and why this film still makes us question if it's safe to go back into the water.

Our Evolution of the Creature Feature season comes to a close with Alexandre Aja's Crawl which see's a category 5 hurricane heading towards Florida as college swimmer Hailey attempts to find her missing father only for the pair to soon be battling the rising flood waters and the ravenous local alligators. We also run down our best, worst and hidden gems of the season

Continuing their look at the Evolution of the Creature Feature Kim and Elwood look at the 2012 found footage horror The Bay as a coastal town finds itself being devastated over the 4th of July celebrations when the water supply becomes infected with mutated parasites, which soon begin infecting the townsfolk.

Continuing our season long look at the evolution of the creature we have a film which is equal parts a remake as it is a sequel as Alexandre Aja adds another memorable remake of a horror classic to his filmography as a tremor unleashes a horde of prehistoric piranha just in time for the spring break celebrations.

It's full scream ahead as Kim and Elwood's look at the evolution of the creature feature arrives at the aquatic horror Deep Rising as a group of hijackers targeting a luxury cruise ship discover that the ship is empty and soon find themselves being hunted by the monster which has taken over the ship.

The season long look at the evolution of the creature feature arrives at the 90's and the Steven Spielberg produced Arachnophobia which sets out to do for spiders what Jaws did for sharks as a small town finds itself under siege from killer spiders and a doctor terrified of spiders has to find the source before they wipe out the town.