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Mixed Bag

A podcast looking at the mixed, muddled and meh movies throughout film history. Featuring Matt, Cassandra and Jimmy. Contact us at mixedbagcontact@gmail.com

tv & film film reviews

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01:35:20

140 - Maria

Mixed Bag ·

2025/02/09

Welcome to the hallowed land of Joliewood! That's right, it's the Age of Ange for the next few weeks as we profile bisexual queen and one of the biggest movie stars of her day, Angelina Jolie!Kicking us off is Jolie's high profile and bid for an Oscar, Maria! Directed by Pablo Larraín and third in the tragic white woman trilogy after Jackie and Spencer. Maria Callas, the world’s greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life. Will

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01:17:46

139 - The Help

Mixed Bag ·

2025/01/26

Hey y'all! Butter my biscuit, we're just three country gals committing to a bit. Thanks Virginia for the Ko-Fi donation, apologies to anyone who isn't yee-ing and haw-ing to hear our wonderful accent performances.This episode we're taking on The Help (2011), a film about Black maids in the segregated South and the white lady who saved them all apparently. Grab a bowl of grits and fry up some chicken, time to dig in. For more of this nonsense, support us on our Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/mixedbag

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01:45:16

138 - 2024 Top Ten Films

Mixed Bag ·

2025/01/12

Welcome to the New Year, Baghags!To start the year with a new tradition, we've split our 2024 Top Ten Films into a completely seperate episode! Last year, we tacked this onto our Wonka episode but because this year was bursting to the brim with episodes (and we didn't want to do a three hour episode) you can hear Matt, Cass and Jamie count down their favourites of 2024. Catch us next time as we tackle our very first Ko-Fi challenge!

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01:44:34

137 - Mothers' Instinct w Adam Goodall

Mixed Bag ·

2024/12/29

For our final episode of 2024, we're rounding out the year with the legendary Adam Goodall who shares the good work on Mothers' Instinct (2024) starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond. Available now on Prime Video, these mothers and their instincts must be seen to be believed

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01:43:57

136 - Fred Claus w Ben Wilson

Mixed Bag ·

2024/12/22

Ho ho ho said the Santa Claus baby! That's right, there's another gift under your tree, a BONUS Christmas episode with a new guest Ben Wilson! Playwright, actor and cinephile, Ben is a mega-fan of 2007's Fred Claus starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti! He loves it so much, he even learned how to play the soundtrack on piano. Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an

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01:28:45

135 - Red One w Lucas Neal

Mixed Bag ·

2024/12/15

Meri Kirihimete ya filthy animals! It's the holiday season so it's time to invite the Ghost of Christmas Pod, Lucas Neal! We're always down to catch a new release so we thought a recent Christmas movie, Red One (2024) would be the ticket, starring Chris Evans, J. K. Simmons and frequent Mixed Bag offender Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security must team up with the world’s most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting,

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01:40:28

134 - Bee Movie

Mixed Bag ·

2024/12/02

Cass here filling in as the description writer. It would be so very Gen Z of me to just copy and paste the entire script of Bee Movie here in the description field, but I fear we may fuck up the podcast hosting website somehow by doing that. So, here it is, the Renee-sance (or is it Renee-zance?) coming to a close just before we hit our Christmas specials.For more of this nonsense, support us on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/mixedbag Leave us a review on Podchaser:

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01:37:16

133 - Cold Mountain

Mixed Bag ·

2024/11/17

We're kicking off the Renee-ssaince in earnest after our lost episode last time, it's time to visit COLD MOUNTAIN. Directed by Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley, The English Patient) and starring Jude Law, Nicole and our focus of this mini series, Renee Zellweger, will this be a stirring epic or a significant snooze?In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels

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02:30

In Memoriam (Down with Love)

Mixed Bag ·

2024/11/05

An update.

