The HD Movie Podcast

Episode 138 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! It's that time of year - Summer Of Sharks is back! The format is ever so slightly different this year as we have expanded our aquatic terror remit to include other water-based menaces in SUMMER OF SHARKS AND FRIENDS! For the first episode of this new miniseries, your hosts aren't stepping away from the sharks just yet as they take a look at 2021's SWIM,...

Episode 137 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell discuss movies of any year, any genre and any quality. It's their M.O. For the final time - at least for this miniseries - We'll Be There For You as the Friends-related discussion reaches its ultimate destination with David Schwimmer starring as THE PALLBEARER! Tom is asked to give the eulogy of classmate Bill Abe...

Episode 136 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are here to discuss all of your gardening queries! Actually, that's not true. The subject is, as usual, movies of any year, any genre and any quality. For the penultimate time in this miniseries, We'll Be There For You and in this episode our Friends-related film review features the late, great Matthew Perry in FO...

Episode 135 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell hit the airwaves once again to talk about movies of any year, any genre and any quality. We'll Be There For You once more as our Friends-related miniseries switches from the female cast members to the male ones and do we have something special for you this week - it's ED, starring Matt Le Blanc as a promising base...

Episode 134 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! If it's a movie, Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell will consider covering it regardless of genre, year or quality. For the third time, your hosts will be there for you (when the rain starts to fall etc.) as they continue their miniseries on films featuring one of the main cast of Friends! This time, it's a film which Darren has been looking to cov...

Episode 133 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell take yet another look at movies of any year, any genre and any quality. Once again, we'll be there for you as it's the second episode of our Friends-related miniseries! Last week, your hosts kicked things off with Jennifer Aniston in The Object Of My Affection, now it's the turn of Courteney Cox. Lots of us know h...

Episode 132 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell may not be here to tell you life was gonna be this way but they are here to look at films of any genre, any year and any quality! It's miniseries time again! Over the next six episodes, your hosts will be taking a look at something from the filmography of each of the main cast members from that little known sitcom...

Episode 131 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell return from their Return To The Mandela Effect and head back to discussing movies of any year, any genre and any quality. After mentioning it during last week's episode, your hosts decided to take a look at 1995's THE BABYSITTER, starring Alicia Silverstone as a, er, babysitter who turns out to be subject of many...

Episode 130 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell would normally be here to cover a movie of any year, any genre and any quality but things are slightly different this week. After a gap of fifty episodes, your hosts thought it was time to take another look at those weird collective memories of something that never happened - yes, it's time to RETURN TO THE MANDEL...

Episode 129 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are back after their Easter break with another run of episodes covering movies from any year, from any genre and of any quality. It's time for another Spouse's Request episode and it's the turn of Darren's long-suffering wife Alison to choose the movie, which is 2023's LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT! It's a twist on the clas...

Episode 128 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are here to bring you an Easter Special that's basically not all that special - they're talking about a movie, as they often do. At some point, Darren is going to get his wish of covering Night Of The Lepus but for now, here's another killer rabbit movie in the shape of THE BEASTER BUNNY! Your hosts take a look at...

Episode 127 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Any movie, any year, any genre, any quality? Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are on it! This week, your hosts head back a couple of decades to revisit a spoof horror that spawned its own franchise - it's 2000's SCARY MOVIE, in which the Wayans brothers lampoon Scream, which in itself was somewhat parodic and self-referential. Settling down to en...

*** WARNING: This episode contains discussion of topics which some people may find distressing *** Episode 126 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell continue to cover movies of any year, any genre and any quality. This episode, your hosts return to the work of writer/director Emerald Fennell. They had plenty to say about Saltburn, so it was inevitable that they w...

Episode 125 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are back once again to look through the world of movies. Which movies? Any year, any genre, any quality - it's all possible. This week, your hosts are back in the world of animation as they discuss 1997's ANASTASIA, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It's a "what if?" story which takes historical fact as its...

Episode 124 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell and their mantra of "any movie, any year, any quality" certainly gets a test this time out. It's a Leap Year, and with an episode release date of 29th February, what better time would there be to cover LEAP YEAR, the 2010 romcom starring Amy Adams as a "stager" looking to surprise her boyfriend by travelling to Ir...

*** WARNING: This episode contains discussion of topics which some listeners may find distressing *** Episode 123 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Is it a movie? If so, Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell will discuss it. Doesn't matter about the year or the quality. This week, disturbing, psychological horror is on the menu in the form of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's THE LODGE! The new...

Episode 122 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! It's a new year, but your familiar team of Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are back to cast their eyes over another bunch of films of any genre, any year and any quality! We're starting 2024 off with a bang as your hosts take a look at the much talked about SALTBURN from writer/director Emerald Fennell. This has caused quite a stir due to some o...

Episode 121 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell have finished off the Xmas leftovers, they're back from the off licence with Hogmanay party booze and are ready bring you one more Merry Podmas selection, rounding off 2023 with an episode full of New Year flavour. The final episode of 2022 took a look at Norman J. Warren's quintessentially British stylings of BLO...

Episode 120 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell crash your party, drink all the prosecco and wish you all a Merry Podmas! Santa's on the way very soon but there's an episode for your hosts to deliver first. We're on festive overload this week as we bring you not one, not two, not three but FOUR CHRISTMASES as an upwardly mobile couple, played by Reese Witherspo...

Episode 119 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell order in a load of mince pies and wish you all a Merry Podmas! 'Tis the season and it's in full swing as the Chrimble-themed  movies continue! This week's offering is more Christmas-lite that the previous two weeks but it's been on the schedule for ever, it's one of Darren's favourite movies and he's finally getti...

Episode 118 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell stock up on the advocaat and, for the second time, wish you all a Merry Podmas! It's any movie, any year and any quality as usual but with a distinctly seasonal theme. It wouldn't be Christmas without the podcast covering a Hallmark movie, so your hosts brace themselves as they dive into 2004's A BOYFRIEND FOR CHR...

Episode 117 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell head up into the HDMP loft to get the tree out because it's once again time to wish you all a Merry Podmas! From now until the end of the year the podcast will be focusing on seasonal fare. The first film unwrapped is the 1994 version of MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, which has John Hughes on writing and producing duties...

Episode 116 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell return to talk about movies of any year, any genre and any quality. Before the podcast celebrates another Merry Podmas, it's time for the second of our Spouse's Request episodes! Darren's wife Alison previously tortured your hosts with Tom Cruise crapfest Cocktail and now it's the turn of Hayley's husband Phil to...

Episode 115 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are back once more, continuing to talk movies of any year, any genre and any quality. Our miniseries on werewolf movies comes to a close with 1985'S TEEN WOLF, directed by Rod Daniel and starring a certain Michael J. Fox, who has thoughts about this one, as do your hosts. This was made just before Back To The Futu...

Episode 114 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are still looking at movies of any year, any genre and any quality and are unlikely to change any time soon. Our penultimate mini-venture into the world of the werewolf movie takes us to Canada in the year 2000, but there's a definite 90s high school movie flavour as we take a look at John Fawcett's GINGER SNAPS!...