The Movie Mull

Top 5: Heist Movies

"You think we need one more? You think we need one more. All right, we'll get one more."  
For this week's episode, as in all heist movies, we move through three crucial phases:
The Plan: Richard, gathers his fellow mulls and asks them to bring along their special skills... or, to be more precise, their Top 5 Heist movies - and attempts to define for us exactly what a heist movie is... 
The Execution: From Asphalt Jungle, to Ocean's 11, to Inside Man and on to many, many more, the gang gather around the table and try to pin down the very best of the genre (with a few controversial opinions shared along the way).  
The Aftermath: Did we miss an absolute classic? Is there an example you'd like to recommend? Jump in on the comments and let us know.  

What We’ve Been Watching - Nyad, Leo, Severance and Wish

To quote this week's host, Justin, in a slightly chaotic introduction: "This week's what we've been watching episode is about what we've been watching...". With that cleared up, this week's reviews are:
Richard starts us off with a review of Nyad (01'36") featuring some incredible performances from Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, Neil shares his thoughts about Netflix's latest Adam Sandler collaboration - animated movie, Leo (12'39"). Then, Justin talks about Danny Dyer's 2006 Comedy-Horror Severance (18'40") before Darren wraps things up talking about Disney Animation's latest feature length animated classic, Wish (25'55"), from the directors of Frozen on writing and directing duties respectively (but separately) and featuring the voices of Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine. Finally, without really intending to do so, we share a few thoughts about Marvel's latest: The Marvels.
Let us know your thoughts about any of these movies and tell us what you've been watching recently.

Creating a Horror Movie

After being thoroughly disappointed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, our host for this episode and Horror fan, Neil, decided we simply needed to create our own! He challenges the Mulls to assign classic horror movie tropes to a fun family favourite... Hollywood?  We're ready to pitch our vision...

What We’ve Been Watching: Prisoners, Mixtape, Logan Lucky and The Killer

Choosing what to watch next is always tough; to help with your decision making our Mulls talk you through four of the movies they've been watching recently.  
Justin has been watching Prisoners (the 2013 film from director Denis Villeneuve), Neil talks about being surprisingly moved by 2021's Mixtape, Richard heads back to 2017 to consider Soderbergh's other heist movie Logan Lucky, and finally Darren discusses David Fincher's return to the crime genre with his adaptation of graphic novel, The Killer.
We're not in receipt of any sponsorship, but by some coincidence all four of this week's movies are currently streaming Netflix. Let us know in the comments what you've been watching recently and anything that you'd like to hear us discuss. 

The Great Movie Showdown: Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington

For this week's episode, Justin has challenged the rest of the mulls to compare the film performances of two giants of contemporary Hollywood: Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.  Is it all about Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can, Big... or The Hurricane, Malcom X, Glory, Training Day, Man on Fire.... and, of course the film that brought them together, Philadelphia. How could you possibly choose?  Well... we try....

What We’ve Been Watching: The Exorcist, The Old Oak, Reptile and Totally Killer

In this week's episode, our team bring along a film they've watched recently and share their thoughts. Justin starts by discussing his (perhaps controversial) opinion of William Friedkin's classic 70s horror movie The Exorcist, Darren reviews what might be Ken Loach's final film The Old Oak, Richard has been watching the latest Netflix movie, Reptile, starring Benico del Toro, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Silverstone, while Neil talks about everything he enjoyed in the latest comedy/sci-fi/horror slasher on Prime Video - Totally Killer - while. Along the way, Darren is somehow anointed with a new nickname...
Let us know in the comments what you've been watching recently and anything that you'd like to hear us discuss. 

A Special Features Special

What's so special about special features? Are they a dying art form? Darren explains to his fellow mulls why he still buys physical media and what he loves about audio commentaries, deleted scenes, behind the scenes documentaries and more. Then, the team share the very best DVD and Blu-Ray features that give a special insight into the production process behind some of their favourite movies...

What We’ve Been Watching (Tracks, Interstellar, 99 Homes, Cobweb)

For this episode, the mulls give us their reviews of four films they've been watching recently.  Darren starts things off by talking Tracks (dir John Curran, st. Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver), Justin's been catching up with Interstellar (dir Christopher Nolan, st. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway), Richard draws our attention to 99 Homes (dir Ramin Bahrani, st. Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon) and our host, Neil, wraps things up with recent horror (appropriately for this Halloween release), Cobweb (dir. Samuel Bodin, st Woody Norman, Lizzy Caplan)... 4 movies and all recommendations. Listen in for our thoughts and then send us your own...
 

Films You LOVE - but nobody else does!

For this week's episode, Richard challenged his fellow Mulls to admit to films that they love but which the rest of the world just doesn't get... Maybe it's a nostalgic film from the past that hasn't aged too well, or a film that the critics just didn't appreciate, or a movie that didn't get the love it really deserved at the box office. Whether it's because of an actor you would watch in absolutely anything, a director you adore, or a genre that you just find unmissable: what film is your guilty pleasure? And, do you really need to feel guilty about it?!
Let us know your own 'unloved favourites' by finding us on facebook, instagram or twitter... 

Mission Impossible 7 part One Breakdown

The Mulls get together to dissect the latest Mission Impossible movie. 
 
Spoilers aplenty!