Netflix vs Cinema

A straight shootout this week due to an inability to get to the cinema We have Last Night in Soho, Edgar Wright's time period spanning new film representing Cinema And for Netflix and Friends, the Chinese World war 2 movie City of Life & Death. Spoiler, one of these got 5 stars Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we weigh up what we've seen in cinemas with what we've watched online at home a...

DUNE, brought to you from a noisy Birmingham bar. It's finally here, we all saw it and we all give our 5 minutes on what we thought. Also In Cinemas, Shaun Catches Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. At home, Sharon sees Wild Mountain thyme on Amazon Prime and Shaun for the second week running watches an Eastern European WWII movie. This time, it's Estonia presenting 1944: Forced to Fight much to...

This week Shaun goes on a binge after being denied new films in the Cinema for two weeks. He hoovers up Halloween Kills, Venom : Let there be Carnage, the Last Duel and Dune. We leave Dune till next week, and Sharon joins Shaun in seeing The Last Duel, Which means that Tosin manages to find the one film Shaun swerved in Technological animation tale Ron's Gone Wrong. At home, Shaun goes Russian wit...

Why Bond, James Bond Sending the rest of the film world scurrying to dark corners until there's some Oxygen left for anyone else, it's been two weeks in which we have seen nothing in the cinema. As Such, Sharon and Shaun, give their takes on No Time to Die. We also look ahead to the Glut of movies that will be coming out from aforementioned dark corner. Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we wei...

After many false dawns, Daniel Craig finally is here for the final time in his final outing as James Bond. Tosin sees it and says 'possibly the best film feautyuring James Bond ever, but maybe not the best Bond film' Shaun sees Sweetherat in the Cinema. At home Sharon watches Jonathan Rhy Meyerrs in the Edge of the world Shaun jumps on season 2 of Penny worth And Tosin watches POp music chronicles...

In Cinemas, this week, Tosin watches the only thing he can find The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos, a TV show he has never watched. Sharon watches Herself, and Shaun is mightily surprised by 12 Mighty Orphans, it appears he might be the only one in the country who found it. We also have a sneak preview of Dune from Alex Arbuthnot. At home, Sharon has an inspirational and entirely...

In Cinemas this week, we all marvel at Alexis Louder stealing Copshop from under the noses of Frank Grillo and Gerard Butler who were busy being manly, Shaun (as Shaun does) sees more films at Cinema than anyone else with Malignant and Respect (makes us wonder where to go for the music biopic now). At home with Netflix and friends, Sharon goes double Grillo with No Man's Land, Shaun catches John t...

It's Marvel Time again. Tosin experiences Cinema with a baby thanks to the Everyman Cinema Birmingham and watches Shang-Chi and the legend of the Ten Rings. Shaun Watches that and adds reviews of People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan and The Night House. Sharon stays at home seeing what George Bush was really doing in 9/11 : Inside the President's War Room. Tosin doesn't see what all the fuss about...

After a week's break because Tosin forgot the recording equipment, we are back in Cinemas with Tosin recalling and revisiting childhood trauma with Candyman (never saying that 5 times in a mirror), Sharon rather offended by Our Ladies and Shaun very impressed by Censor. At home, tosin finds out what would have happened if Taken had gone the whole hog and been made in Ireland (instead of just havin...

Episode Notes Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we weigh up what we've seen in cinemas with what we've watched online at home and figure out which provided the best time. At least, we did before COVID jumped in and declared Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney + and friends the winner. Listen and subscribe on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/netflix-vs-cinema/id1448277363 Listen and subsc...

This week, an embarassment of riches. some stuff gets shoved to next week, but Tosin yells RACISM!! and Sharon INSENSITIVITY!! at Disney's Jungle Cruise Sharon gets freaked out as the only person in the Cinema while watching Irish vampire movie The Boys From County Hell Shaun gets blown away by Matt Damon in Stillwater At home, Shaun gets scary flashbacks of New York in the 70s in Fear City : New...

We all got the same Memo this week: Watch THE Suicide Squad. The only other thing we caught at the cinema (courtesy of Shaun) was The Sparks Brothers Documentary. At Home, Sharon has a lovely only time with Gemma Atherton And Tosin dishes the dirt on five seasons of Canada's first Asian Family Kim's Convenience. Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we weigh up what we've seen in cinemas with what...

