Kingsman: The Secret Service
I was really looking forward to this. Everyone raved about it and Matthew Vaughan is one of my all-time go-to directors. Whenever I think about a prospective project that requires energy, inventiveness and classiness in equal measure I think of his work. I did like it rather a lot. Firth in particular was excellent. A lot of it felt like Mark Millar was just layering on other movies (Men In Black, Good Will Hunting, xXx, the Avengers,...
Digital Drift 67: Jurassic Park III
For some reason people keep comparing The Lost World with its sequel, trying to weigh them up to decide which is worse. Like there can be some final conclusion that can be set in stone for all the internet to agree upon. Really it comes down to personal preference. They both suck, HARD! Both of them are so out of the league of the original it’s like a world heavyweight title fight followed by a playground scrap and then two...
Digital Drift 66: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The dinosaur escapades continue down a weird and tonally dissonant path as we venture into The Lost World. Neil Taylor joins our party, along with James Perkins again as we uncover the movie of the book that Michael Crichton was pressured into writing after the success of the first movie… the content of which was largely scrapped for what Sharon beautifully dubs in this episode “Benny Hill with dinosaurs.” You...
Digital Drift 69: Mad Max: Fury Road
We had planned to release The Lost World this week but Mad Max: Fury Road appeared out of nowhere and turned out to be rather special. So we broke suddenly, veered off the road, picked up a couple of passengers and thundered into an epic analysis review. We begin with a 45 minute discussion of the original Mad Max trilogy, all of which contain elements that found their way into this new incarnation. You can listen to that without...
Digital Drift 65: Jurassic Park
One of the greatest movies of all time gets the Digital Drift treatment in good time to get everyone fired up for the first new installment we’ve had in this series in 14 years (and quite possibly the only other good one). Still as fresh and endlessly entertaining to us as it was back in 1993, this film is rarely out of our re-watching rotation, and as such i know it frame by frame and word by word. So we take you through every...
Digital Drift 64: Avengers – Age of Ultron
The Marvel Cinematic Universe reunites the whole team and then adds some more heroes and super-antagonists for good measure. Can such an immense collection of colourful personalities possibly be threaded cohesively into an even more elaborate juggling act that matches the original? Once again we go deep on the characters, outlining what this means for the history and how it functions as a film. Joining Sharon and I once again are...
Digital Drift 63: The Seven Most Important Superhero Movies
On this very special episode (in the week I’m celebrating eight years in the podcasting game) I gathered Bob “Moviebob” Chipman, Parris Lilly of “Gamertag Radio” and Joe Cunningham of the “Cinematic Universe” podcast, and along with my wife and co-host Sharon Shaw we asked ourselves… Which are the seven most important superhero movies to date? Not our favourites, not best, most...
Digital Drift 62: Hulk
As we gear up for Avengers: Age of Ultron, we look back on the only film focusing on one of them that we haven’t yet reviewed. So let’s delve into Ang Lee’s Hulk, one of the first HUGE Marvel movies and one that strove to be oh-so-grown-up. Oh and this marks eight years of my podcasts. Tweet me your favourite moments from my shows with the hashtag #8YEARSOFALEX Next week for a very special, very epic show we’re...
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Digital Drift 61: Daredevil [Netflix]
This is our spoiler-filled podcast review of the first season of the Netflix show. I’ll say up front this is not our favourite Marvel production. Not only do we bring up what we feel are its weaker aspects but just FYI it gets very vitriolic about the feature-creep of torture and mutilation into adult TV. This rant has been a long time coming folks. But there are of course aspects that we like and indeed love, and we definitely...
Digital Drift 59: Furious 7
We round out the series as it stands right now. The events of the film itself as the action thrill-ride it was originally intended take a back seat to what it ultimately became, with this poignant farewell to Paul Walker. Neil Taylor returns for what may have been the most challenging film to express our feelings about in words. If you love these shows support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alexandershaw...
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