Welcome to the new home for the Spool Irish Film Podcast, formerly Spooool.ie. This is the place for Irish cinema-obsessives Páraic McGeough and Nigel Wheatley to discuss the best and worst films that they've seen in cinemas and on the telly. We've been on the go since 2012. Say hello @spool on Twitter.
Does Tarantino's 'Hollywood' hold up? [Plus The Lion King, Jim Jarmusch, Hobbs & Shaw, Almodovar and more]
In this episode, we've got an early review of Quentin Tarantino's ninth film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, we break down the problems and successes with THE LION KING remake and we look back on Jim Jarmusch's small town zombie film THE DEAD DON'T DIE, and Ari Aster's MIDSOMMAR. We pick out two Netflix films worth your attention THE GREAT HACK and ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE, and two upcoming cinema releases PAIN AND GLORY and HOBBS AND SHAW. We wrap up with a sequence of clips taken from Quentin Tarantino's last film THE HATEFUL 8 on the Lincoln letter
Pod 81: THE BEST FILMS OF 2018
It's that time of the year where we sit down and argue about what the best films of the year were, while discretely taking notes about all the new things to add to our watch-list over Christmas.