Cinema Bing Bong

A thrilling new episode of Cinema Bing Bong, which includes two new games to play along with!Spooky scary! Amelia's been watching horror movies by herself, in April. Luckily for the listeners who are yet to see Immaculate (2024) or any of the other American Nun Movies, she's bleeped out the spoilers. Rebecca cried all the way through Civil War (2024), but the real thing to cry over is how Amelia takes on average four years to watch any of her recommendations. Discourse topics: is New Zealand just like Finland? Which director would you want to direct the film of your funeral? Which is worse: using AI or producing films in the UAE? What are refuse collectors called in Australia? Amelia gets given a crash course in pronouncing foreign names and so much more, this month on the #1 ranked film podcast in New Zealand.Note: Sadly there are minor sound issues in this episode! Listen on low quality computer speakers and you won't notice.Films referred to:Immaculate (2024)The First Omen (2024)Late Night with the Devil (2023)Look Around You (2002)Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004)Debs (2004)Civil War (2024)Possession (1981)The films of Aki KaurismäkiThe films of Alice Rohrwacher

Beware the Ides of March—awards season is over and no one in Australasia can agree on how to pronounce Dune. Amelia has become the nation's foremost Frank Herbert fanatic and can't stop filling her boots with geriatric spice. The only Sandra Hüller movie Rebecca saw in 2023 was the unpopular Sisi und Ich. This episode contains a dramatic reading of FRISCO, the script that might seem like it was plagiarised by The Holdovers to people who saw it between two plane seats after being awake for 36 hours. Amelia is inconsistently bothered by anachronisms but insists she's still fun. Rebecca wishes she could love everything especially unallocated seating. Javier Bardem doesn't know how to drive.* Spoiler Alert * — Spoilers for the end of Love Lies Bleeding from 1:19:15 – 1:31:27Maestro (2023) | The Zone of Interest (2023) | The Holdovers (2023) | Dune 2 (2024) | Love Lies Bleeding (2024) | Perfect Days (2023) | Sweet November (2001) | Rebecca (2020) | Sexy Beast (2001) | Birth (2004) | Schindler's List (1993) | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) | Sisi und Ich (2023)Note: If you are neurodivergent and can't watch a three-hour film with your feet on the floor, your posture is trash and your thumbs can touch your forearms, it's time to look into hypermobility spectrum disodersCorrection: It's Charlize Theron who's in Sweet November, not Meg Ryan, which is WORSE

Amelia and Rebecca are back with a new podcast that's tenfold less niche. It's just about movies!In this episode, we find out what was good and what was a waste of 25 Australian dollars in 2023. We hear a summary of all the Best Picture nominees but for some reason only what Amelia thinks should win Best Animated Feature. Amelia refers to movies as the picture play. Rebecca says which films of 2023 were autistic. We ask the big questions like, 'What's the most racist film you've ever seen?' and whether at 30 you have to leave romanticising cannibalism behind and get into lesbian wives. Amelia has her illusions shattered that not every person alive in the 2000s owned a DVD of O Brother Where Art Thou. Rebecca does some Ferrari accents. We hear about the situation in Phuket.Films referred to: Strange Way of Life (2023) ○ Remembering Every Night (2022) ○ Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) ○ Maestro (2023) ○ May December (2023) ○ Tár (2022) ○Theatre Camp (2023) ○ Bottoms (2023) ○ American Fiction (2023) ○ Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) ○ Poor Things (2023) ○ Nyad (2023) ○ Across the Spiderverse (2023) ○ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) ○ Madame Web (2024) ○ OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) ○ Walker (1987) ○ The Letter (1940) ○ Ferrari (2023) ○ Anatomy of Fall (2023) ○ Perfect Days (2023) ○ Bones and All (2022)