Episodios

  • Troy (2004)

    Troy (2004)
    Jul 24 2024
    In this weeks episode, we’re looking at Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy.

    We also explore the myth behind this realist adaptation of The Iliad, Odysseus not liking his wife, Paris being a massive simp, and some parallels with the film and the Iraq War!

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    1 h y 18 m
  • Special: Pitching Oscar-Bait

    Special: Pitching Oscar-Bait
    Jul 3 2024

    In our first Popcornhead Special, we each pitch our own idea for an Oscar-Bait film, a film made solely for the purpose of trying to win Academy Awards.

    Expect NHS heroes, Canadian blunders, and out-of-favour Generals.

    We had a lot of fun doing this episode and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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    1 h y 5 m
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
    Jun 26 2024
    In this episode, we explore director Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.

    We also uncover the three terrifying real-life figures who inspired Ted Levine's infamous composite killer, Buffalo Bill.

    And we discuss the really important issues like can you take psychotherapeutic advice from someone who's criminally insane? What would Sean Connery pair a census taker's liver with? And does wearing a human suit really make you more sexually attractive?



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    1 h y 38 m
  • The Hunt (2012)

    The Hunt (2012)
    Jun 19 2024
    This week we are looking at Thomas Vinterberg's psychological drama, The Hunt.

    We also talk witch hunts, conspiracy theories, satanism, among other weird stuff!



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    1 h y 35 m
  • The Searchers (1956): Part 2

    The Searchers (1956): Part 2
    Jun 12 2024
    This week continues our exploration of John Ford's The Searchers.

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    1 h y 27 m
  • The Searchers (1956): Part 1

    The Searchers (1956): Part 1
    Jun 5 2024
    Join us as we take on the gargantuan task of gulping down John Ford's classic western The Searchers.

    Delving into this cinematic masterpiece, we explore the burning questions: Is it a white supremacist propaganda film? Who's really the film's antagonist? And what led John Wayne to become the cowboy Captain America?

    This week we nosh down on Messrs Ford and Wayne's strange on and off-set habits, their respective legacies, and controversies, next week we move onto the film itself.

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    1 h y 19 m
  • Memories of Murder (2003)

    Memories of Murder (2003)
    May 29 2024
    A chilling dramatisation of the hunt for a serial killer under an incompetent military dictatorship in 1980s South Korea.

    Bong Joon Ho's directorial masterclass Memories of Murder showcases the personal and societal changes that take place around the constant threat of a murderer that gripped the country, and rendered the police impotent in their efforts to apprehend him.



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    1 h y 26 m
  • Amadeus (1984)

    Amadeus (1984)
    May 22 2024
    I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

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    1 h y 36 m