Category: Podcast

This week, Adam reviews Paul Thomas Anderson’s 10th film, ‘One Battle After Another’, while Alfie makes the bold claim that Apple TV might just be the best streaming service out there. Movie On Up also get a shout-out on EMPIRE’s official podcast, an invite to a multimedia screening of ‘Roofman’, Adam experiences the woes of…

This week, Adam reviews ‘The Long Walk’ – a Stephen King adaptation which stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill – and ‘Sorry, Baby’, the directorial debut of Eva Victor. One of them earns a perfect 5/5… but which one? Keep listening to find out! Meanwhile, Alfie is ecstatic because ‘The Muppets Show’ is…

This week, Adam reviews ‘On Swift Horses’, a romance set in the 1950’s that has snuck under the radar but stars a strong trio comprised of Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter and Jacob Elordi. Josh (friend of the show) sends in a review of ‘Honey Don’t’ while the lads discuss Indiana Jones and the greatest adventure…

The Movie On Up boys have FOUR reviews this week for you lucky listeners! A wickedly funny comedy called ‘The Roses’, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman, Netflix’s adaptation of Richard Osman’s book ‘The Thursday Murder Club’, ‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’, a unique French-British romcom and ‘Hostage’, a gripping political drama. They even…

We thought about making a gross podcast thumbnail of us blended together like in the film we’re reviewing this week… but for the sake of giving you a sleepless night, we decided not to. This week Alfie reviews the new Substancesque body horror, Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie. Adam caught an early screening…

Ari Aster is back and as controversial as ever with a pandemic-set film called ‘Eddington’ that stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler and Emily Stone… talk about a hot cast! Meanwhile ‘Nobody 2’ is described by Adam as being irksome. You win some, you lose some. Play along with Alfie’s excellent game: Pedro Pascal’s…

Two opposite ends of the spectrum on the podcast this week and were not talking about the boys undiagnosed autism. Some of the absolute best cinema has to offer in the form of Zach Cregger’s Barbarian follow up: Weapons, starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich and Benedict Wong. The legacy sequel no one saw…

In this week’s episode, Adam reviews three films (you’ll be surprised by which he enjoyed the most) and Alfie picks his dream trio of actors for a romcom. Sir Tom Jones and Warwick Davis are added to the A-List Star In Our Impressions Repertoire™. The Cbeebies’ show, ‘Rastamouse’ also gets a name-drop, don’t ask. Share…

It’s episode 75! There’s a cake, a confetti cannon, three reviews, three games and (as ever) a whole loads of laughs. The MCU is back with the excellent ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ while Leslie Nielsen would be proud of the 2025 legacy sequel to ‘The Naked Gun’. Finally, the lads also discuss season 4 of…

DC has been struggling with their big screen ventures but now we have James Gunn’s ‘Superman’, a hilarious, inspiring romp that has caught everyone by surprise and restored hope in a DCU reboot. David Corenswet, take a bow. Adam is joined by a guest host, Lewis Eyre. Follow Lewis’ film blog here Share the podcast…