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Welcome to our first 'Deep Dive' episode where we pick an actor, director, genre, year etc to discuss in detail. Today we discuss the charismatic Colin Farrell. It's an interesting chat as he has a varied personal life from charity to rehab and a range of movies where you can see his growth through the years. Even in his early career he worked with high calibre actors and directors and we all agre...

Our regular guest turns the tables on us and asks us questions she has devised herself. Kate delves into our early days, how we met, some deep questions and some fun questions. We were not made aware of any questions before hand and I think this yields an honest and interesting response from us all. We hope you enjoy this episode which is a bit different from our usual focus but with all the fun a...

The nation is talking about this new Netflix series written by Stephen Graham & Jack Thorne. A story of a 13 year old boy being arrested and accused of murdering a girl in his class. This realistic, gritty, intense and powerful story is perfectly acted with believable vulnerability and emotion and the 1 shot per episode really adds to the technicality of the crew and makes the audience live in...

Kev & Drew have freshly seen this new Bong Joon Ho Sci-Fi action comedy starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette & Mark Ruffalo. We both thoroughly enjoyed it and discussed the deep topics that arise here from Politics, Religion and Race to Animal Cruelty and Ethics. This has an incredible cast with impressive acting from all in this ensemble cast. Please see the film before l...

A double feature today discussing these 2 films. More to discuss than originally expected and we could've talked longer on both but we hope you enjoy the fun debates we have here. A wild horror movie from the mind of Stephen King and the adaptation and directing from Osgood Perkins (Long Legs) and another Marvel film, or is it more than just another Marvel film?

Our regular guest from New Jersey joins us after watching the Oscars live. Drew stayed up till the middle of the night to watch it from the UK. We talk through our predictions from Ep 90 to see who got the most right and use that opportunity talk through the individual awards. We then discuss the rest of the show from the comedy bits to the surprises.

We discuss getting close to our 100th episode, if we should do something different, suggestions welcome. Also that we are finally meeting up in April for a day in London with previous guest Daniel Pitts (Ep 91) who is taking our photos. Then we get onto the subjects of the James Bond and Amazon controversies followed by movie news and new trailers we have seen recently; from Gremlins 3, Goonies 2,...

Today's guest is a friend of Drews, they go back to 2008 when they met as fellow Ushers at the theatre during the Wicked Musical run in London and talk about how he got his auditions, his agent and the progression of his career. He his it strong early on by being offered the part of Billy Kitchen in the critically acclaimed Peaky Blinders the he acts alongside Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy, what an...

We start as usual with discussing the Zeitgeist of 2013, the year this incredible movie was released and a movie related poem from 'Tales Of The Nook' (Drew). We delve into the movie in detail: Discussing the actors, the plot, the director as well as the dark themes involved with this movie. We talk about the actors that were originally asked to play these roles, some behind the scenes information...

James has met his match as his friend Daniel instantly slams him during the intro. Now we know this will be a fun guest. We laugh through some insane stories and conversations around photography, videography and graphic design before going down the route of fitness, martial arts and his exciting plan for a short film for a charity organisation utilising 80s montages. We discuss the passion Daniel...

We discuss the most talked about movie of 2024 and it's still a hot topic and highly relevant. This movie is a feast for the eyes with the exceptional cinematography, colour pallet, editing style and impressive directing by a Coralie Fargeat, the only female director who is nominated for an Oscar in a category full of men and we all agree deserves to win. The only problem is that horror films don'...

Peter from New Jersey joins us again today to discuss the Oscars nominations. We delve into some detail on the main films up for the awards and who we predict will win compared to who we believe should win. We also discuss the snubs and debate between ourselves on who deserves the recognition. But before that we have some movie news to discus to discuss the new movie Companion which Kev and Peter...

After discussing the zeitgeist of 1999 regarding news, music and movies we delve into the cultural significance and forward thinking of the revolutionary movie which has been parodied many times. We discuss this timeless classic, delving into cinematic techniques and character dynamics including meta moments and philosophical choices with symbolism and deeper meanings. We discuss behind the scenes...

