Episode 145: The Two Toms [58:49] You can Listen online or Download MP3 (Right click… save as) It’s Episode 145 of In the Mood for Podcast, a British-based film podcast hosted by Calum Reed of Ultimate Addict and Pete Sheppard of In the Mood for Blog. Our latest episode is our shortest yet, as connection problems plagued our recording, and this week’s offering […]








Episode 145: The Two Toms

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It’s Episode 145 of In the Mood for Podcast, a British-based film podcast hosted by Calum Reed of Ultimate Addict and Pete Sheppard of In the Mood for Blog.



Our latest episode is our shortest yet, as connection problems plagued our recording, and this week’s offering of films was fairly minimal. The big question this week is whether negative preconceptions about Thomas Hardy and Thomas Vinterberg respectively, could be conquered when we sat down for  period romance “Far From the Madding Crowd”. Elsewhere, we both caught geriatric romance “Elsa + Fred,” starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, while Cal was in the queue for social media horror “Unfriended,” which gets us talking about the value of gimmicks. Plus: a series of listener questions leads to an inquisition into last week’s Pootsition and the advent of a new segment, there are digressions about the strength of 1964’s Best Actress and 2004’s Best Actor fields, and Pete launches an unexpectedly vicious assault on the work of Julian Jarrold.


Listener Questions [Ibbi]


[3:50 – 13:19]


Red Light District: Revealing the non-new films we’ve been catching up with in the past month, featuring discussion of “Dead Ringer,” “Middle of the Night,” The Pirate,” and “Up”

[13:20 – 19:08]


Preconception Corner


Reviews of:

Elsa + Fred                                                    22:45 – 31:52
Unfriended                                                    31:53 – 37:40
Far From the Madding Crowd                 37:41 – 47:32



Shag, Marry or Kill?

The Pootsition

The Garrett Gauge

Outro Music: Disclosure feat. Mary J. Blige, “F For You”

Books Referenced