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Groovy Movies — 107 episodes
The cinematic ascent of A24 and its latest hit, The Drama
Clever Girls and Space Men ft. Hannah McGregor
Should we scrap award ceremonies?
Wuthering Heights: can Jacob Elordi grow a beard?
Star Wars 101
A Very Kubrick Christmas
The best and worst of 2025
Is this the death of cinema?
Knives Out returns
RE-RELEASE: What turns a bad movie into a cult classic?
RE-RELEASE: Heat (1995) dir. by Michael Mann
Jennifer Lawrence in Die My Love: The modern melodrama? Ft. The Ministry of Film
What is it about heist movies? Plus: the perpetual seductiveness of Rocky Horror
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: Why do we keep digging it up?
A tribute to Diane Keaton and what’s happened to Bond’s guns?
The trials of adapting “unfilmable” books
One Battle After Another: Does Paul Thomas Anderson finally have a box office hit?
RIP Robert Redford
Disney's boy trouble
Emerald Fennel's Wuthering Heights controversy
Why you haven’t heard of summer’s biggest box office hit
Following (1998): Christopher Nolan's first film
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
In The Mood For Love (2000)
Anora (2024)
The Oscars and The Brutalist (2024)
Se7en (1995)
Babygirl (2024)
Juno (2007)
Nosferatu (1922 & 2024)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Fall (2006)
Donnie Darko (2001)
The Substance (2024)
EMERGENCY BONUS EPISODE: MEGAFLOPOLIS (or: Francis Ford Coppola's Roman Empire)
Action Women, schwing (Point Break, American Psycho, Wayne’s World)
Sad girls on holiday (Lost in Translation, Swimming Pool, Shirley Valentine)
Superior Sequels: What makes part 2 better than part 1? (Inside Out 2, The Terminator 2, The Godfather 2)
Fantastic Film Follies: How to finance a flop
1999: Cinema's best year, ever?
One Take Movies: Are they a gimmick?
The Mummy and it’s children
Loves Lies Bleeding: Was Kristen Stewart always this good?
Challengers v. Wimbledon: Sex, Love and Tennis
The Zone of Interest & Perfect Days: Why is mundanity powerful?
Civil War: Will A24's big budget gamble pay off?
The Top 5 Party Scenes in Cinema
Baby Face: Pre-Code Horniness and the Original Sugar Baby
*Teaser* Next week's episode and an announcement
Dune: Part Two (spoiler-free!)
The Groovies: Awards Season Special 2024
Bridget Jones's Diary: The definitive New Year heroine? (and what to watch in 2024)
Rebel without a Claus: The Groovy Movies Xmas-travaganza
Napoleon: Are biopics bad for history?
Saltburn: Are we really eating the rich? Ft. Culture Colander
May December and the blacklist we want to be on
Finding love in a dystopian place (Fingernails, The Lobster, Her)
Does size matter? The Gravity of the cinematic experience
Is Killers of the Flower Moon worth the runtime?
Hex Appeal: Cinema’s Baddest Witches (Practical Magic, The Craft, The Witches of Eastwick)
It’s Taylor Swift’s Era and we’re just living in it (but do concert films work?)
Nostalgiaholics: Why were 90s filmmakers obsessed with the 70s? (Dazed and Confused, Almost Famous, Boogie Nights)
Would you forget a past relationship if you could? (Past Lives, Sliding Doors, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Love Triangles on Film: How (not) to throuple (Passages, Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona, Design For Living)
But when can we see Dune 2? Everything you need to know about the Hollywood Strikes
James' Desert Island DVDs (The Empire Strikes Back, Singing in the Rain, Citizen Kane)
Has the cult of director lost its power? (My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, Inception, Reservoir Dogs)
The women behind Hollywood's top directors (Jaws, Raging Bull, Out of Sight)
Our Sizzling Summer Holiday Special: Viva L'Italia (Call Me By Your Name, Roman Holiday, The Great Beauty)
What makes a killer plot twist? (Psycho, Atonement, Parasite)
Barbenheimer Special
Did cinema create the ‘It’ girl? (It, Mahogany, Factory Girl)
Do we prefer our main characters with side character energy? (Grease, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club)
Edith Head: The designer who dressed Hollywood's Golden Era (Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Catch a Thief, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Our Favourite Comfort Films (The Big Short, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, The Fall, The Mummy, Juno, Tea With Mussolini)
From Dr Strangelove to Bond: The Genius of Ken Adam (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Moonraker, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove)
What turns a bad movie into a cult classic? (Howard The Duck, The Room, Mommie Dearest, North Sea Hijack)
Fucking Bonkers French Films (Last Year at Marienbad, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Celine & Julie Go Boating, Holy Motors)
What makes a film feel timeless? (Dune, Memento, Casablanca)
Don’t watch the movie - watch the documentary about the movie (Hearts of Darkness, Jodorowsky's Dune, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island Of Dr. Moreau)
Do blank cheques make good films? (Showgirls, Southland Tales, The Last Temptation of Christ)
Awards Season Special (part 2): The Best
Awards Season Special (part 1): The Worst
[GUESTS ON CULTURE COLANDER] The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser: "We didn't need fatness to tell this story"
Die Hard dir. by John McTiernan
2001: A Space Odyssey dir. by Stanley Kubrick
Hunger dir. by Steve McQueen
Mustang dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Hero dir. by Zhang Yimou
The Love Witch dir. by Anna Biller
The Shining dir. by Stanley Kubrick
We Need To Talk About Kevin dir. by Lynne Ramsay
Grizzly Man dir. by Werner Herzog
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard
Bound dir. by the Wachowskis
The Worst Person in the World dir. by Joachim Trier
Bringing Up Baby dir. by Howard Hawks
Heat dir. by Michael Mann
Licorice Pizza dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson
Batman Begins dir. by Christopher Nolan
The Conformist dir. by Bernardo Bertolucci
When Harry Met Sally dir. by Rob Reiner
Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. by Daniels
Promising Young Woman dir. by Emerald Fennell