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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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Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
The Adamsons bring you Reel 2 of their latest podcast episode, featuring the Big Conversation. This month it's a spotlight on the career of unsung Hollywood stalwart Walter Hill, one of the most influential genre filmmakers of the late 20th Century. From action classics which redefined and influenced everything that came after them like the Driver, to his masterpiece Southern Comfort, to his indispensable contribution to the Alien franchise, Hill has been behind some of your favourite films even if you didn't realise it.
There will also be a music-included version of the podcast on Spotify only, to reflect some amazing contributions his film's scores made to the cinema.
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
The Adamsons are here with another issue of their film podcast magazine to get you through the grim final stages of winter 2022. This is Reel 1, featuring:
Reviews of Belfast, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, The King's Man;
February's entry in 2002: A Kubrick Odyssey which is The Killing;
Classics and Recommended: Straw Dogs (1971)
Hidden Gem: Pig
The One That Got Away: Superman Lives
Remake Hatewatch: Straw Dogs (2011)
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
The Second Reel of the monthly podcast magazine for film nerds. This month our Big Conversation features the first annual Double Reel Awards, for excellence (and otherwise) in the films we watched in 2021. Categories include:
Best Supporting Actor and Actress
Best Screenplay
Best Score
Best Cinematography
Best Documentary Feature
Best Director
Best Actor and Actress
Best Picture
Film We Wished We'd Seen
Most Scene-Stealing Performance
Worst Film
Biggest Disappointment
Worst Acting Performance
Double Reel Special Award: Best Film We Watched for the Podcast
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
The Adamsons hit 2022 with a ton of bricks and the latest edition of their podcast magazine for film nerds. We discuss new releases Spider-Man: No Way Home, Licorice Pizza and Don't Look up, plus two early Kubrick films as part of our new project Two Thousand and Twenty Two: A Kubrick Odyssey.
Also includes our regular features, our Classic - The Handmaiden, Hidden Gem The Fisher King, The One That Got Away featuring Barry Lyndon's The Captain and The Shark and a Remake Hatewatch of Sgt Bilko.
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Special bonus compilation of our year long project to bring you John Carpenter's best films. In ascending order of their IMDB rating we give you the finest work by a true original, a genre auteur who has influenced the last 40 years of film and brought us everything from full-on horror, urban thriller, sci fi, action comedy and vampire western.
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
The second reel of the Adamsons' podcast magazine for film nerds, featuring our Big Conversation. Here we ask: how accurate are films which claim to be based on a true story? Does it matter if Braveheart is as historically correct as Highlander, or should films aim for the verisimilitude of Spotlight and Zodiac? Should Oliver Stone be permanently treated as an unreliable narrator? These questions and many more are asked an in some cases answered in our final Big Conversation of 2021.
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
The Adamsons close out 2021 with the 20th edition of their podcast magazine for discerning film nerds. In Reel 1:
Reviews of new cinema releases House of Gucci and Last Night in Soho, new streaming release Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and old favourite Heat;
Our Year of the Carpenter feature for December, The Thing;
Our Classics and Recommended Feature, The Big Sleep;
Our Hidden Gem Small Soldiers;
And our Remake Hatewatch of Get Carter.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
A bonus episode from the Adamsons for those of you who have seen the Bond film and would like to listen to our discussion of the key plot points, choices and characters, including what's next for the franchise. This featured as a post-credits discussion on Double Reel Episode 19, but is presented separately now for your convenience.