Movies and Tea

Compared to the other films in his filmography his “clock-punk” reimaginging of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel marked a noteable changeable of pace for Paul W.S. Anderson. Critically panned on its release we take another look at the film to find out if the critics were too quick to judge what is arguable one of the more original adaptations of the popular tale. So come join us in the booth.

Having spent years languishing in development hell Paul W.S. Anderson finally brought the remake of the cult favourite “Death Race 2000” to the screen in what he envisioned as a prequel to the original film. But with Anderson choosing to reimagine than create a straight remake for many fans of the original this film failed to even get off the starting grid and on this episode we question if perhaps they were right to judge the film so quickly. We also look at truck flips, the joy of vehicular

Despite first clashing in Randy Stradley and Chris Warner’s comic book in 1989, it wouldn’t be until a year later and the release of Predator 2 with its cheeky use of an Alien skull in the trophy case that intrest in combining the two horror icons really gained momentum despite being stuck in development hell for a further 10 years until Anderson pitched his own script but would he be the right director to finally bring this clash between the two iconic monsters to the screen. Welcome to the

Released in 2002 little did we know that Paul W.S. Anderson choosing to make another video game movie here taking over from the zombie godfather George Romero it would seem him perhaps rather unfairly branded as soley putting out such projects. More so as with this first film in the 6 film franchse he not only introduced us to the character of Alice who as the series progress would soon become a beloved figurehead for the series which itself Anderson who cinematically take way beyond the source

Welcome back to our season long re-evaluation of Paul W.S. Anderson’s filmography as on this episode now moves onto possibly one of his least known films which seemingly disappeared from the conscious of the movie going public shortly after it appeared. We examine how the film started life as a sequel to “Blade Runner”, the troubled production history aswell as highlighting the numerous fanboy nods that Anderson weaved into this unique blend of popcorn action and hard sci-fi. Welcome to the

Having finally achived commercial sucess with the release of Mortal Kombat Paul W.S. Anderson turned down the chance of directing the ill-advised sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation along with offers to direct the first X-Men movie. Instead Anderson choose the option to make an R-rated horror instead. Unquestionably a risky move on Anderson’s part and ultimatly a vision which would feel the wrath of the censors sheers when his initial cut recived the kiss of death NC-17 Rating from the MPAA. The

On this episode Elwood and Kim’s season long re-evaluation of Paul W.S. Anderson’s filmography moves onto his Hollywood debut with the videogame adaptation of “Mortal Kombat” which not only was the sleep over movie of choice in the 90’s but has since gone on like the games its adapted from to gain an impressive cult following. Here we look back at the film aswell as questioning why this was the breakout movie we expected for Robin Shou plus much more!!

Kicking off our first season looking at the films of director Paul W.S. Anderson starting with his debut film Shopping Released in 1994 to a mixed critical response and much distain from the BBFC Paul W.S Anderson’s Shopping gave a pre-apocalypic vision of an unanmed British city in which the recently released joyrider Billy (played by an impossibly young jude law) and his best friend Jo (played by Law’s future ex-wife Sadie Frost). Here they set out to leave thier mark on the city along the way