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Far From Ideal

A film & TV podcast that balances sharp, well-researched takes with asking "Wait... Who was that guy in that thing?"Every other Wednesday

tv & film film reviews

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30:25

Dungeons & Dragons - Featuring Michael Silver

Far From Ideal ·

2025/11/26

After thousands of hours of campaigns, adaptations, video games and more Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves finally cracked it as a mainstream film offering that didn’t play like Jeremy Irons trapped in a nightmare about a PS2 generated dragon. Michael Silver joins us to delve into everything D&D in a tight half an hour where we still have time to detour into discussing: The Truman Show, Free Guy, The Witcher and Critical Role.

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29:17

Horrody

Far From Ideal ·

2025/11/12

This week we talk: horror, comedy, horror comedy and comedy horror. Which films get the balance right? How are the two genres actually very similar? And why are nice comedians like Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger and Kyle Mooney trying to scare us in the first place?

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20:54

Tim Burton

Far From Ideal ·

2025/10/29

.This week, we talk about all things Tim Burton: the art, the movies, and the man behind the macabre. From Beetlejuice to Big Fish, we dig into how Burton built an entire universe out of being an oddball and why his “weird” still hits decades later. Plus, Hannah’s thoughts on the Design Museum exhibit and whether his magic has faded or just evolved.#timburton #FilmAnalysis #MovieTalk #BurtonExhibition #Filmmaking #Cinematography #PopCulture #ArtAndFilm

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21:05

Trailers

Far From Ideal ·

2025/10/15

.This week on Far From Ideal, we dive into the art of the movie trailer: the ones that tell us the entire plot, the ones that completely lie to us and the ones that are actually amazing. From Scrooged to Tropic Thunder, Oppenheimer to The Fall Guy, we unpack how editing, marketing, and Hollywood hype can either elevate or ruin a film.We debate spoilers, mystery, and why every trailer must last three minutes too long. Plus: horror trailer parodies, Jordan Peele’s genre-bending marketing, and the

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38:12

The Next James Bond - Featuring Ali Clifton

Far From Ideal ·

2025/10/01

.This week we welcome writer, director, and creative producer Ali Clifton for a deep dive into the future of James Bond. With Denis Villeneuve confirmed as the next director, what does that mean for the tone of 007? Is Villeneuve prepared to do away with his entire identity asa filmmaker and return to the camp roots of Bond? Is a period piece an option? Or will Amazon decide that more dollars can be wrung from a TV series?We also break down casting predictions, from the bookmakers' favourite Aaron

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17:31

Happy Gilmore 2: Adam Sandler

Far From Ideal ·

2025/09/17

.Adam Sandler: comedy icon, dramatic actor, inexplicable cinematic sadist. This week we get into the highs and lows of a career that defies explanation from Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy to Uncut Gems and his questionable Netflix era. We talk about first exposures, the Happy Madison gang, his “grunge” style of acting, and why Sandler is more Nicolas Cage than anyone else. Plus we introduce the Gilmore scale for rating films. One Gilmore. #FarFromIdealPodcast #AdamSandler #HappyGilmore #UncutGems

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39:18

Berlin Loop - Featuring Emily Manthei

Far From Ideal ·

2025/09/03

.We are very lucky to be joined by Emily Manthei, the writer/director of Berlin Loop, an independent film set in Berlin that sees a young woman take on Berlin’s bike thief mafia using a time loop. Getting into her influences and inspirations for the film we range through all the time loop classics, from Groundhog Day to Primer, Palm Springs, Looper and more. Emily’s extensive research even pushes us to discuss the world outside of film, from the poetic Italian physics of Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of

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23:27

The Quest - Jean Claude Van Damme

Far From Ideal ·

2025/08/20

.This week on Far From Ideal, we delve into Jean-Claude Van Damme’s mind boggling 1996 directorial debut The Quest. This film has it all: pirates, Muay Thai training, Roger Moore selling Van Damme into slavery, and kicking people in the face as a legitimate means of conflict resolution. We also explore Van Damme’s career alongside action legends like Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren, his multiple twin roles, and why Timecop is the best starting point for his oeuvre. And of course we make time to

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36:06

Netflix Documentaries & Reality TV

Far From Ideal ·

2025/08/06

This week we’re asking big questions about the world of documentaries: what is the relationship between observer and subject? what is truth? What’s up with Love is Blind? Yes our in depth conversation about documentaries and the streaming era gets sidetracked extensively into talking about reality TV. In a wide ranging conversation we go from Making a Murderer to Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Love is Blind to Marina Abramović and The Traitors to The Jinx. Is Making a Murderer the blueprint for everything

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33:34

Heretic: Don’t Go Downstairs

Far From Ideal ·

2025/07/23

Heretic is a film with a deep basement that you’d rather not go into, so join us as we root around down there. Filled with psychological tension, half baked symbolism and Hugh Grant as an actually pretty spellbinding villain, we explore why Heretic’s promising first half collapses under its own ambition. Expect spoilers, discussion of horror versus thriller and tangents that include 1985’s Clue and the Dungeons and Dragons franchise. We also manage to mention: The Exorcist, Seven, Silence of the

