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Movie The Needle

Movie The Needle

Hello, and welcome to Movie The Needle, a podcast where two complete amateurs haphazardly dissect a film that one of us likes, and one...well, not so much. Join us (Simon and Carl) as we explain our opposing viewpoints and seeing whether we can mov(i)e the needle for one another.

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01:50:33

September Retro: The Robert Redford Appreciation...

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2025/09/22

This week, we look back on the episodes released in the last month (The Sting, The Nice Guys And Toy Story) and discuss anything we missed, some listener feedback and discuss some data. We also find the time to appreciate the legend that is Robert Redford. Ploys, boys and toys ensue - it's the Movie The Needle AUGUST 2025 Retro!As well as our top 3 Redford movies we do a top 3 buddy movies list, and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!You

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01:30:45

Classics Ep2 - Toy Story

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2025/09/15

Our second classic episode sees us delving deep into the toy chest and having some fun with our favourite (and first!) computer generated animation - TOY STORY!We deep dive into all things production, plot and (voice) cast.There's also the obligatory game and terrible theme song named after finding Woody in your bed when you wake up!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CarlMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and

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01:53:30

The Sting with Heather Stewart - Mashflix & Chill Ep2

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2025/09/08

We continue our Mashflix & Chill series with Heather Stewart from (seemingly) ALL of your favourite movie podcasts!If you mash Ocean's Eleven and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid together do you really get The Sting?Join us as we discuss it, some alternatives, and then add a mashup to our Filmily Tree.You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CarlMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and

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01:46:12

S4E04: The Nice Guys

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2025/09/01

This week, it's Life of Pi all over again, as instead of the previously billed Road to Perdition, it's Shane Black's 2016 comedy/neo-noir mashup, The Nice Guys! It's just SO funny! We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we play Nice Guys finish last, linked to box office turkeys.You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CarlMTN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and

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01:42:31

August Retro: Life of Pi, Shoot 'Em Up & Jurassic...

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2025/08/22

This week, it's our fourth monthly retrospective episode, where we look back on the episodes released in the last month (Life of Pi, Shoot 'Em Up and Jurassic Park) and discuss anything we missed, some listener feedback and discuss some data. Cats, guns and dinos ensue - it's the Movie The Needle AUGUST 2025 Retro!Plus we reveal our top 3 Spielberg movies and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!You can read our reviews of other movies on

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01:23:59

Classics Ep1 - Jurassic Park

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2025/08/15

We delve into our MTN Classics Collection to talk in detail about a film we consider to be an absolute classic!Our first classics episode is Steven Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur adventure, action, thriller which sees an industrialist invite some experts to visit his theme park of cloned dinosaurs. Questionable health and safety protocols and unquestionably awesome effects ensure - Welcome to...JURASSIC PARK!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we test Carl's

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01:37:52

Shoot 'Em Up with Adam Richmond - Mashflix & Chill Ep1

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2025/08/08

Welcome to our first Mashflix & Chill episode, where we invite a guest to suggest two movies which when mashed together create a movie hybrid.To kick things off we have Adam Richmond from Movies You Forgot You Forgot suggesting the mash of:Hard Boiled X Big Trouble in Little China = Shoot 'Em UpWe talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, before deciding whether Adam's suggestion makes it on to our Filmily Tree, with or without modification.There's also a nice head to head game with Carl vs

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01:41:56

S4E03: Life of Pi - Casual ratios and aspect racism

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2025/08/01

This week, it's finally Ang Lee's 2012 spiritual survival adventure which sees a young man survive a disaster at sea only to be stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific with only a Bengal tiger for company - Cannibalistic islands and angry Frenchmen ensue - It's LIFE OF PI!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we play Strife of Pi, linked to Pi to 5 decimal places....because maths is fun! You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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02:00:07

July Retro: Baby Driver, F1, Sideways - Cars wine and...

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2025/07/25

This week, it's our third monthly retrospective episode, where we look back on the episodes released in the last month (Baby Driver, F1 and Sideways) and discuss anything we missed, some listener feedback and discuss some data. Cars, wine and yet more cars ensue - it's the Movie The Needle JULY 2025 Retro!Plus we reveal our top 3 Jamie Foxx movies and induct more movies into the Movie The Needle Classics Collection. Let us know your submissions!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd

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02:10:03

S04E2: Sideways

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2025/07/18

This week, it's Alexander Payne's 2004 dark buddy comedy which sees two middle age men embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle. Lots of wine BUT DEFINITELY NOT FUCKING MERLOT ensue - It’s Sideways!

