Movie Banter

A bumper week for our 50th, as we cover Saw VI, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Triangle, and Bottle Shock. We also muse on the possibility of a British Saw film, the genius of Terry ...

It's the Movie Banter Autumn Quiz! Play along at home, as quizmaster Paul pits Jon and Jen against each other with eight rounds of fiendish/not-so-fiendish questions. Who was meant to play Dirty Harry? ...

Paul, Jon and Jenny float away on Up, through weather which is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, before landing in a Couples Retreat, and taking the Transsiberian to Eden Lake. Along the way there are ...

Paul, Jon and Jenny dig into the brains of Zombieland, try and debug Surrogates, theorise on Creation, and suffer Pandorum. Along the way we get distracted by the idea of a Zombie cannon, Jenny's shrine ...

Paul, Jon and Jenny review an epic 50 films in 50 minutes, being the top 50 as voted for by IMDB users. Includes: Paul & Jon saying "Meh" to Jenny's doubt over Goodfellas; attempts to pronounce foreign language titles like Shichnin no Samurai and C'era una voila ina da West.

Paul, Jon and Jenny lavish praise on Away We Go and Fish Tank, heap scorn on Gamer and the prospect of the forthcoming Love Happens, and banter tangentially about toilet-based romantic comedies, best pregnancy ...

Dorian Gray's the main movie up for discussion this week, together with Adventureland, Ocean's 11/12/13, Brassed Off, and more. We've also got a new feature based around mis-describing films, together ...

Paul, Jon and Jen banter their way through The Final Destination, including ideas on where to take the franchise given that the makers have clearly run out of steam. Also reviewed are The Hurt Locker and Broken Embraces. ...

The Inglourious Basterds (Jon & Paul) return with The Time-Traveler's Wife (Jenny) to face The Ugly Truth about all these current releases, plus Coco Before Chanel, I Love You Man, and, via some godforsaken tangent, The Princess Diaries 2. ...

One last special before holidays are over and normal service resumes. Paul, Jon and Jenny take a loving, bantering look at the Back to the Future trilogy - everything that makes them classics, the quirks, the deft touches, and the mistakes. We've got an interview with a Delorean owner, and Jen has a...

An experimental episode - a special "6 degrees of separation" edition, where we try and work our way from Frank Sinatra to Justin Timberlake through interlinking movies, together with the usual doses of banter about everything that crops up en route. ...

Plenty to banter about this week - movie-wise Moon, The Proposal, and The Game, also Twitter, age gaps between costars in movies, whether sequels should stand alone or be tied closely to their originals, Desert Island Flicks covers "most consistent franchise", and more.

There'll be a more audible and rambly version of this in the podcast in a few days, but in the spirit of trying to expand the site content, I thought I'd write a review too. What lucky Banterees you are.