Film Fanatics

Evan Almighty is a 2007 classic and also the... sequel? to Bruce Almighty. We take a look at the film's plot and connections to the original film and also a look at the money that was involved... wow.

This episode is a little different. We take a look at the 1984 movie by Talking Heads called 'Stop Making Sense' and talk about why we like it so much as well as discuss other types of music movies and if we can even call these types of movies, movies.

We return to our Tim Burton discussion with the review of Alice in Wonderland, a really interesting adaptation of the classic tale. But is this property better suited for the Tim Burton treatment than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

It's here, It's finally here. In this episode we take a look at Zack Snyder's Justice League, the highly anticipated directors cut of the 2017 film. But as you'll find out in the episode, it is much more than a directors cut.

Playing with Fire is a cinematic achievement, movies can stop now as we have done it, we have achieved cinematic perfection. In this episode we take a look at Playing with Fire brought to us by a family friendly John Cena. Warning: Contains Poopy Stuff!

In this episode we take a look at Jordan Peele's second film 'Us'. A critically acclaimed film that we have quite a few problems with. We take a deep dive into the film, exploring the themes and ideas of the movie and try to make sense of this confusing movie.

So......... we met Dave... and he is...... well, Dave. In this episode we take a look at the 2008 "classic" 'Meet Dave' we discuss the comedy, the performances and the concept of the film as a whole.

We end the Robert Zemeckis saga with 'Mars Needs Moms' one of the biggest bombs of all time, so bad that it shut down the entire company. We take a look at this 2011 CG animated film and find out if it is as bad as we think it is.

What better way to celebrate Christmas than talk about a once acclaimed director, and his weird obsession with CG motion capture animated movies.

In the series 1 finale we attempted to find the worst of the worst, and we think we have a pretty good contender, Holmes and Watson.

You may of heard of Tintin, or you may not. But why were so many big hollywood names involved in this project? In this episode we hope to find out why that is.

Aliens in the Attic is a movie we both grew up with, but is this one as dumb as we remember it to be?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a beloved book and so is the original film adaptation, but is this Tim Burton reimagining as good as the original? or is it just kind of creepy?

School of Rock is a movie we both grew up with as kids, but does it still hold up? or... is it even better than we remember it?

In a result of Connor's absence I invited my girlfriend Rachel to join me in this episode to discuss a movie I think you will all know, Twilight. We discuss the influences on the books and how it is adapted, the backlash behind the franchise as well as discussing the movie itself.

In this episode we take a look at what we believe to be one of the biggest marketing lies of recent film history.... Downsizing. In this fairly lengthy review we discuss the movie and what we like and what we don't like as well as our ideas on how to improve the film.

In our first ever 'Double Bill' review, we take a look at the two recent instalments in the Alien franchise as well as discuss the franchise as a whole. We talk about what we think works and doesn't work and what the plans are for the franchise going forward.

In this episode we try something a little different. We discuss our favourite Film & TV Trailers, some that are nostalgic, some that are very effective marketing tools and some that have engraved themselves into our minds.

"I hate this family"               – Connor Barr, 2020  The end is here, the review of the fourth film in The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Franchise. We discuss......... basically what went wrong, from the recast to the abandoned character arcs and of course... Rodrick.

The epic finale of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid... Trilogy? In this episode, we discuss the movie and how it was adapted from the book. We also discuss how this movie perfectly carries over the themes of the previous movie, something we highly doubt the fourth movie will do.

In this episode of Film Fanatics we take a look at the second instalment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid "Trilogy", with Rodrick Rules. Is this as good as we remember and how does it compare to the original movie. Well I'm sure the title will answer that question for you.

In this episode we experienced some audio issues. We’ve done our best to salvage it. Enjoy! Part one of our four part epic review of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Saga, and of course we start here, with the first one. Which surprisingly took a deeper turn than we were expecting. In this episode we discuss the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie.... for about thirty minutes, we then go on a deep dive into existentialism, in possibly our deepest episode yet.

Be careful what you wish for. This episode we take a look at the 2019 live action reboot of Aladdin and compare it to the original, we discuss what works and what doesn't work, we also have a look at the upcoming Disney live action remakes as well as a pitch for an original movie starring some familiar actors.

Sky High an underaged gem of the early 2000s and Disney's catalog as a whole. In this episode we look back at this classic and discuss the many theories we have about the film.

Our review of the Cars trilogy has come to an end with Cars 3. But does this instalment revive the Cars franchise or did it end on a whimper? Maybe we answer that question, maybe we won't, maybe we'll go on a half an hour tangent about Pixar as a whole.

Cars 2 is one of the weirdest sequels ever made, and we want to explore that. It is a rather unusual film for Pixar, but why was it made? We hope to find that out.

We may be stuck at home, but that doesn't stop us from talking about movies. This week is part one of our Cars review trilogy, and what better place to start than with the first one. Disney, Pixar's Cars is quintessentially a 2006 movie and we love it. But we want to look deeper into this film and answer the big questions, such as is life... a highway?

We defended Spider-Man 3, but now we must destroy The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In this episode we take a look at the Sony Vaio ad that is The Amazing Spider-Man 2, we talk about the things we don't like.... and that's about it, this movie is pretty bad.

"Here we go." - James Corden (2019) It's all been leading to this. When the first trailer for the 2019 movie 'Cats' came out, we knew we would end up here. This review is inevitable, we had always planned to make this review even before we started Film Fanatics. BONUS SCENE: Connor's Parasite Q&A Experience

The second part of our 2019 look back, where we discuss the rest of our lists and our picks for the worst movie of 2019.

Film Fanatics is back, with brand new episodes. To start off the new year we have decided to take a look at back at the movies of 2019. We have all prepared lists of our favourite movies of 2019, and we then discuss them and debate.

After watching The Emoji Movie we had a few things to say. In our last live show on UWS Radio we thought it would be a good idea to review what could be considered as the worse of the worse. What a great Christmas gift this turned out to be.

Out of the three films in Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, one of them is considered to be less than the other two, but why is that. In this episode we discuss The World's End and how we think that it just might be the deepest out of the three films.

Spider-Man 3 gets a bad wrap, out of all the terrible comic book adaptations out there is it really that bad? This week we revisit this old piece of nostalgia and make the argument that Spider-Man 3, is great.

In 2005, Robert Rodriguez made a very questionable film. This film was The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D (yes, that is its full name). In this episode we take a deep dive into this film and learn the origins of this... masterpiece?

In our second week of our live shows on UWS Radio, we take a look at the DC Universe's attempt to capitalise on the hype of The Avengers. Well... Justice League is certainly an attempt.

Our first episode in a series of live shows on UWS Radio, where we discuss the film that ruined Brendan Fraser's career.