Couple Indemnity

Couple Indemnity

A couple’s guide to the films we love throughout cinema history.

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April 4, 2026 55 mins

Izzy's latest choice is the iconic 1961 romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's which saw Audrey Hepburn deliver a career-defining performance as the eccentric and unpredictable socialite Holly Golightly, who is determined to make it big and marry a wealthy husband. But when young writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

Director: Blake Edwards

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Hal has gone back to one of his standout TV dramas from the archives and has selected one of the early episodes from the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Granada TV series that was broadcast on ITV from 1984-1994.

In this episode, titled "The Dancing Men", a gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes is drawn to the case and soon discovers why.

Director: John Bruce

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March 15, 2026 74 mins
Izzy's next choice is the highly rated Merchant Ivory production The Remains of the Day (1993), based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, about the story of the unexpressed affection between Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) - head butler at an English stately home shortly before World War II - and housekeeper Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson). Director: James Ivory
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March 8, 2026 75 mins

For Hal's selection this week, we ventured to London to see the Oscar-nominated period horror film Sinners (2025) on the big screen for the full movie-going experience.

Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, the film stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal identical brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are encountered by a supernatural evil. 

Director: Ryan Coogler

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March 1, 2026 77 mins
This week we are delighted to be joined again by Scott Phipps (host of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, as well as his own shows Reel Britannia, The Stinking Pause and Rainbow Valley podcasts) who has selected Hal and Izzy to review Paper Moon (1973), the wonderfully endearing road comedy-drama starring real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as protagonists Moze and Addie, who forge an unlikely partnership during the G...
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February 22, 2026 56 mins
Izzy's choice has landed on Valentines Day this week so she has decided to go big and select one of her all-time favourites for the podcast with About Time (2013), the British romantic comedy starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.  At the age of 21, Tim (Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a gir...
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February 15, 2026 46 mins
Hal has chosen the second French movie for the podcast this week with Priceless (2006), a romantic comedy starring Audrey Tatou and Gad Elmaleh.  A shy waiter (Elmaleh) who works at a high-end hotel is mistaken for a young millionaire by the beautiful and intriguing fortune hunter Irene (Tatou).  Director: Pierre Salvadori
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February 8, 2026 38 mins
For Izzy's choice this week, she has chosen the popular early 90's sports comedy film Cool Runnings, which is a first-time watch for Hal. When a Jamaican sprinter (Leon Robinson) is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach (John Candy) to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. Director: Jon Turteltaub
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February 1, 2026 54 mins
Hal is back on the Hitchcock marathon next week and has chosen the movie that he labels as the most underrated Hitch film from his canon of work. The Wrong Man is unique for being the only movie by the filmmaker based on a true story, based in 1953, where we see an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero (Henry Fonda) who is wrongly arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber. Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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January 18, 2026 57 mins
Izzy's next choice is the much-acclaimed Hollywood biographical political thriller about the Watergate Scandal, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as two reporters whose investigation for The Washington Post sheds light on the controversial scandal that compels the president to resign from his post. Director: Alan J. Pakula
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January 11, 2026 47 mins
For Hal's first choice of the year, we are going with the much-beloved Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy Gregory's Girl, starring John Gordon Sinclair as Gregory, a teenage boy, who falls in love with a classmate and tries to win her love. The girl (Dee Hepburn) who he holds affection for bags a place in the school's soccer team. Director: Bill Forsyth
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January 4, 2026 59 mins
We kick off 2026 in style with a big epic Izzy has been wanting us to cover for a long time, The Sound of Music (1965). Maria (Julie Andrews), an aspiring nun, is sent as a governess to take care of seven motherless children. Soon her jovial and loving nature tames their hearts and the children become fond of her, leading to her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and their escape durin...
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December 31, 2025 87 mins
To round off our first full year of film reviews, we have decided to record a special one-off Oscar awards episode to reflect, debate and celebrate our most respected movies that we have enjoyed watching in 2025. Our nominees in the given categories are as follows: Best Costume/Makeup: Phantom Thread (Mark Bridges) Little Women (Jacqueline Durran) Boogie Nights (Mark Bridges) Barry Lyndon (Milena Canonero & Ulla-Britt Soderlund...
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December 24, 2025 50 mins
For Hal's Christmas selection this year, he has chosen his favourite and "definitive" screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' festive novel of Scrooge ("A Christmas Carol") with Alastair Sim delivering an unforgettable performance as Ebenezer Scrooge, a spiteful and miserly man, who encounters three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him the folly of his ways. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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December 20, 2025 66 mins
Our first Christmas selection for the podcast this year is one of Izzy's all-time favourite films, The Holiday, the romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as Amanda and Iris, two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who arrange a home exchange to escape heartbreak during the Christmas and holiday season.  Director: Nancy Meyers
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November 29, 2025 54 mins
Hal's next choice is the 2011 black comedy film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award-winning 2006 play by Yasmina Reza.  Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behaviour throws the discussion into chaos. Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, & John C. Reilly Director: Roman Polanski
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November 23, 2025 57 mins
Izzy's latest selection is a highly-rated Swedish drama that marks not only our first film directed by the renowned filmmaker Ingmar Bergman but the final acting role for the exquisite Ingrid Bergman. The tale of Autumn Sonata depicts a world-renowned pianist (Ingrid Bergman) who visits her estranged daughter, Eva (Liv Ullmann), for the first time in seven years. Upon her arrival, she is confronted with suppressed bitterness which ...
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November 8, 2025 66 mins
For our final movie in the month of "Spook-tober", we were lucky enough to watch the iconic horror movie "The Thing" at the local cinema, on Halloween night.  The film tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing" an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer t...
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October 26, 2025 69 mins

Hal has chosen one of the all-time iconic gothic horror movies starring two of the most important female acting stars from Hollywood history.

A former vaudeville child star (Bette Davis) torments her paraplegic sister (Joan Crawford), who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

Director: Robert Aldrich

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October 19, 2025 54 mins
Izzy has selected the wonderful cult musical horror classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) this week, for our first official selection of "Spooktober" this year.  The story centres on a young engaged couple (Barry Bostwick & Susan Sarandon) whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle, where they search for help. The castle is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes holding a party. They then meet the head of the h...
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