The Flixters

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   We’ve hit another milestone here at The Flixters ladies and gents. This week is our 300th episode and we get down to not one, not two, but three movie reviews.  First up is Argentinian horror, When Evil Lurks , a good ol’ fashion possession tale with some gruesome consequences. Then there’s Blink Twice , the directorial...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   It’s been 45 years since Ridley Scott’s Alien terrorised audiences from the depth of outer space. In the intervening years we’d had sequels, prequels, spinoffs and now, in 2024, an interquel of sorts.  Fede Alverez, (Don’t Breathe) brings us another entry into the Alien franchise with Alien: Romulus . Set 27 years after...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On this week’s episode we discuss film auteur M Night Shyamalan’s latest screen offering, Trap . Devoted dad (Josh Hartnett) plays against type in this edge of your seat thriller.  With Night’s directing pedigree and Josh’s acting talents you’d be mad not to expect a decent, well-made piece of filmmaking, right?  Check...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   Who said the summer blockbuster disaster movie genre is dead? It’s alive and kicking because on this week’s show we discuss Twisters , which isn’t a sequel to the 1996 summer blockbuster disaster movie Twister apparently.  We delve into MCU news that came out of San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). Trust us, there’s major news t...

The one where we review Deadpool & Wolverine with guest Manny Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   It’s been six long years since the foul mouthed, samurai wielding, fourth-wall breaking anti-hero Deadpool graced the screen with his usual one-liners and graphic violence.  If the MCU has been having a rough time with audiences (and the box office), then...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   It’s being hailed as the scariest movie of the decade, but can Longlegs really justify the tag? Let’s look at the facts. Grisly murders over a long period of time, satanists, creepy dolls, and one very unhinged FBI agent.  Maybe it is, but you’ll have to download the show to find out!  We also take a look at slasher fli...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On this week’s show we have the venerable Manny filling in for Duval who’s out and about in Italy.  We discuss Nicolas Cage’s Dream Scenario , a dreamy (in the literal sense) independent which sees him play a schlubby college professor who happens to turn up in your dreams. That’s everyone in the world.  Scary right.  E...

The one where we review Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   It’s been 40 years since wise cracking Detroit cop, Axel Foley made his way to the cinema screens. Surely the most memorable character from Eddie Murphy’s illustrious career, no?  Foley’s back in another crime caper which sees him return to the city that made him so famo...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On this week’s episode we’re talkin’ killer aliens and romantic hitmen, so please join us as we discuss A Quiet Place: Day One and The Hitman .  The alien invasion genre is tried and tested and it took 2018’s A Quiet Place to inject some much needed originality into the genre. Six years on, and we now have the third ins...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On this week’s show we bring you reviews of The Exorcism , starring Oscar winning actor, Russel Crowe (The Gladiator), as a washed up actor playing a priest in an exorcist movie. Interestingly, this isn’t Crowe’s first foray into the priest/horror genre, having already starred in The Pope's Exorcist .  Check out the...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On today’s show we discuss the directorial debut of Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of auteur M. N. Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable). Fans of the senior Night style of directing already know the drill by now - suspenseful camera work, misdirection followed by a huge twist ending.  Here, Night junior, keeps up w...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   The buddy cop genre is a familiar one in Hollywood, but there aren’t many that can boast the dynamism, charm and wit of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the Bad Boys franchise. Audiences have a lot of love for ‘Mike Lowery’ (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) and in this fourth outing, there’s the usual high jinx, ca...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On today’s show we discuss horror flick, The Strangers: Chapter 1 , a movie in a long line of home invasion movies from cult director, Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2).  You know the drill. Couple holed up in a secluded cabin; no to low lights; creepy person standing outside watching in wait; something goes wrong, and then a k...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast!   On today’s show we review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, starring Anya Tayloy-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. It’s been a long nine years since we left the barren wastelands of director George Miller’s dystopian, hell.   In this prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), we follow the story of Furiosa, a superb performance from Alyla Bro...

Hello and thank you for downloading our 286th episode. This is a milestone for The Flixters because it’s our 6-year anniversary!  On today’s show we review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes , a film franchise that has produced some of the most iconic moments in film history. I still get goosebumps just thinking about the ending of the original 1968 planet film starring Charlton Heston.  In 2024, t...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! We’ve a special episode for you on this week’s podcast. Today we speak with actor and writer Hainsley Lloyd Bennet.  London born Hainsley’s acting credits include appearances in UK shows such as Eastenders and Casualty , but his most familiar role to audiences is as Deon ‘Bazza’ Bashford in Warner Bros. Television's P...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! Who doesn’t love a good revenge flick huh? Well, on this week’s show The Flixters are bringing you a review of Boy Kills World . Now we’ve heard of boy meets girl but boy kills world doesn’t sound like your typical film.  For starters it stars Bill Skarsgard (IT,, and the upcoming Crow movie), he plays ‘Boy’, a deaf and m...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! Today we’re joined by Manny who lends us his sweet dulcet tones for a review of Rebel Moon Part 2 and The Fall Guy .  Rebel Moon 2 picks up from the events of part 1 and if truth be told, part 1 didn’t go down a treat with audiences. So the question is, will part 2 go the same route?  The Fall Guy is the latest big-budget...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! It’s been a while since we last saw a decent vampire flick, so let’s hope Universal’s latest reimagining of a classic character, Abigail , is worth sinking your teeth into…see what we did there.  Criminals hell-bent on capturing the daughter of a New York crime boss get more than they bargained for in this bloody horror/c...

#movies  #civilwar #thefirstomen #immaculate  #ghostbusters #mcu #scifi #disneyplus #marvel #dc #netflix #cinema #horror #theflixterspodcast #gyamfualondon #podcasts #comics  Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! This week Emmanuel returns with special guest Jimmy aka  @zachrov to take us through all the latest. On this week’s show, we discuss Alex Garland’s...

#movies  #monkeyman  #ghostbusters #mcu #scifi #disneyplus #marvel #dc #netflix #cinema #horror #theflixterspodcast #gyamfualondon #podcasts #comics  Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! This week Emmanuel returns to take us through all the latest. On this week’s show, we discuss “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”. Is it a cold failure or a hot success? Let us kn...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! On this week’s show, we discuss the Netflix exclusive Damsel , starring Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things). In it, she plays the eponymous ‘ Damsel in distress', but here director Juan Carlos Fresnadillos (28 Weeks Later), thankfully does away with the usual tropes and puts our ‘damsel’ through some tough terrain. A...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! With the help of long-time listener Jimmy AKA Zachrov, we delve into the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune universe for Dune Part Two . The film Follows on from the events of part 1, where Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) rises amongst the ranks of the Fremen people, leading them to war against the mighty Harkonnen.  Beautif...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! On this week’s show, we review the comedy-drama American Fiction starring the brilliant Jeffrey Wright (The Batman). Here, Wright plays Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, a struggling writer unable to make waves in the literary world. Forced to spend more time in his native Boston, Monk, under a pseudonym, finds unlikely success...

Hello and thank you for downloading another episode of The Flixters Podcast! On this week’s show, we review the fantasy drama All of Us Strangers based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada.  On Anniversary Corner we look back at The Imitation Game (2014). And if that wasn’t enough for you, we’ve even thrown in new trailers to watch and what you can catch on streaming.  Thank you for suppor...