The Silver Screen Dudes

A good, tight, well-edited story! That's what's on the cards this week! Don't get us wrong, we love epic long stories, so this is in no way a condemnation of the longer flicks, rather a recognition and appreciation to those that can tell a brilliant story, start to end with less than 90 minute run times. There's an art to make movies (duh), but there's an argument to be made there's an even bigger...

Amazing what can happen in one day. Never has that been truer than in movies, where some truly bonkers shit can happen. From bank robberies in a post Attaca world, to stopping terrorists in the Nakatomi plaza, to riding along with Denzel for police training, to stopping a Nuclear holocaust, to passing judgement on a potentially innocent life, to going beast-mode on society, to dealing with Teen an...

The Chase. There's nothing quite like it in Movies. When shot properly, it's an incomparable feet of stunt choreography, poetic editing and balletic camera work that comes together to give you an edge of the seat, visceral and exciting experience. Such an experience merits a TOP 10 from the dudes, so let's count down the TOP 10 Movie Chases. We are now giving you the chance to vote for the winner...

The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean. What do they all have in common? When it comes to their respective franchises, they are the standouts by a country mile! And they are all the first in their Franchise, and that's what we are discussing this week. Big IPs, Franchises that started off the best way. Enjoy We are now giving you the chance to vote for the winner of each Movie Mount R...

New Mutants is out now in cinemas, and with it's arrival, the end of an era... That's because New Mutants is the LAST EVER X-Men movies under the 20th Century Fox banner. Some of you may know that Disney recently acquired Fox in an industry shaking deal that sees them now own the likes of Simpsons, Deadpool, X-men and more. On the one hand, we can rejoice, because we will finally see the X-men in...

This is super exciting! Tenet is in theatres and that may, just may usher people back into theatres. Long live Christopher Nolan. To quote one of our hosts, Nico, Nolan is the finest director working today with a diverse body of work that really doesn't have a blemish. Tenet is only his 11th movie, so we'll be looking at the other 10, and what a 10 it is!!! We are now giving you the chance to vote...

This is a personal episode and we'll open up to you a bit as we are counting down the TOP 10 movies we wish we'd seen in cinemas. This is a nicely balanced list as it features some historical movies we won't have been alive for, but the screenings have become stuff of legend, maybe we weren't old enough, or maybe we were just too stupid and could have seen some of these just missed the chance. We'...

This one goes out to Fargo! Specifically one of our fans in Fargo, Morgan Paige (find her on Twitter @MoPaige05), who came up with the brilliant idea of Movies with places in the title. We loved this idea so much that we wanted to go even further. We're gonna do this as a 2 parter, the first one here being with US places in the title, and the second later in the year being NON-US places in the tit...

Some films are so overrated... Sometimes, even best picture winners are overrated. Especially when you consider who the winner beat to win the best picture Oscar. Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas, Driving Miss Daisy beating My Left Foot for example. We won't say more to avoid giving too much away, but you see what we're getting at! Sometimes, it's not even down to who they beat, they could be...

One for the mega fanboy and girls this! There have been 47 movies that have grossed a billion or more. Some good, most bad, and a few terrible. But there are a plethora of BIG IP's like Star Wars, Marvel, Lord of the Rings to name a few, and there is some definite quality to be had here. So enjoy our countdown of the billion dollars club. BRAND NEW: We are now giving you the chance to vote for the...

This one goes out too our fan, Younes, find him on Twitter @_ArsenalTimes_ What a great topic this is, the TOP 10 Opening Scenes. In no other artistic medium is the importance of the opening scene so apparent. You need to get an audience fully invested from the get go, or you can crash and burn before the opening credits have even rolled. The films we have picked perfectly exemplify this: these ar...

Self-indulgence time! Again, a big thank you to all who joined us for our 2-part Episode 100, whether it was on Youtube, Facebook, or right here on our good old podcast, thank you! To start the ball rolling with our next hundred episodes, we wanted to take a quick look back at the last hundred and pick our favourite 10 Top 10's. A little bit self-indulgent for sure, but e will be talking movies, a...

Milestone achieved! Can't believe it guys, but 2 and a half years on, we've reached episode 100 of the Movie Mount Rushmore podcast. We've become... dare we say... classic? And so to celebrate this milestone, we are doing Episode 100 as a two-parter, covering classic cinema from 1930-1969. For the first part, it's proper old-school, with the TOP 10 Movies from 1930-1949. Thank you everyone who has...

