Season 2

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...

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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?

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. …

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...

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 …

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 …

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...

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 …

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? …

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...

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!

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!

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

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

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 …

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!

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 ...

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 …

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!

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.