BanterFlix: Film Reviews With a 'Norn Irish' Accent: Recent Episodes
BanterFlix: Film Reviews With a Norn Irish Accent
Hosted by Northern Irish film-critic Jim McClean, the BanterFlix podcast discusses all manner of movie-related nonsense.
On this podcast, recorded at the Odeon Belfast we chatted about Jordan Peele's Us.
Jim was joined by local filmmaker Leo McGuigan and BanterFlix's Darren Vincent.
On this podcast, Jim was joined by BanterFlix's very own Jess Blair and the Thin Air's Conor Smyth as they reviewed The Kindergarten Teacher and What Men Want.
We also chatted about the launch of this year's Belfast Film Festival and Jess chatted her experience at the Dublin Comic Con: Spring Edition.
This week we chatted about Captain Marvel, which is out in cinemas now and discussed the topic of Netflix's Academy Awards eligibility.
Recorded at the Odeon Belfast, Jim was joined on this podcast by local filmmakers Jim McMorrow and Sarah-Jayne Tracey.
On this podcast, Jim was joined by Joe Mc Elroy and Thérèse Rea as they chatted about the Academy Awards and reviewed some of the latest releases.
We reviewed The Hole in the Ground, starring Seána Kerslake and James Quinn Markey and we also spoke with the film's director Lee Cronin.
We also reviewed James Kent's The Aftermath, which is out in Cinemas now and Christina Choe's Nancy, starring Andrea Riseborough and Steve Buscemi, which is available to watch on Amazon Prime.
On this episode, Jim looked back at some of his favourite interviews he's done over the past 12 months for the BanterFlix podcast.
You'll hear his chat with Issa López about Tigers Are Not Afraid, his chat with Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer about their feature The Parting Glass and his interviews with Ben Elton and Penelope Wilton amongst many others.
On this episode, Jim was joined by Mike McCourt and Thérèse Rea as they looked through some of the best and worst movies on television over the festive period from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day.
On this episode, Jim caught up with local writer Michael Campbell to talk about Luca Guadagnino's new version of Suspiria.
He spoke with Ben Wheatley, Sam Riley and Alexandra Maria Lara about Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, which is showing at the QFT on Sunday 02 December.
He wrapped up by chatting with BanterFlix's very own Jess Blair and Neil Sedgewick from Films & Faith about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald in spoilerific detail.
We've a packed episode for this edition of the BanterFlix podcast. Jim caught up with Aaron Flanagan from the Comic Book Guys to chat about Stan Lee, who passed away earlier this week.
He spoke with Ethan Barr from Embarr Films about Colette, which opened this year's Foyle Film Festival and spoke with Craig William Macneill about Lizzie, which will also be screened during this year's festival programme.
You can hear his chat with Doctor Eve Watson about Solaris at The Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations Psychoanalytic Film Club's screening of Solaris at the Strand Arts Centre.
He wrapped up this episode by chatting with Jim McMorrow and Caitlain Rafferty in spoilerific detail about the new Halloween movie.
On this episode, Jim spoke with Irish director Paddy Breathnach about his latest feature Rosie.
Written by Roddy Doyle, the film tells the story of a mother trying to protect her family after their landlord sells their rented home and they become homeless.
The film will be screened at the QFT in Belfast from 23-29 November, with the director himself attending a special Q&A session on Monday 26 November.
On this podcast Jim caught up with Joe Mc Elroy and Thérèse Rea to look back on this year's glut of summer blockbusters.
On this episode, Jim was joined by Aaron Flanagan from The Comic Book Guys to chat about the comic book origins of the character of Venom.
Ahead of our screening of Heathers, this Sunday at Odyssey Cinemas Belfast Jim caught up with BanterFlix's very own deputy-editor Thérèse Rea to chat about the film and why she's such a big fan.
On this edition of the podcast, Jim caught up with director David Naglieri and Shane Paul O'Doherty to chat about John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea for Peace. The film will be screened at Omniplex Cinemas across Ireland later this week.
On this bumper edition of our podcast, Jim caught up with local filmmaker Jim McMorrow to chat about the Nun and BanterFlix's very own Joe Mc Elroy to review Crazy Rich Asians.
