Double Bed Double Bill

Wellllllll hiiii! Yes, it’s us, your old friends; we’re back baby! After 476 days with no new episodes we thought it was about time we got back on the horse. We missed youuu! We’re not back to our old tricks entirely; we’ll just record episodes when we have the time/space/bandwidth, but we’ll be sure to let you know movies for our future episodes at least a week in advance so you can still play along!



To find our feet again, this...

PEW PEW PEW [insert quoteable phrase for acton figure here] KABOOM! It’s action week, kids! We’re walking beyond where the sun touches into new shadowland. Well, kinda, coz Patrick watched both of these movies quite a bit as a kid, but evidently didn’t properly take them in or appreciate them. We hit up two real classics this week with ‘Speed’ (1994) and ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’ (1991), and have an absolute ball! We feed some ...

We’re slipping back in time to 1999 again this week for our second edition of 1999 Week, and our fourth edition of People’s Choice week. These two films were the third and fourth most popular choices in our polls, and make for a really wonderful pairing. ‘Magnolia’ (1999) confused and tested us with its labyrinthine 24hr plot with inter-tangled, fractured narratives, and ‘Jawbreaker’ delighted with its unique pairing of dark and ca...

This week we hit up our master list and committed to doing two big ones that we REALLY should have seen. Two films that were wildly different. And little did we know that we’d find resonances across them both… and here we have Underdog Week. ‘Rocky’ (1976) and ‘Legally Blonde’ (2001); two films about (contextually speaking) an underdog who we have no chance but to root for as they overcome ridiculous hurdles and display incredible ...

This is People’s Choice Week Vol. 3, but more notably the first episode in a new series we’ve started where we watch films from 1999 - one of, arguably, the greatest years of cinema. We kicked things off with a poll across all our socials of 8 films that neither of us had seen and the two that were clearly at the top of everyone’s wishlist were ‘Being John Malkovich’ (1999) and ‘Cruel Intentions’ (1999). This week we explore the me...

We’re still in lockdown and we’re tackling two films by the great man himself this week: Steven Spielberg. Patrick has shockingly never seen  ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ (1982) before, and neither Patrick nor Emma have seen the chilling and legendary ‘Jaws’ (1975), but this week we watch ‘em both. Of course, we can’t help but talk about Catholicism (again), Patrick gets his first ‘jab’ mid-episode, and we talk about all sorts...

Well, Covid done got us again girl. We’ve been locked down, but a silly pandemic isn’t gonna get in the way of us talking shit, so we bought a second microphone, set up Emma in 3 different rooms in her house, ultimately settling on the backseat of a car as a recording studio, and struggled for 90min to get semi-podcast quality recorded conversation while in different houses. But it was WORTH IT because this week’s films were banger...

“America! America! / God shed His grace on thee / And crown thy good with brotherhood / From sea to shining sea!” This week brings with it a double bill brought about by an immediate need to watch one of the selected films ahead of our visit to see ‘American Psycho: The Musical’ at the Opera House. ‘American Beauty’ (1999) has already been contextualised in Patrick’s filmic history on this podcast before, with Emma very excited to ...

We’re back! Our eyes are crystal clear and our stress levels are… well… our eyes are crystal clear! This week we entered another round of People’s Choice, watching movies you voted for on our Insta stories, and the winners were ‘Black Panther’ (2018) and ‘The Notebook’ (2004). You’re a varied and cheeky bunch, these films are quite the contrast when juxtaposed, and we love it! As well as talking about the films, we get down to talk...

This week we’re taking a short break, and revisiting a classic! Our very first episode, ‘Getting to Know You’ was released almost 8 months ago and is still our highest-rated episode! While we recover from eye surgery and the crippling pressure of producing interstate tours during a pandemic, enjoy this trip down memory lane with lil baby virgin podcasters Patrick and Emma.

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After cordially offering Emma the opportunity to discuss her two favourite movies on the podcast earlier this year, Patrick has been campaigning for the same opportunity. However, we find ourselves locked in a now-months-long fight over whether Patrick’s second favourite film ‘Synecdoche, New York’ can be discussed. The battle continues! But, in the meantime, we’re discussing two of Patrick’s almost-favourite movies, ‘Big Fish’ (20...

You spoke, and we listened… it’s our first People’s Choice Week! We asked you which movies you wanted us to watch via polls on our Instagram stories, and these were the two you all voted for most. ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ (2001) and ‘Fight Club’ (1999). Two very contrasting films, which we love, one from either side of the millennium. Both of these films got under our skin in different ways, and we ended up going to strange places i...

Emma might try and pretend she’s one of the common folk, but the sad truth of the matter is she is deeply un-Australian. Amounting to what is effectively treason, up until this point Emma hadn’t seen the CLASSIC camp Australian films ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ (1994) and ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ (1994). Thankfully good old Guncle Pat was here to help! This week we talk Drag Race Down Under, musical theatre, confet...

This week we set out to fully meet the brief we set ourselves when starting this podcast; two films that are indisputable, absolute classics, that contrast each other greatly in genre and content, and that neither of us have ever seen before. And shit me, did we succeed! Listen to us talk ad nauseam once again about New York as we discuss ‘When Harry Met Sally…’ (1989), and then for bonus points count how many times we say the word...

’Scarn carrrnts? ’Sfarkern Dude Week m8! Yeh boi!!1! Join us this week as we journey into the dark, dark unknown lands of films lauded by heterosexual men. Starting ‘Somewhere in the Indian Ocean’ with the high-octane and notoriously homoerotic ‘Top Gun’ (1986), we then veer to Detroit to wax rhapsodic about ‘8 Mile’ (2002). Is ‘8 Mile’ a bio-pic? Is Tom Cruise really that awful? (Yes.) And just what does a factory sound like? We d...

This week we paid a visit to the oeuvre of auteur director Christopher Nolan. We're both fans of his work, but there are a couple Emma hadn't seen yet. First we veered out of our comfort zone to watch 'The Dark Knight' (2008) (after watching 2005's 'Batman Begins' for homework), and then back to something more aligned to our regular programming to watch 'Inception' (2010). That's 454 minutes (7hrs 34min) of cinema, folks. We are ti...

As a treat to Emma for getting through two very scary movies last episode, this week we watched her two favourite movies, which Patrick has never seen and has been deliberately been putting off watching to antagonise her; ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981) and ‘Back to the Future’ (1985). This episode brings with it a great deal of fascinating, intellectually stimulating discussion about SpaghettiOs, the ins and outs of famous tantru...

AAAND WE’RE BACK! We thought we’d kick off 2021 with a pretty hectic double bill of two movies we talked about on the podcast a lot last year, but never thought we’d get to watch; ‘The Sixth Sense’ (1999) and ‘Hereditary’ (2018). Patrick has seen and loved both and NEVER thought he would convince Emma to watch them, but he succeeded! Did she love them? Did she actually shit the bed? Did she guess the giant plot twist in ‘The Sixth ...

G'day, we're getting back into bed and are gearing up to start releasing new episodes in 2021! Yay! We're excited to hit the record button and make each other laugh again - our recording sessions go on for hours, and sometimes we leave the mic rolling and pick up some comedy gold that just doesn't quite fit in the episode. We've been tacking outtakes on the very end of most episodes, but just in case you've missed them, here's a co...