More (And Less!) Than Meets The Eye – Episode 9: Transformers: The Last Knight

It took 9 weeks, but Ben & Matt finally disagree about the quality of a movie. For Matt, The Last Knight is one of the worst things he has ever seen in his entire life and potentially permanently altered his brain chemistry. Ben contends that while it’s bad, it’s not only not the worst Transformers movie, but not even the second worst!

They discuss Cogman, ‘Hot Rod’ (it ain’t right what they done to our boy), sozzled Merlin, poor Gemma Chan, awkwardly smushing two ideas together (again!) and generally become delirious.

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More (And Less!) Than Meets the Eye – Episode 7: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Time to dust off one of our favourite debates on this podcast network: Is it worse to be Boring or Bad?

Michael Bay submits his evidence to the latest hearing, Age of Extinction, which literally has another movie tacked onto the back of it. Hard to believe a movie could be Bad OR Boring when it features Dinobots, Bounty Hunters and Stanley Tucci, but here we are!

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There Will Be Movies – Episode 69: Boogie Nights

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.

We honestly did not plan for Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic to be our 69th episode, but sometimes life throws you a bone… and sometimes it throws Little Bill’s wife a bone while everybody watches.

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Jerome’s 100 Favorite Movies Ever: The Departed

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The Movie: The Departed (2006)

One Sentence Plot Summary: Leaning heavily on the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, a group of actors decide enough is enough and get Martin Scorsese his fucking Oscar

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There Will Be Movies – Episode 13: The Departed

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Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, kicking things off with Volume 1: 2000 – 2009.

Come for the discussion of Martin Scorsese’s first Oscar win, stay for the stories about Matt’s dickishness and gentle criticism of Mark Wahlberg. ARE YOU A CAWWWWP?!? Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 13: The Departed