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Flix
by Daniel Swan
A space for me, Daniel Swan, to talk about the things I love in moviedom. This'll include news, reviews, musings, rants and raves. Whenever possible it'll be with my wonderful wife, Tiffany B, who brings a deliciously level-headed viewpoint to discussions, entirely separate to my fanboy ravings.
Episodes
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Flix 150: Dogma aka "Who is this nobody he's gotten?"
God only knows how we’ve reached 150 episodes. Which is a wonderful segue into talking about Dogma: Kevin Smith’s most goddiest film. • Telling the story of a woman disillusioned with her faith getting coerced into a holy mission by one of God’s right hand angels, Dogma got Kev in a lot of…
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Flix 149: Chasing Amy aka "These flip-floppin' lesbians!"
It’s Kevin Smith’s birthday today! Happy Birthday to Kevin Smith! Let’s celebrate by continuing our deep dive into his back catalog and sharing the episode that, in all likelihood, we’re going to be the nicest to him about. • Chasing Amy is the one, for me. The film that took my Smith-ffection to...
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Flix 148: Mallrats aka "Shouting at me: Please don't shout at me"
Continuing our journey down Kevin Smith’s rabbit hole, we find ourselves in the heady days of 1995 with Kevin’s follow up to Clerks where he attempted to spoil all the good favour he’d earned with that indie classic by making a studio dud. • Mallrats will always hold a special place in my heart…
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Flix 147: Clerks aka "He could be a great accountant"
Kevin Smith will always have a special place in my heart. I fell in love with his films as a teen, and my respect for him has endured to my adulthood. • But even for a Kevin Smith fan such as I, his more recent efforts have been… lackluster. So I thought it would be a good idea to relive the…
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Flix 146: Goodfellas aka "Gaudy watches and chains"
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”, “Funny how?”, “Now go home & get your fuckin' shinebox!” Goodfellas is not bereft of iconic moments. • It’s one of those films, along with Scarface, that I’ve found a lot of blokes who aren’t massively into films love. Speak to…
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Flix 145: The Before Trilogy aka “Ethan Hawke has perv face"
I love love, I’ll make no excuses for it. I love romantic films. I love seeing two hot people fall in love and be all cool and fun and sexy and then do a kiss. It’s like sports films: the formula is so well worn because it’s fantastic when it all works. • One of cinema’s most enduring love…
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Flix 144: Just Mercy aka "I don't like dictators, but what I say goes!"
Some films have premises that are so outlandish you have to check whether they’re science fiction. This film, the latest from Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton, focuses on a black man who sits on death row, having been wrongly convicted of murder. And yet there’s no laser guns or hover...
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Flix 141: Tron Legacy aka "Star Wars expert-type people"
After a long delay due to illness, we are back, to pay a debt. I won our Oscar prediction contest, and as such got to pick the next film that we’d watch and do a Flix on. So I picked Tron Legacy, because I’m a good husband. • Tron Legacy is the 2010 sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 original,...
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Flix 140: Oscars Prediction 2020 aka "It was just a love letter to himself..."
The Oscars are imminent, and like previous years Tiffany B and I have been busily watching as many of the contenders as we could. And we’ve done a really good job, you guys. Seriously, you should be proud of us. • And what we found was… much like previous years. The Academy has held resolutely to...
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Flix 139: Cats aka "That moment will stay with me..."
#Flix 139: Cats aka “That moment will stay with me" • I’ll start this by saying I’m more of a dog man, myself. My own dog, Baxter, is one of the purest sources of joy in my life, so I’m going to be a little biased against a film centered on his natural enemies. • I’d seen the trailer to Cats, I’d...
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Flix 138: The Irishman aka “He’s almost like a clown"
Martin Scorsese dissed Marvel films last year. Dissed them hard. Luckily for him, as much as I am a ride-or-die MCU fan, I’m also professional AF, so I was able to put my personal feelings to one side when discussing his new pile of bullshit, The Irishman. • Telling the story of a professional...
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Flix 137: Parasite aka "Also you smell bad..."
We’re living in a time where the rich are super duper rich, and the poor are crazy poor. It’s a sad state of affairs that doesn’t get explored a huge amount through film, not least of which because a lot of the studio executives that green light these films are part of the super duper rich club,...
