The Stinking Pause Podcast

Episode 058 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie. This week, Scott takes Charlie on a journey to the swinging sixties with two highly acclaimed British movies. Our first review is A Taste of Honey from 1961. Directed by Tony Richardson, it stars Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin. ‘In this domestic drama, British teen Jo (Rita Tushingham) struggles to find love in her bl...

  Join us for part two of the episode recorded earlier this year where we join Smokey and Steven at The History of Misunderstanding podcast to review Stranger Than Fiction from 2006 Head on over to  their website to listen to all of Steven and Smokey's other shows including Cinematic Sevens and Mrs Smokey's Movie School. This and all of our other episodes can be found on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and...

Episode 056 – another mini episode celebrating our collaboration with Rochester Kino and The World Cinema Club in Chatham. This week, Scott and Charlie take a brief look at Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece, Pan’s Labyrinth.   This and all our previous episodes can be found at our website stinkingpause.com We can also be found at iTunes and Stitcher Radio Follow us on Twitter   @StinkingPause Full...

Episode 055 available now featuring Scott and Charlie’s reviews of Seven Chances starring Buster Keaton from 1925. We also take a look at Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear from 1953. Thanks this week to Maurice for his fine audio feedback regarding the much unloved Jules et Jim and thanks also to Nick and his audio review of Rocky.   This and all previous episodes can be found via iTunes a...

It’s episode 054 of the Stinking Pause podcast. Scott’s choice of movies this week. First up, Scott and Charlie look at the birthday movie which celebrates the centenary of Frank Sinatra’s birth….High Society from 1956. A musical also featuring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Louis Armstrong along with songs from the legendary Cole Porter. Our second movie is a Clint Eastwood movie directed by Don Si...

Episode 053 – a special mini episode before we release our main feature later this week. Scott and Charlie present their views on what many regard as a true classic in the French Wave genre of movies, Francois Truffaut’s ‘Jules et Jim’. We are reviewing this movie as part of a celebration of our collaboration with the Rochester Kino Cinema Club where we are now screening classic foreign language m...

Two Stinking Pause episodes in one week? We're spoling you! Scott and Charlie were honoured once again to be asked to appear the awesome A History of Misunderstanding podcast recently. Join us for part one of this episode where we join Smokey and Steven to review Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. We also take a look at some of our recent watches and take part in a game...

Episode 051 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie. This week it is Charlie’s turn to choose the movies and he has selected LA Confidential from 1997 and his birthday movie is The Color Purple from 1985. Also a huge thank you to Nick Hart from the wonderful Achtung Millwall podcast who has sent in his review of Northern Soul. This and all of our other episodes are available on iTunes...

Join Scott and Charlie for episode 050 of the Stinking Pause classic movie podcast. Scott’s choices for this episode are Alfie from 1966, starring Michael Caine, and The Grapes of Wrath from 1940 directed by John Ford. This and all other episodes are available at the website stinkingpause.com Find on iTunes and Stitcher and Facebook Follow us on Twitter    @StinkingPause    @scophi    @THRIIIIKER...

Join Scott and Charlie for episode 049 of the Stinking Pause classic movie podcast. Charlie’s choices for this episode are Scarface from 1983, starring Al Pacino, and Nashville from 1975 directed by Robert Altman. This and all other episodes are available at the website stinkingpause.com Find on iTunes and Stitcher and Facebook Follow us on Twitter    @StinkingPause    @scophi    @THRIIIIKER Email...

We’re back…after a short break, Scott and Charlie return to review three more classic movies. Charlie’s choice for this episode is from 1969 and is Easy Rider, directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson. Scott has selected the Nicholas Roeg directed Walkabout from 1971, starring Jenny Agutter. We also celebrate the 70 th anniversary of Brief Encounter, directed by David...

Once Upon A Time In The West, Sergio Leone’s 1968 masterpiece gets the Stinking Pause once over this week. A first time watch for both Charlie and Scott, who were, shall we say, more than slightly impressed with it.   You can hear this and all of our previous episodes at: stinkingpause.com iTunes Stitcher Radio Spreaker     Follow us on Twitter    @StinkingPause    @THRIIIIKER    @scophi And join...

