Double Reel Film Podcast

36.2 The Features: 25th Hour, Matchstick Men, Shekhar Kapur’s Paani, Dawn of the Dead

The second part of this month's edition of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The Adamsons bring you their regular features, including:

Classics and Recommended: we finally get round to watching Spike Lee's 25th Hour;

Hidden Gem, where we tell you why should get round to watching the underrated Matchstick Men;

The One That Got Away, concerning Elizabeth director Shekar Kapur's twenty year quest to make the Indian cyberpunk sci fi epic Paani;

And the Remake Hatewatch, where we cast a sceptical eye over the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead.

We also have a Remake Restoration in which we look at how Oliver Stone's Alexander could have been so much better.

36.1 Double Reel Monthly: John Wick Chapter 4, Renfield, Bandit, Lord of War, M. Butterfly

The Adamsons are back with another edition of the monthly podcast magazine for the discerning film nerd. We deliver the pod in three parts and this is the first, Double Reel Monthly. In the next hour and a bit we aim to set you up for the next four weeks of film watching with news, new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and more besides. As always our aim is to help you escape the confines of the Algorithm and watch something new or different. Coming up:

- A look at some recent news headlines and our pick of the new releases coming up this month;

- Reviews of any new and recent films we've watched;

- Penalty Shootout Film Quiz! James and James have to answer 5 testing quiz questions in turn, and whoever loses the shootout has to watch a film they will hate of the winner's choosing;

- The latest instalment in our Nic Cage project - a film from his canon picked at random

- The latest instalment in our David Cronenberg, looking at the, let's say "unusual" drama M. Butterfly

Part 2 the Features will be out next week and Part 3 the Big Conversation will follow the week after.

35.3 The Big Conversation - 2023 Oscars. Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Whale, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, Tar

The third part of this month's edition of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is our Big Conversation in which we tackle a topic from the film world in more detail, and since it's that time of year we're having a chat about the Oscars. We recap the latest ceremony, and how it compare's to last year's scandalous show, we talk about winners and losers and snubs, and we imagine what the future Oscars awards show would be like as a more multiplatform future beckons.

35.2 The Features: Michael Clayton, After Hours, Spielberg’s Night Skies, Roald Dahl’s The Witches

The Adamsons are back with the March Edition of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the second part including our regular features carefully picked out just for you. Our Classics and Recommended feature is Michael Clayton, the Oscar-winning legal thriller starring George Clooney and Tilda Swinton; The Hidden Gem is After Hours, Scorsese's lesser known dark comedy from the 1980s; The One That Got Away is the tale of Steven Spielberg's alien invasion thriller Night Skies; The Remake Hatewatch is the 2020 version of Roald Dahl's the Witches (and we also recommend a film that deserves to be remade). Next week we'll bring you our Big Conversation in which we have an in depth discussion of the Oscars.

35.1 Double Reel Monthly: Creed III, Cocaine Bear, The Whale, The Brood, Luther: The Fallen Sun

The Adamsons bring you the latest edition of their monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the first of three parts, aiming to set you up for your month in film and find you something to watch that the mighty algorithm might not have picked out for you. Coming up in this issue: Latest news and highlights of new releases arriving in cinemas this month; Penalty Shootout Film Quiz; Reviews of new films Cocaine Bear, Creed III and Luther: The Fallen Sun, and look back at awards contenders Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Whale and Elvis; The March entries in our annual projects: The Cronenberg Institute looking at 1979's The Brood, and from the Nic Cage Randomiser: Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance. Next week we'll bring you our regular features including the Classic, the Hidden Gem, The One That Got Away and our Remake Hatewatch.

34.3 The Big Conversation: Best Film Directors Working Today

The Adamsons conclude episode 34 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd with the Big Conversation. This is where we get our teeth into a topic from the world of film in more detail and this month we look at who we think are the best filmmakers working today. All such lists are entirely subjective, and ours is made up of our favourite directors, with a natural bias towards those whose films we've seen the most. Our long list (in no particular order) consists of: Lynne Ramsay Guillermo Del Toro Jordan Peele Alfonso Cuaron Bong Joon-ho Park Chan-wook Alejandro Inarritu Ryan Coogler Ridley Scott Paul Thomas Anderson Denis Villeneuve Matt Reeves Quentin Tarantino Christopher Nolan Steve McQueen Kathryn Bigelow

34.2 The Features: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Deja Vu, Jim McBride’s Elektra, The Three Musketeers (1993)

Issue 34 of the monthly magazine podcast the discerning film nerd continues, with the second weekly drop of our top film content. This week it's our regular features including: Classics and Recommended: James (no the other one) finally gets round to watching Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri having been put off for years by a previous bad experience with this director's work; Hidden Gem: We remind people that Tony Scott and Denzel Washington did another collaboration, the lesser known but striking and unusual sci fi thriller Deja Vu; The One That Got Away: in which we discuss how Frank Miller's bonkers graphic novel Elektra: Assassin was nearly made into a film by Oliver Stone, based on a  Jim McBride script; And the Remake Hatewatch: where we ask why the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers was made at all, and also express our wish for someone to do a remake of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen only better this time. The first part of this month's episode is out already, and our final part the Big Conversation will be released next week.

34.1 Double Reel Monthly: Babylon, The Pale Blue Eye, All Quiet On The Western Front, Top Gun: Maverick, Rabid, USS Indianapolis, Trespass

The Adamsons are back for February 2023 with a fresh format for the premier monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is the first part of this month's issue, Double Reel Monthly. We bring you news, a look at upcoming new releases, reviews of new films we've watched and how we're keeping up our New Year's resolutions for this year. James and James review new films Babylon and The Pale Blue Eye, Oscar contender All Quiet on the Western Front and look back at recent hits Top Gun: Maverick and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. James (no, the other one) discusses February's visit to the Cronenberg Institute and 1977's body horror classic Rabid. James (yeah, that one) brings you his new project where the Internet selects Nic Cage films for him to watch at random. This month he was subjected to USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage and Trespass. On the 4th of March we'll bring you part two of this month's issue, our regular features including our Classic, Hidden Gem, the One That Got Away and a Remake Hatewatch.