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309 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

A weekly chat about some of our favourite (and not so favourite films) as well as the universes they've created.

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Ep 131: Mini Ep 21: Hard Candy

May 21, 2019 00:26 - 41 minutes - 79.2 MB

Brose and Stu sit down to chat about the creepy Patrick Wilson and disturbing Ellen Page starring film Hard Candy. An awkward, intense, enclosed space thriller from 2005 that keeps you on the edge of the seat you've been tied to.

Ep: 130 Avengers Endgame [SPOILER ALERT]

May 15, 2019 04:53 - 2 hours - 66.2 MB

ChatFlix Assemble! This week we break the embargo and litter the show with SPOILERS when we chat Avengers Endgame. For such an epic movie we have assembled an epic line up! Brose is joined by Tristan Jones, Corrine Lawrence, Matt O’Neill, Sophie Hargrave, Adam Thomas and ChatFlix regulars Trevor Wood, Jarrod Welsh and Looch Parissi! We iron out Robert Downey Jr, we shield you from Chris Evans, ask whether Chrith Hemthworth ith thtill Thor, whether Mark Ruffalo is still feeling green, check...

Ep 129: Mini Ep 20: Panic Room

May 08, 2019 02:45 - 41 minutes - 19.6 MB

Brose and Stu are locked up in their Panic Room to chat... well... Panic Room! David Fincher's enclosed space thriller holds the likes of Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart and Forest Whitaker.

Ep 128: Mean Girls

May 08, 2019 02:29 - 1 hour - 30.3 MB

This week Brose is joined by three very non-Mean Girls; Emily, Kathryn and Corrine! We chat about how fetch Mean Girls is 15 years later, whether a full forearm cast is necessary for carpal tunnel and the necessity to look both ways in a school bus zone. Who would have predicted Rachel McAdams would still be as popular as Regina George, Lindsay Lohan would somewhat disappear like Cady Heron and that Tina Fey is still helping create strong female personalities? I have to say, things will be s...

Ep 127: Mini Ep 19: Cube

April 30, 2019 05:08 - 39 minutes - 18.4 MB

As a companion episode to Dial M for Murder, Brose and Stu are chatting Enclosed Space Thrillers kicking things off with Cube!

Ep 126: Dial M for Murder

April 30, 2019 05:05 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB

Dust off the landline and call up our latest feature episode - Dial M for Murder. It’s been years since Brose even used a rotary phone, he misses M but instead rings P for panelists and Stu, Kathryn James answer the call. The gang chat the almost perfect murder and answer age old questions such as who would even want to murder Grace Kelly? Tony Milland that’s who! But not before Rob Cummings and John Williams can stop the grumpy ol bugger. Stay on the line as we chat our first (!!!) Hitc...

Ep 125: Mini Ep 18: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

April 15, 2019 23:53 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB

To wrap up 7 weeks of Billy Wilder wildness, Brose and James chat about the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the movie... and the life.

Ep 124: HellBoy (2004)

April 15, 2019 23:50 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB

This week ChatFlix goes to Hell!!! Well, Hellboy... Brose, Jarrod, Looch and AllStar Comics' Mitch Davies chat the OG (Originial Guillermo) HellBoy. Guillermo Del Toro's 2004 adaptation of Big Red bursts into your podcast stream as the new film flames into the cinema! How does Ron Perlman's performance hold up? Has Doug Jones always been capable of incredible physical performances? Has John Hurt always been an old man? Does anyone remember who Rupert Evans is? And how great is Selma Blai...

Ep 123 Mini Ep 17 Stalag 17

April 10, 2019 07:40 - 33 minutes - 15.8 MB

Brose and James get back to another Billy Wilder Classic; Stalag 17! We hole up with William Holden and company in a war camp comedy that preceded both Hogan’s Heroes and The Great Escape.  

Ep 122: Muriel's Wedding

April 10, 2019 07:04 - 1 hour - 36.2 MB

Brose, Dan, Corrine and new panelist Emily Carr head down to Porpoise Spit to witness the wedding of a life time; Muriel’s Wedding! Toni Colette and Rachel Griffiths get the ChatFlix treatment as we look back at PJ Hogan’s amazing film. Also; a special interview with Muriel’s Wedding Star Roz Hammond!

