184. Beautiful Boy, Shoplifters & Brexit: The Uncivil War

Film Chat is back for 2019, gearing up for another year of doing what we do best - or at least doing what we do persistently - chatting about films.

Hey you know what's bad? Brexit. It's an absurdity that should never have been allowed; a massive crime perpetrated by an unaccountable elite, sold with a pack of lies and probably funded by the Russians; a catastrophic charade and an insult to every right-thinking person in this great country. Plus, Benedict Cumberbatch's accent is a bit wonky! I am of course referring to Channel 4's film Brexit: The Uncivil War, and not the seismic political event itself, which is, we can all agree, great. For a longer epic rant on what a pointless self-inflicted wound and calamitous act of sheer stupidity James Graham's drama is, listen to this episode's review!

We also tackle the drug addiction drama Beautiful Boy, whose schmaltzy title gives only the mildest hint of the dangerous levels of schmaltz the film contains, and the Palme d'Or winning Korean drama Shoplifters, a much better movie that will make you laugh, cry, and hungry. Plus! We check in on Disney scraping their big animation barrel to get some live-action, possibly CGI-enhanced massive wads of cash, and we take a look at efforts to defibrillate a flatlining Ghostbusters franchise by giving it a big nostalgic reboot jolt. Also Danny talks about the movie 13 Going on 30.

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