Still Interested

So, we're going on hiatus for a few months!Don't worry, we're not cancelling the show, we're coming back with a re-tooled and re-jigged format.We really did intend to finish the Harry Potter franchise and make this announcement there, but some things have changed (for the better!) in both of our lives, and it just became too hard. We're sorry about that.Thanks for all your support so far, we hope you're excited for the return. Please, send your ideas and feedback for what you'd like to see us do more or less of with the show going forward.See you in a few months!Ben and Jackson

A special announcement, and some sincere apologies from the Still Interested team.

Twiddle dee dee traveller, welcome to my humble abode. Mind the fizznicks and squashbats, and the pile of shit in the corner. I'm a wizard you see? Perhaps you can rest your feet and ears with some mystical audio, featuring notable ghouls Ben and Jackson receiving an invitation to Hogwarts. Urgh. We're doing Harry Potter, are you happy now? This episode contains some truly appalling global terrorism, wildly irresponsible teachers and Good Charlotte. Are you proud of yourselves?If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Join us for our most peer reviewed episode yet, as marine biologist Taryn joins Ben and Jackson in the lab, for another scoop of the melting ice cream that is Spielberg's 2008 rendition of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Deep state conspiracies uncovered in this episode include the consumption of human flesh, ideas too wild for George Lucas, and an honest to God perfect Ray Romano impression. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Guess who's back, it's the regular version of this podcast! We're doing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), directed by Steven Spielberg, picked from the brain of George Lucas, surgically removing some of the more troubling elements. The picked remains include rampant pyromania, celibate Nazis and the many faces of Alfred Molina. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Ben, Jackson and Grace are back at you with another episode outside of the official canon. We’ve destroyed the timeline much like Boris Karloff’s titular character and his desire to end Christmas in The Grinch (1966). Get your nog happening (in mid Jan?) and have yourself a merry podcast, filled with the rise of the proletariat, made up Latin and all powerful Xmas deities. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Regrettably, Ben has been unwritten from this timeline (for the duration of his holiday) so we are joined by Grace Chapple and Saint Clair as they take on the first TV show ever made, Doctor Who (1963)! Travel with us back to very beginning, as we talk all things related to the madman in a box, including historical gunfights, dance crazes in the Sixties, and the intergalactic man of mystery. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

How the bloody hell are ya? We're back with another bond flick, this time featuring the fair dinkum George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). We're here with old mate (Thomas Owen) and if I can be frank, we're not here to fuck spiders. Don't reckon I have to tell ya twice that this here is a ripper of a film, so shake up a tinnie and let's get started. We also yarn about time travel, job prospects for Olympic skiers, and shattering the fourth wall of the franchise forever. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

We get it, you're busy grinding on that 9-5 life. We understand. So why not kick back and sample something a little lighter, a little less filling. We're back with another funsize episode for y'all, this time skimming through not one, but two trailers of The Wicker Man (1973 & 2006). Follow us to this spooky little village where we can dance with pagan furries, drum along with our percussive guitars, and marvel at one of the most poorly thought out names in cinema history. Check our style out!The Wicker Man 1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx1oU1IiZ3kThe Wicker Man 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlvqLOo6apMIf you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

We're clinging onto that spooky pumpkin flavour for our comeback, this time vivisecting Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween. Prepare for a whole lot less suspense and a massacre of chopping, popping and locking as Curio hall of famer Grace Chapple leads Ben and Jackson through this particular haunted house. Notable spooks include the crime-fighting capabilities of child psychologists, the boiling point of ethyl alcohol, and the cinematic aftershocks of Spy Kids ( 2001). Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

