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Baron and the Doc just watched the full season of The Haunting Of Bly Manor, the follow up season to the very successful Haunting of Hill House, available on Netflix. Directed by Mike Flanagan, starring Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve, T'Nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Tahirah Sharif, Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Henry Thomas and Carla Gugino. There is too much to cover...

Baron and the Doc will be bringing That Reminds Me Of... to the Austin Film Festival. The boys will be watching a bunch of films and posting up reviews and commentary as they do. Come for the ride, get a film badge for the festival if you haven't already, and stay tuned!

Baron and the Doc head off to 1968 New York City, for the remake of the off broadway play, The Boys In The Band, new to Netflix.  Directed by Joe Mantello, written by Mart Crowley, starring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and Matt Bomer.  This film is a little outside of the regular wheelhouse for the Doc and Baron, but the complicated characters and relationships provide plenty to talk about.    You...

In this episode Baron and the Doc talk about the new Netflix film Enola Holmes.  Directed by Harry Bradbeer, written by Jack Thorne, adapted from a Nancy Springer book, starring Mille Bobby Brown, Henry Caville and Helena Bonham Carter.  It's a YA film but find out what Baron and the Doc, two comparatively old dudes, thought about it. You may be surprised!    You can also check out the ep on youtu...

In this episode Baron and the Doc dive into The Devil All The Time. Directed by Antonio Campos, written by Antonio and his brother Paul Campos, starring Donald Ray Pollock, Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Haley Bennet and Jason Clark. The Devil All The Time, streaming on Netflix, is available to watch today.   Watch the youtube version of our chat here: https://youtu.be/5ooHDJmPli8

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things - Charlie Kaufman's latest film, straight to Netflix, is available to watch today! This week Baron and the Doc take a sharp turn from Terminator and Mulan and get lost in the dark and twisted quagmire of Kaufman's latest film, which follows in the tradition of his previous work - Adaptation, Anomalisa, Synecdoche New York, Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of...

This week Baron and the Doc dive into new waters and review Disney's big new release Mulan. Directed by Niki Caro, starring Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jet Li and Li Gong. Check out the youtube version here: https://youtu.be/stTHpxCQh2Y

Baron and The Doc vowed to take on an action-packed, explosive, car-chase-filled, as brainless as possible, mainstream film after two weeks of festival films. And boy, did they find their film. Terminator: Dark Fate. Starring Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes. Directed by Tim Miller. It's just been released for streaming in Australia. This film is right up Ba...

This is the last film of Melbourne International Film Fest! Baron and Doc started with First Cow, and they have ended with First and Last Men. It just feels right, doesn't it? First and Last Men is the creation of the late and great Jóhann Jóhannsson , Baron's favourite composer. He also directed and adapted the script for this film, which is narrated by Tilda Swinton . The Doc and Baron mostly ag...

Baron and The Doc the MIFF closing night film, Ema, directed by Pablo Larraín , starring   Mariana Di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal . Ema is an exuberant Chilean film about youth, family, modern love and dance, set in the striking town of Valparaíso. Melbourne International Film Festival delivers a closing night film with lots of talking points, that The Doc and Baron have very different perspec...

Baron and The Doc dive into Exile, directed by Visar Morina, starring Misel Maticevic. Exile is another challenging film from the Melbourne International Film Festival and  polarises Doc and Baron on many points, and finds them enthusiastically agreeing on others. Tune in to hear what they think and what the film reminds them of. Spoiler alert! When getting into this film Baron and the Doc talk al...

Baron and The Doc talk about Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker, starring Elisabeth Moss in the titular role, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman. Shirley was another late addition to the Melbourne International Film Festival, and another one that Doc and Baron couldn't resist. Tune in to hear what Baron and the Doc thought of this film, a twisted love triangle plus one, filled wit...

Baron and The Doc review She Dies Tomorrow, directed by Amy Seimetz, starring Kate Lyn Sheil, Jane Adams, and a lot of cameos you'll recognise. She Dies Tomorrow was a late addition to the Melbourne International Film Festival, one that Doc and Baron couldn't resist because it has such a great premise. Tune in to hear what Baron and the Doc thought of this unconventional and challenging film that...

