The Second Unit: Recent Episodes
Freddie Newey
Meg and I met while studying film at Canterbury Christ Church University, we both love films and we’ve made short films together. Now that we’ve finished our course, whenever we meet up, we often just talk about films. So, it just kind of made sense to start recording these conversations and giving them a little direction and a little focus.
Lost in Translation taps into a very specific facet of human connection that I've never been able to express properly.
More rape and murder for The Second Unit Podcast, that's an unfortunate pattern to emerge...
If for no other reason, watch this film for a super interesting, super scary insight into what Argentina was up to in the 70s.
So, Imagine 2007s Enchanted, but with Sally Hawkins, and directed by Mike Leigh, and it's actually good.
One of the most worrying films ever made just gets more worrying, as Meg and I break down exactly why you shouldn't even like it.
This film is Scooby-Doo meets Psycho, some people will say that doesn't work, I am not one of those people.
How deep does Raw's metaphorical rabbit hole go? Are we looking at a commentary on the meat industry? Is this film all about sexual repression? Or is it just hungry hungry chomp chomp.
Special guest Nat is back! and this time he's being a big old T. E. Lawrence history nerd.
The whiplash you get watching this film with Matthew Broderick's sleepy performance and Jim Carrey's wacky theatrics is immense.
So you jumped off a balcony and now you think you can do whatever you want? WELL THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!
The trilogy that is the litmus test for how lovey-dovey, sicky-wicky, ooey-gooey you are; seems like I'm the gooiest wickiest dove there is.
The film that introduced the world to John Cusack, Tim Robbins, and the galaxies best pick up line.
Meg and I take this film reccomendation from my 5 year old self, and I reckon that kid's got good taste.
Once again Meg and I take on the role of relationship gurus and tell fictional characters how's best to live their lives.
Horror or thriller? Insane or in control? Decimal places in out of 10 scores or not? Honestly a philosophical minefield this episode.
We're back baybeee, and I wasn't prepared for how excited that was going to make me. In series 2 Meg and I are going to be looking at films I've seen before, but Meg never has. Starting with Klaus. A Christmas film. At the end of February. Hmm.
Right at the start of Toni Collette's amazing carreer is a little Australian comedy called Muriel's Wedding...wait, is this a comedy?
A beautiful adaptation of a beautiful novel...I think, neither of us actually read it. But the film's good!
I'm really not sure what this film has to offer, this podcast on the otherhand - riveting.
Meg and I are on the same page throughout this whole podcast, she's finally found a film that we can both agree is solid through and through.
The enigma that is Meg, prefers this film to the original Jurassic Park (which in itself is odd), but then she also goes on to rate the original film higher than this one. I don't even know.
Despite rehashing ideas from a multitude of other Disney films, Coco does manage to stand out and pull at some genuine heart strings.
A little late for Halloween, but this spooky (and not necessarily scary) film has quite a bit to think about and quite a lot to say, but does that mean it's any good?
For something that isn't necessarily horror, The Night of the Hunter is actually pretty scary. So naturally, I loved this pick from Meg.
It's a first in Second Unit history, I, Freddie, am the one suggesting a film that Meg has not seen (Usually it's the other way around, you may have noticed). I immediately picked something very hard to watch and extremely taboo. Yay.
The film that became the new lowest bar of its day; and it's still a better love story than... oh wait.
Meg and I discuss the highest grossing film of 2020, and somehow I'd never heard of it. God I live in a bubble.
I feel that to do this film justice, Meg and I should have chugged some anti-freeze and smoked a cartoon sized joint. But we're far too professional and boring.
Meg and I actually look at something relevant today, with Shang-Chi and the "Legend" of the Ten Rings, seriously, what's the legend?
The unthinkable: I think that I may have enjoyed one of Meg's film suggestions more than her. We seem to love almost everything in this film that's not racist.
The best worst film ever made? Or the worst best film ever made? Meg and I put far too much effort into searching for any artistic merit in The Room.
I think that the 'greatest film ever' is just okay. Meg and special guest Nat try and convince me otherwise.
Howl's Moving Castle - The Second Unit, I'm not saying you should skip ahead to the last third of this podcast, just to hear Hat Theory™, but it is my best work.