Sometimes there isn't enough time in a month to watch new movies but CINEMA BING BONG perseveres! With a Very Special Episode where Amelia has made up twenty film-related questions to answer. 

Memes from 2007, Amelia's book of linked essays, uncredited re-writes of Blue Moon (2025), the NZ government's Successful Women's Sustainability Egg Freezing Fund, Amelia tries to impress the listeners by pretending she uses a keep cup, best and worse smells in a cinema, the screening of Paddington 3 for dogs, everyone's talking about Project Hail Mary, should children be in movies, Amelia's Most Controversial Opinion, the Arabian Prince of Plugs (2028), Rebecca reads out the whole plot summary of the 2020 film Unhinged.

Films mentioned:

How to with John Wilson (TV, 2020)

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Smashing Time (1967)

Once (2007)

The Drama (2026)

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

Pillion (2025)

Amelia thinks the listeners won't believe that she's actually busy and isn't just doing crosswords all the time. The microphone the podcast was spoken into was not the microphone the computer decided to record from. Is 35 the right age for a sexual awakening? Is let me sniff ya fingers, Mrs a sexy concept?

Wuthering Heights (2025), The Secret Agent (2025), A Little Princess (1995), Blue Moon (2025), The Sound of Music (1965), Sorry, Baby (2025)

A24 is a US film production and distribution company named after an Italian motorway and it's time to rank the movies they've produced and distributed. Are they known more for their touching family dramas or their shouty dick movies? When you hear Franco do you think first of the dictator or the disgraced actor James Franco? Are the irony poisoned youth ruining tiered rankings? Is there a movie about an evil phone or did Amelia just make that up? Rebecca recounts a heartbreaking story about not being Pynchonesque after all. Amelia tries to make up a name for Peter Strickland fans. A new A24 movie is pitched.

3 Women (1977)
20th Century Women (2016)
A Different Man (2024)
Aftersun (2022)
Beau is Afraid (2023)
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Certain Women (2016)
Civil War (2024)
Climax (2018)
Close (2022)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Dream Scenario (2023)
Eighth Grade (2018)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
The Farewell (2019)
The Florida Project (2017)
Funny Pages (2022)
Ghost Story (2017)
Gloria Bell (2018)
In Fabric (2018)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Janet Planet (2024)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Ladybird (2017)
La La Land (2016)
The Lighthouse (2019)
The Lobster (2015)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Lucy (2014)
Menashe (2017)
Midsommar (2019)
Moonlight (2016)
Past Lives (2023)
Pearl (2022)
Priscilla (2023)
Problemista (2023)
Spring Breakers (2012) 
Stop Making Sense (2023)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Talk to Me (2022)
Uncut Gems (2019)
Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Under the Skin (2013)
The Whale (2022)
White Noise (2022)
The Witch (2015)
The Zone of Interest (2023)

Trap
Maxxxine
Longlegs
Kinds of Kindness
Chime
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Alien ROMULUS sorry it's Romulus not Resurrection 

Julio Torresbong, Japanese pharmacy, the fourth dimension, what are the most spiritually evil films

The Film Festivals are over and what have you done? Besides Google 'so this is christmas lyrics'. Amelia and Rebecca have seen some films and have been rewarded with not only depression and influenza, but also an awareness of the latest trends in cinemâ (Canada, interpretive dance and so on). Amelia reports live from a kebab shop. Warning for misophonia: she was still eating the kebab at the time of the report.

The Shrouds (2024), Rumours (2024), Kneecap (2024), Megalopolis (2024), My Sunshine (2024), Janet Planet (2024), The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), All We Imagined As Light (2024), Problemista (2023), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Armand (2024), The Teachers' Lounge (2023), Cuckoo (2024), Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)

Cinema Bing Bong returns a second time this month to go through the programme of the New Zealand International Film Festival, beginning with quite an extended discussion about what in Gosden's name is going on with the festival and finishing up with some motivational brain-drain content about what's showing at Melbourne International Film Festival. Featuring an interactive aspect where you can email in and say if you think Amelia was the asshole in two situations, the new phrase 'doing my coming to terms with myself', the innovative concept of not seeing movies if you can see the same stuff outside and some recommendations for listeners in loveless marriages.

