The Movie Robcast

Ep 103 sees Robs Daniel and Wallis embarking on another road trip with Borat. 14 years after the original smash hit movie, Sacha Baron Cohen brings his most famous creation back for a tour of Trump’s America. What do our intrepid explorers in pod make of this latest film? Rob Wallis has been industrious on the new movie front, so also delivers his verdicts of Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicag...

In episode 102 of The Movie Robcast Robs Daniel & Wallis look back at the films they saw at the 64th London Film Festival. The viewing may have been primarily via the Press website, but the festival still delivered its usual array of astounding movies. One of the Robs even got to check out a film on the big screen! We shan’t spoil which Rob or which movie it was. Across this packed discussion,...

In episode 101 Robs Daniel & Wallis take a look at the films getting them fired up for the 64thLondon Film Festival. Predictably. this year the festival is split between showing films on the BFI Player and certain films screening in cinemas across the country. There are over 50 movies showing, what are the six (three each) the Robs recommend? They also discuss the opening and closing movies, S...

The Movie Robcast reaches its 100th episode! In a bumper edition, Robs Daniel & Wallis recount favourite movie watching memories, oddest trips to the cinema, the dangers of revisiting cherished films… and the dangers of comparing themselves to Simon & Garfunkel. Excitingly, past contributors Ian & Ronan Bird, Jasen Govinden, Sarah Johnson, Tessa Scott and Adrian Zak also sent through m...

The Movie Robcast reaches episode 99! And in the final double digit episode before we boldly to get into three figures (*gasp*) Robs Daniel and Wallis cast an eye over Disney’s live action Mulan remake. The pair were really rather impressed with the 1998 animated version when reviewing it back on episode 87. So, what do they make of this $200m reimagining that has bypassed cinemas to premiere on D...

Episode 98 of The Movie Robcast is a bumper episode, taking a close look at Tenet and ending with a review of the long-delayed X-Men movie, The New Mutants. Excitingly, joining us for this ep is on demand movie manager Jasen Govinden to give his opinions on Christopher Nolan’s time-twisting head scratcher. We open with a tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who tragically passed on August 28th. Best known...

In episode 97 of The Movie Robcast, Robs Daniel & Wallis are joined by the dreamy Mr. Ian Bird for a 10th anniversary discussion of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. The three dive deep into Nolan’s dream world, discussing its roots in the heist movie, how it fits into Nolan’s filmography, what is good about it, what is *gasp* not so good about it, and why it endures a decade later. And it’s not...

Episode 96 of The Movie Robcast looks at two very different films, both of which bypassed cinemas due to Coronavirus to premiere on streaming services. Tom Hanks’ Greyhound tells the World War 2 tale of a captain having to steer a convoy of ships through U-boat infested waters in the North Atlantic. And, excitingly, friend of the podcast Adrian Zak cameos to give his opinion on this lean, impressi...

Episode 94 of The Movie Robcast sees Robs Daniel & Wallis in the same vicinity for the first time in three months! They decided to meet in town on a sunny Sunday morning to do a social distanced podcast. Both rocking a Bane look with their face masks (and you can hear Rob D shifting his a few times, well it kept sliding down…) they tried not to get freaked out by how randomly noisy they found...

Episode 93 of The Movie Robcast sees our intrepid Robs looking to the skies to discuss The Vast of Night, now streaming on Amazon Prime. On this quest they are joined once again by Tessa Scott, back after a triumphant appearance on the Whiplash episode. The trio give their verdict on Andrew Patterson’s debut, a glorious evocation of 50s sci-fi wonder and paranoia. They discuss the influence of The...

Welcome to this bonus episode of The Movie Robcast. The BFI Player Japan 2020 season continues in June with a collection dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, joining fantastic collections on Akira Kurosawa and Classic Japanese movies. We had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Alexander Jacoby about Yasujiro Ozu and why the director is so important to Japanese cinema. An expert on Japan and Japanese film, Alex...

*SPOILER WARNING* - This episode features Whiplash spoilers throughout, including discussion of the plot twists and the film's climax.   Episode 92 of The Movie Robcast sees Robs Daniel & Wallis looking back at Damien Chazelle’s blistering, Oscar winning 2014 debut, Whiplash. And to make sure the Robs are not rushing or dragging, they’ve invited their friend Tessa Scott along for her opin...

