14 Podcast Recommendations

Ardent Atheist Podcast. Very rude, but often very funny podcast about atheism.

http://www.newdissidentradio.com/rss/ardent.xml


Beyond Belief. Podcast from Radio Four discussing religious ideas and issues from a variety of religious perspectives.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...belief/rss.xml


Filmsack. Excellent comedy podcast focussing on older cheesy movies. Anything from Cronenberg's "The Fly" to "Troll 2". From the Frogpants network.

http://filmsack.com/feed/


Fourcast. Discussions about the possible future. Sometimes serious, mostly silly. Great fun. From the Frogpants network.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/fourcastpodcast/hxMY


Friday Night Comedy Podcast. Sometimes this will be the Now Show and rubbish like that. The only weeks you need take an interest is when it's the News Quiz. Funniest UK news-related comedy you'll find.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...comedy/rss.xml


Horror Etc. Discussions of all things horror and some things vaguely related. If you like horror, it's worth checking out. Interesting discussion, not comedy.

http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss72742.xml


Jumpcut Junkies. Vodcast rather than podcast. A short video discussion with a opinions on recent releases with a fair bit of bantering between the two presenters. Like a lower budget version of Red Letter Media, but with the benefit of LJ's resident moviebuff fabfunk.

http://www.jumpcutjunkies.com/feeds/posts/default


Kermode and Mayo Film Reviews. Often very funny podcast of Radio Five show reviewing the latest films.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...ermode/rss.xml


The Movielicious. Ordinary people discussing recent films. It's actually got a bit lacklustre recently with one of the contributors having recently had a baby, meaning that she's often been missing. It's been great in the past and I'm inclined to stick with it. Often very funny. From the Frogpants network.

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/themovielicious


Now Playing Movie Podcast. Quite amusing podcast discussing films. Often dedicated to looking back at whole franchises or similar sets of films. Warning: Spoilers aplenty. If you haven't seen the film yet and actually plan on seeing it, leave the podcast aside until you've watched the film yourself.

http://www.nowplayingpodcast.com/NPP.xml


The Phileas Club. Discussion of the news considering the different perspectives around the world. Each contributor not only says their own views on the latest news, but also the bias in the way the news was reported in their part of the globe. More serious than comedy, but occasionally quite amusing anyway. From the Frogpants network.

http://www.thephileasclub.com/phileasrss.xml


The Pod Delusion. A Podcast about various interesting things. Some episodes are better than others. Particularly interesting stuff will normally be even longer in Pod Delusion Extra (which contains extended interviews and such). Affiliated with the BHA (British Humanist Association).

http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/feed/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PodDelusionExtra


Red Letter Media. Vodcasts rather than podcasts, but features some very funny reviews of the latest films. (The same people who did the extra long Star Wars Prequels critiques, explaining precisely why those films were awful.) When they try to do comedy sketches, it's a bit lame. However, asides from that, they are hilarious.

http://redlettermedia.com/feed/


Slashfilmcast. My second favourite podcast for film news and reviews after Kermode and Mayo. Not a comedy podcast. I actually prefer the "After Dark" episodes because they discuss movie-related issues rather than simply have people giving their personal opinions on current films.

http://slashfilm.com/filmcast/?feed=rss2

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Point Blank (2010)

So Fred Cavayé, the director of Pour Elle (Everything For Her), the film which was remade into "The Next Three Days" (starring Russell Crowe), has released a new film. Point Blank is very similar to Pour Elle. Both films involve a husband who will do anything for his wife. The difference is that while in Pour Elle it was a husband breaking his wife out of prison, in Point Blank it is a husband saving his wife from kidnappers.

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The Terminal (2004)

So with the release of "In Time" I thought I'd check out "The Terminal". It's pretty much the only film written by Andrew Niccol that I had not yet seen and my dad recommended it several months back. His other writing credits include The Truman Show (brilliant!) and he has also directed Gattaca (also brilliant!), S1m0ne (deeply flawed but interesting) and Lord of War (excellent and oddly underrated). Sadly it sounds like "In Time" is more of a flawed but interesting addition to Andrew Niccol's repetoire, so I'll probably wait til DVD to check that one out.

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Red Dust (2004)

Chiwetel Ejiofor is great. A Tom Hooper directed TV movie, like "Longford", which is way above ordinary made-for-television work. A cinema could show this without any embarassment and in fact it was shown at a film festival with high praise from Desmond Tutu.

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Dr. Moreau you've gone too far!

Crossing Ed Hunter with the Animal muppet? What freak of nature is this?!!


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