All Episodes
Spool Film Podcast — 115 episodes
Jessie Buckley will win an Oscar! | 98th Academy Awards Preview
Best Films of 2025
Oscar Preview Special - who's taking home an Academy Award?
Best Films of 2024
The Coronation of Cillian? - An Irish preview of the 2024 Oscars
Best Films of 2023
2023 Half Year Report Card and Summer Blockbuster Discussion
Oscars 2023 Preview: Can Ireland win anything?
Best Films of 2022
Who needs the World Cup?!
Best of 2022's first 6 months. Plus "Elvis".
Oscars Preview Special
The Batman is the bee's knees
Encanto / Parallel Mothers / Licorice Pizza
Best Films of 2021 - Ep #101 Special
Best Films of 2020 - Ep #100 special
Films for lockdown #2
Making sense of TENET with some big fat spoilers
A return to the cinema? // (Virtual) Galway Fleadh // David Lynch's 'Wild at Heart'
Space Jam, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Assistant (Social Distancing Cinema #2)
American Psycho (Social Distancing Cinema #1)
Coronavirus and Cinema.....
The Ultimate Oscars Preview!
*spoilerz* - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Best Films of 2019 - Marriage Story and Bait take top spots + Friends of Spool!
The Best Films of the 2010s!
Getting comfy for 210 minutes of The Irishman!
The brilliance of JOKER, the (pointless) joy of EL CAMINO... + more
Party like it's 1999 - The Matrix, Phantom Menace... | Pain & Glory, Scary Stories, Ad Astra
Does Tarantino's 'Hollywood' hold up? [Plus The Lion King, Jim Jarmusch, Hobbs & Shaw, Almodovar and more]
The Best Films of 2019 so far? And Spider-Man FFH spoiler review + much more
#84 – Is John Wick 3 a masterpiece or glorified computer game? Plus PIKACHU v AVENGERS..
Pod 83: So, who’s gonna win an Oscar? (w/ guest Eithne Shortall)
Pod 82: Green Book v Beale Street v Driving Miss Daisy (kinda)
Pod 81: THE BEST FILMS OF 2018
Pod 80: Raising a glass to Tom Waits, Robert Redford, Sly Stallone and Tessa Thompson
Pod #79 – Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’, plus Bohemian Rhapsody, Mandy, Rosie & more
Pod #78 – We watch ‘The Crying Game’, 1992’s most shocking film and legendary piece of Irish cinema
Pod #77 – The ‘BlackKklansman’ and ‘Airplane!’ connection, American Animals, Searching, Lucky & more
Pod #76 – What’s coming to Galway Film Fleadh 2018? And what’s in the cinema for when the World Cup is finished?
Pod #75 – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in hilarious Cineworld 4DX, Book Club, Deadpool 2, Solo & more
Pod #74: Avengers Spoilerz, The Delinquent Season, Deadpool 2 & more
Pod #73 – Is ‘Isle of Dogs’ the first bad Wes Anderson movie? Is ‘Michael Inside’ the best Irish film of the year?
Pod #72 – An Oscars Conversation (w/ special guest Eithne Shortall)
Pod #71 – The Shape of Water, Phantom Thread & many, many more
Pod #70 – The Best Films of 2017
Pod #69 – The Worst Films of 2017
Pod #68: Review Bumper Bonanza! Just how deadly are The Disaster Artist, Good Time and The Florida Project?
Pod #67: Blade Runner(s) spoilers chat…. and the Harvey Weinstein problem
Pod #66 – Adam Sandler’s best film in 15 years!
Pod #65 – mother! It! Wind River! Harry Dean Stanton!
Pod #64: Dunkirk, The Big Sick, War for the Planet of the Apes & more
Pod #63: Galway Film Fleadh 2017 round-up – Best New Irish Features & Shorts
Pod #62 – ‘The Driver’ (1978) – Baby Driver’s Biggest Inspiration?
Pod #61 – Baby Driver! Okja! Galway Film Fleadh 2017 Preview!
Pod #60 – Celebrating DAVID LYNCH
Pod #59 – We’re back! // War Machine, The Red Turtle, Cardboard Gangsters, Alien, The Mummy & MORE
Pod #58: ScarJo in Ghost in the Shell, Get Out, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest & MUCH MORE
Pod #57: Oscars 2017 Special (featuring Páraic, Nigel & Eithne predictions)
Pod #56: Trainspotting 2, ADIFF 2017 Preview, Manchester by the Sea and more
Pod #55: Best Films of 2016
Pod #54: ROGUE ONE: A Star Wars Story – *spoiler review*
Pod #53: Paterson, Allied, Bad Santa 2, Amy Adams & Christmas Films playing in Dublin in 2016
Pod #52: The Light Between Oceans, Doctor Strange, T2: Trainspotting and Werner Herzog documentary double-bill!
