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The Sunshine Radio studios are being refurbished as I type this, and it’s unclear when exactly we’ll get back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Luckily, there’s a couple of Cinema Club reviews in the chamber to tide you over. The first is for Dad’s Army which, being a big-screen adaptation of a famous British sitcom, 99% of people outside the UK will never see.
They won’t miss much…
We’re catching up with some of our favourite films of 2015 on the Sunshine Cinema Club (Star Wars review and top ten coming soon). Here’s our review of The Martian.
We missed the cinematic release, but we made damn sure to catch up with Catching Fire once it hit DVD. Listen to our review!
You can also hear our review of the first movie here.
The Wolf of Wall Street: Chest-thumping, or butt-numbing?
Find out in this, the only review you’ll need!*
Side-note: it feels really awkward to reduce a movie as complicated and widely-discussed as this one to a one sentence plug for a review. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Here it is. Our review of Mad Max: Fury Road in which I do my best to articulate my excitement. Nine minutes is not enough to do this film justice.
If you haven’t seen it yet, do so. On the biggest screen you can find!
The time has come to review the sequel to one of our favourite movies.
The original Raid (reviewed here) was the first movie to ever score a 9 out of 10 on the show, and was our favourite film of 2012 (listed here).
Can The Raid 2 possibly live up to our impossibly-high expectations? Listen and find out!
So, er, looks like I forgot to share the links to the last few podcasts we uploaded. Whoops!
Anyway, here’s our review of Her, a film which surpassed both of our expectations,
and here’s the links to three more reviews!
The Fault in Our Stars (with guest reviewer Fran Smith!)
The Monuments Men (also with added Fran!)
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Like most of the film-loving part of the word, Mad Max: Fury Road has thoroughly fucked my shit up (in a good way).
We’ll be reviewing the film later this week (can’t wait), but in the meantime, here’s our review of Avengers: Age of Ultron. You remember, that other massive blockbuster that came out a few weeks ago? The one that didn’t have cars exploding in the desert?
Gone Girl is a somewhat unconventional film, so it makes sense to give it a slightly unconventional review!
Marcus and I both feel that this is a film that is best enjoyed knowing as little as possible going into it. So, in our review we’ve placed our final thoughts and scores at the start, giving you the option to duck out early if you wish.
For those of you that want the full SCC treatment, fret not. There’s still a full review after the 4.25 mark!
Nick’s Favourite Music of 2023
It’s that time of year again (three weeks into January because to hell with arbitrary deadlines) where I look back at the music I enjoyed from the previous year. Once again, I’m sticking with the single post, capsule review format I used last year, because it turns out working full-time leaves you with less time to spend on other stuff (seems pretty fucked up if you ask me).
It never feels like my listening habits are changing year on year, but it’s interesting to note the differences in hindsight. For instance, this will be the first time I don’t crown an “album of the year”. Ultimately, there wasn’t a full-length release that broke through my admittedly ridiculously high standards. That said, 17 of the songs on this list come from albums I really enjoyed listening to, and the other 3 are standalone singles, so it’s fair to say the overall quality of 2023’s music was pretty good. I had to put in the time and listen and re-listen to a lot of different artists to come to that conclusion, but it feels like I’ve gone on a similar journey for the last four years in a row now. And, because I always end up discovering plenty of new acts and settling on 20 songs that I truly love that I’m excited to share, I never feel like that time and energy has been wasted!
Below, you’ll find the list of my 20 favourite songs of 2023 (YouTube links in the headings, Spotify embed at the bottom), along with a few words about why I love each particular one. Let’s go!