Netflix vs Cinema

While waiting for Shaun to show up after the Great American Adventure, Sharon and Tosin and react to the Oscars, the wins, the upset(s), the blahs and the politics of it all. Tosin particularly happy that the most nominated movie of the night didn't get much.

It's her Birthday and she'll miss the podcast f she wants to. With Sharon away on Birthday duties, and Shaun in the U S of A. London Correspondent Holly accepts the mission of watching Oscar contenders then blabbing on about them. We cover Queen & Slim, the only film that has extracted a tear from Tosin in the last year (but joy or sorrow?), The Lighthouse, the most baffling film that Holly ha...

Before Shaun gets on a plane and swans off to America, we discuss colour blind updated and whirlwind Dickens with David Copperfield, Sharon comes up with a belter of a description for the film. We talk Oscars and disappointment and follow up on things that one of us saw on the recommendation of the others. Support Netflix vs Cinema by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/ne...

We talk the latest in Clint Eastwood's 'American-hero-done-wrong-by-America' Cinematic universe: Richard Jewell. The return of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys For Life, and Terence Malick back again for another slice of slow paced elegance. On the Netflix side of things, it's all about Eddie Murphy in Dolemite is My Name, Carl Sagan and friends sending Voyager 1 on a one way mission in...

Shaun and Sharon have to head off to a quiz so we have a quick (for us) episode where we race through 1917 (probably the most glow-y we've been about a movie), Bombshell, Just Mercy and Kristen Stewart. In the Netflix (and friends) corner, we have French drama in Bonfire of destiny, English drama in Harlots (not as sleazy as the title would have you believe), Austrian (? just realised we never est...

Emergency Podcast!! As we couldn't finish off the films we watched over the Christmas period, Tosin uses the xcuse of his birthday to call the others in and finish it off. We cover Guy Ritchie with The Gentlemen, predictable small town drama with Virgin River, Will smith as a James Bond Piegeon in Spies in Disguise, and Ruth Wilson on scenery chewing, utterly terrifying form as Mrs. Coulter in His...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! The gang is back as we try (and fail miserably) to cover half of what we have watched over the Christmas break. What we managed to get round to was Sharon's reaction to The Rise of Skywalker, Reviews of Little women (liked it), JoJo rabbit (liked it) and Cats (...hmm) on the Cinema side of things and The Two Popes (loved it), The Witcher (really liked it) and 6 Underground (Oh th...

Charlies Angels (2019) was a film that many have ignored, however, more than any other film released in 2019. It made Tosin really want to have a sit down and discuss Gender politics in film. Being frightfully aware that he is a man, he enlisted (read bullied into watching) the help of two of the podcasts regular female contributors Sharon Bollen and Holly Nessling to discuss the film's cinematic...

The Final episode of 2019, and the end of season one. Sharon leaves the room as Shaun an Tosin discuss the last traditional blockbuster of 2019, Star Wars : The Rise of Skywalker, we put Adam Driver up against himself with Marriage story, Sharon finally watches a Songless Les Miserables, Shaun mercilessly hunts down little seen films in Lucy in the Sky and Motherless Brooklyn while finding time to...

Winding down the year. We go prospecting for those pesky, hiding movies in the cinema this week, Finding Jumanji, Shia le beouf playing his dad and a preview of Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers. On the home front Shaun and Sharon revive their love of Errol Flynn with In Like Flynn, Tosin professes his love of Andy Murray, and Shaun reiterates why classics should not be remade with Papillon. We also address...

We conscript Superfan Nina to give her take on Knives out, Tosin really likes Charlie's Angels and desperately tries to find a woman who's watched it so he can find out if he's sexist. Shaun gets surprised by the same film, We try and find an uninterrupted 4 hours in the day to watch The Irishman, and Brittany runs a Marathon finally, finally gets reviewed.

We all know how this week was supposed to go. Frozen II was supposed to crush all before it, take all the money and the Oxygen and be the only thing anybody was talking about. Apparently Vue Cinemas had other ideas and have (maybe inadvertently) made Blue Story do what probably no other film could have make people talk about something else. Listen for our thoughts on that, and to hear Tosin spend...

