They Don't Make 'em Like They Used To - Movie Nostalgia

On the 24th of December 2016, news outlets around the world reported that Carrie Fisher, movie star and cultural icon had suffered a heart attack on a flight from London to LosAngeles, a few days later on the 27th of December she died. Her mother, the golden age movie star and cultural icon Debbie Reynolds died the next day from a stroke. Reportedly, in the wake of Carrie Fisher's death, she had said 'I want to be with Carrie' who she also named as her best friend. Tonight on they don't make 'em like they used to we dedicate our entire show (format and everything) to two ladies from one family who indelibly left their mark on the world.

Seeing as it was the first one back since Christmas, we decided to talk about Rogue One amongst other movies as we hadn't done that yet... We got side tracked

20 movies in 90 minutes ... and breathe. Welcome to They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To. We decided to give in to the Christmas Spirit and tonight, we're talking FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES on the Podcast. People dropped us a few lines as to what their Favourite Christmas movie was and why. We tried to get through them all (in 90 minutes). Great Christmas celebration.

TONIGHT, she is our resident musical expert, she’s our resident romantic movie expert and still manages to have a nifty sideline in boys movies. Tonight she takes us through Hayley Mills finding Jesus in a Barn, Robert Duvall drinking and singing about the American South years before Jeff bridges pulled off the same trick, and Bill Murray waking up, and waking up and yet again waking up in a small town in Pennsylvania. Welcome to the Sharon Bollen takeover of They Don’t make ‘em Like they used to.

The section of the show where we give the old movies a rest for a bit and focus on films you can watch in the cinemas right now.

Tonight, we are in the home of the road. Might not have been invented there, but there is arguably no country that has embraced the road like the good old US of A. And Hollywood noticed, resulting in one of the most recognisable movie genres, the road movie. Tonight we have screwball comedy on the road in the 30s, existential youth culture on the road in the 70s, and Girl power on a crime spree on the road in the 90s. It’s going to be fun, Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘Em Like they Used To.

This evening, we’re in the North of England, it’s realism on screen, it’s social commentary on screen, its dank and it’s a little bit grim. It can only be Ken Loach. We also look at the Far east meeting the wild west waaaaayy before anyone ever heard of Jackie Chan or Owen Wilson. And we end up with a film that briefly threatened to make Swords and sandals a viable genre again. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

Our review of the Girl with all the gifts. HINT: we like it

This evening, we discuss the odyssey of a guy who was born a poor black Child, we drag a slightly forgotten movie from one of englands screen sweethearts into the sunlight, spend time watching movies for free with a 1950s cinema usher, and sticking with the 1950s, we defy the Governmental powers that be and bid you Good Night & Good Luck. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

If this were an episode of Sesame street, this week's episode would be brought to you by the number 7 and sponsored by your good friend and mine Shaun Harris. Welcome to the 77th show of They Don’t make Them Like They Used To.

Shaun gives three/four clues to a movie acting legend. See if you can guess the star before Tosin does in the studio. extracted from our 30th of September 2016 show. https://soundcloud.com/tajayimedia/76-network-dodge-city-the-big-short

This evening WE’RE AS MAD A HELL, AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE, oh yes, we also follow a famous swashbuckler as he swaps his buckled swashes for a slung gun. Then we round off with a modern movie that attempts to explain exactly why you can no longer afford that yearly holiday that you so badly need. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

On the show tonight, Marlon Brando Sings!!! That one clue is enough for many to figure out what film we are talking about, also Mario Lanza Sings!!! although we never get to see the poor bloke in the film and finally David Bowie Sings!!! along with a package that you would have thought many people would have been uncomfortable with having in a Children’s film. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

This evening, it all starts on the page and in the bookshop. we pay tribute to those stories that started without thought of a silver screen in mind. When all the Authors had were words and the images those words conjour in your mind. until that is some clever clogs came along and decided to show us all the image that they had in their head when they read the words.That’s right, tonight we’re talking films that started life as books. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

This evening, we are keeping some illustrious company. I’m talking people who did stuff so momentous that someone threw millions of dollars into a pot to make a film about them, We have an Army General, a Blues Legend, and a civil rights trailblazer. All this and more to come on tonight’s They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

In our Black and white special, we are being pitched in at the deep end with the crew of the HMS Compass Rose, Plunged into the jungles of Burma (as it was called) with some of her majesty's finest and to roundup our monochrome special, we will look at a Quirky Modern throwback. Welcome to They Don't make 'em Like They Used to.

