Is it a bicycle?
303 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBest ever TV and Movie podcast from Ireland
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Season 8 - Interview with LA Slasher Director/Writer Martin Owen 06/12/2015
June 12, 2015 08:46Shaun discusses the highly stylistic LA Slasher with Director/Writer Martin Owen.
Season 8 Episode 22 Mr Robot,San Andreas, Dawg Fights, Aquarius 06/05/2015
June 05, 2015 08:46Who would win in a fight between Kimbo Slice and the Rock? While we are pretty sure we have no idea, it doesn't stop us reviewing San Andreas and Dawg Fights. We journey back to the late 60s to investigate the not true story of real person Charles Manson in Aquarius and round out this packed episode with a discussion of new tv show Mr. Robot, where the hackers might be fictional, but at least they know real unix commands!
Season 8 Episode 21 Gallipoli, Age of Adaline, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night 05/29/2015
May 29, 2015 08:54With our crew dropping like flies, we are holding out for a hero and DA steps into the breach as a welcome guest. We take a look at the indie mega hit A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night where morally bankrupt Iranians try to survive a vampire in the neighbourhood without a silver cross or even a clover of garlic in sight. The mainstream offering is The Age Of Adeline, where Blake Lively challenges the surgical profession and gives poor Harrison Ford another gravelly duh duh duh duh to add to hi...
Season 8 Episode 20 wayward pines, ex machina, Mad Max 05/22/2015
May 22, 2015 08:54THe latest episode from the gang looks at how Mad Max has fared since his Mel Gibson days, if Ex Machina holds anything different from the recent spate of AI flicks and on the TV we ask, how can a collection of trees get off course in Wayward Pines
Season 8 Episode 19 Showrunners, Grace and Frankie, Big Game 05/15/2015
May 15, 2015 08:37Martin Sheen and Jane Fonda (remember them?), yes they are getting old, but they can still spring a surprise, at least on each other, in Grace and Frankie, where The Golden Girls meets Looking. We finally get to watch Showrunners to find out whether or not making Buffy results in making out with Buffy, or if TV is just hard work. We can confirm that Samuel L Jackson did not go all Ancient Greek and sleep with a 13 year old boy in Big Game, the story of a wayward US President and a wannabe hun...
Season 8 Episode 18 Avengers, Happyish, Wolf Hall 05/08/2015
May 08, 2015 08:59Blockbuster season kicks off with Earth's Mightiest Heroes returning for round two in AVengers: Age of Ultron. Is James Spader secretly an elephant? Is Hawkeye's vulnerability endearing or annoying and does the Black Widow's back story actually exist? We dive into the hear to of these and other Marvel universe questions. Along the way we review Happyish from Steve Coogan and Wolf Hall an historical drama that may make the past more boring than it already is, but that could possibly make it a ...
Season 8 Episode 17 Misery Loves Comedy, The Messengers, Other Space 05/01/2015
May 01, 2015 08:54Podcasts come and they go, but its always what's burned into your memory once they are gone that makes the difference; in this case its the horror or beauty of being a Comedian in the might be a film but definitely not a documentary Misery Loves Comedy. Watch out Star Trek fans as Other Space is a sci fi sit com that strikes very close to that bone. A new TV drama of biblical proportions divides the group as we review The Messengers, if they say something in the bible and then Johnny Cash say...
Season 8 Episode 16 The Jinx, Get Hard, Safe House 04/24/2015
April 24, 2015 10:57This week we take in ITV's "Safe House" starring Christopher Eccleston, discuss "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Dunst" and Mike sniggers at "Get Hard" but... for more reasons than just the title?
Season 8 Episode 15 The Comedians, Marvel's Daredevil, Lost River 04/17/2015
April 17, 2015 07:52Ryan Gosling trades in his ab-buster for a clapboard with Lost River, the story of a mother and son trying to save their house while the world around them drowns in imagery. Billy Crystal divides the camp with a new comedy about people trying to make other people laugh, startlingly called The Comedians. Deborah Ann Woll undeads her career with new Marvel gig Daredevil, a Netflix binge-watch tempter following the efforts of Matt Murdock to bring order to Hell's Kitchen, or what's left of it af...
