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In Film We Trust

In Film We Trust

A weekly podcast where we discuss, dissect and deep dive all things film, from the obscure to the mainstream.

tv & film film reviews

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01:06:03

IFWT #25 - The Vast Of Night (2019)

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2022/07/21

Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, Andrew Patterson's directorial debut is an accomplished masterclass in filmmaking on a budget. Set in 1950s Cayuga, New Mexico - yes, the allusions are purposeful - we follow two teenaged central characters: the spritely switchboard worker Fay, who digests the futurist tabloid stories of the day with glee and Everett, the local DJ at WOTW - once again the allusion on the nose. One night when the Cayuga High School basketball game has brought the entire

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01:16:38

IFWT #24 - Calibre (2018)

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2022/07/14

Premiering at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and being released by Netflix a week later, Calibre is a film you’ll struggle to find fans of, but that’s certainly nothing doing to do with its quality. Following a pair of boarding school friends who go on a hunting trip in the Scottish Highlands, falling foul of the locals and finding themselves in a run for their life as they try to cover up a devastating mistake, it’s a modern horror classic with echoes of Deliverance, Wicker Man and An

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01:21:07

IFWT #23 - Red Rocket (2021)

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2022/07/07

With Sean Baker's keen eye for examining America's underbelly, Red Rocket puts its focus on the marginalised and sex work. Following Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), as he returns to his hometown of Texas City, Texas. Mikey, a former porn star, with a canny ability to land on his feet, convinces his estranged wife and mother in-law to let him stay with them. Not long after returning he catches the eye of a seventeen year old Donut shop worker called Strawberry (Suzanna Son), who he thinks he can mould into

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01:10:24

IFWT #22 - Maniac (1980)

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2022/06/30

Back in 1980, a slasher film, released during the genre’s boom period, was released to scathing reviews, public outrage and widespread condemnation. That film was Maniac, starring late, great character actor Joe Spinell as Frank Zito. When he’s not cooped up in his apartment talking to a variety of mannequins, he’s prowling the street looking for blood. He hunts down women, kills them and removes their scalps. A deeply troubled individual obsessed with the ideas of control and possession, the ladies

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01:09:33

IFWT #21 - Elephant (2003)

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2022/06/23

Taking its influence from the Columbine School Massacre, Gus Van Sant's second film in his unofficial 'Death Trilogy' follows high school students as they navigate their way through a normal school day until an all too timely tragedy befalls them. Borrowing stylistic techniques from Hungarian director Bela Tarr, Van Sant chooses to film Elephant in a Cinema Verite style that doesn't give definite answers to what will unfold, but will give the viewer the space and time to provide answers - or lack

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00:59:51

IFWT #20 - Taxidermia (2006)

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2022/06/16

Last week we looked at the truly bizarre Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and we’re keeping the weirdness going this week with György Pálfi’s acclaimed 2006 film Taxidermia. Following a shall we say unusual family over 3 generations, through World War 2, the Cold War and up to modern times, it examines the history of Hungary across the decades, with the story being told through a succession of bizarre happenings, twisted imagery and grotesque visuals. As fascinating to behold as it is stomach-churning to

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00:54:44

IFWT #19 - Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

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2022/06/09

We're taking a deep dive into Shinya Tsukamoto's truly bizarre, experimental body-horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Splicing filming techniques including stop-motion animation with an industrial score, Tetsuo tells the story of a Metal Fetishist's revenge on the man who, not only ran him over, but attempted to dispose of his body. The way he enacts his revenge? By slowly turning him into metal. Strange? We know. A film that conjures films of the past such as Frankenstein and the work of David Lynch and

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01:10:55

IFWT #18 - El Mariachi (1992)

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2022/06/02

With an amateur cast, an arsenal of water pistols, a tiny budget, 2 guitars cases and a huge passion for filmmaking, Robert Rodriguez kickstarted his career with El Mariachi. Serving as director, screenwriter, cameraman, composer and cinematographer to name just a few, Rodriguez brings us the story of a lowly guitar player looking for work in a small town whose inhabitants treat him with contempt. His quest is complicated further when a ruthless criminal breaks out of a local jail and comes to town

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01:23:40

IFWT #17 - Adventureland (2009)

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2022/05/26

Following the cultural phenomenon that was 2007's Superbad, director Greg Mottola followed it with the more personal and semi-autobiographical Adventureland (2009). A coming-of-age comedy-drama revolving around James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) who, after his father's demotion at work, is forced to get a summer job at the titular Adventureland to fund his planned trip to Europe before the start of university. It is there he meets Em (Kristen Stewart) whom he immediately forms a bond with. Using the

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01:10:09

IFWT #16 - Re-Animator (1985)

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2022/05/19

Glowing green liquids, zombie cats, terrible disguises, naked corpse henchman and the worst security guard ever. It’s the one and only Re-Animator! Stuart Gordon directs a horror comedy classic starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. Eccentric medical student Herbert West is experimenting with a reagent that has the power to bring the dead back to life. But their reanimation is short lived and violent, and when a jealous University Doctor decides to steal the chemical and take the credit for,

