The Movie Mull

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...
 
 

Danny Boyle Filmography Retrospective - Part 2

And we're back this week with Part 2 of our discussion of the films of Danny Boyle... This one takes us from 2008's Slumdog Millionaire, through 127 Hours, Trance, Steve Jobs, T2 Trainspotting and up to his 2019 rom-com Yesterday.
Which is your favourite of the latter half of his filmography?  
Let us know in the comments if there are any other directors you'd like us to cover in this way...

Danny Boyle Filmography Retrospective - Part 1

This week our host, Neil, takes his fellow mulls on the first of a two-part journey through director Danny Boyle's extraordinary filmography.  
Part 1 covers Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Millions, and Sunshine... 
Tune in again next week, when we'll be back to cover everything else from Slumdog Millionaire through to Yesterday. 
If you've got a favourite, let us know in the comments or find us on Facebook, X and Instagram. 

What We've Been Watching - Wonka, The Family Plan, Saltburn, The Boy and the Heron

For this week's episode, the Mull's are back to their regular schedule and will be reviewing four films that they've been watching recently.  Justin kicks off proceedings by talking Dahl prequel Wonka (01:14) directed by Paul King and starring Timothy Chalamet as the titular chocolatier, then Neil reviews Apple TV+ new spy action-comedy The Family Plan (19:58), Richard heads into murkier ethical waters with Emerald Fennell's darkly comedic thriller Saltburn (29:20), while Darren wraps up proceedings discussing the latest animated film from Studio Ghibli and legendary director Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and the Heron (43:48).
 
Have you seen any of these? Use the comments to let us know your thoughts, as well as any recommendations that you'd like to make to the team. 
 
 

A Mull About The Mulls

Justin hosts this week's episode, and he wants to know where the mulls got their love of movies from. 

A Look Ahead to 2024

The Mulls get together and discuss what films they are looking forward to seeing this coming year.
 
Hopefully it will be better than their dreams and expectations for last year.

Review of 2023

It's New Year's Eve and the Mulls have looked back on the movies that they have enjoyed and not enjoyed.
Darren leads the Mulls with several categories for them to answer.
 
Have a wonderful New Year All!

What We’ve Been Watching - Christmas Special

For this week's Christmas Eve episode, the Movie Mull take you through some of the Christmas movies they've been watching recently... Darren's been catching up with director Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays (which turned out not to be a Christmas movie after all!). Justin tries to sell the team on Daddy's Home 2, Richard has been seeing the classic Bill Murray take on A Christmas Carol, Scrooged, while our host, Neil, tells us all about The Mean One (a slightly different take on The Grinch). Stick around at the end of the episode, when all four talk about some of the must-see films they come back to every Christmas season...
02:20 Home for the Holidays
07:58 Daddy's Home 2
13:15 Scrooged
17:31 The Mean One