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PODCAST

The Best Bits

Will Collins, Kevin Lehane

The Best Bits is a film and TV podcast hosted by writers Will Collins (Wolfwalkers, Star Wars - Screecher's Reach) and Kevin Lehane (Grabbers, Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories). Whether picking their favourite scenes from randomly selected weirdly specific themes, recording commentaries for classics, recapping terrific TV, or giving a second chance to a film they didn't see the first time, they can be heard having the craic and celebrating The Best Bits.

tv & film film history

All Episodes

93:22

Best Made-for-TV Movie (with Pierce Ryan)

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2022/11/09

Screenwriter and five-timer special guest Pierce Ryan returns with another off-theme topic for Will and Kevin, and it's Best Made-for-TV Movie! A category stuffed with underseen gems.You can follow Pierce on Twitter @pierceiswritingMusic is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or directly via bestbitspodcast.com/contact Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this episode

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70:22

Best Car Scene (with Jonas Govaerts)

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2022/10/25

Hop in and belt up as Will and Kevin are joined by backseat driver and Belgium filmmaker Jonas Govaerts, a director of two films ("Cub," "H4Z4RD"), multiple music videos, and thirty-odd episodes of TV!Jonas' film "H4Z4RD" co-written with Trent Haaga ("Cheap Thrills") is a thrilling car film currently playing at festivals all over the world - recently winning "Best Feature" in the Òrbita Section at Sitges Film Festival. So, a perfect guest to pick the

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67:56

Best Superhero Scene

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2022/10/11

With great scene themes come great scene selections as Will and Kevin assemble, suit up, leap, bamf, web swing, and sling-ring through a multiverse of super fun Superhero Scenes from "Ant-Man" to "X-Men" and every caped, cowled, and crowned crusader in between. Excelsior!Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or directly via bestbitspodcast.com/contact Please consider leaving a five-star

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73:00

Best Battle Scene

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2022/09/27

From "Alexander" to "Zulu", Will and Kevin charge once more into the breach for Best Battle Scene.Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or directly via bestbitspodcast.com/contact Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this episode. It genuinely helps the show grow and allows others to discover it.You can also support the show directly on Patreon and get

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63:55

Best Opening Scene

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2022/09/13

Will and Kevin are back with a scene theme selected by their Patreon subscribers. From bookends, cold opens, prologues, inciting incidents, and flash-forwards, there are many ways to open a movie, and many movies have done it well. But which ones?Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or directly via bestbitspodcast.com/contact Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this

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63:16

Kevin’s Origin

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2022/09/06

Over the summer on The Best Bits Patreon, Will & Kevin released dozens of bonus shows. Some of them were one-on-one interviews called "Your Best Bits," where they laid out their respective journeys from film fans to screenwriters. This is Will's episode with Kevin.Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get

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63:54

Will’s Origin

The Best Bits ·

2022/08/30

Over the summer on The Best Bits Patreon, Will & Kevin released dozens of bonus shows. Some of them were one-on-one interviews called "Your Best Bits," where they laid out their respective journeys from film fans to screenwriters. This is Kevin's episode with Will.Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get

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71:29

Second Rate Review: Sunshine (2007) (with The...

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2022/08/23

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show (Patron Pick) where we watch your suggestion and see if we like it.”For the final Second Rate Review of the season, Will and Kevin are joined by Cathy and Dave from The Cinemile podcast. In this crossover episode, a film with a Cork Connection was proposed and voted on by subscribers of The Cinemile Patreon and The Best Bits Patreon.The chosen film was Danny Boyle's 2007 science-fiction thriller “Sunshine,” co-written with Alex Garland and

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60:52

Second Rate Review: Traxx (1988)

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2022/08/16

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Die Hard”, “Young Guns” and “Cocktail”, and take a chance on Shadoe Steven's obscure and hard-to-find cult action-comedy classic "Traxx".Just relax, here comes Traxx.When gun-toting mercenary Traxx (Shadoe Stevens) retires from a life of combat to begin a cookie baking business, he

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47:38

Second Rate Review: Volunteers (1985)

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2022/08/09

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Back to the Future”, “The Goonies” and “Jewel of the Nile”, and take a chance on Nicholas Meyer's Volunteers.In 1962, after graduating from Yale, womanizing slacker Lawrence (Tom Hanks) flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay and takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps

