At the Movies with William Fletcher

We're looking at the characters of Ali G, Borat and Brüno ahead of the new Ali G film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, as well as talking about the general work of Sacha Baron Cohen and all the controversies around his work.

Slight callback as the podcast is going back and looking again at a film that was covered in a big retrospective in The Social Network as we look forward to the upcoming release of The Social Reckoning.

Apologies for the delay to this episode and we're looking at another director's filmography this time as we go through the work of Alejandro González Iñárritu in anticipation (maybe) of his new polarising film, Digger.

We're back into the world of video games this week with a look at the expansive Resident Evil franchise with the main discussion being the Paul W.S. Anderson films but with talks about the animated films, the 2021 Welcome to Raccoon City and the games of course. 

Apologies for the fairly late release this week.

 

We do talk about the 2022 film Fall but we spend a lot more time on our own personal fears, rollercoasters and generally dangerous situations.

Looking at the world of Looney Tunes this week with the 90s childhood favourite in Space Jam and it's fairly unneeded sequel. We also get into 90s music, shoes and basketball (naturally). 

This is one of the episodes that has been a long time coming with a look at The Martian as well as talking about Ridley Scott's career and the recent adaptation of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary.

We did Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie earlier this year so we might as well look at the rest of Matt Johnson's career especially because he's got a new film out soon, Tony. 

One of the real classics this week as we look back at the Scorsese film Taxi Driver to tie into the film's 50th anniversary. We get into how the film has been misinterpreted, other classics and Quentin Tarantino.

We did all of Nolan's other films when Oppenheimer released but now it's time to properly discuss and look at Oppenheimer with 3 years of hindsight before looking ahead to The Odyssey.