Commentary Club
186 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to Commentary Club! Join Jim and Teresa as they talk over various movies and bits of cult TV. So take your seat, make yourself comfy as we do commentaries for all kinds of films, the classic, the cult and the crap!
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Episodes
COMMENTARY CLUB 091 - Big
April 19, 2024 09:08 - 1 hour - 108 MBFor our classic movie selection, we are watching classic 1980s comedy Big starring Tom Hanks
COMMENTARY CLUB EASTER SPECIAL 2024 - Inseminoid
March 30, 2024 04:30 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBWe celebrate Easter this year with an 1980s British scifi horror about eggs and rebirth... sort of... Yes, we are doing Norman J Warren's infamous alien shocker - Inseminoid (1981)
COMMENTARY CLUB ST PATRICKS DAY SPECIAL 2024 - Apocalypse Clown
March 16, 2024 04:30 - 1 hour - 107 MBWe celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a new Irish scifi comedy - Apocalypse Clown! When a mysterious cosmic event destroys all electronics and the world plunges into chaos, will a bunch of failed clowns be our saviours?
COMMENTARY CLUB 090 - The Bubble
March 02, 2024 05:30 - 2 hours - 130 MBFor our crap movie selection, we are watching an all-star cast go to hell in a hand-basket in Judd Apatow's pandemic misfire The Bubble (2022)
COMMENTARY CLUB - Valentines Special 2024 - The Trip
February 14, 2024 05:30 - 2 hours - 122 MBFor our traditional wildly inappropriate movie for Valentine's Day this year, we picked a romantic comedy... from Tommy Wirkola, director of the Dead Snow films! The Trip (2021) has Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie as a couple off for a romantic break where they plan to kill each other!
COMMENTARY CLUB 089 - Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
February 09, 2024 05:30 - 1 hour - 101 MBFor our cult movie selection, we are sticking with kaiju movies, and revisiting Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995), the first movie in of the Heisei series for Godzilla's great rival monster!
Commentary Club 088 - King Kong
January 27, 2024 05:30 - 1 hour - 105 MBFirst show of a new year and we are looking at an all-time classic - the original King Kong from 1933!
COMMENTARY CLUB - New Years Eve Special 2023
December 31, 2023 11:54 - 1 hour - 107 MBFor our New Year's podcast, we thought we'd watch an old Top of the Pops end of year special from the 1980s! And we had such fun - and we so *ahem* merry - we did another one from 1970s too! Best enjoyed after a wobble of bine or two...
COMMENTARY CLUB CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - White Christmas
December 23, 2023 05:30 - 2 hours - 121 MBFor this year's Christmas special, we are going for a old fashioned classic - White Christmas (1954) starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 059 - The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
December 16, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBIn this festive minisode, we take a trip to the benighted town of Royston Vasey for the League of Gentlemen Christmas Special from 2000
COMMENTARY CLUB 087 - Klaus
December 09, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 103 MBFor our classic movie for December we have gone for new festive favourite Klaus, a 2019 animated feature giving us a truly magical alternative take on the origins of Santa Claus.
COMMENTARY CLUB 086 - Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
December 01, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 97.7 MBFor our crap film choice, as it is December, we are revisiting infamous Santa slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2! Why not Part 1? Well, because this film is so cheap half of it is Part I repackaged!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 058 - The Young Ones - Summer Holiday
November 24, 2023 05:30 - 40 minutes - 40.8 MB"We're Young Ones. Bachelor boys! Crazy, mad, wild-eyed, big-bottomed anarchists!" In this episode, we reach the final ever episode of The Young Ones - term has finished, their courses ended, what will the boys do now...
COMMENTARY CLUB 085 - Dawn of the Dead (1978)
November 18, 2023 05:30 - 2 hours - 147 MBThis time we are doing one of the kings of cult movies - George A Romero's zombie masterpiece - Dawn of the Dead! And what's more, we are looking at the longest version - the Cannes Cut - for full fat zombie apocalypse action!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 057 - The Young Ones - Sick
November 10, 2023 05:30 - 36 minutes - 37.7 MB"It's funny, but being ill makes me lose my usual tolerant and easy-going approach to communal living!" In this episode, the boys are all ill, but there's worse to come, including riots and a visit from Neil's parents - The Good Life it ain't!
