Frame by Frame
by Frame by Frame
Here are two English creatives on a journey of sight and sound. This time we're making a run of film reviews. Now, we're not sticking to the rules of talking only about what is popular or hot in the cinema. We have a responsabilty to find all kinds of films, especially those that may be slipping through the gaps, or movies that we loved that nobody seems to remember. So from old to the new, from the bizarre and the downright bad. We're going to sit through all that we can, and on a weekly basis, you can listen to our banter: coming from not only film fanatics, but lovers of the craft. We don't claim to be experts, but we do have a point of view. Mostly, we're doing this because it is fun and I hope you find that is true for you.
Episodes
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S09E10 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage Career Retrospective
We undercover the enigma of Nicolas Cage. More or less. I mean what can you say in the face of such a prolific movie star. He's untouchable.
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S09E09 Grosse Point Blank
Movies in the 90s seemed to have it all. Well written, well cast and flawlessly crafted with consideration to even the smallest detail. Sibling wonders, John and Joan Cusack made the amazing movie Grosse Point Blank together.
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S09E08 The Evil Dead PITCH PODCAST
We continue our celebration of all things Evil Dead by bringing you two pitches for a brand new Evil Dead movie.
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S09E07 The Evil Dead Saga
In the years we've broadcasted, we've mentioned it. but never really talked about The Evil Dead and what it means to horror, and us personally.
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S09E06 Die Hard and Crocodile Dundee
Andy's challenge to come up with two different movie franchises with one thing in common comes to a head-to-head between Die Hard and Crocodile Dundee.
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S09E05 Bowfinger
Yet another time travel retrospective brings us back to the year 1999 and the sunny comedy that is Bowfinger.
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S09E04 Bo Burnham and Inside
Yet another episode that Andy has wanted to cover for quite some time. So we decided to dedicate this episode to hypocritical irony. Yes. We made content about the crazy notion of being a content creator. Inside with Bo Burnham.
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S09E03 Police Story with Jackie Chan
As a focus we talk about Police Story which is really the series of action films that put Jackie Chan on the map.
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S09E02 Alex Garland movies Men and Ex Machina
We do a deep dive into Alex Garland who may well have felt like an imposter in the world of writing, but now is firmly seated at the table of great filmmaking visionaries.
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S09E01 - Horrible Movies - Unwatchable
We're jumping into the deep end of cinema, if in fact that is what you call some of the film selections within this uncomfortable discussion.
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S01E51 - Deadpool
We ride on into the episode with a review of Deadpool, and then all hell breaks loose when we decide to discuss the issues with the new Ghostbusters Trailer.
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S01E50 - The Predator Movies
Predator movies are synonmous with the Alien franchise and it has taken 49 episodes for us to visit these movies. We talk about Schwartzenegger and Glover, cover Brody and the beast itself.
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S01E49 - X Files season 10
This is our second podcast about the X Files. You would be correct to assume we are definite fans, however we go in with a full hour to cover six episodes, five of which we're happy with.
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S01E48 - Spiceworld, Green Inferno, The Force Awakens
We finally get on board and watch The Force Awakens. we wanted to also address that one movie that had been given the worst rap by respected film critic and film scholar, Mark Kermode, so we really wanted to cover in depth, the filth and nastiness that is Sex and the City 2. But what movie would…
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S01E47 - David Bowie and Alan Rickman
This week, we talk about the passing of David Bowie and Alan Rickman, and even though we really didn't do it justice how important these two men were to the world of music and film and to art itself, the month of January for 2016 will not be forgotten in a hurry.
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S01E46 - Blue Velvet and David Lynch Short film Rabbits
It took Stephen's wife several days to shake the image of this movie out of her mind. For her it was disturbing, and yet strangely compelling. I would have to say that this is true on both counts, but where we as reviewers go with this movie is to remark mainly on it's message, its cleverness......
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S01E45 Dawn Of the Dead (2004)
We talk about Dawn of the Dead remake from 2004, and then turn to the idea of exploring all Horror Film Remakes. Some work, some don't. We hit all films from The Fly to The Grudge. The Ring, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (yes, again) Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead, Last House on the Left and...
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S01E44 Mission Impossible movies
This episode fell behind the lines for several weeks due to a hefty editing process. Something to do with complex and uncertain placement of plot detail and making sure it sat in the right topic within the correct movie. You see, all these films are dense with action sequences, but they don't all...
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S01E43 Wes Craven
The sad passing of Wes Craven has preempted a change in the regular scheduled episode. Sorry Mission Impossible but this is an important one that requires our special time. Wes Craven's love of the darkness of cinema has transformed our movie going habits. Now we have the disturbing Last House on...
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S01E42 Hard to be a god (Трудно быть богом)
We don't make things easy on ourselves. It is hard to imagine that any other country would have been brave enough to make a 3 hour movie from the point of view from a interstellar earth traveler (which Stephen argued against being anything but science fiction) who, among his group of scientist...
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S01E41 Cocktail and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The podcast which you are about to listen to is an account of the tragic meeting between two film fanatics whom had fallen upon the sharp words of a social media post that put them on a path to do the impossible. No, this isn’t the podcast where they finally review Spice Girls the Movie. What...
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S01E40 Exorcist, also Heretic, Legion, Dominion and Beginning
Yep. Exorcist. What more can we say? The first setup a whole new future of horror and, well, blockbusters where cinema lines became an overnight event. Star Wars would not have been as successful if it wasn't for the cinema going trend that started with this terrifying event. As for Heretic,...
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S01E39 Unfriended
We dive into the dark side of the internet with internet stalking ghosts in the machine, cyber bully frenzy with the movie Unfriended. Conceptually fascinating and there may be some room for our usual segway antics. We also figure out how useful Facebook is, and how promoting on the web is a...
