The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

Imagine making an entire movie about having to sit at the very back of the car.  If only this had been that movie.

Hey remember that time back in the 80's when it was perfectly acceptable to send your shy and nervous young son off into the wilderness with a potentially unhinged stranger who was only like five years older than him? Those were the days.

On this episode of the podcast, we're off to theater camp! Rambunctious terrors running around being overly dramatic and feuding constantly with each other.  And that's just the cohosts!

Another month, another theme.  And this month, as we stare down the approach of autumn, we take a look a collection of summer getaway films, starting with a slightly nonsensical relaunch of the beach party genre, twenty plus years after its prime.  But don't worry, we're in the safe hands of Frankie and Annette, so how bad could it go? Tune in and find out!

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a robot who was once a boy but was disowned by his father for becoming a robot despite turning the boy into a robot in the first place and then trying to sell him out in order to remain close to a megalomaniacal President only to, at the very last minute, have a change of heart and we are suddenly expected to overlook him spend...

A Hammer horror film about a elderly deranged religious zealot woman living in a rundown mansion in rural England? Yes please! Or maybe no...tune in and find out!

It turns out Milton's secret is how to make this film enjoyable or entertaining. It continues to be, by all accounts, a very well kept secret.

Hey you know that grumpy guy that predicts cell phones will lead to terrible things for society? Well they've made a movie about him! But also he's dead most of the time, because, ya know, Stephen King.

The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast returns for season two! And we begin with a month dedicated to films featuring the great Donald Sutherland.  To kick things off, he is joined by his son Kiefer in a western called Forsaken.

It takes a lot to make Great Britain look like the plucky underdog victim in a sovereignty deciding naval dustup, but somehow Argentina rose to the challenge during the 1982 Falklands War.  Oh and a lot of Margaret Thatcher doing that Margaret Thatcher thing. Recommendations: Glenn: Arthur (1981 film) Sarah: The Boat That Rocked (2009 film) Cameron: Nixon (1995 film)

A post-James Bond Sean Connery teams up with a pre-James Bond Christopher Walken and a somewhat lackluster group of other robbers to knock over an entire building's worth of apartments.  It goes...poorly. Recommendations: Glenn: The Gentlemen (2024 series) Sarah: Baby Reindeer (2024 series) Cameron: Stand By Me (1986 film)

Ah 1970's Disney.  A time when the eligible pool of well known television characters was so great that they could make as many live action films as they wanted.  Does that mean sometimes the creative well might have gotten a little dry? Sure.  But if it hadn't, we wouldn't have gotten The Cat From Outer Space! Recommendations: Glenn: The Sting (1973 film) Sarah: Challengers (2024 fi...

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week.  But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast!  Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the original cohosts!  She joined us officially on Ep...

Excitement meanders across the screen as a seemingly geriatric Gary Cooper wanders around trying to fight a court martial with varying degrees of confusion and self-righteousness. Recommendations: Glenn: Death At A Funeral (2007 film) Sarah: Hacksaw Ridge (2016 film) Cameron: Waterloo (1970 film)

If you really like Alec Guinness, then this film is for you.  Two Alec Guinness for the price of one.  Throw in a deranged Bette Davis, and you have yourself a deal! Recommendations: Glenn: Aliens directors cut (1986 film) Sarah: The Da Vinci Code (2006 film) Cameron: Feud: Betty and Joan (2017 television series)

If you thought the title was questionable, when until you find out that the plot involves a celebrity tv dinner entrepreneur who travels back to WWI to stop a secret German sonic superweapon.  Titles not so bad now, is it? Recommendations: Glenn: Cinema Paradiso (1988 film) Sarah: Lovely, Dark and Deep (2023 film) Cameron: The Prisoner (1967 television series)

If you think the United States has a sometimes messy political system, this movie reminds us that others can suffer from the same problems, albeit in this case in a more stiff upper lip, British sort of way. Recommendations: Glenn: The Wrecking Crew (2008 film) Sarah: Arrival (2016 film) Cameron: Staged (2020 television series)

Leslie Nielsen as the baddy.  Sort of.  But not really.  A searing depiction of the harm reckless journalism can have on an innocent man.  Sort of. But not really. Recommendations: Glenn: The God's Must Be Crazy (1980 film) Sarah: Focused (2015 film) Cameron: Jojo Rabbit (2019 film)

It's that old cliche: classical pianists loses hands in a cab accident and needs to have the hands of a potential criminal attached to him and it somehow it turns him into a revenge filled serial killer. Yawn. Recommendations: Glenn: Moonstruck (1987) Sarah: Knives Out (2019) Cameron: The Insider (1999)

So what would you do if you were given a million pound note and told that if you held on to it for one month and returned it intact, you could have some sort of job? Cash the note and take the million pounds? Well that's the obvious answer, but turns out Gregory Peck decided on a slightly different route.   Recommendations: Glenn: Bullets Over Broadway (1994 film) Sarah: Searching For Bobby F...

Orson Welles stars in the film Compulsion.  And by "stars" I mean he shows up about 2/3rds of the way through the film.  So obviously we're using "stars" in a sort of abstract sort of way.  Better to use the word "saves".  Tune in to hear our review! Recommendations: Glenn: The Castle (1997 film) Sarah: Saltburn (2023 film) Cameron: Ordinary People (1980 film)

A searing courtroom drama this is not.  Peter Sellers and David Attenborough both play rather sad and lonely characters, one a murderer, one a barrister.  We haven't really sold it that well here.  Tune in and see if we do any better. Recommendations: Glenn: Talking Pictures (film podcast...traitor!) Sarah: Northern Exposure (1990 television series) Cameron: The Last Hurrah (1958 film)

In this week's episode, the beloved Jimmy Stewart plays the accordion-wielding hero we never knew we needed in our lives in a searing and quite heavily train-based Western, Night Passage.  Recommendations: Glenn: Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981 film) Sarah: Godless (2017 Netflix series) Cameron: Women Talking (2022 film)

A searing depiction of the real life consequences of buying cookies from Girl Scouts.  At least that's what we got from the film.  But did we like it?  Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Sicario (again) (2015 film) Sarah: Anatomy Of A Fall (2023 film) Cameron: The Holdovers (2023 film)

So sometimes we end up watching a serious movie on the BWB Film Club podcast.  On this week's episode, we will be taking a look at a film about the Attica Prison riot.  I was going to make a pun about the cohosts rioting, but it seems a bit inappropriate given the subject matter, so you better just tune in and find out if we like the film! Recommendations: Glenn: Sicario (2015 film) Sarah: Ny...