The Movie Mull

Movie Endings - Can They Break or Make a Movie?

This week's host, Richard, invites us to consider film endings... surprising, strange, funny, moving or simply baffling: when do movie endings really work? Is it possible that those final moments can make a film even better... or completely ruin everything that came before?  
Listen in to see what we think... and then use the comments to let us know the films where you love or hate those ending moments.  

What We've Been Watching - Argylle, The Zone of Interest, Road House, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

For this week's What We've Been Watching episode, Neil shares his thoughts on Matthew Vaughan's new franchise starter Argylle, Justin reviews Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, Richard is frustrated with the Jake Gyllenhaal-starrring, Doug Liman-directed Road House remake, and Darren discusses the latest in the Ghostbusters franchise with the teams old and new returning to NYC for Frozen Empire. 
Use the comments below to let us know your thoughts on any of these movies... or tell us what you've been watching recently. 

6 Degrees Of Kevin Bacon

For this week’s episode, our host Neil invites us to reflect back on the extraordinarily prolific film career of Kevin Bacon. The mulls share their favourite of his performances, before engaging in a quick game of ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’
In the comments, let us know your favourites; or give us a Six Degrees challenge!

What We've Been Watching - JFK; The Beekeeper; I, Daniel Blake; All Of Us Strangers

For this week's What We've Been Watching episode, our host Justin re-watches the classic Oliver Stone epic J.F.K., while Neil reviews the latest Jason Statham action movie The Beekeeper (in which a member of elite assassins known as the Beekeepers retires and with outstanding lack of imagination becomes an actual beekeeper). Darren catches up with Ken Loach's masterpiece I, Daniel Blake and Richard rounds off the episode with his views on Andrew Haigh's All Of Us Strangers. 
Use the comments to let us know what you've been watching recently. 

EPISODE 100 - Live Special

A full and uncut live episode from the Mulls for our 100th episode!
To celebrate reaching Episode 100, our Movie Mull hosts turn the responsibility for asking questions over to our live audience.  
Listen in, join in the celebrations and use the comments to share your own answers to the questions that were asked...

What We've Been Watching - Sound of Freedom, How To Have Sex, The Best of Enemies

For this week's episode, Justin and Neil review thriller Sound of Freedom from director Alejandro Monteverde (then the other Mulls join in the debate). After that, Darren talks about Molly Manning Walker's debut feature How To Have Sex (featuring Bafta's 2024 Rising Star, Mia McKenna-Bruce, in a star-making turn), while Richard rounds up the episode with Robin Bissel's 2019 historical drama, The Best of Enemies.  
Let us know your thoughts and what you've been watching in the comments...

The Great Oscar Prognosticator 2024

As has become an annual tradition, the mulls return this week with their best predictions as to who might take home the shiny gold trophies next week... Is this Christopher Nolan's year with Oppenheimer? Are the writing awards the most difficult to predict? Who would you like to win? 
In our first year of attempting to make these predictions, Neil led the way; the next year it was Justin... This year??
In both years, our listeners have done better than us though!  Check out our social media to share your own predictions ahead of next week's ceremony.  

What We've Been Watching - The End We Start From, The Frozen Ground, The Marsh King's Daughter, Final Cut

This week our Mull's return with four more reviews of movies they've recently watched: Darren starts with a review of director Mahalia Belo's adaptation of Megan Hunter's novel about post-apocalyptic motherhood The End We Start From; Justin recalls a largely overlooked 2013 crime drama The Frozen Ground, Richard enjoys the promising premise behind recent Prime Video release The Marsh King's Daughter; and this week's host, Neil, wraps things up by talking about recent French remake of a Japanese zombie cult classic, Final Cut.  
If you've seen any of these, let us know your thoughts in the comments or by finding us on social media.  

Solving The Mystery: Movie Detectives

For this week's topic, our host Richard asks us to share our favourite movie detectives: from Benoit Blanc to Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes to Eddie Valiant - what makes a great film detective? What do audiences continue to find so appealing about this character? How do they stay relevant?
Let us know which characters are your favourite... and the ones that we missed during our discussion. 

What We've Been Watching - The Holdovers, Thanksgiving, Good Grief, All Of Us Strangers

For this week's cavalcade of reviews, we bring you an impromptu chat about Aaron Sorkin's Trial of the Chicago Seven, followed by Justin's review of the wonderful The Holdovers (Alexander Payne's most recent film and oscar-contender), Neil catches up with 2023's seasonal slasher Thanksgiving, Richard enjoys Dan Levy's directorial feature-debut Good Grief (available to watch now on Netflix), and Darren decides he might have a new favourite director after watching Andrew Haigh's masterpiece (spoiler for the review!) All Of Us Strangers... Plenty to recommend this week.
What have you been watching recently?  Let us know on the socials or in the comments...