Unfiltered Movie Podcast - Aussie and Scotsman

This week the boys review the 1981 American action-adventure classic Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

Set in 1936, the film stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, a globe-trotting archaeologist racing Nazi forces to recover the Ark of the Covenant, alongside Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood and Paul Freeman as rival archaeologist Ren...

This week we are talking about the 2013 American biographical action-thriller film Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass.

Based on the real-life 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, this one tells the intense true story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates.

Tom Hanks leads as Phillips, and Barkhad Abdi is phenomenal as pirate leader Abduwali Muse.

This is a fantastic fi...

This week the lads review the 2025 American sports comedy-drama Marty Supreme, directed by Josh Safdie and co-written with Ronald Bronstein.

Timothée Chalamet stars in the title role, supported by Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher.

Set in the 1950s, the film is loosely inspired by the life and legend of American table-tennis icon Marty Reisman.

The episode has extra weight, ...

This week we are talking about the 2020 psychological drama film The Father, directed by Florian Zeller in his directorial debut.

The film stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as an ageing Welsh man living with dementia, in a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. The cast also includes Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Olivia Williams.

We kick off with Rob (the Scotsman) ranting about the eternal wait t...

This week the Aussie brings a movie discussion topic to the podcast – Diamonds in the Rough.

We’re talking about films you might’ve scrolled past, dismissed, forgotten about, or never even heard of. These are the ones we reckon deserve a second look – the ones you should see.

We both picked a few that maybe aren’t technically in the rough – but they're close enough. They're films we love, we think you’ll love, and we explain why th...

They’re back. Somehow. Against all odds.

Season 3 begins with the Scotsman opening with one of the biggest compliments ever delivered on the podcast, quickly followed by the Aussie offering a completely muddled comparison between cocaine and sugar. It’s clear early on that nothing has changed.

With the Aussie away over the break and the Scotsman in town, the pair catch up on the past two months — touching on serious world events, p...

This week we face off against each other - the ultimate debate - who do we think is better Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone?

Now this is not as simple as you think  - we have categories.

• Best Bio.
• Best movie.
• Total Box Office.
• Best one-liners.
• Best Sequels.  
• Best all rounder.

And points awarded for each.

Who do you think will take out the win?

The Aussie has Sly and the Scotsman takes on Arnie.

Both have mult...

After 10 months and 127 shows we have made it to the end of season 2.

And we have uploaded our first video of the podcast - on You Tube now -  End of Season 2

It has been a roller coaster of a year. We've had hits and misses both in the movie's we have reviewed and in the conversations and robust discussions we have had between ourselves.

It's not always been easy but for 125 shows it has been a lot of fun.

Thanks to you the listen...

This week we are talking about the 1979 American psychological epic war film Apocalypse Now produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

The screenplay is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.

The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret...

This week we are talking about the1976 American comedy drama film Network directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky.

It depicts a television network struggling with poor ratings until the nightly live broadcast of its longtime news anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch) inadvertently showcases his breakdown into increasingly psychotic behaviour, which makes his show a surprise hit.

Alongside Finch (in his final role), the ...

This week we bring you our top 10 movies between 2010 - 2025.

Not a bad 15 years  - better than the previous decade at least in our eyes.

Turns out that 2019 and 2022 is our favourite.

• Django Unchained
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Captain Phillips
• Three billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
• Dunkirk
• Mission Impossibles
• The Marvel Movies
• Creed
• Avengers Endgame
• Spotlight
• Oppenheimer
• Maestro
• Silver Lining PLaybook
• Greenbook
• Hacksaw Ridge
• CODA
• ...

This week we give you our personal top 10 lists from our recent review of all movies from 1970 to 2025.

A little different this week - we have prepared 2 lists.

1) The top 10 movies you would take to a desert island with you - the fun, entertaining ones. Popcorn movies, love stories, action and adventure - really anything you want that you could watch over and over again.

2) This final top 10 is our list of the movies we recommend ...

This week we bring you our top 10 list of Best Movies between 2000 - 2010.

The discussion starts when The Scotsman drops the Aussie right in it early on

Couple of crackers from the Aussie:  "Ewan McGregor sings Your Song better than Elton John in Moulin Rouge"

This is not our favourite decade of movies - and if you tune in you will find out why.

• The Departed
• Crouching T...

This week we review the Best Movies of the 1990s - we thought the 1980's was hard. Wow - this was nearly impossible to choose a top 10.

How do you condense 50 of your favourite movies into a top 10. No easily - which leads to some great and fairly heated discussions towards the end of the podcast.

What a decade with the likes of:

• The Shawshank Redemption
• Jerry Maguire
• Donnie Brasco
• Titanic
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• The Green Mile
• Le...

This week we review the Best Movies of the 1980s - and this was hard.  

"I've never been more excited" says the Aussie  

"This will be show of the year" he declares.

"The hardest top 10 I've ever had to write". replies the Scotsman.  

Well the lines have been drawn - no starting stories.

The Scotsman starts reeling them off year by year. The Shining, The Elephant Man, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Rambo, Cocktail, Fatal Attract...

This week we review The Best Movies of the 1970s - and there are so many to choose from.

Before we run through them and list our top 10 the Aussie tells us tales of old girlfriends and he is surprised if not weirdly excited - nae aroused - when the Scotsman tells him about a new movie coming up called Marty Supreme starring Timothy Chalamet - which is about ping pong. And as our regular listeners know the Aussie was nearly an Olymp...

This week we discuss all Robert De Niro's movies to date

The Aussie kicks up off by chatting about his Aussies bad memory and then we ....eh I can't quite remember but I think we run through De Niro's incredible volume of work, his biography, our favourite De Niro lines and we finish with our top 10 countdown.

From old classics like The Godfather 2, Deer Hunter, Goodfellas, The Untouchables and Heat to some questionable career choi...

This week we are reviewing the 2022 black tragicomedy film The Banshees of Inisherin directed, written, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh.

Set on a remote fictional island off the west coast of Ireland in 1923, The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their friendship, with severe consequences for both of them.

Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan c...

This week we review the 1992 American romantic thriller drama film The Bodyguard directed by Mick Jackson, starring Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston (in her movie acting debut), Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, and Ralph Waite.

The film follows a former United States Secret Service agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect a famous actor and singer from an unknown stalker.

Kasdan wrote the film in the mid-1970s, originally as a vehicle fo...