Trope on a Rope

Happy new year, and what better way to celebrate the boundless opportunity of the future than to look at a film where unchecked ambition and scientific endevour leads the crews of two ships straight into a blood orgy in hell itself. So join myself and colin as we wander the dark and for some reason very long corridors of the good ship Event Horizon, a film that everyone at the time kinda brushed a...

Hi there adventurer, we round out our wanderings through the strange world of Terry Gilliam movies with his 2018 mulligan THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE. So join Jeff and Colin as one of them probably mispronounces the name of the main character, they both attempt ill-advised and borderline actionable Spanish accents, and get side tracked by the time Johnny Vaughan tricked a bunch of people into t...

Hello, join us as we work our way through the turbulent waters of TERRY GILLIAM films, a man with unbounded imagination that often comes up against real world problems. In DR. PARNASSUS he (not for the first time) came up against the problem of his main character dying halfway through filming, so had to come up with some crafty solutions to navigate his way around it. Problem is that the film, as...

Hey everybody! After a lengthy hiatus we are back, and will be so with new episodes every couple of weeks from now on. This time around we are looking at Terry Gilliam films, though at the time of recording we hadn't realised that yet, Instead we intended to do "The Adventure of..." films, but then accidentally chose two Terry Gilliam films (The Baron, and Dr. Parnassus), so abandoned that plan, s...

Welcome back to the pod, y'all. We've been away for a bit but we're back and this time we're finishing off our deep dive into 80s gamer movies with 1983's WARGAMES. So join Colin and Jeff as they discuss the movie while getting sidetracked by, Matthew Broderick's dark pas t, the correct pronunciation of " trajectory ," shitty BT phoneboxes , and a channel 4 drama about a videogame that kills peopl...

Join Colin and Jeff as they look back at a cult classic and find that they don't make 'em like they used to and that might be a good thing. In this they discuss whining protagonists, holographic speaker phones, anime cat girls with too many ears, and a magical set of pipes. ----- SUPPORT THE POD 📼 PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebadgersapprentice ----- FOLLOW ONLINE 🌳 LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee...

Salutations Pragrammes, and welcome back to TROPE ON A ROPE, we end our hiatus by uploading ourselves into the world of 80s Gamer movies. Dial up internet using rotary phones, computers the size of rooms, and computer sounding words thrown hither and thither. With TRON ARES looming on the horizon, we look back at the original 1982 movie TRON . So join us as we discuss all things TRON , including T...

Hi there, sorry for the break since the last episode, but we're back, and we've actually got a bit of a backlog. So lets get back to business by rounding out the final part of our look at the Vietnam War with 2022's Apple film THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER, based on a true story that I learned of from a great podcast called Do Go On, which is linked here (listen to our one first though). ----- SUPPOR...

When we picked 1989's Casualties of War to watch as part of this series it was because it's a great film , the problem is it's a heavy film . One slightly too heavy for what is supposed to be a comedy podcast, but soldier on we must... there was a pun there. Anyway, although we try to find levity where we can, this film, and therefore this podcast episode covers some uncomfortable subjects . -----...

Sir, yes, sir! Over the next few weeks we will be looking at films covering the Vietnam war. Granted, its not great fodder for a light hearted movie podcast, but we got to watch three great films then talk about the three grim realities of them. First off is the classic FULL METAL JACKET,. So pull up get snug in a fox hole and listen to Jeff and Colin discuss the movie, as well as make obscure ref...

*MINI EPISODE* Hello dear listeners and here we are, the end of our festive run (its February...) of mini episodes looking at long running and long suffering franchises. This episode we look at that which has always and shall always be, THE SIMPSONS. a show that has gone from funny short, to cultural juggernaut that defined an era, to being kinda okay, to just being on. We look back at the shows l...

*MINI EPISODE* Happy New year dear listeners, as our January meat hangovers continue, we continue with our mini episodes looking at long standing franchises, their current state and their possible futures. This time we're looking at the always controversial for some reason STAR WARS FRANCHISE. We'll discuss what Jeff believes to be its fundamental flaw, as well as its politics, and other things in...

*MINI EPISODE* Merry Christmas dear listeners, as Colin and I enter various states of festive related food and drink comas, we've pre-recorded some mini episodes that will play over the holiday period. In these we'll be looking at some long running series and asking whether or not the should continue, or to call it a day and try something else. In this first offering we look at the currently embat...

