Épisodes

  • The Penguin

    The Penguin
    Mar 14 2025
    This week, the great Jeff Sweeney returns to the show to put up a defense for the Reeves Batmanverse and talk HBO's The Penguin, the first time in Colin's career he's return to a role he's already played. Spoiler alert: two people on this episode thought this show was terrible and the third is just happy to be here. Topics include: live Golden Globes reactions, wildly out of date Oscar predictions, our frustrations with prestige TV storytelling, the show's disinterest in engaging with the larger Batman mythos, whether or not Colin should be winning awards for this, and our thoughts on Batman's rogues gallery.

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    3 h et 29 min
  • Sugar

    Sugar
    Mar 7 2025

    We're back! This week, the great Sadie Rose Darwish joins us (for an episode definitely not recorded six months ago) to discuss Sugar, a streaming miniseries/maybe TV show in which Colin does a warmed over neo-noir routine while viewers wait patiently for the twist that is the show's entire raison d'être. We discuss that twist and we would have executed it, along with detours into the show's TCM fetishism, the scorpion jacket from Drive, mononymous stardom, and forgotten Jason Isaacs cop show Awake. Did you ever watch that? God it was good. We used to be a country, a proper country.


    Apologies for the poor audio, we had technical issues with the recording and tried to salvage it as best we could.


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    2 h et 15 min
  • The Spaceman

    The Spaceman
    Nov 9 2024
    this was a mistake

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    1 h et 54 min
  • The Banshees of Inisherin

    The Banshees of Inisherin
    Nov 3 2024
    This week, Mark Tilley returns to the pod to discuss 2022's The Banshees of Inisherin, Colin's reunion with Martin McDonagh, the source of his first Academy Awards nomination, and frankly one of the key reasons we did this podcast in the first place. Is this movie the true successor to Italian neo-realism? Have we as a society properly reckoned with the crimes of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri? Two years on, is this movie's total shutout at the Oscars deeply embarrassing? Does the Brenan Gleeson Rushmore get so contentious it almost ruins a friendship? Do we all love Jenny the Donkey? The answers to these questions, and many more, can be found inside.

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    3 h et 22 min
  • Thirteen Lives

    Thirteen Lives
    Oct 26 2024
    This week, the great Sean Fahey returns to the show and straps on his diving gear for a discussion of Ron Howard's Thirteen Lives. Starring Viggo Mortensen and our boy Colin as two of the divers instrumental in the famous 2018 Thai cave rescue, the film would have some of the best test scores in MGM history before being unceremoniously dumped by the new Amazon régime. But here's the thing about those test scores? They were right. We talk this movie's quiet sentimentality, the out of nowhere Ron Howard redemption tour, whether or not this is an apology for Hillbilly Elegy, and of course a Viggo Rushmore.

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    2 h et 32 min
  • The Batman

    The Batman
    Oct 18 2024
    This week, we inaugurate the year of Colin Farrell and return to the superhero mileu to talk Matt Reeves' dark reboot of the caped crusader, 2022's The Batman. Released to much acclaim as an exciting new vision, two and a half years later (well, June of 2024 when we recorded it) it's time to take a look back with clearer eyes and ask the question: wait, is this thing actually any good? No. The answer is no. Along the way, we talk the film's misguided politics, the crimes of Todd Phillips, Robert Pattinson the movie star, the vestigial nature of Colin's role, and touch on the elements of this that we do quite like. Ay! Take it easy sweetheart!

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    3 h et 10 min
  • The North Water

    The North Water
    Oct 12 2024
    We're back! This week, we explain what's going on with the show, and then the great Andrew Kinsella returns to discuss the 2021 miniseries The North Water, the story of two men pitted against each other on an ill-fated whaling voyage. Topics include: the career of director Andrew Haigh, the state of the contemporary prestige miniseries, the failed attempt to turn Jack O'Connell into a star, just what voice Colin is doing here, and the shameful secret behind our show's methodology.

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    2 h et 41 min
  • The Gentlemen

    The Gentlemen
    May 18 2024
    This week, we are taking a look at 2020's The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie's return to his trademark type of ensemble crime films after a decade of franchise fare and a movie that one of your cohosts thinks is the worst thing we've ever discussed on the podcast. Topics include: the diminishing returns of Ritchie's whole deal, this movie's rancid racist and nationalist politics, the dying art of studio fanfare, and the weird legacy of Colin's "pull up your pants" performance in this film. Plus: he's not very good in this, but we still go long on the career of star Matthew McConaughey.

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    2 h et 44 min