The Cinema Catch-Up Club

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Tegan Mulvany and Ellin Sears to review the Mel Brooks comedy 'Spaceballs' and discuss the lack of actual Spaceballs merchandise, breaking the fourth wall and using quotes from Mel Brooks films as pick up lines.

This week - in a special episode celebrating the life of cult horror director George A. Romero - host Stephen B. Platt is joined by Andrew David and Nicola Brescianini to review the original 'Night of the Living Dead' from 1968 and discuss the wonderful S. William Hinzman, zombie survival plans and why an undead apocalypse could be good for the environment.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Luke Jago and Jess Serio as they review Paul Verhoeven's 'RoboCop' from 1987. Listen in as they discuss chin acting, inattentive scientists and whether or not RoboCop is actually a good police officer or not. LANGUAGE WARNING - as this is a review of an 'R' rated film, there is some occasional use of contextual light swearing in this pod...

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Daniel Buckle and Anna Weir as they review the 1968 Sci-Fi classic 'The Planet of the Apes' and discuss chimp pimps, man hoses and the dangers of living in Space Utah.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Scott McArdle and Katrina Johnston as they review the 2002 super-hero film 'Spider-Man' and discuss the merits of mechanical and organic web slingers, Tobey Maguire's unusual face and what it means to "broom" someone.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Kate Willoughby and Dean Lovatt as they review the 1952 musical 'Singin' in the Rain' and discuss the early days of 'talkies' in the cinema, very long scarfs and eating sandwiches with cutlery.

This week - in a special episode celebrating the life of Peter Sallis - host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Rhianna Hall and John King as they review Nick Park's stop motion animation short film series 'Wallace & Gromit' - specifically 'A Grand Day Out', 'The Wrong Trousers', 'A Close Shave' and 'A Matter of Loaf and Death.' Listen in as they discuss delicious looking plasticine food...

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is reunited with guests from the pilot episode of 'The Cinema Catch-Up Club' Ellin Sears and Sarah Courtis to review the 1999 film 'The Mummy.' Listen in as they discuss having a crush on Brendan Fraser, refrigerating grasshoppers and the promotion policies of the French Foreign Legion. #teampilot

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Tegan Mulvany and Patrick Downes to celebrate the life of Roger Moore as they review 1979's 'Moonraker.' They discuss double-taking pigeons, James Bond dressing up as a sexy Zorro and casting a new actor to play 007.

This week - in our first ever audience chosen film review - host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Rhianna Hall and Aaron Vanderklay to review David Fincher's 'Fight Club' and discuss Leonardo DiCaprio's unusual cameo, disrespecting the rules of the road and why Brad Pitt and Edward Norton wanted to beat up a Beetle.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Ellin Sears and Samantha Knox as they review the comedy classic 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and discuss the Pythons attempting to discreetly wash a rabbit, knitted woolen armour and medieval depictions of giants snails. Plus, we have a live coconut demonstration!

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Andrew David, Claire Mosel-Crossley and Sarah Courtis as they review George Lucas's 1977 classic 'Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope' and discuss zippy swords, cute robot butts and misbehaving elephants.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Tegan Mulvany and Jason Dohle as they review Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror film 'Alien' and discuss posters of topless women and eggs, why bassoons don't sound like space anymore and how the Xenomorph almost had to fight Meryl Streep and Harrison Ford.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests Kate Willoughby and Alex McVey to review Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather' and discuss gangsters (not gangstas), the logistics of decapitating a horse and why the mob should avoid oranges at all costs.

This week, host Stephen B. Platt is joined by special guests John King and Anna Weir to review Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and discuss monkey prosthetics, sneaky A.I.'s and how in space no one can hear you scream but they can still lip read.

Some information about the official launch of 'The Cinema Catch-Up Club' and where you can find and follow it.

A podcast series where classic, important, influential and occasionally downright terrible films are reviewed by someone who has seen it before and someone who has not. In this pilot episode of "The Cinema Catch-Up Club", host Stephen B. Platt is joined by PhD students Ellin Sears and Sarah Courtis as they watch and review the 2003 film "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."