Milestone achieved! Can't believe it guys, but 2 and a half years on, we've reached episode 100 of the Movie Mount Rushmore podcast. We've become... dare we say... classic? And so to celebrate this milestone, we are doing Episode 100 as a two-parter, covering classic cinema from 1930-1969. For the first part, it's proper old-school, with the TOP 10 Movies from 1930-1949. Thank you everyone who has...

Guys and Gals, and everyone, this is huge! Tomorrow, Thursday the 2nd of July, marks EPISODE 100 of the Movie Mount Rushmore. To celebrate this milestone, we will be going LIVE for the first time ever. The Livestream will be visible on both our YouTube channel and Facebook page, and will START AT 3pm (UK time) We sincerely hope that everyone will be able to join us on the livestream, we will be mo...

Seems that some of you liked our John Williams episode so much, that we have received a few requests to cover film scores a bit more broadly. This time, we have been asked to cover TOP 10 Film Scores (though of course, we will exclude John Williams having covered him recently). Where to begin...? There is an insane wealth choices to pick for this. Getting just 10 on our individual lists was bloody...

It's that wonderful time again! Time for Silver Screen News, the Movie Mount Rushmore's monthly collaboration with K2K Radio where we discuss all the latest movie news and revisit movies that are 10 years old and 20 years old in our throwback thursday section. Our News Topics this month: Weta to launch brand new animation studio helmed by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh Will the next Star Wars movie...

Been a while since we've had a Fan Selection Episode, but we recently did our TOP 10 Monologues, in which Bill Pullman.s speech from Independence Day featured. One of our fans wrote to us on Twitter and suggested "Hey, why not TOP 10 Movie Presidents?". Given the crazy psycho currently residing in the White House, suggesting that we should consume bleach or Hydroxichlroquine, while saying that "te...

The world we live in... Crazy to think how far we've come, or so it would seem. Yet one need only scratch the surface and there remains so deep routed societal issues that frankly need to be eradicated. There's no room in the world for racism, inequality and intolerance anymore (though the man in the White House would have you believe otherwise). As such we are counting down the TOP 10 films about...

This one has been brewing a long time, but in an age where we have no new releases to tie our TOP 10's in with, now is the perfect time to look at some old school magic. We are counting down the TOP 10 movies of the Golden Age, considered to be between 1941-1954. With stars like James Stewart & Gene Kelly at the height of their powers, a combination of both black & white and colour movies, starlet...

Monologues. They stir emotion, they inspire you to go into battle, they move you, they bring a tear to your eye, they make you laugh, they make you reflect. Be it Trainspotting's Choose Life, Braveheart's Freedom, Jaws' Indianapolis, movie monologues are fascinating. From a writing perspective, from a delivery perspective, they are parts of a movie hat standout and usually stay with you long after...

It's that wonderful time again! Time for Silver Screen News, the Movie Mount Rushmore's monthly collaboration with K2K Radio where we discuss all the latest movie news and revisit movies that are 10 years old and 20 years old in our throwback thursday section. Our News Topics this month: The Snyder Cut version of Justice League is coming! The ongoing battle between cinemas and Universal Robert Pat...

Are you talking' to me? I am your father. Frankly my dear I don't give a damn. Here's looking' at you kid. You know all of these, but thesis just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to great one-liners. That's what this episode is all about: those great lines that are so famous, you know them without even having seen the movie, that permeate pop culture, that are used without even being reference...

The world continues to be on lockdown and so we thought it appropriate to look beyond our own borders (and indeed beyond Hollywood cinema) and explore movies made in other countries. We've gone fully international with this episode bringing you movies from Asia, Latin America, Central Europe and more. International cinema really has a lot to offer and we implore you to not be put off by the subtit...

Full disclaimer: we were originally going to release to coincide with the release of A Quiet Place 2, to honour John Krasinski (sort of - yes, we know he doesn't star in that film). As the lockdown continues, we continue to reach for TOP 10 topics that don't necessarily coincide with anything, but hey, that time we live in, and the Movie Mount Rushmore keeps on going! Doom and Gloom aside, this wa...