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Two people trapped in covid lockdown review movies. We watch the movies so you don‘t have to. Join the discord to discuss: https://discord.gg/hXADCWyFJa
It's not the end of the end but it is the beginning of the end. Paul and Rick look back and discover that all movies are either one-cut movies or have montages (and are about time travel). The curious concept of the lockdown movie. CGI fights send Paul to sleep, but Thai jails keep him awake. How to smuggle money from China.
Here's a list of standout movies mentioned:
Time and stuff
Tenet https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/tenet
Coherence https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/coherence
Primer https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/primer
Horror and thriller
Midsommar https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/midsommar
Parasite https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/parasite
Enter The Void https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/enter-the-void
Bodies Bodies Bodies https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/bodies-bodies-bodies
Fun and action
Everything Everywhere All At Once https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/dungeons-and-dragons
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/furiosa
Dune: Part Two https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/dune-part-two
Paul won't consider joining a mission to mars, he would miss melon liquor too much, and explains AI dating chatbots to Rick, who in return explains how sprinklers work yet again. The Japanese movie Lumberjack The Monster explores synthetic psychopathy.
Latest instalment of the X trilogy is MaXXXine, while Rick and Paul discuss the most expensive packet of fruit gums.
The film is Longlegs, but are they spiders or crane flies or both? Rick enjoys the McMansion architecture. Also a discussion of the work of the Satanic Temple.
True-until-its-not story Hit Man is the recent streaming hit Paul and Rick review. Football at the Euros, Election news, cryptography and pop philosophy.
Rick explains how to use cutlery, Paul discusses evolutionary impact of bird feeders. 2009 movie Orphan covers dark triad diagnostics and adoption politics.
See Nigel Farage being trolled by Led By Donkeys here.
Rick and Paul shuck the oyster to find a Pearl in the fleshy folds. Safety advice for British tourists, Paul's fascination with expensive gates and a harrowing story of a drowned sheep.
Revenge porn and homophobia in the movie Femme. Is it mint sauce and mango sauce on top of your kebab? Rick explains who is Nigel Farage with help from Led By Donkeys. Paul liked Ru Paul before he was popular.
Social mobility, the battle of Naseby, Mondegreens, scams, all provoked by the custard and Oreo donut that is Emily The Criminal.
At trip to the cinema to see Furiosa: A Mad Max Sage, but while underperforming at the box-office, does it have a roaring V8 under the hood? Rick tries to educate Paul on the more recent Mad Max history, while pointing out, belatedly, that there is a new Bobby Fingers video.
Martial arts come in for some scrutiny in The Art Of Self Defence. Paul and Rick can't stop discussing lift operations, so much so that Paul started and dropped a PhD in the subject. He also reveals he had ostrich farm.
As thunderstorms roll dramatically across the land, Paul and Rick begin a journey through studio Ghibli's interpretation of Ursula K Le Guin's classic Earthsea cycle, Tales From Earthsea. Rick also found a two part mini-series adaptation called Earthsea on YouTube.
Haunted-mirror horror movie Oculus. Rick refers to the bit flip incident mentioned in detail in this episode of Radiolab. Paul takes the problem of covert one-way mirrors seriously, and enjoys the Young Farmers DIY AGM.
Snyder gives us the next instalment of Rebel Moon- Part Two. Paul and Rick consider the power or lack of power of POTUS. Choose your team: ranged weapons or hand-to-hand.
Karaoke and gambling stories from Paul, while Rick wonders about the futility of Civil War.
How does Anatomy Of A Fall acquit itself? Do Paul and Rick raise any objections as they sit as judge, jury and sexecutioners on the movie. Paul recalls being the face of DVDs in China, Rick compares Netflix's Three Body Problem with Tencent's Three Body.
A time loop movie yet again, Infinitum: Subject Unknown sort of stars Sir Ian McKellan. Rick explains the 3-Body Problem series and escaping zip ties.
Paul and Rick watch the thought-jigsaw Dogtooth. Paul throws shade at monkey conversational skills and gives invaluable fashion advice to middle-aged men. A wistful callback to The Meaning Of Liff. Extraordinary story about Marina who lived with monkeys which is mentioned briefly.
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The link to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is probably the wrong one, YMMV. Steve Mould investigates how kettles work here.
Bingo popularity, UFOs and their cultural and political implications, and Japanese and American educational practices.
The word "whimsical" is often used to describe Marcel The Shell With Shoes , and hack reviewers Paul and Rick also failed to find an original word. Paul explains Garrison Keillor, Rick recounts a terrifying Zorb accident . Does grade inflation affect the final scores?
Finally we get to the Dune sequel. is it a "dry-squib"? Rick attacks a beloved piece of Paul's childhood. Paul creaks around noisily in his Harkonnen style black leather mumu. Melange and worms discussed in Periodic Videos Chemistry of Spice Melange YouTube videp
In response to Enter The Void last week, enjoy this Smack My Bitch Up Cat Version.
This is your brain dying on DMT. Gaspar's Noe's existential trip makes Paul invent the word "toitering". Enter The Void with Drive-By Cinema. Also see The Prodigy classic "Smack My Bitch Up".
