The Movies of Happenstance

Craig and Jason venture into the desert on a treasure hunt this week, navigating the dark satire of "Three Kings" before dodging bad CGI in the disappointing "The Mummy". See you at the movies! Three Kings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdal5c1TfmE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/ The Mummy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7oKxlaUBac https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120616/ Podcast: https://19...

Jason and Craig settle their creative disputes by deciding to record a magnificent podcast about Mike Leigh's detailed and authentic costume drama "Topsy Turvy", before moving to the Hollywood Hills to explore the seedier side of film production in the grim "Hurlyburly". See you at the movies! Topsy Turvy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqTxlBI1IHY https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151568/ Hurlyburly...

This week Craig and Jason head to death row, travelling back to Louisiana in 1935 to watch yet another performing mouse in Stephen King's "The Green Mile", before following Clint Eastwood around modern day Oakland, California in the disappointing "True Crime". See you at the movies! The Green Mile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4haFrqSrw https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689 True Crime: https:/...

Placeholder no more... Jason returns from Vietnam and immediately catches up on his movie watching so he can join Craig for a mid-week update. The fellows first delve into "10 Things I Hate About You" before emerging like newborns into the modern world of 1999 in the rip-van-winkle-esque "Blast From The Past". See you at the movies! 10 Things I Hate About You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEmcE...

Jason and Craig, aka "The Rocket Boys", blast into space to reminisce about the fifties in the acronymic love letter to science and engineering that is "October Sky", followed by us heartily disagreeing on the George Lucas big space movie blockbuster "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace". See you at the movies!  October Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJQgYPXjN4 https://www.imdb.com/titl...

Craig starts following Jason everywhere... or is it the other way around? Only Christopher Nolan knows in "Following", his feature directorial debut. Craig then prances about as he dodges through a field of laser beams to find out more about Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery in our second former-James-Bond-art-thief-romances-an-insurance-investigator movie of the year in "Entrapment". See you...

Craig experiences M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" for the very first time, having remained unspoiled for the last twenty-five years! He and Jason then marvel at the big-budget "Stuart Little" featuring CGI that was well ahead of it's time, at the time. See you at the movies! The Sixth Sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXG4HTIlc1U https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404 Stuart Little: http...

This week Jason and Craig reunite in Perth to dive into the seedy underbelly of American suburbia in the quintessential American Beauty, then become disciples of "Buddy Christ" in Kevin Smith's Dogma. See you at the movies!  American Beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHyRxaT_9o https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547 Dogma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8UW-O-rhv0 https://www.imdb.com/title...

Craig and Jason re-unite this week and are joined by a very special guest: Drew Morrow! Tune in for an in-depth discussion of the topical political satire Bulworth and the shaky-cam fly-on-the-wall sports movie Any Given Sunday, but stay for Drew's bombshells, including the Banksy reveal... see you at the movies! Bulworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWca7MI-RBs https://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

This week Jason goes it alone to discuss the shocking and difficult-to-watch Happiness, followed by the light-hearted rom-com Happy, Texas. Look out for the Magnolia connection, and see you at the movies! Happiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Roh0b-J6g https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612 Happy, Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh_d86E18RU https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162360 Podcast:...

This week Craig runs away, so it's only Jason hosting a very short podcast. We begin with the exciting "Run Lola Run", which was so good that we watched it twice. We were then disappointed with the terrible "Runaway Bride"... the less said about that the better. See you at the movies! Run Lola Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT2RlajsaSQ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827 Runaway Bride: http...

Jason is overjoyed while Craig is overwrought and languishing in despair after watching the first 2h45m of Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece "Magnolia", exiting stage left as amphibians descended from the heavens. He tried therapy only to be bumped off the waiting list by Robert De Niro in the light entertainment escapist antidote of "Analyze This". See you at the movies!  Magnolia: https://www.y...

Jason and Craig drive an ambulance around the gritty nighttime streets of New York City in search of a good Nicholas Cage performance in the Martin Scorsese's "Bringing out the Dead" while John Travolta chases after them asking for a drink of water in the star-studded Erin Brokovitch-esque "A Civil Action". See you at the movies! Bringing Out The Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMg9WlKgsU h...

