Fuds On Film

In this exciting episode we will explore the story of a journalist whose mild curiosity about a classified ad turns into a crusade to free an innocent man; a young man who decided that making it all up was a better way of doing things than actual work; two political reporters who stumble upon one of the biggest scoops of the twentieth century, and produce some of the most influential and famous reportage in history; a reserved older writer whose conscience is stirred by the passionate youth around him; a principled television producer fighting against corporate self-interest to get his story broadcast; and a journalist poet who gets caught between two opposing, but equally corrupt, politicians.

Get our lukewarm takes on Made in France, Prevenge, Miss Sloane, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Goodbye Christopher Robin, and Blade Runner 2049 in our latest ep!

With the latest instalment of The Fast and the Furious skidding onto the home formats and a release date apparently confirmed for the spin-off, we thought we'd compare it to the first of the series and chart the road between these markedly different films from the bafflingly popular franchise.

Don't let anyone apart from trained physicians tell you that laughter is the best medicine. Frequently anti-biotics are better suited to deal with the problem. However, it's certainly true that life is better with laughs, so in the first of an occassional series today we're looking at some of our favourite comedy films adapted from the small screen. On the list, we've got The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, I, Spy, Starsky and Hutch, The Naked Gun, Brain Candy, Monty Python, Alpha Papa, and Ali G. There's around about another hundred films we could talk about, but most of them are underwhelming or not even close to whelming, so we're skipping them.

We cover another hodge-podge of arbitrarily selected films for this month's Intermission podcast, namely Death Note, Hotel Salvation, American Made. The Anthem of the Heart, Pawn Sacrifice, and Mindhorn. Find out what these flicks' major malfunctions are in this exhilarating episode! You will be exhilarated.

Since first watching Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler back in 2008, I've always wondered if he'd seen the 1999 documentary Beyond the Mat in his preparations, as there's more than a little commonality. Join us as we explore them, and the odd world of pro wrestling.

Sport is ancient and popular, and has been an important part of our various cultures and societies for as long as cultures and societies have existed. Little wonder, then, that sport should have seen a lot of representation in modern culture through cinema, though, given the popularity and pervasiveness of sport, perhaps not so much as one might expect. It has been posited by many that a large number of sports films don’t have a broad appeal due to unfamiliarity with the featured sport, but I’d strongly disagree, or at least argue strongly that that need not be an impediment to enjoyment: the audience not understanding the offside rule, not appreciating the significance of a three ball, two strike count with two outs and bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, or not appreciating the subtleties of why one man did a better job of punching his opponent in the face than his opponent did to him are, for the most part, irrelevant. And that’s because in most sports films the sport really isn’t the point; it’s a h

In this enthralling episode, we swing our wisdom mallets at Shin Godzilla, David Lynch: The Art Life, Dunkirk, The Big Sick and Scribe and beat their most intimate truths out of them. Feel not for them, they've got it coming.

Following on from our last episode on social hot topics, we take a look at two very different takes on post-Civil War race relations with D W Griffiths' 1915 The Birth of a Nation, and Nate Parker's 2016 reclamation. Listen, if you dare.

This month we have chosen to look at films that reflect, recount, and/or comment upon, stories of social importance and themes of injustice, iniquity, intolerance, and the perilous power of ideas. Dig in as we discuss Tambien la lluvia, Transamerica, I, Daniel Blake, The Wave, Inherit the Wind and The Magdalene Sisters.

Another month, another wide mix of films for us to cast shade or anti-shade on, as appropriate. Find out our takes on The Circle, War for the Planet of the Apes, Okja, Baby Driver, Colossal, A Cure for Wellness, and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Taste it!

Not everyone knows that Michael Mann's Heat was the second time he's used that material. First time round was a TV pilot called L.A. Takedown, eventually getting its own limited theatrical and home format release. How does it stack up to its more famous sibling?

We take a look at the seedier side of Los Angeles in this episode, away from the distracting, bright lights of Hollywood. We move from noir to 80s excess and beyond as we discuss Chinatown, To Live and Die in L.A., Less than Zero, Boyz n the Hood, L.A. Confidential, and The Limey.

Another arbitrarily selected batch of films line up for inspection as we discuss Wonder Woman, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, My Life as a Courgette, A Dog's Purpose, Life, and Passengers. Which will win this month's Palme d'Fud? Tune in and find out!

It's the turn of the other iconic alien-based havoc franchise this episode, as we talk all things Predator - including the much maligned Aliens vs Predator films. What do we make of them? Listen to find out!

1979 saw the beginning of what would become an icon of cinema, and a long-running series that would capture the imaginations of generations of film-goers. And in addition to the birth of all three members of Fuds on Film, 1979 also saw the release of a little film called Alien. Moving between, and often straddling, the horror, science-fiction and action genres, the _Aliens_ franchise has seen 6 main films, 2 crossover spin-offs with the _Predator_ franchise, numerous books, comics and videogames, a boatload of money and the launch into superstardom of three notable directors. Only _Star Trek_ and_ Star Wars_ can rival _Aliens_ for most recognisable and emotive extra-terrestrial species (and most of these are just humans with pointy ears, humans with wrinkly heads, or tall humans in bear costumes). Not even George Lucas’s syntactically-crippled diminutive space frog, beloved though he is, has the same pull on our emotions as the sight of that shining, black, elongated skull emerging from the shadows, ready to

From hugely budgeted action adventures to weird films about poetry, we have you covered with this month assorted grab-bag of films. Listen to our witterings on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Neruda, The Handmaiden, Assassin's Creed, and Paterson.

For no particular reason other than sharks being awesome, we take a look at two of the many films starring these aquatic terrors - the all-time classic Jaws, and the rather less classic Deep Blue Sea.

In an unavoidable change to our regularly scheduled episode, we are bringing you instead a bit of a retrospective of some of our favourite reviews from the first year of our podcast. If you're relatively new to the podcast, we hope you find this informative, and if you've been with us from the start, firstly, thank you, and secondly we hope you enjoy this walk down memory lane, or feel free to instead contemplate something beautiful for an hour and a half.

Two films about beasts, two films about identity politics - it can only mean that we're bloviating about Beauty and the Beast, Get Out, Kong: Skull Island, and Ghost in the Shell. Check it out!