Paul, author of Atomic Aardvark, reviews the work of novelist Austin Wright, and the fictional author Edward Sheffield in the woman-reading-a-book neo-noir Nocturnal Animals. Paul also recommends the YouTube channel of Toyah Wilcox. Who is Steve Adams?
Somehow managing to see The Invisible Man (2020), Paul makes a spirited defence of the much-maligned sociopaths, and reminisces about cell phone ringtones. Rick wonders how people correct things without tipp-ex.
Content advisory for themes of suicide in the extremely long and rather moving Chinese film An Elephant Sitting Still. Rick recommends Ally From China YouTube channel for her analysis of the St Pancras piano incident.
Horticultural thriller Little Joe has Rick and Paul contemplating the authenticity of happiness. Paul invents the condition of pterydactyly, Rick asks about the Chinese game phenomena Jubensha, which is discussed in detail on the People Make Games YouTube channel.
Spanish container survival Nowhere makes Paul and Rick wonder about cell-phone reception mid-ocean and shipping economics.
"The seagulls around here have mobility scooters"
Find out about the fate of lost containers on the Casual Navigation YouTube video What Happens To Lost Containers?
Cyberwarfare armageddon in Leave The World Behind. And also a detailed explanation of how GPS works, to Paul's horror. Trump's expertise on magnets and the Kevin Bacon game.
TV show Mr Robot.
Flatliners.
Listen to the end-title song on the Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist.
Bathtime fun with Saltburn. Paul regards eggs done over-easy as a health threat, Rick reveals that there are no anuses in 2-dimensions. The latest Bobby Fingers video is a must-watch.
Paul and Rick watch Rebel Moon part one - A Child Of Fire and also discuss Hong Kong fishing villages and remaking Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Neither of them could remember the name of Milo Yiannopoulos, thankfully. Paul mentioned 80s Rob Lowe movie Oxford Blues.
Alien abductions, in both this week's movie The Fourth Kind, and also on SNL. Rick and Paul tackle the ethics of truth and fiction in movie-making and the found-footage genre, hypnosis and repressed memories.
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One-take wonder Victoria astounds Rick and harrows Paul. Discussion of organisation in criminal enterprises and Paul loses his phone and gets it wet in unrelated incidents. A reminder that there is a Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UJHbXm32onhruZSsjNTn9?si=81cdd516da714b83
Gore horror comedy Psycho Goreman delights Rick and Paul, and comparison is made to the precocious talent shown in this O'Keefe Music Foundation cover of Korn's Freak On A Leash.
Let's do the time-warp again with Totally Killer. Rick talks about hyperwatches, Paul shops for carriage clocks and explains a meme to Rick.
This week we watch Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story).
Rick has two points he wants to make 3 times, for up to 6 good points. He also reveals his manifesto for removing subjectivity in sports. Paul reveals he broke his arm trying to skateboard once. Explore maps of music genre on pages like Music Map.
The movie: Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose.
A Dream of Death
William Butler Yeats
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand;
And they had nailed the boards above her face,
The peasants of that land,
Wondering to lay her in that solitude,
And raised above her mound
A cross they had made out of two bits of Wood
And planted Cypress round;
And left her to the indifferent stars above
Until I carved these Words:
She was more beautiful than thy first love,
But now lies under boards.
Rick rapidly explains the intricate plot of Triangle while Paul goes "whoa" a lot. The end of pan news. "I only wish I could lucid-dream so I could do light chores."
Paul and Rick caught in an endless loop with Palm Springs this week. Also pans make a reappearance, as well as underwear and sports attire etiquette and The Lonely Planet Guys "Like A Boss" and instrumental tracks from bands with vocalist like The Breeders "Flipside" and of course Genesis "The Brazilian"
Australian malevolent spirits abound in Talk To Me. Paul has been binge-watching King of Stonks and Founder. Rick has been binge-watching Taskmaster. Also briefly mentioned is the podcast and now TV series Uncanny.
Paul discusses planned obsolescence, the Queen Mother's fridge and frying pans with Rick, which is a peculiar introduction to a discussion of creepy horror sci-fi mystery The Endless.
The Jonestown related podcast is actually Transmissions From Jonestown.
Paul becomes The Creator after watching the film, coining two neologisms "counterflicting" and "countervention", but makes up for it with a public safety warning about riding elephants from different villages.
Paul claims that green skittles and purple skittles have the same flavour, while Rick admits to once having sex in a forest. The movie under discussion is 2008 thriller Eden Lake.
Not telekinesis, but Korean superhero drama Psychokinesis. Rick reveals his recent brush with the dreaded covid, Paul explains the east-Asian love for good food has a neurological cause, gutter-oil and HS2 also feature.
With a covid sick-note from our podcast hosts, and anticipating the next Dune movie next month, wait November, no wait now next year! Oh never mind, here's the episode on the second first Dune movie.
Paul means small, and Rick mentions the Radiolab episode on Chinese keyboard input all while analysing Korean baby-selling road movie Broker.
Paul recalls hunting boar in the Chinese mountains with the PLA. Rick talks about Intensified Continuity, The movie is British cringe-fest All My Friends Hate Me.
