In The Mood For Films

In which Wes, Rob and Donald discuss the many facets of this seasonal classic. Other films discussed include Joe Dante's Gremlins, Wilder's The Apartment and one of Capra's less well known films, 1938s You Can't Take it with You. Oh, and we discuss whether James Stewart is a hot lead!

In which Donald, Rob and Wes discuss this enigmatic and eerie example of the Australian New Wave. Set in 1900, the film begins in Appleyard College, a girls private school, with students welcoming St Valentine's Day. The girls and some of the teachers go on the titular picnic to the ominous Hanging Rock. The day ends with three girls and a teacher going missing, and the repercussions of this on the college and the community.We then go on to compare the film to other examples of the New Wave,

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. One of the most successful independent films of all time, it is a "found footage" pseudo-documentary in which three students (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard) hike into the Appalachian Mountains near Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch.Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend

In which Donald, Wes and Rob discuss the phenomenon of the high school movie as exemplified by John Hughes's '80s classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In the US this location for films is so ubiquitous that it can be part of the horror, musical, comedy and even film noir genres. Other films we discuss are Wes Anderson's sophomore movie Rushmore, Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater's next film after Slacker and Lindsay Anderson's incendiary English public school based If... . Our school days are a