COMMENTARY CLUB HALLOWEEN SPECIAL - Sinister
October 31, 2023 09:59 - 2 hours - 114 MBFor our traditional Hallowe'en special, we come face to face with the boogieman as we revisit a modern classic - Sinister (2012)
COMMENTARY CLUB 084 - The Omen
October 24, 2023 20:30 - 2 hours - 116 MBFor our classic film we have gone for one of the great 1970s horror blockbusters - The Omen (1976) starring Gregory Peck, David Warner, Lee Remick, Billie Whitelaw and Patrick Troughton!
COMMENTARY CLUB 083 - Super Mario Bros.
October 16, 2023 10:16 - 1 hour - 113 MBFor our crap film this time we have a movie regarded as one of the worst of all time - the disastrous Super Mario Bros. from 1993 starring Bob Hoskins, Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo. It's going to be a bumpy ride...
COMMENTARY CLUB 082 - The Legend of Seven Golden Vampires
October 07, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBIt's cult film time again, and appropriately for October we have a Hammer horror starring Peter Cushing! But it's a Dracula movie with a twist, for this is the fabled horror-martial arts smash-up Hammer did with the legendary Shaw Brothers - The Legend of Seven Golden Vampires!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 056 - The Young Ones - Time
September 23, 2023 04:30 - 34 minutes - 35.3 MBIn this episode, the boys battle the aftermath of the party, discover a mystery girl in the house, and accidentally travel in time! Guest starring Jennifer Saunders!
COMMENTARY CLUB 081 - The Muppet Movie
September 02, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBFor our classic film selection this time, it was Teresa's pick which will bring us such cinematic firsts as a frog riding a bicycle! Yes it's The Muppet Movie (1979), the first big screen outing for everyone's fuzzy friends!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 055 - The Young Ones - Nasty
August 22, 2023 04:30 - 35 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, the boys hire a home video recorder and are eager to sample the ghoulish world of video nasties!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 055 - The Young Ones - Nasty
August 22, 2023 04:30 - 35 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, the boys hire a home video recorder and are eager to sample the ghoulish world of video nasties!
COMMENTARY CLUB 80 - The Bride and the Beast
August 05, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 85 MBIn a last minute change to our announced crap movie selection, in a very ramshackle episode, we take a look at some gorilla based nonsense! Yes, it's Ed Wood's non-classic movie The Bride and the Beast from 1958
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 054 - The Young Ones - Cash
July 22, 2023 04:30 - 34 minutes - 35.6 MBIn this episode, the boys are skint and what's worse Vyvan is pregnant! Things are so desperate Neil has to become a police man!
COMMENTARY CLUB 079 - Army of Darkness
July 08, 2023 10:13For our cult movie this time, we have Army of Darkness (1992) the third and final part of the Evil Dead trilogy!
COMMENTARY CLUB 079 - Army of Darkness
July 08, 2023 10:13For our cult movie this time, we have Army of Darkness (1992) the third and final part of the Evil Dead trilogy!
COMMENTARY CLUB 078 - Stand By Me
June 17, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBFor our classic movie we have an iconic coming-of-age tale set long ago one hot summer - Stand By Me (1986). Starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell and Kiefer Sutherland, and based the novella The Body by Stephen King.
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 053 - The Young Ones - Bambi
June 02, 2023 04:30 - 34 minutes - 35.5 MBIn the first episode of the second series, the boys have to deal with killer socks and an appearance on University Challenge...
COMMENTARY CLUB 077 - Inspector Gadget
May 13, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBFor our crap film choice this time, we endure an frankly appalling live-action travesty of a beloved cartoon - Inspector Gadget starring Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everett
COMMENTARY CLUB 076 - Earth Vs. the Spider
April 28, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBFor our cult film choice this time, we pay tribute to legendary director Bert I Gordon with a look at this 1958 big bug movie Earth Vs. the Spider!
COMMENTARY CLUB EASTER SPECIAL 2023 - Chicken Run
April 10, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBFor our traditional inappropriate Easter special, we went for an egg theme and revisited a classic animated movie from Aardman - Chicken Run (2000)
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 052 - The Young Ones - Flood
March 25, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes - 36.3 MBIn the final of the episode of the first series, the boys have to deal with London flooding! And if that wasn't enough their landlord has turned into homicidal axe-wielding maniac and there a door to Narnia in the cellar...
