Admit One Movies: Recent Episodes
Simon Oxlade, Mat Purvis and Claire Dukes
Simon Oxlade, Mat Purvis and Claire Dukes are film fans, not critics. Armed with an annual cinema pass they spend their own money and then meet up in the pub to review what they have seen.
Full of warm, witty banter, and sometimes gloriously profane, these shows are like sitting in a pub with your mates complaining about movies. While they may know what an F-stop is, and what the heck a gaffer does, the team are honest film fans who reflect the opinions of the average cinema goer with their local multiplex at the end of their street. You won't get a score, but you will get an honest assessment of what a handful of average Joes think of the flick and is it worth your money.
Each show usually consists of some news, some gossip, if anyone of note has died recently there's a respectful obituary before the three or four reviews are delivered. In between there are insults, jokes, beer and smiles.
We're not the best criticism podcast out there, but we're probably the warmest.
Admit One movies return with three new reviews and one new presenter as Claire joins the boys for a chat and a pint
Mat has a piece on the Oscars and there's a discussion about the pointlessness of awards ceremonies in general.
Reviews of the surprising-in-all-sorts-of-ways Red Sparrow, the Best Picture winning The Shape of Water (doing it's thing for amphibian romances) and the Oscar winning I,Tonya which is all about mental and physical abuse - and ice skating.
Admit One Movies returns with a podcast episode stuffed with goodies.
Spielberg's homage to Spielberg, Ready Player One, hits screens this Friday, but Simon's already seen it at a preview and let's you know if this meta-blockbuster is worth your ten quid.
Alicia Viklander takes up the impractical vest of Lara Croft from Angelina Jolie in the new Tomb Raider film. How does it fare against its predecessors, the long back story of the games, and current action adventure films. Once again Simon has braved the multiplex and reports back.
For those homebody's about, both Simon and Claire have seen Alex Garland's latest film Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh and both agree that this should have been a cinema release. It isn't, it's on Netflix, but it is still a cracking sci fi horror that is smart, clever and meaningful.
We were going to also review Duncan Jones' Mute, but time ran away from us, so that will appear in a later episode.
Mat hasn't been to the cinema, but he has got some good news stories, James Corden's Peter Rabbit gets some surprisingly venomous criticism from the threesome, none of whom have actually seen it, and there are the usual banter, jokes and insults.
Note: The pub was extremely busy on Wednesday night and we've tried to clean up the audio as much as possible, in some places I apologise if the background noise is too much.
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Mute, finally, gets reviewed, along with Peter Rabbit, The Hurricane Heist and silent horror A Quiet Place.
Simon, Mat and Claire return to the Beehive pub, Swindon, Wiltshire for their 50th Episode of the Admit One Movies podcast. Recorded over two days, the show contains a look at Solo: A Star Wars story, a discussion of Netflix's refusal to show anything at Cannes, a week after Cannes refused to show anything that Netflix submitted (sour grapes?).
Sony's Peter Rabbit with a miscast James Corden as the voice of lead character gets reviewed, Simon and Claire finally get round to reviewing futuristic noir film Mute from Duncan Jones. Simon provides the shortest ever review of Rob "The Fast and the Furious" Cohen latest film, The Hurricane Heist with Maggie Grace. Finally Mat and Claire hold each other's hands through innovative horror film A Quiet Place with Emily Blunt.
Thanks to Back of the Grid F1's Tom, Chris & Stu, and Greg from The All Seeing Guys, both BritPodScene members, wishing us a happy birthday. These guys do really excellent podcasts and I urge you to check them out!!.