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Movie The Needle

Movie The Needle

Hello, and welcome to Movie The Needle, a podcast where two complete amateurs haphazardly dissect a film that one of us likes, and one...well, not so much. Join us (Simon and Carl) as we explain our opposing viewpoints and seeing whether we can mov(i)e the needle for one another.

tv & film film reviews

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02:08:13

June Retro: Moulin Rouge, The Big Short, Casablanca

Movie The Needle ·

2025/06/27

This week, it's our second monthly retrospective episode, where we look back on the episodes released in the last month (Moulin Rouge, The Big Short and Casablanca) and discuss anything we missed, some listener feedback and discuss some data. Repetition, Lingering thoughts and repetition ensue - it's the Movie The Needle June 2025 Retro! We revisit our initial thoughts from the episode to see if anything has changed, open up the mailbag for listener feedback and thoughts, as well as

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00:52:09

Movie Tournament - Round 3

Movie The Needle ·

2025/06/20

That's the end of season 3!To close things out we are pitting the 16 movies we have covered in this season against each other in a tournament to find out the overall winner, that will proceed to the champion of champions tournament where it will face the winners from seasons 1, 2 and 4!We've ranked all the movies based on their cast, production and plot and let them battle it out.LET THE GAMES BEGIN!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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00:02:44

Season 4 Trailer

Movie The Needle ·

2025/06/18

A quick intro to season 4 of the Movie The Needle podcast…coming soon!

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01:34:33

Casablanca: Rick - Slick or a Dick?

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2025/06/13

This week, it's a quote-tastic, black and white classic from 1942 which sees Humphrey Bogart play a cynical, expatriate, American bar owner who struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Fezzes and human trafficking ensue...it's CASABLANCA!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week it all goes horribly, horribly wrong!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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01:21:58

The Big Short:

Movie The Needle ·

2025/06/06

This week, Adam McKay directs an all star cast as we enter the thrilling world of the United States housing bubble, which, spoiler alert, caused a global financial crisis in 2008. Subprime mortgages and synthetic collateralized debt obligations ensue - it's THE BIG SHORT!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week Carl has decide which actors are Bigger or Shorter than each other.You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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01:28:40

May Retro: 2001, Sinners, Bullet Train

Movie The Needle ·

2025/05/30

We're trying something a little different this week. To go alongside our new (ahem) slimmed down(??) regular episodes, each month we will do a little retrospective of the movies covered in the month. This month it's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullet Train and Sinners.We revisit our initial thoughts from the episode to see if anything has changed, open up the mailbag for listener feedback and thoughts, as well as covering some data.Plus we reveal our top 3 Morgan Freeman movies and induct more

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01:42:08

Moulin Rouge: Narcoleptic Argentinians, lost in...

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2025/05/23

This week, we warm up our vocal cords and don our stockings for Baz Luhrman's 2001 jukebox musical about a poor bohemian poet in 1890s Paris who falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star, coveted by a jealous Duke. Absinthe and musical mashups ensue - it's MOULIN ROUGE!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week Carl tries to remember his school French lessons by translating movie titles into their more familiar English ones.Plus we reveal our top 3 Ewan

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00:46:24

Sinners - Date Night Ep. 4

Movie The Needle ·

2025/05/16

Movie The Needle goes to the Movies!It's been a while since our last Movie the Needle date night, but we are back at the cinema to cover a movie that is causing quite a stir with audiences around the world. It's a Ryan Coogler film starring Michael B Jordan and Michael B Jordan - Is it a horror? Is it a musical? Blues and plenty of red ensue - It's SINNERS!All the usual sections you know and love but a more condensed format. It's bright, it's breezy, it's still two morons who

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01:31:34

Bullet Train: Snakes, Snatch & Smokin' Aces

Movie The Needle ·

2025/05/09

This week, it's the 2022 action comedy starring Brad Pitt as one of five assassins who board a swiftly moving BULLET TRAIN and find out that their missions have something in common - Thomas the Tank Engine and snake bites ensue - it's BULLET TRAIN!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we recreate a UK game show - where Carl has to navigate the Train BRIDGE OF LIES...all does not go well.Plus we reveal our top 3 movies set on a train and induct more movies

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02:26:25

2001: A Space Odyssey - Production prowess, 15% beers...

