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Welcome to Episode 107 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This is our very first commissioned special – brought to you by Reel Chat listener and supporter Matt Devanny.  Based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name by David Mitchell, 2012’s “Cloud Atlas” is an exploration of […]

Welcome to Episode 106 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Writer/Director Joss Whedon pulled off the impossible with 2012’s “The Avengers”, uniting various superheroes who enjoyed successful standalone features prior to this potentially disastrous effort. […]

Welcome to Episode 105 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. At this point, George Lucas hardly needs more hullabaloo. 1983’s “Return Of The Jedi” marks a triumph for Lucas and his production family – the […]

Welcome to Episode 104 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) has a “condition.” He’ll be the first one to tell you. He’ll be the second one to tell you. He’ll even […]

Welcome to Episode 103 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Like most great comedies, 1984’s “Ghostbusters” relies on the interactions and conversations between its characters, but leaves enough headroom for some great visuals that play […]

Welcome to Episode 102 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Hollywood has produced dozens of dazzling, lively, and artistic musicals over the past eight decades, but if there’s one picture that epitomizes the genre and […]

Welcome back to Episode 101 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – the premiere episode of our brand new (and fifth) season. After a brief hiatus, we continue with our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Magical and memorable, rip-roaring and heartbreaking, 1994’s “The Lion King” […]

Welcome to Episode 100 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that has always promised our listeners and fans, whether here or abroad, the “Reel World as we know it”. Joining your host Adam Stolfo on this special celebratory episode is an extensive rotating team of Reel Chat regulars […]

Welcome to Episode 99 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we introduce the first episode of our Team Focus spin-off series – a concept that gives the Reel Chat team a chance to give their retrospective treatment to film projects by our very own team members and special guests, […]

Welcome to Episode 98 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” Well, we’re flying! We’re officially 3/10 of the way through our “epic” countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Joining your host Adam Stolfo for this special recap episode is Reel Chat regulars Andrew McCaskill and Penny Jelly, […]

Welcome to Episode 97 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we introduce the first episode of our Lost Films spin-off series – a concept that has the Reel Chat team revisit some of the franchises they’ve covered in the past, but are, for all intents and purposes, currently incomplete […]

Welcome to Episode 96 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we introduce the first episode of our WTF (or “What The Film!?”) spin-off series – a concept that has the Reel Chat team explore some of the more glaring omissions from the Empire Top 100 – films that the team […]

Welcome to Episode 95 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. A key component shared by many British comedies seems to be their unique ability to derive laughs from watching dry-toned people encountering bizarre circumstances. As situations […]

Welcome to Episode 94 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. 1954’s “Rear Window” might just be a perfect film. If not a perfect film, then perfect Hitchcock. It’s impossible to draw a line between the mystery and […]

Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to Episode 93 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” As we start this new calendar year, Reel Chat continues the countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. To put Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic drama “Seven Samurai” into perspective may be a bit difficult. […]

Welcome to Episode 92 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week, in our swan song episode for 2018, we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. After three successive box office flops, and nearly a decade spent relegated back to the fringes of the film […]

Welcome to Episode 91 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Edgy. Goofy. Quirky. Intense. All these adjectives describe the work of Joel and Ethan Coen in general and their 1996 award-winner “Fargo” in particular. This wild, […]

Welcome to Episode 90 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. To call Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” controversial would be an understatement. When it was originally released in 1971, its graphic depictions of sex and violence […]

Welcome to Episode 89 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. What “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) did for hand drawn animation, “Toy Story” (1995) did for CG animation. The first computer generated feature-length animated film […]

Welcome to Episode 88 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Korean crime drama “Oldboy” doesn’t just push limits, it embraces entirely new cinematic taboos with twisted inhibition. An ordinary businessman named Oh Dae-su (Choi […]

Welcome to Episode 87 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. The Marvel Cinematic Universe seems to be this juggernaut that keeps pumping out successful film after successful film – there is twenty now by the way! […]

Welcome to Episode 86 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” is the “other” film many consider to be Miyazaki’s best work, on a par with “Princess Mononoke”. It’s story recalls classic Lewis Carroll tales, in that […]

Welcome to Episode 85 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” Well, we’re forging on! We’re officially 2/10 of the way through our “epic” countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Joining your host Adam Stolfo for this Movies 90-81 Recap Special is Reel Chat regulars Andrew McCaskill and […]

Welcome to Episode 84 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. David Fincher’s 2010 drama “The Social Network” is the tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed […]

Welcome to Episode 83 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Of all the genres motion pictures have to offer, comedies tend to age the worst. Whether from an over reliance on jokes pertaining to current events, […]

Welcome to Episode 82 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Given that it was the second of his scripts to make it to the big screen, following “Reservoir Dogs”, it’s understandable that Quentin Tarantino is indelibly linked […]

Welcome to Episode 81 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. The story of 1976’s “Rocky” is so well known, that it really doesn’t need a plot synopsis. It is also so fundamental as to be almost […]

