61. The Assassin & A Bigger Splash

On this week Sam went to see smash hit comedy Zoolander 2 with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and the rest of the gang reprising their roles as the clueless but lovable ridiculously good looking models. He was baffled by a large sprawling film which seemed to mainly consist of political machinations in 9th century China and definitely didn't have Ben Stiller in it. It was only when the credits rolled that he realised that he'd actually gone to wrong screen and had watched the entirety of The Assassin, a sumptuous epic from esteemed Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien....so he reviewed that instead.Meanwhile Danny went to check out Alvin and Chipmunks: The Road Chip. He was initially impressed by the stellar A list cast- Ralph Fiennes as Alvin with Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Dakota Johnson as the chipmunks?! It all seemed to implausible to be true and it turned out it was as what he'd actually watched was A Bigger Splash - a film about sexy rich people hating each other on a beautiful Italian island. He didn't mind though because he thought it was like well good.They also discuss the latest news from enfant terrible, agent provocateur Danish wunderkin Lars Von trier......and wonder if Stephen Fry was replaced with a life size cut out of Stephen Fry which just emitted a string of sycophantic adjectives every four minutes anyone at the Baftas would notice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.