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2025/05/02

This week we tackle a 1968 epic science fiction film , widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential ever made. Directed by Stanley Kubrick , it sees a mysterious artifact uncovered on the moon, leading to a spacecraft manned by two humans and one super computer being sent to Jupiter to find its origins. Hominids and psychedelic sequences ensue, it's 2001: A SACE ODYSSEY! We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a game called A Space Oddity, where we put

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02:11:17

The Da Vinci Code: Poor casting, blind ranking and...

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2025/04/25

This week, it's the Ron Howard directed 2006 globetrotting adventure mystery which sees Tom Hanks' professor of symbology follow clues inside Da Vinci paintings to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society, which could shake the foundations of Christianity - Flashbacks and self-flagellation ensues - it's THE DA VINCI CODE!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we enter the world of blind rankings - where Carl blind ranks Tom

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02:24:10

Gone Girl: Booze cruise, bottles and box cutters

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2025/04/18

This week, it's the 2014 psychological drama/mystery from David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck as a husband who becomes the chief suspect when his wife Rosamund Pike disappears suddenly. Wine bottles and box cutters ensue - it's GONE GIRL! We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a silly game, imaginatively called "Gone Girls" where Carl has to name the actress who has disappeared from the limelight from a series of clues .Plus we reveal our top 3 Fincher movies

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02:06:28

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Coconuts, witches...

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2025/04/11

This week, it's the 1975 comedy from the Monty Python crew which sees King Arthur and his knights of the round table embark on a surreal, low budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles along the way. Shrubberies and swallows ensue - it's MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a silly game, imaginatively called "It's a Sir" where Carl has to identify the knighted actor from a series of clues

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02:07:03

American Beauty: Duff man, Mr style over substance,...

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2025/04/04

This week, it's the 1999 dakly satirical drama from Si Sam Mednes about a depressed suburban father in a mid life crisis, who decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend - Rose petals and smiley burgers ensue - It's AMERICAN BEAUTY!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a prison-based movie game, imaginatively called "American Beauties" where Carl has to name the American actress from a

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01:48:53

Jaws: The Revenge - Plane, Caine and Brody-based meals

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2025/03/28

This week we are haphazardly dissecting a movie that we believe has been errrr...ciminally(??) underrated by critics with a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 2%. Surely it must be better than that...right?It's the third sequel to an absolute classic. As a shark deliberately takes revengeagainst a family responsible for the previous horrific murder of at least two members of its species. Archive footage and exploding shark ensues...it's Jaws: The Revenge! We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and

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01:43:56

Escape Plan - Arnie, Stallone, Vinnie Jones and Buggery

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2025/03/21

This week, it's the 2013 team-up of 80's/90's action legends, as Sylvester Stallone plays a prison security expert who finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world' most secret and secure prison, where he has ro use his skills to escape with help from the inside in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger - mumbling and Arnie-patented screaming ensures - It's ESCAPE PLAN!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a prison-based movie game, imaginatively called

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00:55:13

Mickey 17 - MTN Date Night Ep.3

Movie The Needle ·

2025/03/19

Movie The Needle goes to the Movies!Carl and Simon had another little date night, so thought we would record our reflections on the movie we saw, which was the science fiction, black comedy directed by Bong Joon Ho ,following the story of Mickey Barnes, an expendable worker on a space colony ,who is cloned every time he dies - hair sniffing and macarons ensue, it's MICKEY 17.All the usual sections you know and love but a more condensed format. It's bright, it's breezy, it's still two

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02:07:54

Chinatown: Terrible Takes, Bad for the Glass & the...

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2025/03/14

This week, it's a 1974 Roman Polanski movie as he directs Jack Nicholson as a private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles and finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. - nose bandages and water politics ensues - it's Chinatown!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a game, imaginatively called "Private Detective or Private Browser" where Carl has to distinguish between names of private detectives or porn

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01:55:13

Aftersun: Paul Mescal, 5 stars to lose and The Macarena

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2025/03/07

This week, it's a film that had 5 stars to lose from the start, as we tackle the coming of age drama from Charlotte Wells, who writes and directs Paul Mescal as a young father, as his daughter Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. - mudbaths and the macarena ensues - it's Aftersun!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and there's a game, imaginatively called "After Sun", where Carl has to

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00:50:50

Oscars 2025 Live Reaction - Predictions Results

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2025/03/03

The Oscars is finally here! Following our predictions for every single award....yes, even the ones nobody cares about! We recorded a live reaction to the awards and see who comes out on top of our predictions game.You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CarlMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SiMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on

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