The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

It's the last of Glenn's month of movie takeovers, and this week he has his coworkers watch the Irish comedy Waking Ned Devine.  But did his cohosts think it was divine? Sorry, that's the best I could do.

Marlo Brando brings back his iconic Vito Corleone, but in a comedy about a Komodo dragon. Works better than this concept pitch might suggest.

It's Glenn's month for choosing the films and this week he has selected the slapstick screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? starring Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neil. But are his fellow cohosts as fond of the film as he is? Tune in and find out.

Glenn takes the reigns of the podcast and for his first choice of film he picks the 1997 Australian comedy The Castle.

The last of the comedies of Cameron's formative years, we have 1996's Waiting For Guffman, the directorial debut of the king of mockumentaries Christopher Guest.

A comedy murder mystery romance thriller directed by Woody Allen which sees the repairing of the delightful on screen partnership of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.

John Candy plays a soap opera writer caught in his own fictional town with his own fictional creations.  Must be nice.

We continue looking at the early 90's comedies of Cameron's childhood, in this case the Kevin Kline dual role film Dave. A fictional Presidential comedy from the days where you could just about pull that sort of thing off.

So for the week of April, we are going back and looking at the comedies of cohost Cameron's childhood.  This week it's the mafia comedy My Blue Heaven starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis.  But will the viewing experience be heaven or...not heaven?

So you know how exciting geopolitical conferences can be? Well imagine that but with ancient bog creatures!

A film that divided opinion here at the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast.  Tune in to find out where the lines were drawn.

We continue our trip through movies we missed in 2024 with Conclave.  With all the acting muscle on call here, how bad could it be?

This month we will be looking at films we missed out seeing last year.  And we begin with a film that technically premiered in 2023, but didn't hit the theatres until 2024, so we're counting it.  It is the Anthony Hopkins led biopic One Life.

We end our month of romcoms on a high, and all it took was a gay romantic comedy adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Guest host Elisa joins us for the fun.

For our month of romcoms, we revisit a late era Hugh Grant flick in which he pairs up with Sarah Jessica Parker.  Basically what City Slickers would be like if you replaced Billy Crystal with Hugh Grant and both Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby with Sarah Jessica Parker.  And Jack Palance with Sam Elliott, which is probably the nearest to a 1 to 1 ratio.

"Hey what should we call this film?""How about we name it after Tom Cruise's character?""So 'Miller'?""No his character's actual name.""What, Knight?""Yeah!""But you don't learn that until the end of the film.""Doesn't matter...oh and we should add 'and day' afterwards."Who is Day in the film?""Nobody.""So why Knight and Day?""Because that's the expression!""Uh huh."

David Tennent has to choose between the ultra successful, ultra nice movie star and the ultra charming, ultra nice small down Scottish lass.  Oh the hardships that man goes through.  First the Daleks and now this...

Hey remember that crime noir thriller that Michael Keaton directed and starred in back in 2008? Yeah, me neither.  But we watch it anyway, because sometimes we here at BWBFC do the heavy lifting so you don't have to.  You're welcome!

What happens when Drew Barrymore's love of roller derby competitions spills onto the big screen? Whip It.  Whip It is what happens.

Continuing our month of actors attempting to direct, Regina King takes the helm to present a fictionalized account of a real get together between Sam Cooke, Mohammad Ali, Jim Brown and Malcolm X one night in Miami.  Oh hey! There's the title!

So Walter Matthau made a very successful career playing slightly curmudgeonly but reasonably endearing older (or old) men. Here, directed by his close friend Jack Lemmon, he is cast as a much older man who is a bit curmudgeonly and (eventually) reasonably endearing old man. So really a risky casting decision. But did it pay off? Tune in and find out what we thought.

A new year and a new month here at BWBFC and this month we will be looking at actors who try their hand at directing! And we start off with a directorial debut from BWBFC favorite Richard E. Grant...but do we think it was worth the risk? Tune in and find out!

First of all: apologies for the late upload! For some reason around this time of year everything seems to get busy? Don't know why...Anyway, here is the final episode of 2025 and the last of our holiday adjacent films: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! Tune in and find out if we ended the year on a high!

A film that dares to ask the question: What if Santa Claus and his operations ran a bit more like the British monarchy? As it turns out, the answer is remarkably well! Except when it doesn't, in the smallest possible way. But don't worry, heroes are sometimes named Arthur!

Sure, we all know what Christmas would be like in New York and Chicago and probably LA, but the real burning question is what would Christmas be like in Connecticut?  Well assuming you've got a very posh farm and a bunch of people all lying to each other or themselves, then this film will let you know!

A question to kick of the BWBFC holiday season: did you ever wonder what it would be like if Santa was a Russian viking? Well if so, this movie might be for you!  But was it for us?

We end the November films about dysfunctional families on a high note...and by high note I mean at least the one family member dies at the start of the film, so we only have to witness the aftermath this time.  Tune in to see if we liked what we had to witness.

Halfway through the films for November and it's another one about families and death.  Although really more dying in this case.  Just how depressing is this lineup making us here at the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast?  Well you'll have to tune in to find out.

