The Invasion of the Poddy Snatchers

Paddy and Niel run through 10 of their favourite films. 

”All These Years, You’ve Been Playing Me for a Sucker”
This week, Niel and Paddy watch "A Touch of Evil"(1958) starring Orson Wells, Janet Leigh and the legendary Charlton Heston as the least convincing Mexican since Speedy Gonzales. The film is famous for its trick shots and long takes, but is this a case of style over substance?

One is starved for Technicolor up there.
We went to our local indie cinema, the Watershed, to watch "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946). This film holds a place in both our hearts from BBC2 Sunday afternoons, and seeing it at the cinema was amazing. Do we still love it after all these years?

I Write with a Goose Quill Dipped in Venom
In this episode, we watch Laura (1944). Is it a classic film-noir or a hammy melodrama? Paddy and Niel do not agree and get into unnecessary detail.

Stay Gold, Ponyboy
In this episode we watch The Outsiders (1983). It features a great director with an amazing cast and is adapted from a classic book, so surely it will be brilliant?

All of our shows are secret shows.
In a break from tradition, we watch a new(ish) film - Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010). We love the film, and try to work out why it was a box office disaster.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
In this episode, we watch the 1974 Neo-Noir, Chinatown. 
This is undoubtedly one of the powerhouse films of the 70's, with outstanding performances from Dunaway and Nicholson, but why do we feel so uncomfortable watching it?

Rome! By all means Rome!
Paddy gets misty-eyed over the classic 1953 William Wyler movie, "Roman Holiday", starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Is Niel as impressed?

A Boy’s Best Friend is his Mother
We watch the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie, Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. We chat and get into nerdy detail about why it's a classic and what makes it so effective.

The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of....
In this episode we watch the Maltese Falcon (1941) starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. We love classic film noir and have a chat about the origins of the style and about the stars of the film. 
*We were going to call this the Sunday Cinema Club, but there is already a pod called that, so we changed it.
**In the pod,, we get the date of the Hays Code wrong - it started in 1934 - and can't remember which side of the film is which. I bet we got other stuff wrong.