Throw in the Pal

As Pal-lies, we’re aware that Ezra Miller prefers they/them pronouns and use them accordingly throughout the episode, though we do use he/him pronouns in regards to the character of Barry Allen/The Flash that Miller portrays in the film. We apologise for any confusion caused by switching between these terms in our discussion and apologise for any accidental misgendering we so. As always, thanks fo...

They say even cowboys get the blues, which is really sad to consider, because then you know that Woody from Toy Story must be out here just suuuuper bummed out. Luckily, the easiest way to overcome this existentialist train of thought is to listen to the Pals as they horse around in the evening blue of Midnight Cowboy, a movie that (and this is com-pal-tely true) uses the well-worn buddy format to...

Look, we hear you fellow Pals. After all, as regular patrons, we'll take it for granted that you know we're great listeners. Some people have been asking for us to boldly go where no man has gone before, to speak about "the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks", or even for us to rub shoulders with Spiderman's nemesis. But seeing as you were all shouting at once, the words "St...

Is this latest episode of your favourite podcast a deep dive into the mysteries of the gooey substance that paves our roads and makes cigarettes so rich and oh so smooth? Or is it about a new Euro-twist on the delecta-Pal pastries we all know and love, but simply omitting the final 'T' at the end because you know how crazy them Europeans are? Or or oooor is it a movie about Lydia Tár, famed conduc...

*to the tune of We Didn't Start The Fire* Michael Keaton's here to stay In a Raymond Carver play Edward Norton going meta in this onstage show All in one shot, so it seems Dashed and damned artistic dreams And there's Galifankankis, as if you didn't know Close the curtains, quick now Certain there's a sick crowd Loving this implosion of the path this man has chosen Why we gotta be so mean, critics...

Some would say the Pals are overqualified when it comes to discussing sport, not to mention women's sports and, more specifically, the cross-cultural experiences of working class British Indian Punjabi Sikhs. With only some minor adjustments, that's essentially the life story of each of our four podcasters, making Gurinder Chadha's sports-comedy Bend it Like Beckham (2002) a shoe-in for this week'...

[Open on a meadow on the cusp of a fresh morn, where one regular fella approaches another. The first fella sighs forlornly, as the other asks:] "Hey, what's wrong there, buddy?" "Oh, nothing. I just... [a spry piano arpeggio is heard] I wish there were more colours." "Whadda ya mean, glum-bum?" "Well... [to the beat of a jaunty tune] we have blue for the skies and the seas..." "That's true." "Gree...

O is for the way it's Only three (hours long) P is for the Particles we see P is very, very Presidenti-Pally scary E is Even more than any bombs we've seen before Nolan has made a spectacle for you Hydrogen will be part of bomb number two Eeeeeee, that Casey Affleck's frightenin' Is this boring or enlighthenin'? Matt Damon's a sexy dude Ending's ambiguous too Ready for the Pals' take on this truuu...

Four men from Tasmania are joining up to fight about movies. They're doing their part. Are you? Listen to Throw in the Pal and save yourself from malaise and boredom. Subscribing guarantees big brain and belly laughs. We take you live now to the podcast studio, where the Pals' discussion of Starship Troopers (1997) has begun! Could this be one of the rare instances of every Pal loving this thrilli...

[To the tune of Gaelic pipes and strings] If you like podcast streams We’ve got you, we hear you That is why we put this show on For, in this here instance, We’ve made a decision To discuss Titanic for so long Shower or car, wherever you are We just need you to listen Please listen as we go on [Song ends abruptly as Billy Zane screams something iconic] Please, we ask you ever so Pal-litely, to tun...

Palmerican Physcpal! This film might be Tom's memoir, so let's do a 1000 situps and get down to the office so we can discuss Mary Harron's 2000 adaption of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho! But first, we gotta return some video tapes. Enjoy psychos!

What do the Pals, a drowning man and John Lennon circa 1965 all have in common? It's that they're all yelling out for help, of course! But this week, the Pals are outshining Lennon and that dumb non-swimmer by using some definite articles, the best kind of grammatical articles there are!!! It's not just any kind of help that we need, but specifically The Help, Tate Taylor's 2011 dramedy about the...

Sean Connery? More like More Conner, please! As in, could you keep doing more Sean Connery accents, please?! What am I doing, explaining the cleverest pun of all time to you, when you clearly get it. It's like if I had to take the time to say that The Hunt for Red October (1990) -- John McTiernan's classic Cold War thriller -- is the first time these podcasters find themselves deep in the Pal-cifi...

