Chatflix

Dec 23 2023 100 ep. 74 mins 22
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A weekly chat about some of our favourite (and not so favourite films) as well as the universes they've created.

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Episode 370 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Dec 23 2023 80 mins  
Merry Christmas from the ChatFlix team! To celebrate James. Chris and Brose discuss one of the most famous bad Christmas films ever; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964). Yes, the year the Beatles invaded the USA, GI Joe was invented and this film... so many things! So, if you need to block out the noise of Last Christmas and avoid Whamaggeddon this year, plug in your noise can

Episode 369 The Wicker Man (2006)

Dec 10 2023 82 mins  
The bees, the bees! Not only is Neil LaBute's 2006 remake of the 1973 masterpiece with the same name unnecessary, not only is it ham fisted and not only is it badly acted, shot and scored, if you watch the wrong version of the film, you won't even see the most famous scene with Nicolas Cage. Brose has assembled the cultish Man Bites God to discuss this mid-naughties, smoking trash

Episode 368 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Dec 04 2023 99 mins  
Somewhere out there... thataway (motions to space) in the 2270s, a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. The human adventure is just beginning in… Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Brose-Unit resumes command of the Starship Chatflix in order to intercept, discuss and hopefully stop it with some assista

Episode 367 The Wicker Man (1973)

Nov 02 2023 61 mins  
A missing girl, a puritan policeman, a Pagan community and a man... made from wicker combine to produce a mystery film with a horrific outcome in Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973). Virginal Brose flies his seaplane to a Scottish island t James and his raffish Pagan cult members confuse, tempt and distract him in a ritualistic episode of ChatFlix. Round up your hobby horse, dress

Episode 364 The Shining

Oct 20 2023 60 mins  
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Only in Stanley Kubrick’s epic Nightmare of horror, The Shining (1980) Brose accepts a caretaker job at the ol’ Overlook Hotel where he, along with Ben and ABC’s own film critic, Zak Hepburn must live i

Episode 363 The Addams Family Values

Oct 12 2023 71 mins  
Get creepy, kooky, mysterious & spooky all over again when members of the fam get up to more macabre antics in the Barry Sonnenfeld sequel; The Addams Family Values! (1993) Brose welcomes the arrival of The Addams Family baby boy, Pubert. Allan & Ben are shipped off to summer camp and Nanny / Black Widow, Kayleigh plots to marry (and murder) their wealthy Uncle. Pop on your spookta

Episode 362 Scream VI

Oct 05 2023 94 mins  
The survivors of the last Ghostface killing spree, leave Woodsboro in their rearview mirror starting a fresh chapter in the Big Apple for a whole other slew of kills in; Scream VI (2023) Brose, Stu and James take a stab at the sequel to Scream (2022) which is also the sixth in the franchise but it’s New York, which means, new rules. New brutal and relentless rules. Embrace this

Episode 361 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Sep 28 2023 90 mins  
A famed adventurer is recruited by the British Empire for their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in order to find the a cunning villain before he ignites a world war in an adventure in a league of its own; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Stu is an extraordinary spy & hunter. Ben is an immortal, vampiric beast. With Brose’s gentlemanly roguish, scientific smarts they

Episode 360 Event Horizon

Sep 20 2023 88 mins  
A ship has been lost in space for 7 years (a little more than a three hour cruise!) and the team from Lewis and Clark (no, not Lois and Clark) have been sent to rescue the crew and the: Event Horizon (1997). With Rescue Technician Shaun and Chief Engineer Harry on board, Commanding Officer Brose is trying to stymie a mild demonic possession and salvage the long lost spaceship. So j

Episode 359 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Sep 07 2023 60 mins  
He’s been called the drifter, also the shape shifter, the master chef, the chameleon, the problem child, the hard one, the white Indian, the giant midget, regardless he is definitely Guilty as Charged. Dewey Cox follows a long, hard walk to music stardom in the up-and-down-and-up-again musical biopic parody: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) Life made Brose tough. Love made A