The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

This month we will be looking at films we missed out seeing last year.  And we begin with a film that technically premiered in 2023, but didn't hit the theatres until 2024, so we're counting it.  It is the Anthony Hopkins led biopic One Life.

We end our month of romcoms on a high, and all it took was a gay romantic comedy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Guest host Elisa joins us for the fun.

For our month of romcoms, we revisit a late era Hugh Grant flick in which he pairs up with Sarah Jessica Parker.  Basically what City Slickers would be like if you replaced Billy Crystal with Hugh Grant and both Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby with Sarah Jessica Parker.  And Jack Palance with Sam Elliott, which is probably the nearest to a 1 to 1 ratio.

"Hey what should we call this film?" "How about we name it after Tom Cruise's character?" "So 'Miller'?" "No his character's actual name." "What, Knight?" "Yeah!" "But you don't learn that until the end of the film." "Doesn't matter...oh and we should add 'and day' afterwards. "W...

David Tennent has to choose between the ultra successful, ultra nice movie star and the ultra charming, ultra nice small down Scottish lass.  Oh the hardships that man goes through.  First the Daleks and now this...

Hey remember that crime noir thriller that Michael Keaton directed and starred in back in 2008? Yeah, me neither.  But we watch it anyway, because sometimes we here at BWBFC do the heavy lifting so you don't have to.  You're welcome!

What happens when Drew Barrymore's love of roller derby competitions spills onto the big screen? Whip It.  Whip It is what happens.

Continuing our month of actors attempting to direct, Regina King takes the helm to present a fictionalized account of a real get together between Sam Cooke, Mohammad Ali, Jim Brown and Malcolm X one night in Miami.  Oh hey! There's the title!

So Walter Matthau made a very successful career playing slightly curmudgeonly but reasonably endearing older (or old) men. Here, directed by his close friend Jack Lemmon, he is cast as a much older man who is a bit curmudgeonly and (eventually) reasonably endearing old man. So really a risky casting decision. But did it pay off? Tune in and find out what we thought.

A new year and a new month here at BWBFC and this month we will be looking at actors who try their hand at directing! And we start off with a directorial debut from BWBFC favorite Richard E. Grant...but do we think it was worth the risk? Tune in and find out!

First of all: apologies for the late upload! For some reason around this time of year everything seems to get busy? Don't know why... Anyway, here is the final episode of 2025 and the last of our holiday adjacent films: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! Tune in and find out if we ended the year on a high!

A film that dares to ask the question: What if Santa Claus and his operations ran a bit more like the British monarchy? As it turns out, the answer is remarkably well! Except when it doesn't, in the smallest possible way. But don't worry, heroes are sometimes named Arthur!

Sure, we all know what Christmas would be like in New York and Chicago and probably LA, but the real burning question is what would Christmas be like in Connecticut?  Well assuming you've got a very posh farm and a bunch of people all lying to each other or themselves, then this film will let you know!

A question to kick of the BWBFC holiday season: did you ever wonder what it would be like if Santa was a Russian viking? Well if so, this movie might be for you!  But was it for us?

We end the November films about dysfunctional families on a high note...and by high note I mean at least the one family member dies at the start of the film, so we only have to witness the aftermath this time.  Tune in to see if we liked what we had to witness.

Halfway through the films for November and it's another one about families and death.  Although really more dying in this case.  Just how depressing is this lineup making us here at the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast?  Well you'll have to tune in to find out.

It's another family comedy(?) drama featuring a dying parent and a couple of weird kids.  I know what you're thinking.  How many of these films can you possibly do for the podcast?  Well I'm going to guess at least two more.

Wes Anderson films.  They're a bit like marmite.  You either love them or you hate them.  And they almost always leave a weird taste in your mouth.  But is that enough for us to withhold a recommendation this week?  Tune in to find out!

Concluding our October spooooooky month of films, we have the 1968 classic Hammer Horror film The Devil Rides Out, starring one half of everyone's favorite horror duo: Christopher Lee!  Evidently Peter Cushing was away on holiday or something? Don't know.  Anyway, here's our review!

Are you feeling down about the tragic death of your husband and daughter in a car accident that left you yourself in a coma? Then the tourism bureau of North Carolina has the solution for you! Try spelunking in one of our many unexplored, dangerously unmarked caves! There's a 1 in 6 chance that you'll survived! And we definitely don't have a race of ancient humanoid creatures that l...

You know for as cliché a horror trope as a cabin in the woods is, I'm amazed it took until 2011 for someone to make a horror film called A Cabin In the Woods.  But was it worth the wait? Tune in and hear what we think!

It's one of those traditional cabin in the middle of nowhere stories, except in this case, the cabin is really nice.  But is the film nice? Tune in and find out what we thought...

After a brief break we are back with a spooky set of films for October, starting with the reboot redux of the Ghostbusters franchise.  But is the film worthy of its pedigree?  Tune in and find out what we think! 

Are you tired of all those mobster films that glamourize a life of crime? Then you should try The Rise and Fall Of Legs Diamond, which creates a main character so loathsome that even his friends seem to hate him!

You know now that I think of it, for a film called Race With the Devil, the Devil never actually makes an appearance. Odd.