Episode 063 - Oscars 2016

Episode 063 in which gremlins strike in the form of a big conspiracy between Apple and Skype.

Thanks guys for suddenly having compatibility issues just minutes before our recording resulting in us resorting to the strange world of Google Hangouts.

In places, this has resulted to us sounding like Norman Collier on this episode (look him up kids; your parents thought he was hilarious!)

Nevertheless, this was our first official recording since Christmas and we take the opportunity to have a discussion on this year’s Oscars and our thoughts and predictions which no doubt will be spectacularly incorrect.

 

Huge thanks to Mr and Mrs Hart for their review of Whiplash and to Robbie for his email.

 

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Next episode features our review of Touch of Evil and Tootsie and we will be catching up with our friends at Rochester Kino and chatting about those fine folks over at the Genesis Cinema in Mile End Road.

 

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Episode 062 - 2001 A Space Odyssey

Episode 062

 

An extra episode of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie this week as we present an episode that we recorded late last year.

We were lucky enough to catch a screening of 2001 with our friends at Rochester Kino in the autumn and here for you are our thoughts on the Kubrick masterpiece.

 

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Episode 061 - The Deer Hunter and The Matrix

Episode 061

 

The Stinking Pause podcast returns with an episode nearly two years in the making. Finally, after Scott and Charlie appeared on the Anywhere But Here podcast in March 2014, Tom and Ant make their long awaited appearance as guests on the show.

 

Recorded just before Christmas, this episode features our thoughts on The Deer hunter and The Matrix along with discussions on James Bond, Superhero movies and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. All this plus a seasonal round of Cast of the Summer Wine.

 

We had a great time recording this episode and hopefully, Tom and Ant will join us again very soon.

 

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Episode 060 - The Battle of Algiers

A special episode of the Stinking Pause podcast where Scott and Charlie are joined by our dear friend Mark from The Good The Bad and The Odd Podcast to talk about Gillo Pontecorvo's acclaimed masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers from 1966.

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Mark's podcasts can be found at http://www.thegoodthebadandtheodd.com/ and  https://unitednationsofhorror.wordpress.com/

Thanks Mark...we'll see you in the New Year for all things Michael Caine

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Episode 059 - Fargo and The Apartment

Episode 059 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie.

 

This week Charlie has selected ‘The Apartment’ from 1960, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray.

Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested in himself. Soon Baxter must decide between the girl he loves and the advancement of his career.

Charlie’s second pick is from 1996 and is the Coen Brothers’ classic ‘Fargo’.

"Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.

 

There is also some welcome audio feedback from our good friend Tom from the Anywhere But Here podcast giving us his thoughts on Pan’s Labyrinth.

 

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Episode 058 - A Taste of Honey and Darling

Episode 058 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie.

This week, Scott takes Charlie on a journey to the swinging sixties with two highly acclaimed British movies.

Our first review is A Taste of Honey from 1961. Directed by Tony Richardson, it stars Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin.

‘In this domestic drama, British teen Jo (Rita Tushingham) struggles to find love in her bleak day-to-day life, which is dominated by her alcoholic mother, Helen (Dora Bryan). When Jo has a brief fling with a black sailor and Helen takes up with a new lover, their already tense relationship is further strained. Jo faces more complications as she discovers she is pregnant, but finds support when she moves in with an odd but thoughtful gay student named Geoffrey (Murray Melvin).’

Our second movie is Darling from 1965. It stars Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey and features an Academy Award winning performance by Julie Christie. Directed by John Schlesinger.

‘Beautiful but easily bored Diana Scott (Julie Christie) becomes a popular model and actress in London in the 1960s while toying with the affections of two older men, married television newsman Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde) and public relations mastermind Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey). Although Diana is the toast of swinging London, the dark side of fame and fortune begins to take its toll, but it proves harder to escape the mod scene than she expects.’

 

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Episode 057 - A History of Misunderstanding featuring The Stinking Pause part 2 - Stranger Than Fiction

 

Join us for part two of the episode recorded earlier this year where we join Smokey and Steven at The History of Misunderstanding podcast to review Stranger Than Fiction from 2006

Head on over to their website to listen to all of Steven and Smokey's other shows including Cinematic Sevens and Mrs Smokey's Movie School.

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