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Reel 2 of our monthly magazine podcast for film nerds, in which the Adamsons bring you their latest Big Conversation. This month we look back at the recent Oscars ceremony, and instead of spending the whole time talking about Will Smith and Chris Rock we thought we'd be different and actually talk about the winners, nominees and voting decisions in general. If you haven't caught up with Reel 1, it's out now and packed with great features for your waiting ears.

The Adamsons are back to help you through April 2022 with the latest episode of their monthly magazine podcast for film nerds. In Reel 1 we bring you a monthly round up of news and reviews as well as our regular features. This month includes: Preview of our upcoming feature on the new Nic Cage film; Reviews of new and newish films X, Jackass Forever, Deep Water, West Side Story, Death on the Nile and The King of Staten Island; April's entry in 2022: A Kubrick Odyssey, featuring the legendary Roman epic Spartacus; Classics and Recommended: The Wages of Fear; Hidden Gem: Battle Royale;  The One That Got Away: Mira Nair's Shantaram; Remake Hatewatch: Sorcerer (the 1977 remake of this month's Classic feature). Reel 2 is also out now featuring our latest Big Conversation on the Oscars.

In the second reel of this month's monthly magazine style podcast, the Adamsons bring you their Big Conversation. For Episode 23 we have a long chat about the great action films of the 1980s and how they compare to their 21st Century counterparts. We look at how the two eras compare by picking our ten favourite films from then and now and seeing what it tells us.

The Adamsons bring you the March 2022 edition of their monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. This is Reel 1, packed with the usual features, including: The monthly round up including a review of new release The Batman; The latest instalment in 2022: A Kubrick Odyssey in which we discuss 1957 anti-war classic Paths of Glory; Our Classics and Recommended feature on Sam Mendes' 1917; Our Hidden Gem looking at the great but overlooked You Were Never Really Here; The One That Got Away featuring Darren Aronofsky's unrealised project Batman: Year One; And the Remake Hatewatch looking at the dismal 2012 version of Red Dawn.

The Adamsons bring you Reel 2 of their latest podcast episode, featuring the Big Conversation. This month it's a spotlight on the career of unsung Hollywood stalwart Walter Hill, one of the most influential genre filmmakers of the late 20th Century. From action classics which redefined and influenced everything that came after them like the Driver, to his masterpiece Southern Comfort, to his indispensable contribution to the Alien franchise, Hill has been behind some of your favourite films even if you didn't realise it. There will also be a music-included version of the podcast on Spotify only, to reflect some amazing contributions his film's scores made to the cinema.

The Adamsons are here with another issue of their film podcast magazine to get you through the grim final stages of winter 2022. This is Reel 1, featuring: Reviews of Belfast, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, The King's Man; February's entry in 2002: A Kubrick Odyssey which is The Killing; Classics and Recommended: Straw Dogs (1971) Hidden Gem: Pig The One That Got Away: Superman Lives Remake Hatewatch: Straw Dogs (2011)

The Second Reel of the monthly podcast magazine for film nerds. This month our Big Conversation features the first annual Double Reel Awards, for excellence (and otherwise) in the films we watched in 2021. Categories include: Best Supporting Actor and Actress Best Screenplay Best Score Best Cinematography Best Documentary Feature Best Director Best Actor and Actress Best Picture Film We Wished We'd Seen Most Scene-Stealing Performance Worst Film Biggest Disappointment Worst Acting Performance  Double Reel Special Award: Best Film We Watched for the Podcast

The Adamsons hit 2022 with a ton of bricks and the latest edition of their podcast magazine for film nerds. We discuss new releases Spider-Man: No Way Home, Licorice Pizza and Don't Look up, plus two early Kubrick films as part of our new project Two Thousand and Twenty Two: A Kubrick Odyssey. Also includes our regular features, our Classic - The Handmaiden, Hidden Gem The Fisher King, The One That Got Away featuring Barry Lyndon's The Captain and The Shark and a Remake Hatewatch of Sgt Bilko.

Special bonus compilation of our year long project to bring you John Carpenter's best films. In ascending order of their IMDB rating we give you the finest work by a true original, a genre auteur who has influenced the last 40 years of film and brought us everything from full-on horror, urban thriller, sci fi, action comedy and vampire western.

The second reel of the Adamsons' podcast magazine for film nerds, featuring our Big Conversation. Here we ask: how accurate are films which claim to be based on a true story? Does it matter if Braveheart is as historically correct as Highlander, or should films aim for the verisimilitude of Spotlight and Zodiac? Should Oliver Stone be permanently treated as an unreliable narrator? These questions and many more are asked an in some cases answered in our final Big Conversation of 2021.