Watching Korean monster thriller The Host, Paul exposes a surprising ignorance of US politics, Rick apologies for mis numbering the episodes, Paul describes how to shoplift with self-checkout tills, behaviour which the podcast does not endorse. Phrase of the week is "Fume cupboard"
Near future AI thriller Upgrade has Rick talking about mass surveillance like Gorgon Stare, while Paul explores culturally acceptable kissing.
Imagine escaping a deadly escape room only to wind up back in one again a while later. An experience very similar to the one Rick and Paul have reviewing Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions. Rick explains the Dubai Porta-Potty concept to Paul.
The power of the dog is a curious thing
Make a one man weep, make another man sing,
Change a heart to a little white dove
More than a feeling, that's the power of the dog.
Found footage superhero movie Chronicle is the opener for season 4. Mysteries arise such as what prison eating-trays are called, the difference between telekinesis and psychokinesis, and who were the "Fabulous Four"?
We learn that birds are the most reliable for train announcements, truths about the wild west, and Paul describes his vowel movement. The British found-footage timey-wimey movie is Lola.
Korean BBQ, shuffleboard and Paul's surprising competitive streak enrich this review at the core of which Paul and Rick discuss Oppenheiner.
Recommended podcast: The Rest Is History.
What did Paul and Rick have to say when they snapped out of Danny Boyle's Trance? Talk of what to do with a stolen painting, hypnosis and Columbian scam powder, or Devil's Breath, which seems mostly to be a legend. The Netflix series mentioned is This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist.
Covering a lot of ground this week, from Just Stop Oil protests, corporal punishment for children, alligators in sewers, American vs British toilets, energy security, the Japan of Europe, geography of the pacific north west, reform of cricket rules, classic datsuns, Veronica Mars and Sweet Valley High, MGMT, The Dandy Warhols, Baba Vanga and John Titor. "Live by the internship, die by the internship" - is what Paul says. Miraculously, Rick and Paul also manage to discuss the 2012 movie Safety Not Guaranteed.
You can experience the Sweet Valley high theme here.
Don't bathe owls, don't feed bees sugar, and don't pair a grieving orphan with a murderous AI android girl, as they do in M3GAN.
Sex education for an economist with Paul. Gogglebox makes people watch Fall. And Paul and Rick reflect on AI relationships while watching Her.
Rick watches as storms hit Paul's hometown on the live lightning map., a discussion of the Duxford Air Museum, vegan ethics and other stuff district them from horror romance road-movie Bones and All.
Gauge blocks and postmodernism. Rick and Paul discuss the 2022 movie of the 80's novel White Noise.
Don’t look down! Paul and Rick can’t help but go back to last week’s movie before moving on to discussing embarrassing things that can happen while on a sleeper bus or in a Japanese movie theatre. No it’s not being eaten by vultures, although that is a concern in Fall.
Rick was wrong about Paul being wrong about polo necks, while Paul explains to Rick how to fix a flat bike tyre. Alex Garland meanwhile explains something or other in Men.
As anarchy in the UK ends, Rick and Paul discuss Nobody, the patriarchy, Apple Newtons (again), and the hydraulic press channel.
2012 ghost story When The Lights Went Out purports to be a true story - is it credible or just truly terrible? Paul displays an astonishing understanding of the failure of the British car industry as with Rick they grapple with their 1970's childhoods.
Steve Jobs, great man of history or bit of a plonker? Paul makes a spirited defence of the Microsoft Surface, while Rick laments the Apple Newton.
Do cinemas have lobbies? It's a question. Paul and Rick also discuss techno-possession thriller Black Box. Also p-zombies.
Paul explains why Minstrels were invented (the chocolates not the entertainers) as he attends the cinema to watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The D&D game is 'jazz storytelling' we learn.
Mostly Rick here talking at length about time travel puzzler Primer. Also the ethics of AI creativity.
Trigger warning: descriptions of painful intimate medical examinations.
One-boxer Rick and two-boxer Paul discover the The History Of Future Folk, while grappling with the slippery dividing-line between real and fictional music acts. Take a look at fictional act Ashley O - I'm on a roll.
Join Rick and Paul in the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell as they discuss temporal photography thriller Time Lapse. Paul explains kardassian pointingwhile Rick encourages everyone to watch the Bobby Fingers YouTube channel.
Dementia horror in The Taking Of Deborah Logan, a found footage phd thesis. Rick asks Paul to compare to songs from the previous decade: Tenderoni by Kele and Wearing My Rolex by Wiley.
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes is a Japanese sci-fi comedy about a cafe owner named Kato who discovers he can communicate with a version of himself from two minutes in the future through a computer screen. As the film progresses, Kato's interactions with his future self become increasingly complex and lead to some unexpected consequences. This is a low-budget, "one cut" style movie fascinates both Rick and Paul (who has terrible sound quality for some reason).
You can watch Chris Ramsay opening puzzle boxes for you here.
Groundhog Day meets Scream by way of Edge of Tomorrow, this week's review topic is Happy Death Day.
Paul and Rick have started using a website to track movies for review, check out letterboxd, maybe start your own list.
For Paul 'Netflix and Chill' means getting a free projector, more on TV detector vans, and in-passing a discussion of animated film Your Name.