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Flix 136: GoldSilverBronze Film of the 2010s aka "And Tim McGraw as... the neighbour!"
There were thousands of films released between 2010 and 2019. Thousands. What kind of monster would ask his friends to pick their favourite 3 of them? Sorry, what kind of monster with two thumbs would ask his friends to pick their favourite 3 of them? This guy! • Tiffany B, Jen, Sara and I sat...
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Flix 135: GoldSilverBronze of 2019 aka “You don’t know Elton like I do"
2019, eh? What a great year for film. Except if you’re reading this historically, in which case… 2019, eh? The year Disney plunged the dagger into the heart of the cinema industry with their monopolising of family entertainment. What a terrible year for film! • In the midst of this though, there...
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Flix 134: Star Wars Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker aka “The rest of us are lovely Hitlers..."
Star Wars is done and we’ll never get another film from this franchise. That’s the cold hard facts of the matter and I can’t help you if you don’t believe me. All we have to remember this 42 year old franchise is this, the third installment of the 3rd trilogy that makes it the ninth film overall...
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Flix 133: Jojo Rabbit aka “Why’s she just waiting in the attic the whole time?"
The more I hear about Nazis, the less I like them. Just bloody numpties, aren’t they? All that hating? And murdering? And wanting to bring about a golden age of blonde people when they’re being led by a brunette? Yeah, not for me thanks. Smell you later, Nazis! Don’t let the door hit you on the…
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Flix 132: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre aka "She caught cancer from screaming"
And as Halloween draws to a close (a couple of weeks ago) we at Flix bid a joyous farewell to films designed to scare the bejesus out of you for another year. To commemorate the end of the season, I decided to go out with a bang and watch a film described by many as the scariest of all time. •…
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Flix 131: Screamilogy aka "What kind of weird, post-apocalyptic hospital is this?"
It’s Halloween, which means the scary films come out to play. I am, as has been well documented, a baby when it comes to matters of horror, so the Scream franchise appeals to me greatly. Horror-lite, if you will. • So I decided, to celebrate the witching season, to review all of them. All four of...
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Flix 130: Joker aka "Bring in the Super Rats..."
Ok fine. You’ve all been clamouring to hear what the official Flix word on Joker was. I get it. It’s a film that has dominated movie discussions ever since it was announced, and will continue to do so. There were several stages to this: • The film is announced: “A Joker origin story? Wha?” The...
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Flix 129: It Chapter 2 aka “Let’s get rid of the Magic God Turtle."
I don’t dig on horror films too much. The feeling of terror is one that carries none of the thrill it does for others. Terror is terror, and should be avoided like phone conversations and gin based cocktails. But for reasons that escape me, I found myself drawn to It when it came out in 2017. The...
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Flix 128: The Farewell aka "You'd have to give twins cancer at the same time"
As a man terrified of death, I often find myself drawn to cinematic examinations of it. If I stare into the abyss (with my hand held tight by a great movie) for long enough, then maybe I’ll start to see some comforting logic unfurl to soothe me on this bleak and meaningless rock hurtling through...
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Flix 127: Hobbs & Shaw aka "Twice as old, half as attractive"
It’s always trepidatious jumping into a film series after the first one. Will I be able to keep up? Will there be plot points that don’t make sense to me? In the case of Hobbs and Shaw however, technically the 9th installment in the car-based Fast and the Furious series, I think I might be ok. •...
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Flix 126 - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood aka "You promised we were going to the fireworks factory!"
He’s a pervert, occasionally abusive to women, puts actors in danger and I’m confident that if I spent more than 10 minutes in his company I’d find him to be a little much, but god dammit Quentin Tarantino knows how to throw a film together. • From his attention grabbing debut with Reservoir…
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Flix 125: Toy Story 4 aka "I've got every confidence in you, Slink"
4th films are often pants. For every Rocky IV or Fury Road, there's an X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Catcher, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or even, god help us…
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Flix 124: GoldSilverBronze Disney Songs aka "Let's get on a boat!"
My wife and I went to a bar with our dog, Baxter, and got into a conversation about the best Disney songs of all time. It was a typical, fun, light-hearted conversation that many people might have. And then I went and ruined it. I grabbed my bag, grabbed the dog, grabbed my wife and ran home. I...
