PODCAST: Promising Young Woman & Godzilla vs. Kong [Movie Robcast]

Episode 113 of The Movie Robcast sees the Robs in the same physical space for the first time since December!

In the shadow of the glorious BFI IMAX at Waterloo they run through multiple movie related topics.

First up is Emerald Fennell’s Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Promising Young Woman, featuring a first-rate performance from Carey Mulligan, also nominated for Hollywood’s most coveted award.…

Blair Witch gets a bit lost in the woods

There’s something ironic about having your phone confiscated when going in to see a found footage movie, as I did.

Initially marketed as an original project, The Woods – complete with misleading trailer footage of a very non-Maryland forest – Adam Wingard’s arboreal horror was unexpectedly revealed as a sequel to the genre-launching Blair Witch Project, which famously grossed almost a quarter of a billion off a budget of $60,000 all the way back in 1999.…

The Guest is worth leaving home for

David Collins, Dan Stevens’ character in Adam Wingard’s new thriller, The Guest, would be about as far removed as you can image from Matthew Crawley, the agreeable young gentleman he played in Downton Abbey.

Well, apart from the issues of manners: David is faultlessly polite, overflowing with “Sirs” and “Ma’ams”, even while bringing destruction down upon the heads of the Peterson clan.…