Spool Film Podcast

2010 - Inception, Unstoppable, The Social Network, Blue Valentine, Looking for Eric, Winters Bone, Black Swan, Scott Pilgrim, Greenberg 2011 - Drive, The Tree of Life, a Separation, Hugo, Moneyball, Take Shelter, Shame, Fast Five, Midnight in Paris, We Need to Talk About Kevin 2012 - Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, The Avengers, Amour, The Grey, Good Vibrations, After Lucia, Central Park Five, T...

Reviews of.... The Irishman, Monos, Marriage Story, Sorry We Missed You, Bait, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and Terminator: Dark Fate. Plus a look ahead to Knives Out and Frozen II! Boom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's about time we sat down and dissected Todd Philips' JOKER, with both of us absorbed by the 70mm presentation of the film at Dublin's IFI. Also on the slab this month is Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad film EL CAMINO, the superb Awkwafina-starring THE FAREWELL, and James Gray and Brad Pitt's opus AD ASTRA. Plus remembering Robert Forster with a nod back to JACKIE BROWN. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

This month we're celebrating 1999 with a run-through of some of that year’s iconic releases. Back to the present day and we’re talking Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory, Scary Stories to tell in the Dark, Never Grow Old, Angel has Fallen and whatever other bits and bobs that have caught our eye. We’ll be looking ahead to James Gray’s Ad Astra , the Downton Abbey film and the IFI's renovations. Brad...

The Hateful 8 clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9D7xXOHKWw . Don't forget to review and rate this podcast wherever you are listening to it. See www. SpoolPodcast.ie for more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Páraic and Nigel are back and have an absolute bucket load of films to get through including Spider-Man: Far From Home, Child's Play, Apollo 11, Toy Story 4, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, Booksmart, Dark Phoenix, Rocketman, Diego Maradona, Murder Mystery, Late Night and Papi Chulo. And we preview the Galway Film Fleadh, and reveal the best and worst films we've seen this year... Hosted...

It’s been a while! #RealLife Anyway on the cards for Nigel and Páraic in this podcast… John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Pokémon Detective Pikachu Avengers: Endgame Long Shot Shazam Knock Down the House Mid90s Eighth Grade The post #84 – Is John Wick 3 a masterpiece or glorified computer game? Plus PIKACHU v AVENGERS.. appeared first on Spooool.ie . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Páraic, Nigel and Eithne go through this Sunday’s Oscar broadcast… View this post on Instagram Podcast recording for our annual Oscars preview! Been doing this with @myfavtalkies and @eithne.shortall for the last 5-odd years, and been watching the exravaganza live on and off since 2006 (We think). The new Spooool podcast will be available from iTunes, Spotify and HMV Xtravision from tomorrow… A po...

It’s getting close to Oscar season and it’s been a few weeks since we yacked away about films so we’ve got a wealth of things to talk through in the January podcast… The post Pod 82: Green Book v Beale Street v Driving Miss Daisy (kinda) appeared first on Spooool.ie . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Read the “Friends of Spooool” picks for the year’s best films   It’s that time of the year where we sit down and argue about what the best films of the year were, while discretely taking notes about all the new things to add to our watch-list over Christmas. This year there’s three films that crossed over and featured on both of our lists – A Star is Born, Phantom Thread and Rosie.  Nigel’s Top 10...

Nigel Wheatley and Páraic McGeough have their “I’m with Stoopid t-shirts” t-shirts on for a quick run through four of the big films in cinemas right now that they’re digging. The post Pod 80: Raising a glass to Tom Waits, Robert Redford, Sly Stallone and Tessa Thompson appeared first on Spooool.ie . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve McQueen’s latest ‘Widows’ is one of the year’s smartest heist films and worth your money. We talk it, the Freddie Mercury biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’, Nic Cage’s crazy ‘Mandy’, Roddy Doyle’s ‘Rosie’ and lots more. The post Pod #79 – Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’, plus Bohemian Rhapsody, Mandy, Rosie & more appeared first on Spooool.ie . Hosted on Acas...

Something a little different this month as we take advantage of a few days away by catching up with a classic of modern Irish cinema which (shamefully) neither of us had seen, The Crying Game . Yes, we knew about the infamous “twist” and all the awards that were showered upon Neil Jordan’s screenplay and directing, but somehow it had slipped through the net over the years… We’ll be back in a few w...

