The FMB step into the game-to-screen adaptation conversation by talking about the latest attempt to adapt TTRPG giant, Dungeons and Dragons, to the big screen. Some of our hosts walked away pleasantly surprised- others not so much. (insert dice-rolling metaphor here)
next ep: EO
The FMB see out the conclusion to the John Wick franchise. Do the bullets find their mark? Or has the John Wick franchise juggled itself into a world so absurd even the titular Baba Yaga couldn't conjure his (her?) way to a satisfying conclusion? Tune in and find out.
next week - Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
Continuing on from last episode, our hosts decide to return once more to the world of independent animation and in doing so find a convenient excuse to cross animation legend Phil Tippett's stop-motion magnum opus, "MAD GOD" off the list.
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Pearl
This week the FMB shine some light on 2021's animated dark fantasy epic "The Spine of Night". Its considered and very particular mode of animation spurs our hosts into a spirited discussion about the virtues and pitfalls in using rotoscoping to tell a story and visualise the genres of fantasy seldom seen on the screen.
next episode: Mad God
After our hosts tepid response to Guy Ritchie's "Ruse De Guerre", the sub-genre of "media celebrities thrust into wildly dangerous situations by [insert intelligence service]" started to feel a little under-represented - that is, until the FMB realised that Nic Cage's "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" had thrown its hat in the ring months ago...
next week: The Spine of Night
The FMB return to Norman Jewison's filmography and trade in futuristic rollerskates, laser-gun parties and James Caan for the midcentury, sweltering American South, a bellowing Rod Steiger and an iconic Sidney Poitier.
next episode: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The FMB have a date night with M. Night and watch his latest, 'Knock at the Cabin', which might be his best work in years - sparking yet another round of discussion about the eternal debate: Is a Bad Shyamalan more rewatchable than a Good Shyamalan?
next episode: In the Heat of The Night
This episode, noted Breadheads the FMB reignite an old conversation about the utility of ambiguity when popping into Ben Wheatley's neck of the woods to check out his 2021 Covid-set horror flick.
next episode: Knock at the Cabin
This week, the FMB slice open Andre Ovredal's 2016 chamber horror and try to determine whether the film was DOA or perhaps, if anything, there's still sign of a pulse in there somewhere.
next week: In The Earth
Starving for quality British gangster content, the FMB flip through Bob Hoskin's catalogue and end up discussing John Mackenzie's barnstorming British classic, "The Long Good Friday"
The FMB tunes into Guy Ritchie's latest bid to sell us his luxury barbecues by microwaving and feeding us his creative leftovers.
next week: The Long Good Friday
The FMB watch Spielberg's self-reflective stroll through his own childhood and discuss the challenges in rendering one's own life story in cinematic terms. Plenty of Dano-talk for all the Paulheads out there too.
next episode- Guy Ritchie corners us in a pub again with Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre
This week Disney literally takes off with the Cars franchise and leaves Pixar on the tarmac below. Does this new bird's-eye view bring some much needed to perspective to the anti-logic nightmare that is the Cars franchise? No. Should you still listen to the FMB try their darndest to make sense of it all? Only if you dare.
next episode: The Fabelmans
After a brief hiatus over the Chrismtas break, the FMB is back in 2023. Starting off the New Year is an episode that should have been released back in 2022 - the FMB talk Don Siegel's "Charley Varrick", a low key Walter Matthau-starring thriller with something of a chip on its shoulder.
next episode: the ongoing investigation into the Cars franchise takes to the skies with "Planes"
James Cameron emerges from the jungles and oceans of Pandora, covered head to toe in raver body paint, and ready to teach us all a thing or two about blockbuster filmmaking and something called The Way of Water.
next week: Charley Varrick
It's Burt Reynold's O'clock at the FMB studio and time for our hosts to check in with the late star.
On the agenda this week is 1981's, The Cannonball Run - the big questions on the boy's lips after watching: Is this funny? Is this racist? Is this even a movie?
next week: Sky-person James Cameron returns with Avatar: The Way of Water
Get down on all fours, butt in the air, and gorge with us on Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous offering full of shocks, tenderness and absolutely barnstorming performances. The true capstone to this year's FMB maneater series is here!
next week: The Cannonballl Run
Rian Johnson and Benoit Blanc are back at it again with another "Knives Out mystery". Johnson dons the magician's hat again and engages in some major misdirection, but when the FMB hold up the film to esteemed Golden Age author Edward Knox's Ten Commandments of detective fiction - does the film come out virtuous or full of sin? Tune in and find out!
next week: Bones and All
This week the boys discuss 'North Sea Hijack', in which a bearded, beanie-wearing, alcoholic, cat-loving, woman-hating character named Rufus Excalibur ffolkes, played by the dearly departed Roger Moore, takes on a group of oil rig hijackers led by Anthony Perkins and Michael Parks (possibly lovers). It's Under Siege by way of the British Isles!
next week: Glass Onion
So we got together in the flesh to talk about America's favourite chainsaw dancin', chilli cookin' cannibal family. In our excitement we forgot to record good quality audio, sorry gang, but this one's gonna sound a little like we're recording out of Leatherface's meat locker.
next week: North Sea Hijack
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