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Adjust Your Tracking
by Better Feeling Films
Two friends are trying to work through those movie backlogs by going through a whole century of film, decade by decade, year by year. Presented by Better Feeling Films; UK based hosts Lena Delaney and Oliver Jones will be your rambling guides each fortnight as they go on their adventure through film history.
Episodes
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The Devil is a Woman (1935)
Surprise! We might find it impossible to keep to any schedule be we recorded an episode! In fact we recorded this episode quite a while ago which I'm sure you will soon realize. When we do get to talking about this episodes movie we are continuing are 30s series and Josef von Sternberg's The…
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Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Join Lena and Ollie for a festive special as they embark on an adventure to help save Christmas with Ernest P. Worrell. They also talk about Merry Little Batman, The Holdovers and more!
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The Thin Man (1934)
Noted as being amongst the first franchises, The Thin Man (1934) starred William Powell and Myma Loy as The Charles' a leisure-class couple who enjoy many drinks and endless flirtation. They also dip themselves into detective work when they are seeking some more fun. Known for their trusty fox...
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Demons (1985)
It's our Spooktacular Special for Halloween! We are going back to the 80s for Italian horror with Demons (1985). Directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dario Argento, Demons follows a number of people in West Berlin who are given complimentary tickets to a mysterious movie screening, where…
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Duck Soup (1933)
Welcome to the nation of Freedonia! Our guides the Marx Brothers will be taking us through international geo-politics in their own high velocity ways. Directed by Leo McCarey this 1933 movie was considered a disappointment at the time but has grown in status to be amongst the Marx most beloved...
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Big Summer Blockbuster Bonanza 2023
It's the end of the summer so Adjust Your Tracking is looking back and summarizing this years biggest releases in the BIG SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER BONANZA 2023! This is really just a loose chat about this summer cinema releases, running down our favourites, and some misses, before chatting about what…
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The Old Dark House (1932)
We're back with an old friend this week, as we take on James Whale's 1932 horror farce 'The Old Dark House'. We ramble on as usual about some, at time of recording, new releases before heading on to explore this camp masterpiece. Follow us on: Twitter: @adjustyrtrack & Instagram: @betterfeelingfilms
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M (1931)
As if by magic the podcast returns. Continuing on the 1930s we look at Fritz Lang's masterpiece M, starring the iconic Peter Lorre. We recorded this far ago in December 2022, so be prepared to hear us ramble on about stuff from a while ago before we get into the original German serial killer…
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Christmas Evil (1980)
It's a Christmas Miracle! Like the best BBC shows we are back for a Christmas special. We talk some new releases with Avatar: The Way of Water and Violent Night before getting into our main event Christmas Evil (1980) otherwise known as You Better Watch Out, written and directed by Lewis Jackson...
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
We're back! And it's new miniseries time on the podcast, as we go well outside of our comfort zone into the 1930s. We start with the war movie to end all war movies, Lewis Milestone's anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front. It was the first movie to ever win Best Director and Best Film at…
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The Batman (2022)
It's been a while but we are back again! We took the opportunity of the new release of The Batman to do a catch-up episode, tying up our favourite movies from 2021 and then delving into the new iteration of everyone's favourite caped crusader. It stars Robert Pattinson as Batman alongside Zoë...
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) & Babes in Toyland (1934)
It's a Christmas Miracle! We are back for a special Christmas episode where we catch up after our long break talk about about new releases and do a deep dive on Spider-Man: No Way Home (100% spoiler warnings!), being the biggest movie of the year feels right for us to concentrate on. We then...
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Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)
Strap on your proton pack and ready those traps because today we welcome in the much anticipated fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise. Sadly Liam is away today, but Ollie is joined by two of his good friends - AYT regular James Raynor and newcomer - Robert Kenyon. We talk about our history...
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Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Join us for the second part of our two Halloween specials for Spooktober! As we go back to the origins of Hollywood horror and tackle the King of the Universal Monster Movies; Frankenstein and the following sequel Bride of Frankenstein. Both directed by James Whale, who can be thought of as a…
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Brain Damage (1988)
Join us for the first part of our two Halloween specials for Spooktober! Frank Henenlotter made his name with exploitation horror movie Basket Case and would follow this up with the story of Brian, an average New York city guy who becomes dependent on an evil, disembodied parasitic brain named...
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80s Trackie Awards
It's our decade round up episode, the Trackies! Where we give out awards for the films we watched on this miniseries and as always we are joined by our friend Brandon Kahn to chat about what we learnt from this selection of films, the 80s in films and what we liked best. Also we announce our next...
