The Stinking Pause Podcast

Episode 083 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. No Charlie unfortunately this week, but he will be back very soon Paul has managed to break the second rule of Stinking Pause by selecting a movie less than ten years old. He hasn't recorded with us for a couple of years though, so we will forgive him. Paul's choice of movie this evening is Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' from...

Episode 082 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie. Charlie's choice for this episode is the directorial debut from David Lynch - Eraserhead from 1977 starring Jack Nance. Henry (John Nance) resides alone in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant, he marries the expectant mother and h...

Episode 081 of The Stinking Pause podcast. For those that have not heard the sister podcast to the Stinking Pause, we present a bonus episode from season one of Rainbow Valley featuring the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). Season two of Rainbow Valley will be back at the beginning of September, so if you would like to catch up on previous episodes, head on over and subscribe at iTunes or t...

Episode 080 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie.   Scott's choice for this episode is Point Blank from 1967 starring Lee Marvin and directed by John Boorman. A ruthless crook, Walker (Lee Marvin), is betrayed by his partner, Mal Reese (John Vernon), who leaves him for dead on Alcatraz Island. Having survived, Walker returns years later to get revenge. He gets his first lead when a...

Episode 079 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie   Charlie's choice of movie this week so it's back to 1994 to take look at Forrest Gump. This Academy Award winner for Best Picture stars Tom Hanks as the good hearted, but painfully slow Forrest Gump, a man who manages to somehow be involved with almost every major event in history during the last half of the 20th Century. Spanning...

Episode 078 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie (and Tom) In this episode we are joined by our very dear friend Tom from the Anywhere But Here podcast (amongst others). When Tom heard that we would be talking all things Tombstone this week, he couldn't wait to jump on board and help us along the way.   You can check out Tom's podcasts over at: abhpod.com   This and previous episod...

Episode 077 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie It's back to 1970 and early Jack Nicholson as Scott and Charlie review Bob Rafelson's 'Five Easy Pieces'. Bobby Dupea seems to be a regular blue collar kind of guy. He works on oil rigs and lives with his girlfriend Rayette who works as waitress in a diner. He spends a lot of his time drinking and carousing. After having little or no...

Episode 076 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie (and Mark) In this episode we are joined by our very dear friend Mark from The Good The Bad and The Odd podcast (amongst others). Mark celebrated his birthday recently and traditionally he will celebrate by watching his favourite movie, Zulu starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine. So we thought we would honour the occasion with him...

Episode 075 of The Stinking Pause classic movie review podcast. This week Scott and Charlie take a look at Martin Brest's 'Midnight Run' starring Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin   Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Marduka...

Episode 074 of The Stinking Pause classic movie review podcast. This week Scott and Charlie take a look at Alan Parker's 'Midnight Express' starring Brad Davis and John Hurt.   Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is a young American caught by Turkish police while attempting to smuggle hash out of Istanbul. He's tried and sent to prison for four years, where he endures all manner of privation and abuse. As he...

A bonus episode of the Stinking Pause podcast for those that may not have caught up with Scott's other show Rainbow Valley. In a desperate attempt to bump up the download figures and in an unashamed plug for the show, we present episode five in all it's glory where Scott tells the story of the making of Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie Psycho.   If you would like to hear more episodes of the show,...

Episode 072 - The Offence (1973) One of the darkest movies we have reviewed. The Offence, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Trevor Howard and Vivien Merchant. In Sidney Lumet's harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. In that time, the countless murders, rapes and other serious crimes he h...

Episode 071 - The Red Shoes (1948) Scott and Charlie are back for episode 071 in which we review The Red Shoes from 1948, surprisingly our first Powell and Pressburger movie. We also find time to chat about Trainspotting 2 and I, Daniel Blake. This and previous episodes can be found at:   iTunes Stitcher Radio Spreaker podcast.com Acast Podcast.party iheartradio Follow us on Twitter @StinkingPause...

Episode 070 – Sweet Smell of Success It's back…after nearly five months of podcasting silence, Scott and Charlie return (whether you wanted them to or not). We almost didn't make it as, true to form, Skype was being a complete git when we recorded this last week. So…initial chat about La La Land and our recent screening of Clockwork Orange with Rochester Kino before getting into our review of Swee...

Episode 069 - Rififi Episode 069 of the Stinking Pause classic movie podcast is available now. In this episode Scott and Charlie review the 1955 classic 'Rififi' directed by Jules Dassin. We also take a look at one of Dassin's other movies, Night and the City starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. Scott pays tribute to Gene Wilder and there's news of a new Stinking Pause production – The Rainb...

Episode 068 - The Wicker Man (1973) Scott's choice of movie this week as he and Charlie take a look at The Wicker Man from 1973. Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child. A conservative Christian, the policeman observes the residents' frivolous sexual displays and strange pagan rituals, particularly the temptat...

Episode 067 - Harold and Maude (1971) Episode 067 of the podcast sees Scott and Charlie review the blackest of comedies....Hal Ashby's 'Harold and Maude' from 1971. 'This cult classic pairs Bud Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Ruth Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic relationship, in whi...

Hello there…sorry it's been a while but we're back (whether you wanted us or not unfortunately). It's a very special episode of the Stinking Pause podcast celebrating the BFI's re-release of Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon'. Scott and Charlie were invited to a press screening of the Kubrick movie that no-one really talks about….and guess what…?  It's just as good, if not better than all than ones...

Episode 065 of the podcast. An episode we recorded late last year. Scott and Charlie chat about John Carpenter's The Thing. Scott was lucky enough to see a 70mm screening in London whilst Charlie watched it from behind the sofa at home. Possibly Scott's favourite horror movie, he shares a few memories of his history with the movie whilst Charlie reveals his thoughts on his first time watch. We wil...

Episode 064 of the podcast celebrating the 40th anniversary of Network starring Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall. This short episode was recorded last year but rest assured, we will be back in a couple of weeks with some all new episodes.   This and all our previous episodes can be found at: http://stinkingpause.libsyn.com/ stinkingpause.com https://podcast.party/podcasts/the-stinking-p...

Episode 063 in which gremlins strike in the form of a big conspiracy between Apple and Skype. Thanks guys for suddenly having compatibility issues just minutes before our recording resulting in us resorting to the strange world of Google Hangouts. In places, this has resulted to us sounding like Norman Collier on this episode (look him up kids; your parents thought he was hilarious!) Nevertheless,...

Episode 062 - An extra episode of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie this week as we present an episode that we recorded late last year. We were lucky enough to catch a screening of 2001 with our friends at Rochester Kino in the autumn and here for you are our thoughts on the Kubrick masterpiece.   This and all of our previous episodes can be found on our website stinkingpause.com Y...

Episode 061   The Stinking Pause podcast returns with an episode nearly two years in the making. Finally, after Scott and Charlie appeared on the Anywhere But Here podcast in March 2014, Tom and Ant make their long awaited appearance as guests on the show.   Recorded just before Christmas, this episode features our thoughts on The Deer hunter and The Matrix along with discussions on James Bond, Su...

A special episode of the Stinking Pause podcast where Scott and Charlie are joined by our dear friend Mark from The Good The Bad and The Odd Podcast to talk about Gillo Pontecorvo's acclaimed masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers from 1966. You can listen to this and all of our previous episodes at stinkingpause.com Subscribe to the podcast at iTunes and Stitcher Radio Follow us on Twitter    @Stinki...

Episode 059 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie.   This week Charlie has selected ‘The Apartment’ from 1960, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray. Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins u...