Best whatswrong1363 Podcasts (2025)

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Sisters (1973) 40:47

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Director Brian de Palma is known for his understated pastoral films, evoking emotion through silence and the quiet passing of time ....ha ha, just kidding, his films are crazy and this one's even more bonkers than the rest. Margot Kidder brings her usual greatness playing twins Dominique and Danielle, and everyone else is fab too. There's copious n…

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Suddenly Last Summer 46:32

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It's got Elizabeth Taylor at her luminous best! It's got Katherine Hepburn being all hysterical! Montgomery Clift referees, while providing cutting-edge mental health treatment (aka lobotomy) from the worst mental hospital in the world. Add in the New Orleans lush sweatiness, and the secret of what exactly happened to Katherine's son Sebastian last…

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A Question of Silence 41:19

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Three women, strangers to each other, wordlessly agree to murder a man. Are they insane, or is a silent refusal to explain a rational response when no-one is listening anyway? Marleen Gorris's 1982 Dutch feminist classic is a truly wonderful film. Pass it on.By whatswrong1363

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The Act of Killing 42:33

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What would happen if filmmakers gave the gangsters who carried out state-sponsored murder in Indonesia's dark history the chance to re-enact their crimes? The result is this jaw-dropping documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer (and Indonesian filmmakers, anonymous for their own safety). Unbearable stories with incredible images, shocking brutality with u…

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Terrifying sci-fi tales! 52:28

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THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN vs X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES - two fantastic films about what it means to be a man and being careful what you wish for. What happens when powers aren't super?By whatswrong1363

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The Wages of Fear 43:35

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It's a man's world in 1950s South America, when Yves Montand is tasked with transporting dangerously explosive nitro-glycerine across rough terrain. It's a job that only the poor and desperate will take on, and not everyone will make it. This is a thrill-a-minute intense journey, with Montand in a vest and neckerchief making this like riding the qu…

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The Lady Eve 47:25

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Conwoman meets a chump, and they fall in love, not once but twice, because everything's bigger and better in this dynamite screwball comedy. Barbara Stanwyck pretends to be someone else, but looks exactly the same. Henry Fonda falls over every bit of furniture. They're both smoking hot and funny as hell. All the cast are brilliant. There's a bit wi…

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Aguirre Wrath of God 36:53

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Herzog's epic-feeling but actually pretty spare take on one man's mad quest to travel downriver and find the fabled city of gold El Dorado in 16th century South America. And if you're looking for the one man with the maddest mad quest credentials, there is only Klaus Kinski, at his insane best here both on- and off-screen. Come for the history, sta…

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Wake in Fright 46:10

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The worst Christmas holiday ever. Teacher John Grant is travelling from his no-horse outback town to Sydney to meet his girlfriend, but drunkenness, gambling and the worst of macho humanity conspire to stop him. A horror movie where Australia is the monster.By whatswrong1363

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Border (2018) 33:58

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Tina is a Swedish border guard with a sixth sense for sniffing out baddies, whether they are drug smugglers or paedophiles. She can't explain her powers until she meets Vore, who has similar talents and a way of making Tina feel seen for the first time in her life. Can these two crazy kids make it work? Part romance (with a once-seen, never-forgott…

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Elephant 51:54

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Not long after the Columbine school massacre, Gus Van Sant and his group of amateur youngsters reimagine a school shooting by playing with time and perspective. What could have been a technical exercise is instead an extremely moving picture of random violence and young lives cut short. A one of a kind.…

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Hitchcock's Rope 50:31

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The master of perviness and his famed one-location, "one-shot" thriller (not really), with James Stewart unravelling the mystery, and John Dall and Farley Granger being one of the outest gay couples in 1950s Hollywood. Follow that nosy camera around the room and marvel.By whatswrong1363

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Videodrome 41:07

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TV times with James Woods and Debbie Harry in Cronenberg's icky sticky dissection of video nasties, watching the unthinkable and living through your screen. Long live the new flesh.By whatswrong1363

