Vectis Movies: Recent Episodes
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If you love film, the you'll love 'Vectis Movies'. An Isle of Wight based film review show. Join Tosin, Sharon & Shaun on Thursday evenings between 6-7pm on 104.6FM and online at www.vectisradio.com/listen
Shaun waxes lyrical about Cinerama and the old days, joined by Brian. Sharon takes off to the great unknown with Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy in First Man, Xeb runs the rule over the new ITV show Butterfly, and Everyone has something to chip in to convince Sharon to watch a shirtless Chris Hemsworth (believe me, the woman takes some convincing) in Bad Times at the El Royale
On this show, we cannot stand for a disgraceful decision regarding the regeneration of Doctor Who, ... Shaun thinks Patrick Troughton's was the best. In other news, Xeb welcomes the brave new world of the Doctor and talking about TV on a Movie Show, Tosin joins Sharon in fawning over Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born, and Rowan Atkinson takes our mind off things for a little while in Johnny English Strikes Again.
'It's here!! It's finally here!!' yells Sharon, as she revels in the fact that We finally have another version of A Star is Born as Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper follow in the footsteps of Barbara Streisand & Kris Kristofferson, Judy Garland & James Mason and the really early one that we can't remember. The thing that is Venom gets our critical assessment and Shaun gets his brain twisted over whether a british zombie movie is good or utter tripe.
Tosin rants about getting some respect for Africa on the Big screen, Sharon weighs in on A Simple Favour, Xeb and Shaun give their two cents on The House With A Clock in it's Walls (when they are not tripping over trying to say the title). And everyone gets teary eyed as it's Tosin's final show. sniff
In this episode, we fall in love and climb through hate with Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh and Henry Golding in Crazy Rich Asians, A crazy group of College kids in American Animals, and A Bargain Basement Gone Girl with Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding (him again!!) in A Simple Favour.
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Shaun has a go at Mark Wahlberg, Sharon and Xeb find the meaning of life in a puzzle along with Kelly McDonald and Irfan Khan, Shane Black's latest has a perhaps predictable effect on Shaun, and Tosin makes some biiiigg claims about Hitchcock and the Internet in relation to Searching. packed show, good show.
Xeb, Sharon and Shaun talk fighting racism in BlackKklansman, robbing vaults in King of Thieves and whether to save a child's live against their will in The Children Act.
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Xeb and the gang talk spy shenanigans across Europe (yawn!) in The Spy Who Dumped me, Shaun talks the beginning of Man's best friend with Alpha, Xeb takes a bunch of his younger cousins to see kiddy fare Luis and the Aliens and Tosin calls in to discuss Denzel Washington in the Equalizer 2
Xeb and Sharon get a surprise visitor in the shape of Shaun, Tosin calls in with a disappointing review of Christopher Robin and the gang discuss films they loved while growing up.
Bridge to Terabithia and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Xeb and Sharon talk giant shark chomping on things in The Meg, Tosin gets teary over the death of Aretha Franklin plays a tribute to the Blues Brothers then quickly talks about The Festival before he starts bawling Shaun phones in to talk how he enjoyed a film centred around a computer when he really doesn't get computers in Unfriended: Dark Web.
Quote: If you're a teenager who's never been to a Festival, you might enjoy watching the Festival.
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Xeb runs the desk like a pro, Sharon sits quiet for 40 minutes while we discuss films she hasn't seen (and animations at that)what a trooper, Tosin gushes over the most anarchic superhero fun at the cinema this year, yes, including Deadpool. And Shaun rings in for what becomes a frankly embarrassing love in for Ant-Man and the Wasp. Quote of the night: For a Parent with a small child who needs two hours sleep, go see Hotel transylvania 3.
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After two weeks off, it's a bumper week as dicuss the biggest and Ant sized latest releases, including Mamma Mia, The Incredibles 2, Ant Man and The Wasp and Skyscraper. This time round, Xeb runs the Show with Tosin as a mostly compliant backseat driver. Shaun and Sharon throw in their two cents as well. Enjoy
Tosin's back from swanning around on stage, and we jump right into a resilient and chameleonic franchise that is The Purge, We all wish we had friends that played around with us for 30 years with TAG, We talk the first Netflix Original Blockbuster in The Kissing Booth and we fret about whether Netflix is killing the Cinema, or whether cinemas just have to raise their game.
