Two Reel Cinema Club

We welcome back screenwriter Inês Braga to this week’s episode, as we watch the new Guillermo del Toro take on Frankenstein, and compare it to maybe the finest Frankenstein in all of cinema, Mel Brooks’ 1974 Young Frankenstein. Two experiments gone wrong, two crazy scientists, two lightning bolts. But which film owes the greatest debt to James Whale? Which film features a barely disguised Peter Thiel? Which film has a beginning that never really pays off? Which film gave some welcome work to artisans and craftspeople? And which film’s producer drove Inês around Los Angeles for a week?  Plus: a documentary about a dark episode in history, a disappointing remake of a Schwarzenegger movie, a look at the new Luca Guadagnino picture, a cameo from The Hulk, a tour through some deleted scenes, and a delivery of 400 small buckets of petrol. If you enjoyed the show, find us on social media: BlueSky: @tworeelcinemaclub Instagram: @tworeelcinemaclub Contact us at [email protected] Or come to our website, where we’ll be writing about the movies we cover in the show and a few more things besides: https://tworeelcinemaclub.com

Trust the Canadians to save cinema: Cineplex’s new Mystery Monday screenings are hoping to revive the flagging exhibition industry. But do we think it will work? And if it doesn’t, how would we save cinema? Featuring costumed actors, great food, locality, curation, communality, microcinemas, using Netflix’s biggest weapon against it, and finding a teenager who’ll agree to jiggle your seat around wildly while you watch The Empire Strikes Back. If you enjoyed the show, find us on social media: BlueSky: @tworeelcinemaclub Instagram: @tworeelcinemaclub Contact us at [email protected] Or come to our website, where we’ll be writing about the movies we cover in the show and a few more things besides: https://tworeelcinemaclub.com

A surprising amount of lightning at the Two Reel Cinema Club this week, as we watch the new Yorgos Lanthimos picture Bugonia, and compare it to the Korean film it’s based on, 2003’s Save the Green Planet. Two kidnaps, two investigations, two conspiracy theories. But how do these two films differ? What is it they want to say? Which film is a prime example of ‘scrap of paper film making’? Why did the remake remind us of Tears for Fears? And who exactly is Jesse Plemons married to? Plus some animated dinosaurs, a raucous one man band, a Spanish time travel thriller, some fetching knitwear, Neil Young playing a baby shoe, a host of new words including ‘metronomic’ and ‘both-sides-isms’, a VCR floating in space, and a definitive answer to the question: how much electricity can you send through a human body? If you enjoyed the show, find us on social media: BlueSky: @tworeelcinemaclub Instagram: @tworeelcinemaclub Contact us at [email protected] Or come to our website, where we’ll be writing about the movies we cover in the show and a few more things besides: https://tworeelcinemaclub.com

We’re humming along at the popcorn counter this week as we pitch the musical biopics we’d like to see - ones which are a little less bland than some of the music movies we’ve watched recently. Join us as we travel from Canada’s greatest rock trio to the Chairman of the Board, from Jamaica’s tallest export to m-m-m-my Sharona. We get three biopics each, but which is the most obscure? Which is the weirdest? And which one writes itself? If you enjoyed the show, find us on social media: BlueSky: @tworeelcinemaclub Instagram: @tworeelcinemaclub Contact us at [email protected] Or come to our website, where we’ll be writing about the movies we cover in the show and a few more things besides: https://tworeelcinemaclub.com

We’re dancing in the dark this week, as we watch the new movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and then study the film that makes a cameo in that rock and roll biopic, 1955’s The Night of the Hunter. Two bad fathers, two rivers, two tales of growing up poor. But which of the two features the sweatiest man? Which of the two has the most riverside wildlife? Which of the two is wearing twenty undervests and a fake chin? And which movie do we consider a mediocre film that everyone should watch? Plus a twentieth century ghost story, a short film about migration, a soccer semi-final, an almost silent music producer, a no-show for Courtney Cox and a forest’s worth of the King of England’s trees. If you enjoyed the show, find us on social media: BlueSky: @tworeelcinemaclub Instagram: @tworeelcinemaclub Contact us at [email protected] Or come to our website, where we’ll be writing about the movies we cover in the show and a few more things besides: https://tworeelcinemaclub.com