It's another family comedy(?) drama featuring a dying parent and a couple of weird kids.  I know what you're thinking.  How many of these films can you possibly do for the podcast?  Well I'm going to guess at least two more.

Wes Anderson films.  They're a bit like marmite.  You either love them or you hate them.  And they almost always leave a weird taste in your mouth.  But is that enough for us to withhold a recommendation this week?  Tune in to find out!

Concluding our October spooooooky month of films, we have the 1968 classic Hammer Horror film The Devil Rides Out, starring one half of everyone's favorite horror duo: Christopher Lee!  Evidently Peter Cushing was away on holiday or something? Don't know.  Anyway, here's our review!

Are you feeling down about the tragic death of your husband and daughter in a car accident that left you yourself in a coma? Then the tourism bureau of North Carolina has the solution for you! Try spelunking in one of our many unexplored, dangerously unmarked caves! There's a 1 in 6 chance that you'll survived! And we definitely don't have a race of ancient humanoid creatures that live underground! So Esse Quam Videri your way over here today!

You know for as cliché a horror trope as a cabin in the woods is, I'm amazed it took until 2011 for someone to make a horror film called A Cabin In the Woods.  But was it worth the wait? Tune in and hear what we think!

It's one of those traditional cabin in the middle of nowhere stories, except in this case, the cabin is really nice.  But is the film nice? Tune in and find out what we thought...

After a brief break we are back with a spooky set of films for October, starting with the reboot redux of the Ghostbusters franchise.  But is the film worthy of its pedigree?  Tune in and find out what we think! 

Are you tired of all those mobster films that glamourize a life of crime? Then you should try The Rise and Fall Of Legs Diamond, which creates a main character so loathsome that even his friends seem to hate him!

You know now that I think of it, for a film called Race With the Devil, the Devil never actually makes an appearance. Odd.

Imagine making an entire movie about having to sit at the very back of the car.  If only this had been that movie.

Hey remember that time back in the 80's when it was perfectly acceptable to send your shy and nervous young son off into the wilderness with a potentially unhinged stranger who was only like five years older than him? Those were the days.

On this episode of the podcast, we're off to theater camp! Rambunctious terrors running around being overly dramatic and feuding constantly with each other.  And that's just the cohosts!

Another month, another theme.  And this month, as we stare down the approach of autumn, we take a look a collection of summer getaway films, starting with a slightly nonsensical relaunch of the beach party genre, twenty plus years after its prime.  But don't worry, we're in the safe hands of Frankie and Annette, so how bad could it go? Tune in and find out!

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a robot who was once a boy but was disowned by his father for becoming a robot despite turning the boy into a robot in the first place and then trying to sell him out in order to remain close to a megalomaniacal President only to, at the very last minute, have a change of heart and we are suddenly expected to overlook him spending the entire rest of the film not being that great of a guy! ...I mean Astro Boy! 

A Hammer horror film about a elderly deranged religious zealot woman living in a rundown mansion in rural England? Yes please! Or maybe no...tune in and find out!

It turns out Milton's secret is how to make this film enjoyable or entertaining. It continues to be, by all accounts, a very well kept secret.

Hey you know that grumpy guy that predicts cell phones will lead to terrible things for society? Well they've made a movie about him! But also he's dead most of the time, because, ya know, Stephen King.

The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast returns for season two! And we begin with a month dedicated to films featuring the great Donald Sutherland.  To kick things off, he is joined by his son Kiefer in a western called Forsaken.

It takes a lot to make Great Britain look like the plucky underdog victim in a sovereignty deciding naval dustup, but somehow Argentina rose to the challenge during the 1982 Falklands War.  Oh and a lot of Margaret Thatcher doing that Margaret Thatcher thing.Recommendations:Glenn: Arthur (1981 film)Sarah: The Boat That Rocked (2009 film)Cameron: Nixon (1995 film)

A post-James Bond Sean Connery teams up with a pre-James Bond Christopher Walken and a somewhat lackluster group of other robbers to knock over an entire building's worth of apartments.  It goes...poorly.Recommendations:Glenn: The Gentlemen (2024 series)Sarah: Baby Reindeer (2024 series)Cameron: Stand By Me (1986 film)

Ah 1970's Disney.  A time when the eligible pool of well known television characters was so great that they could make as many live action films as they wanted.  Does that mean sometimes the creative well might have gotten a little dry? Sure.  But if it hadn't, we wouldn't have gotten The Cat From Outer Space!Recommendations:Glenn: The Sting (1973 film)Sarah: Challengers (2024 film)Cameron: The Last Kingdom (2015-22 BBC/Netflix series)

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week.  But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast!  Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the original cohosts!  She joined us officially on Episode 15 of the original show, which we are sharing with you now as a special treat! Or perhaps as a device of torture! Depends on your view on Sarah and the rest of us.  Have fun and see you next week!

Excitement meanders across the screen as a seemingly geriatric Gary Cooper wanders around trying to fight a court martial with varying degrees of confusion and self-righteousness.Recommendations:Glenn: Death At A Funeral (2007 film)Sarah: Hacksaw Ridge (2016 film)Cameron: Waterloo (1970 film)