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This episode, we're discussing Paul W. S. Anderson's adaptation of the ground-breaking video game phenomenon, Resident Evil. We cover the thrill of playing horror video games, the genius of amnesia and Michelle Rodriguez having an absolute blast. 

“It takes a while for her to turn into a zombie because she's fucking nails.” - Ed

“We know he's different from the other men, because he's got a blue shirt on” - Gould

“Fuck you, you gorgeous, talented bitch” - Gould

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The Fifth Element 🔗 Resident Evil

Mila Jovovic

Help save the UK's oldest working cinema

Apologies for Gould's sound on this one, we think it was the Red Queen...

CONTENT WARNING – No issues here

SPOILER WARNING – All good

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Hello and welcome to this first Off The Chain episode of The Unbreakable Movie Chain. This time out we chat Denis Villeneuve’s epic Dune 2, Alex Garland’s horrifying Civil War and Dev Patel’s kick-ass directorial debut Monkey Man.

Also, there’ve been two scary nun movies (one good, one bad) and two lesbians-on-the-road crime movies (one good, one bad) for us to delve into!

But wait, there’s more!! We have two barking-mad Nicolas Cage home-watches to recommend.

Trailer zone

Maxxxine

The Fall Guy

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Twisters

Fancy Dance

Firebrand

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"Howdy!" We’ve cleaned off the Alabama mud from our last time out, and we’re heading to the bright lights of The City of Angels to take in David Lynch’s fevered Hollywood nightmare, Mulholland Drive. Armed with Lynch’s own clues/red herrings. Informed by the wild theories of internet obsessives. We do our very best to get to the bottom of this enigmatic puzzle box of a movie… one that placed 8th on the BFI’s greatest movies of all time. Featuring – ominous conversations, unexplained keys, crippling identity crises and a sinister cowboy.

“Notice the coffee cup… which one? There are so many! Ashtrays! Ashtrays!!!” -Ed

“It’s a bit of an escape room of a film.” - Gould

“That’s Billy Ray Cyrus, yeah, whose acting is as authentic as his music.” - Ed

Also

Anatomy of a Fall, Dream Scenario, The Lost Daughter and A Clockwork Orange

How long is too long for a film to be?

Ed, unsurprisingly struggles with the synopsis, Gould cuts to the chase.

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My Cousin Vinny 🔗 Mulholland Drive

Cinematographer Peter Deming

CONTENT WARNING – Could be triggering for actors. Also brief references to suicide and sexual assault.

SPOILER WARNING – We’re getting better at this, no big spoilers

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Welcome to Alabama, land of guns, grits and the electric chair. Don’t accidentally confess to any murders while you’re here, or it’s death row for you... and if you don’t have a fast-talking New York lawyer for a cousin, you’re a goner. That’s the predicament we find ourselves in this week as we take a look at cult 90s courtroom comedy My Cousin Vinny. Featuring mud, inappropriate courtroom attire and Barry off Friends!

Also:

• The Exorcist, The Shining, American Werewolf in London and other Halloween treats
• Gould’s Shocktober Challenge roundup
• Charlton Heston… actor?

“What is a grit?” - Gould

“Is it a punch? It doesn’t look like a punch. The sound effect is definitely a punch.” - Ed

“The more we’re talking about it, the more I love this film.” - Gould

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Pet Sematary 🔗My Cousin Vinny

Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall to Fred Gwynne as Judge Chamberlain Haller

CONTENT WARNING – Should be fine here

SPOILER WARNING – Don’t think we dropped any major clangers this week

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Sometimes dead is better. For this week’s episode we’re continuing our dalliance with the undead as we peak from behind our hands (at least, the more squeamish of us did) at the 1989 version of Stephen King’s most horrifying novel… Pet Sematary. Featuring terrible parenting, inevitable roadkill and the most adorable zombie in cinema history.

Also

• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The joys of film festivals
• Gould has an idea for a cosy mystery

“The cat comes back with big yellow eyes, which means it’s evil now.” - Ed

“The pet sematary looks like a Halloween display outside someone’s house.” - Gould

“It’s basically anti-truck propaganda.” - Ed

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Frankenstein 🔗 Pet Sematary

The raising of the dead

CONTENT WARNING – Can’t talk about this movie without talking about untimely death of all varieties, so we do. We try to keep it light, though.

