Spool Film Podcast

Nigel and Páraic debate the best films of the year, with nods to Marriage Story (Nigel's #1), Bait (Páraic's #1), The Farewell, Pain and Glory, The Irishman and many more! PLUS some friends of Spool record their picks for 2019's best work. *SPOILER* See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

2010 - Inception, Unstoppable, The Social Network, Blue Valentine, Looking for Eric, Winters Bone, Black Swan, Scott Pilgrim, Greenberg 2011 - Drive, The Tree of Life, a Separation, Hugo, Moneyball, Take Shelter, Shame, Fast Five, Midnight in Paris, We Need to Talk About Kevin 2012 - Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, The Avengers, Amour, The Grey, Good Vibrations, After Lucia, Central Park Five, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, What Richard Did, Moonrise Kingdom, The Master 2013 - Gravity, Wolf of Wall Street, Mud, Frances Ha, Before Midnight, The Purge, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, 12 Years a Slave, The Way Way Back, The Place Beyond The Pines, The Selfish Giant, Django Unchained, Good Vibrations, The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 - Ex Machina, Her, Inside Llewellyn Davis, Obvious Child, 71, It Follows, Love & Mercy, a Most Violent Year, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, The Babadook, Magic in The Moonlight, Frank 2015 - Mad Max, Boyhood, Inside Out, The Revenant, Slow West, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Carol

Reviews of.... The Irishman, Monos, Marriage Story, Sorry We Missed You, Bait, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and Terminator: Dark Fate. Plus a look ahead to Knives Out and Frozen II! Boom. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's about time we sat down and dissected Todd Philips' JOKER, with both of us absorbed by the 70mm presentation of the film at Dublin's IFI. Also on the slab this month is Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad film EL CAMINO, the superb Awkwafina-starring THE FAREWELL, and James Gray and Brad Pitt's opus AD ASTRA. Plus remembering Robert Forster with a nod back to JACKIE BROWN. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month we're celebrating 1999 with a run-through of some of that year’s iconic releases. Back to the present day and we’re talking Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory, Scary Stories to tell in the Dark, Never Grow Old, Angel has Fallen and whatever other bits and bobs that have caught our eye. We’ll be looking ahead to James Gray’s Ad Astra, the Downton Abbey film and the IFI's renovations.Brad Pitt in Fight Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQtXjd12aoU See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Hateful 8 clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9D7xXOHKWw .Don't forget to review and rate this podcast wherever you are listening to it. See www.SpoolPodcast.ie for more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Páraic and Nigel are back and have an absolute bucket load of films to get through including Spider-Man: Far From Home, Child's Play, Apollo 11, Toy Story 4, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, Booksmart, Dark Phoenix, Rocketman, Diego Maradona, Murder Mystery, Late Night and Papi Chulo. And we preview the Galway Film Fleadh, and reveal the best and worst films we've seen this year... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s been a while! #RealLifeAnyway on the cards for Nigel and Páraic in this podcast…John Wick: Chapter 3 – ParabellumPokémon Detective PikachuAvengers: EndgameLong ShotShazamKnock Down the HouseMid90sEighth GradeThe post #84 – Is John Wick 3 a masterpiece or glorified computer game? Plus PIKACHU v AVENGERS.. appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Páraic, Nigel and Eithne go through this Sunday’s Oscar broadcast… View this post on Instagram Podcast recording for our annual Oscars preview! Been doing this with @myfavtalkies and @eithne.shortall for the last 5-odd years, and been watching the exravaganza live on and off since 2006 (We think). The new Spooool podcast will be available from iTunes, Spotify and HMV Xtravision from tomorrow…A post shared by Nigel Wheatley (@wheatln2) on Feb 19, 2019 at 12:08pm PST The post Pod 83: So, who’s gonna win an Oscar? (w/ guest Eithne Shortall) appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s getting close to Oscar season and it’s been a few weeks since we yacked away about films so we’ve got a wealth of things to talk through in the January podcast…The post Pod 82: Green Book v Beale Street v Driving Miss Daisy (kinda) appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Read the “Friends of Spooool” picks for the year’s best films It’s that time of the year where we sit down and argue about what the best films of the year were, while discretely taking notes about all the new things to add to our watch-list over Christmas.This year there’s three films that crossed over and featured on both of our lists – A Star is Born, Phantom Thread and Rosie. Nigel’s Top 10Nearly made-its…: Tully, Hereditary, The Shape of Water, The Old Man & The Gun, Lucky, BlacKkKlansman, BPM, Sorry to Bother You, JourneyMan, Black Panther, Lady Bird  10. Phantom Thread9. Mission Impossible: Fallout8. A Fantastic Woman7. First Reformed6. Creed II5. A Star is Born4. Widows3. Leave no Trace2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri1. Rosie   Páraic’s Top 1010. Hereditary9. Kissing Candice8. Shirkers7. A Star is Born6. Nico, 19885. Phantom Thread4. The Shape of Water3. Rosie2. American Animals1. JourneymanWe’ll be sharing some of the friends of Spooool lists tomorrow. Send yours in now – contact [at] s