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Flix 123: Spider-Man: Far From Home aka "Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see"
And then Endgame finished, and I caught my breath, dabbed myself dry from tears and other stuff and pondered to myself: "What's next?” • Well, it's this. Spider-Man: Far From Home. It's the film with the unenviable task of following the 2nd biggest film of all time, at a time when it's still…
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Flix 122: Sex and the City 2 aka "Orgasming over wealth"
A review: • "SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled cunt like it's my job—and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car. It is 146 minutes long, which means that I entered the theater in…
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Flix 121: Avengers: Endgame aka "I'm a f-ing alien, I'll deal with it, ok?"
Ok guys, here it is. It feels as though my life has been building to this film for some time now, and to have seen it and experienced it now leaves me somewhat deflated. No need to look forward to it anymore, because I've seen it. I feel like someone emerging from a nuclear fallout shelter to…
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Flix 120: Shazam! aka "Not now, Adam..."
Typical. You wait for decades for a decent Captain Marvel film, and two come along in a few months! But this is, of course, nothing to do with Marvel's Brie Larson-starring behemoth. No, this is DC's Zachary Levi-starring hopefully behemoth, a film that hopes to emulate the empowerment young…
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Flix 119: Us aka "Winston, babe, you can do better than that..."
It takes a lot to get Tiffany B and I excited about a horror film. There've been scant examples of us actually leaving the house in order to see something that's deliberately setting out to scare us. Us was one of those films. We'd seen Get Out and loved it, we'd seen a crackerjack trailer and...
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Flix 118: Dumbo aka "So you're a locksmith now?"
D-U-M-B-O! D-U-M-B-O! D-U-M-B-O! D-U-M-B-O! He's D! Directed by Tim Burton. He's U! Unlikely to win an Oscar. He's M! Mixed reviews. He's B! Blessed with a pretty great cast. He's OoooooooOOOOOOooooooo! Tiffany B joins me to find out whether cinema's favourite pachyderm is worth all the…
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Flix 117: Captain Marvel aka "She's your Hollywood mum"
The MCU is back. After what seemed like years of time but was actually closer to 8 months, we are back in the comforting bosom of the multi-billion dollar grossing behemoth. Marvel have done that Marvel thing of grabbing a director (or in this case, pair of directors) whose largest film to date...
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Flix 116: Roma aka "I don't know because I was in bed"
Most of the time you watch films and they’re in the right language, but then sometimes the film is in another language and you have to read the film. It’s tricky, because you can’t look at people’s faces as much as you’d like because you’re looking at the bottom of the screen where the writing…
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Flix 115: Green Book aka "You're a French homeless man!"
Newsflash guys: Back in the bad old days, people didn't like each other simply because of the colour of their skin. They looked at the amount of melanin in that person's skin, and if it disagreed with their paint colour chart, they were super mean to them, up to and including murdering them. That...
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Flix 114: GSB Most Anticipated Geek Films 2019 aka "Looking all ripped and dangerous"
I needed an oasis of geekery in the midst of all the award season movies. I put up the geeky signal into the sky, and Aaron Sosa swooped in to save the day. Here, we detail which films have piqued our curiosity, which we're not too fussed about, and which film we're not sure will even be…
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Flix 113: Boy Erased aka "Snarling, bible-bashing morons"
A lot of people's gods don't like gay people. It's strange to think of an omnipotent deity concerned with where you like to put your tongues and hands and gonads. Seems like there'd be bigger fish to fry. But sure enough, a lot of people's personal gods just find it abhorrent to lay with another…
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Flix 112: The Favourite aka "It's like hearing your grandad swear"
Power struggles. Fancy costumes. Very well spoken meanness. All these are hallmarks of period dramas. But along comes a film like The Favourite (check the spelling, yanks), which dares to step away from convention in two main areas. 1 - This film is funny. 2 - The leads are... WOMEN! I know. Not...
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Flix 111: Aquaman aka "Ooh, he's gonna come through that wall"
Aquaman, Aquaman, does whatever an Aqua can Talks to fish, they're his allies Can rock the boat, make it capsize Look out! Here comes an Aquamaaaan. Is Aquaman terrible? Does something smell a bit FISHy with the film's quality? Is it a wasted opporTUNAty? Do the filmmakers need to go back to...
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Flix 110: Christmas Wishes! aka "Old, Johnny Depp, leathery, tattooed, dirty, dirty skin..."