Tosin bunks off again (word has it he may never return, get out the bunting). So Xeb steps up to the big leagues in his first go at presenting the show. Sharon is the only one who has done her homework and shows up on time, so she talks Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin in Adrift, Ben Foster in Leave no Trace, the Shaun legs it in late to give the skinny in Soldado, or is it Sicario 2: Soldado? or is it Sicario 2 : Day of the Soldado, or is it 'How we fired our marketing guys for ballsing this up'?
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Tosin is away this week (the slacker) so Brian dons his superhero tights and steps in to save the day (again). Due to a tiny little football get together in Russia, there are no new movies around to review, none. So Sharon gives her view on Ocean's 8, Shaun revists The Hurt Locker and some other things on home media and being halfway through the year, Brian leads everyone through their memory banks to figure out what's been good, bad and just blllueerrgh!! about the year in cinema so far.
Today we celebrate the very best of geek culture that is ruling our cinemas this Summer. We talk Dinosaurs, Superheroes, Space Operas all to highlight one of the Isle of Wight's newest attractions, The Island Comic Con, bringing the very best of geek culture to the Island.
The least anticipated Star Wars movie in history is finally here (whoopee?) and it might actually be good. We also review the latest Melissa McCarthy starrer. It's the one where she's sweet and sugary part of the time and a raging party monster the other part (can't wait for her Jekyll and Hyde)
This week, the Merc with the Mouth is back as we ruminate if Ryan Reynolds is one of those lucky people that has found his purpose in life. Talk Airplane Hijack drama feat. Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl. We ponder exactly what Hollywood casting directors have on their briefs that makes them go 'Eddie Marsan!! he'll do'. Sharon watches her annual animated movie and (spoiler alert) likes it, and Gabrielle Union kicks some ass.
We endure another week of slim pickings as everyone runs from a certain purple Titan. Bravely sticking their heads up above the parapet are Amy Schumer in I Feel Pretty, and the team behind the most unwieldy title sinc Mark Felt: The Man who brought down the White House and not in a good way. Enjoy
This week there are no new movies in the cinema, NONE. And that is because there is one film that has taken all the oxygen avalaible and has all other films running for the hills, that’s right people it’s the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, so many words (catches Breath). Taking up all the oxygen in a totally different way is Avengers Infinity War and we decided to step back in time and see what brought this movie to our doors.
Tonight, there is only one movie (three really, but one will take up all the oxygen there is for a while) worth talking about, (Deep Breath) Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Scralet Witch, Vision, Black Panther, Spider-Man, The Dora Milaje, that damn Stan Lee Cameo, Falcon, THE HULK ...(passes out because breath wasn’t deep enough)
This evening on the Vectis Radio Movie Review Show, we have a pop culture collective nerdgasm made by the man who created some of the poppiest moments himself. Steven Spielberg!!! The second in the ‘Dwayne Johnson vs giant things’ series comes into Cinemas with Rampage, this is the one with Giant Gorilla. And we revisit two movies we’ve previously reviewed because we like Shaun.
And we’re back in the room!! After two months Tosin Shaun and Sharon end up in the same space again and run out of time to discuss Ava Duvernay’s Ambitious take on a novel that may well be ‘unfilmable’, John Boyega, stepping into Idris Elba’s shoes to restart, then cancel the Apocalypse all over again, Alex Garland and Natalie Portman getting told to Netflix and chill, not necessarily a good thing in their Case, and we readdress the historical balance around one of history’s most maligned characters with Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix. Enjoy.
Brian sits in for Tosin as he takes the week off, (and a lot more) to appear in the Full Monty. In the mean time, He , Shaun and Sharon talk Speilberg, Streep and Hanks (and Nixon, can't forget old Dickie) in the Post, Liam Neeson punching a train (probably) in The Commuter, and Tosin (who can't let go) sends in a review of Coco because he knew the others would not watch it.
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This week, The ladies are in town and after your jewels in Ocean's 8. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, my word the list goes on.
We do what we planned to last week and talk about the Silver Dollar/Grey pound phenomenon, with two prime examples in Edie and The Book Club.
Shaun wonders what all the fuss is about with Hereditary, and Tosin and Shaun gloat and glimmer about a film that they got to see before most other people in the country.
This week on The Vectis Radio Movie Review Show it’s Gary Oldman or is it? After spending two hours looking at a screen it’s totally understandable to still be waiting for him to turn up. Any way, Joe Wright reliably informs us that new movie Darkest Hour stars Gary Oldman somewhere in the latest Winston Churchill Movie.