Welcome to Episode 80 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Director Luc Besson’s taste for wacky plots, extravagant action and grandiose romance reached its climax with 1994’s “Léon: The Professional” – a deeply strange and much-loved […]

Welcome to Episode 79.5 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” Short bonus episodes are somewhat of a rarity here on Reel Chat, but this week is definitely an exception! A couple of weeks back your host Adam Stolfo ventured up to Sydney with his wife Helen to attend the Sydney Vivid […]

Welcome to Episode 79 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. For the 1989 third installment in the adventures of Indiana Jones – “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas change the mood […]

Welcome to Episode 78 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time, with a special extended episode (featuring an expanded team) in Reel Chat’s first official “cross-over”. At first a seemingly brainless 1987 summer action flick, master of […]

Welcome to Episode 77 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. 1973’s “The Exorcist” has garnered a reputation and is frequently promoted by it’s studio as “the scariest film of all time.” The movie’s staying power over […]

Welcome to Episode 76 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Call it the “Blood and Ice Cream trilogy” or the “Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy” or simply the “Cornetto trilogy”. Whatever name you assign, the three films […]

Welcome to Episode 75 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we branch into the second block of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. 2007’s “No Country For Old Men” is a post-modern masterpiece. While it takes place in the early ’80s and features a horde of stoic, […]

Welcome to Episode 74 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” Well, we’ve made it this far! We’re officially 1/10 of the way through our “epic” countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Joining your host Adam Stolfo for this special recap episode is Reel Chat regulars Andrew McCaskill […]

Welcome to Episode 73 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. On the surface of it, Christopher Nolan’s 2006 mystery drama “The Prestige” is the tale of rivaling stage magicians played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in late […]

Welcome to Episode 72 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Endlessly re-watchable and effortlessly entertaining, James Cameron’s gritty 1984 sleeper-hit “The Terminator” is a true staple of the science fiction genre. Through the story of an […]

Welcome to Episode 71 of the “Reel Chat Podcast.” This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Tales, yarns, chronicles, legends, myths, anecdotes, parables, fables, narratives. Whatever you choose to call them, stories and storytelling have been around since man could… well, since […]

Welcome to Episode 70 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that promises even the most hardened of cinephiles – the “Reel World as we know it”. This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. It is tempting to view 2003’s “Lost In Translation” in personal […]

Welcome to Episode 69 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that’s back and in full swing since it’s big return in October 2017. This week we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. 2016’s “Arrival” is a rarity in modern cinema; an original […]

Everybody, welcome to Episode 68 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that’s back and in full swing since it’s big return in October 2017. As we begin a brand new calendar year, we continue our countdown of Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Something about […]

Everybody, welcome to Episode 67 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that’s back and in full swing since it’s big return in October. Today we continue our brand new season – the one where we’re counting down Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. On the […]

Everybody, welcome to Episode 66 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that’s back and in full swing since it’s big return in October. Today we continue our brand new season – the one where we’re counting down Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Next up […]

Everybody, welcome to Episode 65 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that’s back and in full swing since it’s big return last month. Today we continue our brand new season – the one where we’re counting down Empire Magazine’s Top 100 Greatest Movies of all time. Next up […]

Everybody, welcome to Episode 64 of the “Reel Chat Podcast” – a podcast that’s been rejigged and rebooted Hollywood style to guarantee cinephiles both at home and abroad – the “Reel World as we know it”. And welcome to a brand new season – the one where we begin our […]

Welcome to Episode 63 of “Reel Chat”, a podcast that’s been rejigged and rebooted Hollywood style to promise even the most hardened of cinephiles (yet again)… the “Reel World as we know it.” On this comeback special, your host Adam Stolfo is joined by his trusty team of “Reel Chat” […]

Welcome to Episode 62 of Reel Chat – a fun-filled and informative movies podcast that guarantees week in, week out – the “Reel world as we know it.” On this new installment of our “Vintage Vault” retrospective series, Reel Chat closes out 2016 with an in-depth look at one of the […]

Who you gonna call!? Welcome back to Episode 61 of the returning (and apparently sorely missed) Reel Chat Podcast – a podcast that’s been rejigged and rebooted Hollywood-style – and makes it’s long anticipated return after a 6 month hiatus. It feels great to be back and the team can’t wait […]

Scream: The TV Series begins its second season in a couple of weeks, so now is a great time to look back at the film that started it all: Wes Craven’s 1996 hit feature “Scream” – which turns 20 this year. Equal part comedy and horror, the franchise would never quite […]

Is it a sequel?  Is it a remake?  And what does that poster have to do with anything?  These questions notwithstanding, Evil Dead II is a front-runner for best in the series, and so it’s with glee that the Reel Chat team dig deep into this film with their usual […]

From Deadpool’s post-credit scene to the fact you can buy ‘Save Ferris’ T-shirts and badges on Etsy in 2016, it’s clear that John Hughes’ 1986 film remains a significant piece of cinema 30 years on. Adam Stolfo, Brose Avard, Andrew McCaskill and Trevor Wood come to “Reel Chat” prepared to […]