The Semi-Professionals

In the last episode of this season we close off the Toy Story trilogy. Logline: Before Andy leaves for college, his toys are mistakenly delivered to a day care centre. Woody convinces the other toys that they were not dumped and leads them on an expedition back home.

We are skipping Alphadog and going straight to Toy Story 2 released in 1999 starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack. Logline: When Woody is kidnapped by a greedy toy collector and is nowhere to be found, Buzz and his friends set out to rescue him. However, Woody gets tempted by the idea of becoming immortal in a museum.

We travel back in time to 1995 and watch Toy Story through the eyes of our younger selves. Logline: Andy's favourite toy, Woody, is worried that after Andy receives his birthday gift, a new toy called Buzz Lightyear, his importance may get reduced. He thus hatches a plan to eliminate Buzz.

We god damn near loose our noose on this weeks episode - and we like it, we like smelling with it. Tune into our review of Roman Polanski's Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Logline: Mrs Mulwray hires Detective Jake, who specializes in matrimonial cases, to spy on her husband, the builder of the city's water system. He finds himself in a web of deceit when Mr Mulwray dies...

M. Fortnight Shyamalan continues! Part 2: Signs starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin. Logline: Father Graham Hess and his family migrate to a farmhouse that later becomes the site of strange crop circles that suggest the existence of alien life.

Welcome to what will go down in history as the best miniseries name: M. Fortnight Shyamalan - two weeks of M. Night movies in a row! Part 1: The Sixth Sense Logline: Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.

We speeeend or spaahhhhhn some time with Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci this week. Logline: Billy kidnaps a young dancer, Layla, and asks her to pretend to be his wife so that he can please his parents. While Layla is initially hesitant, she falls in love with him.

We set out simply wanting to watch the original Alien movie - 5 weeks later we've burned through the whole saga and have reached the last one. Released in 2017 Alien: Covenant directed Ridley Scott is his final word in the Franchise starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride. Logline: The crew of a colony ship, Covenant, receive a radio transmission from a habitable pla...

After a month lost in deep space we have finally arrived where we wanted to be all along. This week we discuss Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise in his 2012 sci-fi epic "Prometheus" starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce. Logline: After a clue to mankind's origins is discovered, explorers are sent to...

Part four of our Alien series is here. We travel 200 years into the future and somehow end up close to future Paris in Jean-Pierre Jennet's 1997 instalment of the Alien saga - Alien: Ressurection. Logline: Ripley 8, a human-alien hybrid clone, is aboard a vessel, Auriga, along with space pirates. However, when aliens invade Auriga, Ripley does her best to prevent them from reaching and destroy...

We've been to the pictures again! We embrace our full inner dads in Christopher Nolans 2023 historical drama/thriller "Oppenheimer" starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Emiliy Blunt and Matt Damon. Logline: During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team o...

We embark on our first Fincher film of the podcast. Logline: Ellen Ripley's escape pod crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a penal colony planet terrorised by an alien. She rallies the inmates into killing it but realises that she is carrying an alien embryo herself.

We return to LV-426 in James Cameron's 1986 hit film "Aliens" Logline: Ellen Ripley is sent back to the planet LV-426 to establish contact with a terraforming colony. Once there, she encounters the Alien Queen and her offspring and has to fight them to survive.

Remember the leaked audio clip of Tom Cruise yelling at his crew for breaking protocol, while he is single handedly trying to save the film industry? Well, the saving grace has been released. Today we discuss Christopher McQuarrie's 2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. Logline: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if...

Final report of the commercial starship "Semi-Professionals"... Join us on an adventure on LV-426 as we pick apart Ridley Scotts 1979 sci fi masterpiece Alien. Logline: The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress signal from a planet and set out to investigate it. However, to their horror, they are attacked by an alien which later invades their ship.

Another classic “Matt’s reading the book" episode. Logline: In order to escape the prison labour, McMurphy, a prisoner, fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for the mentally unstable. In this ward, he must rise up against a cruel nurse, Ratched.

This week we try to figure out what happened one of 2022's highest anticipated movies, and why no one knows anyone who actually has seen it. We take a look at Paul Schrader's "The Card Counter" starring Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish and Willem Dafuckingfoe Logline: William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a...

There is an idea of a Podcast; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real us: only an entity, something illusory. And though we can hide our cold gaze, and you can shake our hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... We simply are not there. This week we tackle Mary Harron's interpretation of Bret Easton Ellis 1981 novel "...

Godfather Trilogy Part 3. Logline: When realisation strikes Micheal Corleone, he takes a tough call and decides to end his family's criminal empire. He chooses his nephew as his successor, however, the mob refuses to let him go.

Godfather Trilogy Part 2. Logline: Michael, Vito Corleone's son, attempts to expand his family's criminal empire. While he strikes a business deal with gangster Hyman Roth, he remains unaware of the lurking danger.

Get ready for a gut-punch of an episode, and join us as we pick apart David Fincher's 1999 thriller/drama Fight Club Logline: Unhappy with his capitalistic lifestyle, a white-collared insomniac forms an underground fight club with Tyler, a careless soap salesman. Soon, their venture spirals down into something sinister.

We travel 500 years back in time to Yucatan, Mexico where we watch heads roll down pyramid steps in Mel Gibson's 2008 action-adventure drama Apocalypto. Logline: Jaguar Paw, a young man, is captured by rulers of the Mayan kingdom. When they decide to sacrifice him, he makes a plan to escape death.

Strapped to our beds and with both legs hobbled, we this week talk about Rob Reiners 1990 thriller "Misery". Logline: A best-selling novelist is on his way home after completing his latest book when he meets with a car accident. He is rescued by an obsessed fan, only to discover that he is her prisoner.

HOOO-AAAAH! Today we revisit a classic dad flick. Ridley Scotts 2001 action drama "Black Hawk Down" Logline: Captain Mike Steele leads a team of nearly 100 US Army Rangers who travel to the capital city of Mogadishu to catch the top two lieutenants of a Somali warlord.

We are back for season 3 of The Semi-Professionals and we start things off with a banger! Today we travel to a different part of the world in Ansghar Farhadi's 2011 drama "A Separation" Logline: Nader and Simin, a married couple, live in Iran with their daughter Termeh. Simin wants to move out of the country, but Nader is reluctant to do so as he wants to take care of his ailing father.