Ep 121: Mini Ep 16: Clue

April 02, 2019 08:16 - 1 hour - 32.3 MB

As a special bonus episode, the cast of Melbourne International Comedy Festival hit play Denouement Chris Tomkins, Kathryn Tohill and Emily Rowe and Brose chat the 1985 mystery/comedy Clue! Join the stars of Denouement chat about Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren. Did we record three different endings? You wont know unless you listen to us Chatflix

Ep 120: The Matrix

April 02, 2019 08:10 - 1 hour - 43.3 MB

This week Brose, Shaun, James and brand new panelist Karen bite the bulletcam and as they finally get to The Matrix! Brose takes the blue pill, James accidentally swallows a red button as they question their reality and the sublimely simulated world of the Wachowski's classic digital adventure. The film that gave us a grown up Keanu, Laurence Fishburn and launched the international careers of Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and those cool phones, you know, with the slidey bit? Turn on t...

Ep 119: Mini Ep 15: Sabrina

March 26, 2019 03:41 - 28 minutes - 13.4 MB

There's something magical about the chauffeur's daughter... Brose and James chat Sabrina, Billy Wilder's evergreen romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Wilder regular William Holden.

Ep 118: This is Spinal Tap

March 26, 2019 03:34 - 1 hour - 36.2 MB

Podcasting's chattiest movie show meets Britain's loudest band: Spinal Tap. Brose, Matt and Stephen Hall gather under the semi inflated devil to chat Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer in the so-good-you-wish-it-were-true MockuRock-umentary all time comedy classic directed by Rob Reiner. Stuff your pants with cucumbers, get the right measurements for Stonehenge and ask yourself how much blacker: No more blacker. This is Chatflix chatting This Is Spinal Tap. There wil...

Ep 117: Creative Spotlight - Bruce Prichard

March 19, 2019 23:57 - 22 minutes - 25.5 MB

A very special mini this week; Brose chats to Something to Wrestle With’s Bruce Prichard! Ahead of his spoken word tour of Australia they chat wrestling, podcasts and wrestling films! What else could you need?

Ep 116: Supergirl the Movie

March 19, 2019 23:12 - 1 hour - 56 MB

Long before Captain Marvel marveled or Wonder Woman wondered and before Buffy The Vampire Slayer ...well slayed, cinema was treated to - SUPERGIRL! And she's straight outta Argo City. Brose and henchmen Jarrod and Trev chat the Super 1984 spin off flick with Girl of Steel cosplayer and Supergirl Superfan - Corrine!! @supergirldiaries Join us as get carried away by Supergirl Helen Slater, bewitched by Faye Dunaway, Spellbound by warlock Peter Cook, Drunk on Peter O'Toole's hamming with a ...

Episode 115: Mini Episode 14: Witness for the Prosecution

March 12, 2019 05:39 - 32 minutes - 18.6 MB

Brose and James keep getting Wilder and Wilder as they chat Witness for the Prosecution. Billy Wilder’s Agatha Christie adaptation. You'll have to listen to find out what they witness in this classic courtroom drama featuring Marlena Dietrich, Tyrone Power and Charles Laughton. Last week we might have had the touch with Transformers but this week we have the Power.

Ep 114: Thelma & Louise

March 12, 2019 05:25 - 1 hour - 48 MB

It’s a Chatflix road trip! No stops until Mexico, so load up the car, the route is planned and we’ve got no time for pee breaks because Caity & Danielle are in Susan Sarandon’s drivers seat joined by Brose sitting on James's lap in Geena Davis’ shotgun position and we’re gunning for Thelma & Louise. The 1991 Ridley Scott adventure about two best friends that create the selfie, or maybe not but they definitely take a photo of themselves well before the phrase is coined. So join us as we Cha...

Ep 113: Mini Ep 13: The Apartment

March 05, 2019 23:22 - 32 minutes - 18.4 MB

James moves in with Brose and refuses to clean or pay rent to chat The Apartment, Billy Wilder's love triangle comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.

Ep 112: The Transformers: The Movie.

March 05, 2019 22:55 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB

The Chatflix: The Podcast turns its attention on The Transformers: The Movie. The animated epic flick based on a cartoon based on a toy line. Brose is joined by the comic book guys, Jarrod, Looch and All Star Comics guest Mitch Davies to reminisce and roll out. Spoiler Alert: No ChatFlixers are killed off in this episode. Listen now and see if we have The Touch!

Ep 111: Mini Ep 12: Sunset Boulevard

February 25, 2019 22:20 - 39 minutes - 45.6 MB

Brose and James chat about Sunset Blvd, Billy Wilder's love letter to the silent era and the desperation of Hollywood. James brings the class of Keaton while Brose brings the desperation of Swanson! Get ready for your close up of Sunset as we Chatflix!