I wish I may I wish I might On this star I wish tonight I want some things from films in 2019 I want them now I want them all and I don't care how Merry Christmas!
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Flix 109: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse aka "Classic Gwen Stacy flippidy flops"
How many Spider-Men is too many Spider-Men? We've already seen 3 separate cinematic Peter Parkers swing and web and suffer and chafe since 2002, and in that time we've all become pretty well versed in the trials, tribulations and travails of the wall crawler. So how to bring out another Spidey…
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Flix 108: Widows aka "You better watch yourself, Garrell..."
Feminism. What's it all about REALLY? Is it a vindictive plot to emasculate the male population with snide comments and the wiggling of little fingers? Is it an attempt for them all to gain access to our bathrooms so they can ogle us when we drop our trousers and underwear to our ankles when we…
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Flix 107: Stan Lee aka "What accent CAN you do? Do that."
It's a testament to the power and importance of Stan Lee, that even I, an absolute nobody making a movie podcast that no-one listens to, feels the need to pay tribute to him in some way. This is what I came up with. Joining me, as ever, is the Joan Lee to my Stan Lee, Tiffany B, who gamely…
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Flix 106: The Hate U Give aka "The 4-leaf clover of the movie world is a likeable teenager"
Guns are obviously awesome. They look exciting, they sound loud, and you can spin them around like a cowboy and put them in a holster and you look like the coolest person in the world. The issue with them, and something that a lot of people overlook, is that using a small explosion to propel a...
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Flix 105: Crimson Peak aka "Incest? Not for me, thanks!"
Tiffany B loves gothic horror stories. So to redress the balance caused by dozens of comic book films, sometimes it's nice to dive into the world of top hats, formality, grisly murder, and ghosts. And this one's made by Guillermo del Toro! It can't possibly be bad, right? Join Tiffany B and…
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Flix 104: Venom aka "ScriptBot takes your criticism to heart and vows to improve"
Spider-Man may well be my favourite character in all of fiction. I carry a lot of love for that awkward teenage klutz. And a decent amount of love filters through osmosis to his supporting cast, including Mr Venom. He is arguably the most famous rogue in Spidey's extensive and celebrated gallery....
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Flix 103: BlackKklansman aka "How can he be racist? Look at those lapels!"
Isn't it strange to watch a film featuring widespread racism in this day and age? I can barely remember people being racist, and I'm old. Luckily for us, Spike Lee comes through to remind us of the bad old times, and the progress we've all made as a species, with this historical document of black...
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Flix 102: Mission: Impossible - Fallout aka "Bless him, just constantly running"
When will it end? When will you be sufficiently entertained? When will Tom Cruise get to stop trying to kill himself? When is enough enough for you monsters? Just let him rest.
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Flix 101: Her aka "Mmm... smog!"
Netflix is a hassle sometimes. If it only gave you a choice of 8 films to watch at any given time, you'd watch a ton of stuff you'd never heard of before, and choose what you wanted really quickly. But it shows you 8,000 films and asks you to wade through them to find the gem you want. But then...
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Flix 100
Tiffany B encouraged me, I think knowing how cool I am, to catalogue every rating I had given to films through Flix and my instagram account. I did it, I loved it, and I wanted to talk about it, because there's some odd decisions in there. It's not my place to judge past Dan, but I think maybe…
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Flix 99: Ant-Man and The Wasp aka "Lawrence Fishburne, playing Fashion Bobby"
We live in a funny world. We live in a world where a film has been made about Ant-Man (both the Scott Lang and Hank Pym incarnations), the Wasp, Goliath, Ghost, Sonny Burch and Agent Jimmy Woo. There is no character too obscure for the MCU to sweep up in their all-encompassing sperm whale-esque...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A space for me, Daniel Swan, to talk about the things I love in moviedom. This'll include news, reviews, musings, rants and raves. Whenever possible it'll be with my wonderful wife, Tiffany B, who brings a deliciously level-headed viewpoint to discussions, entirely separate to my fanboy ravings.
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A space for me, Daniel Swan, to talk about the things I love in moviedom. This'll include news, reviews, musings, rants and raves. Whenever possible it'll be with my wonderful wife, Tiffany B, who brings a deliciously level-headed viewpoint to discussions, entirely separate to my fanboy ravings.
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