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🎬 Annihilation (2018) – Random Movie #2019

This week, we review Annihilation (2018), Alex Garland’s cerebral sci-fi horror that blends mind-bending visuals with deep existential dread. Natalie Portman leads a team of scientists into “The Shimmer,” a mysterious and mutating zone where nature rewrites the rules of biology—and reality itself. With themes of self-destruction, identity, and transformation, the film offers a haunting...

🎬 Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) – Random Movie #14081

This week, we review Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Tony Randel’s nightmarish sequel that dives deeper into Clive Barker’s twisted world of pain and pleasure. Picking up right after the original, the film follows Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) as she descends into the hellish dimension of the Cenobites to rescue her father and confront the sadistic Dr. Channard. With grotesque...

🎬 Unforgiven (1992) – Random Movie #898

This week, we review Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood’s revisionist Western that deconstructs the myths of violence and heroism on the American frontier. Eastwood stars as William Munny, a retired gunslinger dragged back into one last job, alongside Morgan Freeman’s steady Ned Logan and a brash young wannabe. With Gene Hackman as the brutal sheriff Little Bill, this brooding, Oscar-winning d...

🎬 The Long Good Friday (1982) – Random Movie #1518

This week, we review The Long Good Friday (1982), John Mackenzie’s gritty British crime classic set against the backdrop of a changing London. Bob Hoskins delivers a powerhouse performance as Harold Shand, a ruthless gangster trying to go legit just as his criminal empire comes under mysterious attack. Helen Mirren co-stars as his sharp and steady partner, Victoria. With sharp ...

🎬 Living (2022) – Random Movie #1718

This week, we review Living (2022), Oliver Hermanus’s quietly moving adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru. Bill Nighy stars as Mr. Williams, a buttoned-up civil servant in 1950s London who, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, sets out to find meaning in a life he’s long kept at arm’s length. With tender performances and a beautifully restrained script by Kazuo Ishiguro, this reflective drama e...

🎬 The Astronaut's Wife (1999) – Random Movie #14649

This week, we review The Astronaut's Wife (1999), Rand Ravich’s eerie blend of sci-fi and psychological thriller. Johnny Depp stars as Spencer Armacost, a NASA astronaut who returns from a mysterious space mission… different. Charlize Theron plays his increasingly unsettled wife, Jillian, who begins to suspect that whatever came back to Earth isn’t entirely human. With its slow-bu...

🎬 Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) – Random Movie #2690

This week, we review Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024), directed by Soi Cheang. This Hong Kong martial arts action film delves into themes of survival and community within the infamous Kowloon Walled City. Raymond Lam stars as Chan Lok-kwun, a refugee who, after a desperate act, seeks refuge in the lawless enclave. There, he encounters Cyclone, portrayed by ...

Nobody thought we could do it but we made it through our next 9 random movies! In this episode we look back at what sticks out in our withered memories of the movies we have put ourselves through: Robocop, Paths of Glory, The Lost Weekend, Them!, Face/Off, The Parallax View, AVPR: Aliens v Predator: Requiem, My Left Foot, and The Wrong Man . How did we feel about them in retrospect and with hindsight in our rear view mirror? Listen...

🎬 The Wrong Man (1957) – Random Movie #1106

This week, we review The Wrong Man (1957), Alfred Hitchcock’s stark and haunting true-crime drama that trades suspenseful thrills for chilling realism. Henry Fonda stars as Manny Balestrero, a real-life musician wrongly accused of robbery, whose life spirals into a nightmare of mistaken identity and bureaucratic indifference. With its documentary-like approach and stark black-and-white ci...

🎬 My Left Foot (1989) – Random Movie #39

This week, we review My Left Foot (1989), Jim Sheridan’s deeply moving biographical drama about triumph against the odds. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a powerhouse, Oscar-winning performance as Christy Brown, an Irish writer and painter born with cerebral palsy, who learns to express himself using only his left foot. With Brenda Fricker in an equally stirring role as his devoted mother, the...

🎬 AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem (2007) – Random Movie #15802

This week, we review AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem (2007), the dark (literally) and brutal sequel that pits two of cinema’s most iconic extraterrestrial killers against each other in a small Colorado town. Directed by the Strause brothers, this entry in the AVP franchise turns up the gore but dials down the visibility, as the Predator and Xenomorphs clash in a...

🎬 The Parallax View (1974) – Random Movie #7057

This week, we review The Parallax View (1974), Alan J. Pakula’s chilling conspiracy thriller that taps into the paranoia of the 1970s. Warren Beatty stars as a determined journalist investigating a shadowy organization linked to a string of political assassinations. As he digs deeper, reality blurs, trust erodes, and the film descends into a nightmarish exploration of power, control, ...

🎬 Face/Off (1997) – Random Movie #1404

This week, we review Face/Off (1997), John Woo’s gloriously over-the-top action thriller where identity, vengeance, and slow-motion gunfights collide. Nicolas Cage and John Travolta go full-throttle as a terrorist and an FBI agent who literally swap faces in a mind-bending battle of wits, bullets, and doves. Packed with insane stunts, melodramatic showdowns, and operatic violence, this film is...

🎬 Them! (1954) – Random Movie # 3684

This week, we review Them! (1954), Gordon Douglas’s sci-fi horror classic that helped define the “big bug” subgenre of the Atomic Age. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, and James Arness star in this thrilling tale of radiation-mutated giant ants wreaking havoc in the American Southwest. As the military scrambles to contain the growing menace, the film explores Cold War anxieties and the unintended c...

This week, we review The Lost Weekend (1945), Billy Wilder’s groundbreaking psychological drama that dives deep into the harrowing struggle of alcoholism. Ray Milland delivers a career-defining performance as Don Birnam, a writer battling addiction over a destructive four-day binge in New York City. With its raw portrayal of dependency, self-destruction, and despair, this film was ahead of its time, winning four Academy Awards, inc...

🎬 Paths of Glory (1957) – Random Movie # 7 on listener Rob’s all time movie list.

This week, we review Paths of Glory (1957), Stanley Kubrick’s searing anti-war drama that stands as one of the greatest indictments of military corruption and the futility of war. Kirk Douglas stars as Colonel Dax, a principled officer caught between duty and morality when he’s ordered to lead his men on a suicidal assault during World War I. As court...

Random movie number 1 on listener Andrew’s all time movie list, Robocop. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop is a sci-fi action classic set in a crime-ridden Detroit of the near future. After a brutal ambush, police officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is transformed into a cybernetic law enforcer by the powerful Omni Consumer Products. But as his memories resurface, he begins to question his programming—and his humanity. Is he just ...

Nobody thought we could do it but we made it to episode 100! We are the most surprised, believe us! In this episode we look back at our journey from episode 1 to episode 99 and play our favorite clips - good and bad!. How did we feel about them in retrospect and with hindsight in our rear view mirror? Listen on and find out!

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Random movie number 1411 on Metacritic’s all time movie list, Repo Man (1984) is a cult-classic sci-fi punk film directed by Alex Cox, starring Emilio Estevez as Otto, a disillusioned young man who stumbles into the bizarre world of car repossession. Paired with a seasoned repo agent played by Harry Dean Stanton, Otto soon discovers that one particular car holds a mysterious—and potentially extraterrestrial—secret. What happens whe...