Ep 110: Masters of the Universe

February 25, 2019 22:04 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB

Brose at Arms is joined by He-Shaun, Loochator and Evil-Jazz in the Castle of ChatFlix to revisit the 1987 live adaptation of Masters of the Universe! Grab a bucket of ribs and a casio keyboard as we sing its virtues and vices. Can Dolph Lundgren pull off the loin cloth look. Is Frank Langella's Skeletor sexy enough? (answer: never enough). Is this the one where Courtney Cox gets up on stage and dances with Bruce Springsteen? Find out none of these answers and more when we Chatflix!

Ep 109: Mini Ep 11: Some Like It Hot

February 19, 2019 00:32 - 34 minutes - 20 MB

Brose and James, on the lam from Chicago gangsters, slip into dresses to discuss Some Like it Hot. The second in the ongoing series looking at the work of legendary filmmaker Billy Wilder. Starring ALL Like It Hot Marilyn Monroe, A Bunch like it Hot Tony Curtis and None Like It Hot Jack Lemon there's a whole lot to enjoy so join us as we Chatflix

Ep 108: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

February 19, 2019 00:08 - 1 hour - 48.9 MB

Brose, Jade, James and Guest Toby Truslove cram into a phone booth and travel back to 1989 to deliver a review of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to the students of San Dimas High! Will Brose finally get to take Cleopatra to the Prom? Will Jade's easy listening band "Myld Stalynz" make it big. Will Toby confuse this with Bogus Journey and spend the whole time waiting for Death to show up? Find out how this film holds up 30 years into the future!

Ep 107: Mini Ep 10: Double Indemnity

February 12, 2019 03:31 - 36 minutes - 20.7 MB

In this week's mini episode, James and Brose sit down to chat the first of several Billy Wilder films; Double Indemnity. Who would have thought insurance fraud could eat his much fun!

ep 106: Little Miss Sunshine

February 12, 2019 03:22 - 58 minutes - 33.7 MB

Little Mr Chatfliix Brose, Mr Funny Matt, Miss Fashion Hayley and special guest Little Mr Logie Winner Dil Jayasinha all climb into the combi van and traverse the wonderful world of Little Miss Sunshine. A film full of wit, awkwardness, sadness and way more discussions about Proust than you would expect from a Steve Carrell film. So practice your pivot, tap. heel and shake as we Chatflix  

Ep 105: Mini Ep 9: Blair Witch 2 - The book of shadows

February 06, 2019 12:37 - 33 minutes - 19.3 MB

Brose and Stu finish off the mini series looking at forgotten sequels. Do people remember the more expensive and less successful sequel to the Blair Witch Project? Directed by a documentary film maker but shot as a normal feature film... could this be the last of the good ideas? Tune in to find out!

Ep 104: The Mask

February 06, 2019 12:34 - 1 hour - 51.7 MB

Somebody stop us! Brose, Looch and Jarrod look behind the mask of how The Mask was made. Jim Carrey dials up the Looney Tunes, throws on the yellow zoot suit, and cranks up the swing tunes with femme fatale Cameron Diaz and villainous Peter Greene in a madcap live action cartoon adventure. Join the king of the Rumba beat and us as we chatflix.

Ep 103: Summer 2019 update

January 16, 2019 21:39 - 17 minutes - 10.1 MB

Brose and Jarrod spend 15 mins chatting about the summer of films and whats coming up this year on ChatFlix.

Ep 102: Mini Ep 8: Psycho II

December 17, 2018 11:05 - 38 minutes - 22.3 MB

You would have to be more insane than Norman Bates to watch Psycho II but that's just how crazy Brose and Stu are for the Chatflix audience in this weeks Chatflix Mini - Forgotten Sequels. Master Brose and Master Stu drive to the secluded Master Bate's Motel to talk about the sequel nobody asked for and everyone regretted. The film was directed by Richard Franklin who went on to direct a film about a super intelligent murderous orangutan... which begs the question: Why didn't the boys re...