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S01E38 Mad Max Fury Road & Mad Max Trilogy
We didn't want to jump on the bandwagon when this one was released. We knew it would gain massive attention, but we would get lost in a crowd of podcasts from those who know and those who don't have a clue what it is they are watching. Let it be said that Mad Max has never had a straight line of...
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S01E37 Love and Mercy - Brian Wilson - Beach Boys reviewed
We learn that the Beach Boys are much more than just a surfing inspired, happy go lightly band. We take a look at Love and Mercy, the new biopic that courses through the trials and tribulations of Brian Wilson, the music maestro, writing genius at the very core of the Beach Boys success.
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S01E36 X-Men Days of Future Past Rogue Cut
This is the first episode where we visit a film which has been given a short back and sides - or in this case, banks trimmed and what's taken off the banks is added to the eyebrows. In other words, we cannot find a true reason why X Men Rogue Cut for Days of Future Past exists. Naturally, it's...
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S01E35 Insidious / Terminator Genisys
We drift in and out of the realm as we figure out why we're not sure if we liked this thrill seeker horror flick. Horror is either going to challenge or entertain, have character depth, thrill and scare. if you have a film that does all that and more then it's probably not Insidious. We also…
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S01E34 Poltergeist Remade & James Horner
Remakes always make us feel uncomfortable, especially when we see no reason to add to what is already a complete experience. Perhaps this remake could take the theory of "poltergeist" and make sure everything that doesn't fit the definition is excluded? So we could have a poltergeist movie with...
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S01E33 John Carpenter
It was bound to happen. Focusing on the rogue yet brilliant director of life as we fear it, we unravel the films of John Carpenter. There's the music, Jamie Lee Curtis, there's Kurt Russel and things that lurk in dark shadows. Yes, the last one would indeed be Donald Pleasence who needs no...
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S01E32 Jurassic World, Westworld & FutureWorld
We go theme park gone wrong mad today as we review the latest outing for the Jurassic Park franchise. Not a reboot, nothing all that memorable, but an experience you enjoy in the moment. WestWorld is a classic albeit obvious questionable ideas such as how loaded weapons get in the hands of a...
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S01E31 Top 30 notable Science Fiction Films
We're back after two weeks hiatus. As we warm up to more single hit movies (and those bombs that we dredge up every now and then) we will go through a list from Time Out's Top 100 Science Fiction Movies. We take 30 of these as honourable mentions. We however decided that we didn't want to mention...
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S01E30 It Follows (also Letterman retires)
Episode 30! We're still here. We're still finding new good horror movies, although, really, thinking about it, it's not really a horror. I would class this as a supernatural thriller with historical ties with slasher movies of the 80s. With it's electronic synth score and it's evenly paced,...
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S01E29 What is an Action Movie?
What exactly makes a pure action movie? We can agree that action can exist in many forms, but if a romantic movie has a car crash, you can't exactly call it a romantic action movie? It's all about context and also, it's about the intent and delivery of that action. There is only one way to…
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S01E28 John Wick & Snowpiercer
For several weeks of planning we (Andy and Stephen) could not decide what we wanted to review first. John Wick or Snowpiercer, both films we wanted to do but could we decide which one went first? No. So there was only one way we could decide. FIGHT! Oh, wait, that's not our show. We tossed a…
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S01E27 The Enfield Poltergeist & Ghostwatch
Andy and Stephen scare each other as they discuss those real life events that inspired movies such as The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Poltergeist, and naturally, the Exorcist. We want to pretend that "The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist" doesn't exist, but alas, it's there. We delve into the…
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S01E26 Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Here we are, our talk about Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon did it, it's the perfect comic book movie. Fast, fun and incredibly exciting. We loved it. In a change from the norm we actually reviewed the film in the car on the way back from the cinema. How's that for fresh from the press?…
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S01E25 An American Stand-Up review (stand-up U.S.A)
Here we are with part 2 and as we expected, it's a heavy one. Almost two hours riding through in our own unique way a portrait of stand-Up Comedy in the states, how it differs from that of the U.K and who those pioneers of the form are and why. I suppose we answered almost all of those questions,...
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S01E24 Amityville Horror, The Innocents and Borderlands
Three ghostly devil related psychological horror films from three completely different eras. Chronologically, The Innocents came out in 1961, the Amityville Horror in 1979 and Borderlands (international title, Final Prayer), 2013. We aimed to do something a little different, looking at the angle…
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S01E23 Firefly, Serenity And Con Man
In true "Raiders of the Fandom" fashion, we discuss the power of the people in how fans of a cancelled television show can unite in their love and appreciation for a show to support two of Firefly's main cast members on a television project. Having already raised over 600% beyond their target,...
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S01E22 British Stand-Up Comedy
This is what you would call a spread out part 1 of 4 season of comedy podcasts. The reason why its a season? because at the end, Andy has a plan to do something a little crazy. Although the official end date for this adventure in podcast is up in the air, you can rest easy knowing that part 4…
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About this show
Here are two English creatives on a journey of sight and sound. This time we're making a run of film reviews. Now, we're not sticking to the rules of talking only about what is popular or hot in the cinema. We have a responsabilty to find all kinds of films, especially those that may be slipping through the gaps, or movies that we loved that nobody seems to remember. So from old to the new, from the bizarre and the downright bad. We're going to sit through all that we can, and on a weekly basis, you can listen to our banter: coming from not only film fanatics, but lovers of the craft. We don't claim to be experts, but we do have a point of view. Mostly, we're doing this because it is fun and I hope you find that is true for you.
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