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How have 4 British people making a film podcast not tackled a Carry On in over 10 years? Some kind of generational trauma, perhaps? The fact that they seem to revolve only around innuendos to…

Richard Kelly took the world by storm with his debut feature Donnie Darko. There was a lot of expectation on his follow-up Southland Tales, a film that seemed to promise even more originality…

Moulin Rouge was huge when it dropped in 2001 and is credited with reviving the movie musical with it’s lightning pace, wacky antics and maximalist aesthetic. Was this actually a good thing? …

We’ve never done a South African film before and what better choice than Yankee Zulu, a movie half remembered from childhood about criminals, poachers, theft, racists and royal affairs. But d…

Oh dear, we’re going to explore the early days of anime film adaptation this week with the awkwardly named The Guyver. To be fair, the later days of anime film adaptation haven’t improved ver…

God forbid we actually expect a story about mermaids in a film called Mermaids. Of course we should have expected it to be about Cher as a flight-y mother moving her kids across country and h…

It’s time to fight our way through the back catalogue of martial arts films from The Shaw Brothers Studio by taking on The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter. Our first challenge: try to workout what the…

We return to obscure Steven Spielberg this week with The Sugarland Express, a crime dramedy from 1974 which was his first official feature film and first collaboration with John Williams. Is …

This week we discover we all have a weird bias against Jim Belushi even though we don’t really know where it came from. Has society lied to us and will we discover, in our viewing of the wond…

Ever wondered what it would be like if a dog-frisbee enthusiast is flung into the not so distant future and has boring adventures in a spaceship that sounds like Pee-wee Herman? No? Well, her…

Did they finally make a sequel to Electric Dreams? No, silly, it’s a dialogue-free, French animated movie about a boy and his dog…no wait, a dog and his robot that may be one of the most char…

There are a million and one films about dogs, not so many about cats. Maybe it’s because dogs are easier to train and cats are essentially ungovernable, but Hey! does no-one enjoy a challenge…

Sam Raimi is usually very comfortable with dark humour, especially with mixing genre elements like slapstick comedy, horror and suspense. So, his movie Crimewave, which is about a dweeb deali…

We have differing levels of experience with the filmography of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar here at SFFCH, but none of us have seen what is probably his most well known film, Women on The…

Somehow most of the crew have never seen the film Ghost before and because of that their PKE meters (Podcaster’s Knowledge & Expectations) are all askew with readings of ‘corny romance’ and ‘…

Most people think of the 90’s horror movement when they think of Japanese horror, so we wanted to go back to it’s roots and see what influenced it. Onibaba is a small scale, vaguely supernatu…

“So, I have this animatronic T-rex laying around, for some reason, do you want to make a film with it? No, there’s no script and no money and you have a few weeks to do it. Whatd’ya say?” Th…

We’ve all watched stoner comedies before here at SFFCH and know that they can range from endearingly stupid to utter dreck, so where does 2007’s Smiley Face fall on the filmic weed-ometer? Co…

We all wanted to watch some non-Star Wars George Lucas this week. Turns out, there wasn’t really much choice so here’s THX 1138, a film that everyone has misspelled at some point in their liv…

The thought of school reunions makes the crew all nostalgic for their old school days this week as they tackle Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, the female answer to those ‘two dumb me…