The Stinking Pause Podcast

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Our 200th movie review – Rocky (1976) directed by John Alvidesen and starring Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire and Burgess Meredith "You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder! " HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS A MILLION-TO-ONE SHOT. When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an u...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week's movie – Only Angels Have Wings from 1939 – directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell. "I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me." Rough and tough Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) runs a tiny airline that ca...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week's movie – Days Of Wine And Roses (1962) directed by Blake Edwards and starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick "You remember how it really was? You and me and booze - a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I got hold of somet...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week's movie – Ridicule from 1996 directed by Patrice Leconte Under the reign of Louis XVI, poor French lord Gregoire learns to master the art of wit in the court of Versailles in order for the king to fund his drainage project. Along the way, he immerses himself in a worl...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week's movie – The World According To Garp from 1982, based on the John Irving novel , directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week's movie – Signs from 2002, directed by M Night Shylaman and starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. When crop circles begin mysteriously appearing in the fields of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, widower and ex-minister Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) reassures his two young children that everything is going to be OK. But sighting...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week's movie – Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot from 2018, directed by Gus van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonah Hill and Jack Black. After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing Oregon slacker John Callahan intends to do is give up alcohol. Encouraged by his girlfriend and a charismatic sponso...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week's movie – Goodbye Lenin! From 2003 starring Daniel Bruhl In October 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Alex Kerner (Daniel Brühl) is living with his mother, Christiane (Kathrin Sass), and sister, Ariane (Maria Simon). But when the mother, a loyal party me...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. This week's movie – Django Unchained (2013) Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and together they hu...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. This week's movie – The Theory of Everything (2014) In the 1960s, Cambridge University student and future physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with fellow collegian Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones). At 21, Hawking learns that he has motor neuron disease. Despite this -- and with Jane at his side -- he begins an amb...

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. This week's movie – Slap Shot from 1977 starring Paul Newman In the small New England town of Charlestown, the local mill is about to lay off 10,000 workers. The town's minor league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, is doing no better. After years of failure, this will be the team's last season. Exasperated player and coach Re...

Episode 122 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Movie Roulette this week required Paul to select a movie starring Edmond O'Brien. So, it's back to 1962 for a movie featuring the most impressive cast we have seen so far on the podcast…The Longest Day. In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhowe...

Episode 121 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Scott spun the wheel for Movie Roulette last week which  revealed the topic of Best Actress Oscar Winners from the 2010s. So, this week's movie is Room from 2015 directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Jacob Tremblay with an Academy Award winning performance from Brie Larson. ROOM tells the extraordinary story of Jack, a spirite...

Episode 120 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week's episode, thanks to the randomness of Movie Roulette , means that Liam has to select a movie directed by Akira Kurosawa. Liam's choice this episode is Throne of Blood from 1957. Cineastes beware… this episode may offend some of you out there…we couldn't see what the fuss was all about. Returning to their lord's castle,...

Episode 119 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week's episode, thanks to the randomness of Movie Roulette , means that Paul has to select a movie featuring Christopher Plummer. Paul's choice therefore is the Pixar movie 'Up' from 2009. Carl Fredricksen, a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies...

Episode 118 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week's episode, thanks to the randomness of Movie Roulette , means that Liam has to select a vampire movie. Liam's choice therefore is Let The Right One In from 2008. When Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy living with his mother in suburban Sweden, meets his new neighbour, the mysterious and moody E...

Episode 117 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Movie Roulette has thrown a Charlton Heston movie at Scott this week, and so, in order not to upset Paul and Liam too much by choosing Ben Hur, he has instead selected Two Minute Warning from 1976. The Los Angeles Police Department, led by Capt. Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), learns that a madman is planning to open fire on footba...

Episode 116 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul   The movie review this week, selected by Paul, is Monty Python and the Holy Grail from 1975 starring Mssrs Palin, Cleese, Gilliam, Jones and Chapman A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the...

Episode 115 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Scott, is Sons of the Desert from 1933 starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Stanley (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) want to attend the yearly convention of the Sons of the Desert, a fraternal group to which they belong. When Ollie's wife, Lollie (Mae Busch), objects, he feigns sickn...

Episode 114 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, is Whiplash from 2014 starring Miles Teller and J K Simmons Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor known for his terrifying teaching methods, discov...

Episode 113 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Scott, is Rain Man from 1988 starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise When car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) and that his fath...

Episode 112 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, is Good Will Hunting from 1997 starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Minnie Driver Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Ger...

Episode 111 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Paul, is the Morgan Spurlock documentary from 2004, Super Size Me. Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets...

Episode 110 of the Stinking Pause podcast from Scott An extra special festive edition, where I take a look at my favourite movie of all time, It's A Wonderful Life Join me as I give you not only a commentary on the movie itself, but also a history of the story behind the making of one of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time. This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes and Stitcher R...

Episode 109 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The Christmas movie review this week is Home Alone starring Macauley Culkin When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an...