Films Are Better Than People

How's your Ken-ergy CELLOUTS? You can't avoid it, it's the summer of BARBIE and that's what Sam and Laurence are reviewing in this brand new episode. Is it in the pink or feeling a bit plastic? Only one way to find out... FILMS REFERENCED: Toy Story Lady Bird Little Women The Nice Guys Enchanted Disenchanted The Truman Show Mr Poppers Penguins

The Fabelmans Review by Films Are Better Than People

You know what this is and why we made it, hunker down and listen to us crap all over trash, it's funny...we hope.

New year, new you...same weirdos that spend too much time at the cinema. Luckily, some of those trips paid off and Sam and Laurence have got three excellent films a piece to tell you about in the first of FABTPs 2022 roundup podcasts. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

To be an explorer in the further regions of experience...or just to have experience? To work in film and tv; is that to be protected from its horrors or just make you a pretentious arse? Well our subject Chris Mills handles that balance excellently in our latest Horror special. Get to know the gruesome side of film from someone with time behind the camera, Chris has been working more than a decade in the industry but has been a Horror fan even longer! Does that make him less scare-able? Find out if you dare...

Cath Langan...Who's Your Favourite Monster? by Films Are Better Than People

Watch the skies, CELLOUTS, the truth is out there! Don't watch too hard though. as Jordan Peeles new genre splicing film NOPE proves. We review that in our first ever SPOILER REVIEW so if you haven't watched it yet then beam back up when you have. Films referenced below: Us Get Out Independence Day The Hunter Monsters Star Wars: Rogue One Tenet

Batman Vs. Superman, Archer Vs. Troy, Tom Vs. Jerry...the great (or not so great) cinematic face offs and conflicts continue as two deadly spies/assassins blow up £200 million dollars of Netflix's cash in production value (as well as each other) in new streaming action spectacular THE GRAY MAN But is it 00Heaven or mission impossibHELL? Listen to SAM and LAURENCE to find out. Films Referenced: Commando Cherry Captain America: The Winter Soldier Killer Elite Mission Impossible: Fallout Ronin Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi Die Hard John Wick Kingsman: The Secret Service The Raid

I mean who would actually wear blue suede shoes, one British summer and they're ruined...OH HI CELLOUTS! Sorry, didn't see you there. So this week from the kings of film podcasts to the king of rock and...sorry my lawyers have told me we have to tell you we're just a film podcast and not kings of anything but ELVIS was and the new movie about his life is what we're reviewing this week! Films referenced below: Amadeus Romeo + Juliet Moulin Rouge Bohemian Rhapsody Rocketman Walk the Line Frank

Ahhhhh the patriarchy. It needs smashing and what better place to do it than in a creepy rural town filled with eldritch horrors? Sam and Laurence discuss sexism, gore and even a bit of Tom Cruise in their review of MEN films referenced below: Mad Max: Fury Road Dredd The Beach Ex Machina Annihilation 28 Days Later Top Gun Maverick The Invisible Man Prevenge

What could you do? What could you be? Somewhere out there maybe you're fighting a great evil monster, curing a deadly disease or maybe you're scoring the winning goal in the World Cup! Well, unfortunately CELLOUTS you're in this universe, listening to a film podcast by two weirdos in their 30s. Could be worse, you could have hot dogs for fingers. Anyway, Sam and Laurence are reviewing dimension hopping existential comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once, references below: The Matrix Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Fifth Element Inception

Grab your axe and beard oil, CELLOUTS, Sam and Laurence are going on a Norse adventure as they review The Northman. Mead will be drank, blood will be spilt and vaguely homoerotic interests in abs will be explored. Movies referenced below: The 13th Warrior The Lighthouse The Witch Drive Gladiator Valhalla Rising

Michael Bay: a Hollywood monster or a great American auteur? Your intrepid heroes Sam and Laurence wrestle with this and other questions all while trying to not get distracted by all the explosions in the review of his latest relentless action noise-fest AMBULANCE films referenced below: Speed Bad Boys The Rock Transformers Candyman Us Clerks Hell or High Water Heat Den of Thieves

Nananananananananananananananana, BAT...I forget how the rest goes. Ah, CELLOUTS once again the dynamic duo of Sam and Laurence come to save you from going to see bad films, this week they're toe to toe with ol' pointy ears himself, THE BATMAN! Will it be nipples on a bat-suit bad or will the Dark Knight Return? Only one way to find out. Movies referenced: Batman Forever Batman and Robin Batman (1966) The Dark Knight The Crow Spider-Man into the Spiderverse

I hope you're not afraid of heights because this week we're climbing mountains and the human condition as Sam and Laurence review existential mountain climbing animation The Summit of the Gods. Films referenced below: Free Solo Touching the Void The Dawn Wall Everest Cliffhanger First Man 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible

See, you can't have the sun without the shadow, the thunder without the rain and other horrible clichés. Come and enjoy our pain as we recount the films we hated and why from 2021.

