Pick a Flick!
Is there a particular film you love, or have seen, that you wish more people knew about? Do you want to know fun, interesting and potentially quite surprising details about your favourite, and least favourite films?If you answered yes, then PICK A FLICK! is the podcast for you.Hosted by former Black Hole Cinema team Tony Black, Emma Platt & Dan Taylor, it's designed to hand the power of film podcasting back to the audience, our rule is simple: we don't pick the films we talk about - *you* do.Are you passionate about tacky romance films? Do you punch the air at the worst B-movies known to mankind? Secretly are you curious about films with a lot of boobies? Never fear! Your podcasters are here.There is no film we won't watch, that we won't study, that we won't suffer. Then we will podcast about it in excruciating detail, all for you.So join in! Nominate a film via our Twitter or Facebook handles and we'll add it to our roster and give you a lovely mention while we do it.PICK A FLICK! You pick a film. We watch it. Simple. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
June 19, 2016 • 58 mins
Alien vs Predator... who wins? Not the creatures, but the franchises...Dave Bond hosts this week, joined by PAF first timers Matt Lambourne & Elton McManus, to talk Ridley Scott's ALIEN & John McTiernan's PREDATOR - plus give their ideas for a perfect meeting of these two characters.TWITTER: https://twitter.com/pickaflickpodFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/p1ckaflick/?ref=hliTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/pick-a-flick...
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June 12, 2016 • 49 mins
It's all about Christopher Nolan this week as guest host Steven Bateman is joined by returning guest Jane Douglas-Jones, and all new guest Ben Beck, to discuss two key films in his oeuvre.THE PRESTIGE and INTERSTELLAR, with a broader look at Nolan's work in cinema, are discussed and dissected - join us to hear more.TWITTER: https://twitter.com/pickaflickpodFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/p1ckaflick/?ref=hliTUNES: https://itunes....
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June 5, 2016 • 80 mins
Like a bad penny that always turns back up, PICK A FLICK! sees Matt Latham (of The Bottle Episode) return as a guest this time for the second Pick a TV Show! episode, hosted by Tony Black - this time talking all things Friends.Tony & Matt get into the storylines, the characters, and what made Friends the biggest TV sensation of the 90's, as they wonder if the show has ever truly gone away...TWITTER: https://twitter.com/pickaflickpo...
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June 1, 2016 • 79 mins
We head across the world for some South Korean ultraviolence this week, as PICK A FLICK! focuses on the celebrated 'Vengeance Trilogy' which proved a landmark in Korean cinema. Paul Field hosts, alongside Andrew Brooker, as both take an occasionally filthy but always entertaining look at three Korean movies.SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE, the first in the 'trilogy', the most famous OLDBOY (which was of course remade for US audiences), ...
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May 29, 2016 • 47 mins
Dim the lights! Cue the music! For PICK A FLICK! is going off the reservation once again, and moving away from movies altogether for the 'backdoor pilot' of a brand new, possible spin-off show - PICK A DISC!The brainchild of Matt Latham (of The Bottle Episode), it follows the same rules as PAF - you pick an album, we talk about it, simple. Joining Matt to talk about the nominated album in this episode is old friend and music affici...
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May 22, 2016 • 51 mins
Modern horror is the order of the day in this weeks PICK A FLICK! Our own horror maestro, Emma Platt, journeys over from her horror-dedicated podcast DEAD MEAT to host this creepy episode, alongside debutante Clint Thiele - popping in from the Geekdig Podcast.On the menu, they discuss Jennifer Kent's breakout 2014 horror hit, The Babadook, and also memorable found footage British creepster The Borderlands - one of those films with ...
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May 14, 2016 • 81 mins
We pay a visit to the Master of Suspense this week as Chris Haigh, a long time lover of Alfred Hitchcock, steps up for his first attempt as host - joined by seasoned film podcaster Mike White, of The Projection Booth, and classic film blogger Ruth Kerr, both in debut appearances on PICK A FLICK!Films on the agenda are REAR WINDOW, Hitch's 1954 classic as nominated by WHIST? Podcast, and VERTIGO - nominated by FilmMeIn - a 1958 outi...
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May 7, 2016 • 54 mins
How's this for a slice of fried gold? PICK A FLICK! tackles three (or should that be two?) modern classics this time around, with returning host Dave Bond (of Do You Expect Us to Talk?) joined by two show debutantes - Paul Hawkins (one half of the Blokebusters Podcast) and Andrew Dodderidge, in his first ever podcast experience - to talk the 'Cornetto Trilogy'.First, SHAUN OF THE DEAD--the first team up of old friends Edgar Wright,...
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April 30, 2016 • 72 mins
"Avengers... A--"The Earth's mightiest heroes are put under the spotlight for this experimental episode of PICK A FLICK! this week, as Tony "Stark" Black and "The Mighty" Andrew Brooker try and 'fix' 2015's epic Marvel sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron.Nominated by Brooker to be fixed, he and Tony tackle the film in three stages: what they liked about it, where it went wrong, and finally how they could go about fixing it. On the eve ...
