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Oh Arnie, you’ve disappointed us!Aswell as Terminator Genisys, also on the slate for discussion this month are Jurassic World, Let us Prey, The Look of Silence, She’s Funny That Way and Slow West.Watch With Spooool sees us dissecting two famous “final films”, Giant (James Dean) and The Misfits (Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe), we spend a few minutes previewing the 2015 Galway Film Fleadh, we preview July’s big animation releases and then wrap things up chatting about Jaws (which is 40 this years and is our ultimate summer film).Don’t forget to give us a rating in iTunes if you’re listening that way.The post Podcast #31 – The Terrible Terminator appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lots of chat this month about the dystopian world of Mad Max from 1979 through to 2015.Also reviews of San Andreas, Tomorrowland and Unfriended, and a look ahead to June releases Mr. Holmes, Slow West and Jurassic World.The post Podcast #30 – 1979 Mad Max V 2015 Mad Max appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With blockbuster season now kicked off we go spoiler-heavy and look at Avengers: Age of Ultron and Furious 7. And reviews for John Wick, Glassland, Force Majeure and A Little Chaos and a special look at our podcast poster-boy Kurt in Cobain: Montage of Heck.Watch With Spooool returns as we discuss the Todd Haynes classic Safe (1995) and the Oscar-nominated action film Runaway Train (1985). Finally a look ahead to May with talk of San Andreas and Mad Max.The post Spooool.ie Podcast #29 – Avengers, Cobain, Runaway Train, Mad Max & more appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SO MANY FILMZZZ.It’s nearly all JDIFF this month as we tackle a whole load of films we saw, don’t forget to check out the full slate of reviews over here though.We also discuss the IFI’s Critical Take (Páraic speaks tonight – Tuesday 31st) and their Reading Pictures Course.We’re also bringing back Watch With Spooool for the spring with two films – Runaway Train (1985) and Safe (1995), both celebrating anniversaries this year.[youtuber id=”0g3d1xOF59Y”][youtuber id=”WnNEjYGkdHA”][youtuber id=”L9MH3at20VI”][youtuber id=”cxdtnfyLo4U”][youtuber id=”5Qjt6Jzm0-s”][youtuber id=”_RzmjzP2GoM”]The post Spooool.ie Podcast #28 – JDIFF 2015 Round-up appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s a very special Oscar edition of the Spooool.ie podcast with a very special guest, Miss Eithne Shortall.Our latest pod is all about the Academy Awards which take place this Sunday night at 1am Irish time (5pm local time in Hollywood). We talk a little about the leading categories but also a look back on years gone by and share some of our favourite clips.[youtuber id=”oQKuNHhX8Js”][youtuber id=”I_VJtDZBttY”][youtuber id=”p0vE7pR5gg8″]The post Spooool.ie Podcast #27 – Oscar Predictions and favourites with Nigel, Páraic and Special guest Eithne Shortall appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No January blues here, as we go review crazy and give our two cents on Selma, American Sniper, Kingsman: The Secret Service, EX_MACHINA, A Most Violent Year, Birdman, Wild, Foxcatcher, The Theory of Everything and Enemy.Big Oscars special coming on February 20th! Send us your predictions and wishes to contact@spooool.ie or @spoooolersThe post Spooool.ie Podcast #26 – Racist Academy, Big love for Oscar Isaac and Birdman’s brilliance appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 See All Our Best of 2014 Coverage Separate Top 10s and a combined Top 5? That’s cheating you cry! It may be, but we did it in 2013 and 2012, so there. We like to celebrate the individual here at Spooool.ie and then bring our collective minds together to get those collaborative juices flowing. As old grandma Spooool used to SAY, there ain’t nothing like a collaboration to keep you warm at night. Grandma Spooool had many friends.So following lengthy debate and argument… Behold! It is as if Moses has once again descended Mount Sinai to bring forth the laws of God only these probably won’t wreck people’s buzz as much. The Spooool.ie Best Films of 2014 are below.Don’t forget to listen to our 25th podcast for our take on a great year at the movies. It’s available at the top of the post or on iTunes or Soundcloud.See Páraic’s Top 10 | See Nigel’s Top 10 | All Best of 2014The GuestAdam Wingard and Simon Barrett the men behind You’re Next returned with another genre specific film that ticks all the boxes. It’s an inf