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48:58

Second Rate Review: Electric Dreams (1984)

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2022/07/26

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”Will and Kevin return to the summer of “Gremlins”, “Ghostbusters” "Beverly Hills Cop", and “Temple of Doom”, and take a chance on Steve Barron’s 1984 music video influenced romcom.Loosely inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac, San Francisco architect (Lenny Von Dohlen) woos a cellist (Virginia Madsen) who lives next door with the

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64:46

Second Rate Review: Living in Oblivion (1995)

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2022/07/12

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”Will and Kevin flashback to the summer of “Apollo 13”, “Batman Forever”, “Braveheart”, and roll the dice on Tom DiCillo's "Living in Oblivion".A small-time director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) attempts to make a no-budget film. You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or

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55:50

Second Rate Review: Timecrimes (2007)

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2022/06/28

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show (Patron Pick) where we watch your suggestion and see if we like it.”Will and Kevin aren't returning to the US box office for this episode but turning their attention to the Spanish box office. Thanks to Patreon supporter Patrick McGinley's recommendation they (re)watched the cult classic time travel thriller released this week in 2007 for Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes.A man witnesses a strange sight in the woods opposite his home and

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56:09

Second Rate Review: Vampire's Kiss (1989) (with Jamie...

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2022/06/14

“Hello and Welcome to The Best Bits: Second Rate Show where we flashback to a random week of release and give a second chance to a film we didn't see the first time.”Will and Kevin and returning special guest Jamie Hannigan flashback to the summer of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, “Field of Dreams” and “Steel Magnolias”, and take a chance on Robert Bierman's cult classic black comedy Vampire's Kiss.When a Manhattanite publishing executive (Nicolas Cage) is bitten by an apparent

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60:57

Second Rate Review: Dead Heat (1988)

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2022/05/31

Will and Kevin mentioned they would be substituting the "All the Best Bits" audio commentaries for something new and this is that something new. It's called "The Best Bits: Second Rate Show" and in each hour-long episode, they flashback to the week of release in a random year and give a second chance to a film they didn't see the first time. And for this Patreon-backed pilot episode, they travelled back to the summer of “Die Hard”, “Rain Man”, and “Beetlejuice”, and took a

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71:20

Best Video Game Scene

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2022/05/24

Will, a gamer, and Kevin, an NPC, power up for a chat about video game adaptations and films inspired by game mechanics. From arcade games to mobile games, 'cut scenes' to scenes that should've been cut, and from ludonarratives to MMORPGs, has there ever been a great game adaptation?Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review

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58:45

Best Assassin Scene

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2022/05/17

All killer, no filler. Will and Kevin count down their top ten on-screen contract killers as they compare their favourite assassin scenes. Music is provided by Epidemic. Kevin's intro number "Films Are Fun" was created with music by Stretchd.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this episode. It really helps the

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71:34

Best Dream Scene

The Best Bits ·

2022/05/10

Will and Kevin compare their favourite dream scenes and discuss everything from dream logic and fake-outs to fantasies and nightmares.Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene suggestions through Twitter or email us at bestbitspodcast@gmail.com! Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoy this episode. It really helps the show grow and allows others to discover it.And now you can support the show directly

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77:19

Best "I Love You" Scene

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2022/05/03

Grand gestures, proposals, and confessions. Will and Kevin rhapsodise about memorable movie moments where characters declare their love for another.Trigger Warning: this episode is soppy, mawkish, sentimental and long. It is likely to cause eye-rolling, dry-heaving, uncontrollable sobbing, and/or groaning along with unexpected dizzying bouts of intense arousal, longing and disgust. Discretion is advised. ❤️Music is provided by Epidemic.You can contact the show with any comments, questions, or scene

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67:32

Best Scene Set in a Cinema (with Conor McMahon & Kate...

The Best Bits ·

2022/04/26

Will and Kevin head to Dublin for DIFF and their first-ever live show. Joining them at The Lighthouse Cinema is returning special guest Kate Dolan ("You Are Not My Mother") from Best Jump Scare and writer/director Conor McMahon ("Let the Wrong One In", "Stitches", and RTÉ's "Zombie Bashers").You can follow Kate on Twitter @caatdolan and Conor @Conor_Mc_Mahon.Will & Kevin would like to thank Dublin Internation Film Festival Director Grainne Humphreys

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