Matt West sets film viewing for Andrew Cartmel (author of The Vinyl Detective novels, Rivers of London comics and former Doctor Who script editor). These are underappreciated gems, but never, ever call them "cult films". Theme music by Joe Kraemer.
Matt drags Andrew through further Argento fun, this time hoping to lure him in with jazz. "Profondo Rosso" (aka "Deep Red") is the story of a jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist who are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
Matt and Andrew settled down with their Magnum Ices to watch 'Dirty Harry' - When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
Matt introduces Andrew to 'Calamity Jane' starring Doris Day: Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality. But the army lieutenant she favours doesn't really appreciate her finer qualities. One of Jane's boasts brings her to Chicago to recruit an actress for the Golden Garter stage. Arrived, the lady in question appears (at first) to be a more feminine rival for the favours of Jane's male friends... including her friendly enemy Wild Bill Hickock.
Matt and Andrew discuss "The Spy Who Loved Me" in which James Bond is back again and his new mission is to find out how a Royal Navy Polaris submarine holding sixteen nuclear warheads simply disappeared (again!) while on patrol. Bond joins Major Anya Amasova and takes on a web-handed mastermind, known as Karl Stromberg, as well as his henchman Jaws, who has a mouthful of metal teeth. Bond must track down the location of the missing submarine before the warheads are fired.
Matt and Andrew continue their delve into Max Opuls' back-catalogue with "The Earrings of Madame De..." in which an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts and sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Matt introduces Andrew to the 1998 Asia Argento film "B. Monkey" in which Beatricè (B for short) is a thief who can get in anywhere. But she wants to leave her life of crime. A chance meeting with a school teacher and late night hospital jazz DJ may be her way out.
One of those occasions when Andrew submits a film for Matt, but fortunately it's a Cannon film. Harry Mitchell, an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city council, has his life overturned when three masked blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress. He's been set up, and they want $105,000. To protect his wife's political ambitions, Harry won't go to the police; instead, he shines them on and then doesn't pay. They up their demands, so he goes on the offensive, tracking them down and trying to turn one against the other. Their sociopathic leader, Alan, responds with violence toward the mistress and menace toward Harry's wife. Will Harry let up and pay off Alan or can he find some other solution?
Matt and Andrew watch legendary Dario Argento's infamous interpretation of Gaston Leroux's novel. Most of the major elements are in place with a young opera singer seduced by a shadowy opera 'ghost' and Argento's helpfully added some extra things Leroux forgot to include such as a man having sex with a pile of rats and institutionalised pedophilia.
Matt and Andrew discuss "The Living Daylights" in which James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.
Matt and Andrew discuss "Niagara" starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten: As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Matt sets Andrew Ron Underwood's "Heart and Souls" from 1993 where an unhappy businessman (Downey Jnr) finds a new sense of purpose after he's tasked with helping a quartet of ghosts fulfill their last wishes before moving on to the afterlife. A dynamite cast with Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgewick, Charles Grodin, Tom Sizemore, Elisabeth Shue and BB bloody King.
Matt and Andrew discuss the James Bond film "Casino Royale": After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
A comet wipes out most of the life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. *This episode has been re-uploaded as it got lost when we switched from Podbean to Anchor.fm
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "Sweeney 2": Second theatrical spin-off from the popular 1970's police series. Regan and Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "The Majestic" where, in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss the James Bond film "Thunderball" in which James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "Caught" in which an L.A. department store ambitious young model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss Ken Russell's film "The Lair of the White Worm": When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in foreign land, the residents of a near-by town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "The Way Way Back" in which shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss Dario Argento's classic Italian horror "Suspiria" in which an American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realise that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Andrew and Matt discuss the 1954 musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" where in 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss the James Bond film "Goldeneye": Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a secret space based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" is stolen. James Bond sets out to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon.
Matt and Andrew discuss the Marilyn Monroe film "Don't Bother to Knock" in which an airline pilot, having been dumped by his girlfriend, pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realises she's dangerous.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss the 1969 film "Age of Consent" in which a grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity in a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he meets an alluring young islander who becomes his enchanting model. Could the untamed girl be his long-awaited muse?
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss Brian De Palma's"Phantom of the Paradise" in which a disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss "Accident" in which Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "Zombie", a Lucio Fulci film in which strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West describe "Hard Times", the adventures of a drifter turned illegal prize-fighter during the Depression Era in New Orleans.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss the James Bond film "The World is Not Enough" in which James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", the film adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel in which deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "Zone Troopers" set in Italy, during World War II where some American soldiers find an alien UFO.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss "Perfect Friday" in which the deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "...All The Marbles" in which Harry Sears manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team who tour America, hoping for a chance at winning big time. Harry's also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem secondary to him (particularly when Harry accepts an engagement involving mud wrestling!) but then a chance at the big ring match beckons, in Reno, Nevada.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss "The Face Behind the Mask" in which Janos Szaby (Peter Lorre) is a kind, innocent immigrant to America. Just after he arrives though, he is caught in a fire and his face is horribly burned and disfigured. Although a skilled craftsman his hideous features make it impossible for him to get work, and driven by despair he is forced to turn to crime to live. He finds himself very proficient at that, and soon makes enough money to buy a very lifelike mask to hide his scars behind. He hates what he does, but is he in too deep to get out?
Matt and Andrew discuss "A View to a Kill" in which the recovery of a microchip from the body of a fellow agent, leads James Bond to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss "In the Bleak Midwinter" in which a group of theatre actors attempt to stage Hamlet in a provincial village, faced with their own temptations, disappointments, and joys.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "My Chauffeur" in which a free-spirited young woman upsets the status quo at a stuffy Brentwood limousine service.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss the 1988 film "Vibes" in which two psychics are hired to find the location of a lost Incan city Located somewhere in the Ecuadorian mountains, that is said to hide a great treasure.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "The Apple" set in 1994, where a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "Cash on Demand" in which a charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
Matt West and Andrew Cartmel discuss "Please Stand By", in which a young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.
Andrew Cartmel & Matt West discuss the film "Keoma" - A half-breed ex-Union gunfighter attempts to protect his plague-ridden hometown from being overridden by his racist half-brothers and a Confederate tyrant.
Matt West & Andrew Cartmel discuss Friday the 13th Pt 4 -The Final Chapter. With a special guest.
Sheena grew up in the African wild, raised by a mystical witch woman. When her foster mother is framed for a murder Sheena is forced to flee, helped by her ability to talk to animals and her knowledge of the jungle.
Harold Pelham encounters a duplicate of himself in the aftermath of a car crash. After that moment, his life becomes chaotic.
Andrew Cartmel and Matt West discuss the film "I'll Be Seeing You".
Matt West sets film viewing for Andrew Cartmel - here we watch I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED.