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Double Reel Film Podcast

The monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd. James Adamson is a slightly obsessive armchair fan, giving you his take on the world of cinema. So is James Adamson, his imaginatively named son and co-host. As well as a look at news, new releases and how we’re fitting in movie watching with our busy exciting lives, we look into tall tales of potentially great films that never got made, overlooked classics you need to see, and rants about remakes that should never have been made at all.

Double Reel Presents: The Cronenberg Institute

96 hours 51 mins; January 19, 2024

Double Reel Presents: Legal Cage of Consent

66 hours 33 mins; January 12, 2024

44.3 The Big Conversation: Top Ten Ridley Scott Films

92 hours 21 mins; January 06, 2024

44.2 The Features: Thelma & Louise, The Duellists, Kubrick’s Napoleon, Exodus Gods & Kings, Prometheus

68 hours 52 mins; December 30, 2023

Double Reel Presents: Penalty Shootout Film Quiz December 2023

46 mins; December 26, 2023

44.1 Double Reel Monthly: Napoleon, Hunger Games Songbirds & Snakes, Dream Scenario, The Rock, Videodrome

88 hours 55 mins; December 23, 2023

43 3 The Big Conversation: Bucket List Cinema

113 hours 10 mins; December 09, 2023

43.2 The Features: Brotherhood of the Wolf, Rescue Dawn, Spielberg’s Trial of the Chicago 7, The Invasion, Hancock

68 hours 40 mins; December 02, 2023

Double Reel Presents: Penalty Shootout Film Quiz November 2023

56 mins; November 29, 2023

43.1 Double Reel Monthly: Killers of the Flower Moon, The Killer, Dead Ringers

79 hours 37 mins; November 24, 2023

42.3 The Big Conversation: Dying’s Not Hard, Comedy’s Hard

90 hours 36 mins; November 08, 2023

42.2 The Features: The Guard, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Bruce Willis In Broadway Brawler, Dolittle, Superman III

92 hours 20 mins; November 01, 2023

Penalty Shootout Film Quiz - October 2023

43 mins; October 28, 2023

42.1 Double Reel Monthly: The Lesson, The Creator, Nimona, Con Air, The Fly

86 hours 11 mins; October 25, 2023

Double Reel Special: The Return of Jamie B Chambers - I Am Rage

74 hours 9 mins; October 13, 2023

41.3 The Big Conversation: Spotlight on William Friedkin

112 hours 14 mins; October 09, 2023

Double Reel Special: Primetime Mitch

78 hours 45 mins; October 05, 2023

41.2 The Features: Stalker, Take Shelter, David Lynch’s Ronnie Rocket, I Am Legend, Max Max Beyond Thunderdome

80 hours 22 mins; October 02, 2023

41.1 Double Reel Monthly: Scrapper, The Equalizer 3, They Cloned Tyrone, Maps to the Stars, Leaving Las Vegas

122 hours 2 mins; September 25, 2023

Double Reel Presents: The Adamsons Versus AI

79 hours 27 mins; September 15, 2023

40.3 The Big Conversation: Pitch Me A Blockbuster

102 hours 10 mins; September 08, 2023

40.2 The Features: Rio Bravo, American Made, John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian, Last Action Hero

78 hours 38 mins; September 01, 2023

40.1 Double Reel Monthly: Oppenheimer, Barbie, Heart of Stone, Cosmopolis, The Wicker Man

139 hours 33 mins; August 25, 2023

39.3 The Big Conversation: Casting Decisions and ”What If” Moments

100 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2023

39.2 The Features: A Tale of Two Sisters, The Frighteners, Joe Carnahan’s White Jazz, The Fog (2005)

77 hours 20 mins; August 01, 2023

39.1 Double Reel Monthly: Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse, Mission Impossible 7, A Dangerous Method, Knowing

77 hours 47 mins; July 25, 2023

38.3 The Big Conversation: The Golden Age of Animation (And Why It’s Over)

68 hours 16 mins; July 09, 2023

38.2 The Features: Akira, The Iron Giant, A Princess of Mars, Tom and Jerry The Movie

93 hours 10 mins; July 02, 2023

38.1 Double Reel Monthly: Super Mario Bros, Sisu, Sharper, Air, Tetris, Eastern Promises, Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse

80 hours 16 mins; June 25, 2023

37.3 The Big Conversation: The Art of the Trilogy

53 mins; June 07, 2023

37.2 The Features: Drive, Casualties of War, John Carpenter and Tombstone, Midway, Waterworld

91 hours 23 mins; June 01, 2023

37.1 Double Reel Monthly: The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Spider, Boston Strangler, Ghosted

90 hours 40 mins; May 25, 2023

36.3 The Big Conversation: Most Overrated Film Directors

79 hours 16 mins; May 09, 2023

36.2 The Features: 25th Hour, Matchstick Men, Shekhar Kapur’s Paani, Dawn of the Dead

88 hours 37 mins; May 02, 2023

36.1 Double Reel Monthly: John Wick Chapter 4, Renfield, Bandit, Lord of War, M. Butterfly

77 hours 55 mins; April 25, 2023

35.3 The Big Conversation - 2023 Oscars. Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Whale, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, Tar

88 hours 2 mins; April 08, 2023

35.2 The Features: Michael Clayton, After Hours, Spielberg’s Night Skies, Roald Dahl’s The Witches

80 hours 8 mins; March 31, 2023

35.1 Double Reel Monthly: Creed III, Cocaine Bear, The Whale, The Brood, Luther: The Fallen Sun

76 hours 26 mins; March 25, 2023

34.3 The Big Conversation: Best Film Directors Working Today

94 hours 8 mins; March 11, 2023

34.2 The Features: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Deja Vu, Jim McBride’s Elektra, The Three Musketeers (1993)

73 hours 29 mins; March 04, 2023

34.1 Double Reel Monthly: Babylon, The Pale Blue Eye, All Quiet On The Western Front, Top Gun: Maverick, Rabid, USS Indianapolis, Trespass

69 hours 35 mins; February 25, 2023

Episode 33, Reel 2: The Second Annual Double Reel Awards

79 hours 23 mins; January 25, 2023

Episode 33, Reel 1: Avatar The Way of Water, Glass Onion, Shivers, Green Room, Apocalypto, Paul Verhoeven’s Crusade, Death Race

121 hours 42 mins; January 25, 2023

2022 A Kubrick Odyssey: The Complete Stanley Kubrick Filmography

137 hours 46 mins; December 28, 2022

Episode 32, Reel 2: The Lord of the Rings Franchise - From Peter Jackson’s original trilogy, through the Hobbit to the Rings of Power

77 hours 58 mins; December 24, 2022

Episode 32, Reel 1: She Said, Eyes Wide Shut, Birdman, Nightcrawler, Scorsese’s Joker, Fantastic 4

136 hours 29 mins; December 24, 2022

Episode 31, Reel 2: Films That Predict The Future. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Things To Come, Back to the Future, The Terminator, Blade Runner, Children o...

56 mins; November 25, 2022

Episode 31 Reel 1: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Help, Decision To Leave, Full Metal Jacket, Alphaville, Outland, Rendezvous with Rama, The Day The ...

119 hours 8 mins; November 25, 2022

Episode 30, Reel 2: Second Chance Cinema. Titan AE, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Alien 3, Star Wars Episodes 7-9

81 hours 22 mins; October 25, 2022

Episode 30, Reel 1: The Woman King, Blonde, The Shining, Get Shorty, Annihilation, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Cape Fear

109 hours 52 mins; October 25, 2022

Special Episode: Jamie Chambers Interview, Morris Men

82 hours 43 mins; October 10, 2022

Episode 29, Reel 2: Conspiracy Movies. Foreign Correspondent, Three Days in May, Z, All The President’s Men, Capricorn One, Missing, JFK, Enemy of the...

61 hours 49 mins; September 25, 2022

Episode 29, Reel 1: Three Thousand Years of Longing, Crimes of the Future, Barry Lyndon, The Parallax View, Blow Out

126 hours 1 min; September 25, 2022

Episode 28, Reel 2: Sequel Syndrome. Godfather 2 vs 3, Aliens, Speed 2, Highlander 2, Mad Max Fury Road and much more

119 hours 24 mins; August 25, 2022

Episode 28, Reel 1: Nope, Prey, A Clockwork Orange, Under The Skin, 2 Days in the Valley, ISOBAR, Solaris

97 hours 59 mins; August 25, 2022

Episode 27, Reel 2: Dreams, Altered Reality and Mindbending Films. David Lynch, Luis Bunuel, Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele, Aronofsky

85 hours 36 mins; July 25, 2022

Episode 27, Reel 1: Thor Love and Thunder, Hustle, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Paprika, eXistenZ, Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer, A Nightmare on Elm Street

88 hours 57 mins; July 25, 2022

Episode 26, Reel 2: Real people who deserve their own biopic

79 hours 58 mins; June 25, 2022

Episode 26, Reel 1: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Top Gun: Maverick, The City of Lost Children, Pump Up The Volume, Clair Noto’s The Tourist

123 hours 1 min; June 25, 2022

Episode 25, Reel 2: Spotlight on David Fincher

99 hours 20 mins; May 25, 2022

Episode 25, Reel1: Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Dr Strange 2, JoJo Rabbit, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Lolita

112 hours 58 mins; May 25, 2022

Episode 24, Reel 2: The 2022 Academy Awards

50 mins; April 25, 2022

Episode 24, Reel 1: X, Jackass Forever, Deep Water, Wages of Fear, Battle Royale, Mira Nair’s Shantaram, Sorcerer

102 hours 43 mins; April 25, 2022

Episode 23, Reel 2: Action films in the 80s vs the 21st Century

92 hours 2 mins; March 25, 2022

Episode 23, Reel 1: The Batman, Paths of Glory, 1917, You Were Never Really Here, Aronofsky’s Batman Year One, Red Dawn

103 hours 35 mins; March 25, 2022

Double Reel Episode 22, Reel 2: Walter Hill. The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, 48 hrs

89 hours 5 mins; February 25, 2022

Episode 22, Reel 1: Belfast, Nightmare Alley, Straw Dogs, Pig, Superman Lives, The Killing

116 hours 4 mins; February 25, 2022

Episode 21, Reel 2: The First Annual Double Reel Awards

93 hours 59 mins; January 25, 2022

Episode 21, Reel 1: Spider-Man No Way Home, Licorice Pizza, Don’t Look Up, The Handmaiden, The Fisher King

75 hours 13 mins; January 25, 2022

Bonus Episode: 2021 The Year of the Carpenter

75 hours 59 mins; December 30, 2021

Episode 20, Reel 2: How True Are Films Based On A True Story?

87 hours 38 mins; December 21, 2021

Episode 20, Reel 1: House of Gucci, Last Night in Soho, Shang Chi, The Thing, The Big Sleep, Small Soldiers

94 hours 51 mins; December 21, 2021

Bonus Episode - No Time to Die Spoiler Discussion

44 mins; November 30, 2021

Episode 19, Reel 2: Safety on Film Sets - Rust, The Crow, Shark, The Force Awakens plus SPOILERTASTIC BOND DISCUSSION

88 hours 51 mins; November 25, 2021

Episode 19, Reel 1: Dune, Spencer, The Harder They Fall, Eve’s Bayou, Zodiac, Inherent Vice

105 hours 39 mins; November 25, 2021

MUSIC FREE VERSION: Episode 18 Reel 2: Composers and Songs in films - John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter

80 hours 13 mins; October 26, 2021

Episode 18 Reel 1: No Time To Die, The Last Duel, The Green Knight, Wadjda, Jodorowsky’s Dune