With Thanksgiving in the United States, JJ Abrams treated us to the Star Wars trailer. What did we make of it? Listen in to find out!We also learn about…“The classic foreign film trailer”The problem with Chevy ChaseThe magic of Gene HackmanBill Hader’s gay man acting abilityPaddington gets reviewed. Thumbs up.The French Connection II and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation are on the Watch With Spooool slateAnd we look ahead to December’s new releases – The Hobbit, Black Sea and UnbrokenOur end of year lists will be online from December 15-19th so send us on your lists and we can feature and critique them – contact@spooool.ie or @spoooolers on Twitter.[youtuber id=”OMOVFvcNfvE”][youtuber id=”4wNYcbiIwFw”][youtuber id=”8ihEZMMOYmQ”]The post Spooool.ie Podcast #24 – Star Wars Trailer Talk, Paddington reviewed and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s Hallowe’en but we’re dispensing with horror and opting for some time with Hollywood heavy-weights with reviews for Fury (Brad Pitt), Interstellar (Matthew McConaughey) and Nightcrawler (Jake Gyllenhaal). Aside from those People magazine-friendly faces, we’re also looking at The Babadook, ’71 and Gone Girl.Wondering about what’s coming our way in November? We preview The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Imitation Game.As part of our Watch With Spooool series we also tackled two early Stanley Kubrick films, The Killing and Paths of Glory. And also Scene It features this classic from 2001: A Space Odyssey which is re-released in selected cinemas on November 28th.We’ll have more info on our sequel Watch with Spooool in the coming days.The post Spooool.ie Podcast #23 – Hollywood Heavyweights & Early Kubrick appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 To mark the IFI’s Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival, our latest Spooool.ie podcast saw us looking at two classic documentaries, Hoop Dreams which is celebrating its 20th anniversary next month, and Errol Morris’ seminal work The Thin Blue Line. There’ll be details of our next Watch With Spooool.ie here on the site later.We also go crazy with new reviews tackling The Equalizer, I Origins, Maps to the Stars, The Riot Club, Ida, Wish I Was Here, Pride and The Guest.And as always we look ahead to October and pick out some of the notable films coming our way.The post Spooool.ie Podcast #22 – Documentary time. And lots of reviews appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s September and a nation of boys and girls are heading back to school. To celebrate we had another Watch With Spoool viewing for the 1968 British boarding school drama If…. and Michelle Pfeiffer-starring Dangerous Minds from 1995. We stick with the education theme and honour Robin Williams with our Scene It selection for the month which comes from Dead Poets Society.We’re also reviewing Obvious Child, Million Dollar Arm, Lucy, Two Days One Night and Mood Indigo and previewing some of the best picks for September. Lastly we preview the 2014 IFI Stranger Than Fiction festival with thoughts on the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself.[youtuber id=”SnAyr0kWRGE”]The post Spooool.ie Podcast #21 – Back to School Special appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s the summer time! What better way to celebrate than to a tackle your nearest fire hydrant with a crowbar and cool off with the latest Spooool.ie podcast on your (hopefully waterproof) headphones.This month we’re celebrating the looking at two films considered modern classics as Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing are on the slate in the latest Watch With Spooool.We’re also reviewing Guardians of the Galaxy, Boyhood, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Joe as well as peering ahead to the muggy skyline of August as The Inbetweeners 2 and Lucy approach.[youtuber id=”V4jg8o9wXys”]The post Spooool.ie Podcast #20 – Do The Right Thing @ 25 and Richard Linklater’s Dazed & Confused appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our June/July podcast comes slap bang in the middle of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but we’re doing our best to pretend it isn’t happening with our reactions to Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Cold in July, The Fault in Our Stars, 22 Jump Street and A Million Ways to Die in the West.At the 26 minute mark we’re also dipping into the 2014 Galway Film Fleadh programme to see what treats lie in store out west, including Patrick’s Day, Get Up and Go, Glassland, Begin Again and the afternoon with Brenda Fricker. It’s all going to be soundtracked by the Saw Doctors obviously.We’re then looking at the slate of films coming our way in July like Joe and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and we break our own rule by wrapping up with a very special trip back in time to Italia ’90 with Roddy Doyle….Don’t forget to get in touch on twitter @spoooolers, subscribe on iTunes here and follow on Soundcloud here.[youtuber id=”Gaj2vONg67I”]The post Spooool.ie Podcast #19 – Galway Film Fleadh, Mrs. Brown & prete

This month we’re going all low brow and ordering a kilogram of buttered popcorn and a tankard of Coca-Cola to do our now annual summer blockbuster discussion. Up for discussion are reviews and reaction to X-Men: Days of Future Past, Edge of Tomorrow and Godzilla and a look ahead to Transformers: Age of Extinction, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Guardians of the Galaxy. We also briefly put the blockbusters to one side to highlight two great films from May – A Touch of Sin and Blue Ruin. With Tom Cruise in cinemas with Edge of Tomorrow we’re also travelling back in time to consider some of the big blockbusters that pulled us into our local multiplex ten years ago including his film Collateral, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-Man 2, The Village, DodgeBall, AnchorMan, The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11. The full “Scene It” segment from Collateral is embedded below.And lastly, as always, we look ahead to the next 30 days to see the delights in store for us, which this month include 

The May podcast takes a special look at Irish movies in 2014 as we try to work out whether we’re living in some sort of golden age or if it’s just coincidence that there are so many popular home-grown titles at the moment. Up for discussion are (deep breath)… Frank, Calvary, Run & Jump, The Stag, Living in a Coded Land, The Sea, Last Days on Mars, Patrick’s Day, Out of Here and Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie. Following on from this we relay some of the talking points of the IFI’s Spotlight event which was held a few weeks ago to try and get a sense of the current state of Ireland’s film and TV industry.And as usual there’s a whole tonne of reviews and previews to behold as we also look back on The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Noah, Tracks, Locke and Transcendence and look ahead to X-Men: Days of Future Past and Postman Pat.And finally we pay tribute to Adam & Paul on its 10th anniversary with our closing “Scene It” scene.Don’t forget to get in touch on twitter @spoooolers, subscribe on iTunes here and follow on S

The March/April podcast…We tackle Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and we go back into the archives to watch the David Bowie’starring cult classic The Man Who Fell to Earth, featuring the thin white duke’s mickeyMarch movie reviews of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Muppets Most Wanted, The Double, Starred Up and The Grand Budapest Hotel.April movie previews of Noah and The Raid II: BerandalPreview of a few upcoming Sci-Fi films that are due our way this yearA nod to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in this month’s Scene It classic sceneGet in touch on twitter @spoooolers. Subscribe on iTunes here. The post Spooool.ie Podcast #16 – Sci-Fi Special & April’s Attractions appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest Spooool.ie podcast, Nigel and Páraic are on the couch to talk about…The 2014 Oscars! Hollywood’s big night is this Sunday and we run through EVERY SINGLE FEATURE NOMINEE, share awesome trivia, recollect some Oscar memories from the past and make our final picks for the big categories.Highlights from the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival including Under the Skin, The Past, Circles and Only Lovers Left Alive. February movie moments from The LEGO Movie and Robocop.March picks like The Zero Theorem and Starred Up.And finally a “Scene it” moment from a Danny Boyle classic which puts Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity to shame.Please let us know what you think on twitter @spoooolers. Subscribe on iTunes here.The post Spooool.ie Podcast #15 – We’ve got Oscar fever! appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first podcast of 2014 and number 14 in our series features…A preview of the forthcoming Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, including Calvary (pictured above), Stag, The Double, The Grand Budapest Hotel and GoldA yack about the big Oscar contenders that came at us week after week this January – American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn DavisNigel reviews Peter Berg and Taylor Kitsch’s follow-up to Battleship – Lone SurivorPáraic’s practice paid off as he has no problems pronouncing Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong’o’s namesWe answer the question of what Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese have in commonAnd we share our Oscar predictions. Loser has to write all the reviews for the next six monthsPlease let us know what you think of the pod and our oscar predictions on twitter, @spoooolers. Subscribe on iTunes here. The post Spooool.ie Podcast #14 – JDIFF and January Blues appeared first on Spooool.ie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen to the review of the year podcast using the player above or on soundcloud.The real reason we decided to do a Spooool top five last year and have our own separate lists was because there was no way Argo would be coming top of Páraic’s poll nor The Master at the top of Nigel’s list. Also we wanted to create a list that would show what best represents what we, as a website run by two people, like and look for in a film.This year there was very little argument about what we would include, perhaps only their ordering. So read on and see this year’s list of Spooool.ie’s best films from 2013. A black and white indie, a gritty English drama, a heartwarming biopic, a coming of age teen movie and a foreign language love story.Running through all these films in an intense emotional core, people trying to figure out their place in this world and what direction their lives should be taking. Late twenties anybody?Thanks to all our guest reviewers, writers, contributors and friends of the site which make Spooool.ie t

The penultimate Spooool.ie podcast sees us looking back at November’s most notable releases including Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Parkland, The Butler, Drinking Buddies, The Counsellor and The Broken Circle Breakdown. We’ve also got info on the Christmas film screenings in and around Dublin this December (Jimmy Stewart gets a look in) and preview a few of the regular releases coming our way over the next few weeks. We’ve also got…Music from Lykke Li and The National (kinda)Toy Show 2013 references – we only recorded it this morning. How topical we are.Hunger Games Peeta jokesSome terrific insight on Magneto’s assassination of JFKReminiscing about not going to the Oasis nightclub in Carrickmacross at the turn of the millenniumA shout-out for Eoin Duffy’s Missing Scarf short which has been longlisted for an Oscar for Best Animation Short. Read our interview with him from last summer here.May we also recommend our brand new feature “Best & Worst” as the perfect reading partne