The Adamsons close out 2021 with the 20th edition of their podcast magazine for discerning film nerds. In Reel 1: Reviews of new cinema releases House of Gucci and Last Night in Soho, new streaming release Shang Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings and old favourite Heat; Our Year of the Carpenter feature for December, The Thing; Our Classics and Recommended Feature, The Big Sleep; Our Hidden Gem Small Soldiers; And our Remake Hatewatch of Get Carter.

A bonus episode from the Adamsons for those of you who have seen the Bond film and would like to listen to our discussion of the key plot points, choices and characters, including what's next for the franchise. This featured as a post-credits discussion on Double Reel Episode 19, but is presented separately now for your convenience.

The second reel of our monthly podcast magazine for film nerds, featuring the Big Conversation. This month, in the wake of the tragic events on the set of Rust, we look at safety on film sets and notable incidents in films through the years. After the credits there's a spoiler-packed discussion of the new James Bond film, for you to listen to if you've seen it already or avoid if you haven't.

Join the Adamsons for the latest edition of our monthly podcast magazine for film nerds. In the first reel we have reviews of new releases Dune, Spencer and The Harder They Fall; rewatch old favourite Zodiac; our latest Year of the Carpenter entry Halloween; classic gothic drama Eve's Bayou; Hidden Gem Inherent Vice; The One That Got Away - Sergio Leone's Leningrad; and a Remake Hatewatch of Miami Vice.

This is the music free version of Reel 2 of the podcast. For those of you who use Spotify, you can find the other version of the episode there, featuring some of the film scores and songs from movies that we discussed. The Adamsons bring you another Big Conversation in this second reel of their monthly film magazine podcast. This month we're discussing music in film. Starting with the composers who have soundtracked our greatest moments in film, from leading composers over the last few decades such as John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Ennio Morricone, we look at how film scores have evolved over time. This includes the innovations of pod favourite John Carpenter, the rise of new modern styles of composing in the 80s from the likes of Georgio Moroder and Michael Kamen, through to the new breed of composers such as Nordic tyros Ludwig Goransson and Hildur Gudnodottir and rock musicians who've turned to scoring films like Trent Reznor and Jonny Greenwood. We also look at classic film soundtracks that use rock and pop songs to enliven key scenes, from Trainspotting to Goodfellas and the mighty Saturday Night Fever, and the art of the Needle Drop when the perfect song meets the perfect film moment.

The monthly magazine podcast for film nerds with impeccable taste returns with another humdinger of an episode. In the first reel the Adamsons have reviews of new releases No Time To Die, The Last Duel and The Green Knight, plus the Year of the Carpenter reaches the top three and suspense classic Assault on Precinct 13. Our classic is 80s thriller No Way Out starring Kevin Costner, our Hidden Gem is Saudi drama Wadjda, The One That Got Away is Jodorowsky's Dune and the Remake Hatewatch is the 2005 version of Assault on Precinct 13.

The second reel of Episode 17 brings you the Big Conversation, in which the Adamsons discuss a topic from the world of film in more detail. THis month we're looking at the worst films by a selection of great directors: the misfires, the grand folly that no one understood, the bad day at the office. Coppola, Spielberg, Nolan, Scorsese, Tarantino and Ridley Scott come under the microscope, plus nominations from you the listeners.

The Adamsons are back with another packed episode of their monthly magazine-style podcast for film nerds. This first real contains all your favourite regular features, including: The monthly round up of film news and reviews of new releases we saw at the cinema including: Candyman, Free Guy, The Suicide Squad; The Year of the Carpenter, which arrives at September's entry - the wonderful Big Trouble In Little China; Classics and Recommended where we give in to fan pressure and talk about 1992's My Cousin Vinny; The Hidden Gem which is Norwegian horror comedy Troll Hunter; The One That Got Away, which tells the story of Michael Mann's Gates of Fire which would have been a much better version than 300 of the legendary story of Spartan warriors; And the Remake Hatewatch, in which we wonder why anyone bothered to remake Hitchcock's Rebecca into a glossy tame Netflix "Original." Reel 2 is also available to download now.

The Adamsons are back for the second reel of this month's episode. Our latest Big Conversation looks at the best films from the year we were born. We look at the most notable films of 1973 and 1996 respectively, and how connected we feel to those films and to that year in general. As a special bonus at the end we unveil our new panel game Movie Tennis, which we are sure will be the next big thing on Radio 4. Once we work out a few kinks.

The Adamsons are back to liven up your August with another healthy dose of nerdy film chat. In the first reel we have a round up including reviews of new releases The Suicide Squad and Black Widow, and The Year of the Carpenter featuring 80s sci fi They Live; our Classics and Recommended feature is Walk the Line; the Hidden Gem this month is Korean mystery thriller Forgotten; The One That Got Away is Tony Scott's Potsdamer Platz and the Remake Hatewatch is the 2007 remake of The Hitcher. Reel 2 is also available to download now.