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32:23

Openings: Don’t Skip Intro

Far From Ideal ·

2025/07/09

This week, we dive headfirst into the world of film and TV openings - not just the flashy first scenes, but the often-skipped opening titles that set the tone, build the world, and occasionally warn you that things are about to get weird. From the full credit crawls of 1940s Hollywood to the sleek, skippable sequences of prestige TV, we break down how intros have evolved, what makes a great one unforgettable, and why fonts can make or break a first impression.We talk Dexter, Succession, Napoleon

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35:17

Cannes: Welcome to the Pyjama Party

Far From Ideal ·

2025/06/25

In this week’s report from the frontlines of cinema, we recap Hannah’s trip to this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Glitz, glamour, Cuba Gooding Jr and surprisingly few opportunities to watch films, Cannes has it all. And if you’re thinking “there’s no way in such a jam packed episode that Max can take a long detour to outline the plot of the new season of The Rehearsal” then think again. This being our first full video episode, enjoy seeing our faces alongside the sounds that come out of

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32:41

Saltburn: Circling the Drain

Far From Ideal ·

2025/06/11

Equal parts Brideshead Revisited, The Talented Mr Ripley and Kind Hearts and Coronets - a dash of 2000s public school aesthetic - two oversaturated white boys - the joy of Rosamund Pike and Richard E Grant - 1 cup filthy bathwater. This week’s episode features a deconstructed Saltburn served on a bed of disappointment and with a sharp finish of new Harry Potter casting news. #saltburn #barrykeoghan #jacobelordi @farfromidealpod on Instagram@FarFromIdealPodcast on YouTube

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57:16

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Featuring James Berkeley

Far From Ideal ·

2025/05/28

This week we’re joined by musician and producer James Berkeley to dive deep into the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not the James Cameron blue people Avatar, though we do immediately get into a heated discussion of whether that was any good.From the original series to the ill-fated M. Night Shyamalan bomb to the recent Netflix series, there’s a lot of ground to cover. You might think there’s no way to link the cult classic Nickelodeon animation to National Treasure and Aliens, but you would be

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51:38

One Shots: One Take Wonders

Far From Ideal ·

2025/05/14

Making a film entirely in one shot is surely one of the most masochistic exercises a filmmaker can undertake. And yet they persist! We cover everything from Hitchock’s classic Rope that mimics a single shot, the experimental and painfully boring foray into digital of Russian Arc, all the way through to the mainstream blockbusters of Birdman and 1917. Eventually we get to the work of Philip Barantini, the current master of the form with his film Boiling Point and recent Netflix limited series

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33:14

Look Who’s Talking: Going Through a Selfish Phase

Far From Ideal ·

2025/04/30

With Kirstie Alley, John Travolta and Bruce Willis as the voice of a baby, Look Who’s Talking was the surprise smash hit of 1989. But does it hold up as a masterpiece of cinema, or is its legacy tarnished by a series of increasingly bizarre and poorly thought-through sequels? To potentially find out some of the answers, listen to this week’s episode, safe in the knowledge that we also spend a good amount of time talking about Con Air.@farfromidealpod on Instagram@FarFromIdealPodcast on YouTube

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40:40

Whiplash/La La Land/Bablyon - Featuring Caroline Ullman

Far From Ideal ·

2025/04/16

Damien Chazelle makes films about three things: music, filmmaking and toxic people single mindedly achieving their dreams while the rest of their lives crumble around them. Whether it’s an abusive jazz mentorship, a quest for a spot on the walk of fame or whatever the hell was going on in Babylon, there’s more than enough here to fulfill the Far From Ideal quota.Featuring a special guest appearance by Caroline Ullman. @farfromidealpod on Instagram@FarFromIdealPodcast on YouTube

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41:36

Once Upon a Tarantino… In Tarantino

Far From Ideal ·

2025/04/02

Tarantino’s most recent film takes him fully into his dude-bro podcast guy era. Featuring: cool cars, movie stars, movie stars driving cool cars and a bizarre revisionist history of the Manson murders in which Sharon Tate is at best a featured extra. We touch on Jackie Brown, Four Rooms, Inglorious Basterds and The Hateful Eight and wonder with so many memorable characters why Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood’s most memorable is a dog. With meta-textual hyper referential filmmaking sometimes if you

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44:53

Berlinale: Drunk On Cinema

Far From Ideal ·

2025/03/19

Fresh off this year’s Berlinale, Hannah takes us behind the scenes of Berlin’s premier film festival. We dive into all the hard hitting topics: the joys and existential horrors of networking, the mystery of “market screenings” (sadly not a cinema supermarket hybrid) and Berlin’s bleak February weather. In spite of that description, the podcast is still slightly more fun to listen to than Tolstoy. @farfromidealpod on Instagram@FarFromIdealPodcast on YouTube

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36:03

Trap: Dad’s Being Weird

Far From Ideal ·

2025/03/12

In 2024, M. Night Shyamalan lured moviegoers in with the slick and exciting trailer for his latest directorial misfire, Trap. Featuring the pop sensation that is Saleka Shyamalan, Kid Cudi cosplaying as Lucius Malfoy, and Josh Hartnett swinging for the rafters as a serial killer who seems to embody every Myers-Briggs personality type at once.Perhaps the real trap isn’t just the one set inside the arena—but the psychological prism through which we attempt to make sense of a chaotic and indifferent

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