It's pumpkin season, and you know what that means. Spooks abound as Ben and Jackson catch a ride to Haddonfield, Illinois for John Carpenter's Halloween (1978). Gasp in awe at our dark bounty of candy, featuring flavours of iconic film scoring, true stories of rich housewives, and presenting virginity as a reasonable deterrent to masked villains. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Prepare, dear listener for a supernatural tale of fiction and falsehood, presented by the inimitable David Yates. Why of course, we are talking about his fresh take on The Legend of Tarzan (2016). Featuring special guest Lily Protter, we teleport back to Africa, encountering all manner of strange topics, such as excessive bodybuilding, Samuel L Jackson's unquenchable first for moviemaking, and Tarzan's encyclopedic knowledge of animal mating calls. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Sweet listener, beware this auditory gift. This is a cursed episode, with a history of murder. But! If that doesn't scare you away, why not burrow in and chat with us about the 1999 Disney animated film, Tarzan! This week we tackle a whole range of wild topics, such as Brooklyn accents in an African jungle, defeating the spirit of British colonialism and the unending quest for Phil Collins to sing throughout this movie. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

We are back from Europe and the States, with a full grown episode in hand. This is our gritty post travel reboot, and in the spirit of that we present to you Roar Uthaug’s 2018 reboot of Lara Croft. No jokes this time, or ever again, just sincere discussion about the Winstone family of actors, adequate film lighting and some truly horrendous plot keywords. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

A special announcement from one of the boys – with a side of sincere apologies!

Huh, well if isn't the ace degenerate. You got a lot of nerve coming into this place. But, while you're here, you may as well have a seat and enjoy this week's fresh serving of deconstructed movie trailers. This town won't forget, and it won't forgive what you did, but it will forgive teen on teen violence, occult spooks and hopefully the busy schedules of Ben and Jackson. Check our style out!The Karate Kid (1984)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDi3an8WgN4The Karate Kid (2010)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SmmxvHLsKkCobra Kai (2018)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwwxNbtK6Y

Greetings young acolyte, won't you step into our ghoulish castle? Take a seat and enjoy a devilish drop of some form of spooky liqueur by this most mysterious fireplace, and pledge your allegiance to the all seeing eye! Internet memes aside, this week we're talking about Simon West's 2001 adaptation of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Peruse these forbidden tomes and dabble in all manner of the occult, such as the mistakes of Jon Voight, elaborately covered up nudity and the horrors of early 00's Techno. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Join us for this fun sized tale of ghouls and ghosts as your beloved co-hosts Ben and Jackson are made time fools, for all the world to see. Also, hot new concept coming at you fast: this time we watch a bunch of movie trailers and give ourselves a chance to analyse a bold and exciting form of cinema advertising, whilst seemingly losing all human capacity to remember Danny Glover's name. Check our style out!

Best known for his roles as a goofy, callow youth in films like Spring Break, Splash, Total Recall, and Turner and Hooch, David Knell is a veteran in the industry with a career that spans over three decades. He appeared on Broadway in his teens in Liz Swados' "Runaways" before making his screen debut in "Life on The Mississippi," playing the young Mark Twain. Over the years David has performed in countless television series and commercials, in regional theatre around the country, and often works behind the scenes as an editor, camera operator, and assistant director. In this episode of Still Interested, Ben and Jackson discuss the man, the myth and the legend that is David Knell, through the lens of Paul Verhoeven's 1990 film: Total Recall.If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it

Ben and Jackson have James Bond back for more! More jokes, more trivia and more despicable behaviour by everyone's favourite super spy. Try your best to avoid using a cheap, knockoff Sean Connery accent as we discuss Guy Hamilton's Goldfinger (1964), featuring mindboggling gadgets, under-celebrated atomic analysts and the introduction of lasers to cinema history.If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

That's right, it happened. The Still Interested team have successfully transitioned to developing movies, in Ye Olde Hollywood! Matt Perrett joins Ben and Jackson, and all the ghosts of Tinseltown, as they talk through Jose Padilha's 2014 remake of RoboCop. Our ghoulish producers have demanded that we bring up the misuse of academy award winners, high concept cyberpunk dance movies and the bottomless rhymes of MC Dusk.If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

You know the key to success? Staying out of trouble. So why not stay safe indoors and indulge your dark temptations with this most dangerous episode of Still Interested? Ben and Jackson run the gauntlet of Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987), doing their best to dodge all manner of things from the movie, such as gratuitous ultraviolence, the smelling habits of Kurtwood Smith, and the life and times of Paul McCrane.If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Did you know that this podcast used to be a boardgame? We evolved when Steve Jobs announced the arrival of the iPod in 2004. Which is a nice segue into Jake Kasdan's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). Series regular Nuala Chapple is back, and steering Ben and Jackson into all manner of wacky and zany topics, such as screenwriting tropes, the Adult Swim epic, Too Many Cooks, and writing Jack Black/Nick Jonas fanfiction. If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

