The Arts Hole

The kids are alright! As is this movie. Which is about all that can be said for it, if we're honest. Having developed a reputation at the time for scandalous sexuality, this teen coming-of-age movie is actually pretty banal by almost any metric. Although someone does fuck a pie. So... There's that...? Requests? Thoughts on pie or just want to tell us what you got up to at band camp, email us at Ar...

The internet's boyfriend Keanu Reeves plays a very confused man hurtled through dimensions sometimes covered in goo - but sadly this isn't 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure' it's 1999's iconic 'The Matrix' Ahhh, the goo, explains why they're all wearing wipe clean fabrics. Red pill? Blue pill? Chill pill? Tell us what pills you're enjoying by emailing us at Artsholepodcast@gmail.com  or find Bea...

Breaking (we think) four of the eight rules of Fight Club here as we discuss David Fincher's much-talked-about precursor to everything that's wrong with the modern manosphere. We're not sure what Fincher shot this movie on, but if we had to guess, we'd say incel-luloid.   Hey you! You wanna fight? Yeah well email us Artsholepodcast@gmail.com  or find Bea on Instagram @Bea_roberts_writer (we only f...

 The first of our new 1999 series, in which we examine movies from what turned out to be a weirdly pivotal year. In this case, Oscar-bait Boomer whinge "American Beauty," starring relatable, normal, everyman actor Kevin Spacey...   If you have a question, request, inventive heckle, etc you can email us Artsholepodcast@gmail.com  or find Bea on Instagram @Bea_roberts_writer   SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Bu...

We got over-stimulated, mistakes were made, and we ended up watching Showgirls. Is Paul Verhoeven's critically mauled stripper movie really as bad as its reputation suggests? Does a bear shit in the woods? And how do you like having nice tits, anyway? At least one of these questions will be answered.   If you have a question, request, suggestion or disturbing slash fiction involving Luke and Kyle...

 Ban the bum! ...numbing... length... of films like this.  Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning film tells the story of Robert Downey Jr.'s Lewis Strauss and his campaign to become Secretary of Commerce. Also there's some stuff about the potential annihilation of all life on earth thanks to the invention of the atom bomb, but they honestly don't go into it, much. If you have a question, suggestion, e...

Come on Arts Hole let's go part...s...hole. Hard as it is to believe, we stared at Margot Robbie for two hours and still have complaints.  With awards season fast approaching, we finally weigh in on the big movie of 2023. SHOW NOTES:  Barbie proportions vs. human woman If you have a question, suggestion, erotic fan fic, etc you can email us Artsholepodcast@gmail.com .   SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us...

Regular Arts Hole episodes coming soon but for now here's a free mini creative writing class from Bea! Find out more here and sign up before 8th Feb for your 50% discount!  www.bearobertswriter.com  

A year after the horror movie "Jack Frost" came this unintentionally horrific family movie of the same name, in which Michael Keaton plays a man who is brought back as what can only be described as a Snow Wight*. It's a bad idea, but it's also handled ineptly. Merry Christmas! *If you, like Bea, did not get this joke apparently it's a very highbrow Luke pun about ghosts.  Bruce Willis singing... A...

All aboard! ...Wait, no, sorry. All are bored by Robert Zemeckis' completely CGI Christmas movie about a magic train that can chug along on rails like a non-magic train, as well as no other things. None of the characters have names and all of them are Tom Hanks and if you want it to make sense, so did we.   Luke's long digression - or at least one of them - is about this movie: https://en.wikipedi...

 Listen, and understand. James Cameron is out there. He can't be bargained with. He can't be reasoned with. He doesn't feel shame, or remorse, or when a script is woefully in need of another draft. And he absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until we agree that giant blue cat monsters are sexy and cool. We've threatened this for a while, but settle in, because we finally watched Avatar 2.  Correction:...

Tom Cruise is a gay-coded immortal, who coincidentally plays a vampire in the movie adaptation of Anne Rice's book. It's not very good, but it did lead to a superb TV series. We look at why the recent 'Interview With The Vampire' series has bite, while the movie version just sucks.  We also go into why former Superman Dean Cain's people reached out to us and what we did next... If you have a quest...