In the first part of a series of retrospectives on the work of Orson Welles he caught up Cinepunk's Robert J. E. Simpson to discuss Touch of Evil.
On this Podcast, Jim was joined by Neil Sedgewick from Films & Faith as they discussed Paul Schrader's First Reformed. The film stars Ethan Hawke and is finally getting a release here in Northern Ireland when it is screened at the QFT in Belfast from Friday 07 September.
On this episode, Jim caught up with local writer/director and producer Margaret McGoldrick as we continue to get to know some of the local filmmakers working within the film industry.
Along with writing and directing several short films of her own, Margaret has also worked on several locally produced features like The Braxton Butcher, Hostage to the Devil and The Survivalist.
So Jim sat down to chat with Margaret about her passion for cinema and experiences of working within the industry.
On this podcast, Jim was joined by BanterFlix's very own Joe Mc Elroy and David 'CBG' Campbell as they chatted in spoilerific detail about Ethan Hunt's latest outing and its impact on the spy genre.
On this episode, Jim was down at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for this years Dublin Comic-Con and spoke with some of the Cosplayers, stallholders and attendees at this year's event.
On this episode, Jim caught up with Director Maurice Sweeney and producer Ed Moloney to chat about their documentary I, Dolours which was recently screened here in Belfast as part of the Pull Focus Documentary Film Festival.
Following that interview, Jim caught up with local blogger Alan Meban to chat about the film.
On this episode, Jim caught up with writer Michael Gordon to chat about his work on the comic book adaption of Stan Lee's Lucky Man. This four-part mini-series explores the origins of the bracelet that grant detective Harry Clayton his powers and should be available from your local comic book stores now.
On this episode, Jim caught up with Seán Murray the director of the Respect Human Rights Film Festival, which has been running here in Belfast from the 5 August until the 11 August.
Ahead of the release of Ant-Man and The Wasp we caught up with Aaron Flanagan from the Comic Book Guys on Great Victoria Street to chat about The Wasp's comic book orgins.
On this podcast, Jim spoke with local writer/director Brian Mulholland, one of the founders of the Film Devour Short Film Festival and Stay Beautiful Films. He sat down with Brian to discuss his passion for cinema and his own journey as a filmmaker.
On this podcast, we chatted in spoilerific detail about Ari Aster's Hereditary, a film which has divided audience and critical opinion with its bombastic ending! So we sat down to share our thoughts on the film.
On this recording Jim was joined by Alice Byrne, Therese Rea and Joe Mc Elroy.
On this podcast, the second in a two-part special we continued to showcase some of the guests we spoke to during this year's Edinburgh International Film festival.
Some of the guests on this episode included Anthony Byrne (In Darkness), Haifaa Al-Mansour (Mary Shelley), Adam Morse and Laurie Calvert (Lucid) and Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin about The Parting Glass.
On this podcast, the first in a two-part special we showcase some of the guests we spoke to during this year's Edinburgh International Film festival.
Some of the guests on this episode included Ben Elton, George MacKay, Mia Goth and Sergio G. Sánchez, the writer and director of The Secret of Marrowbone
On this edition of our podcast, we caught up with Art Parkinson and Penelope Wilton, two of the stars of Zoo. Written and directed by local filmmaker Colin Mcivor, this film about 'The Elephant Angel' of Belfast Zoo hits cinemas this weekend.
Ahead of their show at the Mac here in Belfast on Saturday 30 June, BanterFlix's Jim McClean caught up with Andrew Jones Cassidy, Bill Taylor and Steven Barrett from the Sick Sense to see what makes these sickos laugh!
On this podcast, Jim caught up with local filmmaker and huge Star Wars fan Bill Taylor to chat about Solo: A Star Wars Story.
On this podcast, we sent BanterFlix's Scottish Correspondent Magda Paduch to the launch of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival at the Filmhouse on Lothian Road.
She caught up with Lydia Beilby the festival's Short Film Programmer and chatted about what we can expect from this year's programme.
On this podcast Jim was joined by Gavin Moriarty and Mike McCourt as they chatted about Deadpool 2
On this podcast, recorded at Odeon Belfast Jim sat down with members of the BanterFlix team to chat about a film 10 years in the making as we discussed Avengers: Infinity War in spoilerific detail!
