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

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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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Oct. 9, 2024

SE02EP13: Hush (2016)

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...

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Oct. 2, 2024

SE02EP12: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

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!

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Sept. 11, 2024

SE02EP11: The Rise and Fall Of Legs Diamond (1960)

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!

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Sept. 4, 2024

SE02EP10: Race With the Devil (1975)

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

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Aug. 28, 2024

SE02EP09: The Way Way Back (2013)

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

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Aug. 21, 2024

SE02EP08: White Water Summer (1987)

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 w...

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Aug. 14, 2024

SE02EP07: Theater Camp (2023)

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!

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Aug. 7, 2024

SE02EP06: Back To the Beach (1987)

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 ...

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July 31, 2024

SE02EP05: Astro Boy (2009)

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...

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July 24, 2024

SE02EP04: Fanatic (aka Die Die My Darling) (1965)

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!

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July 17, 2024

SE02EP03: Milton's Secret (2016)

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.

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July 10, 2024

SE02EP02: Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)

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.

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July 3, 2024

SE02EP01: Forsaken (2015)

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 Forsa...

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May 15, 2024

Episode 039: The Falklands Play (2002)

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 d...

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May 9, 2024

Episode 038: The Anderson Tapes (1971)

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: Gle...

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May 1, 2024

Episode 037: The Cat From Outer Space (1978)

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 ...

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April 24, 2024

Special Episode 001: Warlock (1959) (OG BWBFC Podcast Episode 15)

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! ...

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April 17, 2024

Episode 036: The Court Martial Of Billy Mitchell (1955)

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 (2...

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April 10, 2024

Episode 035: The Scapegoat (1958)

If you really like Alec Guinness, then this film is for you. Two Alec Guinness for the price of one. Throw in a deranged Bette Davis, and you have yourself a deal! Recommendations: Glenn: Aliens directors cut (1986 film) Sa...

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April 4, 2024

Episode 034: Biggles: Adventures In Time (1986)

If you thought the title was questionable, when until you find out that the plot involves a celebrity tv dinner entrepreneur who travels back to WWI to stop a secret German sonic superweapon. Titles not so bad now, is it? Re...

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March 27, 2024

Episode 033: Coalition (2015)

If you think the United States has a sometimes messy political system, this movie reminds us that others can suffer from the same problems, albeit in this case in a more stiff upper lip, British sort of way. Recommendations: ...

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March 20, 2024

Episode 032: Reckless Disregard (1985)

Leslie Nielsen as the baddy. Sort of. But not really. A searing depiction of the harm reckless journalism can have on an innocent man. Sort of. But not really. Recommendations: Glenn: The God's Must Be Crazy (1980 film) S...

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March 13, 2024

Episode 031: Hands Of A Stranger (1962)

It's that old cliche: classical pianists loses hands in a cab accident and needs to have the hands of a potential criminal attached to him and it somehow it turns him into a revenge filled serial killer. Yawn. Recommendations...

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