It takes a lot to make Great Britain look like the plucky underdog victim in a sovereignty deciding naval dustup, but somehow Argentina rose to the challenge during the 1982 Falklands War. Oh and a lot of Margaret Thatcher doing that Margaret Thatcher thing. Recommendations: Glenn: Arthur (1981 film) Sarah: The Boat That Rocked (2009 film) Cameron:…

A post-James Bond Sean Connery teams up with a pre-James Bond Christopher Walken and a somewhat lackluster group of other robbers to knock over an entire building's worth of apartments. It goes...poorly. Recommendations: Glenn: The Gentlemen (2024 series) Sarah: Baby Reindeer (2024 series) Cameron: Stand By Me (1986 film)…

Ah 1970's Disney. A time when the eligible pool of well known television characters was so great that they could make as many live action films as they wanted. Does that mean sometimes the creative well might have gotten a little dry? Sure. But if it hadn't, we wouldn't have gotten The Cat From Outer Space! Recommendations: Glenn: The Sting (1973 f…

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week. But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast! Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the o…

Excitement meanders across the screen as a seemingly geriatric Gary Cooper wanders around trying to fight a court martial with varying degrees of confusion and self-righteousness. Recommendations: Glenn: Death At A Funeral (2007 film) Sarah: Hacksaw Ridge (2016 film) Cameron: Waterloo (1970 film)توسط The Better With Booze Film Club

If you really like Alec Guinness, then this film is for you. Two Alec Guinness for the price of one. Throw in a deranged Bette Davis, and you have yourself a deal! Recommendations: Glenn: Aliens directors cut (1986 film) Sarah: The Da Vinci Code (2006 film) Cameron: Feud: Betty and Joan (2017 television series)…

If you thought the title was questionable, when until you find out that the plot involves a celebrity tv dinner entrepreneur who travels back to WWI to stop a secret German sonic superweapon. Titles not so bad now, is it? Recommendations: Glenn: Cinema Paradiso (1988 film) Sarah: Lovely, Dark and Deep (2023 film) Cameron: The Prisoner (1967 televis…

If you think the United States has a sometimes messy political system, this movie reminds us that others can suffer from the same problems, albeit in this case in a more stiff upper lip, British sort of way. Recommendations: Glenn: The Wrecking Crew (2008 film) Sarah: Arrival (2016 film) Cameron: Staged (2020 television series)…

Leslie Nielsen as the baddy. Sort of. But not really. A searing depiction of the harm reckless journalism can have on an innocent man. Sort of. But not really. Recommendations: Glenn: The God's Must Be Crazy (1980 film) Sarah: Focused (2015 film) Cameron: Jojo Rabbit (2019 film)توسط The Better With Booze Film Club

It's that old cliche: classical pianists loses hands in a cab accident and needs to have the hands of a potential criminal attached to him and it somehow it turns him into a revenge filled serial killer. Yawn. Recommendations: Glenn: Moonstruck (1987) Sarah: Knives Out (2019) Cameron: The Insider (1999)…

So what would you do if you were given a million pound note and told that if you held on to it for one month and returned it intact, you could have some sort of job? Cash the note and take the million pounds? Well that's the obvious answer, but turns out Gregory Peck decided on a slightly different route. Recommendations: Glenn: Bullets Over Broadw…

Orson Welles stars in the film Compulsion. And by "stars" I mean he shows up about 2/3rds of the way through the film. So obviously we're using "stars" in a sort of abstract sort of way. Better to use the word "saves". Tune in to hear our review! Recommendations: Glenn: The Castle (1997 film) Sarah: Saltburn (2023 film) Cameron: Ordinary People (19…

A searing courtroom drama this is not. Peter Sellers and David Attenborough both play rather sad and lonely characters, one a murderer, one a barrister. We haven't really sold it that well here. Tune in and see if we do any better. Recommendations: Glenn: Talking Pictures (film podcast...traitor!) Sarah: Northern Exposure (1990 television series) C…