This week we bring back Shaun's picture quizzes, In Cinemas Shaun sees M. Night Shyamalan's OLD Sharon sees a film that missed a massive trick in not being a Blondie Musical , OFF THE RAILS Tosin is left holding the short straw and sees Space Jam : A new Legacy at home Tosin finishes off the Kominsky Method Shaun sees Aliens, remembers our trules then reviews Good bye Saigon Sharon Goes Korean and...

Alive and IN PERSON!! For the first time in about two years (That's right we were remote recording before it was fashionable), Tosin, Sharon and Shaun are in the same room to discuss If they'll ever stop making purge movies with the Forever purge If Killer Fashion is becoming a viable subgenre of horror with Deerskin If we can be bothered to talk about Escape Room : Tournament of Champions On the...

In the tense wait between Euro 2020 semifinals and the Final, we attempt to distract ourselves the only way we know how. CINEMA!! Sharon and Shaun catch Scarlett Johnasson's Swansong (or is it?) as Marvel's Black widow. Shaun and Tosin catch Vince Vaughn acting like a teenage girl in Freaky. At home Sharon sees Chris Pratt in The Tomorrow War on Amazon Prime, Tosin goes back to the 70s in I'm Your...

Another week, another struggle to get to the cinema. While Shaun is revelling in England doing non-England things at Euro 2020, Tosin takes up the mantle and sees two, TWO films at the cinema with Fast 9 and Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights. At Home, Sharon finds laughs from an unexpected with Clarkson's Farm, and Shaun has an unforseen Throwback treat with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and To...

A slightly lean week this week as once again we realise that Cinema being back means you actually have to be organised to watch films at Cinema. No mentioning names, but Shaun gets to see Monster Hunter and Tosin Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard at the Cinema. Going up against those two in the Netflix column are Slavery period adventure Emperor and Literary adaptation The Woman in the Window. Who wins th...

We make it to the Cinema, and manage to see three different films. Shaun runs his eye over Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in The Father; Sharon sees the unfortunately forgettably titled Dream Horse; and Tosin Catches up with and gives his verdict on Nobody. At home, Shaun catches one of numerous projects called Skin (this is the Jamie Bell one) Tosin sees Hugh Jackman and Alison Janney deliver...

This week we whoop in delight that we all can go to the cinema, and then immediately get attacked by A quiet Place Part 2, Shaun gets a dose of Brutal action in John Wick + A history of Violence + Home Alone = Nobody, and Shaun (him again) catches up with the latest instalment of The Conjuring. At home, Tosin embarrassingly and regrettably mixes up his Rodriguezs (Heartfelt apologies to Michelle a...

We are just about remembering how to do this cinema thing, and to help us get the hang of it, Tosin went to See Raya and the Last Dragon (as intended on the Big screen), Sharon Made it to See Cruella, And having seen everything the cinema had to offer last week and refusing to see Peter Rabbit 2 this week, Shaun brought Spiral and Chris Rock to the table. At home, Shaun caught up with the real Sny...

CINEMA IS BACK!!! We celebrate being let back in cinemas for the first time in 6 months and with that the regular format of our show returns. Shaun finally gets to see Godzilla VS Kong, the wrestling match he's been waiting ages for. Sharon counters with the latest show from the mind of 'he who currently is not named for problematic reasons' with The Nevers. Backing up the Cinema side of things ar...

A week out from Cinemas coming back, Shaun gets some disappointing news. But he cheers himself up by getting lost in Sergio Leone's World in Once Upon a Time in the West. Sharon gets lost on a mission to Mars in Stowaway Tosin gets lost ... can't keep this up, Tosin just watches Invincible Season 1 and marvels at a truthful depiction of the human cost of Superhero fights. Is Netflix killing cinema...

One of those weeks where we resolutely refuse to watch anything new, so we rake over stuff we watched a couple of weeks ago, but never reviewed So Tosin wonders if Tom Cruise has ever been better than he is in Michael Mann's Collateral Shaun wonders how he's never seen Michael Clayton Sharon sees nothing, but learns about Gloria Steinman through Shaun. Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we weig...

This week, we assess the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the latest entry into the world beating Behemoth that is the MCU. Sharon catches up with a YA Adaptation on Netflix in Shadow and Bone, and Shaun befuddles us with a title that totally betrays what he actually watched in To the Stars. Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we weigh up what we've seen in cinemas with what we've watched online a...

This week we are caught completely by surprise that the Oscars are happening, but manage to discuss two films in the running for some awards. Tosin and Shaun review Promising Young Woman and weigh up it's chances Sharon manages not to be freaked out by giant insects in Love and Monsters. We get some lovely correspondence from a new listener. Thank you Ahna!! Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week w...