Drive-By Cinema

It's not the end of the end but it is the beginning of the end. Paul and Rick look back and discover that all movies are either one-cut movies or have montages (and are about time travel). The curious concept of the lockdown movie. CGI fights send Paul to sleep, but Thai jails keep him awake. How to smuggle money from China. Here's a list of standout movies mentioned: Time and stuff Tenet https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/tenet Coherence https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/coherence Primer https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/primer Horror and thriller Midsommar https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/midsommar Parasite https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/parasite Enter The Void https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/enter-the-void Bodies Bodies Bodies https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/bodies-bodies-bodies Fun and action Everything Everywhere All At Once https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/dungeons-and-dragons Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/furiosa Dune: Part Two https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/dune-part-two

Paul won't consider joining a mission to mars, he would miss melon liquor too much, and explains AI dating chatbots to Rick, who in return explains how sprinklers work yet again. The Japanese movie Lumberjack The Monster explores synthetic psychopathy. 

Latest instalment of the X trilogy is MaXXXine, while Rick and Paul discuss the most expensive packet of fruit gums. 

The film is Longlegs, but are they spiders or crane flies or both? Rick enjoys the McMansion architecture. Also a discussion of the work of the Satanic Temple.

True-until-its-not story Hit Man is the recent streaming hit Paul and Rick review. Football at the Euros, Election news, cryptography and pop philosophy. 

Rick explains how to use cutlery, Paul discusses evolutionary impact of bird feeders. 2009 movie Orphan covers dark triad diagnostics and adoption politics. See Nigel Farage being trolled by Led By Donkeys here.

Rick and Paul shuck the oyster to find a Pearl in the fleshy folds. Safety advice for British tourists, Paul's fascination with expensive gates and a harrowing story of a drowned sheep.

Revenge porn and homophobia in the movie Femme. Is it mint sauce and mango sauce on top of your kebab? Rick explains who is Nigel Farage with help from Led By Donkeys. Paul liked Ru Paul before he was popular.

Social mobility, the battle of Naseby, Mondegreens, scams, all provoked by the custard and Oreo donut that is Emily The Criminal. 

At trip to the cinema to see Furiosa: A Mad Max Sage, but while underperforming at the box-office, does it have a roaring V8 under the hood? Rick tries to educate Paul on the more recent Mad Max history, while pointing out, belatedly, that there is a new Bobby Fingers video.

Martial arts come in for some scrutiny in The Art Of Self Defence. Paul and Rick can't stop discussing lift operations, so much so that Paul started and dropped a PhD in the subject. He also reveals he had ostrich farm. 

Movie adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel, Poor Things is dissected by Paul and Rick. 

As thunderstorms roll dramatically across the land, Paul and Rick begin a journey through studio Ghibli's interpretation of Ursula K Le Guin's classic Earthsea cycle, Tales From Earthsea. Rick also found a two part mini-series adaptation called Earthsea on YouTube.

Haunted-mirror horror movie Oculus. Rick refers to the bit flip incident mentioned in detail in this episode of Radiolab. Paul takes the problem of covert one-way mirrors seriously, and enjoys the Young Farmers DIY AGM.

Snyder gives us the next instalment of Rebel Moon- Part Two. Paul and Rick consider the power or lack of power of POTUS. Choose your team: ranged weapons or hand-to-hand.

Karaoke and gambling stories from Paul, while Rick wonders about the futility of Civil War. 

How does Anatomy Of A Fall acquit itself? Do Paul and Rick raise any objections as they sit as judge, jury and sexecutioners on the movie. Paul recalls being the face of DVDs in China, Rick compares Netflix's Three Body Problem with Tencent's Three Body.

A time loop movie yet again, Infinitum: Subject Unknown sort of stars Sir Ian McKellan. Rick explains the 3-Body Problem series and escaping zip ties.

Paul and Rick watch the thought-jigsaw Dogtooth. Paul throws shade at monkey conversational skills and gives invaluable fashion advice to middle-aged men. A wistful callback to The Meaning Of Liff. Extraordinary story about Marina who lived with monkeys which is mentioned briefly.

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The link to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is probably the wrong one, YMMV. Steve Mould investigates how kettles work here. Bingo popularity, UFOs and their cultural and political implications, and Japanese and American educational practices.

The word "whimsical" is often used to describe Marcel The Shell With Shoes , and hack reviewers Paul and Rick also failed to find an original word. Paul explains Garrison Keillor, Rick recounts a terrifying Zorb accident . Does grade inflation affect the final scores?

Finally we get to the Dune sequel. is it a "dry-squib"? Rick attacks a beloved piece of Paul's childhood. Paul creaks around noisily in his Harkonnen style black leather mumu. Melange and worms discussed in Periodic Videos Chemistry of Spice Melange YouTube videp In response to Enter The Void last week, enjoy this Smack My Bitch Up Cat Version. 

This is your brain dying on DMT. Gaspar's Noe's existential trip makes Paul invent the word "toitering". Enter The Void with Drive-By Cinema. Also see The Prodigy classic "Smack My Bitch Up".

Paul, author of Atomic Aardvark, reviews the work of novelist Austin Wright, and the fictional author Edward Sheffield in the woman-reading-a-book neo-noir Nocturnal Animals. Paul also recommends the YouTube channel of Toyah Wilcox. Who is Steve Adams?