Nigel Wheatley and Páraic McGeough have their “I’m with Stoopid t-shirts” t-shirts on for a quick run through four of the big films in cinemas right now that they’re digging.The post Pod 80: Raising a glass to Tom Waits, Robert Redford, Sly Stallone and Tessa Thompson appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve McQueen’s latest ‘Widows’ is one of the year’s smartest heist films and worth your money. We talk it, the Freddie Mercury biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’, Nic Cage’s crazy ‘Mandy’, Roddy Doyle’s ‘Rosie’ and lots more.The post Pod #79 – Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’, plus Bohemian Rhapsody, Mandy, Rosie & more appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Something a little different this month as we take advantage of a few days away by catching up with a classic of modern Irish cinema which (shamefully) neither of us had seen, The Crying Game. Yes, we knew about the infamous “twist” and all the awards that were showered upon Neil Jordan’s screenplay and directing, but somehow it had slipped through the net over the years…We’ll be back in a few weeks with a more conventional and structured podcast discussing the big October releases!The post Pod #78 – We watch ‘The Crying Game’, 1992’s most shocking film and legendary piece of Irish cinema appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After our annual summer break we’re back in the podcasting saddle with a look at three big releases – Blackkklansman, American Animals and Searching, along with a wrap up of all the other films of note we’ve seen over the last month. Also we preview Harry Dean Stanton’s farewell film in Lucky and discuss the connection between Blackkklansman and Airplane!. Yep.The post Pod #77 – The ‘BlackKklansman’ and ‘Airplane!’ connection, American Animals, Searching, Lucky & more appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We’re packing our bags for the west as we preview what’s coming to the 30th Galway Film Fleadh with some thoughts on Don’t Go, Damsel, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Katie, For Vagina’s Sake, Captain Morten And The Spider Queen and the IFB Shorts programme.Elsewhere box office taking have been way down this summer because of the World Cup, but what’s in the cinema for when it’s all done and dusted and football comes home?And of course we’ve got the regular business of in-cinema reviews for Leave No Trace, The Legacy of a Whitetail Hunter (which is only on Netflix!), Kissing Candice, Dublin Old School, Tag, Hereditary, and Ocean’s 8. We’re yet to see The First Purge, Sicario 2, Adrift, The Endless or The Incredibles 2.And there’s a few words on upcoming releases Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Skyscraper and Mission Impossible – Fallout.And because MI6 is out, we wrap up with a rewind look back at Brian de Palma’s 22-year-old Mission Impossible effort.The post Pod #76 – What’s coming to Galway Film Fleadh 201

We’re back in the podcasting saddle for a look at three big heavy-hitting blockbusters – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Deadpool 2, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. Beyond that The Breadwinner, Tully, Lean on Pete and Book Club are also up for discussion.And no-one seems to be talking about Cineworld’s new 4DX enhanced motion experience screen. Your seat moves, you get water sprayed on you and a machine punches you in the back. It’s a few quid more, but is absolutely gas. Nigel (who saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and Páraic (who saw Deadpool 2) have their say.The post Pod #75 – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in hilarious Cineworld 4DX, Book Club, Deadpool 2, Solo & more appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first of the summer’s ginormous blockbusters Avengers: Infinity War goes under the knife for some spoiler-tastic dissecting and some wild theories. Also up for discussion is Mark O’Rowe’s divisive The Delinquent Season, the Irish horror film The Cured, and The Rock’s giant gorilla movie Rampage. And Josh Brolin’s other movie Deadpool II is coming our way as is Solo: A Star Wars Story.The post Pod #74: Avengers Spoilerz, The Delinquent Season, Deadpool 2 & more appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s been a few weeks but we’ve got absolutely oodles of new and recent releases to burn through, including the superb Michael Inside and the hit-and-miss Isle of Dogs.We have since seen A Quiet Place and have quite diverging opinions… for next time!The post Pod #73 – Is ‘Isle of Dogs’ the first bad Wes Anderson movie? Is ‘Michael Inside’ the best Irish film of the year? appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

*re-uploaded due to dud mp3*It’s that time of the year again – Awards Season! And what better way to celebrate than to sit down with special guest Eithne Shortall (Sunday Times Chief Arts Writer and best-selling author) ahead of Sunday’s main event – The 90th Academy Awards.Note, since we recorded this, two critical things have happened…Sufjan Stevens has confirmed he will play at the OscarsEithne has seen and loved LadybirdThe post Pod #72 – An Oscars Conversation (w/ special guest Eithne Shortall) appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.