Season 8 Episode 14 Spotless, Weird Loners,Fast and Furious 7 04/10/2015
April 10, 2015 07:52Furious 7 headlines this week. It's a franchise that offends all indie sensibilities, but you can never count out The Rock when it comes to Raw entertainment. Yet another New York sitcom hits our screens in Weird Loners, but this one has no laugh track. Could it be that there are actual laughs in its place? Bleach lovers everywhere will be excited to see Spotless, the story of one man and his cleaning products living it large in the London underworld.
Season 8 Episode 13 Bloodline, Insurgent, Robot Overlords 04/03/2015
April 03, 2015 09:07It's a Leonard free zone this week as Shaun makes his way back from Wrestlemania and Mark is busy putting the fear of God into us by successfully creating another Skywalker. The big show this week is Insurgent/Divergent2 where Tris channels the spirit of Vidal Sassoon to fight back against the monstrous Kate Winslett and her dastardly double track trains. Gillian Anderson stars in Robot Overlords, the story of a small planet with big batteries that triggers a shocking Mike/Shona non-aggressio...
Season 8 Episode 12 The Returned, Kill Me Three Times, The Water Diviner 03/27/2015
March 27, 2015 07:30The Returned returns in English as kids come back from the dead in a small non-French village speaking English in a better looking and very un-French way, and Mark ruins Mike's day without even showing up. Russell Crowe goes back-packing in Turkey in Australian award-winning war movie, The Water Diviner. Continuing the Australian vibe, we get a preview of Kill Me Three Times, the story of a lot of bad people being bad to each other in rural Australia. In other news, Shaun explains how superhe...
Season 8 Episode 11 Powers, Poldark, Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt, Run All Night 03/20/2015
March 20, 2015 07:30Podcasters are thin on the ground this week as Mike and Shona, suffering from various ailments bow out of the episode. We look to three stalwart variants of handsome courage to pick up the slack as Steve, Mark and Shaun manfully shoulder the yoke of tv and film reviewership. We discuss whether adding sex to superpowers is a good or a bad thing in Powers, whether Poldark is the Dallas of the 17 hundreds, if Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has enough writing layers to make it funny and if Liam Neeson...
Season 8 Episode 10 Dig, American Crime, Unfinished Business 03/13/2015
March 13, 2015 07:30The FBI hits Jerusalem as modern murder and ancient evil combine in Dig. Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton wade into a world of racial tension, drugs and violence in American Crime, a new family entertainment show on ABC. Vince Vaughn finds out how well-endowed Nick Frost is in Unfinished Business, a touching tale of business, family and glory-hole etiquette. In other news, Mark coins a whole new genre definition just for Mike and, due to time restrictions, Shaun takes a devastating superhe...
Season 8 Episode 9 Focus, ’71, The Odd Couple, Last Man on Earth 03/06/2015
March 06, 2015 16:30Will Smith seeks to rebuild a reputation battered by After Earth in Focus, the story of a con artist and his difficulties in persuading a beautiful girl that thems just jokes. Jack O'Connell takes a walk on the wild side of Belfast in '71 and discovers that an Ulster Fry is not always a breakfast. Chandler gets to be a sports radio presenter one more time in The Odd Couple, a brilliantly innovative sitcom where two people are put in a room together that don't want to be there. Finally we take...
Season 8 Episode 8 Kingsman, The Slap, Point and Shoot 27/02/2015
February 27, 2015 07:30Colin Firth gets suited and booted to save the world in Kingsman, and as a preventative measure we bring in oxygen supplies for Shona. Returning from a stint in the theatre, Mark explains how homoeroticism makes horror musicals less traumatic for young school children. Point And Shoot is a documentary where Matt Van Dyke gives us a glimpse into his crash course in manhood as he takes his motorbike into some of the most dangerous places in the world before, Zelig-like, he ends up taking par...