Two movies this week...a big screen review of Blade Runner from Scott and Charlie and a very special mp3 contribution from Mr and Mrs Hart. Nick Hart as some of our regular listeners will know is the host of the Achtung Millwall podcast. Charlie can be found there as a  regular co-host and Nick has put together a review with his good lady wife of the 2014 documentary Last Goal Wins. We would like...

Episode 045 of the Stinking Pause Movie Podcast is available now to download on iTunes and Stitcher Radio.   This episode features Scott and Charlie reviewing three great movies as always and this time around you can hear our reviews of the Ealing classic The Ladykillers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the Oscar winning When We Were Kings.   This and all our other episodes can be found on...

Episode 044 in which Charlie and Scott celebrate the 100th birthdays of Orson Welles and Frank Sinatra. Movies reviewed in this episode are The Man With the Golden Arm and The Stranger. We must thank both Steven from the marvellous History of Misunderstanding podcast for recommending The Stranger and equally a huge thankyou to Adam Hart at the Achtung Millwall podcast for their superb audio feedba...

Episode 043   Scott and Charlie review   Dead Man's Shoes La Femme Nikita The Boys From Brazil   stinkingpause.com

Episode 042 of the Stinking Pause podcast in which our podcasting brothers join together in our hour of need. Scott and Charlie decided that their 100th movie review was not worthy of being discussed by two inept would-be movie reviewers on their own. We put out a plea for help in reviewing The Godfather (1972) and you responded magnificently to help us celebrate this classic. Scott and Charlie wo...

The Balaban Sound Studio plays host once again to The January Amnesty where Scott and Charlie break their unwritten rule and review three movies that were released in the past ten years. For this year's amnesty we have chosen There Will Be Blood, The Hunt, and Drive. Not many laughs to be had amongst that lot...or is there? We also reveal news of our next episode where we will be reviewing our 100...

Our first show of the new year where Scott and Charlie take a look at what some may consider the greatest movie of all time. What can we say that hasn't been said about Casablanca already? Well...take a listen and see what we think about the movie. This and all of our other episodes can be found on iTunes and Stitcher Radio Follow us on Twitter    @StinkingPause   @scophi   @THRIIIIKER

The second of this year's Christmas specials featuring our review of Gremlins. We also take a look at our top three favourite movies of the year. Emails this week from Tom from the Anywhere But Here podcast and some good news (?) from Jim in Swanscombe. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of our listeners and thank you for all of your support this year.   Scott and Charlie stinkingpause....

The first of two Christmas specials from Scott and Charlie. This episode we celebrate the holiday season by donning our favourite vests and throwing Hans Gruber from the 35th floor of the Nakatomi Plaza and take a a look at possibly the greatest action movie to be set on Christmas Eve...Die Hard. Scott battles through his first cold in nearly twenty years...stayed tuned to the end for outtakes of...

Episode 037 with Scott and Charlie. This week we take a look at the Hitchcock movie that just about sums up what a Hitchcock movie is all about...North by Northwest starring Cary Grant. We get some help from our good friend Adam at the Attaboy Clarence podcast and review this classic from 1959 starring Cary Grant. This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and Spreaker Follo...

We begin episode 036 with some very sad news...   ...but not for long as Scott and Charlie get cracking into three movie reviews featuring race riots, serial killers and bank robbers! We take a look at Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, The Night Of The Hunter starring Robert Mitchum and Heat with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.   This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and Sp...

Reviews in this episode for Arsenic and Old Lace, Cool Hand Luke and Boogie Nights. We welcome the return of feedback from Jim in Swanscombe (which takes a distinctly dark turn) and a special contribution from our dear friends Jim and Clarkson over at The Film Thugs. Short reviews of what we've been watching including a load of Martin Scorcese movies and Hammer horror films. You can listen to this...

Episode 034 of the Stinking Pause movie podcast. Halloween is nearly upon us so Scott and Charlie are reviewing Stanley Kubrick's The Shining starring Jack Nicholson. We also take a brief look at the 2012 documentary Room 237. It will be the third time that we have featured both Jack Nicholson and Stephen King so they will now be rightly inducted into the Stinking Pause Village Hall of Fame. This...