We end the November films about dysfunctional families on a high note...and by high note I mean at least the one family member dies at the start of the film, so we only have to witness the aftermath this time. Tune in to see if we liked what we had to witness.

Halfway through the films for November and it's another one about families and death. Although really more dying in this case. Just how depressing is this lineup making us here at the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast? Well you'll have to tune in to find out.

It's another family comedy(?) drama featuring a dying parent and a couple of weird kids. I know what you're thinking. How many of these films can you possibly do for the podcast? Well I'm going to guess at least two more.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

Wes Anderson films. They're a bit like marmite. You either love them or you hate them. And they almost always leave a weird taste in your mouth. But is that enough for us to withhold a recommendation this week? Tune in to find out!

Concluding our October spooooooky month of films, we have the 1968 classic Hammer Horror film The Devil Rides Out, starring one half of everyone's favorite horror duo: Christopher Lee! Evidently Peter Cushing was away on holiday or something? Don't know. Anyway, here's our review!

Are you feeling down about the tragic death of your husband and daughter in a car accident that left you yourself in a coma? Then the tourism bureau of North Carolina has the solution for you! Try spelunking in one of our many unexplored, dangerously unmarked caves! There's a 1 in 6 chance that you'll survived! And we definitely don't have a race o…

You know for as cliché a horror trope as a cabin in the woods is, I'm amazed it took until 2011 for someone to make a horror film called A Cabin In the Woods. But was it worth the wait? Tune in and hear what we think!

It's one of those traditional cabin in the middle of nowhere stories, except in this case, the cabin is really nice. But is the film nice? Tune in and find out what we thought...

After a brief break we are back with a spooky set of films for October, starting with the reboot redux of the Ghostbusters franchise. But is the film worthy of its pedigree? Tune in and find out what we think!

Are you tired of all those mobster films that glamourize a life of crime? Then you should try The Rise and Fall Of Legs Diamond, which creates a main character so loathsome that even his friends seem to hate him!

You know now that I think of it, for a film called Race With the Devil, the Devil never actually makes an appearance. Odd.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

Imagine making an entire movie about having to sit at the very back of the car. If only this had been that movie.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

Hey remember that time back in the 80's when it was perfectly acceptable to send your shy and nervous young son off into the wilderness with a potentially unhinged stranger who was only like five years older than him? Those were the days.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

On this episode of the podcast, we're off to theater camp! Rambunctious terrors running around being overly dramatic and feuding constantly with each other. And that's just the cohosts!The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

Another month, another theme. And this month, as we stare down the approach of autumn, we take a look a collection of summer getaway films, starting with a slightly nonsensical relaunch of the beach party genre, twenty plus years after its prime. But don't worry, we're in the safe hands of Frankie and Annette, so how bad could it go? Tune in and fi…

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a robot who was once a boy but was disowned by his father for becoming a robot despite turning the boy into a robot in the first place and then trying to sell him out in order to remain close to a megalomaniacal President only to, at the very last minute, have a change of heart and we are sudd…

A Hammer horror film about a elderly deranged religious zealot woman living in a rundown mansion in rural England? Yes please! Or maybe no...tune in and find out!The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

It turns out Milton's secret is how to make this film enjoyable or entertaining. It continues to be, by all accounts, a very well kept secret.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

Hey you know that grumpy guy that predicts cell phones will lead to terrible things for society? Well they've made a movie about him! But also he's dead most of the time, because, ya know, Stephen King.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast returns for season two! And we begin with a month dedicated to films featuring the great Donald Sutherland. To kick things off, he is joined by his son Kiefer in a western called Forsaken.The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

It takes a lot to make Great Britain look like the plucky underdog victim in a sovereignty deciding naval dustup, but somehow Argentina rose to the challenge during the 1982 Falklands War. Oh and a lot of Margaret Thatcher doing that Margaret Thatcher thing. Recommendations: Glenn: Arthur (1981 film) Sarah: The Boat That Rocked (2009 film) Cameron:…

A post-James Bond Sean Connery teams up with a pre-James Bond Christopher Walken and a somewhat lackluster group of other robbers to knock over an entire building's worth of apartments. It goes...poorly. Recommendations: Glenn: The Gentlemen (2024 series) Sarah: Baby Reindeer (2024 series) Cameron: Stand By Me (1986 film)…

