
Best of 2025
Shady, Roly, Parizad and Merv run down their top 5 films from 2025 (plus one or two turkeys). Top 5s were as follows: Roly: 5. Gaslight; 4. Presence; 3. Boiling Point; 2. Pluribus (TV show!); 1. ?????? Parizad: 5. Moana

Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 117 episodes
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Shady and Roly discuss the latest film releases, with rotating guest contributors and occasional interviews.
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Shady, Roly, Parizad and Merv run down their top 5 films from 2025 (plus one or two turkeys). Top 5s were as follows: Roly: 5. Gaslight; 4. Presence; 3. Boiling Point; 2. Pluribus (TV show!); 1. ?????? Parizad: 5. Moana

Roly and Shady waffle about The Ballad of Wallis Island on the way back from the Luna cinema in Leederville.

Shady enlists the psychological skills of Tap to talk him through the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths.

Shady has a chat with Cibely about the award-winning Brazilian film, I'm Still Here.

Roly and Shady have a chat about the Perth Festival film, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.

Shady and Roly are joined by Parizad and Merv to go over their favourite five films of 2024. We also named our turkeys from last year. Top fives were as follows: Parizad : 5. Operation Mincemeat; 4. Remembering Gene Wild

Shady is joined by Nicola to talk about a couple of the films from the recent St. Ali Italian Film Festival.


Roly and Shady have a chat with Suzanne Worner, General Manager of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.

Roly and Shady have a chat about Turkish legal drama, Hesitation Wound. But first, there's a bit about the Revelation Perth International Film Festival programme launch for 2024. This edition of the famous Perth festival

Shady and Roly are joined by Ben and Merv - with Parizad in subspace - to go over their favourite five films of 2023. We also provided our worst - or most disappointing - films from last year. Top fives were as follows:

Roly and Shady walk to the car from The Luna Cinema in Leederville after a screening of Foe. Fair to say, Shady gets a couple of things wrong in this pod and also reveals a staggeringly unpro lack of knowledge. Roly most

Parizad joins Roly and Shady to discuss many things related to Gareth Edwards's new film, The Creator. Stay tuned for a post-outro contribution by Merv.

Merv and Parizad join Roly and Shady for a discussion about the latest Christopher Nolan film, Oppenheimer. Fair to say, opinions varied.

Shady is joined by Roly, Parizad and Merv to postulate on the latest Guardians of the Galaxy film; as well as the MCU in general; going to the cinema alone; Avatar 2; Ivan Sen's Limbo; cinema volume levels; Barton Fink;

Merv and Shady get stuck in a carpark and then have a chat about November, a film about the days following the terror attacks in Paris in 2015. There's also a mini-wrap of the 2023 French Film Festival.

Roly and Shady wander through noisy Leederville traffic while chewing over the ideas in Aftersun.

Shady and Roly are joined by Ben, Parizad and Merv to run down their favourite five films of 2022 (though not necessarily made in 2022). We also vented about our worst - or most disappointing - films from last year. Top

Merv and Shady chat about Violent Night on the drive back from the cinema. Chuckles and blood.

Tim Mummery, director of Namarali, joins Shady for a chat about his film.
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