This evening, we tackle a biopic of one of the most famous items of clothing in The Roman Empire, we stumble across two musical cinematic legends that have somehow been hiding their sole collaboration under a rock all these years, and we jump forward in time to tackle a new version of an old romp. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

This week, It’s Character Heartthrob who can act time, as we go through a family Melodrama with Dean, start a revolution on a Island with Brando, and try and benefit from a war in the Gulf with Clooney, Wahlberg and Cube. Also due to our adopted ward Alverstone, we advance one year in age through the means of song. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

This week, we take a bit of a stroll through the back end of the 60s, stopping at some point in the 70's. And in another of our inadvertent themes, we look at Rock stars playing at being actors. Welcome to They Don't Make 'em Like They Used To.

This evening, in honour of the recent anniversary of the Battle of Britain, We have a look at World War two movies through the ages, starting in the obvious place, we go through bonafide classics, Hidden gems and modern throwbacks. We also hear tales of the great Howard Keel from Pam in our pet ward Alverstone . Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To

This evening, in one of the most slam dunk casting decisions in movie history, David Bowie is an Alien. In the wild, wild west, it’s cowboys vs …. dinosaurs? We hear of one lady's early cinema going life in Barbados, Let’s just say the King travels well, and we talk a film that gives Shaun that childhood feeling all over again. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To

This evening, they come from below, They come from above, they come through your walls, they ruin your holidays. We sojourn through time and see what creatures Hollywood offered through the years. Welcome to THEY DON’T MAKE THEM LIKE THE UUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSEEEDDD TO!

This evening, we pretend to be anybody who is anybody with Fat Sam, sing an ode to that great servant of cinema, The Cowboy, Follow two rogue soldiers attempting to become Afghani royalty and have a blast on the french riviera chasing old women’s money. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

This Evening Breakfast at the temple of diamonds with Audrey and Hannibal Smith, It’s the eighties ... That can’t be right, this is a show about old movies hmmm, anyway everything looks like a Duran Duran video. We have an movie by an Island boy done good who mixes with modern hollywood royalty and courtesy of Jean in our adopted ward alverstone, we bring some much needed class to the show. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘Em Like they used to.

Tonight on our re-make special we shall be looking at classic films that have been re-made, re-used and re-cycled. We will be saying Good Morning to Baltimore, You must remember this to San Antonio and Good Grief, I wasn’t expecting that in the antarctic. Welcome to They don’t re-make em like they used to.

Tonight we’ll will be talking about the man who put the Special in Special Agent, his rival who took special and turned it up to eleven and not forgetting the boys from the United Network Command for Law Enforcement.

This week, Colin Fyrth!! Actually live Colin Fyrth on the show. Love or Duty, Love or Duty, that is the big question as we hang out in Casablanca, and we have what I’m hoping will be a heavyweight ding dong battle over the acceptance of a movie into the John Wayne Hall of Fame. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

In this episode, we see what actually happens when a Watery tart throws a title character at someone. We examine the Closest thing we’ve ever gotten to James Bond going to Subsaharan Africa, we talk about the what is probably the most profoundly unsettling movie of all time, and they say you should never meet your heroes, we examine the cinematic case for never, ever, meeting (annie Wilkes voice) your Number 1 fan. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To

Movies discussed Brighton Rock, Grease, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Satan Bug, Crazy People

On the show tonight we have a wild ride with brothers Jake and Elwood with a little help from Ray, we have a really long walk with brothers Craig and Charlie and we are not going to take any you know what from anyone with Buford. And not forgetting our adopted ward Alverstone we have a patient’s choice that will have you singing in the shower. Welcome to They don’t make em like they used to. Films discussed The Blues brothers South Pacific Walking Tall Sunshine on Leith

Movies Discussed Hardcore Henry The Huntsman : Winter's War

Movies discussed Risen Hail Caesar! The Divergent Series : Allegiant Eddie the Eagle 10 Cloverfield Lane Batman vs Superman : Dawn of Justice

Batman vs Superman : Dawn of Justice review - They Don't make em like they used to by Tosin Ajayi

The Last Valley, Doctor Zhivago, A New Leaf, Cast Away by Tosin Ajayi

After what seems like an age, becausse it has been, we are back in the studio. Tackiling a phantom movie. Phantom not because it stars a certain masked singing man, Phantom not because it's a billy zane starring movie that my brother would never forgive me for mentioning on a radio show about good movies, but phantom because none of us seem to know how it ended up on our list. Stay tuned, and all will be revealed. Welcome to They Don't Make 'em Like They Used To. Movies discussed The Lady Vanishes, It's a Wonderful Life, The Gospel according To Matthew, Kingdom of Heaven

This evening, it’s the 1920s in Hollywood California, and this new fad called talkies is wreaking havoc everywhere, … in song. it’s the 1800s and a young girl who would later be known as ‘the best man on an ill fated ship’, fights, bites and scratches her way through life, and it’s back. Just like the man in the title, we once again find ourselves attracted like magic to the desert, perhaps because it’s clean. Welcome to They Don’t Make 'em Like They Used To.