Would it be cheesy to describe episode 91 as "suh-MO-kin'!"? It would? Okay, we'll Carrey on at a slightly more measured tone.  With Sonic the Hedgehog still one of the country's most recent movie releases despite hitting cinemas in February, the two Robs decided to delve deep into Jim Carrey's catalogue and review more than the blue-rinse speed hog. Although they do talk Sonic, don't worry....

The Movie Robcast reaches its 90th episode! And we’re marking the occasion with bang, looking at Chris Hemsworth’s explosive actioner Extraction and Gareth Evan’s brutal crime epic Gangs of London. The Robs find a particularly familiar whiff to Extraction. But, they take the opportunity to invoke the oeuvre of straight-to-rental favourite Scott Adkins when discussing how closely Chris Hemsworth’s...

For multiple obvious reasons, No Time to Die has been moved back to November. But we still wanted to give you a Bond episode for April. There were twenty-four 007 missions from which to choose, including some of the most influential films ever made. So, why did we go for Moonraker, the Bond film typically dismissed as the Star Wars rip-off with a double-taking pigeon? The short answer is because R...

Episode 88 sees the two Robs taking a deep dive into four films fast-tracked to home rental when Coronavirus closed cinemas.  With such a mixed bag, it should be no surprise to read it's a case of good and bad (not much ugly though).  There is only one real stinker in the bunch, another that never quite finds the correct tone, one is an absolute blast, and another is a Top 10 of the Year...

The Robs originally planned for the first episode in April to be Disney's live-action remake of Mulan. But, with that being another Coronavirus-related postponed movie, they thought why not go back to the 1998 version? Particularly as Rob D had not actually seen that one, despite always planning to. As a wise franchise one said, life finds a way... So, with Disney+ handily launching the week of re...

Episode 86 of The Movie Robcast sees the Robs remote recording. Abiding by social distancing measures, they're in their respective abodes, but that doesn't stop them from covering a wide range of movie topics and other affairs of state. Unsurprisingly, top of the list is the Coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 took quite a turn for the dramatic since the last episode, with first cinemas and theatres cl...

In episode 85 of The Movie Robcast, Robs Daniel and Wallis go on an epic journey while reviewing Pixar’s Onward. Well, they’re outside in the middle of London again as Rob Wallis is on his lunchbreak and they have to find shelter because it starts raining. It seemed epic at the time. As they are discussing a fantasy movie, Rob W has opportunity to bust out his Gollum impersonation. It really is so...

Episode 84 of The Movie Robcast casts an eye over the latest telling of The Invisible Man. From the Blumhouse stable and directed by Upgrade creator Leigh Whannell, it boasts Elisabeth Moss in the lead role as an abused woman who fears her ex may be closer than she realises. One of the Robs enjoyed this take on the classic, the other had more trouble seeing the good stuff. But, it makes for a live...

The Movie Robcast is on a roll! Three episodes in one week, it must be awards season. But, we couldn't let Parasite's UK theatrical release come and go without us reviewing this record-breaking, Oscar winning triumph. So, the two Robs take a close view at Bong Joon-ho's latest movie. This could be the director's best yet, and when you remember his previous films include The Host and Memories of Mu...

In episode 82 of The Movie Robcast, Robs Daniel and Wallis review Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn Suicide Squad spin-off. To do full justice to the movie, its comic origins and add an important female point-of-view on this female-led movie, Rob Daniel also sits down with friend of the podcast Sarah Johnson for her take. Sarah has a...

Robs Daniel and Wallis give their take on Oscars 2020, aka The 92nd Academy Awards, aka the year that a film not in the English language finally won the Best Picture statue, not just Best Foreign Film. Sorry, Best *International* Film, as the Academy are now calling it. Parasite's sweeping victory, picking up four Oscars, turned an otherwise standard Oscars show into a night to remember. But, ther...

The Movie Robcast reaches its 80th episode, so we have a fittingly bumper show in store. Opening with a tribute to the late, great Terry Jones, who died on 21st January 2020, aged 77 after a long battle with dementia. The two Robs were raised on Life of Brian so have words of praise for the Python polymath. The Robs then look at two movies in this ep, which seem poles apart but complement the disc...

Episode 78 of The Movie Robcast is proof that bad publicity can be as effective as positive hype. Rob Daniel had no intention of seeing Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit stage show. And then the negative reviews arrived. And kept on arriving. And conjured such bizarre and terrible images of what awaited audiences for Cats that he had to see the horrors for himself. Paying £10, h...