What The Flicks Podcast

A perfect blend of comedy and drama starring Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in this Academy Award best picture nominee. An intelligent and funny look at stereo types, hypocrisy and family.

You would think a story about a music teacher (J.K. Simmons) and his student (Miles Teller) would be extremely dull but au contraire, this film is electrifying!

In this slice of life dramedy, Oscar winner for best supporting actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb supporst a cranky, rigid professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giammatti) and Angus Tully, portrayed by delightful newcomer (Dominic Sessa), a troubled irritating student.

A prequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger classic film, Naru, a Comanche tracker and hunter, has the first earthly encounter with the alien predator in 1719.

With an academy award nominated performance by Sandra Hüller. This also nominated for best film dissects, did he fall or was he pushed?  https://youtu.be/ceJRKPecxJ0

A star studded far fetched maudlin tale of love, friendship and murder set in the 1930s.

The true story of how Keith Gill (Paul Dano) and his YouTube followers blocked Wall Street from shorting their favourite brick and mortar store GameStop.

Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) finally finds solace and peace in beautiful Southern Italy. Unfortunately things are not as they seem. But fortunately, The Equalizer is there.

After oil is discovered under the tribal land of the Osage Nation in 1920, they begin to be murdered one by one. A suspenseful murder mystery masterly told by director Martin Scorsese.

The true story of a seemingly average British woman, Philippa Langley's (Sally Hawkins) crusade to achieve honour for the much maligned King Richard III

The complicated and unusual relationship between Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his actress wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) is probed in this biopic. with a fantastic score.

Finding redemption for the worst thing one has ever done is not what we were expecting from this Japanese epic Kaiju film written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are a couple trying to survive Christmas with their eccentric and divorced parents.

Married couple Caroline (Judy Davis) and Lloyd (Kevin Spacey) have been arguing for years and an unfortunate cat burglar (Denis Leary) has no idea what he has walked into. Hilarious!

Behind all the gore and violence, this is a very heartwarming Christmas film. David Harbour is a kick ass Santa.

A great choice to begin the holiday season. Four British sisters get together in Yorkshire for a very complicated and funny Christmas.

Set in the ‘70s, this coming of age film, candidly explores the travails of puberty with insightfulness and a great deal of humour.

A cut above your average Romcom. With an all star cast (Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and more). Love how all the little subplots come together at the end. This film is very funny and sweet without being cheesy.

“The Last House on the Left” (2009) - A horror mystery thriller that definitely pushes the boundaries. A family vacation becomes a nightmare. “Renfield” (2023) - Renfield (Nicholas Holt) becomes aware that he is in a toxic relationship with his boss Dracula (Nicholas Cage). This leads him to an Al-Annon group to work out and deal with his issues. This comedy horror is very funny but also quite blo...

An elderly Alice Hargreaves sails from England to New York to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University on the centennial anniversary of the birth of Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known to us as Lewis Carroll, creator of “Alice in Wonderland”.

“Vampires vs The Bronx" (2020) - A charismatic group of kids are going to save the neighbourhood in this entertaining and clever horror comedy. "Night of The Comet" (1984) - A comet passes over earth living two valley girl type sisters, a truck driver and a whole bunch of Zombies. Not a masterpiece but a very entertaining 80"s B-movie.

An Indie Sci Fi action film created by Robbie and Stephen Amiell about a very different kind of super power world.

(Comedy / Horror). I was totally surprised by how funny this film was. Tourists, park rangers, nice families, children; no-one scapes this Apex Predator high on cocaine.

M. Knight Shyamalan apocalyptic thriller. A family must make an unthinkable choice to prevent the end of the world.

This is Ari Aster’s new Horror Comedy. Joaquin Phoenix as Beau, gives a brilliant and very strong performance as the over the top middle aged man who lives in terror of everything and embarks upon an Odyssey to return home to see his mother.