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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 Feb 25, 2025
Tuesday Feb 25, 2025
The latest issue of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This part is Double Reel Monthly, with a look at news and upcoming new releases, reviews of new and notable films we've watched including The Brutalist, Companion, Moana 2, Fly Me to the Moon, Elevation, The Gardener and Back in Action, and the films we watched for our 2025 projects including Hitchcock's Lifeboat and Leone's Duck You Sucker.
Part 2 of the issue is Classics and Hidden Gems and will land in your feed next week.
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Issue 57 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Remakes Tribunal, where we put bad filmmaking on trial. Our Remake on Trial is Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which we compare to previous versions of the same story including 1973's Dillinger. Then we offer a Parole Board hearing to the genuinely terrible 1966 film Modesty Blaise, and ask if a remake would fix its problems
The first two parts of Issue 57 are already out, including Double Reel Monthly and Classics & Hidden Gems.
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Issue 57 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with Classics and Hidden Gems, where we celebrate getting round to watching great films you've never seen and find lesser known films that deserve your time. The Classic is a titan, 1942's Casablance which Alan has only just got round to watching. For our Hidden Gem we tell you why Lone Star was one of the best indie thrillers of the 90s and deserves to be seen by everyone.
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
The monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd brings you its first Issue of 2025, starting with Double Reel Monthly. We start with a tiny bit of news, then give out our awards for last year's achievements in film, look at some new releases then talk about a whole bunch of films we watched including Conclave, Emilia Perez, Ad Vitam and the new Wallace and Gromit. We also have our New Year's Resolutions: Alan is going to explore Hitchcock films, James (no the other one) will try to answer the riddle of why Adam Sandler is so good and so bad, and James (yes that one) has to watch some of the films he's owned for ages but never watched.
Classics and Hidden Gems will land next week.
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Issue 56 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Remakes Tribunal where we put bad filmmaking on trial. First up is a remake on trial: does Zack Snyder's Superman reboot Man of Steel deserve to exist or should it be wiped from cinema history? Then we have a parole hearing for a film that didn't work the first time. Would a remake fix all the many problems in the notorious 2005 flop Sahara?
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Issue 56 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with Classics and Hidden Gems. Normally we watch a Classic film to encourage people to check out great films they've been missing out on, but this time we're watching 60s camp sci fi Barbarella so you don't have to. Our Hidden Gem though is something you should really get round to seeing, the underseen, hugely underrated superhero spoof Mystery Men.
Double Reel Monthly is already out with a huge festive helping of news, new releases, reviews of new and notable films and our final project entries for the year. Next week we'll bring you The Remakes Tribunal.
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Issue 56 of Double Reel continue with a long list of films we've watched to talk to you about over the festive period. We start with Gladiator II and we have many things to say about it, Nightbitch, It's What's Inside, and Look Back. Other notable but less recent films include M3gan, Longlegs, Can You Ever Forgive Me, and An Affair to Remember. The Jameses also conclude their year-long projects with Nolan's Memento and the final Woman Directors showcase Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
We hope this episode finds you having a wonderful festive season. Next week we'll bring you the next part of the podcast, Classics and Hidden Gems
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
The monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd brings you a new issue just in time for Christmas Eve. We have a bumper issue for your festive listening, so long we've had to split it into 2 parts. This part is a look at news and the new releases we're looking forward to this coming month, including Star Trek: Section 31, The Brutalist and the exciting news of a new film in the Karate Kid/Cobra Kai universe coming in 2025.
Part 2 of Double Reel Monthly will be out imminently with reviews of new and notable films we watched this month