And Peter Jenkins joins us again to give us the second half of his preview of 2018.
We chat a modern day brutal, beautiful western starring Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike, see if we can spot the Kevin Spacey/Christopher Plummer join in All the Money in the World, and Peter Jenkins gives us the first half of his lowdown of 2018 movies he is looking forward to.
They’re back pitches!!! Today we round up the most unexpected trilogy of the past decade with Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp and Brittany Snow, Watch as Hugh Jackman fully exercises his lungs and vocal chords again in The Greatest Showman, and as 2017 draws to a close, run through listeners’ worst movies of 2017.
Tonight we dive into Aaron Sorkin’s Directorial Debut will the delectable Jessica Chastain in Molly’s Game, seek retribution with Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the new Martin McDonagh joint, and revisit the feelgood life affirmation that is The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jackman.
Welcome to the Jungle, we got fun and games … With The Rock, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart and Jack Black as a teenage girl. We also get listeners to tell us what their favourite movie of 2017 was and discuss what we think of this.
After a midnight showing, Shaun and Tosin discuss their thoughts on the latest Star Wars movie that is going to make all the money in the world (well it’ll attempt to anyway). Also talk James and Dave Franco in The Disaster Artist, and go on to our worst movies of the year that was 2017.
We each review the films that we loved this year that was 2017, and the films we wish more people had seen. We talk Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, and Annette Bening and Jamie Bell in Film stars don’t die in Liverpool.
This week, George Clooney does the Coens meet Detroit with Matt Damon and Julianne Moore in Surburbicon. Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell probably fall over a lot with Mel Gibson smirking in the back ground and John Lithgow gurning in the foreground in Daddy’s Home 2,
And in a first for this show, we discuss a trailer, but not just any trailer. Marvel have released the trailer to Avengers : Infinity War, the Superhero movie we didn’t realise that we’ve been waiting 15 years for.
This week, underpowered superheroes, Hotshot firefighters, Women’s rights through Tennis and One extremely adorable Peruvian immigrant bear.
This week, we attempt to solve a dastardly crime upon a train while stroking an unbelievably lustrous moustache. I know Depp's not been the best recently, but what happens here is a bit too far. We transfer a generally stressful life full of first world problems to probably the most stressful, first world problem filled time of year, Christmas!! That's right, our first Christmas movie has reared it's reindeer antlers above the parapet with Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, And Susan Sarandon. Also, we fight for a life after disability with Andrew garfield and Claire Foy, Kill a couple of people with someone who we all thought was dead in Jigsaw, and see what George Clooney has in store for us next in Surburbicon.
This week we look at the absurd, possibly hilarious reality that is Humans vying for position in a leadership vacuum. This time in Cold War Russia with Armando Iannuci, looking to continue an unbroken run of quality political comedy. We find out what this Happy Death Day movie that seems to be everywhere is about and we catch up with a horror movie classic that rears it’s austere head just in time for Halloween, Shock horror.
Hosted by Tosin Ajayi, with Sharon Bollen and Shaun Harris
After a two week break we dive right back in with the latest instalment in Marvel Studios rule the world as Taika Waititi brings his certain Kiwi charm to the Thor franchise, We join Gerald Butler as he probably shouts at the weather in a bid to stop Dean Devlin destroying the world … again, and we whizz through other movies that you can watch on the Isle of Wight starring Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson, and some that you can’t watch on the Island starring Chadwick Boseman, Rafe Spall, and what feels like everybody in showbiz who’s genuinely funny. Welcome to The Movie Review Show
Its been 35 years and finally this week we get an answer to the question that plagued a generation. ‘Who shot JR?’ And in other news, the sequel to a much lauded seminal classic was released in Cinemas Starring Ryan Gosling, Harisson Ford, Robin Wright and a bunch on beautiful are they or aren’t they humans. Also, Someone needs to keep Kate Winslet away from modes of transport in freezing climes. Mountain Dead ahead! This time she’s starring with Idris Elba, a mountain and a cougar in the Mountain between us. Welcome to what we like to call the Vectis Radio Movie review Show.
This week, tumbleweed!! well not quite, call us overeager cinema goers if you will, but everything on at the cinema this week was also on last week. Leaving us with a quiz, a quick review of the movies currently on at the cinema that we have previously reviewed (in case you weren’t listening), what is currently available for your viewing from the comfort of your armchair, and if we’ve got any time left, a quick peek at some oldies, but goodies. Join us as we lament all those lazy people who don’t make more films.