Note: if you are in a hurry with the NZIFF booking page open, skip to ~48'

Films mentioned:

NZIFF
Janet Planet (2023) US
Problemista (2023) US
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) US
Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) Canada
A Different Man (2024) US
All We Imagine as Light (2024) India
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Iran
Armand (2024) Norway
Tatami (2024) Georgia *NOTE: On further research, may have an anti-BDS plot which CBB does not support*
The Teachers’ Lounge (2023) Germany
Crossing (2024) Sweden/Georgia
Opus (2023) Japan
The Haka Party Incident (2024) NZ
Naughty Little Peeptoe (2000) NZ
The Substance (2024) US
Sleep (2023) South Korea
The Universal Theory (2023) Germany
Kneecap (2024) Ireland
The People’s Joker (2022) US
No Other Land (2024) Palestine
My Favourite Cake (2024) Iran
Brief History of a Family (2024) China
The Village Next to Paradise (2024) Somalia
Wild Diamond (2024) France
The Monk and the Gun (2023) Bhutan
Explanation for Everything (2023) Hungary
Dìdi (2024) US
Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) US
The Sweet East (2023) US
Gloria (2024) Italy
Head South (2024) NZ
We Were Dangerous (2024) NZ

MIFF
The Cars that Ate Paris (1974) Australia
My Sunshine (2024) Japan
Megalopolis (2024) US
The Shrouds (2024) Canada
Dream Team (2024) US
Rumours (2024) Canada

Other
Tenebre (1982) Italy
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) France
Flux Gourmet (2022) UK
Black Narcissus (1947) UK
In Bed With Madonna (1991) US
World on a Wire (1973) Germany
The Desert Bride (2017) Argentina/Chile
Las Herederas (2018) Paraguay
Anatolian Leopard (2021) Türkiye
D’Jon Afrika (2018) Portugal/Cape Verde
Mid90s (2018) US
The Saddest Music in the World (2003) Canada
Doctor Strange (2016) US / Doctor Sleep (2019) US

A very special episode! As Cinema Bing Bong takes to the actual cinema and comes to you Live from Event Queen Street and a bench outside Atrium on Elliott. Then it's back to the studio where Amelia's bragging about how many films are screening in Melbourne and Rebecca can't remember the name of anything just which crimes were involved. Featuring a fun new time travel segment: favourite films age 13-16 aka 'teen movie kill amelia segment'.

Furiosa (2024), The Beast (2023), Marjorie Prime (2017), The Fall Guy (2024), Shiva Baby (2020), Bring it On (2000), Fallen Leaves (2023), Eagle vs Shark (2006), A Mighty Wind (2003), Donnie Darko (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Roman Holiday (1953), Funny Man (1994), What's Cooking (2000), Amélie (2001), The Spanish Apartment (2002), Welcome to the Sticks (2008), Being John Malkovich (1999), Suddenly Last Winter (2008)

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May's Cinema Bing Bong is a treasure trove of delights: After seven years Amelia has finally listened to Rebecca about the films of Alice Rohrwacher and immediately turned bisexual looking at Josh O'Connor. The tables have turned and Rebecca has overthought how to pronounce Franz Rogowski so much she forgot it has a g in it. A damning report on the cinemagoers of Auckland's North Shore and a NEW game.

Films referenced: La Chimera (2023) + Happy as Lazzaro (2018) + The Invisible Life of Euridíce Gusmão (2019) + Challengers (2024) + Evil Does Not Exist (2024) + The Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) + In the Aisles (2018)

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A thrilling new episode of Cinema Bing Bong, which includes two new games to play along with!

Spooky scary! Amelia's been watching horror movies by herself, in April. Luckily for the listeners who are yet to see Immaculate (2024) or any of the other American Nun Movies, she's bleeped out the spoilers. Rebecca cried all the way through Civil War (2024), but the real thing to cry over is how Amelia takes on average four years to watch any of her recommendations. Discourse topics: is New Zealand just like Finland? Which director would you want to direct the film of your funeral? Which is worse: using AI or producing films in the UAE? What are refuse collectors called in Australia? Amelia gets given a crash course in pronouncing foreign names and so much more, this month on the #1 ranked film podcast in New Zealand.

Note: Sadly there are minor sound issues in this episode! Listen on low quality computer speakers and you won't notice.

Films referred to:
Immaculate (2024)
The First Omen (2024)
Late Night with the Devil (2023)
Look Around You (2002)
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004)
Debs (2004)
Civil War (2024)
Possession (1981)
The films of Aki Kaurismäki
The films of Alice Rohrwacher

Beware the Ides of March—awards season is over and no one in Australasia can agree on how to pronounce Dune. Amelia has become the nation's foremost Frank Herbert fanatic and can't stop filling her boots with geriatric spice. The only Sandra Hüller movie Rebecca saw in 2023 was the unpopular Sisi und Ich. This episode contains a dramatic reading of FRISCO, the script that might seem like it was plagiarised by The Holdovers to people who saw it between two plane seats after being awake for 36 hours. Amelia is inconsistently bothered by anachronisms but insists she's still fun. Rebecca wishes she could love everything especially unallocated seating. Javier Bardem doesn't know how to drive.

