Get ready for a twist! This week we’re covering our first M. Night Shyamalan movie: 2000’s real-world superhero flick, Unbreakable. All seems to be going well until Ed starts picking at the threads. Featuring shattered bones, shoddy parenting and vaguely-defined superpowers!

“None of it makes a drop of sense.” - Ed

“M. Night Shyamalan has got a gift when it comes to working with child actors.” - Gould

“David Dunn might be the single dumbest protagonist I’ve ever encountered in anything.” - Ed

Also

• American Fiction, The Zone of Interest and The Iron Claw
• We introduce new rules for the timed synopsis
• Trailers good and bad

Link:

The Fast and The Furious 🔗 Unbreakable

Directors who make cameos in their own films

Trailers of the week:

Monkey Man

Love Lies Bleeding

Immaculate

Civil War

Sex Lives of The Potato Men revisited

CONTENT WARNING – No issues here

SPOILER WARNING – All good

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Brum brum brum. Fasten your seat belts, we’re off drag-racing around Southern California with one of the stupidest movies we’ve ever had the pleasure to absolutely rinse over a couple of pints. That’s right, it’s the The Fast and The Furious. Featuring: Cars, babes, and other things fourteen year old boys like to stare at.

“Vin Diesel is this juvenile petrolhead Fagin with all these boring car nerd children.” - Gould

“I didn’t expect to be as bored as I was.” - Ed

“Surely they could have come up with a different name for the big race in the desert than Race Wars.” - Gould

Also:

Chaplin and the Marx Brothers

Ashley Judd movies

Ed attempts some maths, it doesn’t go well

Link:

Pleasantville 🔗 The Fast and The Furious

Paul Walker performances

Youtube Hole:

Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Boxing Match

Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times, Factory Scene

Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush, Roll Dance

Marx Brothers - Duck Soup, Mirror Scene

Marx Brothers - A Night At The Opera, Contract Routine

Classic Trailer Of The Week:

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to worry about

SPOILER WARNING – We’re getting better at this, no spoilers for other movies

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Take the phone off the hook and the plastic off the couch! This week we’re opening up our cosy, black and white existence to the seductive danger of colour. That’s right, we’re covering one of Ed’s all time favourites… Pleasantville. Featuring: the warm greeting, proper nutrition and, of course, safe sex.

Also:

• Poor Things
• The joys of the National Trust
• Did Gould’s Mum enjoy Saltburn?

“Watching it through this time, I got really emotional.” - Gould

“Joan Allen delivers arguably the greatest masturbation scene in cinema history.” - Ed

“What is this organisation of small, old TV repairmen going round implanting modern teenagers into 1950s sitcoms?” - Gould

Link:

The Wizard of Oz 🔗Pleasantville

The mixing of black & white and colour cinematography for storytelling purposes

CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to see here

SPOILER WARNING – Not a one

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