Two Reel Cinema Club

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice vs The Others: The Other Beetlejuice

This episode we’re descending into hell and watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, confirming that ‘belated sequels to hits from the 80s’ looks like it’s going to be a thing… Most of the cast is back, as are a number of the same gags. But instead of comparing it to the 1988 original movie, Beetlejuice, we’ve spread our net a little wider to draw parallels with the masterful 2001 Nicole Kidman slow burn supernatural thriller The Others. Two haunted houses, two anxious mothers, two gothic confections. But which film features so many subplots that we forgot half of the characters completely? Which film plays with our expectations and pulls out the rug so often it threatens to destroy the whole carpet? And which film stars one of the greatest comedians of all time….?
Plus Vince Vaughn returns as a detective, a Clive Barker classic shows us how horror really works, the Cliche Squad has to establish a specialist ‘hell’ division, we briefly summarise 70s cult novel The Diceman, our sponsor clears the air for us, and one of us wakes up screaming in real life. This podcast is so random!
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Popcorn Counter: Going Interstellar....

You may think you’ve heard some nerdy podcasts in the past, but we’re going to ask you to buckle up your space suits and accelerate away from the Earth with us into the nerdiest possible sector of the whole galaxy this episode. We’ve seen a few films set in the deepest reaches of space recently - but out of the whole cinematic canon, which film is set FURTHEST from Earth? We’ve done some research, we’ve drawn some charts and we’ve made some calculations, and we think we have an answer. But is the winner a film from Stanley Kubrick, John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, or someone else entirely…?
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Popcorn Counter: Scary Movies

It’s all scary monsters and super creeps at the Popcorn Counter this episode. Join us as we shelter from a storm and count down our 13 favourite scary movies. (Please note, however, that ‘scary’ doesn’t always mean ‘good’.) Including a French film we wish we’d never seen, a Richard Burton film we probably didn’t see, or at least don’t remember very clearly, and a satanic film that should be avoided if you are pregnant… But which film will take the coveted number 13 spot?
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Alien Romulus vs Alien: Loving the Alien

If there’s one thing we know about the xenomorphs in the Alien films, it’s that they’re very, very good at reproducing themselves… 
Join us this episode as we watch the new sci-fi horror picture Alien: Romulus and its 1979 sci-fi horror granddaddy, Alien, and ask ourselves: is it possible we might have watched the same film twice? Romulus may be filled with callbacks and fan service and easter eggs and horror tropes, but is there a thoughtful and effective film hiding beneath them? And although the original Alien is now revered as a classic, have any cracks emerged in its pristine shell in the intervening 45 years? Which film has the more sophisticated take on racism, corporate exploitation and bodily autonomy? And which film features a cameo from Jacob Rees-Mogg?
Plus we rewatch a Kevin Costner classic that is very different to how we remember it, we get a new sponsorship deal with an AI phone, we take a quick trip to Hungary, we try to think of a polite way to talk about something R rated, and we issue a disclaimer from the TRCC legal team…
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Popcorn Counter: In Dreams

Going to the cinema is like experiencing a shared dream. (Especially when the film is so bad we fall asleep in it - and that’s happened to us more than a few times.) But who is the finest auteur of films as dreams? Is it Federico Fellini, or David Lynch, or is it Arnold Schwarzenegger in a blockbuster from 1990? Join us at the Popcorn Counter this episode as we mooch about in the dreamscape, drifting in and out of a Steven Spielberg fantasy, a Fritz Lang disappointment and a beautiful afternoon nap with Jean Renoir. (We would advise you bring your own blanket and pillow.)
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Twisters vs The Wizard of Oz: Twisted Wizards

We’re processing trauma and fighting a mighty wind at the Two Reel Cinema Club this episode, as we go to see the new weather-based action sequel Twisters, and compare it to the 1939 family classic The Wizard of Oz. Twisters can’t stop quoting from Oz, but the parallels don’t end there: both films centre around powerful women and both films are about trying to get back to the Midwest. But we still have questions. How many times can one man get struck by lightning before he gets the message? How small can a B plot be before it disappears in a stiff breeze? Which of the two films is a perfect socialist metaphor? And which features Elon Musk in disguise?
Plus we immerse ourselves in the Pink Floyd soundtracked version of Oz, dubbed Dark Side of the Rainbow, we question how widespread doping is among professional cyclists, we rewatch Metropolis and Night of the Living Dead while listening to Daft Punk and Arcade Fire to investigate apophenia, we enjoy a Henry Fonda classic and we promote a new range of lecterns aimed at supernatural users. Let's hope altogether it’ll be enough to entertain you while you cower in the storm shelter waiting for the tornado to pass…
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Popcorn Counter: The Song-Movies-Name-Quiz

(*Turns to camera*) You may remember that back in the 1980s and 90s they used to name a lot of films after songs. Seriously. A LOT. It was like an actual thing. So come and join us at the Popcorn Counter this week, where we’ve turned those Song-Named-Movie-Tune-Films into a Song-Named-Movie-Tune-Film-QUIZ. (*Cut to title card with music*) Forty movies named after songs, with plenty of silence while we try to guess the answers, and a few added clues for the hard of thinking. Play along with us at home, in the car or during surgery. Can you beat our score? (*Cut to graphic of an animated question mark with sparkles*) And what’s so embarrassing about movie number forty? (*Musical sting, probably a trombone?*)
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Popcorn Counter: Community in Conspiracy

With films like Capricorn One, Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View, the Watergate scandal meant the 1970s was the golden age of Hollywood conspiracy thrillers. OR WAS IT?! Join us at the Popcorn Counter this episode as we keep our heads down and ask in quiet voices if conspiracy cinema is not as simple as it first appears. Klute and The Manchurian Candidate predated Watergate. While Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the Jason Bourne films were popular with people who’d never heard of Nixon. Which hard boiled Disney animation is like ‘Chinatown for eleven year olds’? Is the Manchurian Candidate remake worth watching? And which conspiracy classic features a fourteen minute fist fight?
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