Pick a Flick!
(2015-2016) (40 episodes / 20 appearances)
Originally a spin-off project from Black Hole Cinema, the aim here was to develop a show based more specifically on audience feedback. They would choose a film over social media and myself & guests would view and discuss it. The format took in several diverse movies each week and the beauty of this was the ability to talk older pictures, where BHC was designed around new material. Pick a Flick! to some degree feels like me still figuring out what I want to do with film podcasting, and again I experimented with guest hosts and different ideas.
One reason I’ll always love PAF–aside from the concept of listeners picking films to discuss–is that it truly helped expand my horizons with guests, bringing on people I hadn’t worked with before & building lots of new contacts along the way.
NOTE: These episodes are no longer available online but can be made available on request.
2015
1 – A Quest For Peas
with Emma Platt & Dan Taylor
Trainspotting, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
2 – Doth Mother Know You Weareth Her Drapes?
with Louise Macarthur-Clare
Henry V, Romeo & Juliet (1996), 10 Things I Hate About You, Macbeth (2015).
3 – You’re Tearing Me Apart, FIFA!
with Matt Dawson & Matt Latham
United Passions, The Room.
5 – Do You Expect Them to Talk?
with Dave Bond, Chris Byrne & Becca Andrews
The James Bond series, up to Spectre.
6 – Spice Up Your (Sex) Life
with Matt Latham & Matt Dawson
Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Spiceworld.
7 – Under Your Skin
with Laura Rogers
Under the Skin, Unbreakable.
8 – Eyes Wide on the Tide
with Chris Haigh & Dave Bond
Crimson Tide, Eyes Wide Shut.
9 – Jurassic Park: Audio Commentary
Audio commentary by me for the first Jurassic Park. I took a day off work for this!
10 – Come Dine with Babette
with Leslie Byron Pitt & Chris Wallace
Babette’s Feast, Bulworth.
12 – Pick a (TV Show)!
with Matt Latham
Arrested Development, Police Squad.
13 – Sean Connery vs He-Man
with Owen Hughes & Dave Bond
Zardoz, Masters of the Universe
14 – ‘Tis a Silly Podcast
with Matt Latham & Becca Andrews
Monty Python & the Holy Grail & This Is Spinal Tap
15 – Pick a (Christmas) Flick!
with Jack Stewart, Chris Wallace & Phil Sharman
Love Actually, Paper Moon
16 – The Podcast Awakens
with Sean Wilson & Laura Rogers
The Star Wars Franchise up to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
2016
18 – Now That’s What I Call Philadelphia!
with Mathew Howell & Andrew Brooker
The Rocky Franchise up to Creed.
24 – Bigger, Longer, Probably Cut
with Matt Latham
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Can’t Hardly Wait.
26 – Day vs Knight (Pt 1)
with Andrew Brooker
The Dark Knight Rises & Man of Steel
27 – Day vs Knight (Pt 2)
with Andrew Brooker
Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice
32 – Fix a Flick: Avengers: Age of Ultron
with Andrew Brooker
Avengers: Age of Ultron
38 – Pick a (TV Show) #2: Friends
with Matt Latham
Friends
Black Hole Cinema
(2014-2017) (63 episodes / 49 appearances)
My very first podcast endeavour, back at the start of 2014. It began with me and not even a mic, rather just a computer, babbling about new movies (at the time). Soon, friends started dripping on in segments, before joining me for full episodes, and eventually co-hosting or even hosting episodes themselves. Some of these won’t have great audio or editing quality, very rough around the edges DIY podcasting, but they’ll always have a special place in my heart as my first ventures into the audio world.
Will the show ever return? Probably not, though I have said that before. Mind you, it’s taken nearly four years to realise the title is probably rampantly egotistical!
NOTE: These episodes are no longer available online but can be made available on request.
2014
1 – Do the Hustle
American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, 2014 Academy Award predictions.
2 – LEGOCop
The LEGO Movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Robocop.
3 – Small Screen Special
with Matt Latham
The US & UK Office, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
4 – Non-Stop Neeson
with Luke Asquith
Non-Stop, The Book Thief, Mean Girls.
5 – Oscars 2014 Special
with Chris Wilson
The 2014 Academy Awards.
6 – Rise of a Nympho
with Chris Wilson & Emma Platt
Nymphomaniac, 300: Rise of an Empire, Ghostbusters.
7 – Grand Budapest on Speed
with Dan Taylor
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Need for Speed, Les Miserables.
8 – Women from Mars
Under the Skin, Veronica Mars
9 – Muppets Most Marvel
with Adam Scott
Muppets Most Wanted, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Usual Suspects.
10 – Double Divergence
Divergent, The Double, A Long Way Down.
11 – Be Quiet, Noah
with Andrew Corvero
Noah, The Quiet Ones, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
12 – The Amazing Spider-Raid
with Matt Latham
The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Raid 2, Can’t Hardly Wait.
13 – Transcendental
with Ioan Holland
Transcendence, Locke, Nausicaa & the Valley of the Wind.
