All The Right Movies

Mother's not quite herself today… but we are. John, Matt, and Westy check into the Bates Motel to tell the story of Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece — the film that reinvented horror, traumatised a generation of shower-takers, and proved you really can kill your leading lady 47 minutes in. Expect chocolate syrup, screeching violins, and a Master of Suspense mortgaging his house to make it happen. Big opinions, big laughs, ...

Luke, Westy and Matt give their creation life as we tell the story behind Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's parody of the Universal monster movies, making one of the funniest films ever made in the process.

We get into why playing it dead straight is the secret, how Gene Hackman begged to play the blind hermit for free, John Morris's heart-breaking score, and the moving hump nobody saw coming. What hump? Big laughs and big opinions thro...

The future is now — and John, Westy, and Matt are here to tell you exactly how Robert Zemeckis built it. We go deep on the production of one of the most ambitious sequels Hollywood attempted: hoverboards, self-lacing Nikes, and a plot that required filming the past, present, and future simultaneously. (Doc would be proud.)

From the decision to make Parts II and III back-to-back, to the technical wizardry behind Hill Valley 201...

Two studios. Two directors. Two DPs. Four camera crews. And two movie stars who counted each other's lines. Luke, Westy and Matt tell the behind-the-scenes story of Irwin Allen's all-time disaster epic. The McQueen vs Newman billing war fought to the millimetre, William Holden outshining everyone in a burgundy dinner jacket, a John Williams score from just before he became a legend, and the dream that accidentally invented Die Hard...

We're back at the editing desk - this time raiding the ATRM Classic archives from June to November 2025 for the moments worth keeping. This highlights compilation serves up the sharpest takes, the most chaotic tangents, and the conversations that somehow held together despite all evidence to the contrary. From summer blockbusters to autumn classics, we've done the sifting so you can skip straight to the good stuff (and a few glorio...

We're in 2027 with Alfonso Cuarón to talk a dystopian classic. John, Westy, and Matt dive into the story of how Cuarón created one of cinema's most visually stunning achievements - a film that turned a difficult-to-adapt novel into a breathtaking technical marvel. From those legendary long takes (yes, including that car scene) to Clive Owen's career-best performance (YMMV), we explore how Cuarón and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki...

Luke, Matt, and Westy gather round the Thrombey estate to investigate Rian Johnson's modern whodunit masterpiece. We tell the story of how Johnson wrote the script on spec, assembled a murderers' row of A-listers, and turned every detective movie convention inside out, all while giving Daniel Craig the most gloriously absurd accent of his career. From the casting battles to the donut hole speech, we dig into the craft, the chaos, a...

How did Stanley Kubrick turn nuclear annihilation into a comedy? John, Matt, and Westy get into the Cold War satire that somehow made mutually assured destruction hilarious. We're talking Peter Sellers playing three roles (he was meant to do four, but pulled a sickie), George C. Scott being tricked into giving maybe the performance of his career, and a pie fight ending that never was. Plus, the realistic events that were so absurd ...

On the latest episode of A Life In Movies, the movie interview podcast by All The Right Movies, we're talking to legendary actor James Woods.

With a career spanning five decades, James has built a reputation as one of cinema's most compelling performers. An actor drawn to morally complex characters and unafraid to inhabit the darkest corners of human nature. A two-time Academy Award nominee with multiple Emmy wins to his name, his f...

Luke, Matt, and Westy are on the case as we head to 1940s San Francisco for John Huston's genre-defining noir. We're talking Bogart at his most iconic, a directorial debut that shouldn't have worked, and one of the great Hollywood MacGuffins. We dig into how a first-time director got the best out of Hollywood's most difficult star, why this third adaptation finally cracked it, and the ensemble cast that made every scene crackle.

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James Cameron reunited with Arnold Schwarzenegger and asked a simple question: who would James Bond be if he got home and had to answer to his wife? The result cost $100 million and featured a Harrier jet attack on the Florida Keys. Luke, Westy, and Matt dive into the film that proved Cameron could blow stuff up and make you care about the people running from the explosions. From Arnold learning to tango to the stunt work that near...

Bedford Falls is calling. John, Luke, Westy, and Matt take on Frank Capra's beloved Christmas classic, exploring how a box office disappointment became one of the most watched films in history. We dig into Jimmy Stewart's post-war comeback, Donna Reed's scene-stealing brilliance (and beauty), and why the FBI thought this film was Communist propaganda (yep, really). Plus: the innovative snow that changed Hollywood forever, whether G...

Twelve men. One room. Zero air conditioning. John, Westy, and Matt dive into Sidney Lumet's classic about a jury deliberating a murder case in sweltering New York heat. We explore how a first-time director turned a single location into one of cinema's most gripping courtroom dramas. The behind the scenes story, big opinions on why it works, and a laugh or two as we go. From Henry Fonda's moral crusader to that legendary knife scene...

Martin McDonagh's unique brand of humour and heartbreak returns to the podcast as Luke, Westy, and Matt head to a remote Irish island for a masterclass in passive-aggressive feuding. We explore how McDonagh reunited Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson for cinema's most devastating friendship breakup, why filming on the Aran Islands nearly broke everyone, and how a miniature donkey named Jenny stole scenes from two of Ireland's finest...

Peter Jackson convinced Hollywood to fund three epic films at once, then filmed them back-to-back in New Zealand. Madness, and it changed cinema. John, Westy, and Matt journey to Middle-earth to explore how a low-budget horror director made the impossible: a fantasy epic that satisfied Tolkien purists and mainstream audiences. From the epic production, through groundbreaking innovations to an actor's fear of flying (hence all that ...

Denzel Washington swaggers through the streets of LA in this dark, morally complex thriller. Luke, Matt & Westy ride shotgun with Alonzo Harris (King Kong ain't got nothing on that performance!) as they unpack the intense production, the gritty LA backdrop, and why Antoine Fuqua insisted on shooting in some of the city's most volatile areas. From the claustrophobic car interior sequences to that explosive climax in the projects...

Michael Mann brings his signature intensity to colonial America in this sweeping epic. John, Matt & Westy track Daniel Day-Lewis through the wilderness (he was there for long enough!) as they unpack the production chaos, the legendary score, and why Mann insisted on the crew getting rid of a pretty key part of the solar system. From the Appalachian locations to that final clifftop scene, we're staying alive no matter what occur...

In 2002, a graphic novel about fathers and sons in Depression-era Chicago became Sam Mendes' haunting follow-up to American Beauty. Road to Perdition transformed Max Allan Collins' crime saga into a meditation on legacy, violence, and the impossible task of protecting your children from the world you've created - all while delivering one of cinema's most visually stunning tales of revenge.

We're exploring two intertwined stories beh...

Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Miloš Forman's masterpiece tells the story of Mozart through the envious eyes of his rival Salieri. But how did a Czech director come to make a classic Viennese tale? And what's the real story behind "too many notes"?

Join John, Westy, and Matt as they dive deep into the making of a theatrical triumph turned cinematic classic. From Peter Shaffer adapting his own stage play to To...