In this week's episode, the beloved Jimmy Stewart plays the accordion-wielding hero we never knew we needed in our lives in a searing and quite heavily train-based Western, Night Passage. Recommendations: Glenn: Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981 film) Sarah: Godless (2017 Netflix series) Cameron: Women Talking (2022 film)…

A searing depiction of the real life consequences of buying cookies from Girl Scouts. At least that's what we got from the film. But did we like it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Sicario (again) (2015 film) Sarah: Anatomy Of A Fall (2023 film) Cameron: The Holdovers (2023 film)توسط The Better With Booze Film Club

So sometimes we end up watching a serious movie on the BWB Film Club podcast. On this week's episode, we will be taking a look at a film about the Attica Prison riot. I was going to make a pun about the cohosts rioting, but it seems a bit inappropriate given the subject matter, so you better just tune in and find out if we like the film! Recommenda…

A British murder mystery that clocks in at less than an hour long? How bad could that be? If only there were a way to tune into something and find out... Recommendations: Glenn: Alien (1979 film) Sarah: Fighting With My Family (2019 film) Cameron: Once Upon A Time In the West (1968 film)

Robert Duvall plays a curmudgeonly Scottish football manager in this plucky sports film about a plucky sports team being plucky. But just how plucky was it? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Rocky (1976 film) Sarah: Eileen (2023 film) Cameron: Sunderland 'Til I Die (2018 series)

Michael Caine realizes he can kill people with the incredible wizard-like powers of being really lucky. Mild mannered chaos ensues. Do we like the shock that we got from watching A Shock To the System? Tune in a find out! Recommendations: Glenn: The Return Of the Pink Panther (1975 film) Sarah: The Stranger (2020 Netflix miniseries) Cameron: Godzil…

Meanwhile in a television development meeting... "Hey so we've got this idea for a reclusive archvillain that lives on a remote island in Scotland and experiments with deadly sound waves. Who do you think we should cast?" "Sean Connery?" "Oh and they have to be female." "Uh...I think Deborah Kerr is Scottish?" "Oh and they need to be Chinese." "Bet…

It's the end of the year and your favorite podcast cohosts are taking a moment to look back at the films we watched in 2023. Also we discuss some holiday classics and we become far too sentimental about spending time together! It's all in this week's special end of the year episode! Tune in!توسط The Better With Booze Film Club

You know those movies that people describe as "musicals for people who don't like musicals"? This film may be the opposite of that. It might be useful therapy for those who wish to ween themselves off of musicals. Despite some heavy hitting talent (pun intended), does this movie score a home run or is it out on first? Tune in and find out! Recommen…

Hey remember that time that James Bond and Paddington Bear teamed up to help the French beat back the Germans? No? Well let us remind you in our review of the 1999 British WWI film The Trench! Recommendations: Glenn: All the Light We Cannot See (2023 film) Sarah: Edge Of Tomorrow (2016 film) Cameron: Summer Of Soul (2021 film)…

George C. Scott plays a confidence man who takes a young drifter played by Michael Sarrazin under his wing. They lie and steal their way through the south, tricking honest people out of the hard earned dough. This we we are down as Sarah, but we pick up a Josh. Tune in and find out what we think of The Flim-Flam Man. Recommendations: Glenn: Dirty R…

A film with an exclamation mark in the title!? How could it be bad? Join us as we review the 1960 British WWII war drama Sink the Bismarck!(!) Recommendations: Glenn: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 film) Sarah: The Finest Hours (2016 film) Cameron: Life (2015 film)توسط The Better With Booze Film Club

What do James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have in common? Nothing, you say? Well not so fast, because apparently they do, in as much as Roger Moore has played them both. His Bond is iconic enough, but what of his Sherlock Holmes? Have we deduced that he played the role successfully? Tune in and find out. Recommendations: Glenn: The Great Escape (1963 …

