In the last episode of this season we close off the Toy Story trilogy. Logline: Before Andy leaves for college, his toys are mistakenly delivered to a day care centre. Woody convinces the other toys that they were not dumped and leads them on an expedition back home.
We are skipping Alphadog and going straight to Toy Story 2 released in 1999 starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack. Logline: When Woody is kidnapped by a greedy toy collector and is nowhere to be found, Buzz and his friends set out to rescue him. However, Woody gets tempted by the idea of becoming immortal in a museum.
We travel back in time to 1995 and watch Toy Story through the eyes of our younger selves. Logline: Andy's favourite toy, Woody, is worried that after Andy receives his birthday gift, a new toy called Buzz Lightyear, his importance may get reduced. He thus hatches a plan to eliminate Buzz.
We god damn near loose our noose on this weeks episode - and we like it, we like smelling with it. Tune into our review of Roman Polanski's Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Logline: Mrs Mulwray hires Detective Jake, who specializes in matrimonial cases, to spy on her husband, the builder of the city's water system. He finds himself in a web of deceit when Mr Mulwray dies.
M. Fortnight Shyamalan continues! Part 2: Signs starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin. Logline: Father Graham Hess and his family migrate to a farmhouse that later becomes the site of strange crop circles that suggest the existence of alien life.
Welcome to what will go down in history as the best miniseries name: M. Fortnight Shyamalan - two weeks of M. Night movies in a row! Part 1: The Sixth Sense Logline: Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
We speeeend or spaahhhhhn some time with Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci this week. Logline: Billy kidnaps a young dancer, Layla, and asks her to pretend to be his wife so that he can please his parents. While Layla is initially hesitant, she falls in love with him.
We set out simply wanting to watch the original Alien movie - 5 weeks later we've burned through the whole saga and have reached the last one. Released in 2017 Alien: Covenant directed Ridley Scott is his final word in the Franchise starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride. Logline: The crew of a colony ship, Covenant, receive a radio transmission from a habitable planet. However, they encounter deadly aliens while investigating the planet and try to escape.
After a month lost in deep space we have finally arrived where we wanted to be all along. This week we discuss Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise in his 2012 sci-fi epic "Prometheus" starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce. Logline: After a clue to mankind's origins is discovered, explorers are sent to the darkest corner of the universe. Their different expectations take a toll on them when they find something unimaginable.
Part four of our Alien series is here. We travel 200 years into the future and somehow end up close to future Paris in Jean-Pierre Jennet's 1997 instalment of the Alien saga - Alien: Ressurection. Logline: Ripley 8, a human-alien hybrid clone, is aboard a vessel, Auriga, along with space pirates. However, when aliens invade Auriga, Ripley does her best to prevent them from reaching and destroying Earth.
We embark on our first Fincher film of the podcast. Logline: Ellen Ripley's escape pod crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a penal colony planet terrorised by an alien. She rallies the inmates into killing it but realises that she is carrying an alien embryo herself.
We return to LV-426 in James Cameron's 1986 hit film "Aliens" Logline: Ellen Ripley is sent back to the planet LV-426 to establish contact with a terraforming colony. Once there, she encounters the Alien Queen and her offspring and has to fight them to survive.
Final report of the commercial starship "Semi-Professionals"... Join us on an adventure on LV-426 as we pick apart Ridley Scotts 1979 sci fi masterpiece Alien. Logline: The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress signal from a planet and set out to investigate it. However, to their horror, they are attacked by an alien which later invades their ship.
Another classic “Matt’s reading the book" episode. Logline: In order to escape the prison labour, McMurphy, a prisoner, fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for the mentally unstable. In this ward, he must rise up against a cruel nurse, Ratched.
This week we try to figure out what happened one of 2022's highest anticipated movies, and why no one knows anyone who actually has seen it. We take a look at Paul Schrader's "The Card Counter" starring Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish and Willem Dafuckingfoe Logline: William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
There is an idea of a Podcast; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real us: only an entity, something illusory. And though we can hide our cold gaze, and you can shake our hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... We simply are not there. This week we tackle Mary Harron's interpretation of Bret Easton Ellis 1981 novel "American Psycho" starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny, Justin Theroux and Reese Witherspoon. Logline: Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker, hides his psychopathic ego from his friends. Later, his illogical fantasies escalate and he submits to an uncontrollable bloodlust.
Godfather Trilogy Part 3. Logline: When realisation strikes Micheal Corleone, he takes a tough call and decides to end his family's criminal empire. He chooses his nephew as his successor, however, the mob refuses to let him go.
Godfather Trilogy Part 2. Logline: Michael, Vito Corleone's son, attempts to expand his family's criminal empire. While he strikes a business deal with gangster Hyman Roth, he remains unaware of the lurking danger.
Get ready for a gut-punch of an episode, and join us as we pick apart David Fincher's 1999 thriller/drama Fight Club Logline: Unhappy with his capitalistic lifestyle, a white-collared insomniac forms an underground fight club with Tyler, a careless soap salesman. Soon, their venture spirals down into something sinister.
We travel 500 years back in time to Yucatan, Mexico where we watch heads roll down pyramid steps in Mel Gibson's 2008 action-adventure drama Apocalypto. Logline: Jaguar Paw, a young man, is captured by rulers of the Mayan kingdom. When they decide to sacrifice him, he makes a plan to escape death.