Two Reel Cinema Club

Popcorn Counter: Monsters

Don’t believe what your parents told you, monsters are definitely real. After watching Godzilla and Jurassic World, we talk at the Popcorn Counter about a few of our favourite monster pictures, explain why we’re wary of swimming in three feet of water and lament the end of the broadcast television late night scare movie.
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The Jurassic Error

We’ve been to see Jurassic World Dominion for this episode, the sixth movie in a franchise that now feels a little like it dates back 65 million years. There’s a lot of stuff on fire in this film, but can it hold a candle to 1954’s Godzilla, the original Jurassic monster movie that stamped out the template for resurrected dinosaur flicks with its enormous, three toed foot?
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Popcorn Counter: Cruise Missile

Forty years into his career Tom Cruise has his biggest opening ever. Has any actor ever had a career like that before?  Join us at the popcorn counter for a quick Cruise-a-thon, followed by an even quicker exit when we figure out who we should be careful of.
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Maverick Was Not Expendable

This episode we feel the need… the need for a broad reassessment of cinema’s portrayal of the military industrial complex.  Top Gun: Maverick sees Tom Cruise return to flight school after 36 years, but can it fly higher and faster than John Ford’s 1945 John Wayne picture They Were Expendable? And has the way cinema views militarism changed since World War 2?
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Popcorn Counter: Martial Arts

Join us at the Popcorn Counter, where this episode we’re shooting the breeze about Martial Arts Cinema.  Warning: may contain scenes of two men talking about something they know nothing about.
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Everyone In The Matrix All At Once

We scoot across the multiverse and slide between parallel worlds in this episode, as we look at the new A24 picture Everything Everywhere All At Once, and revisit its ancestor, The Matrix. Has the world moved on since 1999? And find out why we wish one of these movies was available in suppository form...
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Popcorn Counter: Hall of Mirrors

This time while we queue at the Popcorn Counter, we talk all about actors who play actors who like actors who play actors. What’s the difference between an actor and a movie star? And who’s the Queen of the Hall of Mirrors?
 
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Being Nic Cage

Join us as we hit each other over the head with a big stick with ‘IRONY’ written on it. This episode we watch the new Nic Cage picture The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and line it up against 1999’s Being John Malkovich. Is it possible to die from too much irony? Because it kind of feels like that’s possible.
 
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