Today's show concerns itself with the notion of freedom, with reviews of British prison drama Starred Up, escaped convict romance Labor Day, the felty gulag shenanigans of Muppets Most Wanted, and the surveillance state worries of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Plus, with just over a week to go until the release of Mark Cousins' excellent A … [Read more...]

This week's show offers both style and substance, with reviews of Wes Anderson's opulent Grand Budapest Hotel and Jonathan Glazer's eerie Under The Skin. Plus we talk to filmmaker Roger Graef about the current health of the documentary. … [Read more...]

We're back with a show that concerns itself almost solely with the affairs of consenting adults. We've reviews of both the vinyl loving vampires of Only Lovers Left Alive and Lars Von Trier's tricksy mediation of meaningless sex, Nymphomaniac. Plus we'll be talking to academic Colin Clews about the last 20 years or so of LGBT cinema, something … [Read more...]

Today's show sees a string of men struggling against the odds to build a better world, literally in the case of The Lego Movie, but more symbolically when it some comes to Matthew McConaughey in The Dallas Buyers Club, Ralph Fiennes in The Invisible Woman and Spike Jonze's science fiction romance Her. Plus we talk to the Cambridge Professor behind … [Read more...]

Tune in for a brand new pot of bubbling reviews: does the Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis mark another high for the directors? Does August: Osage County misplace the acerbic nature of the original play? Did the world need yet another Jack Ryan and is Peter Berg's Lone Survivor military propaganda or a true tale that needed telling? Plus we get the … [Read more...]

Today's show peers into the dark heart of man, with unflinching looks at both the American slave trade with 12 Years A Slave and the unforgotten war crimes in The Railway Man. Plus insatiable greed is good in The Wolf Of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's pile driving depiction of capitalism red in tooth and claw. Plus we catch up with the mid-winter … [Read more...]

The first show of 2014 begins with its hands in someone's pockets and ends with its head in the clouds, as we review the long con of American Hustle, the masterless Samurai of 47 Ronin, Robert Redford battling the elements in All Is Lost, the daydreaming escapism of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, finishing off by being given cliff notes to one of … [Read more...]