COMMENTARY CLUB 075 - Speed
March 16, 2023 04:30 - 2 hours - 118 MBIt's classic movie time again, and we are taking ride a memorable bus trip with Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper in Speed (1994)
COMMENTARY CLUB 074 - Shakma
March 10, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 103 MBIt's crap movie time again, and we experience notorious bad movie Shakma which sees Roddy McDowell and assorted students being menaced by a killer baboon!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 051 - The Young Ones - Interesting
February 23, 2023 05:30 - 39 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode, the boys decided to hold a party which rapidly descends into surreal anarchy and chaos
COMMENTARY CLUB VALENTINES SPECIAL - The House That Dripped Blood
February 14, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 105 MBFor our traditional inappropriate Valentine's Day special, a classic anthology horror from Amicus - The House That Dripped Blood - a movie that delivers four tales of terror and features an all-star cast - Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliot, Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt and Jon Pertwee!
COMMENTARY CLUB 073 - Assault on Precinct 13
February 09, 2023 05:30 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBIt's cult movie time again, and we revisit John Carpenter's seminal breakthrough movie, the gritty crime thriller Assault on Precinct 13
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 050 - The Young Ones - Bomb
January 21, 2023 05:30 - 36 minutes - 35.9 MBIn this episode, the boys wake up to discover they can't get into the fridge as there's a nuclear bomb in the way...
COMMENTARY CLUB NEW YEAR SPECIAL 2022 - Terror Train
December 31, 2022 12:08 - 1 hour - 101 MBFor our New Year special, we take a ride on Terror Train, a 1980 slasher set on New Year's Eve! It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, featuring magician David Copperfield, and was the directorial debut of Roger Spottiswood!
COMMENTARY CLUB CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022 - Arthur Christmas
December 24, 2022 09:38 - 1 hour - 100 MBIn this just before Christmas special, we revisit a modern festive favourite Arthur Christmas from Aardman Animations, featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighty and Imelda Stanton to name but a few!
COMMENTARY CLUB 072 - The Santa Clause
December 15, 2022 08:22 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBIt's classic film time again, and this time we are revisiting a modern festive favourite - The Santa Clause (1994) starring Tim Allen!
COMMENTARY CLUB 071 - Twas the Night
December 07, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBIt's crap film time again, and this time we are getting festive with 'Twas the Night (2001) starring a young Bryan Cranston!
COMMENTARY CLUB 070 - House on Haunted Hill
November 21, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBIt's cult movie time again, and we are going back to 1959 for horror thriller that sees a team up between the great Vincent Price and legendary director William Castle! Join us for a night in House on Haunted Hill!
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 049 - The Young Ones - Boring
November 17, 2022 05:30 - 35 minutes - 36.7 MBIn this episode, the boys are wrestling the dread forces of boredom while demons, terrorists and ice skating vegetables are ignored...
COMMENTARY CLUB 069 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
November 12, 2022 15:36 - 1 hour - 108 MBIt's classic film time again, and we revisit the unique blend of comedy, film noir, live action and animation that is Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) , starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd and a host of famous cartoons!
COMMENTARY CLUB HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2022 - Sleepy Hollow
October 29, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 104 MBThis year we've plumped for a film that is both an adaptation of one of the classic Halloween stories and a tribute to classic horror movies! The Headless Horseman rides again in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999)!
COMMENTARY CLUB 068 - The Manster
October 22, 2022 10:19 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBIt's crap film time again, and this time we are going to experience a truly bizarre American sci-fi horror shot in Japan - The Manster AKA The Split (1962) NOTE - my apologies the first upload had completely the wrong intro - this has now been fixed
COMMENTARY CLUB - Minisode 048 - The Young Ones - Oil
October 14, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode, the boys move into a new student house and discover oil in the cellar! Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Chris Ryan and Alexei Sayle.
COMMENTARY CLUB 067 - Tron
October 04, 2022 04:30 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBIt's cult film time again, and we are voyaging back to the dawn of the video game era to revisit Disney's visionary virtual adventure Tron!