Somehow managing to see The Invisible Man (2020), Paul makes a spirited defence of the much-maligned sociopaths, and reminisces about cell phone ringtones. Rick wonders how people correct things without tipp-ex.

Content advisory for themes of suicide in the extremely long and rather moving Chinese film An Elephant Sitting Still. Rick recommends Ally From China YouTube channel for her analysis of the St Pancras piano incident.

Horticultural thriller Little Joe has Rick and Paul contemplating the authenticity of happiness. Paul invents the condition of pterydactyly, Rick asks about the Chinese game phenomena Jubensha, which is discussed in detail on the People Make Games YouTube channel.

Spanish container survival Nowhere makes Paul and Rick wonder about cell-phone reception mid-ocean and shipping economics. "The seagulls around here have mobility scooters" Find out about the fate of lost containers on the Casual Navigation YouTube video What Happens To Lost Containers?

Cyberwarfare armageddon in Leave The World Behind. And also a detailed explanation of how GPS works, to Paul's horror. Trump's expertise on magnets and the Kevin Bacon game. TV show Mr Robot. Flatliners. Listen to the end-title song on the Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist.

Bathtime fun with Saltburn. Paul regards eggs done over-easy as a health threat, Rick reveals that there are no anuses in 2-dimensions. The latest Bobby Fingers video is a must-watch.

Paul and Rick watch Rebel Moon part one - A Child Of Fire and also discuss Hong Kong fishing villages and remaking Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Neither of them could remember the name of Milo Yiannopoulos, thankfully. Paul mentioned 80s Rob Lowe movie Oxford Blues.

Alien abductions, in both this week's movie The Fourth Kind, and also on SNL. Rick and Paul tackle the ethics of truth and fiction in movie-making and the found-footage genre, hypnosis and repressed memories. Connect to our discord server here.

On-take wonder Victoria astounds Rick and harrows Paul. Discussion of organisation in criminal enterprises and Paul loses his phone and gets it wet in unrelated incidents. A reminder that there is a Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UJHbXm32onhruZSsjNTn9?si=81cdd516da714b83

Gore horror comedy Psycho Goreman delights Rick and Paul, and comparison is made to the precocious talent shown in this O'Keefe Music Foundation cover of Korn's Freak On A Leash.

Let's do the time-warp again with Totally Killer. Rick talks about hyperwatches, Paul shops for carriage clocks and explains a meme to Rick.

This week we watch Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story). Rick has two points he wants to make 3 times, for up to 6 good points. He also reveals his manifesto for removing subjectivity in sports. Paul reveals he broke his arm trying to skateboard once. Explore maps of music genre on pages like Music Map. 

The movie: Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose. A Dream of Death William Butler Yeats I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand; And they had nailed the boards above her face, The peasants of that land, Wondering to lay her in that solitude, And raised above her mound A cross they had made out of two bits of Wood And planted Cypress round; And left her to the indifferent stars above Until I carved these Words: She was more beautiful than thy first love, But now lies under boards.

Rick rapidly explains the intricate plot of Triangle while Paul goes "whoa" a lot. The end of pan news. "I only wish I could lucid-dream so I could do light chores."

Paul and Rick caught in an endless loop with Palm Springs this week. Also pans  make a reappearance, as well as underwear and sports attire etiquette and The Lonely Planet Guys "Like A Boss"  and instrumental tracks from bands with vocalist like The Breeders "Flipside" and of course Genesis "The Brazilian"

Australian malevolent spirits abound in Talk To Me. Paul has been binge-watching King of Stonks and Founder. Rick has been binge-watching Taskmaster. Also briefly mentioned is the podcast and now TV series Uncanny. 

Paul discusses planned obsolescence, the Queen Mother's fridge and frying pans with Rick, which is a peculiar introduction to a discussion of creepy horror sci-fi mystery The Endless. The Jonestown related podcast is actually Transmissions From Jonestown.

Paul becomes The Creator after watching the film, coining two neologisms "counterflicting" and "countervention", but makes up for it with a public safety warning about riding elephants from different villages.

Paul claims that green skittles and purple skittles have the same flavour, while Rick admits to once having sex in a forest. The movie under discussion is 2008 thriller Eden Lake.

Not telekinesis, but Korean superhero drama Psychokinesis. Rick reveals his recent brush with the dreaded covid, Paul explains the east-Asian love for good food has a neurological cause, gutter-oil and HS2 also feature. 

With a covid sick-note from our podcast hosts, and anticipating the next Dune movie next month, wait November, no wait now next year! Oh never mind, here's the episode on the second first Dune movie.

Paul means small, and Rick mentions the Radiolab episode on Chinese keyboard input all while analysing Korean baby-selling road movie Broker. 

Paul recalls hunting boar in the Chinese mountains with the PLA. Rick talks about Intensified Continuity, The movie is British cringe-fest All My Friends Hate Me.

UPDATED*** Watching Korean monster thriller The Host, Paul exposes a surprising ignorance of US politics, Rick apologies for mis numbering the episodes, Paul describes how to shoplift with self-checkout tills, behaviour which the podcast does not endorse. Phrase of the week is "Fume cupboard"

Near future AI thriller Upgrade has Rick talking about mass surveillance like Gorgon Stare, while Paul explores culturally acceptable kissing.

Imagine escaping a deadly escape room only to wind up back in one again a while later. An experience very similar to the one Rick and Paul have reviewing Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions. Rick explains the Dubai Porta-Potty concept to Paul.