The Uncut Network - Directors, Actors and Genres

A little bit late but no less great, it's time for 2023's Frightfest special. Rob is joined by Kat , Amber , Bel & Becci to talk about the UK's premiere horror film festival. Together they talk about Horny Horror, Fluting on the rooftops, Yorkshire being spooky, Hot blooded action and so much more. It's an action packed and very funny episode this time on the Uncut Network. One...

We are back, and with a new name to boot! In this inaugral episode of series 3, the newly dubbed Uncut Network heads into the world of classic Horror royalty and the Universal Monsters cycle with James Whale. Joined by Graham ( Pop Screen ) & Robyn ( Twitter ), the trio discuss the archetypal Old Dark House (1932) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Beyond that the episode also touches on th...

Series 2 may be over, even so changes are afoot for Directors Uncut. As you've probably noticed in your podcast feed, the name of the podcast has changed from Directors Uncut to the Uncut Network. Rob explains the why's, who's and what for's in this bonus episode. Exciting times ahead. The only thing I will say in this episode description is that after today, we are having a 6 week...

And with this, Series 2 is done and dusted. To close out this sophomore series, we looked at British fan favourite, Ben Wheatley, with the debuting Caitlyn and Faye , as well as the returning Kat and Mike . For this episode we get deep into the weeds of 2011's evergreen Hitman/Gangster/Cult/Folk Horror, Kill List. And by deep I mean deep, this is the single most exhaustive episode we have done...

C/W: Self Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Invasion Thoughts, Depressive States. Yeah, the fact that I had to put one of those warnings before the episode synopsis but surely tell you that the content forthcoming hits on some very hard and heavy topics, Shinya Tsukamoto certainly goes to some exceptionally emotional places, its not all cyberwangs and night beatings. This week I am joined by a debuting Amb...

This time out on Directors Uncut, we have part one of a man I've previously described as a body horror sweetheart - what's more, this was the single most cursed recording we've ever had. Now if that's not emblematic of the production of one of today's featured movies I don't know what is. That director is the inimitable Shinya Tsukamoto. Joined by Rabia ( Ride my Omnibus &a...

Thank you for joining us on Directors Uncut as we dip into the work of John Landis for the second time. Not many Max Landis jabs this time. Joined by a returning Gav ( My Favourite Film ) & Andy ( Road to Knowhere ), we talk about one of the most beloved of all werewolf movies, 1981's An American Werewolf in London and 1983s Eddie Murphy's star-making Trading Places. Along the way, we...

We had a cross-over episode with Pop Screen for our 2022 review episode, and now we are back with another unofficial cross-over episode with our sister podcast for the first of two John Landis episodes. In case you don't know, Pop Screen features musicians in movies and we have an embarrassment of riches on that front this week. Rob is joined by Graham ( Pop Screen ) & Gav ( My Favourite F...

This week, Rob is joined by Ygraine ( What a Scream ) & Bel ( Fishnets & Philosophy ) for a follow-up to the previous episodes' chat about Saw and Insidious as we return to modern horror master, James Wan! We looked at 2007's misunderstood Dead Silence - complete with Baby Ryan Kwanten, creepy puppets, and the biggest tongue in cinema history. I don't know whether that last bit...

The first pure horror podcast in a while for Directors Uncut. Join Kat , Liz , and Cliff as we talk about one of the most successful horror directors of all time, especially if you are looking at box offices. The first movie we covered was Wan's breakout and ground zero for a long-running franchise about to have its 10th entry later in the year, SAW. A movie which has an unjustifiable harsh recept...

And so we stumble on our second unofficial Second Run episode, following Karel Zeman. Rob is joined by Graham ( Pop Screen ) & Aidan ( Letterboxd ) for a reunion of the Cinema Eclectica podcast. This time we discuss one of the big daddies of the Czech New Wave, Juraj Herz, the sort of films that are the bread and butter of podcast favourites, Second Run. We kicked off the show by discussing a...

We've had our mid-season mini-break and we return with one for all your Mads Mikkelsen superfans. On this episode, I was joined by Ariel ( Ride the Omnibus ) & Graham ( Pop Screen ) to discuss the Scandinavian absurdist, Anders Thomas Jensen. Now if that name isn't immediately familiar, worry not, all you need to know is that he is a director who is a home away from home for the aforementioned...

After that distraction that was the 2022 review and the launch of a spin-off podcast, we are back to our normally scheduled episodes. Last time we looked at Gladiator & Blade Runner, two very masculine classics from Ridley Scott's vast and important filmography. This time, we look at two films from the opposite end of his spectrum that you could call feminist icons whether on purpose or uninte...

