Twin Picks

Whether you're a thief in post-war Rome or a bratty bandit in 1990s Sydney, there's only one way to travel in style - get on your bikes and ride in this whimsical, bi-pedal episode! Vittoria De Sica and Brian Trenchard-Smith have both directed movies about the innate freedom and power of the bicycle, but only one can be awarded by the Twin Picks team. Hopefully Noah's traumatic childhood experienc...

This episode tests the limits of how many times we can use the words 'volatile', 'vulgar', and 'Vaseline' in one hour. Noah, Meg, and Eliza disagree on whether Paul Verhoeven's 'Showgirls' is actually a genius satire of Hollywood ambition, or just a gross movie with too much sexual waterboarding. Then, we discuss and defend Demi Moore's widely loathed performance in 'Striptease'. You can look but...

Jambo! Noah, Meg, and Eliza compare the 'nasty, ubiquitous' Mean Girls to the more recent 'Superbad'-but-younger/'Booksmart'-but-boys flick Good Boys. Both movies are raunchy comedies for adults, set within the world of high school and elementary school, but one is an iconic movie that Meg saw when she was way too young, and the other kind of flew under the radar. Listen in for Meg saying 'Mr Mago...

It was Meg, in the Conservatory, with the Lead Pipe!!! This week, the team watched the Fincher-esque 2018 comedy 'Game Night', and 'Ready or Not', an eat-the-rich slasher currently in cinemas. Both movies follow loveable characters through a twisted maze of obstacles when a murder mystery night and a post-wedding game of Hide and Seek respectively go horribly awry, and it forces Noah, Meg, and Eli...

The United States of this podcast are pretty divided this week, with Noah and Eliza forced to watch Antoine Fuqua's 'Olympus Has Fallen' and Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down'. The highly similar 'Die Hard but in the White House' films both came out in 2013, and both are super jingoistic and corny af; but Eliza liked one more, and Noah liked the other!!! Without a third sibling to break the tie,...

Kinda late but very great, it's Twin Picks’ first ever Halloween episode!!! Of course we watched Noah’s favourite movie of all time (John Carpenter’s 1978 proto-slasher 'Halloween'), but then we sweetened the deal with Mark Waters’ Disney body-swap teen classic 'Freaky Friday', an all-time classic in the Janssen household. What gave us more chills n thrills this spooky season - Michael Myers’ reas...

In the words of Destiny's Child, this week is all about 'Bills Bills Bills' - 'Billy Madison' and 'Billy Elliot', that is !!! We rewatched the Adam Sandler vehicle and the British dance drama to figure out which Billy goes through a more compelling transformation from boy to man, through the power of stupid physical comedy and ballet respectively. There's even a special celebrity guest appearance...

This week in A Podcast Named Twin Picks, we ride into New Orleans to talk about Elia Kazan's adaptation of 'A Streetcar Named Desire', before being plunged into a twisty discussion on hnnnggggg Woody Allen, since his 'Blue Jasmine' is a soft remake of the Tennessee Williams text too! Is the team even equipped to talk about the whole 'important art. vs monstrous artist' debate? And who can do the b...

THIS IS THE GREATEST {PODCAST}! Noah, Meg, and Eliza sing and shudder through a discussion comparing Tod Browning's incendiary, complicated 'Freaks', and the 'made for Channel Seven ads' megamusical 'The Greatest Showman'; both movies take place at a circus sideshow and have uhhhhh mixed depictions of their 'freaky' characters. FEAST YOUR EARS on a twisty discussion of disability and exploitation...

This week the team drift into the depths of the human condition with the two Tokyo based/titled films ‘Tokyo Story’ and ‘The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift’. Which magnum opus better examines the importance of family? And is our sound engineer Anthony secretly an ex-member of The Teriyaki Boyz? TRIPLET IN THE ATTIC LINKSMeg's Okonmiyaki recipe: https://www.justonecookbook.com/okonomiyaki/ Noah'...

Big Brother is watching...this week we delve into the concept of ‘twin films’ with ‘The Truman Show’ and ‘EdTV’, two movies with spookily similar stories of surveilling mundane human behaviour that both came out around 1999 (yikes!). But does ‘The Truman Show’ really deserve its status as the victor of the two movies? And, more importantly, is Ellen Degeneres a good actor? LINKS This American Life...

For the first ever episode of 'Twin Picks', Noah, Eliza, and Meg double down on two movies about people swapping identities - wow, how relevant to the subject matter of this podcast! Which tale of mistaken identity will prosper; Nancy Meyers' family confection/'ad for the Napa valley'; or John Woo's nutty af face-swapping action bonanza? Shout out to our sound engineer Anthony Carr for the 'I want...