The Uncut Network - Directors, Actors and Genres

Excuse us for the clickbait title, it's just this is our first ever Halloween special and it's got us all giddy. Rob is joined by Kat (Hollywood News), Caitlyn (Scared Sheepless), Faye (I Spit on Your Grades), and Sarah (Asian Movie Pulse) to talk about Halloween horror double bills. But these aren’t any old horror double bills, these are horror double bills that you probably haven’t seen. Now, do...

We are back. In this first episode of our fourth series, we are breaking all the rules with the actors, directors and genres rules being flung against the nearest wall and it couldn’t be a more appropriate episode to make this change. On this episode we are talking about Kyle Gallner, specifically about his debut lead performance in a movie, The Haunting of Connecticut, his cult classic breakout,...

We finish out the third series of Uncut by returning to some previously trodden land, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, only this time it's personal… I'm sure there's a joke in there, somewhere. For the final time this series, Rob is joined by Simon (LB), Mike (Twitter) and Autumn (LB) to look at the 1998 original of the Serpent's Path, his most acclaimed (by normies) movie, Tokyo Sonata and the m...

It's that time of the year again, August bank holiday has just gone, so it can only mean one thing - Frightfest. Rob is joined by Kat ( Hollywood News) , Mike ( Autistic Guide to Horror ), Mal ( Twitter ) and Sarah ( Twitter ) to discuss their highlights of the, now 25 year old, Horror Film Festival. Among others, they discussed the festival's darling, Strange Darling, The Dead Thing, Gene...

This week on the Uncut Network we have another Actors Episode on our hands, another legend too with Lauren Bacall. To discuss this star actor and legend, Rob is joined by Graham ( Pop Screen ), Vincent ( Invasion of the Poddy People ) and Jimmy ( Filmmaker ) to discuss a triple bill in the shape of Key Largo, Written on the Wind, and Jonathan Glazer's Birth. That last one is a funny old title...

This time on Uncut we are heading to Classic Era Hollywood with one of the great movie stars, Gregory Peck. Rob is joined by Graham ( Pop Screen ), Clotilde ( Twitter ), and Aidan ( LB ) to talk about Gregory Peck through three different eras of his illustrious career. We start off in the 1940s and Alfred Hitchcock, with 1945’s Spellbound, co-starring Ingrid Bergman. Then we head off to the 1960s...

If you ever do anything when ill, make sure you have three thoughtful and intelligent people with you to back you up. That’s what happened on this week’s episode, with Amber, Andrew & Mike doing some incredible heavy lifting. Together we look at the filmography of the other Kurosawa to many, but to horror fans there is only One Kiyoshi Kurosawa. We talked about his landmark classic, Cure from...

We return to the Directors cycle with a director responsible for a legendary run of movies from the 1980s to mid 90s, Rob Reiner. Joined by a debuting Charlotte ( Twitter ) & Graham ( Pop Screen ), we discuss a holy trinity of classics, starting with 1984's This is Spinal Tap, 1987's the Princess Bride and 1990's Misery. We also find room to talk about improv, killer casts and roma...

We have yet more genre specific delights this time out on Uncut. Rob is joined by Robyn ( Twitter ), Vincent ( Twitter ) and Andy ( Twitter ) to talk about the 1990s cycle of Creature Features which included everything from Anaconda to whatever those things in Tremors are. Creature Features, Animal Attacks, Nature Strikes Back, there are loads of names for this type of stuff. The movies we covered...

We might be a day late in getting the show out, but in doing that we bring with us violently futile gestures, and doves flying through the air in show motion as we dive through the air dual weilding handguns. Rob is joined by Larry ( Your Move Creep ) & Ben ( Cymreig Samurai ) to talk about this uniquely Hong Kong style of action cinema. In this episode the trio talk about The Long Arm of the...

We return for another fan favourite in this latest Actors Uncut cycle with Jamie Lee Curtis. Joined by Gav and an Andy who never turns up (this is another cursed episode), we look at John Carpenter's 1980's movie, The Fog. A very under-appreciated antithesis to 1990s cop thrillers with Blue Steel. And we finish it with Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1994 subversive classic, True Lies. Along t...

A little later than planned due to issues with our editing software, but here we are, better late than never, with British TV favourite, Reese Shearsmith. And there we have it, TV favourite, this is a very different episode than usual due to us covering two TV shows (and a movie) instead of the typical three movies. That trio includes Psychoville, Ben Wheatley's A Field in England and Inside N...

