Episodes

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...

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? …

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: ...

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...

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...

So what would you do if you were given a million pound note and told that if you held on to it for one month and returned it intact, you could have some sort of job? Cash the note and …

Orson Welles stars in the film Compulsion. And by "stars" I mean he shows up about 2/3rds of the way through the film. So obviously we're using "stars" in a sort of abstract sort of way. Better to use the …

A searing courtroom drama this is not. Peter Sellers and David Attenborough both play rather sad and lonely characters, one a murderer, one a barrister. We haven't really sold it that well here. Tune in and see if we do …

In this week's episode, the beloved Jimmy Stewart plays the accordion-wielding hero we never knew we needed in our lives in a searing and quite heavily train-based Western, Night Passage. Recommendations: Glenn: Raiders Of th...

A searing depiction of the real life consequences of buying cookies from Girl Scouts. At least that's what we got from the film. But did we like it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Sicario (again) (2015 film)...

So sometimes we end up watching a serious movie on the BWB Film Club podcast. On this week's episode, we will be taking a look at a film about the Attica Prison riot. I was going to make a pun …

A British murder mystery that clocks in at less than an hour long? How bad could that be? If only there were a way to tune into something and find out... Recommendations: Glenn: Alien (1979 film) Sarah: Fighting With My …

Robert Duvall plays a curmudgeonly Scottish football manager in this plucky sports film about a plucky sports team being plucky. But just how plucky was it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Rocky (1976 film) Sar...

Michael Caine realizes he can kill people with the incredible wizard-like powers of being really lucky. Mild mannered chaos ensues. Do we like the shock that we got from watching A Shock To the System? Tune in a find out! …

Meanwhile in a television development meeting... "Hey so we've got this idea for a reclusive archvillain that lives on a remote island in Scotland and experiments with deadly sound waves. Who do you think we should cast?" "S...

It's the end of the year and your favorite podcast cohosts are taking a moment to look back at the films we watched in 2023. Also we discuss some holiday classics and we become far too sentimental about spending time …

You know those movies that people describe as "musicals for people who don't like musicals"? This film may be the opposite of that. It might be useful therapy for those who wish to ween themselves off of musicals. Despite som...

Hey remember that time that James Bond and Paddington Bear teamed up to help the French beat back the Germans? No? Well let us remind you in our review of the 1999 British WWI film The Trench! Recommendations: Glenn: All …

George C. Scott plays a confidence man who takes a young drifter played by Michael Sarrazin under his wing. They lie and steal their way through the south, tricking honest people out of the hard earned dough. This we we …

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...

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 …

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...

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 …

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...