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The Conversation 55:07

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Listen carefully... Coppola's The Conversation is a masterpiece of misdirection, with Gene Hackman's Harry Caul the essence of paranoid loneliness. Sometimes you really can't believe your ears.By whatswrong1363

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The Day I Became A Woman 42:49

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How do you make a feminist film under a repressive theocracy like Iran? It's not a joke to say "very carefully", and Marzieh Meshkini has done just that. Three apparently separate stories of women and girls just trying to live their lives have more in common than we think. It sounds po-faced but it's not - these stories are funny and poignant, with…

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The Long Goodbye 49:32

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Philip Marlowe, hardboiled detective, finds himself in laid-back 1970s California, looking for lost cat, his lost client and his lost friend. There is a plot but that's not the point in Robert Altman's vision of Raymond Chandler, brought to life by a wonderful performance from Elliot Gould.By whatswrong1363

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Duck Soup 48:51

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Marx out of 10? 10 all the way for this Marx Brothers masterpiece. It's got mangled language, pratfalls and puns a-plenty and still has time to say that war is pointless and borders are imaginary. And it's 90 years old. HONK HONK.By whatswrong1363

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Titane 37:57

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The best film EVER about car sex, serial killing, steroid abuse, oil lactation, self-injury and fireman discos? Well it's certainly in the top ten. Titane is a weirdfest from start to finish, grounded by two amazing performances. French body horror at its best. Formidable.By whatswrong1363

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 47:00

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A man who doesn't want to run is being pursued by a man who doesn't want to chase him. Sam Peckinpah kills the Hollywood Western stone-dead in this dreamy meditation - when the West and the world are being transformed, what happens to men who can't change?By whatswrong1363

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Holy Smoke 38:18

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Kate Winslet gets in with a cult, Harvey Keitel tries to get her out of it through the power of his personality and a fetching red frock. Jane Campion wrangles the not-inconsiderable sexual heat between them. Smokin'.By whatswrong1363

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Lady in a Cage 47:55

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Olivia de Havilland is trapped in the slowest elevator in the world - her cries for help are heard by a vicious young hoodlum in the shape of a very scary James Caan, in this 1960s apocalyptic home invasion. Love doesn't lift them up where they belong.By whatswrong1363

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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 55:35

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Ghost Dog is a spiritual hit man who's sworn to protect the Mafia goon who saved his life. His best friends are an ice-cream man who speaks no English, a bookish little girl and a flock of pigeons. Oh, and the Mafia like hip hop. Watch this and swoon.By whatswrong1363

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Society 41:56

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Bill's not like the rest of his family -he's not blonde, he doesn't want to massage his sister and he feels there's some secret he's not being told. But maybe a nice dinner together will bring them closer. Come hungry!By whatswrong1363

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The Man Who Would Be King 48:42

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Colonial misadventure as Michael Caine and Sean Connery give career-best performances in their search to become kings in Victorian-era Afghanistan. The very definition of be careful what you wish for.By whatswrong1363

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Night of the Hunter 43:48

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Love and hate, light and dark, good and evil, innocence and guilt, all wrapped up in one of the most luminously beautiful films ever made. Actor Charles Laughton only got one chance to direct a film, and he didn't waste it. We've got LOVE tattooed on both knuckles for this one.By whatswrong1363

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Gilda 40:28

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Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls - Gilda is film noir at its most deviant. Ignore the "plot" (there isn't much of one), and just enjoy the sexual power games of Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and the other guy.By whatswrong1363

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Abel Ferrara double bill - Ms 45 and Bad Lieutenant 58:17

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Fear and loathing in NYC. Two visceral and gritty films from the king of Catholic guilt, Abel Ferrara, including a low-budget feminist thrill ride, and Harvey Keitel's best performance. They'll blow you away.By whatswrong1363