96 hours 55 mins; October 24, 2021

Episode 17, Reel 2: Best Directors’ Worst Films: Coppola, Spielberg, Nolan, Scorsese, Tarantino, Ridley Scott

69 hours 12 mins; September 18, 2021

Episode 17, Reel 1: Candyman, Free Guy, My Cousin Vinny, Troll Hunter, Big Trouble In Little China

95 hours 18 mins; September 18, 2021

Episode 16, Reel 2: Films From the Year You Were Born plus Movie Tennis - the new panel game taking Radio 4 by storm (probably)

77 hours 54 mins; August 18, 2021

Episode 16, Reel 1: The Suicide Squad, Black Widow, Forgotten, Walk The Line, Hitcher Remake

94 hours 23 mins; August 18, 2021

BONUS EPISODE JULY 2021: TENET Time Inverted Discussion

90 hours 9 mins; July 25, 2021

Episode 15, Part 2: The Future of the Bond Franchise PLUS BONUS TENET DISCUSSION (TIME INVERTED)

119 hours 47 mins; July 18, 2021

Episode 15, Part 1: Quiet Place 2, Tenet, The Constant Gardener, The Illusionist, Game of Death

160 hours 30 mins; July 18, 2021

Episode 14, Part 2: Representation in Film, Black James Bond, Colour Blind Casting, Historical Whitewashing

67 hours 31 mins; June 18, 2021

Episode 14, Part 1: Near Dark, In The Mouth of Madness, The French Connection, Dredd, George Miller’s Justice League

96 hours 8 mins; June 18, 2021

Episode 13, Part 2: Films That Changed our Lives: Star Wars, Jaws, 12 Years A Slave, Toy Story 2, Inception

76 hours 14 mins; May 18, 2021

Episode 13, Part 1: Sound of Metal, Color of Money, Starman, Intouchables, The Damned United, David Lean’s Nostromo

87 hours 11 mins; May 18, 2021

Episode 12, Part 2: CGI in film - The Irishman, Vertigo, Tron, Jurassic Park, The Hobbit

76 hours 24 mins; April 18, 2021

Episode 12 Part 1: The Fog, Seven Samurai, Summer of Sam, Ridley Scott’s Tripoli, Disney Remakes

97 hours 28 mins; April 18, 2021

Episode 11, Part 2: TV vs Film; Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Lord of the Rings, Dune

53 mins; March 18, 2021

Episode 11, Part 1: City of God, Prince of Darkness, Hell or High Water (SPOILERS), Dark City, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, RoboCop 2014

78 hours 54 mins; March 18, 2021

Episode 10, Part 2: Toxic Fandom. Star Wars, DC, ”James Blond,” Rick & Morty.

64 hours 15 mins; February 18, 2021

Episode 10, Part 1: The White Tiger, CSA: The Confederate States Of America, One Night In Miami, Spike Lee’s Joe Louis Project, Pink Panther 2006

97 hours 41 mins; February 18, 2021

Double Reel Episode 9, Part 2: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and #MeToo

71 hours 45 mins; January 18, 2021

Double Reel Episode 9, Part 1: Vampires, Train to Busan, Cross of Iron, Conan Reboot, Karate Kid 2010

86 hours 3 mins; January 18, 2021

Double Reel Episode 8, Part 2: Marvel Phases 4 and 5, Blade, Black Panther 2, Dr Strange At The Multiverse of Madness

61 hours 30 mins; December 18, 2020

Double Reel Episode 8, Part 1: Color Out Of Space, Blues Brothers, Sunshine, Kathryn Bigelow’s Joan of Arc, Ladykillers (2004)

87 hours 56 mins; December 18, 2020

Double Reel Episode 7, Part 2: No Time To Die, Dune, Netflix Originals, Covid Cinema Lockdown

59 mins; November 18, 2020

Double Reel Episode 7, Part 1: Borat 2, Casino, Dillinger, Hitchcock’s Kaleidoscope, Planet of the Apes (2001)

66 hours 11 mins; November 18, 2020

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