Each week, Tim and Anna review three films: at least one recent film that is now available for streaming or rental, and two other titles, drawn from any time in cinema history.
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Shoot the DVD Player #25: Faults / Mistaken For Strangers / Africa United
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Another helping of the xxth-most downloaded movie podcast ever! Listen using the player above, or via the i of Tunes. This week's films: Faults (2014, dir: Riley Stearns) Mistaken For Strangers (2013, dir: Tom Berninger) Africa United (2010, dir: Deborah ‘Debs’ Gardner-Paterson)By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #24: Tehran Taxi / Listen to Me Marlon / Raiders!
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Once again coming at youse from the Melbourne International Film Festival. Listen using the player above or on iTunes. This week's films: Tehran Taxi (2015, dir: Jafar Panahi) Listen to Me Marlon (2015, dir: Stevan Riley) Raiders! (2015, dir: Jeremy Coon & Tim Skousen)By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #23: Tales of the Grim Sleeper / Welcome to Leith / Mississippi Grind
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Direct from the Melbourne International Film Festival, or at least the vicinity of same. This week, we chat about some of the films we've seen at the Festival. Listen using the player above, or subscribe on iTunes. Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014, dir: Nick Broomfield) Welcome to Leith (2015, dir: Michael Beach Nichols & Christopher K. Walker) Miss…
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Shoot the DVD Player #22: It Follows / Berberian Sound Studio / Living In Oblivion
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Like a film podcast? Great! Because here is one. It Follows (2014, dir: David Robert Mitchell) Berberian Sound Studio (2012, dir: David Strickland) Living In Oblivion (1995, dir: Tom DiCillo)By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #21: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / Sister / The Riot Club
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G'day. New episode. Give it a listen, if you like, using the player above or via iTunes. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour) Sister (2012, dir: Ursula Meier) The Riot Club (2014, dir: Lone Scherfig)By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #20: Nightcrawler / Poltergeist / Basic Instinct
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The big two-oh. My how we've grown. This week's topics for discussion: NIghtcrawler (2014, dir: Dan Gilroy) Poltergeist (1982, dir: Tobe Hooper) Basic Instinct (1992, dir: Paul Verhoeven)By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #19: Coherence / The White Ribbon / The Social Network
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We're back! Listen using the player above or download the podcast from iTunes or your favourite podcast app. This week's films: Coherence (2013, dir: James Ward Byrkit) The White Ribbon (2009, dir: Michael Haneke) The Social Network (2010, dir: David Fincher)By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #18.5: We're taking a break! / School holiday movies
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As the title suggests, we're having a break from podcasting. Blame uni, blame work, blame life! Before we go put our feet up, however, here's a special mini episode featuring another school holiday movie wrap-up. Thanks for listening, we'll see you soon!By Anna & Tim
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Shoot the DVD Player #18: Boyhood / Rocky / Mad Max 2
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This week: [Boyhood, 2014, Richard Linklater] Much bally-hooed by the professional critical establishment, Linklater's unconventionally-produced coming-of-age drama now falls under the gimlet eye of the amateur critical establishment, as represented by, er, us. [Rocky, 1976, John Avildsen] I had a cat named Rocky. He died. Sorry to bring the mood d…
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Shoot the DVD Player #17: Obvious Child / Prince Avalanche / Point Break
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This week: [Obvious Child, 2014, Gillian Robespierre] A romantic comedy about abortion?! Those godless New York liberals have done it again. This, friends, is what feminism hath wrought. [Prince Avalanche, 2013, David Gordon Green] Drinking, swearing, casual sex. Is nothing sacred? Certainly not in this outrageous piece of left-wing propaganda star…
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Shoot the DVD Player #16: Force Majeure / The Last Days of Disco / Total Recall
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This week's fillums: [Force Majeure, 2014, Ruben Östlund] A skiing holiday with two young children sounds like a nightmare; add an avalanche, an act of cowardice, and a fracturing marriage and you've got two hours of squirm-inducing cinema. The perfect date film, in other words. [The Last Days of Disco, 1998, Whit Stillman] Classic, underseen comed…
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Shoot the DVD Player #15: Let the Right One In / Bram Stoker's Dracula / The Lost Boys
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This week we're all about vampires! Campy, flappy, and in at least one case crappy vampires! [Let the Right One In, 2008, Tomas Alfredson] Grim goings-on in a grim suburb of Grimburg, Sweden. A bullied young boy befriends a strange young girl, while a series of brutal murders shake the community. Also it's the 80s, for no real reason. [Bram Stoker'…
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Shoot the DVD Player #14: Ida / These Final Hours / Stand By Me
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Films discussed on this week's episode: [Ida, 2013, Pawel Pawlikowski] A novice nun and her alcoholic aunt travel through the Polish countryside in search of the remains of the nun's parents, who were murdered during WW2. All this film needs is Mickey Rooney and "a big dubble-ya" and it'd be perfect. [These Final Hours, 2013, Zak Hilditch] What wou…
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Shoot the DVD Player #13: The Giver / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia / The Big Sleep
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Lucky episode thirteen! Recorded on location under a ladder. This week's films: [The Giver, 2014, Phillip Noyce] The long-awaited adaptation of Lois Lowry's Newberry-winning novel proves to be a let down, and in fact you'd be better off just listening to the Radiohead song 'Let Down', once you've listened to the podcast, obv. [Once Upon a Time in A…