It's a STAMPEDE... of jokes, brought to you by two boys sitting down and watching Joe Johnston's 1995 motion picture: Jumanji. With the memory of Robin Williams comforting them, Ben and Jackson tackle the big topics, such as compulsive lying, ageing special effects and the monarchy within feudalistic New England. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Cue the music, knock back a couple of martinis or a magic potion, and settle in for the long haul, as we take our first sip of the James Bond movie franchise, starting with the original, Dr. No (1962), directed by Terrence Young. Topics of discussion include alligator wrestling, playing thirty characters in a movie, and the comic stylings of Mr Andy Samberg. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Hush little baby, don't say a word and never mind that noise you heard. It's just Samuel Bayer's remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) under your bed. In your closet, in your head! In particular the head of Tim Lorian, as he sits down with Ben and Jackson to talk about Miranda rights, personal revelations about goo, and how to lose Tony Hawk's sponsorship in 10 days. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

1, 2, the janitor formerly known as Fred Kruger is coming for you.... and all of us, as Ben and Jackson tuck into Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Give those unnaturally long arms a stretch and kick back as we discuss all manner of things, from authentic and delicious recipes for fake blood, to the cinematic career of Paul Grenier, and the invention of time itself. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Behold the cinematic brilliance of Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh, as he gently carries us back to the world of Cinderella. Curio co-host, producer and all round fan girl Grace Chapple joins Ben and Jackson as they discuss reptilian overlords, not crying over spilt milk and the little tights that could. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Hide your mice, hide your horse, and hide your pumpkins too, because we're back with Disney's classic Cinderella (1950), and things are happening. Why not get a little cosy with Ben and Jackson as they whisper sweet nothings about late capitalism, Wayne's World and the unsung heroes of nobility. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Try as we might, we can't seem to get of this damn godforsaken rock. This time it's intelligently designed by director Rupert Wyatt and titled Rise of The Planet of the Apes (2011). Why not pull up a seat and consider the dark legacy of humanity while trying to figure out why drug-induced hominids have such an aversion to glass. We also chat with Bec Cole about her sharing an obsession for Chips Ahoy with Draco Malfoy. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Ben and Jackson welcome guest Harry Goodlet to the show, and subsequently get their dirty human hands stuck into Tim Burton's 2001 sense-defying remake of Planet of the Apes, starring Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch! Behold the grand illusion of time travel, the interchangeability of Boston born actors and the temptation of inter-species romance. This episode gets a little spicy.If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Ho ho ho, I don't know what our plan for this episode was, but it ended up being a lot of fun! Sit down with Ben, Jackson and returning guest Kirstin Flint as we pitch christmas movie remakes, make up some delicious nog, and get lost in the Shondaverse. Check our style out!Egg Nog recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/eggnog-recipe2-2013745If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!Our intro music is X-mas Carol by Jahzzar, and our outro music is Christmas Time, I Love You, by Simon Panruckerhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Sele/Xmas_Carolhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Simon_Panrucker/Happy_Christmas_You_Guys/06_Christmas_Time_I_Love_YouLicensed under Creative Commons:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome to the madhouse that is Franklin J Schaffner's 1968 film, Planet of the Apes! Come, bear witness to the shirtless charisma that is a mostly naked Charlton Heston. Ben and Jackson also talk about classic Simpson's episodes, elaborate mating dances and what to do when you encounter an alien. Check our style out!If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Take a seat as we hop into that beautiful glass elevator in the sky and press the button for Tim Burton's 2005 remake of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory! We get a little off track this episode, so give us a listen if you're in the mood for submersible seahorses, high school adaptations of penny dreadfuls, and a completely inaccurate retelling of Peter Berg's Hancock. Also, Game of Thrones' spoilers, because you know how we do.If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Come with me, and you'll be in a world of Roald Dahl's imagination. Or Mel Stuart's imagination, as he's the director of the subject of this episode, the 1971 film version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! Strap yourselves in as Ben and Jackson go on their most musical adventure yet! Featuring weaponised candy, child murder and potentially the laziest grandparents who ever lived. Check our style out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

