Double Reel Film Podcast

Episode 33, Reel 2: The Second Annual Double Reel Awards

Reel 2 of the monthly magazine style podcast for the discerning film nerd. Our Big Conversation this month concerns the 2nd Annual Double Reel awards, for excellence and otherwise in the world of film. All the big contenders are discussed and chosen, and in a possible first in the history of film, a major award is decided upon by two dogs.

Episode 33, Reel 1: Avatar The Way of Water, Glass Onion, Shivers, Green Room, Apocalypto, Paul Verhoeven’s Crusade, Death Race

The Adamsons get 2023 off to a flying start with the latest episode of the monthly magazine style podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is Reel 1 of the podcast packed with news, reviews and our regular features to keep you busy in the depths of winter. Included in our features: Reviews of new films including Avatar The Way of Water and Glass Onion; A new year long film project at the Cronenberg Institute, starting with 1975's Shivers; Classics and Recommended Feature Green Room; Hidden Gem Apocalypto; The One That Got Away - Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger's unrealised Crusade project; Remake Hatewatch - Death Race (and we also discuss how Assassin's Creed should be remade better this time around) Reel 2 is available to download now featuring the 2nd Annual Double Reel Awards.

2022 A Kubrick Odyssey: The Complete Stanley Kubrick Filmography

A special anthology episode for our year long project featuring all the films directed by the great Stanley Kubrick. Each month we've been watching and discussing his films from his low budget debut Fear and Desire to his notorious final film Eyes Wide Shut. We've collected all the discussions of his films that were originally featured on our regular monthly episodes, into a single mighty episode for you to binge.

Full list of films:

Fear and Desire

Killer's Kiss

The Killing

Paths of Glory

Spartacus

Lolita

Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

Barry Lyndon

The Shining

Full Metal Jacket

Eyes Wide Shut

Episode 32, Reel 2: The Lord of the Rings Franchise - From Peter Jackson’s original trilogy, through the Hobbit to the Rings of Power

The second reel of the monthly magazine style podcast for film nerds, as the Adamsons close out their last regular episode of 2022 with a discussion of the Lord of the Rings franchise. Early false starts and the 1970s animated version are followed by Peter Jackson's peerless original trilogy, the Hobbit follow up, the new TV series and what it all means for cinema and the fantasy genre as a whole. Reel 1 is available to download now, and a special bonus episode will be out soon to finish the year. 

Episode 32, Reel 1: She Said, Eyes Wide Shut, Birdman, Nightcrawler, Scorsese’s Joker, Fantastic 4

The Adamsons deliver a bumper edition of the monthly magazine-style podcast for the discerning film nerd who needs something to listen to while they wrap their presents and defrost Christmas dinner. This is the first reel of the episode, in which our featured films were all released in the UK when co-host James turned 18 in 2014-15, when co-host James turned 18. We also tackle the news, what new films are coming out and what new releases we watched this month. This month includes: Reviews of new and new-ish films She Said and See How They Run;  The final entry in 2022: A Kubrick Odyssey, covering his final film Eyes Wide Shut and a summing up of his remarkable career; Classics and Recommended feature Birdman: or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance; Hidden Gem Nightcrawler; The One That Got Away, concerning the rumours that Scorsese was once attached to make the Joker movie; Remake Hatewatch of the disastrous 2015 version of Fantastic Four (and a Remake Restoration of a film we think should be remade better this time). Reel 2 is also available to download and enjoy right now.

Episode 31, Reel 2: Films That Predict The Future. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Things To Come, Back to the Future, The Terminator, Blade Runner, Children o...

Reel 2 of the latest episode of the premier magazine-style podcast for the discerning film nerd. Continuing this episode's sci fi theme we look at futuristic films and how accurate or otherwise their predictions have been. We have fun looking at what older films predicted for our present day and rather less fun looking at what they are predicting for our dystopian future.

Reel 1 is also available to download if you haven't caught up with that already.

Episode 31 Reel 1: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Help, Decision To Leave, Full Metal Jacket, Alphaville, Outland, Rendezvous with Rama, The Day The ...

The Adamsons are back with a (mostly) sci fi themed episode of the monthly magazine style podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is Reel 1 of 2, packed with features for your waiting ears.

Our monthly round up includes reviews of new films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Help and Decision to Leave as well as a look at news from the world of film and what new releases are coming out; our continuing project 2022: A Kubrick Odyssey looks at Full Metal Jacket; our Classic is Godard's new wave sci fi head-scratcher Alphaville; our Hidden Gem is Connery space western Outland; the One That Got Away looks at David Fincher and Morgan Freeman's unsuccessful attempt to adapt Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama; and our Remake Hatewatch asks why they bothered to make the updated Keanu version of The Day The Earth Stood Still. We also discuss a sci fi film that we think *should* be remade to get it right this time.

Reel 2 is also available to download now.

Episode 30, Reel 2: Second Chance Cinema. Titan AE, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Alien 3, Star Wars Episodes 7-9

The second reel of the monthly podcast magazine for the discerning film nerd, in which the Adamsons bring you the Big Conversation. This month it's Second Chance Cinema, where we talk about films that didn't fulfil their potential, and how we the armchair experts would have made them better if Hollywood only listened to us.

Reel 1 is also out now.