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Akira (1988)
Set in a dystopian 2019, Akira tells the story of Kaneda, a leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic…
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Ran (1985)
The Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons; Taro (Akira Terao), Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu), and Saburo (Daisuke Ryu) but there is no peace between the brothers as full war breaks out shattering the Empire that he built. Now the...
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Do The Right Thing (1989)
In 1989 Spike Lee wrote and directed Do The Right Thing which, to this day is celebrated as one of the great American movies and at the time the biggest movie ever made by a black director. It tells the story of a Brooklyn neighbourhood during a heatwave, where rising tensions explodes after...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Iconic Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar had his biggest international success in 1988 with this screwball black comedy that almost defies genre classification, it tells the story of Pepa (Carmen Maura) who resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover Ivan...
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Moonstruck (1987) w/ Natalie Gardner
Natalie Gardner, who has portrayed Cher on screen, joins us this week to discuss the movie that finally earnt Cher her Oscar. Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, explores romance and love in all of it's complicated aspects based around a New York Italian-American family, where Loterra (Cher)...
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Ruthless People (1986)
It's big studio blockbuster comedy this week on Adjust Your Tracking. Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker were the most successful comedy directors/writers in the 1980s, with Airplane!, Police Squad, and Top Secret they made a name for themselves for creating wild fast slapstick spoof films that resonated...
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Vagabond (1985)
Agnès Varda has been known as the mother of the French New Wave, and is amongst the most important and celebrated filmmakers ever. In 1985 she released what would be her most successful film, Vagabond, where Mona, played by Sandrine Bonnaire, is a young drifter who is found dead in a ditch in…
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Repo Man (1984) (w/James Raynor)
Liam is busy, so Ollie asked James Raynor to sit in to talk about one of the more bizarre films of the 1980s - Repo Man, the debut film of director Alex Cox, a satirical science fiction black comedy starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilo Estiveze. It follows a group of repo men who get caught up…
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Streets of Fire (1984) (w/ Film Junk - Sean & Frank)
This week we are joined by Sean and Frank from the long running Film Junk Podcast, and are looking back at Walter Hills 1984 neo-noir cult classic - Streets of Fire . When Raven Shaddock, the a leader of a biker gang steals rock singer Ellen Aim, it's up to her ex-boyfriend Tom Cody and a small...
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Krull (1983) (w/ Paul Nadin)
The success of Star Wars and blockbusters in general led to studios trying to emulate that success. In 1983 veteran film maker Peter Yates wanted to combine sci-fi, fantasy and swashbuckling to create an original film that follows Prince Colwyn and his group of outlaws on the planet Krull to save...
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Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by German Icon Werner Herzog and starring infamous actor Klaus Kinski in what would be their penultimate collaboration. The film is based upon a real life rubber baron who transported a disassembled steamboat over land to secure his Rubber trade.…
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My Dinner with Andre (1981) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
Films rarely come as small as this, in 1981 New York City theatre bona fides Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory started recording their conversations, this would all lead to them writing a small two header screenplay where two old friends catch up over dinner. This became My Dinner With Andre, where...
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Altered States (1980) (w/James Raynor)
It's 1980 and with the help of filmmaker James Raynor we are covering when flamboyant and controversial British Director Ken Russell went Hollywood and directed a science-fiction horror film based on a Oscar award winning writer Paddy Chayefsky's novel and screenplay, Altered States. A film which...
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The Evil Dead (1981) & Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Start a new miniseries! Swallow this! We are going to explore the 1980s in film and to start us off we have a special bonus episode looking at, for us, the most influential horror movie franchise of the 80s. The Evil Dead was the brain child of director Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert, and actor...
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50s Trackie Awards
It's our decade round up episode, the Trackies! Where we give out awards for the films we watched on this miniseries and as always we are joined by our friend Brandon Kahn to chat about what we learnt from this selection of films, the 50s in films and what we liked best. Also we announce our next...
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Rear Window (1954)
In the 1950s Alfred Hitchcock was hitting the height of him fame and yet again teaming up with James Stewart and Grace Kelly he made Rear Window a film where a professional photographer is stuck in his apartment, recuperating from a broken leg and this boredom, leads him to spy on his neighbours...
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The only film that Charles Laughton ever directed as 1955's The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The plot focuses on the relentless pursuit of two children from a serial-killing preacher who wants to steal the $10,000 hidden by their executed...
