Back to the Pictures

Feb 03 2025 25 ep. 113 mins 7
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Welcome to this fortnightly podcast hosted by Ben Rose, Ian Green and Anthon Ogundimu, three former university roommates - reviewing movies like you've never heard before.

This trio of student-loan, debt-ridden 30-somethings pledge to re-watch and re-evaluate the movies they once viewed together (usually over a Pot Noodle) during their student days. Follow them, as they discover whether their once treasured flicks still hold up against the standards of cynical life-experience and evolving tastes.

Each episode, they travel BACK TO THE PICTURES, screening a movie first viewed during 2005-2009. Moreover, each week the audience are serenaded with film trivia, plot breakdowns and excruciating knit-picking guided by impossible standards. Discussions are glued together with fond memories, private jokes and aimless banter.

From Ian's shoutouts to classic film characters such as 'Sausage Charlie' to his shrewd observation of supermarket trolly quantum mechanics, to Anthon's nigh eidetic attention to detail and Ben's nihilistic approach to filmic discourse, this podcast is a shout-out to the duped generation - Viva La Higher Education Act 2004!

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S03E03: 10 Things I Hate About You

Feb 03 2025 174 mins  
Join us for another showdown with Ben, Ian and Anthon and a genre rarely dipped into on Back to the Pictures. With only Hitch & The Girl Next Door for company, this time round, the romcom arena gladly receives 10 Things I Hate About You. Yes, the 1999 teen classic straight from the reimagining of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. This episode, BTTP Alumnus, Heath Ledger return

S03E02: Spiderman 3

Jan 20 2025 125 mins  
Well, this one hurts. Benthonian return for episode 2 of Season 3 to review a movie that has haunted them for nearly 20 years. In this super-heroic session, the guys come out swinging with the deepest philosophical questions from a painfully abstract movie - what's with the Emo hair & eyeliner? Why does Peter act like a dick even before he meets the Symbiote?What was Harry's pl

S03E01: Shawshank Redemption

Jan 06 2025 120 mins  
We're back, back from the future! Or the past...or days of futures past?Either way, Back to the Pictures returns for Season 3 to once more take a stroll down movie memory lane...Ben, Ian & Anthon buckle up for another round of movies they once watched together as clueless uni students between 2005 & 2009. And episode 1 starts off with a big bang. Metaphorically speaking, of

S02 E11: The Godfather (1972) Part 2 of 2

Jun 03 2024 87 mins  
We finally cover all the bases in the second and final part of our review of 1972's epic Mob Drama, The Godfather. In the final part of this instalment, the guys are ready for war on where this movie stands on their List of greatest movies. In the final episode of Season 2, we digest by just how far Sonny missed that punch to Carlo and continue our love letter to the Playstation 2

S02 E10: The Godfather (1972) Part 1 of 2

May 20 2024 82 mins  
Time to make you an offer you can't refuse...In Part 1 of the final instalment of Back to the Pictures Season 2, the lads bring you one of their all-time favourites. And let's face it, it's a lot of peoples favourite! Let's see if the movie really does insist upon itself or if there is merit to calling it the greatest movie of all-time...Do we take the gun or the canolli ? Find out

S02 E09: Masters of the Universe (1987)

May 06 2024 127 mins  
Everything comes to he who waits...and we have waited since 1987 to bring you this review of Masters of the Universe. We are cheating ever-so-slightly this week. As this movie is one Ben and Ian have watched many times over together - so many, it's hard to remember if Anthon was ever in the room! Which makes for a unique episode, where our hosts battle the feel-good of nostalgia wh

S02 E08: Brick

Apr 22 2024 141 mins  
You better be sure you wanna know what you wanna know...You don't wanna be scratching at the wrong door...But a bodies got a right to be curious...In this episode of Back to the Pictures, the lads tackle their most niche re-evaluation yet with the little-known, but unabashedly acclaimed, indie-noir classic Brick. Our crew dive into the murky world of Film Noir and encounter the gen

S02 E07: Serenity (2005)

Apr 08 2024 137 mins  
Take our love, take our land, take us where we cannot stand. We don't care, we're still free, we review these flicks for thee...And this episode is no different with 2005's Sci-fi-Space-Opera-Action-Western film Serenity. One of the true first films our Terrific Trio viewed together way back in 2005. In this episode, they dive into a pre-established world of Serenity, a cinematic b

S02 E06: Taken

Mar 25 2024 121 mins  
We don't know who you are or what you want...but if you are looking for a movie review podcast with pep, you should know we possess a very particular set of skills... so, join us for this episode of Back to the Pictures - where you are, ahem, taken - Yes, taken back to 2008 for the insanely action-packed thriller film Taken.We ask the philosophical question, would you follow U2 acr

S02 E05: V For Vendetta

Mar 11 2024 108 mins  
Voila! At last an episode of Back to the Pictures that shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous - Join us, as we are cast vicariously as both victim and villain while reexamining 2006's Dystopian Sci-fi Action flick V for Vendetta. In this episode, we vow to vanquish the venal and virulent vermin, vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of re-evaluati