This evening, Avian Carnage in Bodega bay, young girl accuses priests mother of lewd acts with poultry in hell and postman is unwitting accomplice in marital strife. Welcome to They don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

This Evening, The Duke of Inisfree, Ireland, The King of the Jungle, non descripton African Country, The adventures of a Spanish - ish Don, and a Bumbling English man with no title in a made up Welsh village. Welcome to They Don’t Make 'em Like They Used To.

This evening, we take a look at the other movie involving THE big sinking ship that does not involve the names, Cameron, Di Caprio or Winslet. We debate the scariest scene that Disney ever made to haunt your childhood dreams and We look at a british SciFi hidden gem that is so hidden I know squat about it. Welcome to They Don’t make ‘em like they used to.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Had to get that in before it was February. This evening we visit an english rose clashing with an American Beefcake down south in the U S of A. At least one of us is shocked to find that Michael Winner is unfairly maligned as a filmmaker and in Honour of Somebody who will be dearly, dearly missed from the film world, we look at a space romp that flies in the face of our titular rule. Welcome to They Don’t Make Em like they Used to

Christmas Special - Favourite Christmas movies in the Hospital by Tosin Ajayi

The last half hour of our show, where we recommend (or not)films that we've seen recently.

This week, we find out what happens when the a Glaswegian ginger lass meets a Bahamian screen legend, take a sojourn to the clean, clean desert and we find a master of suspense in darkly hilarious form. Welcome to They don’t make ‘em like they Used To.

In a week where we are told that the Lord’s prayer is not allowed to be played before movies at your local cinema, we talk about a movie whose existence is arguably due to a shed load of Prayer; we hunt down some WOORRREEEOOOORS, and invite them to COME OUT AND PLAAYEE-YAY!!! We meet Nicola in the hospital who gives us one of the funkiest tunes that we’ve played for a while, and we talk about one of the films that we are frankly ashamed to say was filmed on the Isle of Wight. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Films discussed The Inn of the Sixth Happiness The Exorcist The Warriors Guest House Paradiso

This week, we wonder what the chances of anything ever coming from Mars are, we get in a filmic muddle involving Paul Newman, Don Ameche, David Niven and Warren Beatty with some Chris Rock thrown in for good measure, ... and it had to happen at some point. we finally address the massive Elephant that has overshadowed the entire cinematic year of 2015 in the shape of a little space opera being released in December. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like they Used To.

This week, we spend time with Anarchic yoofs in a non time specific London, hang around inside the predictably weird mind of the man who created The Exorcist, and I have a talk with someone whose lived through more eras of film than I can ever read about. Welcome to They Don't Make 'Em like they Used To.

It's Halloween and as is fitting, we theme the show accordingly.

In 2015, we have marked 200 years since the battle of Waterloo, On the 25th of October we mark 600 years since the battle of Agin court, sharing the same date as that battle is the Cahrge of the Light Brigade during the crimean war, and we also mark 100 years since the battle of Gallipoli. Welcome to the Battle marking special of They don’t make ‘em like they used to. Film's discussed - Henry V (1944), Charge of the Light Brigade, Charlie Chaplin, The Water Diviner

As God is our witness, this week we frankly give a damn and tackle the (inflation adjusted) highest grossing movie of all time. Take an early look at a fresh faced Jeff Bridges, and we ponder the question of what Spaghetti westerns would have been called if they had been filmed in a country besides Spain (yep, you read that right). Welcome to They Don't Make 'em Like They Used To.

This Week, We look at the man who ushered in a new era of matinee Idol in the 50s, spend some time in the 70s with a movie that Quentin Tarantino cites as one of his favourites, so much so that he named his company after it, And zoom forward in time to the nougties with a film that qualifies both as an Island movie and as an exception to out titular rule. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.

First we had Jack Nicholson, then Paul Newman and this week, Burt Reynolds joins our inadvertent series of “Movie-star-against-the-big-bad-institution-they-find-themselves-locked-up-in.” On our saunters around the hospital, we meet Leonard who had this to say about some of his favourite movie actors “It was a bunch of men and women who ran around and made about 10 comedies“ have a listen (or just read the name of the track) and see your guess about who he’s talking about is right. Welcome to They Don’t Make ‘em Like They Used To.