Ep 101: Mini Ep 7: Zathura - A Space Adventure

December 07, 2018 01:20 - 37 minutes - 21.4 MB

Brose and Stu roll the dice on a brand new series of Chatflix Minis: Forgotten Sequels. What did you love most about the second Jumanji film? Jack Black? The Rock? ...Dax Shepherd? No we're not looking at Jumanji 2: Welcome to the Jungle, instead but rather Zathura, the oft neglected and ignored sequel to Jumanji that leaves behind the name, cast and even titular board game to go into space with Dax Shepard Josh Hutcherson and Kristen Stewart. So join us as we ask if this is a board ga...

ep 100! The Phantom (1996)

November 29, 2018 02:14 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

To celebrate the 100th episode of ChatFlix we have a mega-rotating-panel of ChatFlix regulars; Brose, Jade, Trevor, Stuart, Caity, Danielle, Dale, Jarrod and Looch! Join us as we all don the purple tights and discuss the 1996 film The Phantom featuring Billy "not aged well" Zane, Treat "more ham than a christmas dinner" Williams and Catherine "So good why isn't the whole film about her" Zeta Jones. So Chatflix with us as we slam evil, slam back cake and slam some truly terrible dialogue. ....

Ep 99: Predator 2

November 23, 2018 02:11 - 1 hour - 34.4 MB

Jade, Stuart and Brose turn on their invisibility and roam the streets of Los Angels under the keen pursuit of prey. They would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that pesky Danny Glover! So join us as the streets run infrared with blood as we Chatflix about Predator 2.

Ep 98: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

November 15, 2018 09:26 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

Jarrod, Looch, Shaun and Brose wander down into the sewers to rediscover the secret of the ooze... or mutagen... ...or deep crust pepperoni pizza...  or whatever it was that turned four turtles into teenage martial arts experts. Does this 1990 film hold up or is it destined to live in in our nostalgic minds only?

Ep 97: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

November 06, 2018 09:17 - 1 hour - 39.4 MB

Brose, Jade, Jarrod and Dan O'Kelly have broken out of Azkaban and are on the lamb! Actually... Brose may just be eating the lamb... Mmm lamb... aaarglh... As the the series gets darker and darker the gang asks why so Sirius? How do we rate the third Harry Potter? Listen to find out.

Ep 96: Mini Ep 6: Breakdown

October 14, 2018 08:57 - 35 minutes - 20.2 MB

Cinema has a grand history of men vs trucks including Spielberg’s classic Duel and this week Brose and Shaun join the convoy with 1997’s tense Breakdown where loving husband Kurt Russell goes head to head with J. T. Walsh. Do the boys wanna keep on truckin’ or do they want to pump the breaks? Find out as we Chatflix

Episode 95: Superman the movie

October 05, 2018 10:38 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Brose, Jarrod, Danielle and Trev gathered around a podcast to chat about Superman! The real Man of Steel deal! Christopher Reeve's classic 1978 Superman. You WILL believe a man can cry.. with tears of joy as we talk about the movie that was and will always be our Superman. Richard Donner’s opus to the original superhero also stars a twinkling Gene Hackman, dazzling Margot Kidder and grandiose Marlon Brando. So find a phonebox, slip on the red underwear, ho...

Ep 94: Mini ep 5: Cop Land

October 02, 2018 06:08 - 35 minutes - 20 MB

This week Brose and Shaun pop over the Hudson River to hang out with the boys in blue on their home turf for the criminally under rated Cop Land! Stallone mumbles his way through his best performance alongside crime film legends DeNiro, Keitel and Liotta. If you liked Logan it's worth hearing us talk about this forgotten early James Mangold directed classic.

Ep 93: Mini Ep 4: The Devil's Advocate

September 21, 2018 02:19 - 45 minutes - 26 MB

This week Brose and Shaun have a Mini chat about The Devil's Advocate, the classic 1997 thriller. Fun fact: The original title was the Faust and the Furious! Even funner fact: I put more effort into that pun than the screen writer put into the film. Will Keanu be believable as a charming lawyer? Will Al Pacino ham it up with licking of lips and "hoohahing"? Will a young Charlize Theron steal the film? Only the devil knows, you will have to listen to find out!  

Ep 92: Hitman Hart - Wresting with Shadows with Julian James and Paul Richards

September 17, 2018 12:03 - 1 hour - 35 MB

Julian James, Paul Richards and Brose face off in the squared circle to chat about the documentary Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows. How real is the fake world of wrestling as presented by this unique documentary? The boys look behind the curtain and discuss how many punches land and how many punches are pulled...

Ep 91: Min Ep 3: The Edge

September 14, 2018 06:02 - 33 minutes - 37.9 MB

Who would have thought that Anthony Hopkins was the right man for a U2 guitarist biopic, and Alec Baldwin as Bono?! Genius casting! What do you mean that's not what this film is about? Oh ok.. Shaun and Brose delve further into the thrillers of 1997 taking Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins to The Edge! This David Mamet penned, Lee Tamahori helmed thriller is everything you can bear! Arguably Aussie Elle MacPherson's greatest performance yet if you don't count 1994's Sports Illustrated promo...