Season 8 We talk to Celeste Parr regarding 'Gurov and Anna' 22/02/2015
February 22, 2015 06:59Shaun talks to Celeste Parr regarding 'Gurov and Anna', the writing process and future projects.
Season 8 Episode 7 Gurov and Anna, Better call Saul, Schitts Creek 20/02/2015
February 20, 2015 06:59Netflix throws down the big release gauntlet to the networks of old with Better Call Saul, a prequel of a character that was something to do with Breaking Bad, back when Breaking Bad was no longer finished. The Levy's drive the Chevy to Schitt's Creek having lost their whiskey and rye. But is anybody singing? Will anybody die? We also get into the details of the new movie Gurov and Anna, a Chekhovian dystopia where a man can be smart enough to make professor, but not smart enough to realiz...
Season 8 Episode 6 Fresh off the boat, The Theory of Everything, Jupiter Ascending 13/02/2015
February 13, 2015 06:59Jupiter Ascending is the mega sci-fi adventure of the week. It cost 170 million dollars and features Eddie Redmayne and the hottest movie stars in the galaxy. What could possibly go wrong? Mike reveals the sordid details of his off-list reality TV viewing struggles and finds an unlikely rapprochement with Shona. We have a very different Eddie (Huang) telling the story of growing up on the outside in Orlando with Fresh Off The Boat. Thrown off kilter by some eddy in the space-time continuum...
Season 8 Episode 5 Fortitude, Birdman, Togetherness 06/02/2015
February 06, 2015 08:30You can tell its oscar season on everyon'e favourite TV and Film Bicycle as we are making a veritable pelaton of Academy hopefuls; this week former batman Michael Keaton plays former Birdman Riggan Thomson in a delightful kaleidoscope of art imitating life. Disclaimer: The Bicycle crew may or may not have found this delightful, best bet is to listen to the episode and find out! No less auspicious for its nomination in the Best International Film category despite Mark's protestations to the...
Season 8 Episode 4 American Sniper, Wild Card, The Man In the High Castle 30/01/2015
January 30, 2015 09:04Top billing this week is Wild Card and Dominik García-Lorido was good enough to tell us all about it. Bradley Cooper aims for Oscar glory in American Sniper. Continuing our look at Oscar hopefuls in the Foreign Movie category, we check out Russian movie Leviathan, which tells the tale of Everyman versus an unholy alliance of Church and State conspiring against its citizens. Philip K. Dick fans anxiously anticipate the pilot for The Man In The High Castle from Amazon which tells an alternat...
Season 8 Dominik Garcia Lorido Interview 26/01/2015
January 26, 2015 09:23Shaun talks to Dominik Garcia Lorida about her role and experiences in 'Wild Card' (releasing later this week) and gives us a little inside info on Jason Statham.
Season 8 Episode 3 22/01/2015 - Ida, Whiplash, 12 Monkeys
January 22, 2015 09:23Percussion is a bit like the musical equivalent of a goalkeeper. They only play in goal because they can't play football, but you do kinda need one. We find out what it takes to be the best drummer ever in Whiplash. Mark is moved to tears by the artistically emotive portrayal of the plight of Polish Jewry in Oscar hopeful Ida. It's paradox time again as 12 Monkeys tells the story of a man sent back in time to save the world from a deadly virus only to find that he's no longer sure which wh...
Season 8 Episode 2 16/01/2015 - Hobbit, Taken 3, Mozart in the Jungle
January 16, 2015 09:23Mark's chagrin at Shona's black ops feminist podcast is soon quashed by the chance to talk about the final chapter of the Hobbit - Battle of the Five Armies. Mike and Steve put their particular set of skills to work reviewing Taken 3, with Steve retroactively inventing the marketing poster for the production company - is there anything he can't do? Last for review is TV show Mozart in the Jungle were we decide if an oboe off is in fact a cool party game.