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this, our final instalment in our STAKES ON A PLANE series, where we look back at that time Steven Seagal cartwheeled out of an aeroplane like a complete chump. Thats right, its 1996's EXECUTIVE DECISION, staring, amongst others Johnny Legs... yeah I listen to Leguizamarama, and so should you. Not now though, listen to this first. ----- WATCH THE FILM 🎬 Physical:...

Salutations fellow traveller, put your seat back, pop your headphones in and join Colin and Jeff as they take a look at 1992's Die Hard Clone PASSENGER 57, a film whose runtime is only a few minutes longer than this podcast about it. In this episode we learn not to disparage the mental state of Mr Charles Raine, to always bet on black, and that climbing into the wheel-well of a modern passenger pl...

Welcome aboard, please get yourselves comfortable, stow your bags and tray tables, and pay special attention to your cabin attendants because this flight aint gonna be your usual city-hop. Because for the next few weeks we'll be looking at STAKES ON A PLANE. They'll be terrorists, hijacking, hostages, and emergancy tracheostomies. We start our assent into madness with 2005's RED EYE, so make sure...

And so, weary traveller, we make it to the end of our journey through the murky undertaints that make up THE REVENGE HEIST, so pull up a chair by the fire and have yourselves a cup of mead as we delve into 2023's surprisingly fun D&D:HAT. ----- WATCH THE FILM 🎬 Physical: https://amzn.to/3MJeEKr ----- SUPPORT THE POD 📼 PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebadgersapprentice ----- FOLLOW ONLINE 🌳 L...

Come closer... closer still... no, like, really close. Uncomfortably close... okay, maybe back off a bit. But still stay close, because the closer you look, the less you'll see, because that's how miss-direction works, a basic tenet of magic performance that most people know about but this movie - 2013's NOW YOU SEE ME - seems to think is a concept beyond mere mortal understanding. This film also...

The crew's been gathered, the targets picked, and plans drawn up because the con is on. But this ain't your regular heist movie, this is the specific REVENGE HEIST, where our heroes need to get back at those who have wronged them. So over the next few episodes we'll be watching as justice is served, ironically by thieves... is that how irony works? Anyway, first up is 2003's american re-imagining...

Join Colin, Jeff, and special guest Christian Stoner as we round out our look at musicians who've turned their hand to acting in films that are not about them, but also not-not about them. This time come with us as we travel back to 1995 Detroit, a blue and green tinted industrial landscape and our hero Bunny, as he tries to be king of his corner of the world for at least a week. >>>If yo...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered hear today to discuss the beautiful 1984 oddity that is Purple Rain. Join Jeff, Colin, and special guest self proclaimed "greatest Prince fan ever" Christian Stoner as we attempt to purify ourselves in the waters of lake Minnetonka, before turning on Jeff because though he liked Purple Rain the movie, he didn't like Purple Rain the song, so deserves everyone's scorn...

There are plenty of movies about musician's rise to fame and glory, but not as many that star actual musicians playing exaggerated versions of themselves, and fewer still where they don't care about fame and glory but rather that they get to the party on time, dance, rap, and get their f**k on. Travel back to the early 90's as we're joined by CHRISTIAN STONER, writer of the show's main theme as to...

Welcome to the end of our end of the world deep dive with DEEP IMPACT, the less flashy sibling of '98's big swinger ARMAGEDDON. It didn't have the budget, the special effects, the spinning cameras or Bruce Willis trying to beat Ben Affleck to death with a pipe, but it did have heart, annoying astronauts, and Denise Crosby. >>>If you like this you may like our mate Paul Tonkin's podcast "T...

Welcome back to part two of our dive into end of the world films, specifically asteroid/comet impact movies. This ones a bit of a fudge because technically this is a metaphor for something else, but still a horrid reminder that if any of these impact events happened in the real world we'd be too busy spinning conspiracy theories to do anything about it. Sleep tight kids. >>>If you like th...

Its the end of the world as we know it, and I feel a'ight. Why? Because over the next few weeks we have some explosive entertainment in the form of END OF THE WORLD MOVIES, specifically DEATH FROM ABOVE. Humanity is looking at the business end of a giant space rock and maybe, just maybe, we might be stuffed. Join us as we have a look at 2020's straight to streaming GREENLAND, where Gezzy Butler pu...