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The 400 Blows (1959) (w/ Lorcan Mullan)
Comedian and Podcaster Lorcan Mullan joins us to discuss the French New Wave classic The 400 Blows starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. The film was directed by former critic and ‘Gravedigger of Cinema’ François Truffaut who directed the film in 1959 after he was banned…
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Godzilla (1954) (w/ James Raynor)
Ollie invites James Raynor back on the show to talk about one of the most seminal films of all time in Godzilla, Ishirō Honda didn't just make an iconic monster film he invented a total worldwide pop culture icon, including thirty-two films produced by Toho, four Hollywood films and numerous…
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Touch of Evil (1958) (w/ Natalie Gardner)
Orson is back! 1958's Touch of Evil was considered for a long time the most forgettable film of Orson Welles' career, he had been removed from the final edit of the film and eventually the studio dumped the film into a b-picture release and it was largely forgotten by critics and audiences alike....
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The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, it has become an icon in cinema becoming a veritable shorthand for arthouse cinema and inspiring countless homages and parodies, meaning it has cemented itself in social consciousness. The film…
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The Searchers (1956)
If there are two names that are synonymous with the western it is John Ford and John Wayne, who over their career together made countless Westerns that came to define the genre, and American film making. The Searchers, from 1956 is possibly not only their most epic but the most defining film of...
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Rififi (1955) (w/ Paul Nadin)
The blacklisting and expulsion of Jules Dassin from Hollywood after he was named in the House of Unamerican Activities, meant that the director ended up taking on this adaption of a French crime novel, a turning it into a noir classic that ties French filmmaking with American action, in something...
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All About Eve (1950) (w/ Natalie Gardner)
Natalie Gardner joins Liam to discuss the 1950 film All About Eve, a giant film of the 1950's, getting a record amount of Academy Award nominations. Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz starring the amazing Bette Davis (who we particularly gush over in the episode) as Margo Channing, a highly regarded…
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Elevator to the Gallows (1958) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
We're back! But instead of our scheduled miniseries episode we are taking a a small detour to explore some other films of the 50s, while Ollie is busy with his new music video. Brandon Kahn is here and he has brought along a 1958 French Noir classic which can be seen as a precursor to the French...
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One Magic Christmas (1985)
As it is Christmas we've decided to celebrate the festive season on the podcast by watching a largely forgotten Disney film from 1985. One Magic Christmas positions itself as being a wonderful tale of Christmas but it is northing short of a depressing horror story. Where Santa decides, in order…
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Them! (1954) (w/ James Raynor)
Man's atomic age is here, horrifying hordes appear! Exo-Skeleton armor, Exo-Skeleton might, Exo-Skeleton horror, Exo-Skeleton bite. Beware of them! Gordon Douglas' Them! is a 1954 horror movie that started the trend for 'big bug' movies, which became a huge trend in horror combining a fear of...
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The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
In 1953 trailblazing director Ida Lupino made the first ever Hollywood film noir shot by a woman. The Hitch-Hiker tells the story of two fishing buddies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who pick up a paranoid hitchhiker (William Talman) during a trip to Mexico, who turns out to be a psychopath...
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) (w/ Brandon Kahn)
MGM and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful is an unblinking look at hubris and ego in Hollywood's Golden Era. Kirk Douglas stars as Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields, and we see his career through the three peoples personal experiences; director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), movie…
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The Man in the White Suit (1951)
When it comes to a name in British comedy, Ealing Studios is a name that has persisted throughout the years. Alec Guinness had made his name for these comedies and in 1951 he was teaming up with Alexander Mackendrick to make a strange science fiction comedy about an unassuming scientist who makes…
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Rashomon (1950)
It's new miniseries time! We've jumped back in time again to the 1950s. The decade where the Cold War started, rock-n-roll was a scary new music form, home television for the first time became commonplace and also the decade where Japanese cinema was introduced to the world. Akira Kurosawa's...
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70s Trackie Awards
We're back from hiatus! Just a quick bonus episode this week to wrap up our 70s miniseries. Brandon Kahn joins us to help present our Trackies, awards for the films we watched in the last miniseries, rank the ten films and also also allows us to bookend and chat about what we learnt about 70s...
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Superman (1978)
In 1978 they said 'you'll believe a man can fly', and we wanted to see if that was still the case. We chose Richard Donner's classic Superman for our 1970s rewatch to close out or 70s miniseries, starring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, plus many more. It's a...
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Phantom Tollbooth (1970) (Chuck Jones)
In 1970 one of the most influential animators of all time, Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies), directed his only feature film The Phantom Tollbooth, based on a novel by Norton Juster, tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo. Unexpectedly receiving a magic tollbooth and, having...
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Two friends are trying to work through those movie backlogs by going through a whole century of film, decade by decade, year by year. Presented by Better Feeling Films; UK based hosts Lena Delaney and Oliver Jones will be your rambling guides each fortnight as they go on their adventure through film history.
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