Ah 1970's Disney. A time when the eligible pool of well known television characters was so great that they could make as many live action films as they wanted. Does that mean sometimes the creative well might have gotten a little dry? Sure. But if it hadn't, we wouldn't have gotten The Cat From Outer Space! Recommendations: Glenn: The Sting (1973 f…

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week. But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast! Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the o…

Excitement meanders across the screen as a seemingly geriatric Gary Cooper wanders around trying to fight a court martial with varying degrees of confusion and self-righteousness. Recommendations: Glenn: Death At A Funeral (2007 film) Sarah: Hacksaw Ridge (2016 film) Cameron: Waterloo (1970 film)The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

If you really like Alec Guinness, then this film is for you. Two Alec Guinness for the price of one. Throw in a deranged Bette Davis, and you have yourself a deal! Recommendations: Glenn: Aliens directors cut (1986 film) Sarah: The Da Vinci Code (2006 film) Cameron: Feud: Betty and Joan (2017 television series)…

If you thought the title was questionable, when until you find out that the plot involves a celebrity tv dinner entrepreneur who travels back to WWI to stop a secret German sonic superweapon. Titles not so bad now, is it? Recommendations: Glenn: Cinema Paradiso (1988 film) Sarah: Lovely, Dark and Deep (2023 film) Cameron: The Prisoner (1967 televis…

If you think the United States has a sometimes messy political system, this movie reminds us that others can suffer from the same problems, albeit in this case in a more stiff upper lip, British sort of way. Recommendations: Glenn: The Wrecking Crew (2008 film) Sarah: Arrival (2016 film) Cameron: Staged (2020 television series)…

Leslie Nielsen as the baddy. Sort of. But not really. A searing depiction of the harm reckless journalism can have on an innocent man. Sort of. But not really. Recommendations: Glenn: The God's Must Be Crazy (1980 film) Sarah: Focused (2015 film) Cameron: Jojo Rabbit (2019 film)The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

It's that old cliche: classical pianists loses hands in a cab accident and needs to have the hands of a potential criminal attached to him and it somehow it turns him into a revenge filled serial killer. Yawn. Recommendations: Glenn: Moonstruck (1987) Sarah: Knives Out (2019) Cameron: The Insider (1999)…

So what would you do if you were given a million pound note and told that if you held on to it for one month and returned it intact, you could have some sort of job? Cash the note and take the million pounds? Well that's the obvious answer, but turns out Gregory Peck decided on a slightly different route. Recommendations: Glenn: Bullets Over Broadw…

Orson Welles stars in the film Compulsion. And by "stars" I mean he shows up about 2/3rds of the way through the film. So obviously we're using "stars" in a sort of abstract sort of way. Better to use the word "saves". Tune in to hear our review! Recommendations: Glenn: The Castle (1997 film) Sarah: Saltburn (2023 film) Cameron: Ordinary People (19…

A searing courtroom drama this is not. Peter Sellers and David Attenborough both play rather sad and lonely characters, one a murderer, one a barrister. We haven't really sold it that well here. Tune in and see if we do any better. Recommendations: Glenn: Talking Pictures (film podcast...traitor!) Sarah: Northern Exposure (1990 television series) C…

In this week's episode, the beloved Jimmy Stewart plays the accordion-wielding hero we never knew we needed in our lives in a searing and quite heavily train-based Western, Night Passage. Recommendations: Glenn: Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981 film) Sarah: Godless (2017 Netflix series) Cameron: Women Talking (2022 film)…

A searing depiction of the real life consequences of buying cookies from Girl Scouts. At least that's what we got from the film. But did we like it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Sicario (again) (2015 film) Sarah: Anatomy Of A Fall (2023 film) Cameron: The Holdovers (2023 film)The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

So sometimes we end up watching a serious movie on the BWB Film Club podcast. On this week's episode, we will be taking a look at a film about the Attica Prison riot. I was going to make a pun about the cohosts rioting, but it seems a bit inappropriate given the subject matter, so you better just tune in and find out if we like the film! Recommenda…

