The Movie Mull

What We've Been Watching: The Substance, Wolfs, Will and Harper, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

For this week's episode, the gang have reviews of four new films to share with their listeners.  Darren gets the ball rolling talking about Coralie Fargeat's body-horror comic-tragedy The Substance; Neil talks about the new film from Jon Watts: Wolfs reuniting Clooney and Pitt; Richard shares a documentary from Josh Greenbaum that has just dropped on Netflix: Will and Harper, and finally Justin wraps things up with a review of belated-Burton sequel: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
 
Listen in and then let us know your views.  We'd love to hear your recommendations too!

Save One Movie: 2009 (Recorded LIVE!)

For this week's episode, recorded in front of a live audience in October 2024, the four Movie Mulls are challenged to identity one - and only one - movie released in the UK in 2009 that is worth saving!  
What will they choose?  Slumdog Millionaire, The Hurt Locker, The Hangover, Star Trek, Public Enemies, Up, The Damned United, Avatar, Paul Blart: Mall Cop... Our live audience helps us to decide.  
Use the comments or find us on social media to let us know what you would save...

A Spielberg Special Episode

For this week's special episode, Justin invites each of the mulls to bring along their Top 5 films from Steven Spielberg's iconic and multiple-decade spanning directorial career.  
What film will make it to the ultimate number one position?  
With so many films to choose from, there will undoubtedly be a few of your favourites that we fail to mention.  Jump onto the comments and let us know what would have made your list.

What We've Been Watching: Wicked Little Letters, Mindhunters, Blink Twice, Greedy People

This week, the mulls review four films they've been watching recently - and it's a crime-filled bonanza!
Richard starts with a review of the based-a-true-story comedy drama Wicked Little Letters (released in cinemas at the start of the year and available now on streaming); Justin goes back to re-watch 2004's Renny Harlin-directed Agatha Christie update - Mindhunters; Darren gets to the cinema to see the debut thriller that everyone is talking about - Blink Twice from director Zoe Kravitz; and our host Neil wraps things up by bringing us his views of the brand-new crime comedy Greedy People.
We'd love to hear about what you've been watching and any recommendations you have.  Get in touch using the comments or find us on social media. 

The Art and Magic of Stop Motion Animation

For this week's episode, our host Darren asks his fellow mulls to discuss one of his favourite forms of animation and film-making - the art of stop motion. 
Whether it's the amazing moments that bring giant gorillas, huge AT-ATs or fighting skeletons to life in classic live-action movies; or the entire worlds created by directors like Henry Selick, Guillermo del Toro, and Nick Parks, they talk about their favourite examples of the form and try to unpick what it is about this style of movie-making that has captivated audiences for so long. 
Listen in and then let us know your own favourites. 

What We've Been Watching: Trap, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Alien: Romulus, Jumper

Welcome back to The Movie Mull!
For this week's What We've Been Watching episode, Richard reviews Shyamalan's return to the big screen with thriller Trap, Justin catches up with the loosely-based-on-a-true-story pic The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Darren discusses a Fede Alvarez's take on the xenomorph universe with Alien Romulus, and Neil revisits Doug Liman's 2008 sci-fi action movie Jumper.
Listen in, then use the comments or find us on social media to tell us what you thought. 

Hero or Villain?

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain..." as Aaron Ekhart once said.  For this week's episode, our host Richard has asked us to think about cinema's great heroes and villains - in particular, actors who have proven they are equally adept at playing both ends of the moral spectrum, or otherwise actors who are famous only for their heroic or villainous turns... 
Listen in and then let us know your favourite hero or villain actors, or tell us an actor who is famous for their heroic roles that you'd love to see embrace their darker side! 

What We've Been Watching - In A Violent Nature, The Birdcage, Deadpool & Wolverine, Maxxxine

On this week's What We've Been Watching episode, Neil follows the killer in new horror movie In A Violent Nature, Justin revisits classic comedy-drama The Birdcage, Richard discusses the return of superhero cinema with the latest film to break the billion dollar barrier Deadpool & Wolverine, and Darren reviews the final film in Ti West and Mia Goth's X trilogy, Maxxxine. 
If you've seen any of these, we'd love to know what you thought.  Let us know in the comments. 
Spoiler Alert: A few moments from the end of 'In A Violent Nature' and 'The Birdcage' are discussed, and there are a few spoilers shared for the first two films in the X trilogy. 

Nostalgia Movies

For this week's episode, our host Neil wanted us to discuss whether 'when' you watched a movie matters. Are there movies you watched and loved in the past, that wouldn't hold up if you watched them today? Films that you feel a real nostalgia for, but that you might hesitate to recommend to others... 
Let us know in the comments: what films do you love that you think might not hold up for today's audience?

What We've Been Watching - Thelma, Longlegs, Hundreds of Beavers, Trigger Warning

On this week's What We've Been Watching episode, Neil tells us all about all about the genre-defying, June Squibb-starring Thelma, Justin shares his thoughts about the horror-thriller Longlegs, Darren reviews the festival-favourite zany silent comedy Hundreds of Beavers, and Richard rounds things up by discussing Jessica Alba's action movie, Trigger Warning.
If you've seen any of these, we'd love to know what you thought.  Let us know in the comments.