Turns of Frase

UNLOCKED PATREON EPISODE! As we are reaching the end of the Daniel Craig filmography, we've decided to unlock some of our Patreon bonus episodes. Now we're going deep into the archives for a BBC TV movie where Daniel is once more Nazi adjacent in a strange, confusing, Holocaust related comedy, crime, drama starring Robert Lindsay and Diana Rigg. Enjoy! (Original broadcast 14.07.2020). *** Exceptio...

UNLOCKED PATREON EPISODE! As we are reaching the end of the Daniel Craig filmography, we've decided to unlock some of our Patreon bonus episodes. Here we are going all the way back to the 90's swashbuckling Sean Bean vehicle Sharpe's Eagle. Enjoy! (Original broadcast 15.06.2020). *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special se...

Here we are folks, it's episode 35 of Craig's List, and we are at the end of Daniel's theatrically released filmography with the incomparable Knives Out. Please enjoy us trying to come up with something to say about this delightful film. And we will be back mopping up a few other little Daniel Craig performances but until April 2021, we have now officially seen it all. Enjoy! *** Exceptional Thiev...

We're nearly there! The 34th episode of Craig's List covers Daniel's second most recent movie 'Kings' (2017), a movie starring Halle Berry about the Rodney King riots. Listen to us on the eve of the US election review a movie all about... riots and unrest... comforting.. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'Cra...

On episode 33 of Craig's List, can Daniel help the Logan brothers break the family curse? How does Soderbergh's redneck Ocean's 11 hold up a few years later? Where does this accent rank on the list of Daniel accents? Listen in to find out! *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'Craig's List', reviewing the entire...

Here we are at the end of Daniel's Bond, for now! On the 32nd episode of Craig's List it's time to review that most frustrating entry of Craig's Era, the strange and meandering Spectre. What should have been the arc of all these movies that could have satisfyingly culminated here? Listen in to find out! *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently p...

On the 31st episode of Craig's List, we talk about aliens and Nazi gold for a bit, then discuss the potential futures of the podcast. Then it's time to dig into the biggest grossing Bond movie of all time, Skyfall! (starting at minute 36:35) Is it good? Is it fine? Listen to find out! *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our speci...

On the 30th episode of Craig's List, we start with a big discussion of the latest No Time to Die delay, and then review David Fincher's remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. How does it compare to the Swedish version? And does this show Daniel Craig playing himself? Listen to find out! Movie review starts at minute 40! *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrit...

On episode 29 of Craig's List Sam and Isaac review Daniel Craig's only motion capture film, the joyous Spielberg-Jackson creation 'The Adventures of Tintin'. Is it in the uncanny valley? Why was there no sequel? And how does Daniel do in the world of acting created by Andy Serkis? Listen in to find out. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently p...

Episode 28 of Craig's List covers the 2011 thriller 'Dream House', which brought together Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, and also so many confusing plot developments that by the end it's like your brain is playing twister with itself. Stay tuned at the end if you also want to hear Sam's Dad's pretty harsh opinion of the film, and why every movie should just have a one syllable title. *** Exception...

On episode 27 of Craig's List we're back in the world of Hollywood blockbusters with Jon Favreau's fusion of sci-fi and western. Does it work? And how could it work better? Listen in to find out. We get to the movie, mostly, at about 13:30. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'Craig's List', reviewing the entir...

On episode 26 of Craig's List it's time for Daniel's return to the historical epic, playing one of the Bielski brothers that defended a group of Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the forest of Belarus. How does it hold up a decade later, and how could it have been improved? Listen to find out.. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting...

Welcome back Craiguistadors! On the 25th episode of Craig's List we're back in the world of 007 with the sometimes maligned Quantum of Solace. Where does it go wrong? Where does it go right? What does the title mean? We get into it all. We get around to the movie at 20:00. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'C...

Greetings Craiguistadors and welcome to the 24th episode of Craig's List. In the honeymoon period after Casino Royale Daniel Craig signed on to 'Flashbacks of a Fool' to help get it off the ground. He plays a washed up actor (brave) who reaches his lowest point and remembers the summer in his youth that changed everything. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite...

And we're back already with Daniel Craig's first fantasy adventure: The Golden Compass. It is a haphazard and troubled adaptation of Phillip Pullman's The Northern Lights, and we have to work very hard to figure out what might have been the good version of this film. Once again, our main feedback is more Daniel, and nothing wrong with the movie is Daniel's fault... *** Exceptional Thieves is a pod...

On the 22nd episode of Craig's List we review the fourth remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, starring Daniel and Nicole Kidman, and it is.... much better than we remembered it being! *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'Craig's List', reviewing the entire filmography of Daniel Craig in the lead up to 'No...

We've made it. Welcome, Craiguistadors, to the 21st episode of Craig's List where we finally get to review Casino Royale! We're tired. Very tired. We start talking about the movie properly at 01:05:50. Sorry. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'Craig's List', reviewing the entire filmography of Daniel Craig in...

On the 20th episode of Craig's List it's time for the lesser known film about Truman Capote, with Daniel Craig starring as Perry Smith. Filmed at the same time as Casino Royale, it's another powerhouse Craig performance, but with a lot of unfocused frills about New York high society that take away from the core of the story. Anyway we get to the movie at 12:50. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast...

It's a French animated futuristic tech noir that's available on YouTube. Blade Runner meets Sin City. The best part is probably the architecture. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series 'Craig's List', reviewing the entire filmography of Daniel Craig in the lead up to 'No Time to Die'. Twitter: @exceptionalpod / @s...

In 2005 Daniel Craig had a cameo in the Hungarian holocaust drama 'Fateless'. So we had to review it. This was a tough episode to record, as the film is a harrowing portrayal of this terrible period in human history which we (once again) feel very underprepared to discuss. So here we go. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our sp...

Things are really heating up in the Daniel Craig filmography, with our review of Steven Spielberg's 2005 historical thriller 'Munich'. Settle in as Sam and Isaac desperately try to find a fun way to talk about deeply serious and complex historical events they don't know that much about! Podcasting is fun! We get to the movie at 23:30. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review...

Our 19th Daniel Craig movie is the 2005 Adrien Brody classic 'The Jacket', which we describe as Time Travellers Wife meets Cuckoo’s Nest meets Sucker Punch meets Doctor Who meets Butterfly Effect meets Donnie Darko meets Twelve Monkeys. So, there's a lot going on in this one. *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Currently presenting our special series...

To celebrate our 50th episode, we've taken a break from the Daniel Craig filmography to finally discuss that greatest of films, the one and only Die Hard. Join us as we try to answer the great question of our times: is there anything left to say about Die Hard that hasn't already been said on a podcast? *** Exceptional Thieves is a podcast where Sam and Isaac review and rewrite movies. Twitter: @e...

Time for Sam and Isaac to discuss a topic they are very familiar with, and which everyone definitely wants to hear their opinions on: the life and work of seminal 20th century poet Sylvia Plath! Daniel Craig plays her husband, poet Ted Hughes, and this film follows the torturous and ultimately tragic path of their relationship. So to be honest this episode is not as upbeat as some others. *** Exce...

It's our 16th Daniel Craig movie, and things are getting pretty damn Bond-esque. Join us as we dig through the 2004 crime drama Layer Cake, and discuss the better potential metaphors for the criminal underworld. Because everything has layers, you know? It's a bit general and non-specific. Also like layers don't seem to be a massive part of the plot and--- We get to the movie at 15min. *** Exceptio...