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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 123 - Slap Shot (1977)

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2019/05/27

Stinking Pause – the movie review podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. This week’s movie – Slap Shot from 1977 starring Paul Newman In the small New England town of Charlestown, the local mill is about to lay off 10,000 workers. The town's minor league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, is doing no better. After years of failure, this will be the team's last season. Exasperated player and coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) lets the club's recent acquisitions, the Hanson Brothers, play. The brothers'

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Episode 122 - The Longest Day (1962)

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2019/04/28

Episode 122 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Movie Roulette this week required Paul to select a movie starring Edmond O’Brien. So, it’s back to 1962 for a movie featuring the most impressive cast we have seen so far on the podcast…The Longest Day. In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norman Cota (Robert Mitchum) travels with his

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Episode 121 - Room (2015)

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2019/04/22

Episode 121 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Scott spun the wheel for Movie Roulette last week which revealed the topic of Best Actress Oscar Winners from the 2010s. So, this week’s movie is Room from 2015 directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Jacob Tremblay with an Academy Award winning performance from Brie Larson. ROOM tells the extraordinary story of Jack, a spirited 5-year-old who is looked after by his loving and devoted mother. Like any good mother, Ma dedicates

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Episode 120 - Throne Of Blood (1957)

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2019/04/13

Episode 120 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week’s episode, thanks to the randomness of Movie Roulette , means that Liam has to select a movie directed by Akira Kurosawa. Liam’s choice this episode is Throne of Blood from 1957. Cineastes beware… this episode may offend some of you out there…we couldn’t see what the fuss was all about. Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are waylaid by a spirit who predicts

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Episode 119 - Up (2009)

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2019/04/07

Episode 119 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week’s episode, thanks to the randomness of Movie Roulette , means that Paul has to select a movie featuring Christopher Plummer. Paul’s choice therefore is the Pixar movie ‘Up’ from 2009. Carl Fredricksen, a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But curmudgeonly Carl's worst nightmare comes true when he

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Episode 118 - Let The Right One In (2008)

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2019/03/30

Episode 118 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul This week’s episode, thanks to the randomness of Movie Roulette , means that Liam has to select a vampire movie. Liam’s choice therefore is Let The Right One In from 2008. When Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy living with his mother in suburban Sweden, meets his new neighbour, the mysterious and moody Eli (Lina Leandersson), they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli

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Episode 117 - Two Minute Warning (1976)

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2019/03/25

Episode 117 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul Movie Roulette has thrown a Charlton Heston movie at Scott this week, and so, in order not to upset Paul and Liam too much by choosing Ben Hur, he has instead selected Two Minute Warning from 1976. The Los Angeles Police Department, led by Capt. Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), learns that a madman is planning to open fire on football fans in a packed Los Angeles Coliseum. Holly finds himself at tactical odds with SWAT commander Sgt

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Episode 116 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

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2019/03/10

Episode 116 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Paul, is Monty Python and the Holy Grail from 1975 starring Mssrs Palin, Cleese, Gilliam, Jones and Chapman A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including

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Episode 115 - Sons of the Desert (1933)

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2019/02/24

Episode 115 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Scott, is Sons of the Desert from 1933 starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Stanley (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) want to attend the yearly convention of the Sons of the Desert, a fraternal group to which they belong. When Ollie's wife, Lollie (Mae Busch), objects, he feigns sickness, and Stanley gets a doctor to prescribe a fake trip to Hawaii. After Stanley and Ollie revel with

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Episode 114 - Whiplash (2014)

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2019/02/12

Episode 114 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, is Whiplash from 2014 starring Miles Teller and J K Simmons Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor known for his terrifying teaching methods, discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into the top jazz ensemble, forever changing the young

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Episode 113 - Rain Man (1988)

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2019/01/22

Episode 113 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Scott, is Rain Man from 1988 starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise When car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by

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Episode 112 - Good Will Hunting (1997)

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2019/01/12

Episode 112 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, is Good Will Hunting from 1997 starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Minnie Driver Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will

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Episode 111 - Super Size Me (2004)

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2019/01/04

Episode 111 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Paul, is the Morgan Spurlock documentary from 2004, Super Size Me. Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the

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Episode 110 - It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

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2018/12/25

Episode 110 of the Stinking Pause podcast from Scott An extra special festive edition, where I take a look at my favourite movie of all time, It’s A Wonderful Life Join me as I give you not only a commentary on the movie itself, but also a history of the story behind the making of one of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time. This and previous episodes can be found on iTunes and Stitcher Radio as well as: acast.com/stinkingpause stinkingpause.libsyn.com

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Episode 109 - Home Alone (1990)

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2018/12/24

Episode 109 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The Christmas movie review this week is Home Alone starring Macauley Culkin When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he

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Episode 108 - Some Kind Of Wonderful (1987)

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2018/12/05

Episode 108 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Scott, is our final movie in our brief tribute to John Hughes – Some Kind of Wonderful from 1987 starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz), an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson) with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson). However, his advances draw the ire

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Episode 107 - The Breakfast Club (1985)

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2018/11/28

Episode 107 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, in our November tribute to John Hughes is The Breakfast Club from 1985. Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez),

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Episode 106 - Sixteen Candles (1984)

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2018/11/15

Episode 106 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul The movie review this week, selected by Liam, in our November tribute to John Hughes, is Sixteen Candles from 1984 starring Molly Ringwald. With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular

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Episode 105 - Halloween (1978)

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2018/10/31

Episode 105 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul In this episode we review the ultimate in Halloween movies….John Carpenter’s Halloween from 1978. On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being transferred for a court date, a 21-year-old Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith's Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of

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Episode 104 - Arachnophobia (1990)

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2018/10/22

Episode 104 of the Stinking Pause podcast with Scott, Liam and Paul. The movie review this week in our build up to Halloween is Arachnophobia from 1990, selected for this episode by non-horror fan Paul. After a nature photographer (Mark L. Taylor) dies on assignment in Venezuela, a poisonous spider hitches a ride in his coffin to his hometown in rural California, where arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) has just moved in with his wife, Molly (Harley Jane Kozak), and young son. As town

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