Season 8 Episode 1 1/01/2015 - Foxcatcher, The Red Tent, Agent Carter
January 09, 2015 09:23Its a new Year, there are resolutions everywhere and the Is It A Bicycle Crew are no exceptions! Mike's has vowed that there are no depths too low for 2015 and finds some emotional resonance in characters in the Oscar tipped Foxcatcher. Steve is hard at work making sure that there is always something to talk about in the podcast, getting off to a great start with The Red Tent. Lastly Shaun has decided that he wants to make women's fight for equality in the 40s while being a secret agent h...
The Bikeys TV and Film Awards 2014
January 02, 2015 08:36It took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get here, but this is it fair listeners! The awards for 2014 are in the can! After an arduous marathon session in the Is It A Bicycle recording studio we have our winners in a variety of categories for the Best and worst in TV and film over the last 12 months all building to our deciding the Top Ten Movies of the year. Are your favourites of 2014 on the list? Only one way to find out, have a listen!
Season 7 Episode 27 27/12/2014 The Highlights and the outtakes from Season 6!
December 27, 2014 08:36With the gang off this week to prepare for the bikie awards/take some holidays, we are pleased to present some highlights and outtakes from Season 6! Enjoy our greatest hits, we’ll be back with the awards next week.
Season 7 Episode 26 19/12/2014 Nightcrawler, Marco Polo, Ascension
December 19, 2014 08:36The last podcast before our end of year awards "The Bikies" consumes what little energy we have left after doling out heaping fistfuls of TV and Movie aural goodness!We have a look at oscar hopeful Nightcrawler and struggle to agree on the pronunciation of Gylenhal.We spend some time debating the origins of the Marco Polo game while reviewing, you guessed it, Marco Polo. Last under the microscope is the SyFy miniseries Ascension. We're back on the 2nd of January to ring in the New Year wit...
Season 7 Episode 25 12/12/2014 What we do in the shadows, The Librarians, Booze Traveller
December 12, 2014 08:19Shaun's inner Grammar Nazi is roused by Mark, graduate of The Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good, in his review of The Librarians, charting the efforts Noah Wiley and assorted clever-clogs trying to keep magic under wraps for the rest of us. Jack Maxwell shows us the inns and outs of getting drunk abroad in the Booze Traveller. We find out the reality of the Vampire lifestyle in modern New Zealand with the help of Jermaine Clement in mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows.
Season 7 Episode 24 05/12/2014 The Missing, Remember Me, Dark Valley, She Makes Comics
December 05, 2014 08:33Much like getting involved in a land war in Asia, inviting a feminist to debate a movie on feminism in comics (She Makes Comics) is one of the classic blunders! Luckily for our listeners, our blunder is your aural enjoyment! Also in movies Dark Valley shows us how Germans do Westerns. On the small screen we find very little to be joyous about in The Missing, Michael Palin is very far from the circus in Remember Me as we try to decide if he is annoying, endearing or just plain spooky.
Season 7 Episode 23 28/11/2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, State of Affairs, Dumb and Dumber To, Manhattan Love Story, Detectorists
November 28, 2014 08:00It has been said that Jennifer Lawrence is a young woman who can't act but really really looks like the pretty girl next door you always wanted to marry; will she be found out in The Mocking Jay? Jeff Daniels casts aside his hard-won, hard-nosed Newsroom demeanour to revisit the John Denver of his youth in Dumb and Dumber To. The Grand Axe of axedness axes our first TV, Manhattan Love Story, before even a stupidly good looking lip could pucker. The BBC sends us Detectorists, an exploration...