Gambling fallacies and unknowable information: what's inside a TV detector van? Paul and Rick marvel at the masterpiece animated film Spirited Away.
Paul reveals the full extent of his gambling experience while Rick tries to get ChatGPT3 to create a Blur song. True story "drama" Jerry & Marge Go Large is the backdrop to all of this.
Here are the lyrics for the song "Parklife" by Blur (by ChatGPT)
Verse 1: London's a rip-off You pay for the privilege of living in the capital The North West is cheaper But they don't have the same opportunities
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 2: The girls are in the park Wearing next to nothing It's not getting any warmer But they're not complaining
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 3: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 4: The council wants to clean up the park But it's not a park at all It's a people zoo They're trying to kick us out
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 5: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Here are the lyrics for the song "Parklife" by Blur:
Verse 1: London's a rip-off You pay for the privilege of living in the capital The North West is cheaper But they don't have the same opportunities
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 2: The girls are in the park Wearing next to nothing It's not getting any warmer But they're not complaining
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 3: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 4: The council wants to clean up the park But it's not a park at all It's a people zoo They're trying to kick us out
Chorus: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife
Verse 5: It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife It's Parklife....(repeats 90 times)
Back to 1990 for Hal Hartley's Trust. Warning for themes of suicide. Rick bangs on about patents again, while revealing to Paul how they had both failed to notice some critical film-making techniques in last week's movie, Decision To Leave.
Trigger warning for themes of suicide as Paul and Rick discuss Korean film-noir Decision To Leave. Rick tests ChatGPT vs Paul in puzzle solving, while Paul expresses his dislike of sushi, but his love of conveyer belts.
Paul and Rick discuss design protection and cakes in the shape of mushrooms, along with bribing border guards as they navigate the infected zone of Gareth Edwards' 2010 film Monsters. Search for registered designs on the Design View website.
Ben Wheatley's take on J G Ballard's High Rise, on the dissection table in this episode. Paul proves himself again to be much better read then Rick.
Episode 22 the first one of 2023. It's all about 2010 sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go. Except for the bits about Avatar and design protection.
Asymmetric intelligibility, Aldi vs M&S, and other stuff are discussed along with Norwegian movie Troll.
F**king magnets, how do they work? And how do Paul and Rick keep ending up watching these lock-down style movies with a cast of 3 or 4 people? It's Vivarium this time.
Mentioned in this podcast - controversial explanation of electricity on the Veritasium YouTube channel, and the concept of the "McMansion".
Paul discusses fake colonic irrigation TikTok videos for some reason, thinks the ship of Theseus could have done with some stone cladding, and fails to resolve Rick's dinner party etiquette conundrum. He also reveals that he has lost his visual imagination though still has vivid dreams. None of which has anything to do with The Block Island Sound.
It's not a recent movie, but The Core has an infamous relationship to scientific accuracy. How do Paul and Rick take to it?
A Dutch future Greta Thunberg goes back in time to our near-future to stop arctic fracking in Captain Nova. Paul and Rick discuss the noble sacrifice of teleportation.
Every so often, Paul and Rick find themselves reviewing a film which has a name of more than one word. It's confusing and difficult for them, but somehow they muddle through. This time they tackle Everything Everywhere All At Once to see if it justifies the profligate use of words.
Splosh, Mukbang, nightclub whales, Paul reamins unconvinced by ranking algorithm enthusiasm in Cam.
Warning: This film depicts fake suicides which we mention during the discussion.
No this isn't episode 10, instead Paul and Rick discuss 2022 horror shocker 'X' and discuss vintage porn.
Paul teaches Rick all about Mae West as they review the spectacle of Sextette. Rick recounts his weekend helping to run the QED conference. Paul knows a lot about big cats.
Possibly missing the point of 2015 horror It Follows Paul and Rick discuss the importance of toys. Happy Halloween for those listening along live!
Low-key chiller I Came By is the next horror for the month of October. As Paul says, 20 quid for a heated jacket is better than 15 quid for a jacket potato.
Rick listens to the alarmingly similar Alan Partridge podcast From the Oasthouse.
Japanese zombie horror(?) One Cut Of The Dead has Paul revealing how excruciatingly honest he is.
We don't usually give spoiler warnings, we always spoil, but if you were planning to see this film you should maybe do so before listening to Paul and Rick explain it to death.
The past sucks, but does Synchronic? Rick introduces Paul to the NBA. Any listener wishing to own a heated gilet can buy one from Paul's eBay shop. And the Radiolab episode Rick mentions is this one.
Two Gen-Xers discuss the Gen-Z study Bodies Bodies Bodies. Paul is hoping to keep bodies warm this winter with his heated gilet concept.
Not the '90s helicopter-based gameshow TV series with Annabel Croft, but the much maligned Netflix vanity project Interceptor. For some reason, stories of nuclear missile defence systems seem pressing and relevant just right now.
True story of the 2018 cave rescue of a Thai junior football team, Thirteen Lives prompts Paul and Rick to discuss caving. Risk recommends the Dive Talk youtube channel, hosted by Woody and Gus. It's on Amazon Prime, not Netflix as Rick may have previously suggested.