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American Psycho 53:23

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Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Then you'll love our take on American Psycho. We're really coming into our own, commercially and artistically.By whatswrong1363

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The Duke of Burgundy 35:11

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Tender love story, queer BDSM and lectures on butterflies - The Duke of Burgundy has something for all the family.By whatswrong1363

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Ten Years of Weird 56:32

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Our individual picks of the best weird films since 2013. Let's just say there are some disagreements.By whatswrong1363

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The Servant 33:40

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Cross-class power struggles and drug-fuelled paranoia in 60s Chelsea, with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox bringing the gay subtext front and centre in Joseph Losey's unsettling masterpiece.By whatswrong1363

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Daisies vs Celine and Julie Go Boating 55:23

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Girls just wanna have.... everything. We compare and contrast the get pissed-destroy punk attitude of 60s Czech women in Daisies, with the time-bending female detectives in Celine and Julie. Who run the world?By whatswrong1363

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Gun Crazy 43:03

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Film nor couple (he likes guns, she's just crazy) go on honeymoon. Crime spree ensues. A huge influence on the French New Wave and an incredible film in its own right.By whatswrong1363

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Mulholland Drive 51:50

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David Lynch's weird fest, a poison pen letter to Hollywood and an extraordinary Naomi Watts. Hear us rave.By whatswrong1363

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Her - computer love 37:17

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Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson are in love - sure, she's a computer operating system but nobody's perfect. A tender and erotic love story, a meditation on loneliness, and ScarJo's amazing voice. You can ask ChatGPT to write the perfect modern romance, but Spike Jonze has beaten you to it.By whatswrong1363

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Clint Eastweird - High Plains Drifter and The Beguiled 57:16

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How do you like your Eastwood - the strong silent type or the sneaky coward? Get you a Clint that does both in this deep-dive into 70s cinematic masculinity and the crisis thereof.By whatswrong1363

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Audition 33:56

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What's wrong with setting up a fake audition to find yourself a new wife? Nothing if you can keep your feet on the ground. Time bending, mind bending Japanese horror from Takashi Miike.By whatswrong1363

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Black Swan vs The Red Shoes - a dance-crazy double bill 53:00

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Gotta dance, gotta dance....we're backstage at the ballet but fame costs and right here's where they start paying. Body horror hallucination meets compulsion and control in this Aranofsky/ Powell and Pressburger pas de deux.By whatswrong1363

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All That Heaven Allows 35:05

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Passionate story of star-crossed lovers? Check. Searing indictment of suburban middle-class America? Check. Rock Hudson's shirts? Check. Mamma jamma melodrama giving birth to both David Lynch and soap opera. It's a doozie.By whatswrong1363

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Eyes Without a Face 32:06

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Dreamy dark shadows hide what's really going on behind the mask of respectability worn by esteemed surgeon Dr Genissier. Beautiful visuals and ethereal performances make this 1960 French horror unforgettable. No, Billy Idol doesn't sing the theme tune.By whatswrong1363

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Shock Corridor 52:09

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It's raining, men. Investigative journalist goes undercover in mental hospital to solve murder in this classic hard-boiled masterpiece. With NYMPHOS and stormy weather ahead.By whatswrong1363

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Stuck on You 50:23

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C'mon c'mon let's stick together. It's share and Cher alike as Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play conjoined twins in this Farrelly Brothers comedy. Can Walt make it in Hollywood as a serious actor and will his brother ever get off his back?By whatswrong1363

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Point Blank 51:34

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Lee Marvin at his coolest, in search of a bag of money and the man who left him for dead, but his search brings more questions than answers. Is there a Point? Why is he so Blank? There's more to this existentialist hitman than meets the eye in the uber-stylish1967 cult film. With added Angie Dickinson, which is never a wrong move.…

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Johnny Guitar 49:52

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Cowboys in aprons and heroes in ballgowns - these are a few of our favourite things. Gender-bending, blacklist-dodging Nicolas Ray kind-of-Western.By whatswrong1363