Now Showing

Jan 26 2025 115 ep. 97 mins

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Now Showing: All Things Film and TV. Breaking down the old, the new, the good, and the terrible in the world of the silver screen.

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2000: Cast Away, Memento and Battlefield Earth

Jan 26 2025 123 mins

Welcome back everyone, to the new and improved Now Showing podcast! After a lengthy absence, your hosts Sam and Lewis are back to discuss what we've been watching in the meantime, take a quick look at a few of the major films of 2024 (including The Substance, Joker 2 and Wicked) before jumping back in time to 2000! We look at Cast Away, Memento and Battlefield Earth in the firs

Madame Web and Argylle

Feb 29 2024 93 mins

We're back! After an 8 month absence we are finally coming back with a triumphant return to talk about... the critically panned latest entry in the SPUMC, Madame Web, and Matthew Vaughn's spy comedy-thriller Argylle. Sam also gets into the new Bob Marley biopic One Love, David Fincher's The Killer, and Lewis talks about Oscar darlings Poor Things, Killers of the Flower

Barbenheimer (Barbie & Oppenheimer)

Jul 24 2023 122 mins

Join Sam and Lewis as tackle the cultural phenomenon that is Barbenheimer. First up is Greta Gerwig's Barbie, a meta-comedy starring Margot Robbie, Hugh Grant and Ryan "The Gozzer" Gosling; after that, we look at Christopher Nolan's biopic Oppenheimer which boasts Cillian Murphy as the titular nuclear physicist. We also review Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pa

Spider-Verse, The Flash, Indiana Jones, Asteroid City and more!

Jul 13 2023 118 mins

In this bumper recap episode, Sam and Lewis take a look at a whole host of TV shows and films that have been released over the past two months! Including Beau is Afraid, Across the Spider-Verse, The Flash, No Hard Feelings, Asteroid City, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Little Mermaid, Elemental, Cunk on Earth, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson and Rick and Mort

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Evil Dead Rise

May 13 2023 64 mins

In a shorter episode than usual, we join our heroes as they discuss the latest Marvel blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Will Lewis still maintain his usual level of MCU-apathy or will Gunn's style manage to win him over? In addition to this, the gang take quick looks at horror 'requel' Evil Dead Rise, and charming quintessentially-British Jim Broadbent heart w

The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Renfield

Apr 30 2023 93 mins

We are back! Our main events this week are the blockbuster box-office smash hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the divisive Dracula film Renfield. We also take a brief look at some of the big films we have missed because of Oscar season: John Wick Chapter 4, Women Talking, Shazam 2: Fury of the Gods, and Creed III. Lewis also gets into his horror era and talks about watching The T

Oscars 2023 Nominations (Oscars Part 2)

Mar 10 2023 121 mins

In the second episode in an Oscars trilogy we take a look at the 95th Academy Awards ahead of the ceremony this Sunday. We discuss the films nominated, some of the biggest snubs, and most shocking nominations, and make a few predictions.

The Banshees of Inisherin, TÁR, All Quiet on the Western Front (Oscars Part 1)

Mar 10 2023 113 mins

In the first of 3 episodes talking about the 2023 Oscars and the films nominated at the ceremony, we take a dive into Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin starring 4 Oscar-nominated performances from Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, and Barry Keoghan, Todd Field's Best Picture nominee TÁR with Cate Blanchett, and Edward Berger's war epic All Quiet on the Wester

Babylon, Empire of Light, and The Fabelmans

Feb 11 2023 118 mins

This week we sit down to discuss three Oscar-nominated films about film from three Oscar-winning directors; Damien Chazelle's epic: Babylon starring Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, Sam Mendes' Empire of Light with Olivia Colman and Michael Ward, and Steven Spielberg's semi-autobiographical family drama The Fabelmans starring Michelle Williams. We also get into all the latest DC news

Avatar: The Way of Water, Glass Onion, and Aftersun

Jan 07 2023 119 mins

AFTERSUN review begins: 51:35 AVATAR reviews begins: 1:13:00 GLASS ONION review begins: 1:35:32 (spoilers between 1:47:45-1:54:15) In our first episode of 2023, and after a long break, we're back to discuss the biggest film of 2022, James Cameron's sci-fi epic sequel to his 2009 record-breaker Avatar; Avatar: The Way of Water. We also slice open Rian Johnson's fol