Deep Dive Movie Reviews
What happens when an American and an Englishman meet up over drinks to discuss movies? Join James Marsh (the Brit) and Steve Hackman (the Yank) as they do deep dive reviews on the latest releases at the box office and streaming services. James is a film critic for the South China Morning Post and Radio Television Hong Kong and Steve, he just knows a bunch of obscure movie trivia that he's never managed to leverage into anything useful...until now!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Every Best Picture - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Academy Award Winners Series
Our retrospective on every Academy Award Best Picture continues with 1935's "Mutiny on the Bounty" starring Charles Laughton & Clark Gable. Does this adventure on the high seas stand the test of time…
Jurassic World Dominion - Movie Review
The Jurassic World trilogy concludes with this final "man vs. dinosaur" film uniting the original Jurassic Park cast of Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howa…
Every Best Picture - It Happened One Night (1934) - Academy Award Winners Series
Our journey to review every Academy Award Best Picture continues with the winner of the 7th Academy Awards trophy "It Happened One Night". Arguably the first "screwball comedy" which set the stage fo…
Top Gun - Movie Review
After 36 years Tom Cruise returns to the role of Navy Aviator Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and wrestles with mortality, legacy, and his own personal demons as he prepares a new crew of Top Gun pilots for…
Top 5: Tom Cruise Films
In honour of the new release of Top Gun: Maverick after 36 years, James and I do a Deep Dive into the extensive filmography of Tom Cruise with each of us choosing our "Top Five" and why we chose them…
RRR
James & Steve go all "fanboy" over S.S. Rajamouli's epic film extravaganza "RRR". N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan star as two legendary Indian heroes who join forces to rescue a young kidnapped girl…
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Movie Review
Michelle Yeoh headlines this action packed mind bender as a simple Chinese - American being audited by the Internal Revenue Service only to discover that she must connect with parallel universe versi…
Every Best Picture - Grand Hotel (1932) - Academy Award Winners Series
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Joan Crawford star in the 1932 Academy Award Best Picture winning "Grand Hotel". In this episode we do a "deep dive" of the MGM classic and decide w…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Director Sam Raimi brings his signature horror touch to the latest instalment of the MCU, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the titular magician as well alo…
The Batman
Robert Pattinson assumes the role of the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves reboot of the Batman franchise. In perhaps the darkest instalment thus far, Batman is on the trail of a serial killer "Riddler" …
Top Five: Films We'd Take on a Deserted Island
In this episode of "Top Five" James and Steve reveal the five films they would take on a deserted Island if this were the only five films they'd be able to watch for a LONG time. Let us know in the c…
Every Best Picture - Cimarron (1931) - Academy Award Winners Series
Wesley Ruggle's grand western epic tells the story of Yancey Cravet, a lawyer, newspaper editor, and gunfighter, as he struggles to help tame the American frontier over the course of four decades. Al…
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Richard Linklater's new film examines the Apollo moon landings and growing up in late 1960s suburbia through the eyes of an 11 yr old boy who is chosen by NASA to become an astronaut. Starring Glen P…
Every Best Picture - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Academy Award Winner Series
Lewis Milestone's epic Oscar winning war film chronicles the lives of new German recruits as they confront the reality and horrors of trench warfare during World War 1. Starring Lew Ayres, Louis Wol…
Spencer
Pablo Larrain's "Spencer" imagines what a possible Christmas holiday with the royal family would look like through the eyes of Princess Diana as she battles ongoing mental and emotional challenges. K…
Parallel Mothers
The latest feature from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar tells the story of two single mothers whose lives become become intricately intertwined after sharing a maternity room together. Penelope Cru…
Every Best Picture - The Broadway Melody (1929) - Academy Award Winners Series
Harry Beaumont's "The Broadway Melody" was the second winner of the Academy Awards "Best Picture" Oscar and the first "talkie" to take home the coveted gold statue. But does the film stand the test o…
Oscars 2022 Reaction: Slaps, Snubs, and Surprises
James & Steve give their reactions to the 2022 Academy Awards show including the shocking physical altercation when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over a joke gone bad. Join our discussion and comment…
Every Best Picture - Wings (1927) - Academy Award Winners series
In Every Best Picture we are doing Deep Dives on every winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. For our inaugural episode, we look at William A. Wellman's 1927 silent WWI epic "Wings", starring …