Love is in the air as Jason and Craig yack about Praise, the dismal, dour and depressingly honest Aussie love story with a fantastic soundtrack by Dirty Three, before they embark on the sugar rush that is the overly saccharine English romcom of Notting Hill. See you at the movies! Praise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Y-BPLYw6o https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147192 Notting Hill: https://www.you...

Join Jason and Craig this week as they delve into the world of shouty actors telephoning in their performances in the impressive The Insider before they are snatched up by the lapels and dragged into the Shakespearean tragedy that is Titus. See you at the movies! DMA's cover of Beautiful Stranger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCIwkwH9XU The Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGOb29aePyc...

Craig returns from his sick box and bumps Sam Altman's Monster to the sidelines to join Jason to chat about probably the highlight of the year so far, bringing Gandalf and George of the Jungle together in the remarkable Gods and Monsters, before they start peering over neighbourhood fences to try to catch their neighbours doing something despicable in the twisty Arlington Road. See you at the movi...

With Craig away sick with an infected bioport (and the 'rona), Jason and ChatGPT chat about the body horror shock of the prophetic eXistenZ before diving under the waves to escape from genetically engineered sharks in the weird Jurassic Park / Abyss crossover Deep Blue Sea. See you at the movies! eXistenZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgOUa91GHg https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907 Deep Blue S...

While Craig attempts to set up a WiFi Mesh using root vegetables, Jason is beamed up to an intergalactic adventure in the wonderful Galaxy Quest, only to return to Earth with a thud, to the tune of "All Star" by Smash Mouth, as he finds himself in the ho-hum superhero parody of Mystery Men. See you at the movies! Shovel Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtiu2gEedN8 Galaxy Quest: https://www.you...

This week a sickly Craig attempts to steal Jason's limelight but is temporarily expelled from the podcast instead as the pair declare their love for Yes, Minister and enter the filmed stage play of David Mamet's "The Winslow Boy" before seeking psychological help in small-town USA with the understated but very funny "Mumford". See you at the movies! The Winslow Boy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Craig and Jason fight over a mysterious remote control and are transported first back to the melodramatic 1990s, and then to the monochromatic 1950s, to disrupt fictitious lives in the eventually colourful Pleasantville, before time-jumping again to the 1960s where Winona is waiting with a strong female cast to transport us into the world of Girl, Interrupted. See you at the movies! Pleasantville:...

This week Jason and Craig try the American Romper Stomper on for size with the Edwards Norton and Furlong in the controversial moral tale of American History X before entering the bizarre world of Anthony Banderas's farcical melodrama in Crazy in Alabama. See you at the movies!  American History X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQYHqsiN5g https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586 Crazy in Alabama: h...

Jason and Craig enter Kubrik's dreamscape to travel under the rainbow to the tune of a single, repeated note on the piano in the curious fable of fidelity in Eyes Wide Shut before retreating to a heist turned romance in the strangely nude The Thomas Crown Affair. See you at the movies! Eyes Wide Shut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVo96JaqeM https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663 The Thomas Crown...

Craig and Jason begin this week's episode with a bleak exploration of generational toxic masculinity in snowy New Hampshire with the dismal and redemptionless Affliction, before venturing into the world of beauty pageants with the hilarious mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous. See you at the movies! Affliction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_CDpH7ieko https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118564 Drop Dead...

This week Jason records the podcast surreptitiously by hiding behind bushes and following Craig around, all while sheltering from chubby rain, as the pair somehow produce a discussion about the Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy comedy Bowfinger, directed by Yoda. The pair then bum a smoke and enter the world of punk NYC for a second week running to find out what Elvis Costello did for NYE in 1981. See...

It's off to race cars around Paris and Nice in pursuit of a classic McGuffin this week as Jason and Craig dive over railings into the world of Espionage and Samurai with the classic De Niro movie Ronin, after which they regret their decision to move to 1977 New York in search of serial killers in Spike Lee's bad joint Summer of Sam. Stick around for the ball drop to see what we'll be talking about...