A British murder mystery that clocks in at less than an hour long? How bad could that be? If only there were a way to tune into something and find out... Recommendations: Glenn: Alien (1979 film) Sarah: Fighting With My Family (2019 film) Cameron: Once Upon A Time In the West (1968 film)

Robert Duvall plays a curmudgeonly Scottish football manager in this plucky sports film about a plucky sports team being plucky. But just how plucky was it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Rocky (1976 film) Sarah: Eileen (2023 film) Cameron: Sunderland 'Til I Die (2018 series)

Michael Caine realizes he can kill people with the incredible wizard-like powers of being really lucky. Mild mannered chaos ensues. Do we like the shock that we got from watching A Shock To the System? Tune in a find out! Recommendations: Glenn: The Return Of the Pink Panther (1975 film) Sarah: The Stranger (2020 Netflix miniseries) Cameron: Godzil…

Meanwhile in a television development meeting... "Hey so we've got this idea for a reclusive archvillain that lives on a remote island in Scotland and experiments with deadly sound waves. Who do you think we should cast?" "Sean Connery?" "Oh and they have to be female." "Uh...I think Deborah Kerr is Scottish?" "Oh and they need to be Chinese." "Bet…

It's the end of the year and your favorite podcast cohosts are taking a moment to look back at the films we watched in 2023. Also we discuss some holiday classics and we become far too sentimental about spending time together! It's all in this week's special end of the year episode! Tune in!The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

You know those movies that people describe as "musicals for people who don't like musicals"? This film may be the opposite of that. It might be useful therapy for those who wish to ween themselves off of musicals. Despite some heavy hitting talent (pun intended), does this movie score a home run or is it out on first? Tune in and find out! Recommen…

Hey remember that time that James Bond and Paddington Bear teamed up to help the French beat back the Germans? No? Well let us remind you in our review of the 1999 British WWI film The Trench! Recommendations: Glenn: All the Light We Cannot See (2023 film) Sarah: Edge Of Tomorrow (2016 film) Cameron: Summer Of Soul (2021 film)…

George C. Scott plays a confidence man who takes a young drifter played by Michael Sarrazin under his wing. They lie and steal their way through the south, tricking honest people out of the hard earned dough. This we we are down as Sarah, but we pick up a Josh. Tune in and find out what we think of The Flim-Flam Man. Recommendations: Glenn: Dirty R…

A film with an exclamation mark in the title!? How could it be bad? Join us as we review the 1960 British WWII war drama Sink the Bismarck!(!) Recommendations: Glenn: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 film) Sarah: The Finest Hours (2016 film) Cameron: Life (2015 film)The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

What do James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have in common? Nothing, you say? Well not so fast, because apparently they do, in as much as Roger Moore has played them both. His Bond is iconic enough, but what of his Sherlock Holmes? Have we deduced that he played the role successfully? Tune in and find out. Recommendations: Glenn: The Great Escape (1963 …

Peter Ustinov plays the role of an embezzler working for a company with one of those newfangled computers. Hilarity ensues. Or does it? Tune in and find out what we think! Recommendations: Glenn: The Dirty Dozen (1967 film) Sarah: Criminal: UK (2019 Netflix series) Cameron: Bobby Kennedy For President (2018 Netflix documentary)…

On this week's episode, a British horror film about a very shouty man. Starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York and a minor role for Tim Curry, as, strangely, the most normal person in the film. Do we give this film a shout? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944 film) Sarah: The Fall Of the House Of Usher (20…

On this week's episode we watch Denzel Washington's first film. It is comedy based on race relations. Uh huh. So is it worth a watch? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: The Rewrite (2014 film) Sarah: The Devil's Hour (2022 miniseries) Cameron: The Hitchhiker (1953 film)The Better With Booze Film Club tarafından oluşturuldu

Doris Day and Jack Lemmon team up in a romantic comedy featuring everyone's favorite things: lobsters, trains and small town democracy! But what exactly happened to Jane? And does it make for a compelling viewing? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Lessons In Chemistry (2023- series) Sarah: Grumpy Old Men (1993 film) Cameron: Taking Of P…