Classic Episodes

March 6, 2024

Midweek Mention... Armageddon

Never has the divide between us been so sharply illustrated than when reviewing 1998's ARMAGEDDON. For Dan, this is a beloved, often quoted action classic watched fondly with generations of family alike, Sidey likens it to th...

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Jan. 24, 2024

Midweek Mention... Robocop

ROBOCOP (1987) was almost certainly one of, if not the first, 18 rated movie I ever saw, an ultraviolent and pulpy satire about consumerism, urban decay, privitisation and the military industrial complex. Cheerfully sardonic ...

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Oct. 4, 2023

Midweek Mention... Babe

Writer and producer George Miller spent nearly a decade attempting to bring his adaptation of Dick King-Smith's novel The Sheep-Pig to the big screen, eventually teaming with co-writer and director Christopher Noonan for 1993...

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April 1, 2022

The Power of the Dog & Bananaman

An egg is of course the fertilized ovum of an animal that grows and develops as an embryo inside some kind of organic vessel. And as delicious as that sounds, they are only to be consumed when they are hot, …

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March 9, 2022

Midweek Mention.... Lawrence of Arabia

Can you really call yourself a fan of cinema if you haven't seen the 1962 David Lean classic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA? Yes of course you can, but at least one of the dads hadn't seen it before, so the question …

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