* Spoiler Alert * — Spoilers for the end of Love Lies Bleeding from 1:19:15 – 1:31:27

Maestro (2023) | The Zone of Interest (2023) | The Holdovers (2023) | Dune 2 (2024) | Love Lies Bleeding (2024) | Perfect Days (2023) | Sweet November (2001) | Rebecca (2020) | Sexy Beast (2001) | Birth (2004) | Schindler's List (1993) | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) | Sisi und Ich (2023)

Note: If you are neurodivergent and can't watch a three-hour film with your feet on the floor, your posture is trash and your thumbs can touch your forearms, it's time to look into hypermobility spectrum disoders

Correction: It's Charlize Theron who's in Sweet November, not Meg Ryan, which is WORSE

Amelia and Rebecca are back with a new podcast that's tenfold less niche. It's just about movies!

In this episode, we find out what was good and what was a waste of 25 Australian dollars in 2023. We hear a summary of all the Best Picture nominees but for some reason only what Amelia thinks should win Best Animated Feature. Amelia refers to movies as the picture play. Rebecca says which films of 2023 were autistic. We ask the big questions like, 'What's the most racist film you've ever seen?' and whether at 30 you have to leave romanticising cannibalism behind and get into lesbian wives. Amelia has her illusions shattered that not every person alive in the 2000s owned a DVD of O Brother Where Art Thou. Rebecca does some Ferrari accents. We hear about the situation in Phuket.

Films referred to: Strange Way of Life (2023) ○ Remembering Every Night (2022) ○ Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) ○ Maestro (2023) ○ May December (2023) ○ Tár (2022) ○Theatre Camp (2023) ○ Bottoms (2023) ○ American Fiction (2023) ○ Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) ○ Poor Things (2023) ○ Nyad (2023) ○ Across the Spiderverse (2023) ○ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) ○ Madame Web (2024) ○ OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) ○ Walker (1987) ○ The Letter (1940) ○ Ferrari (2023) ○ Anatomy of Fall (2023) ○ Perfect Days (2023) ○ Bones and All (2022)

It's not what you know now, it's what you're prepared to learn now. That's the sign of a person who is able to grow — Amelia Berry, 2026

Hullo! Happy awards season and welcome to Cinema Bing Bong: the only podcast prepared to ask the big questions by Googling stuff.

The Oscar nominations have been set free into the world. Amelia doesn't know any celebrity memes or red carpet looks. Rebecca has no idea who won a Golden Globe. Every movie has someone falling through the ceiling or a big hole or both. Should children be depicted in film as having personalities? Should every movie have a rapper in it? Is Hamnet awful? Is Marty Supreme the first film to demonstrate an American self-awareness? Amelia gives an overview of New Zealand copyright law and an update on her relationship with her dentist. Yet curiously tries to stop Rebecca talking about the film Ferrari again. Rebecca's news source is South American twitter. Amelia asks the listeners for four hundred dollars.

[Slight audio issues due to climate change torrential rain, sorry ! ! ]

[Recorded before the Safdie article in Vanity Fair AND Odessa A'Zion being cancelled and pulling out of a film where she was slated to play a Mexican character]

Films discussed:

Hamnet (2025), If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025), Sorry, Baby (2025), Marty Supreme (2025)

Other films mentioned:

Sinners (2025), Frankenstein (2025), One Battle After Another (2025), Titanic (1997), La La Land (2016), All About Eve A Different Man (2024), Anatomy of a Fall (2024), Casablanca (1942), Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), Wicked for Good (2025), Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), Grand Tourismo (2023), Bugonia (2025), F1 (2025), Ferrari (2023), Ford vs Ferrari (2019), Train Dreams (2025), The Secret Agent [O Agente Secreto] (2025), I'm Still Here (2024), Sentimental Value (2025), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Blue Moon (2025), Boyhood (2014), Song Sung Blue (2025), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Uncut Gems (2019), Good Time (2017), Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983), A Complete Unknown (2024), The Brutalist (2024), What a Girl Wants (2003), Call Me By Your Name (2017), Bones and All (2022), Beautiful Boy (2018), Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019), Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022), The Lady in the Van (2015), Forrest Gump (1995), Maestro (2023), Invictus (2009), Bend it Like Beckham (2002), Mighty Ducks (1992), Eddie the Eagle (2016), Swimfan (2002), Black Books S1E05: The Big Lockout (2000)

Coming soon:

Sirat (2025), No Other Choice (2025), Pillion (2025), Is This Thing On (2025), It Was Just an Accident (2025), The Choral (2025)

Amelia's recommended video games: Perfect Tides; Perfect Tides: Station to Station

Rebecca's recommended band: Champion Trees

I'll do this bit tomorrow

Buenos días á los freaks, perverts, travestis y mums and welcome to a new episode on the films of Spain's premier John Waters-type: Pedro Almodóvar!