Pod #51 – Werner Herzog wilderness special! (Fitzcarraldo & Burden of Dreams)
Podcast #50: Mattress Men, The Girl on the Train, Hunt for the Wilderpeople & many more
Pod #49: Sausage Party, Don’t Breathe, A Date for Mad Mary & 12 more films discussed! Also Gene Wilder remembered.
Pod #48: Are we gone Beyond good Star Trek films, and is Ghostbusters worth all the talk?
Pod #47: Galway Film Fleadh preview, Now You See Me 2, Maggie’s Plan, The Van & many more…
Pod 46: The Nice Guys, X-Men, Michael Moore & Shakespeare @ IFI
Podcast #45: The problem with Captain America: Civil War // Different approaches to music biopics
Pod #44 – Spring Special! // Sing Street, The Witch, The Hateful Eight (70mm), Midnight Special & more
Pod #43 – Oscars 2016 Spooool Special (w/ Eithne Shortall)
Podcast #42 – The best ever month for cinema releases? (maybe!)
Pod #41 – The Best Films of 2015 & Star Wars: The Force Awakens Reviewed
Pod 40: STAR WARS (Original Trilogy Special)
Pod #39: The magnificent “Carol”, Spielberg’s disappointing “Bridge of Spies” and Johnny Depp’s Whitey Bulger in “Black Mass”
Star Wars: Revisiting The Prequels! // Watch with Spooool #13
Podcast #37 – So, is Spectre as good as Skyfall?
Podcast #36 – Remembering Wes Craven // The Last House on the Left (1972) & The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Podcast #35 – Older Than Ireland, Everest, The Martian, Spectre & More
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) // Revenge of the Nerds (1984) – Podcast #34
#33 – Gerwig, Schumer, Delevingne and Streep (and more)
#32 – Awesome Animation (and Ant-Man and Amy)
Podcast #31 – The Terrible Terminator
Podcast #30 – 1979 Mad Max V 2015 Mad Max
Spooool.ie Podcast #29 – Avengers, Cobain, Runaway Train, Mad Max & more
Spooool.ie Podcast #28 – JDIFF 2015 Round-up
Spooool.ie Podcast #27 – Oscar Predictions and favourites with Nigel, Páraic and Special guest Eithne Shortall
Spooool.ie Podcast #26 – Racist Academy, Big love for Oscar Isaac and Birdman’s brilliance
Best Films of The Year 2014 – Spooool.ie Podcast #25
Spooool.ie Podcast #24 – Star Wars Trailer Talk, Paddington reviewed and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Spooool.ie Podcast #23 – Hollywood Heavyweights & Early Kubrick
Spooool.ie Podcast #22 – Documentary time. And lots of reviews
Spooool.ie Podcast #21 – Back to School Special
Spooool.ie Podcast #20 – Do The Right Thing @ 25 and Richard Linklater’s Dazed & Confused
Spooool.ie Podcast #19 – Galway Film Fleadh, Mrs. Brown & pretending the World Cup isn’t happening
Spooool.ie Podcast #18 – Summer Blockbuster Special
Spooool.ie Podcast #17 – A golden age for Irish cinema?
Spooool.ie Podcast #16 – Sci-Fi Special & April’s Attractions
Spooool.ie Podcast #15 – We’ve got Oscar fever!
Spooool.ie Podcast #14 – JDIFF and January Blues
2013’s Best Films (Joint top 5 and Podcast)
Spooool.ie Podcast #12 – Gearing up for Christmas
Spooool.ie Podcast #11 – Hallowe’en horror classics special
Spooool.ie Podcast #10 – Winter film preview special, what’s going to shape the Oscar conversation this year?
Spooool.ie Podcast #9 – It’s a “Back to School” special as we reveal our favourite movie teachers, share Jurassic Park memories and review the best of what’s on the big screen right now
Spooool.ie Podcast #8 – Rewind to the movies of 2003, Frances Ha and The Act of Killing anointed as film of the year candidates, Alan Partridge and Upstream Color previewed
Spooool.ie Podcast #7 – Best and Worst of 2013 (so far), Superman, World War Z, A Field in England coming on all formats & The Cornetto Trilogy concludes!
Spooool.ie Podcast #6 – A month of Michael Shannon, Fast 6, Mud, IFI’s 70mm season and Before Midnight
Spooool.ie Podcast #5 – April’s big movies, the state of Irish cinema and new McConaghey/Almodovar coming up in May
Spooool.ie Podcast #4 – Best of March movies, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and a Gosling/Cooper fuelled April preview…
Spooool.ie Podcast #3 – Discussing the 2013 Oscars and recalling February’s Best and Worst releases.
Spooool.ie Podcast #2 – Looking back on January 2013
Spooool.ie Podcast #1 – 2012’s Best Films