456: The Guyver [1991] Movie Discussion

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 very much, but My God, they really didn’t have a clue what to do with this one. Come and join our discussion about: wasting your Jeffery Combs, mixing Power Rangers with Akira, David Gales’s giant teeth, forehead tongues, Mark Hamill disturbingly transforming into a cockroach and somehow mashing the chest bursting scene from Alien with the shark stalking scene from Jaws.

455: Mermaids [1990] Movie Discussion

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 her 15 year old daughter starting a love affair with a 26 year old dude. I suppose Christina Ricci does like swimming though, that’s… something. Come and join our discussion about: Bob Hoskins’ perpetual ‘lucky guy’ energy, pumpkin heads, rebelling by becoming a devout Christian, awful paintings, something about JFK and… nope, still no mermaids.

454: The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter [1984] Movie Discussion

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 title of the movie means. Result: We fail. But don’t worry, we meet all the other challenges this crazy film thrusts at us in our discussion involving: plentiful Wu-Tang Clan references, the benefits of numbering your offspring, pond slapping, coffin ballet, wishing there was a training montage and being overwhelmed by the amount of forced dentistry in the climax.

453: The Sugarland Express [1974] Movie Discussion

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 their movie magic already fully formed at this point or is it a case of tentative first steps into greatness. Come and join our discussion where we: root for the protagonists to fail, discover the sub genre of ‘too many police cars’, witness our favourite car vandalism scene, ponder the effectiveness of the portable toilet antics and wonder just exactly what they did to make that child cry all the time.