After our annual summer break we’re back in the podcasting saddle with a look at three big releases – Blackkklansman, American Animals and Searching , along with a wrap up of all the other films of note we’ve seen over the last month. Also we preview Harry Dean Stanton’s farewell film in Lucky and discuss the connection between Blackkklansman and Airplane! . Yep. The post Pod #77 – The ‘BlackKklan...

We’re packing our bags for the west as we preview what’s coming to the 30th Galway Film Fleadh with some thoughts on Don’t Go, Damsel, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Katie, For Vagina’s Sake, Captain Morten And The Spider Queen and the IFB Shorts programme. Elsewhere box office taking have been way down this summer because of the World Cup, but what’s in the cinema for when it’s all done and dusted and...

We’re back in the podcasting saddle for a look at three big heavy-hitting blockbusters – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Deadpool 2, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. Beyond that The Breadwinner,   Tully, Lean on Pete and Book Club are also up for discussion. And no-one seems to be talking about Cineworld’s new 4DX enhanced motion experience screen. Your seat moves, you get water sprayed on you and a m...

The first of the summer’s ginormous blockbusters  Avengers: Infinity War goes under the knife for some spoiler-tastic dissecting and some wild theories. Also up for discussion is Mark O’Rowe’s divisive  The Delinquent Season , the Irish horror film  The Cured,  and The Rock’s giant gorilla movie  Rampage.  And Josh Brolin’s other movie  Deadpool II  is coming our way as is  Solo: A Star Wars Story...

It’s been a few weeks but we’ve got absolutely oodles of new and recent releases to burn through, including the superb Michael Inside and the hit-and-miss Isle of Dogs . We have since seen A Quiet Place and have quite diverging opinions… for next time! The post Pod #73 – Is ‘Isle of Dogs’ the first bad Wes Anderson movie? Is ‘Michael Inside’ the best Irish film of the year? appeared first on Spooo...

*re-uploaded due to dud mp3* It’s that time of the year again – Awards Season! And what better way to celebrate than to sit down with special guest Eithne Shortall (Sunday Times Chief Arts Writer and best-selling author) ahead of Sunday’s main event – The 90th Academy Awards. Note, since we recorded this, two critical things have happened… Sufjan Stevens has confirmed he will play at the Oscars Ei...

We may have had life changes in the last month (babies, house moves), but we still packed a lot of great films in. We’ve also got previews of some of the big titles from the next few weeks, and a few picks from the 2018 Audi Dublin International Film Festival. We’ll be back in a few weeks with our annual Oscars special – hopefully with a special guest in tow.   The post Pod #71 – The Shape of Wate...

BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL And so for the SIXTH year running, here we are with our annual chat through the best films of the year. Back in 2012 , in our first ever podcast, we anointed  The Perks of Being a Wallflower as the year’s stand-out feature, since then we’ve had the brilliant Frances Ha  (2013) and the sumptuous The Guest  (2014) t...

BEST OF 2017 | WORST OF 2017 | NIGEL’S TOP 10 | PÁRAIC’S TOP 10 | FRIENDS OF SPOOOOL Between us we’ve seen about 150 new releases this year, but we’re not claiming to have seen everything that hit screens. So it goes without saying that many of those titles with the atrocious Rotten Tomatoes ratings are not up for discussion here. What’s also worth noting is the presence of films that were much-an...

It’s been a few weeks since we talked (with microphones present), so an absolute load of films to review. Lots of them we saw together, and lots of them we really liked, so listen in. And yes Páraic did give The Florida Project 2 stars. #Shocker. Anyway the excitement got too much for us and all the excitement led to the audio dropping out for a bit at the five minute mark, so apologies for the 90...

It’s taken us a fortnight but we’ve finally gotten our head around Blade Runner 2049 , and its place in modern film history. How does it compare to the 1982 that inspired it? Listen in to find out. Oh and we do get side-tracked midway through chatting about a certain Mr. Harvey Weinstein. The post Pod #67: Blade Runner(s) spoilers chat…. and the Harvey Weinstein problem appeared first on Spooool.i...

This month it’s a rare one as we’ve got four new films and all four are worth your time and money – The Death of Stalin, The Meyerowitz Stories (Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler FTW!), The Party, and Daphne . Also from the 22:45 mark we break down Dublin’s new kid on the block – The Stella Cinema ( whose demise we’ve lamented before ) – which will be a snazzy boutique cinema costing you €19 a ticket....