Two Friends Watch

Taking a break from the testosterone-fuelled insanity of The Warriors last week, we change things up with a rather earnest and sentimental comedy, albeit one livened up by Kevin Smith's trademark flair for vulgarity. We enjoyed Chasing Amy a lot, although some of its treatment of LGBT issues, which were perhaps more transgressive in 1997, now seem rather dated. 49 mins

A classic of its time, The Warriors had to contend with real gang violence during filming. Gang problems pursued the movie into the cinema with many gang going to watch the movie upon release and fighting other gangs inside the cinema. Although this movie really hasn't aged well in certain aspects, it has stood the test of time to remain an action classic that can still be enjoyed today. 35 mins

On this week's Two Friends Watch, we take a gander at the oldest film we've covered on the show to date: 1951's George Pal-produced "When Worlds Collide." Although very much a relic of its time and somewhat unreceptive to modern standards of criticism, we found there was some considerable entertainment value to be had. 46 mins

I stumbled upon this movie many years ago and although it has a few redeeming features overall it's a bad movie. It centres around a group of three friends who go of on a wacky adventure to find some lost treasure. One can't get a girlfriend, one can't keep a girlfriend, and one can't let go of his youth. Watch as only two out of the three character arcs actually get resolved throughout this rubbish film. 25 mins

On this week's episode, we take a look at one on the best action thrillers ever to feature almost no action: 1990's "The Hunt for Red October," which may actually be the last time Sean Connery was cool. 38 mins

A fairly good horror film with a few minor let downs but overall fantastic. The film is full of little shout-outs to Stephen King and some great terror and fear throughout. 42 mins INTRO AND OUTRO "Pop Goes the Weasel" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Dance of Deception" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   SPOILER BREAK "Seven March" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ SCREAMS AND SOUND EFFECTS FROM: http://www.freesfx.co.uk

In an attempt to bring a dash of high culture to Two Friends Watch, Andrew elects to watch Bernardo Bertolucci's famous anti-fascist classic The Conformist. It turns out we're in over our head and neither of us have any idea what we're on about - and we flail around for a while looking for something insightful to say. 38 mins

A disaster of a film for everyone from the cast and crew to the directors and investors. Waterworld has long been considered a terrible movie for many reasons but Andrew and I work hard in this week's episode to find the enjoyment and brilliance hidden deep within this movie. 42 mins

This week's episode of Two Friends Watch: we tackle the 2011 drama from Iran that swept up accolades left and right, affording Iranian cinema a previously unprecedented level of exposure in the west. We both agree that although it begins slowly, it eventually reveals a compelling scenario of moral complexity and ambiguity, beautifully acted and directed. 48 mins

A fairly straight forward film about a manic ex-hockey-player-wannabe who intimidates people at golf until he has enough money to save a house. 33mins

With The Martian due out this week and winning plaudits from left and right, we thought we'd take the time to revisit Ridley Scott's debut feature from 1977. We found The Duellists to stand high in the famous director's body of work, a must for anyone with an appreciation for period pieces. 39 mins

Good morning everyone. This week we are looking at the 2013 movie Oblivion, an interesting end-of-the-world alien-apocalypse story. Although this movie isn't great I think that the poor reception during it's initial release was mainly based on general public opinion of Tom Cruise at the time. Which is a shame really as a movie should be based on its own merits rather than that of a single individual within it. 36 mins

This podcast was born from the short time Andrew and I worked together on a radio show at uni. One thing we had in the radio show which is slightly diminished in the podcast is the amount of general chat we had. Thoughts, opinions about the world, nonsense, that sort of thing. To make up to this we are dedicating this whole episode to just chatting about the movie industry in general. No review this week just our thoughts and opinions about where the movie industry is heading. 38 mins

And so our hexalogy of Star Wars retrospective reviews draws to a close with Andrew and Donald's thoughts on the end of the original series, 1983's "Return of the Jedi." The finale isn't generally regarded with the kind of unanimous, rapturous acclaim as its predecessors, but we make the case for its being worthy of consideration alongside either of them. 40 mins

Released before either of us were born, this movie is still one of our most memorable childhood movies. That being said this movie is seriously intense for an infants film and if Don Bluth had his way it would have been even more horrific in places. 30 mins

The second of this wonderful trilogy (trilogy at time of writing because the prequals suck and the new movie isn't out yet). We return once again to the welcoming busom of Star Wars, this time to talk about the inimitable The Empire Strikes Back - whether you consider there to be six or only three true Star Wars films, it matters not - this one is the best, and we'll brook no argument. Here's why 36 mins

Don't get me wrong, this movie isn't very good but from it came one very good outcome, The Science and Entertainment Exchange. This is a board designed to foster collaborations between scientists and the entertainment industry and although the core wasn't solely responsible for it's creation, it is one the main culprits.   Other than that this movie wasn't too bad. It's your basic disaster/end-of-the-world movie but underground instead of space. 31mins

Months back, we delved the darkest depths of the prequel trilogy - now we see fit to reward ourselves with another trio of podcasts on the original, good Star Wars trilogy in anticipation of Episode VII, beginning today with A New Hope! Donald rejoins us, muscling through the influence of heavy painkillers to add his voice to our enthusiasm. 45 mins

In the year and a half that Andrew and I have been running this show I believe that this film is one of the worst things we have ever had to watch. It is boring, offensive, uninteresting and complete garbage. This movie has so much wrong with it that we honestly didn't even know where to start tearing this movie apart. The bar for worst movie has been lower so far by this movie that I believe it will be a long time before another film even comes close to it. 40 mins

NINJAS! NINJAS EVERYWHERE! There's one behind you right now! In all seriousness, fans of highly choreographed martial arts action owe it to themselves to catch this collaboration between director Isaac Florentine and B-movie legend Scott Adkins - we both loved it in spite of - perhaps even partly because of - its paucity of plot.