Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
Is Deckard a Replicant? What stupid thing did Matt do at midnight? How has he managed to make yet another episode about Batman the Animated Series? We’ve got answers to all these questions and more!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 81: Blade Runner
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
A contender to Heat‘s crown as ‘possibly the best film we’ve ever covered’ has entered the arena. Is this the most handsome any man has ever looked? What happened in the prequel? How will Matt find a way to make this about Batman? Let’s find out!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 80: The Thing
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
You could try and drink every time Ben & Matt wander wildly off topic, but you probably wouldn’t survive this one…
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 79: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
Recorded before the unfortunate passing of James Caan, we discuss his career defining performance and the degree to which Thief feels like a precursor to Heat.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 78: Thief
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
How do you talk about possibly the greatest comedy movie of all time without simply repeating all the joke? By going on long tangents about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, wrestlers-turned-actors and the history of parody movies, of course!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 77: Airplane!
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they’ll be focusing on 1980 – 1989.
Place your bets now on how many references to The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror there are in this inaugural episode for volume 4. We discuss Steven King’s burning hatred for the movie adaptation of his book, Kubrick’s career and of course the Razzies.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 76: The Shining
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.
It took until our penultimate episode for us to finally dip our toes into World Cinema, but we figured we’d make up for it by closing the volume out with Claire Denis’ Beau Travail.
Obviously this sparks conversation about homosexuality, literature, foreign policy and what’s to come from your hosts in 2022.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 75: Beau Travail
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.
It took us 23 episodes to finally step into the world of 90s World Cinema, with Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother. Come for the discussion of gender and sexuality, stay for an in depth exploration of one of the host’s university degree.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 74: All About My Mother
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.
Finally, we discuss the most exhilarating movie of 1999 to feature a tense office cubicle chase scene… that’s right, it’s Mike Judge’s live action feature film debut, Office Space!
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 73: Office Space
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.
Somehow a movie that completely evaded major Oscar nominations, the brilliant Truman Show of course leads to a discussion of the academic merits of books vs films.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Episode 72: The Truman Show
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