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00:49:41

F1: The Movie - Date Night Ep. 5

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2025/07/11

Movie The Needle goes to the Movies...again!! It's been a while since our last Movie the Needle date night, but we are back from the cinema to talk F1 Colon The Movie. What can Bradley Pittstop do to wow us on the Biiiiiiiiiig (IMAX) screen?All the usual sections you know and love but a more condensed format. It's bright, it's breezy, it's still two morons who don't know what they are talking about. Enjoy!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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01:51:05

S04E1: Baby Driver - Style over substance strikes again?

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2025/07/04

This week, it's Edgar Wrights 2017 action crime caper which sees Ansel Elgort as a young getaway driver who must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love, and freedom. ipods and tyre screeching ensue - it's Baby Driver!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week we have fun with the often used trope of "one last job"!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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02:08:13

June Retro: Moulin Rouge, The Big Short, Casablanca

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2025/06/27

This week, it's our second monthly retrospective episode, where we look back on the episodes released in the last month (Moulin Rouge, The Big Short and Casablanca) and discuss anything we missed, some listener feedback and discuss some data. Repetition, Lingering thoughts and repetition ensue - it's the Movie The Needle June 2025 Retro! We revisit our initial thoughts from the episode to see if anything has changed, open up the mailbag for listener feedback and thoughts, as well as

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00:52:09

Movie Tournament - Round 3

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2025/06/20

That's the end of season 3!To close things out we are pitting the 16 movies we have covered in this season against each other in a tournament to find out the overall winner, that will proceed to the champion of champions tournament where it will face the winners from seasons 1, 2 and 4!We've ranked all the movies based on their cast, production and plot and let them battle it out.LET THE GAMES BEGIN!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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00:02:44

Season 4 Trailer

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2025/06/18

A quick intro to season 4 of the Movie The Needle podcast…coming soon!

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01:34:33

Casablanca: Rick - Slick or a Dick?

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2025/06/13

This week, it's a quote-tastic, black and white classic from 1942 which sees Humphrey Bogart play a cynical, expatriate, American bar owner who struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. Fezzes and human trafficking ensue...it's CASABLANCA!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week it all goes horribly, horribly wrong!You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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01:21:58

The Big Short:

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2025/06/06

This week, Adam McKay directs an all star cast as we enter the thrilling world of the United States housing bubble, which, spoiler alert, caused a global financial crisis in 2008. Subprime mortgages and synthetic collateralized debt obligations ensue - it's THE BIG SHORT!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week Carl has decide which actors are Bigger or Shorter than each other.You can read our reviews of other movies on Letterboxd - Look for

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01:28:40

May Retro: 2001, Sinners, Bullet Train

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2025/05/30

We're trying something a little different this week. To go alongside our new (ahem) slimmed down(??) regular episodes, each month we will do a little retrospective of the movies covered in the month. This month it's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bullet Train and Sinners.We revisit our initial thoughts from the episode to see if anything has changed, open up the mailbag for listener feedback and thoughts, as well as covering some data.Plus we reveal our top 3 Morgan Freeman movies and induct more

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01:42:08

Moulin Rouge: Narcoleptic Argentinians, lost in...

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2025/05/23

This week, we warm up our vocal cords and don our stockings for Baz Luhrman's 2001 jukebox musical about a poor bohemian poet in 1890s Paris who falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star, coveted by a jealous Duke. Absinthe and musical mashups ensue - it's MOULIN ROUGE!We talk all things Cast, Production and Plot, and for our game this week Carl tries to remember his school French lessons by translating movie titles into their more familiar English ones.Plus we reveal our top 3 Ewan

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00:46:24

Sinners - Date Night Ep. 4

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2025/05/16

Movie The Needle goes to the Movies!It's been a while since our last Movie the Needle date night, but we are back at the cinema to cover a movie that is causing quite a stir with audiences around the world. It's a Ryan Coogler film starring Michael B Jordan and Michael B Jordan - Is it a horror? Is it a musical? Blues and plenty of red ensue - It's SINNERS!All the usual sections you know and love but a more condensed format. It's bright, it's breezy, it's still two morons who

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