This week, Stephen King returns to the cinema to create a whole new generation of children who will still be hiding behind the sofa in 27 years time with their kids. That's right IT is back. And ... that's about it, it seems this week Hollywood has collectively decided to avoid the Isle of Wight with the only other new movie available being a preview of Dylan O'Brien and Michael Keaton in American Assasin, still we are here to hold your hand through the mire of nothingness that is the cinemas this week.
This week, Shaun wins the award for local cinema resident as he tries to see EVERYTHING as we dream dreams of rap stardom and escaping New Jersey in Patti Cake$, Aim to be a new action hero while we wait for the next James Bond movie with Dominic Cooper in Stratton, and solve a Victorian murder mystery with Bill Nighy and Daniel Mays in The Limehouse Golem.
This week, three movies beginning with the word 'The' . We talk Idris Elba and Matthew McConaghey in the Dark Tower, Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds in The Hitman's Bodyguard, and Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan in a new cross cultural rom com for the age we live in, The Big Sick.
After a hiatus of two weeks we come back to discuss 5 films that we can recommend that Sharon goes to see (or not) when she finally gets a moment to herself.
We're doomed, we're all doomed, first by an ape uprising in War for the planet of the Apes, then by an unnamed event that gives us a cinematic dystopia in It comes at Night, and we celebrate Spiderman's third solo movie debut in the last fifteen years. Join Tosin, Sharon and Shaun as we share our somewhat different thoughts on the biggest films out this week.
We take a moment to remember Barry Norman, the colossus of movie reviewing who sadly left us last week, look at Despicable Me 3, the third entry in the eponymous franchise, get into rap biopic territory with The tupac Shakur story All Eyez on Me, attempt to raise money for unibversity education with Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler in The House, and will this finally be the week when we talk Gary Cooper starring movie High Noon? Press play to find out
This week, we drag and I do mean drag, ourselves to the cinema to see Robots punching each other in the face, we have a twilight romance with Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson, we look at what has recently been released for home entertainment and in 'They Don’t make ‘em Like they Used To', a new but old feature of our show, we hark back to High Noon, an undoubted cinematic classic.
The Movie Review Show 22/06/2017 – Churchill, Baby Driver, My Cousin Rachel
Tosin and the Gang talk Brian Cox as the latest actor to play The greatest Briton of all Winston Churchill, Edgar Wright’s latest movie Baby Driver, and Rachel Weisz seducing (or not, we’re not sure) Sam Clafin in My Cousin Rachel.
Tosin gives his review on the latest movies this week. The films he reviews are Steve Jobs and The Lady In The Van.
Brandon and Ian talk to Tosin about this weeks movie review on The Man From U.N.C.L.E and The Gift!
Video Producer Tosin (www.tajayi.com) joins Ian Mac and Maxine in the Vectis Radio studio: This week, the long lost Arthur Conan Doyle Story "Mr Holmes and The Minions" makes finally makes it to the screen. (hollywood, if you're listening, I would pay to watch that). We talk all things small, yellow & evil serving and ask why it's taken so long for Ian McKellen to play a role he seems a perfect fit for.
Video Producer Tosin (www.tajayi.com) joins Ian Mac and Maxine in the Vectis Radio studio: Good time to go to the Cinema this week, with Jurassic World, Spy, Pitch Perfect 2 and Tomorrow Land all receiving a good review from Tosin
Video Producer Tosin (www.tajayi.com) joins Ian Mac and Maxine in the Vectis Radio studio: Fast and Furious 7 Far From The Madding Crowd
Video Producer Tosin (www.tajayi.com) joins Ian Mac and Maxine in the Vectis Radio studio: This week, childhood memories writ large with The Avengers and High school social mores with The Duff. With Ratings, some information about the latest movies, and a Star Wars prediction that after Fast and Furious 7's performance at the Box office is in massive danger of being WRONG!!
Tosin Ajayi Talks To Ian Mac and Maxine Furness About The Movies he Has Recently watched Along with a Few Laughs and Giggles!
Video Producer Tosin (www.tajayi.com) joins Ian Mac and Max in the Vectis radio studio: Getting some Chadwick Boseman love on and grooving in the studio after watching the James Brown Biopic Get On Up, and casting an eye over the first part of the final part (huh? I know) of the Hunger Games Trilo ... Quadrolog... Tri(plus 1)logy? DAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD!!! (Shakes fist at sky)