Californian UAP horror mystery thriller Nope directed by Jordan Peele. Celebratory gunfire and Air Dancers among the subjects under discussion and Rick promotes the podcast 99% invisible as if it needs any more promotion.
The 2021 version of Candyman. Paul gets stuck up a hill, but it doesn't stop him discussing gentrification with Rick.
Moonfall - Moon falls. How make moon go back up? Maybe fight moon snake?
Best place to stay is under-the-sea.
Now updated to be an actual conversation!
The film adaptation everyone wanted, Paul and Rick realise that sinking the small ones is always tougher than sinking the Battleship.
Season 3 already! Beginning with 2003 movie Code 46, Paul and Rick grapple with their ignorance of genetics, and wonder what the point of a vest is.
Series 2 ends with exceptionally creepy Taiwanese horror Incantation while Rick chides Paul for failing to see Dario Argento classic Profundo Rosso.
The difficulties of escape rooms in different languages as Paul describes a sort of Chinese word puzzle which turns out to be pertinent to the somewhat corny movie Escape The Field. Also discussed, the difficulties of giving warnings in different languages and the book exploring it, The Babel Message by Keith Kahn-Harris.
At the end of the world, people will still be debating whether analogue or digital music sounds better. Rick and Paul put the matter to rest though, discussing Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.
What is the difference between a burger and a slider? This important question is addressed during a review of Kevin Smith's horror-comedy with a podcast connection Tusk.
Kevin Smith's podcast which is the origin of the idea is the Smodcast .
Inevitably, the subject of this week's film is town-planning. The story of Basildon causes Rick to come over all autobiographical as Paul defends his choice of film New Town Utopia.
Paul forces Rick to watch an Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems. The freedom of kids in the 80s. gambling and tennis all receive at least a passing mention.
Paul reveals his most profound thought of the past 11 years as the 2012 movie Cloud Atlas is regarded with mild suspicion. Rick meanwhile is keen on the game Disco Elysium.
Whereas Paul and Rick sometimes confidently guide the listener through the layers of hidden meaning, for this movie, David Lynch's epic Inland Empire, you are essentially on your own.
But they do discuss Newton's laws of motion, and follow-up work on mosquitos in some entertaining reference videos.
Monarchy, mutilation, and mood are among the topics beginning with 'm' which for all we know have been edited out of this episode discussing Norwegian film The Trip.
Back to traditional Drive-By Cinema territory, a lock-down viral apocalypse movie made in 2017, It Comes At Night thrills Paul. Rick notes that it seems to be more like an ebola outbreak, referencing 90's book The Coming Plague.
The movie is the waking dream called Dave Made A Maze, not "Dave Made A Movie" which is what Paul thought. He also details 4 things on his 3 item list, references a '60 long foot shooner' and pronounces "apparel" in a weird way. Rick of course, is beyond reproach.
Ok Go make some entertaining music videos. And it's an Ames Room.
"Glow worms on the beach".
On Netflix, Choose Or Die hits some nostalgia notes for Rick, who talks about armchair treasure hunts like Masquerade, Hareraiser and Pimania.
Paul and Rick are watching Children Of Men for this episode, a film which Home Secretary Priti Patel thinks is a blueprint for immigration policy. They tackle the YouTube road vigilante CyclingMikey. And real-life superhero podcast The Superhero Complex. Paul's tennis skills are compared unfavourably to those of Boris Becker.
A harrowing tale of the family dog nearly drowning (twice), and that's just Paul's story, not even the movie, which this week is Under The Skin.
Word of the week: Petrichor
Paul's word of the week: Gansey
Paul espouses an "in-at-the-deep-end" approach to education as with Rick he discusses recent Netflix production The Adam Project. Rick dislikes E.T. and Adam Sandler, but presumably no one cares. "Syrup and Honey" in case you were wondering.
Finally! Paul and Rick resolve the difficult question of 'what is art?' This week's movie is 2018 space western Prospect.
Returning to director David Lynch for Mulholland Drive, Rick relies on cleverer people to help him understand the layers of meaning, including this analysis on YouTube. Paul holds Rick to account for his comments about the year 1986.
Paul and Rick make sweeping generalisations about French cinema as they review 1986 student poster classic Betty Blue. Rick also promises to provide a link to The Carbonaro Effect clips on YouTube.
A lesson in basic lifeguarding as Paul and Rick substitute Shortbus for the film they had previously announced.
Phrase of the week is "easy-lifting". Paul reveals that he was Dr DVD and invented region coding. Chic lesbian crime thriller Bound is ready to play. Check out the LockPickingLawyer YouTube channel to see some real life lockpicking skills.
Lurid serial killer movie The House That Jack Built has the power to disturb, so be wary listening to Rick and Paul's detailed discussion of it. Equally stomach-churning is the discussion of 'The Fibre Challenge'. Worth it though to learn of Paul's skills with agricultural implements.
Emo Batman vs QAnon as Paul and Rick venture out to the actual cinema again for The Batman. Rick helps Paul find his 'white whale' which turns out to be less salacious than it sounds.
On the eve of Word War III, Paul and Rick cheer themselves up by watching Requiem For A Dream.
