The Movies of Happenstance

This week the bingo machine selected #34, which was Desperately Seeking Susan . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to re...

This week the bingo machine selected #41, which was Police Story . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to rewind!

This week the bingo machine selected #1, which was Ladyhawke . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to rewind!

This week the bingo machine selected #37, which was The Falcon and the Snowman . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to r...

This week the bingo machine selected #52, which was My Beautiful Laundrette . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to rewi...

This week the bingo machine selected #17, which was Cocoon . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And remember, the world really is wonderf...

This week the bingo machine selected #40, which was Young Sherlock Holmes . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to rewind...

This week the bingo machine selected #18, which was To Live and Die in LA . Listen to hear what we thought about it, along with news from this week in 1985. You can see the list of movies we've watched so far , and join our Discord server to chat about them. You can also access all of our previous episodes (include those of season 1, where we watched the movies of 1999). And don't forget to rewind...

In the final episode of "The Movies of 1999" Jason and Craig discover a portal into the mind of Charlie Kaufman in Spike Jonze's amazing directorial debut "Being John Malkovich" before discovering Gonzo filmmaking by delving into the work of Jim Henson in the ultimately shallow but surprisingly funky "Muppets From Space". See you at the movies! Being John Malkovich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

This week Jason and Craig explore things from each other's point of view in the very Pulp Fictioney Black Christmas Comedy "Go", after which they travel back to the 1960s in search of Madonna, Lenny Kravitz and They Might Be Giants in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me". See you at the movies! Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSOBdkzG1YI https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139239 Austin Powers: T...

This week Jason and Craig venture into the woods with nothing but a video camera as they search for "The Blair Witch Project" before waking up in a cubical room and avoiding death traps and bad acting in the Canadian "Cube". See you at the movies! The Blair Witch Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBZ-POVsrlI https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185937/ Cube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shcK9b-...

This week Jason and Craig go fishing deep in Mississippi in a fruitless attempt to prepare some catfish enchiladas and end up watching Robert Altman's charming "Cookie's Fortune" instead, before driving their speedboat down the Thames collecting double entendres from every direction in the formulaic and heavily millennial "The World is Not Enough". See you at the movies! Cookie's Fortune: https://...

In this week's episode Craig and Jason watch Hillary Swank's Oscar-winning performance in the harrowing true story of Brandon Teena in "Boy's Don't Cry", followed by the interesting but obscure "The Adventures of Sebastian Cole". See you at the movies! Boys Don't Cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar9wGSd7KVQ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171804 The Adventures of Sebastian Cole: https://www.yout...

This week Jason and Craig travel back an extra 25 years to the sensual moodiness of 1974 suburban Detroit in Sophia Coppola's impressive directorial debut "The Virgin Suicides" before travelling back even further in time to the very popular yet historically inaccurate bardwashing tale of "Shakespeare in Love".  See you at the movies! The Virgin Suicides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kDcCGlaBwY...

Jason and Craig laugh along to Oscar Wilde's witty rapid-fire dialogue in "An Ideal Husband" before travelling once again to snow country for a romantic murder mystery in Scott Hicks' "Snow Falling on Cedars". See you at the movies! An Ideal Husband: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjpQAj_MtUI https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122541 Snow Falling on Cedars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY6mC4I4SWk...

In this episode Jason and Craig bemoan the state of politics today by travelling back to better times, with election interference in the almost-sequel to Ferris Beuller in "Election", followed by West Wing walk-and-talks with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissenger in the one-joke "Dick". See you at the movies! Election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgM_Kw6PSM https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886 Di...

Craig and Jason enter the jungles of FNQ, along with half of Hollywood, to watch the saintly Jim Caviezel philosophise about war in Terrence Malick's impactful "The Thin Red Line" before donning prosthetic foreheads and hitting the football field in "Varsity Blues". See you at the movies!  The Thin Red Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHxJp2wgb-g https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863 Varsity B...

In this weeks unfortunately delayed episode Jason and Craig venture to the heart of feudal New Jersey in the wonderfully unexpected Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, where they follow a trail of severed heads to wind up in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, where they abandon science and reason forever. See you at the movies! Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLHeMzjQ29E...

In this week's episode badly animated versions of Craig and Jason travel to a small town in snowy Colorado to find out what happens when underage kids view sweary Canadian movies in "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" before they swim with the sky-whales and ride the subways of Gershwin's NYC in Disneys wonderful "Fantasia 2000". See you at the movies! South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: ht...

This week Jason gets deep into numerology, probing the inner workings of his bingo machine to reveal an arthouse mashup of the previous two movies, The Matrix and Fight Club, in Darren Aranofsky's debut "Pi", followed by Craig's probing of the manufactured gross-out cringe-fest of "American Pie". See you at the movies! Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SC582sJvE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

This week Craig befriends Jason, a much cooler version of himself who introduces him to the world of challenging arthouse cinema as the pair splice a kranzky into David Fincher's "Fight Club" before Jason follows Craig around with a video camera and livestreams his everyday life while the pair delve into Rob Howard's "EDtv". See you at the movies! Fight Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJKm1...

Craig dons his sunglasses and learns kung fu so that he can ride the Nebuchadnezzar into the pre-Olympics Sydney of 1999, apparently the epitome of civilisation, in the Wachowskis classic "The Matrix", before Jason returns to 1937 LA to pick up girls in the multi-layered Inception-esque "The Thirteenth Floor". See you at the movies! The Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4eJx-0g3Do https://w...

Jason drives a Ford through the streets of Sydney in pursuit of Craig, who has ditched his holden and dashed aboard the monorail while following Heath Ledger in "Two Hands", before Jason delivers the ultimate dad joke as the boys change gears to watch Reese Witherspoon in "Best Laid Plans". See you at the movies! Two Hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2JmLpnASv0 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...

It's all revenge this week as Jason and Craig follow Terence Stamp as he avenges his daughter's suspicious death in Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey" before watching Mel Gibson take on a bad guy role in the film that Margaret Pomeranz gave no stars whatsover in the controversal "Payback". See you at the movies!  The Limey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfWPKR21jV8 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165...

Craig does his best Elvis impersonation while Jason adopts his alter-ego of Tony Clifton in order to fully embody Andy Kaufman in the intriguing "Man on the Moon", after which a big dose of saccharine sentimentality arrives in the form of Robin Williams in the overlong "Bicentennial Man". See you at the movies! Man on the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCcQB-iT7LY https://www.imdb.com/title...