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Shoot the DVD Player #12: We Are the Best! / Hard Core Logo / Repo Man
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A special punk week because your Mom and Pop requested it last night in bed. I mean honestly fuck you. The films: [We Are the Best!, 2013, Lukas Moodysson] Teenage Swedish punks rage against meatballs, flat-packed furniture, and other Nordic cliches, actually I'm just being an idiot it's really good. [Hard Core Logo, 1996, Bruce McDonald] That rare…
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Shoot the DVD Player #11: The Sacrament / Frost/Nixon / The Boy Who Could Fly
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This week's sources of fun and frivolity: [The Sacrament, 2013, Ti West] Does found-footage/mockumentary horror have a future? Perhaps not if Ti West's uninspiring Jonestown riff is anything to go by. Luckily, Anna spices things up by telling us about the time she lead a crazed cult dedicated to the worship of a discarded mandarin peal resembling f…
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Shoot the DVD Player #10: All Is Lost / Manhunter / The Imposter / School holiday wrap-up
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Episode 10! What a milestone. And like the mad scientist in The Human Centipede, we're celebrating with an extra segment. All Is Lost (2013, J.C. Chandor) Robert Redford in all his craggy glory plays a yachtsman contending with errant shipping containers, wild storms, and the kind of mast problems that are bound to affect a man of his vintage. Manh…
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Shoot the DVD Player #9: Into the Woods / Welcome to the Rileys / The September Issue
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I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a... Oh, hello. Didn't see you there. Ahem. This week's films: Into the Woods (2014, Rob Marshall) Podcasting can happen in the woooooooooods. We review the recently-released adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's revered musical, which Anna loves and wants to make out with behind the shelter sheds. Welcome to t…
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Shoot the DVD Player #8: Frank / Audition / Robocop
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As the ancient prophecy foretold, we have returned to destroy the world/discuss the following films: Frank (2014, Lenny Abrahamson) Co-written by everybody's favourite weirdo-conduit, Jon Ronson, Frank is about music and ambition and madness and hiding your true self behind a big ol' prosthetic head. We've all been there, although in my case it was…
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Shoot the DVD Player #7: Noah / Rashomon / Jesus Camp
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It's raining religious nutters - and regular rain - in this week's episode. Pack a brolly. Noah (2014, Darren Aronofsky) Our spirit animal returns! Russell Crowe is Noah; some other people are some other people; all of them are very wet. Noah is the Aronofsky Biblical fantasy saga we've all been waiting for, or at least the one we got. Rashomon (19…
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Shoot the DVD Player #6: Starred Up / The Vanishing / Howard the Duck
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Happy new year! Here, have a podcast. First in a series of school holiday episodes recorded with a teenager in the next room, shaking her head at the idiot adults and their funny little internet radio show. This week: Starred Up (2013, David McKenzie) Shit goes down - and on at least one character's forehead - in this grim, gripping British prison …
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Shoot the DVD Player #5: The Wind Rises / The Young Poisoner's Handbook / Cube
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It's Christmas, or at least it was, but let's not talk about that. This week's fillums: The Wind Rises (2014, Hayao Miyazaki) Miyazaki's final (or is it?) film. This one's about planes, this time with human, rather than porcine, pilots. Not as potentially delicious, but we're not here for the eats. The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995, Benjamin Ross…
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Shoot the DVD Player #4: Locke / Stranger By the Lake / Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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The podcast world is in a spin about the final episode of Serial, but those of us who don't have insane speculative subreddits devoted to us - yet - have to push on, too. This week: Locke (2013, Stephen Knight) 85 minutes trapped in a car with Tom Hardy could get weird, especially if he's wearing the Bane mask. Fortunately, in Locke he's wearing a …
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Shoot the DVD Player #3: The Trip to Italy / Still Walking / Moon
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We're back like Backstreet, and you better believe we are sex-U-al, not that it's any of your business. This week's fillums: The Trip to Italy (2014, Michael Winterbottom) When the words "improvised hilarity" are uttered, intelligent people tend to think first of our humble podcast. However, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are pretty good at it too. Is…
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Shoot the DVD Player #2: The Mule / A Field In England / Proof
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Angus Sampson swallows condoms full of heroin, David Stratton trades fluids with various notable directors, and Tim has a thing for Hugo Weaving’s cane. Our second episode is film criticism at its peak something-or-other. The Mule (2014, Tony Mahony, Angus Sampson) We swallow our pride, among other things, to review this new Australian black comedy…
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Shoot the DVD Player #1: The Babadook / Winter's Bone / Romper Stomper
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Our first episode! They said we'd never make it, or they might have had they known we were doing it. They! What a bunch of negative tossers. Anyway, here we are. Forty-five-odd minutes of Anna and me yakking about movies, plus some musical interludes to give you brief respite from us yakking about movies. We hope you enjoy our maiden effort. Commen…
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