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The Stinking Pause Podcast

Scott, Paul and Liam

Reviewing movies since 2013 - some good...some not so good.

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Episode 103 - Cop And A Half (1993)

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2018/10/13

Episode 103 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul In honour of Mr Burt Reynolds, what else this episode but….Cop And A Half Young Devon Butler (Norman D. Golden II) lives with his grandmother, Rachel (Ruby Dee), spending his days obsessing over television cop shows and his aspirations to be an officer of the law. When he witnesses a murder committed by a gang led by Vinnie Fountain (Ray Sharkey), Devon refuses to testify unless he is offered the chance to be a policeman. To humor

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Episode 102 - Stand By Me (1986)

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2018/09/30

Episode 102 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Paul and Ant The movie review this week is Stand By Me from 1986 After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell), Chris Chambers (River Phoenix) and Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman) encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very

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Episode 101- The Lost Boys (1987)

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2018/09/21

Episode 101 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Paul and special guest, Ant. The movie review this week has been selected by Ant and is The Lost Boys from 1987. Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami Gertz) -- who

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Episode 100 - The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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2018/07/24

Episode 100 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Charlie, Liam, Paul and Tony It is also our fifth birthday episode and to celebrate we reminisce over the highs and lows of the previous 99 episodes as well as reviewing the number one movie on IMDB’s top 250, The Shawshank Redemption from 1994. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't commit

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Episode 099 - The Italian Job (1969)

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2018/07/21

Episode 099 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Charlie, Liam, Paul and Tony A packed Balaban Sound Studio this episode as we review The Italian Job starring Michael Caine Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a

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Episode 098 - Twelve Angry Men (1957)

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2018/07/18

Episode 098 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week is Twelve Angry Men from 1957 and starring Henry Fonda Following the closing arguments in a murder trial, the 12 members of the jury must deliberate, with a guilty verdict meaning death for the accused, an inner-city teen. As the dozen men try to reach a unanimous decision while sequestered in a room, one juror (Henry Fonda) casts considerable doubt on elements of the case. Personal issues soon rise to

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Episode 097 - Jackie Brown (1997)

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2018/07/08

Episode 097 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week is Jackie Brown starring Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Samuel L Jackson, Robert de Niro, Bridget Fonda and Michael Keaton. The middle-aged stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolet and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell

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Episode 096 - Grizzly Man (2005)

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2018/06/29

Episode 096 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. The movie review this week is Grizzly Man from 2005 This documentary centres on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell, who periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. The outdoorsman and author -- along with his partner, Amie Huguenard -- was eventually killed and devoured by one of the very animals to whom he had devoted years of study. This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes and Stitcher

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Episode 095 - A Bronx Tale (1993)

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2018/06/25

Episode 095 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week is A Bronx Tale from 1993 Gangster Sonny is the big man in the Bronx neighborhood of an Italian small boy named Calogero. A shooting witnessed by the boy (nicknamed C) is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disapproves. C grows up under the wing of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C's

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Episode 094 - The Usual Suspects (1995)

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2018/06/16

Episode 094 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. The movie review this week is The Usual Suspects starring Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Chaz Palminteri "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist," says con man Kint (Kevin Spacey), drawing a comparison to the most enigmatic criminal of all time, Keyser Soze. Kint attempts to convince the feds that the mythic crime lord

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Episode 093 - Ice Cold In Alex (1958)

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2018/06/09

Episode 093 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week is Ice Cold In Alex, starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Harry Andrews and Anthony Quayle North Africa, WW2. Four British medical staff - a medical unit CO, the unit's sergeant major and two female nurses - are separated from their unit while trying to evacuate from besieged Tobruk in an ambulance. Along the way they pick up a South African infantry officer. With the Germans taking capturing most of their

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Episode 092 - Tootsie (1982)

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2018/04/29

Episode 092 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Charlie and Paul The movie review this week is Tootsie from 1982, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, directed by Sidney Pollack. New York actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a talented perfectionist who is so hard on himself and others that his agent (Sydney Pollack) can no longer find work for him. After a soap opera audition goes poorly, Michael reinvents himself as actress Dorothy Michaels and wins the part. What was supposed to

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Episode 091 - Nil By Mouth (1997)

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2018/04/22

Episode 091 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Charlie and Paul The movie review this week is Nil By Mouth from 1997, written and directed by Gary Oldman and starring Ray Winstone and Kathy Burke In a working-class London neighborhood, a highly dysfunctional family struggles to survive. The widowed Janet (Laila Morse), a former factory worker, has welcomed relatives into her home. In addition to her elderly mother, Kath (Edna Doré), and her son, Billy (Charlie Creed-Miles), Janet lives with

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Episode 090 - Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (1999)

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2018/04/11

Episode 090 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Paul The movie review this week is Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai from 1997, starring Forest Whitaker. Ghost Dog lives above the world, alongside a flock of birds, in a homemade shack on the roof of an abandoned building. Guided by the words of an ancient samurai text, Ghost Dog is a professional killer able to dissolve into the night and move through the city unnoticed. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional

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Episode 089 - Good Morning Vietnam (1987)

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2018/04/05

Episode 089 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie, Liam and Paul The movie review this week is Good Morning Vietnam from 1987, starring Robin Williams. The film begins in 1965, when disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is assigned to take over the AFR's Saigon radio broadcasts. In contrast to the dull, by-rote announcers that have preceded him, Cronauer is a bundle of dynamite, heralding each broadcast with a loud "Goooooood morning, Vietnaaaaam," playing whatever records

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Episode 088 - Apocalypto (2006)

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2018/03/30

Episode 088 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie, joined once again by Liam and Paul The movie review this week is Apocalypto from 2006, directed by Mel Gibson. A Mayan forest village lives happily and harmoniously, except the mean teasing of Blunted's inability to sire. When terrified refugees pass, the chief forbids the hunting party to 'spead fear', but the real cause soon follows. Their own community is pillaged, the survivors cruelly enslaved and dragged away. The chief's proud

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Episode 087 - The Da Vinci Code

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2018/03/24

Episode 087 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul A quick episode this week which the three of us recorded while we were waiting for Charlie to join us from the Millwall game.The movie review this week is The Da Vinci Code from 2006. When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the #1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had

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Episode 086 - Singin' In The Rain (1952)

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2018/03/17

Episode 086 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie, joined once again by Liam and Paul The movie review this week is Singin’ in the Rain from 1952 A spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the movie industry in the late 1920s when movies went from silent to sound. When two silent movie stars', Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont, latest movie is made into a musical a chorus girl is brought in to dub Lina's speaking and singing. Don is on top of the world until Lina finds out. This and previous

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Episode 085 - Mildred Pierce (1945)

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2018/03/07

Episode 085 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott and Charlie, joined once again by Liam and Paul. The movie review this week is Mildred Pierce from 1945 featuring an Oscar winning performance from Joan Crawford. A movie that, let’s say, divided opinions amongst us all. This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes and Stitcher Radio as well as: acast.com/stinkingpause stinkingpause.libsyn.com podcast.party/podcasts/the-stinking-pause-podcast Follow us on Twitter @StinkingPause email:

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