On this podcast, Jim caught up with BanterFlix's very own Colette Fahy to chat about Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game, which will soon be out on both DVD and Blu Ray. He also caught up with filmmakers Sinead O'Shea and Deborah Haywood, who were both guests during this year's Belfast Film Festival.
Jim spoke with Sinead about her documentary A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot and chatted with Deborah about her feature Pin Cushion.
On this podcast, Jim sat down with Mexican filmmaker Issa López to chat about her film Tigers are not Afraid. It's a film that feels like a spiritual sequel to Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone or Pan's Labyrinth, except with a more modern, realistic setting with some critics going so far as to claim it's the best del Toro film he never made.
Jim sat down and talked with Issa about the challenges of making the film and working with such a young cast.
On this edition of our podcast, Jim caught up with Aaron Flanagan from The Comic Book Guys to talk about the big bad within Marvel's MCU, Thanos 'the Mad Titan'.
We chatted about his creation, mythology and even picked out some recommended reads for comic book fans to check out.
On this podcast Jim caught up with John Carrol Lynch, an actor familiar to many for his numerous roles in front of the camera; but John has recently moved behind the camera, making his directorial debut on Lucky starring Harry Dean Stanton.
Sadly the film proved to be Stanton's last role onscreen, but Jim spoke with John about what it was like working with the man and how it felt to step behind the camera for the first time.
On this episode, Jim caught up with Thoroughbreds writer/director Cory Finley and one of the film's leading ladies Anya Taylor-Joy. He alsspoke with Director Simon Hunter about Edie, which will be screened at this year's Belfast Film Festival. He also chatted with Chris Gray about Ghost Stories, which is out this week.
On this podcast, Jim caught up with David 'CBG' Campbell from Could be Great Productions to chat about the news that Danny Boyle looks set to helm Daniel Craig's last outing as 007! But what started out as a simple chat about our thoughts on Boyle helming the next Bond movie, soon evolved into a discussion on the future of the franchise itself.
On this podcast, Jim caught up with BanterFlix's very own Leigh Forgie as they chatted about the Tomb Raider reboot starring Alicia Vikander, which has recently been released in cinemas.
On this episode, recorded on International Women’s Day, Jim caught up with Doctor Carolann North from the University of Ulster, who was speaking at the Nerve centre in Derry about the changing nature of female portrayal within the action movie genre.
On this episode, Jim chats with David Batty, the director of My Generation. A documentary about London during the 1960s featuring Sir Michael Caine. We caught up with the director at the London Film Festival last year, but the film's about to go on general release later this month.
On this episode, Jim chatted with John Monahan about Blade Runner 2049, which has recently been released on Blu Ray and to Joseph Mc Elroy about Ridley Scott's Final Cut of the Orginal Blade Runner.
On this episode, Jim caught up with Joseph Lennon to chat about the latest installment within the MCU, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther. Earning rave reviews and breaking box-office records, we sat down over a coffee to share our thoughts on the film.
After its success at the Baftas and the Golden Globes earlier this year Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri heads to this year's Academy Awards as the firm favourite to pick up the Best Picture Award. So with that in mind, Jim caught up with BantherFlix's very own Gavin Moriarty to chat about the film.
On this podcast, Jim McClean was joined by Gerard Torbitt from Mouth of the Farside as they chatted about The Shape of Water, the latest film by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
On this podcast, Jim caught up with Jonathan Cardwell from The Belfast Times to chat about The Cloverfield Paradox which recently landed on Netflix after this year's Super Bowl. He also spoke with Neil Stringer from USS Caroline about Star Trek: Discovery.
On this podcast, Jim caught up to with two BanterFlix regulars Neil Sedgewick from Films and Faith and our very own Gavin Moriarty to look back on some of the cinematic highs and lows of 2017.
On this podcast, Jim caught up with the Big List's Leigh Forgie as they chatted about Paul Hogan's 1986 feature Crocodile Dundee.
Jim caught up with Joseph Lennon and Bill Taylor to see what they thought of Ryan Johnson's Episode VIII, but don't worry it's not all Star Wars as Jim also spoke with Jess Black about Wonder,