With The Nun Two in cinemas now we take a look at The Nun One: The Nunnaning, which takes place in the same cinematic universe as The Conjuring, detailing another allegedly true haunting. Have the dead returned to torment us, or is it just the force of habit? ...Sorry. If you have a question, suggestion, erotic fan fic, etc you can email us Artsholepodcast@gmail.com .   SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us...

Call us Ishmael. No wait - that other thing - The Arts Hole Season 3! We're back and so's Brendan Fraser in Darren Arronofsky's "The Whale" We take a deep dive with this beast but thankfully come up for air. God, this film is depressing... Content Warning: Discussions of suicide.  Things we mention:  The brilliant work of Fat Activist Aubrey Gordon A Single Man If you have a question, suggestion,...

The gambling dens of the Nevada desert are the setting for this musical which is largely set on a boat and doesn't feature any gambling, for some reason. Elvis Presley scored an unlikely cinematic success at the height of Beatlemania as he pursues Ann Margaret in ways that our grandparents' generation apparently considered cute and which would now see you taken into custody. Join us for a confused...

Ralph Fiennes was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as the outrageous, homicidal chef in this new horror comedy but is it a potboiler or just a load of old ham?  Plus we're back! - to say we're going again, but just for a bit...    SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us a coffee Join our Patreon Buy our book

Join us and Disco the Podcast Puppy for 2022's New Year round up episode in a new awards format we're calling 'The Holeys'! Does it work? You be the judge of that as we judge the film and TV of 2022.    SHOW NOTES:  All the titles we talked about in the order I can remember them in as I type this, plus where to find them. TV:  Peacemaker - Sky Minx -  Paramount Plus  Inside Job - Netflix Invincibl...

Perhaps inevitably, we have reached the point where we had to acknowledge the existence of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Jingle All The Way' Some of you asked for this. You sadists. You unhinged, coal-hearted monsters.  SHOW NOTES:  Back Door Santa   if you think the song title's spicy wait till you hear the lyrics... Our Free Christmas Movie Bingo SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us a coffee Join our Patreon B...

Back for more punishment, we return to regular programming with critical punching bag 'Falling For Christmas' Expect meaningful baubles, magic Santas and sexual chemistry like two genitaless snowmen. Ho-ho-oh-no-Lohan.  SHOW NOTES:  Our Free Christmas Movie Bingo SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us a coffee Join our Patreon Buy our book

An update and a round up of what we've been watching, where we've been and what we think of Wednesday and the Wonder. That's what, where, Wednesday and Wonder.    SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us a coffee Join our Patreon Buy our book

 Under pressure from Amazon Prime recommendations and our peers, we grit our teeth through Moonfall, a film which imagines (wrongly) what would happen if the moon... fell.   It's the most distressing space-based project shown to a global audience since the Challenger disaster.  SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us a coffee Join our Patreon Buy our book

 Olivia Wilde took "difficult second project" to new heights with a movie that has generated FAR more publicity for its director's behind-the-scenes behaviour than anything else.   We checked to see if the film itself was actually any good. Which it wasn't. Which is why it's on our show.    SHOW US SOME LOVE:  Buy us a coffee Join our Patreon Buy our book

A roundup of everything Halloween-y for the hallowed weenies who listen to our show.   TV, film and a couple of books for our Amish listeners, who presumably have the show transcribed onto slates and delivered to them by hand. It's an entirely separate Patreon tier... All recommendations from the last couple of years but if you're looking for our classic horror picks then have a scroll to find our...

Run! Don't walk from...THE BLOB! Advice that really only applies to 1988's 'The Blob' which really shifts it unlike 1958's 'The Blob' which, well, keeps blob-blob-blobbing along. In this Halloween edition of our Masters & Disasters series we have a rare remake which tops the original despite the fact it stars Kevin Dillon (or does it?)    SHOW NOTES:  Watch 1988's The Blob for free on Youtube.  Yo...

 In typically iconoclastic fashion, John Carpenter's 1988 movie 'They Live' manages to be both iconic and largely ignored. We dive into an almost-great film in which wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper learns that the world is run by inhuman parasites and all advertising is objectively evil. He's basically a very buff, thirty-five year old man with the brain of most of the guys from your first year of un...