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April 23, 2016 • 60 mins
PICK A FLICK! gives the middle finger to the Establishment and the whole of the Cannes Film Festival as we focus on the unique, hugely divisive and often difficult auteur this week that is Mr. Lars von Trier.Host Philip Sharman (1/3rd of the award-winning Wikishuffle podcast) is joined by friend Ruth Bradley and in her first time podcasting, Jane Douglas-Jones, undertaking the impressive 500 Days of Film project which she discusses...
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April 16, 2016 • 49 mins
Coca coooola! Lipstick ring! Dance all night! Dance all night! This is the way you like it as PICK A FLICK! explores music-themed movies with host Dave Bond (loaned from Do You Expect Us to Talk?) plus guests Stacey Taylor (she of the Pop Culture Parlour) and debutante on the show, Lee Grice.Nominated by Zack Lockwood, the trio take a close look at FRANK, the Lenny Abrahamson critically appreciated take on the Frank Sidebottom phen...
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April 9, 2016 • 59 mins
The 80's! Perm hair! Synthesizers! Tie-die t-shirts! Oh and a wealth of comedies from both sides of the Pond which PICK A FLICK! examine in this episode, hosted by Emma Platt of Dead Meat - joined by The Bottle Episode curator Matt Latham & film journalist & host of Failed Critics: Underground Nights, Paul Field.Nominated by Andy Moseley, they take a serious look, Shirley, at AIRPLANE! The Zucker brothers seminal comedy that opened...
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April 2, 2016 • 61 mins
'Tis the season for Zack Snyder, fa la la la la la, la laaa laaa laaa---ahem, yeah, given Snyder is all in vogue, we thought we might keep the focus on the big man as Chris Wallace (hosting for the first time) and Wikishuffle compadre Phil Sharman are joined by Pop Culture Parlour's Stacey Taylor.They look at WATCHMEN, Snyder's divisive adaptation of Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons's unfilmable graphic novel, square the focus on Alan Moo...
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March 28, 2016 • 56 mins
In the second of a two-part episode of PICK A FLICK!, it's the battle of the titans you've all been waiting for... Black VS Brooker--uh sorry, Batman VS Superman!Tony Black is joined by Failed Critics' own Andrew Brooker to examine the brand new BATMAN VS SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, and take in some audience feedback on it along the way - did it triumph or falter?TWITTER: https://twitter.com/pickaflickpodFACEBOOK: https://www.facebo...
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March 27, 2016 • 61 mins
In the first two-part episode of PICK A FLICK!, it's the battle of the titans you've all been waiting for... Black VS Brooker--uh sorry, Batman VS Superman! Or the road to it, at least...Tony Black is joined by Failed Critics' own Andrew Brooker to examine two key DC Comics movies that, in different ways, helped spawn the brand new Batman VS Superman: Dawn of Justice.THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, as nominated by James Morton, and MAN OF S...
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March 19, 2016 • 56 mins
Put on your glad rags. Dust off the Manolo's. It's time to shop until you drop, or rather pod until you drop, as we enter the not-at-all stereotypical world of the 'chick flick'!Emma Platt hosts, joined by guests Chris Haigh (because she contractually can't host without a Chris), and knicked from Failed Critics, Steve Norman, to talk CLUELESS (1995) and SEX AND THE CITY 2 (2010).Thanks to Maaya Brooker & Tom Barwick for their nomin...
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March 12, 2016 • 90 mins
Calling all you sh*t faced co*kmasters out there! It's our unofficial 90's comedy special in which Tony Black returns, joined by The Bottle Episode's incorrigible Matt Latham, to talk comedy movies very close to their 90's kid hearts.Firstly, nominated by James Morton, SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, which Tony & Latham must constantly resist the urge to break out into a quote-off about, or indeed sing its brace of tunes.Amidst...
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March 5, 2016 • 59 mins
War? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing? Find out as we borrow Failed Critics host Steve Norman to chair this latest Pick a Flick!, alongside Cinematic Dramatic's Leslie Byron Pitt, to tackle modern warfare alongside a soupcon of fate, destiny and weird talking rabbits.Thanks to Teresa Votypkova for nominating ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012) and Jakob Barnes for DONNIE DARKO (2001). Thanks to contributors on Twitter for their suggesti...
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February 27, 2016 • 60 mins
If you've ever listened to Black Hole Cinema, you'll know of the hate reserved for Woody Allen by host Emma Platt, and her guests Chris Haigh & from our friends Cinematronix, Chris Byrne. Now, Pick a Flick! brings you the full force of their anti-Woody sentiment.Thanks to the nomination of BLUE JASMINE, by The Comic Roast, Emma and her favourite Chris' begin their rampage over Woody as they decide whether his recent Oscar-baiter is...
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February 20, 2016 • 74 mins
It's a podcast within a podcast within a podcast this week as Wikishuffle's own Phil Sharman takes the Pick a Flick! hosting chair, joined by two debutantes to the show - firstly his old friend Ruth Bradley and, of Filmback TV, the show's first transatlantic guest Claire Tanner.Their first picked flick, from Matthew Brady, is SYNEDOCHE, NEW YORK, from the unique mind that is Charlie Kaufman, and all three have some fascinating opin...
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