We're teaming up with Nuala Chapple this episode, as the three of us collectively cut loose in the backwater town of Bomont, for Craig Brewer's 2011 remake of Footloose! Does this (self-confirmed Footloose fanatic) director have what it takes to weave together a complex character drama and high stakes dance sequences? Is Tractor Chicken still a fad for teens? Can you really dance out your emotions for three straight hours? Listen and find out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Come find the groove with us as we take a trip down to Bomont, for a hot slice of Footloose (1984), directed by Herbert Ross. Strap yourselves in as Ben and Jackson discuss primary school hymns, the popularity of foot fetishes and some really excellent Austin Powers humour. Check our style out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

We're back in Camp Crystal Lake... or technically a sweet party mansion nearby, as Ben and Jackson are joined by Barney Pollock to tackle Marcus Nispel's 2009 remake of Friday the 13th! Take a seat and get comfy as we discover how to kick back and relax like a rich person, get high with a supernatural serial killer, and watch Michael Bay hunt down those who have wronged him. Check our style out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Come to Camp Blood with Ben and Jackson as they endure a "24 hour nightmare of terror" in Sean S Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980). Collected spooks include in depth discussions of sexual hygiene, superhero origin stories and a dark mystery about the true nature of a being they call Helen. Check our style out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Welcome to the same world of poorly thought out remakes. Ben and Jackson are joined by their dear friend Tim Gauntlett, as they uncover the cursed tome that is Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy (2017). Give us a spin and hear all about the choice between absolute power and morality, Tom Cruise's personal fountain of youth and the impacts of aeronautical disasters on the human form. Check our style out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Death is only the beginning, as Ben and Jackson delve into the spooky and thrilling world of Stephen Sommers' 1999 remake of The Mummy. Hop back in as we talk about white people ignoring ancient curses, the action movie credentials of Brendan Fraser, and uncover some dark secrets about Ben and Jackson that could lead to the end of this podcast and, possibly, the world. Check our style out! If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to do next, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. If you like the episode share it with a friend and leave us a review, we'll love you for it!

Kirsten Flint, a regular sci comm gal, joins Ben and Jackson as they take a trip back to Isla Nublar for 2015's Jurassic World, directed by Colin Trevorrow. This episode features detailed discussion about all things Chris Pratt, gene spliced dinos and a cultural critique of Jimmy Fallon, so why not give us a spin? If you have an idea for a rebooted franchise you'd like us to check out, hit us up on facebook or twitter @SIcurioshow and @curionetwork, or at curionetwork.com. And as always, if you like the episode, share it with a friend!

In this episode, Steven Spielberg takes us by the hand and leads us on a journey to Jurassic Park. Join us as we rewatch this science fiction adventure film, remarking on the quality of Wayne Knight's career, Sam Neill's eternal hatred for children, and Jeff Goldblum's never-ending quest to have sex with anything that moves, and some things that don't! You can follow us on twitter @SIcurioshow and at curionetwork.com! If you like this episode, why not leave us a rating or review? Who knows, we might even give you a shout out next episode!

Jackson and Ben are joined by special guest Eli Melvin, as they tackle the 2015 remake of Point Break, helmed by Eriksen Core. With more stunts and less character development than you could ask for, why not give us a listen, and see if you find your breaking point? You can follow us on twitter @SIcurioshow and at curionetwork.com to check out other shows on the network. If you like our content, please share it with a friend, and maybe consider giving us a rating and review, it really helps us out.

In their debut episode, Jackson and Ben take a trip down memory lane, diving into the fast paced world of Pointbreak, the 1991 American action thriller, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Join them as they talk about dry acting, wet stunts, Gary Busey and whether this film needed to be remade at all. You can follow us on twitter @SIcurioshow and at curionetwork.com to check out other shows on the network. Thanks to Matthew Smith for the introduction voice over!