128: SFFCH – Wildcats

Another sports movie?! What is going on with the Spoiler Filled crew?! Extreme sitting and extensive reviewing is usually the only kind of sport we all engage in. So let’s see, we’ve done soccer, wrestling and even touched upon basketball. This time it’s the turn of high-school American football to be scrutinized in Abi’s choice of Wildcats from 1986. Goldie Hawn has been somewhat absent from cinema in the last decade or so, but she was everywhere in the 70s and 80s. Here she plays a girl’s track teacher with aspirations of coaching high-school football. When she finally gets her chance at a tough, inner-city school, she has to fend off the boisterousness of her team, the chauvinism of a rival coach and the whiny interfering of her ex-husband.
In this show we enjoy the diversity, the characters, little kids aggressively swearing and we are appalled by probably the worst rap song ever made.

[Ep. 128, Rec Apr 2016]

127: SFFCH – Cruising

So… We reviewed a film about a cop looking for a serial killer in the New York gay S&M scene in 1980 (that’s bondage, naughty cosplay and toilet fun for those unfamiliar with their acronyms). Alongside our usual colourful language, there are sexual references and a lot of innuendo for you enjoy. It’s also oddly restrained for one of ours so sit down, kick off your leather boots and listen to Rich, Anthony and Jamie as they tiptoe around and wade through the topics of homosexuality, fetishism, ambiguity and so much more.

 

[Ep. 127, Rec. Apr. 2016]

126: SFFCH – Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

Ah! Tim Burton! We all recognise his quirky, dark and colouful style, but will his presence shine through in his feature debut ‘Pee Wee’s Big Adventure’ from 1985? It’s Jamie’s choice this time and Ant and He seems to be in the know about Paul Reubens’ comedy creation of Pee Wee Herman, but Rich and Abi are left baffled. Needless to say there’s some division about this road movie/wild goose chase about a stolen bike, but maybe we all converge on our opinions of the titular Pee Wee. (Spoiler Alert: it ain’t pretty) Topics discussed include: Paul Reubens’ dubious past, nightmarish clown-doctors, Pee Wee’s redemption(?) for saving a pet store and Tequila!

 

[Ep. 126, Rec. Apr. 2016]

125: SFFCH – The Last Unicorn

Way before it was cool for celebs to put their voice talents to animation, a whole bunch of them got together to make a film about a unicorn. ‘Sounds cool, right? Now stir it up with some ugly animation, some atrocious singing, lots of melancholy and numerous references to a popular energy drink and you get ‘The Last Unicorn’ from 1982, a weird, mysterious beast all of its own. The whole gang of Ant, Rich, Abi and Jamie have rolled out for this one, but maybe only some can perceive the little magic this movie possesses. There are so many oddities this time around, but pay special attention to: a drugged-up singing butterfly, an alcoholic skeleton, an enigmatic pirate cat and the movie’s obsession with attaching large breasts to things that you really shouldn’t.

 

[Rec. Mar 2016, Ep. 125]

124: SFFCH – The Flamingo Kid

Sweet Gin-Ger Brown, we got a Matt Dillon film. Abi likes him. Ant doesn’t. Rich has no strong opinions on the guy. So we have a fairly balanced view coming into this week’s film, 1984’s ‘The Flamingo Kid’, a coming-of-age story about a Brooklyn teenager’s Summer working at a ‘posh’ beach resort and the various life lessons he learns. It’s a nice, laid-back and understated film this time with a decent 60’s soundtrack, but perhaps nothing too remarkable. Although we do enjoy the comedic observations, get a bit miffed at the peculiar cross-language grammar and left feeling awkward by the prospect of a joint massage.

 

[Ep. 124, Rec. Mar 2016]

123: SFFCH – Looking For Eric

We’re film fans here at Spoiler Filled, not football fans. But perhaps we are football film fans? Although this weeks focus, ‘Looking for Eric’ by acclaimed British director Ken Loach, isn’t what we would consider your typical sports movie, seeing that no sport is really played. Instead we have a kind of gateway sports movie about a stressed postman having his life straightened out by a cannabis induced delusion of Eric Cantona. Rich, Abi and Ant discover a new appreciation for the philosophical french footballer in this episode, where other things up for discussion include: how extremely British the film is and how slyly mature it gets.

 

[Ep. 123, Rec Feb 2016]

122: SFFCH – That Championship Season

We delve back into obscurity this week with the awkwardly named ‘That Championship Season’ from 1982. Written and Directed by Jason Miller, famous for playing an angsty priest in The Exorcist (that’s right, it’s Jamie’s pick again!), the film follows 4 men who were part of a championship-winning, high school basketball team meeting up with their old coach years later. Once a tight-knit group of friends, each man now has his own mid-life crisis and a different perspective of their lives. The film is based on an award-winning play and involves an excellent cast, but perhaps directing is not one of Jason Miller’s strengths. Better keep an eye open for unnecessary elephants, oddly-pantied cheerleaders and lots of middle-aged white-men problems.

[Ep. 122, Rec. Feb 2016]

121: SFFCH – 12 Angry Men

Want to make a moralistic tale that makes you question stereotypes and prejudices? Better get yourself some Henry Fonda! Here, we have him playing Juror Number 8 in 1957’s ’12 Angry Men’, a film that all cinema books tell us is a ‘must see’. So  join us as we poetically analyze, scrutinize, argue over and pass judgement  over that claim and see what verdict we pass over this film about sweaty, opinionated men in a small, hot room. Oh, and come see how in-depth we can symbolize the film with a Kinder Egg.

[Ep. 121, Rec. Feb 2016]

120: SFFCH – Being There

What happens when a great character actor plays a character-less character…? Well, that’s what Rich, Abi and Jamie are here to find out this week with one of Peter Seller’s final films ‘Being There’. Come and listen about this slow, subtle and strange satire of upper-crust society as it is accidently infiltrated by Sellers’ simple gardener Chance. Highlights include: enigmatic garden metaphors, an awkward sex scene and Rich having a bit of a problem with ‘that’ ending. Oh, and of course, Basketball Jones.

[Ep. 120, Rec 2016]

119: SFFCH – The Prophecy

Even though he does keep popping up in some dodgy films, we all need a little more Christopher Walken in our lives, and ‘Spoiler Filled’ is here to oblige you with Ant’s choice of ‘The Prophecy’ plucked out of the late-Nineties weird movie obsession with angels and demons. You best find yourself a good perching spot this time around as Rich, Abi and Ant discuss such topics as: making out with corpses, suicidal zombie henchmen and Viggo Mortensen hiding under your bed.

[Ep. 119, Rec 2016]