The Best Bits

Merry Christmas! For the last episode of 2022, Will and Kevin choose their favourite scenes when the proverbial band gets back together. 'Tis the season for it. It's Best Reunion Scene ! Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or directly via bestbitspodcast.com/contact Please consider leaving a  five-st...

Since cinema's earliest days, slow-motion has been utilised by filmmakers to make moments last longer, look special and feel different. From Eadweard Muybridge's "The Horse in Motion" to "The Matrix" and Bullet Time, Will and Kevin discuss some favourite slow-mo scenes. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggesti...

Will and Kevin tackle not one but two weirdly specific, randomly selected themes in this double episode. First up are "Movies within Movies" before segueing into "Breaking the Fourth Wall". From "Matinee" to "Wayne's World" and "Funny Games", it's a bumper ep. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or...

Screenwriter and five-timer special guest Pierce Ryan returns with another off-theme topic for Will and Kevin, and it's Best Made-for-TV Movie! A category stuffed with underseen gems. You can follow Pierce on Twitter @pierceiswriting Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or directly via bestbitspodcast.com...

Hop in and belt up as Will and Kevin are joined by backseat driver and Belgium filmmaker Jonas Govaerts, a director of two films ("Cub," "H4Z4RD"), multiple music videos, and thirty-odd episodes of TV! Jonas' film "H4Z4RD" co-written with Trent Haaga ("Cheap Thrills") is a thrilling car film currently playing at festivals all over the world - recently winning &#...

With great scene themes come great scene selections as Will and Kevin assemble, suit up, leap, bamf, web swing, and sling-ring through a multiverse of super fun Superhero Scenes from "Ant-Man" to "X-Men" and every caped, cowled, and crowned crusader in between. Excelsior! Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions th...

From "Alexander" to "Zulu", Will and Kevin charge once more into the breach for Best Battle Scene. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or directly via bestbitspodcast.com/contact Please consider leaving a  five-star review  wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this episode. It genuinel...

Will and Kevin are back with a scene theme selected by their Patreon subscribers. From bookends, cold opens, prologues, inciting incidents, and flash-forwards, there are many ways to open a movie, and many movies have done it well. But which ones? Music is provided by Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or directly via bestbitspo...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  (Patron Pick) where we watch your suggestion and see if we like it.” For the final Second Rate Review of the season, Will and Kevin are joined by Cathy and Dave from The Cinemile podcast . In this crossover episode, a film with a Cork Connection was proposed and voted on by subscribers of The Cinemile Patreon and The Best Bits Patreon . The c...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.” Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Die Hard”, “Young Guns” and “Cocktail”, and take a chance on Shadoe Steven's obscure and hard-to-find cult action-comedy classic "Traxx". Just relax, here comes Traxx. When gu...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.” Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Back to the Future”, “The Goonies” and “Jewel of the Nile”, and take a chance on Nicholas Meyer's Volunteers. In 1962, after graduating from Yale, womanizing slacker Lawrence (Tom Han...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.” Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Gremlins”, “Ghostbusters” "Beverly Hills Cop", and “Temple of Doom”, and take a chance on Steve Barron’s 1984 music video influenced romcom. Loosely inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.” Will and Kevin flashback to the summer of “Apollo 13”, “Batman Forever”, “Braveheart”, and roll the dice on Tom DiCillo's "Living in Oblivion". A small-time director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) attempts to make a no-b...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  (Patron Pick) where we watch your suggestion and see if we like it.” Will and Kevin aren't returning to the US box office for this episode but turning their attention to the Spanish box office. Thanks to Patreon supporter Patrick McGinley's recommendation they (re)watched the cult classic time travel thriller released this week in 200...

“Hello and Welcome to  The Best Bits: Second Rate Show  where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.” Will and Kevin and returning special guest Jamie Hannigan flashback to the summer of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, “Field of Dreams” and “Steel Magnolias”, and take a chance on Robert Bierman's cult classic black co...

Will and Kevin mentioned they would be substituting the "All the Best Bits" audio commentaries for something new and this is that something new. It's called "The Best Bits: Second Rate Show" and in each hour-long episode, they flashback to the week of release in a random year and give a second chance to a film they didn't see the first time.  And for this Patreon-backed pil...

Will, a gamer, and Kevin, an NPC, power up for a chat about video game adaptations and films inspired by game mechanics. From arcade games to mobile games, 'cut scenes' to scenes that should've been cut, and from ludonarratives to MMORPGs, has there ever been a great game adaptation? Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene sugges...

All killer, no filler. Will and Kevin count down their top ten on-screen contract killers as they compare their favourite assassin scenes.  Music is provided by Epidemic . Kevin's intro number "Films Are Fun" was created with music by Stretchd. You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider...

Will and Kevin compare their favourite dream scenes and discuss everything from dream logic and fake-outs to fantasies and nightmares. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this epis...

Grand gestures, proposals, and confessions. Will and Kevin rhapsodise about memorable movie moments where characters declare their love for another. Trigger Warning : this episode is soppy, mawkish, sentimental and long. It is likely to cause eye-rolling, dry-heaving, uncontrollable sobbing, and/or groaning along with unexpected dizzying bouts of intense arousal, longing and disgust. Discretion is...

Will and Kevin head to Dublin for DIFF and their first-ever live show. Joining them at The Lighthouse Cinema is returning special guest Kate Dolan ("You Are Not My Mother") from Best Jump Scare and writer/director Conor McMahon ("Let the Wrong One In", "Stitches", and RTÉ's "Zombie Bashers"). You can follow Kate on Twitter @caatdolan and Conor @Conor_Mc_Mahon ....

Will and Kevin lurch through a series of apocalypses to pick their Best Disaster Movie Scene and in a world of twisters, infernos, asteroids, quakes, waves, and Sharknados, the most shocking spectacle is Gloria Swanson on a 747. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Pl...

Will and Kevin have got a licence to spill as they dive into the cinematic, canonical adventures of '007' and pick their favourite 'Bond, James Bond' scene. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you ge...

Will and Kevin tackle a topic that has become ubiquitous. Plus returning special guest Pierce Ryan shows up to replace the wheel with his very own. You can follow Pierce on Twitter @pierceiswriting Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-st...

Body swaps, soul swaps and faces off! Will and Kevin (or is that Kevin and Will?) explore a classic storytelling device used in so many movies to find their favourite body swap scene. Music is provided by  Epidemic . You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through  Twitter  or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wher...