14 – Pompeii in Ruin
with Eleonore Vraine
Pompeii, Blue Ruin, Bad Neighbours, The Other Woman, Her.
15 – Arnie Sabotages His Career
with Adam Massingham
Sabotage, 24: Live Another Day, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey
16 – All About Godzilla
with Lee Chrimes
Godzilla (1954), Godzilla (2014)
17 – Films of Future Past
with Tom East & Ian Austin
The X-Men Franchise up to X-Men: Days of Future Past
18 – A Million Ways to Die Tomorrow
with Pete D. Gaskell
A Million Ways to Die in the West, Edge of Tomorrow, Blended, Run For Your Wife (yes, really), The Maltese Falcon
2015
19 – The Unexpected Theory of Ignorance
with Matt Latham & Dan Taylor
The Theory of Everything, Birdman, Taken 3, Unbroken, BAFTA 2015 nominations.
20 – American Foxcatcher
with Matt Latham & Dan Taylor
American Sniper, Foxcatcher, Into the Woods.
21 – A Most Violent Machina
with Dan Taylor & Leslie Byron Pitt
Ex Machina, A Most Violent Year, Whiplash, Mortdecai.
22 – Vice Ascending
with Matt Latham & Owen Hughes
Inherent Vice, Jupiter Ascending, Selma, Big Hero 6, Kingsman: The Secret Service.
23 – Oscars 2015 Special
with Pete D. Gaskell & Chris Wilson
The 2015 Academy Awards, Cake, The Wedding Ringer, Project Almanac, Predestination.
24 – It Focuses
with Adam Massingham & Leslie Byron Pitt
Recorded ‘live’ in High Wycombe, It Follows, Focus, The Boy Next Door, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, RIP Leonard Nimoy.
25 – LOST INTERVIEW: The Empire Strikes Back
with Mathew Howell
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
26 – LOST INTERVIEW: Inception
with Dino Leone
Inception.
27 – Still Chappie
with Dan Taylor, Emma Platt & Owen Hughes
Chappie, Still Alice, Unfinished Business, Kill the Messenger.
28 – LOST INTERVIEW: A Nightmare on Elm St
with Adam Massingham
A Nightmare on Elm St (original)
29 – The Wild Gunman
with Dan Taylor & Matt Latham
The Gunman, Insurgent, Wild Card, The Voices, Suite Francaise.
30 – LOST INTERVIEW: Rear Window
with Chris Haigh
Rear Window
31 – Get Cinderella
with Leslie Byron Pitt
Cinderella, Get Hard, Seventh Son, Robot Overlords.
32 – LOST INTERVIEW: Dawn of the Dead
with Ian Austin
Dawn of the Dead
33 – Very Fast, Very Furious
with Tom East & Emma Platt
The Fast & Furious Franchise up to Furious 7.
34 – Age of Marvel
with Dan Taylor, Emma Platt, Matt Latham, Lee Chrimes, Pete D. Gaskell, Tom East
The Marvel Cinematic Universe up to Avengers: Age of Ultron.
35 – LOST INTERVIEW: Street Fighter
with Lee Chrimes
Street Fighter
37 – LOST INTERVIEW: House of Flying Daggers
with Tom East
House of Flying Daggers
39 – CLASSIC: Night of the Hunter
with Leslie Byron Pitt
Night of the Hunter
42 – CROSSOVER SPECIAL: Episode II: The Failed Black Hole Word of Friction Wikishuffle Critics Quizcast
with Owen Hughes, Steve Norman, Jack Stewart, Phil Sharman, Chris Wallace, Pete D. Gaskell, Chris Haigh, Emma Platt & Chris Byrne.
Quiz special podcast battle between Black Hole Cinema, Failed Critics, Wikishuffle, The Word of Nerd & Fan Friction.
44 – CLASSIC: 2001: A Space Odyssey
with Owen Hughes
2001: A Space Odyssey
45 – Spy Insidiously
with Emma Platt, Chris Haigh & Ian Austin
Spy, Insidious: Chapter 3, launch of Dead Meat.
46 – Jurassic Franchise
with Pete D. Gaskell & Luke Asquith
The Jurassic Park Franchise up to Jurassic World.
47 – The Film is Afoot
with Matt Latham & Dan Taylor
Mr. Holmes, Entourage, Oscar Hall of Fame.
49 – CLASSIC: Blade Runner
with Matt Latham
Blade Runner.
50 – You Are Terminated
with Lee Chrimes
The Terminator franchise up to Terminator: Genisys.
53 – Summer 2015: What We Missed
with Dan Taylor & Emma Platt
Inside Out, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Fantastic Four, Hitman: Agent 47, Absolutely Anything, Trainwreck, Paper Towns.
54 – The Maze Legend
with Leslie Byron Pitt & Kane Richards
Legend, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
56 – CLASSIC: A Taste of Honey
with Emma Platt
A Taste of Honey
2016
58 – Oscars 2016 Special
with Dan Taylor & Chris Wilson
The Academy Awards 2016.
62 – Batman vs Superman vs Everyone
with Dan Taylor & Chris Haigh
High Rise, The Witch, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice