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The Stinking Pause Podcast

Scott, Paul and Liam

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

tv & film film reviews

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Episode 143 - Raging Bull (1980)

The Stinking Pause Podcast ·

2020/05/23

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Antony, the host of the Glass Onion: On John Lennon podcast to chat about Scorcese, DeNiro, method acting and boxing. It’s back to 1980 for a look at Raging Bull starring Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorcese. When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off

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Episode 142 - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)

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2020/05/15

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfus and UFOs It’s back to 1977 for a look at Close Encounters Of The Third Kind starring Richard Dreyfus, Teri Garr, Francois Truffaut and Bob Balaban Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss)

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Episode 141 - The Pink Panther (1963)

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2020/04/30

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, who this week is joined by Paul to chat about the first in the series of movies featuring Peter Sellers as the bumbling detective, Inspector Clouseau. It’s back to 1963 for a look at The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, Capucine and Robert Wagner. The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure

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Episode 140 - Stalag 17 (1953)

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2020/04/24

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by his co host fron the Reel Britannia podcast, Steven. Join us as we review one of Billy Wilder’s greatest movies, with an Oscar winning performance from William Holden, Stalag 17 (1953) One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead. Among the remaining men, suspicion grows that one of their own is a spy for the

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Episode 139 - American Graffiti (1973)

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2020/03/31

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul for a trip back to America in 1962 with hamburgers and milkshakes, drive-ins, fast cars and some of the best rock and roll music ever created. This episode we are joining Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfus with Wolfman Jack playing the tunes as we rock around the clock with American Graffiti (1973) – directed by George Lucas “You’re the most beautiful, exciting thing I’ve ever seen in my life and I don’t know anything

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Episode 138 - Cape Fear (1962)

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2020/03/22

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul to discuss the original version of a movie remade thirty years later by Martin Scorcese – Cape Fear. Join us as we take a look at the original version of Cape Fear (1962) starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been

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Episode 137 - Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1939)

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2020/03/07

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by his Reel Britannia co-host, Steven to discuss one of Frank Capra and James Stewart’s finest movies. It’s back to what many see as the greatest year in Hollywood history….1939. The year that brought us Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, Goodbye Mr Chips and today’s featured movie, Mr Smith Goes To Washington. Naïve and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the

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Episode 136 - The Bone Collector (1999)

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2020/02/23

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul In this episode, Paul is back with Scott in the Balaban Sound Studio talking about the 1999 detective thriller, The Bone Collector starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. “There are five basic contaminants in a crime scene. I'll skip to the worse one. Other cops.” Quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and

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Episode 135 - Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

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2020/02/03

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by Paul In this episode, Paul has joined Scott in the Balaban Sound Studio to discuss Scott’s choice of movie, the multi-Oscar winning Kramer vs Kramer from 1979 starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. “You're no bargain either, pal! You are a spoiled, rotten little brat and I'll tell you right now...” Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she

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Episode 134 - Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)

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2020/01/28

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott who this week is joined by his Reel Britannia co- host, Steven In this episode, Steven has joined Scott in the Balaban Sound Studio and has selected the ‘neo-Western noir’ movie, Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) “Look, Mr. MacReedy, there is a law in this county against shootin' dogs. But when I see a mad dog, I don't wait for him to bite me.” One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once

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Episode 133 - Rocky (1976)

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2019/11/23

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Our 200th movie review – Rocky (1976) directed by John Alvidesen and starring Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire and Burgess Meredith “You're gonna eat lightnin' and you're gonna crap thunder!” HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS A MILLION-TO-ONE SHOT. When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an

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Episode 132 - Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

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2019/10/28

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week’s movie – Only Angels Have Wings from 1939 – directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell. “I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me.” Rough and tough Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) runs a tiny airline that cannot afford to miss any flights, despite the dangers along many of the routes. When Bonnie Lee (Jean

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Episode 131 - Days Of Wine And Roses (1962)

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2019/10/04

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week’s movie – Days Of Wine And Roses (1962) directed by Blake Edwards and starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick “You remember how it really was? You and me and booze - a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I got hold of something that kept me from going under, and I'm not going to let go of it. Not for you. Not for anyone. If

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Episode 130 - Ridicule (1996)

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2019/09/22

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week’s movie – Ridicule from 1996 directed by Patrice Leconte Under the reign of Louis XVI, poor French lord Gregoire learns to master the art of wit in the court of Versailles in order for the king to fund his drainage project. Along the way, he immerses himself in a world where wit and genealogy can make or break one's reputation... This and previous episodes can be found

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Episode 129 - The World According To Garp (1982)

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2019/08/26

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week’s movie – The World According To Garp from 1982, based on the John Irving novel , directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has some success writing fiction, but not nearly so much as his mother has with feminist-themed nonfiction

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Episode 128 - Signs (2002)

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2019/08/18

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week’s movie – Signs from 2002, directed by M Night Shylaman and starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix. When crop circles begin mysteriously appearing in the fields of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, widower and ex-minister Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) reassures his two young children that everything is going to be OK. But sightings of an alien figure around the Hess farm, along with news that crop circles are appearing all over the

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Episode 127 - Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot...

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2019/08/10

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week’s movie – Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot from 2018, directed by Gus van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Jonah Hill and Jack Black. After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing Oregon slacker John Callahan intends to do is give up alcohol. Encouraged by his girlfriend and a charismatic sponsor, Callahan reluctantly enters a treatment program and discovers that he has a knack for drawing. The

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Episode 126 - Goodbye Lenin! (2003)

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2019/07/31

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, and special guest this week, Steven from the Reel Britannia podcast This week’s movie – Goodbye Lenin! From 2003 starring Daniel Bruhl In October 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Alex Kerner (Daniel Brühl) is living with his mother, Christiane (Kathrin Sass), and sister, Ariane (Maria Simon). But when the mother, a loyal party member, sees Alex participating in an anti-communist rally, she falls into a coma and misses the

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Episode 125 - Django Unchained (2013)

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2019/07/13

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. This week’s movie – Django Unchained (2013) Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and together they hunt the South's most-wanted criminals. Their travels take them to the infamous plantation of shady

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Episode 124 - The Theory of Everything (2014)

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2019/06/07

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. This week’s movie – The Theory of Everything (2014) In the 1960s, Cambridge University student and future physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with fellow collegian Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones). At 21, Hawking learns that he has motor neuron disease. Despite this -- and with Jane at his side -- he begins an ambitious study of time, of which he has very little left, according to his doctor. He and Jane defy

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