2022 is done and dusted, and with that comes the inevitable best-of-the-year show. But this time, things have taken a turn of the behemothic. This is part two, you can find part one featuring the 10-6 picks on our sister podcast, Pop Screen. Listen to Pop Screen here . On this huge lad of 2022 coverage, I am joined by Pop Screen's Graham, as well as returning voices in the shape of Kat , James , V...

Merry Christmas Friends! And just to show how well I planned in advance, here's what is totally a Christmas special. Yeah, absolutely a Christmas episode.  Yeah, it's clearly not. It is part one of a discussion of Ridley Scott, the second will drop in the new year. For now, though, I am joined by Vincent ( Invasion of the Pody People ) and Gav ( My Favourite Film ) to discuss 1982's dystopian...

We have escaped from the seemingly never-ending run of two partners and where should we find ourselves but Korea?  Rob is joined by Ygraine ( What a Scream ) and Graham ( Pop Screen ) to discuss the work of Na Hong-Jin, who may not have a big body of work but he does have a big talent. First, we discussed 2008's the Chaser, which has nothing to do with Bradley Walsh and was allegedly supposed...

Join us for the concluding part of our look at Stanley Kubrick, and this time out we hit two of his biggest and most influential films.  Rob is joined by Gav ( My Favourite Film ) & Vincent ( Invasion of the Pody People ), and first, we look at the godfather of the modern sci-fi film, 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's a confusing sentence. A film whose influence spreads across most of...

We are stuck in a loop here on Directors Uncut, double episode after double episode. This time though, we are in the territory of all-time greats - Stanley Kubrick.   Joined by Cliff ( Devil Times Five ) Andrew ( Whitlock and Pope ) and Oliver ( Left Lion Screen ), we look at two wildly different movies from his acclaimed filmography, A Clockwork Orange (1972) - the notorious adaptation of An...

What an episode we have this week. Rob is joined by Ariel & Rabia ( Ride the Omnibus ) to conclude our two-parter on Alfonso Cuaron, and what we have is probably our biggest left turn in the podcast's run. To kick things off we talk about Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal's sexy road trip with Maribel Verdu in Y Tu Mama Tambien. Then we head to the Potterverse with Harry Potter and the Prisone...

Rob is joined by Graham (POP SCREEN), Mike (AUTISTIC GUIDE THROUGH HORROR) and Andy (ROAD TO KNOWHERE) to talk about one of Mexico's finest-ever filmmakers. First up we talked about his ode to his home nation and the litany of difficulties its people suffer through, Roma. Also, it's the first Mexican film to win Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. And we follow that up with one of the finest Sci-fi m...

In the last episode, we looked at Hana-Bi and Kikujiro, besides being features from our most recently selected director, are two of the best Japanese films of the past 30 years. Picking up the baton, in this second part of Directors Uncut, Rob, along with Clinton (Twitter), dipped into the filmography of the better-known Beat with 1989’s Violent Cop and 2003’s Zatoichi – complete with peroxide blo...

After visiting the more obscure side of Japanese cinema in the last episode, this time we kick off a two-parter with one of the most well-regarded names that the country produced in the modern era – Takeshi Kitano. Or Beat Takeshi as he was known when he broke through. Joined by Graham (POP SCREEN) & Ben (Cymreig Samurai), we talk about his international breakthrough, Hana- Bi (A.K.A. firework...

In a break from the regularly scheduled programming, don’t worry, that’ll return next time, we present a mega special of last weekend’s Frightfest. Rob is joined by Kat (THR), Andrew (WHITLOCK & POPE), Vincent (Invasion of the Pody People) and Mike (Autistic Guide through Horror) to cover near enough everything that the UK’s favourite genre festival has to offer. Honestly, there are too many t...

Just when you think Directors Uncut is becoming fairly predictable it throws the biggest surprise of its run, to date – a director I had no clue about, Satoshi Miki. Rob is joined by Ben (Cymreig Samurai) to talk about this obscure director of Japanese comedies. Word to the warning, this is completely and utter, 100%, a Third Window Films love-in. The first title we look at is a movie whose name s...

We’ve had our summer holiday, and now we are back for season 2 and back to episodes coming out every two weeks. None of that weekly nonsense again, and all the episodes are brand new – no more second-hand, hand-me-downs. Joined by Graham ( POP SCREEN ) & Andy ( ROAD TO KNOWHERE ). For this first episode, it needed to be a big-name director – I just didn’t expect it would be Michael Moore: such...