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01:42:01

131 - Sleepy Hollow

Mixed Bag ·

2024/10/20

OooOOOoooooOO! It's that time of year ghouls and gals! It's spooky season and it's time to bring on our foe of the podcast, Mike, to select his next horrific mix, this year it's Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999)Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman. (Sourced from Letterboxd) Will this

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01:22:52

130 - Return to Oz

Mixed Bag ·

2024/10/06

It's time to take another romp down the yellow brick road! As part of our miniseries building up to Glicked, we're now headed to the wonderful land of Oz. Renowned editor and one-time director Walter Murch made the fateful decision to make a sequel to one of the most beloved films of all time, The Wizard of Oz with Return to Oz (1985) which had a decidedly mixed reaction. Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes

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01:37:33

129 - Gladiator

Mixed Bag ·

2024/09/22

Are you not entertained?! Well, the audiences of 2000 certainly were, with a box office smash hit and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, I think ole Russel come be comforted he won't be eating Crowe with this film by one Sir Ridley Scott. But, 24 years later and with an upcoming sequel on the horizon, the Mixed Bag crew thought they should dust off the dirt like Maximus loves to do and see if we are glad to set our eyes upon Gladiator (2000). In the year 180, the death of emperor

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01:37:14

128 - Flightplan

Mixed Bag ·

2024/09/08

Brace for impact because it's another JETBAG: Emergency Landing episode!And it's our biggest metal bird in the sky yet, Flightplan (2005), starring Jodie Foster has her climbing all around the Elgin E-474 which, while made up, is styled on these massively huge jumbojets with spiral staircases, lush first class and all sorts of hidden compartments! Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt’s 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she

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01:27:32

127 - Mean Girls

Mixed Bag ·

2024/08/18

Get in, loser.When we're in-between seasons and don't have time for a full personal picks, we turn to our old favourite, the musical! And what better musical from one this year, Mean Girls (2024) which they tried to desperately to hide its musical nature! New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called ‘The Plastics,’ ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the

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01:50:14

126 - Pocahontas

Mixed Bag ·

2024/08/04

We've reached the end of our Period Princess miniseries and we're ending with an entry from the Disney renaissance, 1995's Pocahontas.Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia. (Sourced from Letterboxd) Will the Colours of the Wind blow away the historical inaccuracy and problematic romance? Is Just Around the River Bend rapids or smooth waters? And will we Mine, Mine, Mine gold from this or is there none

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01:24:22

125 - Memoirs of a Geisha

Mixed Bag ·

2024/07/21

Our Period Princess continues with Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. Directed by Rob and produced by a whole bunch of the white guys, Memoirs of a Geisha started out as a smash hit bestseller, also written by a white guy, Arthur Golden. This adaptation was criticized for casting non-Japanese actors in lead roles but was nominated

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01:27:05

124 - The Other Boleyn Girl

Mixed Bag ·

2024/07/07

It's the start of a new miniseries, it's time for Period Princess! 👸It's a new era and what better way to kick it off with the ultimate page turner of 2001, The Other Boleyn Girl adapted into this feature film in 2008. Starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana. A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete

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01:15:38

123 - To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

Mixed Bag ·

2024/06/24

Cassandra filling in here for James who does the regular captions! Today we're celebrating 🎉 🌈 ᑭŘ𝕀đẸ 爪ｏ𝓝Ⓣｈ 🌈 🎉 here at Mixed Bag so it's time for a queer cinema classic that none of us have seen before.Vida (Patrick Swayze), Noxima (Wesley Snipes) and Chi Chi (John Leguizamo) are three New York drag queens travelling cross country to the Miss America Drag pageant when they are waylaid in small town USA. Can their fabulousness bring a little joie d'vivre to this sad wee town, or will the

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01:29:09

122 - Dinosaur

Mixed Bag ·

2024/06/09

It's the year 2000. It's the first 3D animated film from Walt Disney. It's Dinosaur. And it's a very unhinged episode, we had a blast with this one. Plus, we had a special guest drop in briefly, Cass' brother, Nathan!An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home. (Sourced from Letterboxd) It's the final of our personal childhood picks and we're rounding it out with Disney's Dinosaur. Who could forget the epic tale of

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16:27

Quick Mix 3 - The Return of the Mixed

Mixed Bag ·

2024/06/03

We're back for a mini quick mix this week! Discussions include Grey's Anatony, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, A Highland Song, Animal Well and Telling Lies. See you next week for a return to our Childhood Movies!

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