Double Reel
The monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. James Adamson is a slightly obsessive armchair fan, giving you his take on the world of cinema. So is James Adamson, his imaginatively named son and co-host. As well as a look at news, new releases and how we're fitting in movie watching with our busy exciting lives, we look into tall tales of potentially great films that never got made, overlooked classics you need to see, and rants about remakes that should never have been made at all.
Episodes
Issue 49 of the monthly magazine podcast continues with our Classics and Hidden Gems episode, where we're joined by special guest co host Alan Bayles, fellow film nerd and sci fi author.
The Classic one of us is finally getting round to seeing is the iconic 70s police drama Serpico, and the Hidden Gem we want you to consider watching is 1997's Cop Land.
The first part of the issue Double Reel Monthly is already out, and next we...
The Adamsons are back with Issue 49 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The first instalment is Double Reel Monthly. We cover news stories and new releases that caught our eye, review some new films we've seen since our last issue, and look at the films from our year long projects The Year of the Nolan - Tenet - and Women Directors - Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker.
Next week will be our second part, Classics...
The Adamsons bring down the curtain on Issue 48 of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. The final part is the Big Conversation where this month we discuss our favourite films of the decade 2000 to 2009.
Similar to our chat in Issue 46 we each nominate our favourite film from each year of the decade, and discuss which of them should be named best film of that year. Unlike last time we're allowing ...
Issue 48 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features. The Classic we've just got round to seeing is Touch of Evil, and the Hidden Gem we think you should check out is Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai. Our final ever One That Got Away discusses how Martin Scorsese nearly made House of Gucci 20 years before Ridley Scott did it, and our Remake Hatewatch looks at Orca, 1977's blatant rip of...
Another packed issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off with April's Double Reel Monthly, covering news, new releases, reviews of new films and how we're getting in with our annual film projects. New films include Immaculate, Ricky Stanicki, Road House, a catch up on the Beekeeper and two films featuring friend of the pod Jamie B Chambers: Morris Men and The Shamrock Spitfire.
Next week we'll b...
The Adamsons bring Issue 47 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd to a close with the Big Conversation. As always we aim to entertain you by taking a longer look at a big topic from the film world, and this month we mark the end of awards season with our Oscar Chat.
We look at the big winners and losers, how we thought it went and whether 2024 was a good year, and what's next for the major players among the n...
Issue 47 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features, and for this issue we are focusing on East Asian cinema. Our Classics and Recommended is the notorious Takashi Miike psychological horror Audition, followed by our Hidden Gem the Korean cold war thriller Steel Rain. Our One that Got Away discusses how legendary filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai spent years nearly making international spy thrille...
Issue 47 of the monthly magazine film podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the latest Penalty Shootout Film Quiz, the fiendish and needlessly complicated battle of trivia skills between your co-hosts.
The score is 5-0 to James (no the other one) going into this month's instalment, with James (yes that one) still desperate to get a win on the board. The forfeits remain - James (no the other one) will have to watch The...
The Adamsons are back with the latest issue of Double Reel, the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. Released in four parts through the month, we start with Double Reel Monthly, featuring news, new releases, reviews of new films including Dune Part 2, The Zone of Interest, Madame Web and The Kitchen, our Women Directors project feature Nomadland and the latest in our Year of the Nolan project which is Batman Begin...
Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with the Big Conversation. This month we talk about our favourite films of the 2010s. We imposed a few rules on ourselves for the chat: We could only pick one best film of each year in the decade; we each had to suggest a nomination and duke it out over which went in; and Best Picture Oscar winners were admissible. This took out some of our favourite fi...
Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the latest drop of our regular Features episode. The theme this month is films about the television industry, with Classics and Recommended Network, Hidden Gem Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The One that Got Away - Jacques Tati's Confusion and Remake Hatewatch Bewitched. As a bonus we also look at the remake we'd like to see - a new adaptation of...
Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the fiendish Penalty Shootout Film Quiz. James (no the other one) is yet to win a quiz, with the score currently 5-0 to James (yes that one).
As always our intrepid hosts face off in the format of a penalty shootout (like from the footy) and the winner gets to make the loser watch a film they're going to hate. Will James (no the other one) finally...
Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off with its first instalment, Double Reel Monthly with news, a look at new releases coming soon, new films we watched in the past month and the latest in our "New Year Resolution" annual project. James (no the other one) continues his spotlight on women director's with Ava Du Vernay's Selma and James (yes that one) kicks off his look at the films of Christ...
Issue 45 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes with our Big Conversation, and as it's our first of the year we're giving you our Annual Awards show for excellence and otherwise for the films of 2023.
As usual we go strictly on films that got their full release in the calendar year, and as usual we bring you innovative awards you don't get elsewhere such as biggest disappointment, worst accent, and...
Issue 45 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features. This month our theme is films about films and the film industry. Our Classic is Robert Altman's The Player, our Hidden Gem is Tim Burton's lesser-known Ed Wood, the One That Got Away is the epic tale of Orson Welles trying and failing to make a film about a great director trying to make a film, and our Remake Hatewatch is the hateful ...
Another special bonus anthology episode for your waiting ears. This compiles all the monthly entries in James (yes that one)'s annual project looking at films by the great David Cronenberg. This consists of nine films I hadn't seen before, followed by three of his best classics.
Our other anthology episode Legal Cage of Consent was released last week which you might also like.
A special bonus anthology episode featuring all the films James (no the other one) discussed in his special project for 2023. For every month of the year he got the mighty online Nic Cage randomiser to select a film for him to watch then told us about it. Whether it was good Cage, bad Cage or just paying the bills Cage, we covered it for you.
Our other special project The Cronenberg Institute will be available soon.
The Adamsons conclude Issue 44 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd with the Big Conversation, where we dig into a topic from the film world in more detail. In keeping with our overall theme this month we discuss and agree Double Reel's Top 10 Ridley Scott Films.
The other parts of Issue 44 are already available to download including Double Reel Monthly, Penalty Shootout Film Quiz and the Features. Soon we w...
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