Season 7 Episode 22 21/11/2014 The Comeback, To Be Takei, Survivor's Remorse
November 21, 2014 08:44Knives are out this evening as as the lads struggle to agree on the day of the week. Sulu shows us there is more to life than Star Trek in To Be Takei. Lisa Kudrow is back on our screens in The Comeback, Season 2; following the trials and tribulations of an actress that used to be famous and just won't leave it alone. Fiction apparently. Survivor's Remorse tells the story of a young man come good in the sporting world and his cousin's valiant efforts to keep him solvent. We also preview th...
Season 7 Episode 21 14/11/2014 Interstellar, A Most Wanted Man, The Game, Olive Kitteridge
November 14, 2014 08:12Are real life spies more or less boring than they seem? Does the addition of Jack Bauer fix every tv or movie? We wrestle with some of these worthy questions in this weeks podcast, finding time to review the latest Christopher Nolan blockbuster Interstellar, A Most Wanted Man, Olive Kitteridge and The Game. More espionage and space than in a science fiction spy show!
Season 7 Interview with Marisa Stotter, Director of "She Makes Comics" 14/11/2014
November 14, 2014 08:12Shaun talks to Marisa Stotter, Director of "She makes comics" which premieres on the Sat 15th of November 2014. "She makes comics" is a documentary about women involved in all aspects of the comic book industry.
Season 7 Episode 20 07/11/2014 Wish I was Here, McCarthys, Mike Tyson Mysteries and Babadook
November 07, 2014 08:21Mike Tyson is back and badder than ever, at least at pronunciation, in the animated Mike Tyson Mysteries. Bawston gets a new sitcom in The McCarthys, depicting the life and times of a sports-mad family with one gay guy and no teddy. Zach Braff continues to struggle to shake JD in Wish I Was Here, where a single raised eyebrow can trigger a laugh, or not. We kinda forgot Halloween so it behoves us to make it up with Babadook, an Australian chiller about a mum, a son, and a book that won't g...
Season 7 Episode 19 31/10/2014 Fury, This is where I leave you, Constantine and The Affair
October 31, 2014 08:40It's the tank we've all been waiting for this week as Brad gives the Nazis a bloody nose in Fury. Jason Bateman is Jason Bateman in This Is Where I Leave You, a heart warming tale of family breast augmentation. In TV, Dominic West tries to get his story straight in The Affair and the supernatural-but-not-too-scary genre has a new contender in Constantine.
Season 7 Episode 18 24/10/2014 Rudderless, Big Driver, Transparent and Stalker
October 24, 2014 08:45When is good music enough to make a good film? What should Criminal Minds do to get back on track? All these and more questions answered in this episode where we discuss Rudderless and Big Driver on the silver screen, followed by Stalker and Transparent on the box.
Season 7 - Episode 17 17/10/2014
October 17, 2014 08:48Its a real A to Z of reviews this week, we review A to Z (see what I did there?) where Shona spurns the chance to appreciate romance and once again makes a mockery of gender balance on the show. Run Dylan run!! Dylan? Thomas? Imagine if he got lost and had millions of dollars but no reference. Maze Runner, yet another teen book to movie conversion for Mike to level his sarcasm at. Steve hits us with a game with no observable or even Audible rules. Mads trades teeth for guns in the last bes...
Season 7 - Interview with Des Doyle, Director of Showrunners
October 17, 2014 08:48Shaun gets together with Des Doyle and discusses "Showrunners". "“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series"
Season 7 - Episode 16 10/10/2014
October 10, 2014 08:38This week we discuss Horns, Dracula Untold, Bad Judge, The Flash, Love Hate and Inquisition. Tommy Wirkola(director) and Martin Starr talk to us about Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead, best of all Mike is really on form this week with his negativity turned up to 11
Season 7 - Interview with Tommy Wirkola(director) and Martin Starr(lead) about Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead 09/10/2014
October 09, 2014 08:38Shaun talks to the director of Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead, Tommy Wirkola, as well as one of the leads, Martin Starr. They talk guts, gore, Nazis and the Norwegians that hug them. Is there a sequel in the works? Can Martin Starr fill Bruce Campbell's shoes? What was too gross to include for the mind behind multiple intestine strangulations? For the answers to all these and more, you've got to listen to this!