We talk about Kate travelling all the way from Zurich to Chester to visit family and the failed attempt to meet Kev for a beer. We have a couple of strange questions from our regular listeners which take our conversation on a strange path talking about animal bums, funny situations in the cinema and creating our own musical. Kev briefly discusses the new movie Presence without spoilers which bring...

Our deep dive into the David Fincher masterpiece with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. This may be the 30th anniversary but this movie still hits hard and is full of atmosphere, drama, comedy and tense moments. It follows the two detectives try to solve a serial killer who is using the seven deadly sins as his motives. So much to talk about here, we had to stop as we could've gone on for a further ho...

Today's episode marks a full year since we started recording Rage Whale. It's Kevs Birthday and he tells us about his weekend in London, gigs, a massage and predictably the cinema. We discuss the Netflix release of Cocaine Bear which we highly recommend and delve into many different drinking games. We bring up Biopics as Kev had just come back from seeing the brilliant Bob Dylan movie 'A Complete...

[Some serious subjects discussed] We had a fun conversation and a laugh with the man that is well known for the opposite: Lewis Saunderson the actor famous for his distressing, raw and emotionally captivating performances on social media with approx 2 Million followers on TikTok and with over 255k Instagram followers. Known as the TikTok Crying Guy, he reimagines emotional movie scenes, creates re...

Kev, James & Drew welcome you to a fun episode where we discuss all the movie news that is current even including a diversion into Grand Theft Auto 6 computer game which has some interesting planned upgrades delaying its release. We discuss Mr Beast Games and Squid Games and play devils advocate debating the enjoyment in watching, mixed with the psychological torment and effects on the real li...

Peter from New Jersey joins Kev and Drew today to do a deep dive into Robert Eggers new classic horror remake of Nosferatu. We cover as much as possible from the filmmaking, atmosphere and soundscape to the actors and their acting prowess.

This is the Kev & Drew Show episode. We get distracted discussing Simon Pegg, Shaun Of The Dead and zombie movies, moving on to Danny Boyle with 28 Days Later and Trainspotting. We discuss old movies over new movies and the comfort they bring. Kev has recently seen the Robbie Williams movie Better Man in the cinema. We then both discuss all the TV shows that are on over Christmas from Gavin &a...

Happy New Year. We discuss the new trailers and expected releases in 2025. From Death of a Unicorn to Superman and including Mission Impossible 8, Karate Kid, 28 Years Later, Jurassic World Rebirth and many others. We go off the rails and joke about things I should've edited out but never mind. The first film we are all going to see in 2025 is likely to be Nosferatu which we are all excited about.

With our regular Special Guest Michael, today's spoiler review is our thoughts on the recent Netflix Movie about a TSA agent who checks the 'carry-on' baggage at an airport when a threat forces him to allow a dangerous bag through without alerting anyone. How will this pan out? We have very different thoughts on this movie and enjoy a laugh during when we compare to other movies as well as Christm...

A fun episode discussing the best movies of last year, we also reflect on the podcast and shout out our many guests. Drew arrives a little late but with a great Sigourney Weaver story from last week in London. We discussed Xmas a little and an inventive gift James bought his son Reef. We then review the 2 films we watched in the cinema this week: Sonic 3 and Kraven The Hunter which we both enjoyed...

A rare moment when all 3 of us have watched the same film that week. Fairly new to Netflix is M3GAN which we all had different opinions going into it. Kev especially expected it to be terrible but I think most were pleasantly surprised. We discuss the actors, the theme and the sequel coming out next year. We compare to other films which distract us a little but ultimately this film has more going...

Merry Christmas from all of us at Rage Whale. Our very first Xmas Special Episode. Our regular guest Michael joins us to tell us about his trip last week taking the family to Paris to visit Disney Land. We then discuss our favourite toys we got as kids as well as the movies that make us feel in a Christmas mood which aren't necessarily Xmas movies. We do deviate as usual into conspiracies, bringin...