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

Episodes

March 26, 2025

SE02EP27: Rumours (2024)

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

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March 19, 2025

SE02EP36: A Real Pain (2024)

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

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March 12, 2025

SE02EP35: Conclave (2024)

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?

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March 5, 2025

SE02EP34: One Life (2024)

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...

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Feb. 26, 2025

SE02EP33: Fire Island (2022)

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.

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Feb. 19, 2025

SE02EP32: Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)

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 ...

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Feb. 12, 2025

SE02EP31: Knight and Day (2010)

"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...

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Feb. 5, 2025

SE02EP30: The Decoy Bride (2011)

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...

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Jan. 29, 2025

SE02EP29: The Merry Gentleman (2008)

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 ...

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Jan. 22, 2025

SE02EP28: Whip It (2009)

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

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Jan. 15, 2025

SE02EP27: One Night In Miami... (2020)

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! T...

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Jan. 8, 2025

SE02EP26: Kotch (1971)

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 curmudgeon...

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Jan. 1, 2025

SE02EP25: Wah-Wah (2005)

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 wor...

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Dec. 25, 2024

SE02EP24: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

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 ...

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Dec. 18, 2024

SE02EP23: Arthur Christmas (2011)

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...

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Dec. 11, 2024

SE02EP22: Christmas In Connecticut (1945)

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 p...

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Dec. 4, 2024

SE02EP21: Rise Of the Guardians (2012)

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?

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Nov. 27, 2024

SE02EP20: This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

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...

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Nov. 20, 2024

SE02EP19: The Farewell (2019)

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? W...

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Nov. 13, 2024

SE02EP18: The Hollars (2016)

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.

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Nov. 6, 2024

SE02EP17: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

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 t...

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Oct. 30, 2024

SE02EP16: The Devil Rides Out (1968)

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 hol...

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Oct. 23, 2024

SE02EP15: The Descent (2005)

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 man...

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Oct. 16, 2024

SE02EP14: A Cabin In the Woods (2011)

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!

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