214: SFFCH – The Crying Game [1994]

Movies can be ruined if one of it’s plot twists becomes more famous than movie. Ant thought that’s what he was bringing to the table this week with The Crying Game, but it seems the rest of the Spoiler Filled Crew were not as clued-in as he thought. Could the first half of this film be a movie all of its own? Is it annoying when you communicate through bartenders? What the hell is wrong with Forest Whitaker’s voice? And just what did everyone make of that infamous twist? All this and more answered in this weeks podcast!

Dir: Neil Jordan

Wri: Neil Jordan

Cine: Ian Wilson

Edi: Kant Pan

Mus: Anne Dudley

Prod: Palace Pictures, Channel Four Films, British Screen, Miramax

Cast: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown

[Ep. 214, Rec. 08/2018]

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213: SFFCH – Mean Machine [2001]

Ya know, we do seem to blow through a fair few sports films here at Spoiler Filled. And prison based films come to think of it. We may not claim to know much about football (or soccer, for those who like to be wrong), but we do seem to be able to pick a decent football movie. Mean Machine is a fairly formulaic movie, but it seemingly does the impossible and gets a good leading performance out of a ex-sports star! So come and listen to us: express our curious love for Vinnie Jones, need more info about camp bookies, not care too much about all the clichés and get enjoyment out of abusing Danny Dyer (but probably not in the way you’d expect).

Dir: Barry Skolnick
Wri: Tracy Keenan Wynn (Original), Charlie Fletcher, Chris Baker, Andrew Day
Cine: Alex Barber
Edi: Eddie Hamilton, Dayn Williams
Mus: John Murphy
Prod: SKA Films, Paramount Pictures
Cast: Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings, Ralph Brown, Jason Flemyng, Danny Dyer, Jason Statham, Omid Djalili, Sally Phillips, Jeff Bell
[Ep. 213, Rec 07/2018]

212: The Dog Who Stopped The War a.k.a La Guerre Des Tuqués [1984]

What do the Spoiler Filled Crew like to get upto at the height of Summer? That’s right, build a snow fort and watch obscure foreign films! This week we’ve decided to take a respite from the midsummer sun and travel to cold, snowy, rural Quebec where we observe The Dog Who Stopped The War and ultimately learn that war is far more than just fun and games.

[Ep. 212, Rec 07/2018]

211: SFFCH – Strictly Ballroom [1992]

Well, what have we learned this week on Spoiler Filled from our watch of Baz Luhrman’s Strictly Ballroom? No, not about matters of the heart and following your dreams and all that nonsense. I’m talking about the way to improve any movie is to expect a straight-up, dance-based romance. That way you’ll never be disappointed. Other topics up for discusiion this week: Baz Luhrman’s distinctive style and the rating of his back catalogue, Australian humour, making product placement acceptable with sequins and far too many Australian impressions to count.

210: SFFCH – Fail Safe [1964]

We hope you’re all in the mood to be well bummed out this week here at Spoiler Filled, because Jamie has found the perfect film for it in Sidney Lumet’s Cold War political thriller Fail Safe. Whilst most of the film may be just one-sided phone calls, opening of envelopes and men staring at blinking dots on screens, it is awfully tense and depressing. Although trust the Spoiler Filled crew to pick up on some oddities such as: Walter Matthau’s sex appeal, giant phones to Russia, metaphorical bullfights and probably the most fantastically selfless American President ever portrayed in cinema.

Dir: Sidney Lumet
Wri: Walter Bernstein, Peter George, Eugene Burdick [Novel]
Cine: Gerald Hirschfield
Edi: Ralph Rosenblum
Mus: …
Prod: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O’Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman
[Ep. 210, Rec. 06/2018]

209: SFFCH – Look Who’s Talking Too [1990]

Everyone believes it was Pulp Fiction that brought John Travolta’s career back to life, but they are wrong! It was actually a series of films about talking babies that brought him back to commercial success, and today the Spoiler Filled crew are looking at the second in the series Look Who’s Talking Too, a film that Rich dubs ‘Toilet Training: The Movie’. This time we are: all kinda glad we didn’t watch the first film, impressed by the conception effects, terrified of Mel Brooks playing a toilet and marvel at the amount of disturbing imagery in this light-hearted comedy.

Dir: Amy Heckerling
Wri: Amy Heckerling, Neal Israel
Cine: Thomas Del Ruth
Edi: Debra Chiate
Mus: David Kitay
Prod: Big Mouth Production, Tri-Star Pictures
Cast: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Bruce Willis, Roseanna Barr, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Damon Wayans, Gilbert Gottfried
[Ep. 209, Rec, 06/18]

208: SFFCH – Evil Under The Sun [1982]

Break out your magnifying glasses and wax those moustaches because we’re getting in the mood for a bit of mystery this week on Spoiler Filled. We finally get around to tackling the work of Agatha Christie by looking at the 1982 adaptation of Evil Under The Sun, starring Peter Ustinov as her famous detective Hercule Poirot. So come and listen as we sleuth our way through the film and discover such interesting facts as: Ant’s recent connection to murder mysteries, Brits abroad, Noon-Day guns, Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith bitching it up to the max and the costumes. Oh my, the costumes!

Dir: Guy Hamilton
Wri: Anthony Shaffer, Barry Sandler, Agatha Christie (Novel)
Cine: Christopher Challis
Edi: Richard Marden
Mus: Cole Porter
Prod: EMI Films, Titan Productions, Mersham Productions, UNiversal Pictures
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely, Nicholas Clay, James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, Denis Quilley, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith
[Ep. 208, Rec, 05/18]

207: SFFCH – Dangerous Minds [1995]

This week Rich gets very confused in general but also about the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, while Abi and Anthony try to calm him down a bit. Listen in as Abi, for once, is the only person not talking about Matt Dillon and sneaks in another round of Speculate On The Book Time! Enjoy!

PS: RIP Wade Dominguez, sorry to Matt Dillon and the name of the book they were supposed to be reading was probably My Darling, My Hamburger. Peace!

206: SFFCH – Dark City [1998]

This week Rich, Abi and Jamie go down to Shell Beach to review sci-fi-dystopian-magicbollocks-noir Dark City. But first, who remembers ‘Funnybones’?

Listen in to hear Jamie tiptoe within a gnats wing of having a celebrity connection to Rufus Sewell and Rich and Abi pretend to like beaches but not really. Enjoy!

205: SFFCH – The Quiet Man [1952]

John Ford and John Wayne helped to revitalize the Western films in the 1930s and onward with both becoming synonymous with the genre. But macho, action entertainment was not all they were good for it seems as Ant brings to the table The Quiet Man, a sentimental, romantic ‘dram-edy’ set in 1920’s Ireland. Now, despite this being a fairly light-hearted affair, and a very popular award winner when it was released, we bleeding-heart liberals may have a few eyebrows to raise over some of the issues on display in this schmaltzy, cinematic classic.

Dir. John Ford
Wri: Frank S. Nugent, Maurice Walsh (story)
Cine: Winton Hoch
Edi: Jack Murray
Mus: Victor Young
Prod: Argosy Pictures, Republic Pictures
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen
[Ep. 205, Rec. 05/2018]