SPOILER WARNING – One of us drops a spoiler for The Da Vinci Code. The other has never seen it.

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What’s your favourite movie monster? This week we’re shamelessly jumping on the Halloween bandwagon to bring you a special bonus episode… counting down our all time favourite movie monsters. Will we agree on what constitutes a monster? Gould can barely agree with herself!

Also

• Which actor pops up no fewer than three times during this discussion?
• Gould has a bet with herself.
• Confusion over aliens and inter-dimensional entities

“I think you’ve set yourself some bonkers criteria.” - Ed

“He is so charismatic… he’s very, very sexy!” - Gould

“The thing that gets me most, is the noise.” - Ed

CONTENT WARNING – Some scary monster noises… ooooh

SPOILER WARNING – Ed dropped some Lord of the Rings spoilers, the damn fool.

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It’s alive!! This week we’re getting down and dirty with the resurrection men to retrieve bodies for reanimation, then sitting back to watch the horror unfold in James Whale’s 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein. We all know that Frankenstein’s the doctor and his creation’s the creature, right? But which one’s the monster? We try to untangle this conundrum while examining the film as an early example of queer cinema, before tackling the real burning question… why on earth did they rename him Henry???

Also

• Gould somehow found time in her Shocktober challenge to catch up with a comedy classic

• Saltburn, The Lesson and The Creator

• The relentless movie factory that was the studio system blows our minds

“Even some of the most respected publications say Frankenstein and are referring to the monster” - Gould

“It’s interesting how we’ve moved on, because I wouldn’t have a problem showing this movie to anyone over the age of about eight.” - Ed

“It made me cry. And you know how I don’t like to feel my feelings.” - Gould

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Jurassic Park 🔗 Frankenstein. John Hammond’s hubristic desire to play God to Henry Frankenstein’s identical hubris.

CONTENT WARNING – The film deals with death and resurrection, including the death of a child. We also touch on director James Whale’s suicide.

SPOILER WARNING – Bride of Frankenstein

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What did you watch this summer? We’ve been on our holidays and we came back with so much to talk about that we decided to put our highlights (and lowlights) in a special bonus episode. Kicking off with a long overdue discussion of the summer’s biggest hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer, we then take a whistlestop tour of the best, the worst, and the weirdest films we watched over the summer. Featuring subway breakdowns, comedy familicide, shuttlecock football.

“There was a brief period in the middle where I was quite cross with the film.” - Gould

“It kind of revels and glorifies something really quite awful… what a thoroughly depressing movie.” - Ed

“I cannot tell you how surprised I am to discover I loved this film as much as I did,” - Gould

CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to worry about here.

SPOILER WARNING – Spoilers for Barbie, Oppenheimer, Football Factory, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels:

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Hold onto your butts! This week we’re off on prehistoric safari through Jurassic Park – featuring Laura Dern’s lopsided running, Samuel L Jackson’s severed arm and Jeff Goldblum’s bare chest. Will we be consumed by our nostalgia for childhood dino-thrills? Only one way to find out!

Also

• Giving up on bad movies
• Gould’s controversial thoughts on Scorsese
• Past Lives and Scrapper

“I don’t know how to love something critically, I only know how to gush.” - Gould

“Yul Brynner is a clever girl.” - Ed

“Do you mean Muldoon, and how I want him to be my husband?” - Gould

CONTENT WARNING – Nothing we can think of to warn you of.

SPOILER WARNING – Some mild spoilers for the subsequent movies in the Jurassic Park franchise

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Another bonus episode for you, and this time we’re letting our imaginations go wild as we run through our all time favourite animated movies. These movies have everything: talking animals, dancing skeletons, soaring dragons… and Satan’s beautiful singing voice.

“There are a lot of really wonderful, wonderful, wonderful films that are not on my list.” - Ed

“With animation you’ve got the scope to tell the biggest stories in the world.” - Gould

“There’s arguably not been a better Batman movie.” - Ed

CONTENT WARNING – You’ll be fine here

SPOILER WARNING – Some mild spoilers for the Lion King and The Nightmare Before Christmas

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