film ramblings from your three favorite film buffs since 2016 (relaunched: 2023)

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Nov. 30, 2023

Episode 016: Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

A film with an exclamation mark in the title!? How could it be bad? Join us as we review the 1960 British WWII war drama Sink the Bismarck!(!) Recommendations: Glenn: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 film) Sarah: The Finest Hours (201...

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Nov. 22, 2023

Episode 015: Sherlock Holmes In New York (1976)

What do James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have in common? Nothing, you say? Well not so fast, because apparently they do, in as much as Roger Moore has played them both. His Bond is iconic enough, but what of his …

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Nov. 15, 2023

Episode 014: Hot Millions

Peter Ustinov plays the role of an embezzler working for a company with one of those newfangled computers. Hilarity ensues. Or does it? Tune in and find out what we think! Recommendations: Glenn: The Dirty Dozen (1967 film...

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Nov. 8, 2023

Episode 013: The Shout (1978)

On this week's episode, a British horror film about a very shouty man. Starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York and a minor role for Tim Curry, as, strangely, the most normal person in the film. Do we give this …

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Nov. 1, 2023

Episode 012: Carbon Copy (1981)

On this week's episode we watch Denzel Washington's first film. It is comedy based on race relations. Uh huh. So is it worth a watch? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: The Rewrite (2014 film) Sarah: The Devi...

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Oct. 25, 2023

Episode 011: It Happened To Jane (1959)

Doris Day and Jack Lemmon team up in a romantic comedy featuring everyone's favorite things: lobsters, trains and small town democracy! But what exactly happened to Jane? And does it make for a compelling viewing? Tune in and...

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Oct. 18, 2023

Episode 010: Shock (1946)

A lot of Vincent Price films are at least visually shocking. So it seems a bit of a shame that they have chosen one of his least shocking films to get the title Shock. And yes, I appreciate that it …

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Oct. 11, 2023

Episode 009: This Is the Night (1932)

This week we take a look at Cary Grant's very first film role. And right off the bat he is typecast as an Olympic javelin thrower. But is that enough to carry an entire 1930's romantic comedy/dystopian musical nightmare? T...

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Oct. 4, 2023

Episode 008: Rope Of Sand (1949)

Hey remember all those supporting actors you loved from Casablanca? Well they're back! And still desert adjacent! But instead of Humphrey Bogart we have Burt Lancaster and instead of Ingrid Bergman we have...Corinne Calvet? T...

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Sept. 27, 2023

Episode 007: This Can't Be Love (1994)

A very old Katharine Hepburn teams up with a very young Jason Bateman in a made for television romantic comedy. Fear not, the romantic relationship isn't the one between Bateman and Hepburn. Unless that's your secret fanfic...

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Sept. 20, 2023

Episode 006: A Reflection Of Fear (1972)

So you know how Robert Shaw always played really cool, bad(ish) guy characters that you still kind of rooted for? Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like if he played a boring character that didn't really do …

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Sept. 14, 2023

005: Mazes and Monsters (1982)

So fun fact: Tom Hanks began his career with a movie about Dungeons and Dragons. And yet somehow he managed to become Tom Hanks. A remarkable feat considering this film is basically the equivalent of rolling a natural one. ...

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Sept. 6, 2023

004: Rescue From Gilligan's Island (1978)

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of three podcast castaways trying to make sense of a film starring everyone's favorite actual castaways. All credit to Gilligan's Island that a show that had only ran for three seas...

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Aug. 30, 2023

Episode 003: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

This week's offering comes from one of the godfather's of indie filmmaking, none other than Charles B. Pierce. From the legendary mind that brought you The Legend of Boggy Creek and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues ...

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Aug. 23, 2023

Episode 002: Craze (1974)

A trio of past their prime British acting legends join the did he ever have a prime Jack Palance in a horror thriller about a pretty needy statue of an African god. For those of you who are curious, the …

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Aug. 16, 2023

Episode 001: Please Murder Me! (1956)

In this, our first episode of the relaunched Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we tackle the coming together of that guy who would go on to play Perry Mason and that woman who would go on to play Jessica …

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