We welcome listener and erstwhile twitter correspondent Holly Nessling onto the show. Fin out that an extra person means about an extra half hour of stuff, Tosin and Shaun go all 'Old Man yelling at the Clouds' about Star Wars ( WHY IS THE EMPEROR EVEN PART OF EPISODE IX?!! ), Sharon uses the word 'nice' a lot to describe movies, We struggle with Technology and Little Monsters confuses us all as t...

We belatedly wade into the whole Martin Scorcese vs Marvel thing, Sharon finds the power of Giri/Haji compells her, Tosin Finds the Good Liar blitheringly predictable, and Shaun is pleasantly surprised by how much he doesn't hate Midway. (To be fair I think we all were)

We are overrun by Colons this week as we record for the first time in two weeks. With Maleficent : Mistress of Evil, Terminator : Dark Fate and Zombieland : Double Tap on the slate this week, it's enough to make you ask, what the hell's wrong with numbers?!! Will nobody think about the poor podcast host who has to type this thing out?

One from the archives, Shauns's still in Thailand, Sharon enjoying a break so evn thoug Tosin is bursting to talk Terminator Dark Fate and American Housewife, that'll have to wait until next week. So it's Superfan Nina to the Rescue with a brief discussion that covers Game of thrones and has some mild, mild Love, Death and Robots spoilers. do enjoy.

We handle the much maligned Gemini Man, with Will Smith taking on the Fresh Prince, Shaun watches the American government do bad things in The Day shall Come, Sharon tackles a weird Serial Killer and Tosin catches up with Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad 2 ... Sorry I mean El Camino. And we manage to disqualify possibly the best film of the week from our main rounds.

Dedicated to Shaun's Aunty Nita, the Dorset Pam Ayres We spend far too long having fun while trying to bring this unwieldy ship in and find time to discuss our influence on the Isle of Wight film watching scene, run the rule over THE FILM OF THE YEAR, as over enthusiastic posters keep yelling at us. And wonder if there is any such thing as Scandi-comedy. Support Netflix vs Cinema by contributing t...

Three is the magic number, and three people is what we have this week as Sharon returns and promptly makes Tosin and Shaun feel like they have no lives by seeing little. But she gives the Lowdown on Ad astra, which has a lot to live up to after her reaction to Rambo last week.

With no Sharon this week (kinda), Shaun and Tosin delve into the latest (last if we're lucky?) Rambo Movie, Tosin goes on about J.Lo and what he calls 'One of the all time great character intros in Cinema History' Yes, he's that taken and he swears it's not just because she happens to be on a pole.

We post the second part of the interview with Holly Nessling, whom Tosin has known for 20, count them, TWENTY years!! All she had to do was say something on Facebook and we nabbed her for the podcast. We talk her hate of romcoms which she fought to watch FALLING INN LOVE, her catching up with GOOD BOYS and the reasons we decided to help BOOKSMART bomb at the box office.

Tosin has a very noisy time at the Goodwood Race Course surrounded by naked people. Dumb place to record a podcast really. But we still manage to get reviews of IT and Five came back in, and Sharon got to tell us how Cinema and Theatre are joining forces with National Theatre Live.

We welcome Holly, our latest guest who showed showed us the slightest bit of attention on social media. talk the new Amazon Series Carnival Row (liked it), Netflix's I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore (survived it), and Joel Kinnaman in The Informer (surprised by it).

No big releases this week, but Tosin and Shaun get to grips with Alligators in Florida, Shaun gets his kicks in Thailand and China, We hang around in the Peruvian jungle with Dora and find some gems on the small screen.

It's ...a ...Long one. Shaun is back and on a warpath to see every single film, Sharon Shaun and Tosin talk Peter Fonda, Spiderman and a whole host of nonsense before remembering they have to review films and Quentin Tarantino gets a mention, the gloryhog that he is.