Free Guy is the story of an NPC in a videogame waking-up and becoming self-aware. With relatively little self-awareness Paul and Rick discuss oven repair and Rick's favourite videogame.
We were all waiting for a movie featuring Bose-Einstein condensates and with Spectral our wish was Granted!
Paul and Rick also discuss Backrooms, and you can watch the videos mentioned here. They also discuss Paris syndrome.
The Japanese movie adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein novel, The Door Into Summer. Rick is puzzled by Paul's portable hip-flask while they share work experience stories.
Killer robot thriller Morgan may or may not be any good. Let's find out.
Drive-By Cinema announce a Spotify playlist to help keep up with the musical references made, and good music from the movies watched.
Paul and Rick take to the field and joust with their claims-to-fame regarding an actor in A Knight's Tale - Jonathan Slinger. They discuss earworms - in particular Save It For Later by The Beat and medieval combat in modern times, depicted in these Buhurt YouTube vids.
Paul and Rick make oblique references to a documentary about Panopticons with no satisfactory explanation while Lars Von Trier's 2003 movie Dogville is examined. We learn that Paul has it in for Nicole Kidman.
This is what happens if we remove all reference to watching a film and just string together a series of unconnected thoughts.
Paul and Rick discuss future transport, sports and Scandinavian customs.
Paul and Rick return to the Matrix after deconstructing song lyrics. Which involves another trip to the cinema.
Paul thinks toenail clippings are a suitable secret-santa gift for some reason, and the movie is Encounter (2021) an Amazon Prime alien invasion thriller.
Busting makes Rick feel good, but does Ghostbusters Afterlife have the spirit of the original?
Mention is made of this YouTube from Adam Savage who looks in detail at proton pack replica.
Living off, but never killing their podcast host, Drive-By Cinema examine Parasite, Bong Joon-ho's award-winning study of class division.
Cabriolet pies fail to distract from the continuous barrage of last-second escapes in global disaster movie 2012.
Pay no attention to the episode number declared by Rick this is actually episode 17. Another historical mushroom-fuelled misadventure, A Field In England allows Rick and Paul to display embarrassingly little knowledge of English history.
Paul and Rick discuss different strategies in packing for travel as they discuss hotel-based thriller The Consequences Of Love. Rick is fascinated by Mafia choreographers and has to make a major retraction about David Lynch's Dune. See Corridor Crew on Dune VFX.
The Cabin in the Woods, a 2011 deconstruction of the horror genre. Paul and Rick discuss travelling as covid numbers slowly rise. Paul is triggered by mention of loading gauges yet again.
Everything Paul has known is thrown into question as with Rick he discusses 2021 Italian film A Classic Horror Story. Subtitles vs dubbing for foreign language content - the debate rages.
It's Dune again, this time the 2021, post-covid mask-wearing version. Rick complains about psychonaut creativity as they contemplate whether they have wormsign.
How to count on your fingers by differing cultural conventions. Paul explains how he would do a horror movie about a person with hearing loss as we discuss 2016 film Hush.
Episode 11, on publication imams priests and Vickara around the world breathe a collective sigh of relief as they realize that we've decided to have a go at Buddhism instead. Netflix movie Infinite is discussed as we decide whether a King is also a Knight.
Paul and Rick brave the physical world and a cinema trip to see the James Bond swansong No Time To Die and to discuss how long long-life milk lasts.
Rick listens to one episode of In Our Time and becomes an expert on medieval chivalric romance poetry, which comes in handy when discussing The Green Knight with Paul, who is enchanted by the practice of wearing codpieces.
Paul grapples with his phone's night-time mode while trying to watch Zoom call screenfilm Host . Rick styles himself as a modern day Peyps in these troubled times of Brexit and Covid.
Rick attempts to impress Paul with his school swimming awards in a failed attempt to connect with him. And in the film Magnolia, we observe characters in a series of similarly doomed interactions.
Paul and Rick argue about the operation of septic tanks while considering Icelandic ghost story I Remember You.
Published late but sounding great, Paul and Rick examine the dual-named 2013 movie The Den (or Hacked) and the prescient warning of how social media would be for us all by now. Rick expresses his fascination with 80's TV show The Interceptor which Paul politely pretends he may once have watched.
It's the 2019 movie Escape Room, not the 2017 film of the same name. Paul explains the concept of the tonal burp,Rick's monomania of the week is the 80's tv series The Adventure Game.
Paul and Rick give each other the enormous task of watching an entire series, to review South Korean school and sex-work drama Extracurricular. The effort makes the whole episode late, and we wonder if it was worth it.
Paul is unimpressed by Werner Herzog's documentary style as DBC review Grizzly Man (2005). Respects to Timothy Treadwell and Rick commends his choice of Casio G-Shock watch.
Starting the second season with Spanish escape room movie Fermat's Room. Paul and Rick discover who would pass their interview at Google.
No specific film for this sombre realisation that we have spent over a year in pandemic lockdown. Paul and Rick discuss their favourite films of the series and figure out what they have learnt, spoiler alert: it's not a lot.
Korean zombie thriller #Alive
Rick has a beef with coffee as a concept, while Paul performs without the assistance of notes.
