Double Reel Film Podcast

60.1 Double Reel Monthly: The Amateur, Black Bag, A Real Pain, Officer on Duty, The Lady Vanishes, Hidalgo

Issue 60 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd, kicking off with Double Reel Monthly. We discuss news and new releases, review new and notable films we've watched recently and bring you the latest in our annual project films. 

 

Classics and Hidden Gems will be released in a week's time, with the Remakes Tribunal a week later.

59.4 Spotlight on M Night Shyamalan: Signs, Old

Issue 59 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd closes with a special Spotlight episode focusing on the films of M Night Shyamalan. We welcome a special guest co-host, award-winning author Deborah Fox who is a passionate advocate for M Night's films. We have a good chat about how his reputation grew and changed over time, and Deborah tries to convince James to give some of his more divisive films another chance. 

Find out more about Deborah's books here:

https://www.d-e-fox-author.com/ 

 

The other episodes for this issue are already out: Double Reel Monthly, Classics and Hidden Gems, and The Remakes Tribunal. The next issue will be out starting April 25th.

59.3 The Remakes Tribunal: Flight of the Phoenix, The Wicked Lady

Issue 59 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning  film nerd continues with the Remakes Tribunal, where we put bad filmmaking on trial. First up, we look at the 2004 reboot of this month's Classic, Flight of the Phoenix, and ask if it deserves to exist. Then for our Parole Board we look at the 1983 version of The Wicked Lady, and ask if anyone could possibly improve on a historical drama produced by Cannon and directed by Michael Winner...

The other parts of this issue are already out - Double Reel Monthly and Classics & Hidden Gems, and we will bring you a Spotlight in M Night Shyamalan next week.

59.2 Classics and Hidden Gems: The Flight of the Phoenix, The Beast of War

Issue 59 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with Classics and Hidden Gems. In the Classic James finally gets round to watching 1965's The Flight of the Phoenix all the way through. In the Hidden Gem listener Nick Paticchio nominated a film for us to check out - we loved it and now we want all of you to hear about 1988's Afghan War film The Beast of War

 

The first part of this issue Double Reel Monthly is already available to download, and the Remakes Tribunal will be out in a week's time.

59.1 Double Reel Monthly: The Monkey, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Mickey 17, The Gorge, The Electric State

Issue 59 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off with another Double Reel Monthly, with a look at news, new releases, reviews of new films and our annual project for 2025.

Includes reviews of new films The Monkey, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Mickey 17, The Gorge and The Electric State, as well as a look back at Borderlands, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool and The Quiet Man. For our annual projects, Alan continues catching up on Hitchcock with pioneering real time thriller Rope, and James digs out another film he's owned for years without watching: Brazilian police thriller Elite Squad.

Next week we'll bring you another helping of Classics and Hidden Gems in part 2 of the issue.

58.4 Spotlight on David Fincher: Panic Room, Zodiac

The last instalment of Issue 58 and it's a special spotlight episode looking in more detail at the singular film director David Fincher. Together with guest co host Calum we take a deeper dive into two of his films, Panic Room and Zodiac, to explore the dark and strange worlds of his movies.

 

Issue 59 will be with you soon and the other three instalments of Double Reel Issue 58 are out now for your enjoyment.

58.3 The Remakes Tribunal: Poseidon, When Time Ran Out

Issue 58 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Remakes Tribunal, where we put bad filmmaking on trial. In keeping with our Disaster Movie theme for this month, our remake on trial is the 2006 film Poseidon. Was there any justification for this CGI-laden update of the 1972 classic The Poseidon Adventure? Then we offer a Parole Board hearing for a film that didn't work the first time. Would a remake fix all the problems with Irwin Allen's 1980 clunker When Time Ran Out?

 

Double Reel Monthly and Classics & Hidden Gems are already out for this issue, and we have a special Spotlight episode on David Fincher coming in a week's time.

58.2 Classics and Hidden Gems: The Towering Inferno, Only the Brave

Issue 58 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with Classics and Hidden Gems. This month we have a disaster movie theme so our Classic is a biggie, 1974's iconic The Towering Inferno starring Newman and McQueen. Our Hidden Gem sheds light on a lesser known example of the genre, 2017's Only the Brave.

 

Double Reel Monthly is already out with news, new releases, reviews of new films and our annual projects. The Remakes Tribunal will be out next week.