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01:10:12

IFWT #15 - Planet Terror (2007)

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2022/05/12

In 2007, Tarantino and Rodriguez released a double-feature - Death Proof and Planet Terror - known as Grindhouse. We explore where this idea came from and the history of the films that played in these theatres. We then move onto our feature presentation, as we take a dive into Rodriguez's half of this double feature - Planet Terror. A film that concerns a disparate group of survivors after the release of a chemical gas named DC2 - a highly wanted chemical - a chemical that effectively turns its

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01:26:37

IFWT #14 - Sleepaway Camp (1983)

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2022/05/05

From first time writer and director Robert Hiltzik, Sleepaway Camp was released at the tail end of the Slasher Movie Golden Age and primarily follows 2 youngsters, Ricky and Angela, as they travel to Camp Arawak for the summer. Ricky is outgoing and sporty, Angela is shy and reserved, and as such attracts the ire and attention of the camp’s bullies. Much to the horror of the campers, and the annoyance of the counsellors, people start turning up dead, and the search for the killer, or killers,

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01:06:39

IFWT #13 - Creep (2014)

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2022/04/28

IFWT takes on the found-footage genre! We explore the genre and its origins before digging deep into Patrick Brice's 2014 directorial debut Creep. Co-written and co-starring Mark Duplass in a peculiar, psychological horror film. In Creep we follow videographer Aaron, who accepts an online ad for a job which he will find out consists of filming a day in the life of terminally-ill cancer sufferer, Josef - or so Aaron is led to believe. A film that uses the found-footage genre to examine the

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01:02:51

IFWT #12 - Lamb (2021)

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2022/04/21

Directed and Co-written by Valdimar Jóhannsson, Lamb takes place on an isolated farm in Iceland, and follows a married couple, Maria and Ingvar, who live quiet and seemingly ordinary lives, tending to their animals and maintaining their equipment. But their idyllic existence is turned upside down when ones of their sheep gives birth to a bizarre human/lamb hybrid. The couple decide to take it in and raise it as their own, an act of disturbance that the natural world will not let go unpunished. We’re

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01:32:12

IFWT #11 - Buffalo '66 (1998)

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2022/04/14

So listeners, for episode 11, we're taking an extra deep-dive into the career and controversies of Buffalo '66 director Vincent Gallo - his early start as a painter, dancer, the No Wave Scene in NY and films he has kept hidden from the public. We also take a long look into his 1998 directorial debut Buffalo '66, which he also stars in as Billy Brown - a man who has just been released from prison. The catch? He's told his parents he has a wife. The Problem? He's on his way to visit them. The

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01:06:10

IFWT #10 - Threads (1984)

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2022/04/07

Threads is set in Sheffield in the 1980s, where the threat of a nuclear strike constantly looms as people go about their everyday lives. Committees of poorly qualified individuals are amassed to deal with the effects of an impending attack, and when one does eventually come, the country is decimated. Millions are killed by the blast and even more by the fallout that follows. A harrowing docudrama that terrified viewers upon its released, and continues to be one of the most shocking and realistic

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01:12:27

IFWT #9 - Roadgames (1981)

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2022/03/31

A first time watch for both of your heroes here at IFWT. We had much fun discovering and discussing Richard Franklin's Ozploitation Hitchcockian road thriller Roadgames. In Roadgames we follow Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach) as he both follows and is being followed by a mysterious man in a green van whom he comes to suspect as being responsible for a spate of murders. Quid is joined by Pamela 'Hitch' (on the nose Hitchcock nod), played by Jamie Lee Curtis, a hitchhiker he picks up, who does nothing to

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01:05:44

IFWT #8 - Upgrade (2018)

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2022/03/24

Writer/Director Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade takes place in the year 2046, in a world is dominated by technology, computers and robots. Grey Trace, a self-described technophobe, is widowed and paralysed after a car accident is immediately followed by a near fatal shooting. Feeling depressed and useless, he is given the chance to walk again by a renowned tech innovator, who places a state-of-the-art chip in his body that fully restores his motor functions. It’s a film that explores our relationship with

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01:15:49

IFWT #7 - Under The Silver Lake (2018)

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2022/03/17

David Robert Mitchell's Under The Silver Lake casts a vast web, which its protagonist Sam (Andrew Garfield) gets lost in - as do your humble IFWT hosts. Sam, an unemployed pop-culture junkie gets caught up in a vast conspiracy as he searches for his missing neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough) that will include a dog killer, a comic book writer, all the way to the top(or under) the Hollywood hills. A film that definitely doesn't lack ambition, and will surely turn the average viewer, likes its

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01:10:44

IFWT #6 - Anomalisa (2015)

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2022/03/10

Charlie Kaufman's 2015 stop-motion animated film, Anomalisa, traverses Kaufman's usual themes of identity, memory and existentialism. Following protagonist Michael Stone, a middle-aged customer service expert as he travels to Cincinnati for a corporate speech. A film told almost entirely from Michael's subjective, we soon find out that not only does everyone else bar Michael have the same face, they also have the exact same voice - everyone bar a woman there to hear his speech, Lisa, that is.

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