Sam and Laurence each run down their three favourite films of the year. What got in? What didn't make the cut? What did they just not get round to watching? They're not going to admit the last one.

Right Double 0 CELLven, just in from Q branch is this state of the art way to find out if that new James Bond film from NO TIME TO DIE is an asset or a double agent. It's a review that can be transmitted from any device with a functioning internet connection, just press here and DO try to return it in pristine condition eh? These things cost...well actually it's free to listen and isn't really a physical object but never mind that we also have a list of films referenced in the podcast that you can find hidden below: Casino Royale Spectre Skyfall Quantum of Solace Goldeneye Mission Impossible: Fallout The Dark Knight Rises

BAN THIS SICK FILTH CELLOUTS! Violence, gore, sexual immorality PANIC as this week we review two films that are born out of moral panics, psychological horror movie about movies CENSOR and romantic Mod inspired road trip movie THE PEBBLE AND THE BOY. References below: Quadrophenia 8MM Saint Maud Cannibal Holocaust Blinded By The Light Brigsby Bear

A man's home is his castle, CELLOUTS but whoever wrote that didn't bet on a housing crisis...well our review this week is about a woman building her own, modern castle in Irish drama HERSELF. Plus, pack your laser watches and vodka martini dispensing pens, you're going on a mission that will scare THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS out of you in what have you been watching. Films referenced below: Goldfinger The Spy Who Loved Me The Babadook I Daniel Blake

Is it a bird, is it a plane? IT IS A PLANE and inside that plane is Marvel's latest offering BLACK WIDOW skydiving out to be reviewed on the ground by Laurence and Sam for all you lovely CELLOUTS.

The future...what does it hold? Peace, harmony, moon colonies and hoverboards? Well, CELLOUTS, you might want to give up that optimism and invest in some good army boots if the next few decades turn out like the subject of this week's review, THE TOMORROW WAR available to watch now on Amazon Prime starring Chris Pratt. I'll be over here hoping they let me edit the future army news blog or something... Films Referenced: Starship Troopers (1997) Arrival (2016) Sicario (2015) E.T. (1982) Back To The Future (1985) Back To The Future Part II (1989) Fast and Furious 9 (2021)

Tired of those same four walls? The busy town or city you're in getting you down? Well why not take a trip to the country? Well I'll tell you why not, or better yet watch what strange happenings await you in the new Ben Wheatley film IN THE EARTH which we review in our latest podcast. Plus scenery chewing and dodgy cgi abound as we head back to 2010 and several thousand years BC in What Have You Been Watching. Films referenced below Films referenced: Ben Wheatley's filmography including: Down Terrace, Freefire, A Field in England, Kill List Clash of the Titans Wrath of the Titans The Wicker Man 300 Avatar Schindler's List

Films Are Better Than People are back and so are cinemas! We went to our local Picturehouse to review the Bob Odenkirk action comedy Nobody. In 'If you liked this' we team up with Bruce Willis and co in 2010's Red as well as revisit Viggo Mortensen as he battles his demons and the Philly mob in 2005's A History of Violence. Plus, we 'GET OUR ARSE TO MARS' with Arnie in Total Recall with 'What have you been Watching?' Films Referenced: Nobody (2021) Total Recall (1990) A History of Violence (2005) Red (2010) John Wick (2014) The Raid: Redemption (2011) Die Hard (1989) Lethal Weapon (1987) American Beauty (1999)

Palm Springs Review by Films Are Better Than People

War is hell so the saying goes, but you can bring that hell back with you. That's the not so sweet subject of sweet titled CHERRY, our film we review this week starring Tom Holland. If you're after something lighter, we've got you covered, as we head to the Lone Star state for a sexy musical adventure in What Have You Been Watching...YEEEE HAAA!

In this brand new SPINOFF from films are better than people, Laurence is championing the much misunderstood Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull and convincing you why it's a secret treasure worthy of uncovering by Indy himself!

