Episode 133: The Vanishing
While traveling through France with a young Dutch couple Tom, Chris & Colleen find themselves embroiled in a mystery when the young woman suddenly vanishes without a trace from a road side stop.
While traveling through France with a young Dutch couple Tom, Chris & Colleen find themselves embroiled in a mystery when the young woman suddenly vanishes without a trace from a road side stop.
Tom, Colleen & Chris continue their look at the BBC's list of the Top 100 Films of the 21st Century, discussing and debating (sometimes rather intensely) what they feel are their top 3 picks for the best films of the last 16 years.
BBC Culture released a list of the Top 100 Films of the 21st Century as voted by 177 film critics from around the world. Tom, Col & Chris get together to debate and discuss the list and also name their top five picks for what they consider to be the best films of the last 16 years.
Leaving wartime Czechoslovakia Tom & Chris find themselves in the English countryside with a paranoid schizophrenic Earl who believes himself to be Jesus Christ. They join the newly appointed nobleman as his family challenge his mental state, his title and his power.
Deciding to stick around Czechoslovakia after their previous outing Tom & Chris now find themselves keeping company with the men who run a small train station. As the war begins to quickly escalate so to do the libidos of the young men hard at work in the train yard.
Chris and Toby finish their busy schedules at this years MIFF and talk continue to talk about a bunch of films they saw the final week. They chat about seeing Operation Avalanche, Hell or High Water, Werner Herzog's new documentary and an experience with new VR technology.
Featuring Special Guest Toby Zarb.
Chris and Toby continue their busy schedules at this years MIFF and talk about A LOT of films they saw this week. One again recorded at The Blackhearts Club at The Forum Theatre in the heart of Melbourne, they talk about seeing Personal Shopper, Evolution, A Dragon Arrives!, The Handmaiden and many others...
Featuring Special Guest Toby Zarb.
Chris is busy attending the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival and he's here with previous guest of the podcast Toby to talk about some of the wonderful and weird films they've seen. Recorded at the festival bar, The Blackhearts Club at The Forum Theatre, they talk briefly about Weiner, Paterson, The Salesman, The Neon Demon and Tickled.
Featuring Special Guest Toby Zarb.
After their daring prison escape last week Tom & Chris now find themselves hiding out in a small Slovakian town where the imposing threat of the Nazi regime is slowly starting to take hold.
Seeking a happier setting following their last outing Tom & Chris find themselves in a French jail in the mid 1940s, getting caught up with five inmates as they plan an intricate escape attempt.
Tom & Chris find themselves working their way through the rich and varied history of Denmark as they encounter everything from witch-hunts to reincarnation, meeting religious conflict and fickle women who can't stop looking off into the distance along the way.
After a brief hiatus Tom & Chris return and find themselves back in the USA and on the road with a group of traveling salesmen working hard to sell the Good Book. Their travels find them reaching a dilapidated old house in the upper class community of The Hamptons where they spend some time with an eccentric pair of older women (and their many animals).
After deciding to stick around London for a little while longer Tom & Chris find themselves in the company of an aspiring young writer who spends most of his days either living in daydream or concocting elaborate lies as a means to fuel his creativity.
Moving from directors to actors Tom & Chris spend a weekend in the English countryside with a pair of alcoholic, down on their luck actors looking to get out of the city for a while. However, when the weather becomes too bleak and unbearable they shift to another part of the country and look in on an advertising executive who is going through a few things and suffering from a rather peculiar ailment...
After spending some time with the rich Tom & Chris decide to mix things up a bit and take to the road with a film director who's masquerading as a poor man in an attempt to find a truly human story for his next motion picture.
Tom & Chris find themselves abandoning the rugged Japanese mountains for the more quaint and serene Frenchcountryside where they join a woman as she embarks on her new employ as a maid in the house of a rich, mean and slightly odd family.
Following the bungled crime exploit they got wrapped up in last week Tom & Chris decide to try their hand at some good deeds as they join forces with a samurai general, a princess in hiding and two bumbling fools as they try to make their way across enemy lines and back safely to their homeland.
After spending some time in high society Tom & Chris decide it's time to turn back to the streets and a life of crime as they join a group of French thieves as they plan to pull off the biggest jewel heist the country has ever seen.
Moving from one caper to the next Tom & Chris now find themselves rubbing shoulders with the upper crust of Manhattan as a wealthy family take in a homeless man as their new butler, however they soon realize he may not be as down on his luck as he originally claimed to be...
After the fun but somewhat heady social commentary involved in their last outing Tom & Chris decide to take it a little easy by joining forces with a rag-time group of bumbling Italian criminals as they attempt to pull off a complicated pawn shop heist.