This week, you CAN sit with us! Your perennial Pals are poised in pink, and we Mean it, Girl(s), because we've gone and fecthed up Mark Waters' 2004 cult classic, for all you Pal-astic packers. So if you love Danny DeVito's work, have no idea how to spell orange and flow heavy with the wide set crowd, then push your sexy hair back and settle in for some word (and maybe actual) vomit. How many time...

Hey you! Yes, you, with the face… No, not you, I meant the other face-haver. You can just go on, Get Out of here! Phew, now that they’re gone, it’s just Us, you and me and the Pals, and I’m super Jor- that this god-dan podcast right here will a-Peele to you. What’s that? Did you say Nope? Well that’s bang on my new face friend: this episode is about Nope, the 2022 Jordan Peele sci-fi horror that d...

Grab your peanuts, popcorn and put on your Pal-iest grin because this week, the Pals are sliding into your eardrums with a nostalgic slam dunk; I get sports! We're diving headfirst into Penny Marshall's 1992 classic "A League of Their Own", where women shatter the glass ceiling and slide into the historic diamond of dreams. Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell and Tom Hanks bring the heat in this...

Say, have you ever heard the one about the podcast with the four unstable friends? They just couldn’t keep their Pal-ance! That’s right, this week the Pals are on a raucous ride to rictus city, grinning ear to ear and cheek to cheek, cos Todd Philips’ 2019 Joker is cracking us up. No one will be wanting to know how we got these scars, because they’ll realise that they’re actually smile lines (and...

Are you unreasonably pale and generally awful to be around? Do you sparkle in the low winter sun and pout in biology class? Do you watch teenagers sleep and they’re surprisingly cool with it? Then you may just be a character in the movie Twilight (2008), the Catherine Hardwicke helmed first entry in the series that was a cultural phenomenon. Will these vamps go all batty, or get im-Pal-ed? Come al...

The Pals go through a Stargate (1994), and do some inter-dimension-Pal travel… that’s it. What do you want from us?! Oh, and maybe the distant dimension is a land of James Spader crushes, irrationally high scores, and Egyptian style Pal-ramids...

Attend the tale of Forrest Gump An American lad always took for a chump He journeyed so far and incrediby wide While Bubba and Dan came along for the ride Yes Forrest The dim-witted man who could run FUN! This week the Pals are chasing down the all-time '90s classic, Robert Zemeckis' Academy Award-winning mainstay about a slow man who lived life in the fast lane. Tune in for stories of Jenny on th...

This week, as the listener's choice series dries up, the Pals set sail for the distant shores of Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds’ notorious epic from 1995, when the oceans were rising, the world’s natural resources were shrinking and movies were written by coked-out jet ski enthusiasts. Well, we suppose nothing has changed really all that much, but we’re still excited to dive in with K. Cost and the cr...

Strap in for some galactic galavanting, as the Pals delve into a little known indie sci-fi gem all about homoerotic-robotics and space-side genocide. That’s right, George Lucas’ classic Star Wars (1977) is in our crosshairs and we are ready to hit the hyperdrive… pedal, I’m guessing? At any rate, we here at Throw in the Pal are never too proud, noble or smart to avoid making the obvious joke, so c...

🎶 This is the story of a world, That got infected and quickly unfurled, With monkeys filled with rage let out of there cage, And everything imploded, After a whiiiiiile! 🎶 Specifically, that short while was 28 Days Later (2002), the guerrilla style zombie flick from Danny Boyle that brought Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris into our lives and the firelight of a dying world, splattered with grim v...

This week, the Pals delve into the story of Promising Young Woman (2020), Emerald Fennell’s Oscar-winning tale of rambunctious revenge. Carey Mulligan stars as a millennial spin on the femme fatale archetype who’s hell-bent on, as Frank gleefully puts it, “a spree!” Throw in Bo Burnham as a dubiously decent guy singing along to Paris Hilton in a pharmacy, and it sounds Pal-romising to me!

Like a tempest in Tahiti, this week there's some Tropic Thunder a-brewin'! Famed for its cultural sensitivity and political correctness, Ben Stiller's 2008 comedy stars himself, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. as actors on the quest for the perfect Vietnam war movie, while our Pals find themselves with guts busted and sides split from the ensuing chaos. Movie coulda used some more na-Pal-m, thoug...