We are back for more on podcast favourite, Park Chan Wook, as part of the Directors Uncut Cycle. Join Rob, Andrew, James and Ben for more chat about the korean director made famous by the Vengeance Trilogy and part of a trio of men who launched Korean Movies onto the world at large. We looked at one of his outliers and sole straight-horror feature, 2009's Thirst. Then, we hop skip and jump ove...

We return to the Directors cycle on the Uncut Network with the first two part episode in a while, but he more than deserves such a treatment. Rob is joined by Rabia ( RPISH ) and Ygraine ( What A Scream ) to talk about one of Korea's greatest ever cinematic exports, Park Chan Wook. This first episode is focusing primarily on the Vengeance trilogy, specifically the landmark success that was Old...

For the second of this month's Genres Uncut episodes, never say that we don't cover movies that aren't my speed. While I may not be a fan of Westerns, I have been joined by people a lot more enthusiastic to talk about this Historic American Genre. We welcome back Mark, Graham & Vincent to discuss Revisionist Westerns (of the 70s). With Peter Fonda's 1971 movie, The Hired Hand,...

We are back to the cycle of Genre's Uncut and this time we are making camp in the 1970s. Rob is joined by Graham and Robyn again for organised chaos, but in a more precise way we have come together to talk about English Folk Horror from the 1970s. Specifially, member of the unholy trinity - Blood on Satan's Claw. Whatever you'd call Psychomania. And we finish on something altogether cl...

And we are back after a New Year break to finish off our month of Actors Uncut with the legendary Robert Mitchum! Rob is joined by Aidan, Graham and a debuting Mark to talk about the classic film noir Out of the Past, the legendary one and done of Night of the Hunter and, erm, Thunder Road. No, not that one. Also, along the way we talk about bad child acting, New Hollywood, Father Ted, as well as...

Mamma Mia, here we go again. 2023 is done and dusted and it's that time of the year for all podcasts to come together and review the past 12 months. Instead of a bog standard top 10 run down we are trying something different. Once again though, collaborating with our sister podcast, Pop Screen - fronted by Graham. Join me and Graham is a long list of people, so long, in fact, that they won&#39...

It's only a Christmas Special. Join Rob and his guest co-hosts, Vincent and Graham, as we talk about royalty of the British screen, Michael Caine. We look at three vastly different eras of his career. We have Get Carter, then his collaborations with Christopher Nolan with the Prestige and then we have the wildcard and the reason why this is the christmas special. We wrap up by having a good ol...

No Christmas Special yet, that is next time out, but we do have an almighty fan favourite - or he was for a few years anyway. Join Rob, Vincent and a debuting Simon as we talk about the Danish agent provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn. Specifically, we talk about his 2011 megahit Drive and the last movie he made before he danced off into the waters of limited series on Netflix and Amazon and his own...

We return to the lands of directors uncut for our first ever episode talking about a duo, the lucky pair are canadian fan favorites - the Soska Sisters. Joined by Kat and Kim (for the first time), we are simutaenously compelled and repelled by the body modification community in their breakout hit American Mary. Seriously though, my real world button came home to roost with this one. Surgery. Then...

We roll into town with the first ever episode of Genres Uncut of this new look version of the podcast, and to kick things off we start on yours truly's formative decade - the 1990s. There was so many directions to go with in 1990s, as, in my opinion its a classic cinema decade. However, we started on that wave of Slasher Horror movies that were birthed by the studio system after the runaway su...

We continue our first ever genres uncut month with another dip into the pool that was the 1990s. This time, teen movies, which is basically just all of the 90s, right? Rob is joined by Graham (Pop Screen) and Robyn (The Geek Show/Ghouls Magazine) to talk about the weirdest but also most thematically fitting triple bill to date. We open with Peter Jackson's 1994 true crime period movie, Heavenl...

Actors Uncut on the Uncut Network continues with another young fan favourite - Anya Taylor Joy. Joined by Kat (Hollywood News), Cliff (Devil Times Five) and a debuting Clotilde (Loud and Clear Reviews), we chat about a whole load of things from ATJ's filmography and TV work. Finishing with The Witch, we also stop off by the Menu, Thoroughbreds, Split, Emma, Last Night in Soho, The Queen's...

And with this we launch the first sub-brand of the Uncut Network, Join Rob and Liz (Ghouls Magazine) for the first ever episode of Actors Uncut. In this first episode, we decided to look at an actor that is somewhat overlooked and use that episode to celebrate them and their work. So, for that, we picked Samara Weaving who is much more than who she is related to and the ongoing insistance from the...