The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

A British murder mystery that clocks in at less than an hour long? How bad could that be? If only there were a way to tune into something and find out... Recommendations: Glenn: Alien (1979 film) Sarah: Fighting With My Family (2019 film) Cameron: Once Upon A Time In the West (1968 film)

Robert Duvall plays a curmudgeonly Scottish football manager in this plucky sports film about a plucky sports team being plucky.  But just how plucky was it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Rocky (1976 film) Sarah: Eileen (2023 film) Cameron: Sunderland 'Til I Die (2018 series)

Michael Caine realizes he can kill people with the incredible wizard-like powers of being really lucky.  Mild mannered chaos ensues.  Do we like the shock that we got from watching A Shock To the System?  Tune in a find out! Recommendations: Glenn: The Return Of the Pink Panther (1975 film) Sarah: The Stranger (2020 Netflix miniseries) Cameron: Godzilla Minus Zero (2023 film)

Meanwhile in a television development meeting... "Hey so we've got this idea for a reclusive archvillain that lives on a remote island in Scotland and experiments with deadly sound waves.  Who do you think we should cast?" "Sean Connery?" "Oh and they have to be female." "Uh...I think Deborah Kerr is Scottish?" "Oh and they need to be Chinese.&quot...

It's the end of the year and your favorite podcast cohosts are taking a moment to look back at the films we watched in 2023.  Also we discuss some holiday classics and we become far too sentimental about spending time together!  It's all in this week's special end of the year episode! Tune in!

You know those movies that people describe as "musicals for people who don't like musicals"? This film may be the opposite of that. It might be useful therapy for those who wish to ween themselves off of musicals. Despite some heavy hitting talent (pun intended), does this movie score a home run or is it out on first? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Casino Royale (2006...

Hey remember that time that James Bond and Paddington Bear teamed up to help the French beat back the Germans? No? Well let us remind you in our review of the 1999 British WWI film The Trench! Recommendations: Glenn: All the Light We Cannot See (2023 film) Sarah: Edge Of Tomorrow (2016 film) Cameron: Summer Of Soul (2021 film)

George C. Scott plays a confidence man who takes a young drifter played by Michael Sarrazin under his wing. They lie and steal their way through the south, tricking honest people out of the hard earned dough. This we we are down as Sarah, but we pick up a Josh. Tune in and find out what we think of The Flim-Flam Man. Recommendations: Glenn: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988 film) Josh: Frasier (2023 t...

A film with an exclamation mark in the title!? How could it be bad? Join us as we review the 1960 British WWII war drama Sink the Bismarck!(!)  Recommendations: Glenn: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 film) Sarah: The Finest Hours (2016 film) Cameron: Life (2015 film)

What do James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have in common? Nothing, you say? Well not so fast, because apparently they do, in as much as Roger Moore has played them both. His Bond is iconic enough, but what of his Sherlock Holmes? Have we deduced that he played the role successfully? Tune in and find out. Recommendations: Glenn: The Great Escape (1963 film) Sarah: Foyle's War (2002-2015 televisio...

Peter Ustinov plays the role of an embezzler working for a company with one of those newfangled computers.  Hilarity ensues.  Or does it?  Tune in and find out what we think! Recommendations: Glenn: The Dirty Dozen (1967 film) Sarah: Criminal: UK (2019 Netflix series) Cameron: Bobby Kennedy For President (2018 Netflix documentary)

On this week's episode, a British horror film about a very shouty man.  Starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York and a minor role for Tim Curry, as, strangely, the most normal person in the film.  Do we give this film a shout?  Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944 film) Sarah: The Fall Of the House Of Usher (2023 Netflix miniseries) Cameron: The Field...

On this week's episode we watch Denzel Washington's first film.  It is comedy based on race relations.  Uh huh.  So is it worth a watch?  Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn:  The Rewrite (2014 film)  Sarah:  The Devil's Hour (2022 miniseries) Cameron:  The Hitchhiker (1953 film)

Doris Day and Jack Lemmon team up in a romantic comedy featuring everyone's favorite things: lobsters, trains and small town democracy! But what exactly happened to Jane? And does it make for a compelling viewing? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Lessons In Chemistry (2023- series) Sarah: Grumpy Old Men (1993 film) Cameron: Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)

A lot of Vincent Price films are at least visually shocking. So it seems a bit of a shame that they have chosen one of his least shocking films to get the title Shock. And yes, I appreciate that it has to do with a different plot point in the film. But still, you couldn't have thrown in at least one floating skull somewhere? Oh well, tune in and see if this was enough for us to avoid a recomm...

This week we take a look at Cary Grant's very first film role.  And right off the bat he is typecast as an Olympic javelin thrower.  But is that enough to carry an entire 1930's romantic comedy/dystopian musical nightmare?  Tune in and hear what we think! Recommendations: Glenn: The Fall (2006) Sarah: Call the Midwife (2012-) Cameron: The Two Popes (2019)

Hey remember all those supporting actors you loved from Casablanca? Well they're back! And still desert adjacent! But instead of Humphrey Bogart we have Burt Lancaster and instead of Ingrid Bergman we have...Corinne Calvet? Tune in and listen to find out whether we think this reunion is worth the celluloid it's printed on! Recommendations: Glenn: Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Sarah: Lege...

A very old Katharine Hepburn teams up with a very young Jason Bateman in a made for television romantic comedy.  Fear not, the romantic relationship isn't the one between Bateman and Hepburn.  Unless that's your secret fanfic fantasy.  In which case sorry to disappoint.  But does the film disappoint?  Tune in a find out... Recommendations: Glenn: The Congressman (2016) Sarah: Spellbound...

So you know how Robert Shaw always played really cool, bad(ish) guy characters that you still kind of rooted for? Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like if he played a boring character that didn't really do much? Well have I got the answer for you!  Tune in and learn more! Recommendations: Glenn: Waking Ned Devine (1998) Sarah: Black Mirror (namely Season 6 from 2023) Cameron: Don...

So fun fact: Tom Hanks began his career with a movie about Dungeons and Dragons.  And yet somehow he managed to become Tom Hanks.  A remarkable feat considering this film is basically the equivalent of rolling a natural one.  If you know, you know.  So just how bad is it?  Tune and in and find out! Recommendations: Alastair: The Century of the Self (2002) Sarah: Searching (2018) Cameron: The &apos...

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of three podcast castaways trying to make sense of a film starring everyone's favorite actual castaways.  All credit to Gilligan's Island that a show that had only ran for three seasons and had ended over ten years earlier was still popular enough to warrant a film.  Not just one film, but three! Sure they were made for television, but stil...

This week's offering comes from one of the godfather's of indie filmmaking, none other than Charles B. Pierce.   From the legendary mind that brought you The Legend of Boggy Creek and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues comes The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a film about a serial killer terrorizing a small town.  All of the ingredients are there for a good bad film,  or perhaps even a...

A trio of past their prime British acting legends join the did he ever have a prime Jack Palance in a horror thriller about a pretty needy statue of an African god.  For those of you who are curious, the statue somehow racked up a higher body count than the people doing the sacrificing on its behalf.  Not really a spoiler alert.  If you want the actual spoilers, tune into our podcast episode and f...

In this, our first episode of the relaunched Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we tackle the coming together of that guy who would go on to play Perry Mason and that woman who would go on to play Jessica Fletcher.  Shockingly, it is a murder mystery.  Didn't see that one coming.  But what did we think?  Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn:  The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Ca...