What The Flicks Podcast

An uplifting sports film starring Bill Nighy highlighting the very real “Homeless World Cup”.

Things just got interesting in Pangniturang, Nunavut. A grout of teenage Inuit girls become a target for some really savage and hungry aliens.

The Harper house is full of underlying conflicts and at the same time a ten year old boy is abducted from the neighbourhood. This thriller takes us on a journey full of twists and turns.

In 1972 the Uruguayan Rugby team’s plane crashed in the heart of the Andes mountains and the 14 survivors describe how they endured for 72 days in one of the harshest environments on earth.

A perfect blend of comedy and drama starring Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in this Academy Award best picture nominee. An intelligent and funny look at stereo types, hypocrisy and family.

You would think a story about a music teacher (J.K. Simmons) and his student (Miles Teller) would be extremely dull but au contraire, this film is electrifying!

Join us as we discuss our picks in the major categories for The 96th Academy Awards.

In this slice of life dramedy, Oscar winner for best supporting actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb supporst a cranky, rigid professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giammatti) and Angus Tully, portrayed by delightful newcomer (Dominic Sessa), a troubled irritating student.

With an academy award nominated performance by Sandra Hüller. This also nominated for best film dissects, did he fall or was he pushed?

A prequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger classic film, Naru, a Comanche tracker and hunter, has the first earthly encounter with the alien predator in 1719.

A star studded far fetched maudlin tale of love, friendship and murder set in the 1930s.

The true story of how Keith Gill (Paul Dano) and his YouTube followers blocked Wall Street from shorting their favourite brick and mortar store GameStop.

The true story of a seemingly average British woman, Philippa Langley's (Sally Hawkins) crusade to achieve honour for the much maligned King Richard III.

The complicated and unusual relationship between Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his actress wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) is probed in this biopic. with a fantastic score.

Finding redemption for the worst thing one has ever done is not what we were expecting from this Japanese epic Kaiju film written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

After the success of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens was inspired to write a novel about Christmas. Everybody laughed “why in the world would anyone want to read THAT!”. None the less he wrote it in published it himself and Christmas was changed forever.

Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) are a couple trying to survive Christmas with their eccentric and divorced parents.

Married couple Caroline (Judy Davis) and Lloyd (Kevin Spacey) have been arguing for years and an unfortunate cat burglar (Denis Leary) has no idea what he has walked into. Hilarious!

Behind all the gore and violence, this is a very heartwarming Christmas film. David Harbour is a kick ass

A great choice to begin the holiday season. Four British sisters get together in Yorkshire for a very complicated and funny Christmas.

Set in the ‘70s, this coming of age film, candidly explores the travails of puberty with insightfulness and a great deal of humour.

A cut above your average Romcom. With an all star cast (Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and more). Love how all the little subplots come together at the end. This film is very funny and sweet without being cheesy.

An elderly Alice Hargreaves sails from England to New York to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University on the centennial anniversary of the birth of Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known to us as Lewis Carroll, creator of “Alice in Wonderland”.

Vampires vs The Bronx" (2020) - A charismatic group of kids are going to save the neighbourhood in this entertaining and clever horror comedy. "Night of The Comet" (1984) - A comet passes over earth living two valley girl type sisters, a truck driver and a whole bunch of Zombies. Not a masterpiece but a very entertaining 80"s B-movie.

Enter John Carpenter’s Twilight Zone-ish world if you will as insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) investigates a claim on missing horror writer Sutter Cane.