Peter Ustinov plays the role of an embezzler working for a company with one of those newfangled computers. Hilarity ensues. Or does it? Tune in and find out what we think! Recommendations: Glenn: The Dirty Dozen (1967 film) Sarah: Criminal: UK (2019 Netflix series) Cameron: Bobby Kennedy For President (2018 Netflix documentary)…

On this week's episode, a British horror film about a very shouty man. Starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York and a minor role for Tim Curry, as, strangely, the most normal person in the film. Do we give this film a shout? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944 film) Sarah: The Fall Of the House Of Usher (20…

On this week's episode we watch Denzel Washington's first film. It is comedy based on race relations. Uh huh. So is it worth a watch? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: The Rewrite (2014 film) Sarah: The Devil's Hour (2022 miniseries) Cameron: The Hitchhiker (1953 film)توسط The Better With Booze Film Club

Doris Day and Jack Lemmon team up in a romantic comedy featuring everyone's favorite things: lobsters, trains and small town democracy! But what exactly happened to Jane? And does it make for a compelling viewing? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: Lessons In Chemistry (2023- series) Sarah: Grumpy Old Men (1993 film) Cameron: Taking Of P…

A lot of Vincent Price films are at least visually shocking. So it seems a bit of a shame that they have chosen one of his least shocking films to get the title Shock. And yes, I appreciate that it has to do with a different plot point in the film. But still, you couldn't have thrown in at least one floating skull somewhere? Oh well, tune in and se…

This week we take a look at Cary Grant's very first film role. And right off the bat he is typecast as an Olympic javelin thrower. But is that enough to carry an entire 1930's romantic comedy/dystopian musical nightmare? Tune in and hear what we think! Recommendations: Glenn: The Fall (2006) Sarah: Call the Midwife (2012-) Cameron: The Two Popes (2…

Hey remember all those supporting actors you loved from Casablanca? Well they're back! And still desert adjacent! But instead of Humphrey Bogart we have Burt Lancaster and instead of Ingrid Bergman we have...Corinne Calvet? Tune in and listen to find out whether we think this reunion is worth the celluloid it's printed on! Recommendations: Glenn: M…

A very old Katharine Hepburn teams up with a very young Jason Bateman in a made for television romantic comedy. Fear not, the romantic relationship isn't the one between Bateman and Hepburn. Unless that's your secret fanfic fantasy. In which case sorry to disappoint. But does the film disappoint? Tune in a find out... Recommendations: Glenn: The Co…

So you know how Robert Shaw always played really cool, bad(ish) guy characters that you still kind of rooted for? Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like if he played a boring character that didn't really do much? Well have I got the answer for you! Tune in and learn more! Recommendations: Glenn: Waking Ned Devine (1998) Sarah: Black Mir…

So fun fact: Tom Hanks began his career with a movie about Dungeons and Dragons. And yet somehow he managed to become Tom Hanks. A remarkable feat considering this film is basically the equivalent of rolling a natural one. If you know, you know. So just how bad is it? Tune and in and find out! Recommendations: Alastair: The Century of the Self (200…

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale of three podcast castaways trying to make sense of a film starring everyone's favorite actual castaways. All credit to Gilligan's Island that a show that had only ran for three seasons and had ended over ten years earlier was still popular enough to warrant a film. Not just one film, but three! Sure they w…

This week's offering comes from one of the godfather's of indie filmmaking, none other than Charles B. Pierce. From the legendary mind that brought you The Legend of Boggy Creek and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues comes The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a film about a serial killer terrorizing a small town. All of the ingredients are there fo…

A trio of past their prime British acting legends join the did he ever have a prime Jack Palance in a horror thriller about a pretty needy statue of an African god. For those of you who are curious, the statue somehow racked up a higher body count than the people doing the sacrificing on its behalf. Not really a spoiler alert. If you want the actua…

In this, our first episode of the relaunched Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we tackle the coming together of that guy who would go on to play Perry Mason and that woman who would go on to play Jessica Fletcher. Shockingly, it is a murder mystery. Didn't see that one coming. But what did we think? Tune in and find out! Recommendations: Glenn: …