Ep 90: The Shadow

September 14, 2018 05:51 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB

A billionaire playboy who at night dons a cape and fights crime. Nope we’re not looking at another Batman film, this week Jade, Brose and Classic Comics very own caped crusaders Jarrod and Looch are watching The Shadow! Checking out what evil lurks in the hearts of men and descendants of Ghengis Khan is ridiculously skinny Alec Baldwin and his sexy gravelly voice rumbling through the amazingly corny dialogue as he fights the threat of atomic and box office bombs.   Lurk with him as we ...

Ep 89: Mini Ep 2: Affliction

August 20, 2018 05:19 - 40 minutes - 46.1 MB

Shaun returns to join Brose with another Chatflix Mini discussing the dark and brooding Affliction. Starring Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe, Sissy Spacek and Our Man Flint himself: James Coburn. Affliction tells the story of a man’s obsessions taking control of him and destroying his life, the kind of story Paul Schrader has told time and time again. Get obsessed with us as we Chat Affliction.

Ep 88: Die Hard with Adam Stolfo

August 09, 2018 03:38 - 1 hour - 119 MB

Singlets and no shoes?! has Chatflix gone bogan?! No! We're celebrating Christmas early with TV Star Bruce Willis’ first breakout role, moonlighting as an action star in Die Hard. Brose, Shaun & Jarrod crawl through the film with a ho ho ho and a yippy kiyay while guest Adam Stolfo -Reel Chat- offers sage advice and twinkies as the Sargent Al Powel to our John McCLanes? Put your Hans together and celebrate as we Chatflix.

Ep 87: Mini ep 1: The Game

July 28, 2018 13:08 - 36 minutes - 41.3 MB

Brose and Shaun sit down for the first Chatflix Mini and play the Game. They’re not really sure how to play it and exactly who else is playing it. Brose isn’t even sure Shaun is real. It’s a bitesize dose of confusion and chat.

Ep 86: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

July 28, 2018 12:56 - 1 hour - 46.5 MB

Brose, Stu, Looch, and Stephen “Junior” Rowley have chosen wisely by in their hunt for the cinematic holy grail. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. When Indy’s grail obsessed father Henry goes missing Indy doesn’t stop for a second in his hunt for his father and the grail. Well ok he stops once to pick up sexy german Dr. Elsa Schneider. and the Chatflix gang follow every twist and turn

Episode 85: Bloodsport

July 13, 2018 10:08 - 1 hour - 37.4 MB

Brose, Shaun and Rian Goodge go underground and into the ring to fight each other over exactly how cool Bloodsport is. Starring the Muscles from Brussels Jean Claude Van Damme in his firstand Beast from the East Bolo Yeung the film somehow became a cult phenom and spawned three sequels. But does the film kick butt or should just not give a Van Damme? Find out as we chat… flix.

Ep 84: My Neighbor Totoro with Andy Balloch

July 05, 2018 23:06 - 52 minutes - 29.8 MB

It’s thirty years old but nothing fills you with childhood like wonder the way Miyazaki’s classic My Neighbour Totoro does. Professor Brose and his daughters Jade and Andy Balloch travel to 1958 rural Japan and fall into the luminescent world of giant spinning tops, the magic of soot spirits, wood spirits and magical creatures. So grab your umbrella and join us on Catbus as we chat Totoro

Ep 83: Scarface

June 24, 2018 09:48 - 1 hour - 52.2 MB

Say hello to your little friends: Brose, Shaun, Matt and Caity as they gather around some white powder i can only assume is sherbet and chat about the iconic Scarface! Scripted by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma with a cast including Godfather alumni Al Pacino and future puuuurfect Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer, Scarface is a cult classic that has inspired rappers, punk bands and innumerable bad impersonations.. Every dog has his day and today’s is Scarface.

Ep 82: Daredevil

June 15, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 39.9 MB

Before we had Batfleck we had Darefleck, and this week the Chatflix are blinding themselves for the science of cinema by watching Mark Steven Johnson’s 2003 Daredevil for you. Joining Brose in Hell’s Kitchen (which looks remarkable like Brose’s) are comics shop legends and uber fans Looch and Jarrod as they ask does Daredevil hit the Bullseye or does Afleck miss a target as big as Kingpin? I haven’t the foggiest.