We finally learn the truename of the clicker on a ballpoint pen, and the blobs on tennis racket strings. Paul and Rick review 2017 movie mother! Paul explains how to deal with teens in the park doing whippits.
We watched 2021 Netflix blockbuster Army of the Dead and then we talked about it. Paul reveals the novel he's been working on, and his recent success gambling on the tennis.
This episode includes a brief summary of the missing episode on Mandy. What do you call the clicker on a ballpoint-pen? This question is not addressed as we discuss 1997 movie Gummo.
Where is the "Mandy" episode? Why does Rick call this episode 48 in the intro? No answers will be found in this discussion of the 2019 movie The Lighthouse. "Black and white, masturbation", is a partial description of this film, and not just Paul's pornhub search history. Word of the week is "Scrimshaw".
A story of the world's worst wilderness tour-guide, and that's just Paul's anecdote. Join us as we slog though the forest with the 2010 horror YellowBrickRoad.
Paul indulges in some vivid audio re-enactments of a vampire feasting on its victim. This is in connection with the 2008 Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. During the introduction, Rick shares A Swingin' Safari with Paul.
Paul explains the inevitable fate of short term bike rental schemes in chinese cities as we flip the pages of the pop-up-book movie The Babadook. Yes it's true that urban sounds of police sirens accompany metropolitan Rick in this recording, but the repeating smoke alarm low battery chirp is entirely Paul's fault.
It's time for another clipshow. We discover the noisiest food Paul could eat during a podcast recording, and discuss Trump and Paul's local community Facebook group. It turns out that Paul is a dog person and Rick is a cat person which explains an awful lot about the podcast interpersonal dynamics.
Paul gets ripped-off by a taxi driver in China, while Rick is awed by the Great Wall. Knowing that they would be number one and number two to be thrown out of the balloon, they can be confident that they would not be embarrassed by mid-party television interrupting government messages if they were in 2020 disaster movie Greenland.
How would Wang Chung's Dance Hall Days have changed Michael Jackson's Thriller album? Jacob on "Whack-a-mole" strategy: "The goal isn't one mole!", joining Paul and Rick to discuss 2019 thriller Us.
Special guest Jacob discovers the discomfort of reviewing a movie made by a close personal friend, Benny Loves Killing (2012) is under the microscope. Paul discusses delicate HR matters and we can confirm that there are no subliminal messages in any of the musical interludes.
Joined by special guest Jacob who wishes to make a case for the movie Arrival (covered in episode 1), while Paul reminisces about Stickle Bricks, Rick calls a genuine(?) missing persons hotline and has to look up how to spell 'reminisces'. They manage to rise from the ashes of this dumpster fire to review a movie.
The movie this week is incidentally, The Phoenix Incident.
Paul discovers the agony of sound engineering and editing as we discuss Berberian Sound Studio. Special Guest Jolyon joins to make a spirited defence of Seinfeld.
MInd-virus zombie movie Pontypool this week. Paul tries to break his brain looking at op-art, but we discover that it is already broken.
Passengers (2016) raises all kinds of ethical dilemmas for Rick and Paul (who is now recording from a roadside). Ethical questions like "is it okay to try and have phone sex with an AI?"
An important episode in which Paul finds another noisy piece of furniture to record the podcast from, we learn which was Paul's favourite Spice Girl, and thanks to a discussion of the 1977 movie Suspiria we also learn what a transom window is.
Paul is fascinated to hear about IP addresses and the danger of the pseudoscience of polygraph tests as both our hosts learn to deal with criticism. The movie is The Signal (2017).
Paul invents to word "foreload" while we discuss Gaspar Noe's 2018 drug-dance-horror Climax. The film references drug use, suicide, infanticide and rape, and has strong sexual content, so be warned, or foreloaded, if you will.
Warning! This podcast contains political views. Listener discretion is advised.
Rick reveals his radical political manifesto while Paul, squeaking in his leather chesterfield armchair throughout, suggests abolishing furlough. All while discussing the refugee horror movie His House.
The pros and cons of dressing for sex and the etiquette of massage arousal are issues provoked by 2014 horror/thriller Creep.
"All the flowers have been put in the pie!". The Boards of Canada music in the soundtrack of Sinister (2012) causes Rick to explain number stations to Paul. "Fireworks for a Colin-the-caterpillar cake".
Not a Robin Hood film, but a spooky social-media ghost story The House In Sherwood causes Paul to discuss Sheilaism and Rick to explain orbs and rods.
Covid lockdown special Songbird causes Paul and Rick to discuss how dirty dishwashers are. Paul apologises to the indigenous people of North Sentinel Island.
During the episode, a real-life YouTube songbird Anne Reburn is mentioned.
Paul shares hints on handling recalcitrant servants, the joys of sitting down to pee, and discusses with Rick some bold menu suggestions for a potential cafe. Meanwhile, in the movie, Nothing Really Happens.
A poem was inspired by talk of peeing methodologies:
A bladder is a bladder and it wouldn't really matter
Whether sitter of a stander
What you're saying is just crazy, seems to me that you're just lazy
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Some people's foreheads are too big for Paul's liking in 2017 horror Get Out. Gamestop and squeezed shorts, 80's sitcoms and what foley is.