Baron and The Doc review the academy nominated Corpus Christi, a polish film directed by Jan Komasa. As the poster states, the film is about a sinner, a priest, and a mystery. But it's so much more than that and Baron and the Doc have a great conversation about their interpretations of the film and what it reminds them of. Listen now, and watch out for this one when it when it hits streaming servi...

Baron and The Doc review Black Bear, directed by Lawrence Michael Levine, starring Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon, and Christopher Abbott. Black Bear was a spot Light film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Baron and the Doc dig into plot-twisting tale of a love triangle, cooked two ways. It's genre bending, uncomfortable at times, hilarious at others. The film has had it's moment at MIFF, b...

Baron and The Doc review the final film in the Dark Thriller pack at MIFF 68.5 - The Killing Of Two Lovers, directed by Robert Machoin, starring Clayne Crawford. The film is quagmire of masculine angst, but in the best kind of way, and has Doc and Baron digging into the many polarising creative choices, stellar performances, and yes, aspect ratios, again! Tune in to hear more about The Killing Of...

Baron and The Doc review another film, that is part of MIFF 68.5 - La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamente. This film has Doc and Baron talking about the creative choices behind this unusual dark thriller, and digging into what makes paranormal thrillers and political commentary in films work. Tune in to hear more about La Llorona. La Llorona can be purchased on its own or as part of the Dark Thr...

Baron and The Doc review their second MIFF film - Rose Plays Julie, directed by Christine Molly and Joe Lawlor, and starring Aiden Gillen (aka Little Finger), Ann Skelly and Orla Brady. This film is challenging and has Doc and Baron at odds on a couple points, but both agree the performances and climactic ending are excellent. Tune in to hear more about Rose Plays Julie. Rose Plays Julie can be pu...

Minutes after watching it live, Baron and the Doc discuss the opening night film of the Melbourne International Film Festival 68½, 'First Cow'. Directed by Kelly Reichardt, loosely based on a book by Jonathan Raymond, and starring John Magaro and Orion Lee. This is the first video episode to go along with audio - you can watch and listen to Baron and the Doc dig into the first film of the festival...

Speaking of pandemics, in this episode Baron and the Doc take a journey into the mind of Casey Affleck and his post-plague film 'Light Of My Life'. It reminded Baron of 'Room' and Doc of 'You Were Never Really Here', and sparked a virtual tennis match of other references that you won't want to miss!

Always innovative, Baron and the Doc mix things up with an episode devoted to filling gaps in their film knowledge. Doc caught up on Us, Aliens and Spike Lee's Oldboy. Baron finally watched Antichrist and Rope, and then took the easy option with French short C'était un rendez-vous.

Baron and Da Doc dig into Spike Lee's latest joint, Da 5 Bloods, with Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman and Jean Reno, amongst the players. They are reminded of other films about war, brotherhood, and greed, but also just how uniquely 'Spike Lee' Spike Lee's films are. Listen in for all this and plenty of spoilers in episode 6. If you haven't seen Da 5 Bloods yet, you can find it streaming on Netflix...

In their longest episode yet, the Doc and Baron discuss Robert Eggers' surreal horror film, The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.  There is too much to talk about in this divisive, black and white, disturbing film, but they give it a red hot go, covering topics such as ancient mythology, wanky student films by filmmakers who want to look smarter than they are, mermaid wet dre...

Baron comes straight out this episode and calls 1917, by Sam Mendes, a ‘cracker of a film’.  Doc agrees, but still confuses Sam Mendes with Sam Raimi. Join our heroes as they reel off a record eight films that 1917 reminded them of. Some may surprise you!

Bad Boys For Life is not in fact the fourth Bad Boys film, nor is it directed by Michael Bay. Will Baron get any of the details of this film right? Will Doc come to respect Michael Bay? Find out what Doc and Baron think about the third instalment in the Bad Boys franchise and, more importantly, what this film reminds them of.