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

Season 1

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 …

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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? …

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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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March 6, 2024

Episode 030: The Million Pound Note (1954)

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 …

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Feb. 28, 2024

Episode 029: Compulsion (1959)

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 …

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Feb. 21, 2024

Episode 028: The Dock Brief aka Trial and Error (1962)

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 …

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Feb. 14, 2024

Episode 027: Night Passage (1957)

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...

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Feb. 7, 2024

Episode 026: Prime Suspect (1982)

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)...

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Jan. 31, 2024

Episode 025: Against the Wall (1994)

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 …

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Jan. 24, 2024

Episode 024: Account Rendered (1957)

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 …

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Jan. 17, 2024

Episode 023: A Shot At Glory (2002)

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...

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Jan. 10, 2024

Episode 022: A Shock To the System (1990)

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! …

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Jan. 3, 2024

Episode 021: Madame Sin (1972)

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...

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Dec. 27, 2023

Episode 020: The Year End Special (2023)

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 …

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Dec. 20, 2023

Episode 019: Take Me Out To the Ball Game (1949)

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...

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Dec. 14, 2023

Episode 018: The Trench (1999)

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 …

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Dec. 6, 2023

Episode 017: The Flim-Flam Man (1967)

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 …

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