Be horrified by creatures human and not so human in this weeks DOUBLE HEADER of a review show! Sam and Laurence review black comedy thriller I Care a Lot and Nicholas Cage horror comedy Willy's Wonderland.

First it's "you didn't take the bins out" then it's "well you promised to take the bins out in our marriage vows" then it's "well you said you were the kind of person that always takes the bins out on our first date" then it's "well, why don't you shack up with Trevor, I bet HE TAKES THE BINS OUT". Couples argue, but every now and again the big one comes along, we review a film all about the big one shaking the foundations of a relationship in Malcolm and Marie. PLUS Leather, clubbing, bloodsucking and trip hop, we take another bite out of the Blade universe in What Have You Been Watching?

This week, Sam and Laurence review documentary Assassins and take a look back at Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World

Inevitably, CELLOUTS, to appreciate the happy picnic we must experience the depressing lukewarm kebab. So wrapped in polystyrene and a stale pitta, here are our worst films of the year. However, we don't want to leave you on a bad note so we've also got a few honourable mentions and what we've learnt this year too.

HAPPY NEW YEAR CELLOUTS! It's a time to look back at the year we had or, in the case of 2020, the year we sort of had. In the first of a two part special we talk about our best films of the year.

It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Love Actually...all are a massive waste of your time because you only need one Christmas Movie and that's DIE HARD, Sam and Laurence take you through why they love the 80's action masterpiece and why it's their favourite Christmas film.

Ever feel like someone is watching your every move or maybe...controlling you? Do they speak that secret language as well? Oh no that's just me. Anyway, it's the last of Laurence's solo shows and he gets inside your head for a review of body swap visceral sci fi/horror Possessor. Plus, these times they are a changin in Hollywood...Laurence's two cents on Warner Bros. releasing all the things onto HBO Max.

Propping up the bar on his own, Laurence gives you a review of two booze soaked films he saw earlier this year at the London Film Festival.

Curveball Review/Indiana Jones by Films Are Better Than People

The Devil All The Time Review/Blade/Les Miserables by Films Are Better Than People

Laurence is on his lonesome this week as the first of his dispatches from the London Film Festival get him to review two films on family and identity, lyrical hip hop saga Mogul Mowgli and weird and beautiful comedy Kajillionaire.

This week, Sam and Laurence review the film that is getting everyone back into cinemas - Tenet. Christopher Nolan's time inversion spy thriller is splitting audiences and critics alike with its complex plot and concept so we get stuck in to one of the most talked about films of recent years. We also look at Primer (2004) and Looper (2012) to fully explore the time travel sub-genre.

Pack your fake passports and mini cameras CELLOUTS we're going undercover as we review tense 70's espionage thriller Three Days of the Condor. Plus in what have we been watching it's a sports film with a rivalry that's pushing the competitors to the edge and a cinematic classic with politics that are pushing decency to the edge.

This week Laurence and Sam get all political...NO WAIT DON'T GO we still talk about a film! Jon Stewart's latest, Irresistable starring Steve Carell and Rose Byrne.

This week we're watching timely war drama Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee's new Netflix release.

New season new...well no it's the same us. Sam and Laurence talk about what we can't wait to see once cinemas open again and also what we wish they'd just leave on the lock down shelf.

Violence, desperation and a twisted moral compass are all things you might find in a supermarket low on eggs or toilet paper these days but it's also rife in this weeks review, gritty Irish crime drama Calm With Horses. Plus we're going into a personal and professional war zone and nose to nose bone with the infernal in this weeks What Have You Been Watching?

Gunfights, car chases, explosions oh my! All are plentiful in this weeks review of Extraction a new release on Netflix. Plus an old heist trilogy steals our hearts then our patience and corrupt politics corrupts...mostly in what have you been watching?

In this bumper edition of CellCast we review satirical action/comedy The Hunt and as well this week we've been watching a film about pubs and films about swashbuckling on the high seas!

This week, Laurence and Sam review Spanish Netflix parable The Platform and chat about Bloodshot and A Killing of A Sacred Deer.

This week we've stayed inside...and will do for a while. Still, it meant we got to watch Irish horror/comedy Extra Ordinary and also talk about what else we've been watching in lockdown.

Spenser Confidential Review by Films Are Better Than People

True History of the Kelly Gang Review by Films Are Better Than People

This week Sam and Laurence review Misbehaviour