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Is The Beyond beyond the pale? This is not that The Beyond, this is the 1981 gore horror by Lucio Fulci. Paul shares his model railway metaphor for free-will and predestination with Alastair and Rick.
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Paul and Alastair swerve Rick's lawyerly question about time travel as the 2015 film Alistair 1918 is analysed. Be baffled by talk of time diameters and Paul name-dropping Will Smith's neighbour.
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Paul recounts the tale of being the victim of a voodoo hex, and explains the significance of red solo cups as Rick and Alastair discuss the 2018 movie Hereditary.
They do make them like they used to: 1970s horror wannabe The Conjuring (2013) has Rick exercised about exorcism. All aboard the ghost train, but make sure you can get a good grip on your stiff round doorknob with wet hands in the bathroom.
A journey to the sunlit uplands, a society led by a blond-haired inbred idiot, all ending up in a horror-show. Sound familiar? Ari Aster's 2019 allegory for Brexit Midsommar is the film. Paul scorns the swedes for finding amusement in gory horror, and yet laughs heartily all the way through.
Have a Christmas bonus episode, with un-released clips from previous recordings, although come to think of it all recordings are previous. Find out why these bits were edited out in the first place, and hang on for next week where we really will review Midsommar.
Is 2013 dinner-party mystery Coherence coherent? Alistair joins Paul and Rick again and we spend so long talking about a film we enjoyed that Alistair's microphone suffers a terrible degradation in quality toward the end.
Paul and Rick are joined by guest-host Alistair to discuss 2016 film Infinity Chamber. Paul discovers that it has no wikipedia page, but it does have an imdb page, as you can see. A romantic comedy set in an independent coffee shop.
Paul and Rick receive a thorough dressing-down having their homework marked by listener and special guest Alistair.
2019 Nicolas Cage movie Color Out Of Space, a HP Lovecraft horror story - Paul is bored by Rick faffing around explaining colour vision. He is also capable of identifying an alpaca fused with a dog, but cannot explain the difference between a llama and an alpaca.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to give it its full name. the 2017 Luc Besson film causes Paul and Rick to discuss the ethics of workplace relationships.
Straightforward guide to lockdown etiquette, Right At Your Door (2006) gives Paul and Rick ideas about plastic bags. Paul shares an unsanctioned medicinal use for bleach.
High Life (2018) - the sentence is life, but time flies when you're having this much fun. Join Paul and Rick as they discuss this sci-fi horror.
"It's defining in the sense of hotdog/not hotdog" - Paul explores the law of the excluded middle.
Earth breaks social distancing with Jupiter and starts to fall apart. Paul and Rick reach their Roche limit with each other as they discuss the second most popular thing to emerge from China in the last couple of years, The Wandering Earth. Drive-By Cinema introduces the fourth joke of the series, listen out for it!
Dystopian Sci-Fi for people who watched Thomas the Tank Engine as a child, Snowpiercer by Korean director Bong Joon Ho has Paul enraptured by Tilda Swinton's portrayal of a strong northern woman. Are human infants a sustainable food source?
Would be more accurately titled "Sleepless in IO"? Why geothermal energy and why a balloon? Paul is compared to a velociraptor.
Let me introduce you to a realm where the Night is Vast, but the towns are small. Where things happen without anything happening at all. Where important things are insignificant and minor things may be very major. Or maybe not. It's a theatre of paradox you see? Paul and Rick solve the world's transport problems.
2018 Netflix original Tau is on the dissection table. Paul describes diagrams in an audio medium, as is his want.
Set in the Soviet era, the 2020 sci-fi/horror movie Sputnik gives Paul and Rick the chance to marvel at tracksuits, landline telephones, CRT televisions and UAVs.
Brand new release Tenet is the film for this week. Paul assures us that everyone knows what the term hapax legomenonmeans, but he is worried that the plot of Tenet may be too complexing for most people.
Mute, the 2018 Netflix sci-fi from Duncan Jones is under discussion this week. Paul scorns the prospect of aerial drone delivery.
You're subscribed to Drive-By Cinema. Your podcast app downloads this episode. You fall asleep listening to podcasts, and deep into the night, far into the auto-playlist, Drive-By Cinema plays out to your slumbering brain.
Subsequently you watch the 2009 movie Moon . For reasons you cannot readily explain it is strangely familiar to you and you anticipate every twist. Thanks DBC!
David Lynch's 1984 film adaptation of Dune is the topic for discussion. Paul is revealed as having Harkonnen heritage.
Paul and Rick watch the first two movies in the Cloverfield universe Cloverfield, and 10 Cloverfield Lane during which Paul expresses a considerable fascination with actor TJ Miller.
This time RIck and Paul discuss Hazraf Dulull's 2017 film The Beyond. They discuss non-idiomatic expressions, without reference to Paul using the phrase "from the out-start" in episode one.
This is a pilot episode: you should expect the audio quality of an overheard conversation at a payphone.
Paul and Rick, trapped in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 review sci-fi movies. Starting with a recap of the first 7 weeks of the project, they review:
- The Martian
- The Europa Report
- Arrival
- Annihilation
- Automata
- Ex-Machina
Finally, a more in-depth discussion of I Am Mother.