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The monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. James Adamson is a slightly obsessive armchair fan, giving you his take on the world of cinema. So are his co hosts: James Adamson, his imaginatively named son, and Alan Bayles, a sci fi author, fellow film nerd and fellow Sunderland fan. As well as a look at news, new releases and how we’re fitting in movie watching with our busy exciting lives, we look into classic films we haven't seen yet and overlooked hidden gems you need to see, ask remakes to justify their existence or be wiped from history and offer parole hearings to bad films that need to be remade to fix their flaws.
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Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
The Adamsons bring you the October edition of their magazine-style podcast for the discerning film nerd. The theme this month is Second Chance Cinema, featuring films which didn't work or failed the first time and we're having another look at them to see if we like them better this time.
Our round up of news and new releases includes reviews of The Woman King and Blonde; 2022 A Kubrick Odyssey continues with the Shining; Our Classics and Recommended Feature is Get Shorty; our Hidden Gem is Alex Garland's Annihilation; our One That Got Away is Terry Gilliam's failed project to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote with Johnny Depp (and the 2018 version he eventually made with Adam Driver); and our Remake Hatewatch asks if we were too harsh on Scorsese's version of Cape Fear first time around.
Reel 2 is available to download now featuring our Big Conversation.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
An extra episode of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The Adamsons are delighted to be joined by actor, producer and stunt co-ordinator Jamie Chambers, who talks about his upcoming film Morris Men which is released on October 29th. He also previews some other projects in the pipeline, including new films Guinea Pig and Death Do Us Apart, and docudrama The Beast featuring Arnold Schwarzennegger. Jamie shares some great stories from his times on film and TV projects, and gives us some feature nominations of his own for our Classic, Hidden Gem and Remake Hatewatch Categories.
Our regular episode 30 will be out on October 25th and we will aim to watch and discuss Morris Men the following month.
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Reel 2 of the September issue of the Adamsons' podcast magazine for the discerning film nerd brings you the Big Conversation. This month we explore the main theme of the episode with a Big Conversation about conspiracy movies. We look at the birth of the genre with Hitchcock's great thrillers, the development of the political conspiracy thriller from the 60s through to their 70s heyday and what they look like today after JFK and the X Files changed everything.
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
September's edition of the monthly podcast magazine for the discerning film nerd is here, as the Adamsons bring you another 2 reels packed with features and content. oThis is Reel 1 and our features this month are all connected to our overall theme of conspiracy films. Our round up includes news plus reviews of new releases Three Thousand Years of Longing and Crimes of the Future. Our latest entry in 2022: A Kubrick Odyssey is 1975's Barry Lyndon. Our features this month include: Classics and Recommended: The Parallax View Hidden Gem: Blow Out (again) The One That Got Away: Louis Malle's Moon Over Miami Remake Hatewatch: The Manchurian Candidate (2004). Reel2 is also available to download now
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Reel 2 of our latest episode brings you the Big Conversation and This Time It's Personal. This month we dig into Sequel Syndrome, in which Hollywood can't resist continuing the search for more money with follow ups to successful films. We look at what works and doesn't work in sequels, and when they should and shouldn't be made. We range from the great sequels - Godfather 2, Aliens, Mad Max Fury Road, The Raid 2 to the OK but more of the same sequels - Die Hard 2, X Men 2, French Connection 2 - to the downright awful sequels like Speed 2, Highlander 2, Jaws 3D and Jaws The Revenge. We also ask whether some films are untouchable and shouldn't have a sequel, and what sequels we'd like to see that haven't been made yet.
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
It's August 2022 and the Adamsons deliver a blockbuster episode of their monthly magazine style podcast for film nerds. Packed as always with a range of features for your waiting ears, here's what's on Reel 1:
Reviews of new releases Nope, Prey and The Gray Man; the latest in our year-long Kubrick project, A Clockwork Orange; classic Under The Skin; Hidden Gem 2 Days in the Valley; The One That Got Away about the unrealised blockbuster project ISOBAR; and Remake Hatewatch of 2002's Solaris.
Reel 2 is also available to download now featuring our Big Conversation.
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
The Adamson continue Episode 27's overall theme of dreams and altered reality in films with the Big Conversation. Here we talk about films and filmmakers that mess with your mind, and the different ways they do it. We talk about a selection of films by various filmmakers famous for playing with reality and exploring dreams: Christopher Nolan (Inception, Memento, Interstellar), David Lynch (Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks), Jordan Peele, (Get Out, Us), Luis Bunuel (Exterminating Angel, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Phantom of Liberty) and Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan) among others.
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
The Adamsons bring you the Dreams and Altered Reality Episode of their monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd, including:
Round Up of a month in the life of two busy film nerds, reviews of new films Thor Love and Thunder and Hustle;
2022: A Kubrick Odyssey continues with 1968's sci epic 2001;
Classics and Recommended: Paprika;
Hidden Gem - eXistenZ;
The One That Got Away: Vincenzo Natali's Neuromancer;
Remake Hatewatch: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Reel 2 featuring our Big Conversation is also available to download now.