Colours. Women. Gazpacho. Big silicone tits. Big telephones. Kidnappings. Punk bands. The three cities of the world (Barcelona, Madrid and Estockholm). Antonio Banderas as a sex criminal. Amelia reads to us from an autobiography. What more could you want in a Film Podcast? Well, there is more and it's a mambo taxi. Oh, and a game to play at home.

Pepi, Luci, Bom and the Other Girls on the Heap (1980), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (1989), All About My Mother (1999), Talk Tuah (2002), The Skin I Live In (2011), Julieta (2016), Parallel Mothers (2021), Strange Way of Life (2023), The Room Next Door (2024)

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NEWSFLASH it's a regular episode recapping films recently released in cinemá. Amelia has an update about medieval scrolls or something. We hear about Disney and Broadway producer Marc Platt and his large adult sons, one of whom Amelia refers to as Jared which is not his name. Rebecca compares The Room Next Door and Severance not realising it's the same actor in both. Amelia is writing an article about vintage NZ cooking shows so that comes up a lot. WARNING: Partially committed East London accent impersonations. GUEST HOST: Maggie B (cat).

Hard Truths (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), Mickey 17 (2025), Babygirl (2024), Bird (2024), The Last Showgirl (2024), Queer (2024)

Olá e bem-vindo ao Cinema do Binge Bong – It's the night before the Oscars and Rebecca is crying because I'M STILL HERE has a predicted 2% chance of winning Best Picture. Amelia has finally woken up to the South American continent like a reverse Paddington. The gals had a rough week so there is a stark reckoning on the state of New Zealand cinema.

I'm Still Here (2024), The Invisible Life of Euridíce Gusmão (2019), Central Station (1998), Black God White Devil (1964), Limite (1931), Fake Blonde (2007), Hard Paint (2018), Araby (2017), also mentioned City of God (2002) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Cinema Bing Bong is back for a new year with all the latest celeb news (as of 31/01). The Oscar nominations are out and everyone's gone racist. Yucko: we talk about the sociolinguistic limitations of AI as a catch-all term. We continue to watch films about people who are not that famous where we come from. Can there be spoilers for real stuff that really happened? What was the worst part of Emilia Peréz? Amelia is the world's biggest Pete Seeger defender. We go through songs that are way more popular in New Zealand than anywhere else.

Listen right to the end for an important PS

Anora (2024), The Brutalist (2024), Conclave (2024), A Complete Unknown (2024), Emilia Peréz (2024), Better Man (2024), A Real Pain (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), Memoir of a Snail (2024), In Fabric (2018), Hard Truths (2024)

* A Bonus Christmas Episode about the best and worst of Christmas cinema *

The only podcast celebrating Jesus Christ, the leader of the Christian faith (Berry, 2024). We strayed from God's light and now we're back with a Christmas special. Amelia does not know how to pronounce Will Ferrell or Zooey Deschanel. Shirley MacLaine saw a UFO and Rebecca talks about Christmas as if she were an alien. Amelia claims the Bing Bong listeners love campy bullshit and are afraid of horses. There are too many Todds. Amelia compares immigrating to Australia to being Buddy the Elf. The guys share their favourite Christmas songs. 

*The Apartment (1960)
*Carol (2015)
*Elf (2003)
*How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
*Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
- The Family Stone (2005)
- Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
The Children's Hour (1961)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
May December (2023)
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Amelia's Christmas Music Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNIx7ABUAU85hlGmG_tuU4J8HrgYUDSgR&si=0w6N3pafGyTl7gJp

LIVE from Australia: It's the musical episode! And Cinema Bing Bong has been enjoying a refreshing lemon taste with an alcoholic kick. Amelia spends forty minutes pandering to Wicked fans. We learn about the racist musical Amelia was in about 25 years ago. Rebecca needs the listeners to know how dedicated she was to work as a 12 year old. Warning: there's singing.

Wicked (2024)
The People's Joker (2022)
Gladiator II (2024)

The Boyfriend (1971)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
West Side Story (1961)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Zero Patience (1993)
Dames (1934)
Shredder Orpheus (1989)

Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

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