Season 7 - Episode 15 03/10/2014
October 03, 2014 08:38Jennifer Lafleur, director of the new Vimeo web series Wedlock takes time out to talk to us. Steve has a terrible confession to make that could break friendships. David Morrisey trades in zombies for taxis in The Driver on BBC. Law school just got real (well, sort-of) in How To Get Away With Murder. Denzel lines out for one last crack at the quiet-man-pushed-too-far role in The Equalizer. You can't keep a good Nazi down in Dead Snow 2, Red Vs Dead as the sequel to the 2009 cult favourite b...
Season 7 - Episode 14a 02/10/2014
October 02, 2014 08:41Shaun speaks to Jennifer Lafleur (aka "Fiona") about the very recently released 10 part RomCom series "Wedlock". Stay tuned for Shaun's full review on the "is it a bicycle?" podcast out this Friday! Wedlock is available on demand here : http://vimeo.com/ondemand/wedlock
Season 7 - Episode 14 26/09/2014
September 26, 2014 08:41After we revisit Outlander, Extant and Z Nation; Shaun interviews Max Nichols, the director of new romcom Two Night Stand. The camp is divided when it comes to new cop drama Gotham, where no Batman is still too much Batman for Mike. Next up is the Elementary/Highlander mashup Forever, and the gang is impressed that they’re impressed with the former Mr. Fantastic Ioan Gruffudd. Liam Neeson appears to have no discernibly special skills in A Walk Among The Tombstones, but there’s still enough ...
Season 7 - Episode 13a 23/09/2014
September 23, 2014 08:41Shaun speaks to Max Nichols the Director of “Two night stand” which opens this Friday 26th Sept
Season 7 - Episode 13 19/09/2014
September 19, 2014 08:41The gang are back with another TV and Film review extravaganza! Our TV shows move from Utopia to post-apocalypse with the appropriately named Utopia from Fox and SyFy's Z-Nation. We decide whether the eponymous lady is worth it or not in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and lastly we look at how marriages go bad real fast in Honeymoon.
Season 7 - Episode 12 12/09/2014
September 12, 2014 08:45Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson star in The Rover, from the same Australian Tourist Board team that brought you Wolf Creek. Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis bring us Are You Here, where a bunch of comic actors accidentally get off at the wrong bus stop and end up in a serious film. The History Channel presents Houdini for all the magic buffs out there. Lastly, we have The Cosmopolitans, one of a number of Amazon pilots trying ever so hard to get the call for a full season of pretty people ...
Season 7 - Episode 11 05/09/2014
September 05, 2014 08:13Mike returns to bring calm to the babbling rabble. New in the US is Starred Up, an exploration of the British penal system and the need for subtitles in the same language. Shona discovers that she wasn't born in America as we take in What If, where Daniel Radcliffe tries to grow a set and...just kiss her for God's sake!! Shaun talks to the politest man in movies. BoJack Horseman is another adult animated comedy in a crowded field, but who will rein in the end? Intruders, from BBC America, t...
Season 7 - Episode 10 29/08/2014
August 28, 2014 08:13True Blood series finale! The gang reacting to the Emmy's! Steve is still watching Suits! All this and more awaits you, attractive, intelligent listeners. This week we take on HBO's The Normal Heart, a story of a group of people struggling against callous indifference and insurmountable odds. We zip onto FX's You're The Worst, where Shona has a problem liking unlikeable people, and we all try not to reveal how unlikeable we really are. Scarlett Johansson-starring Lucy is up next, causing fl...
Season 7 - Episode 09 22/08/2014
August 22, 2014 08:00The podcast is one Mike down this week, but Mark slots back in despite reservations about the net value and the possible need for a pyrrhic victory. Shona suffers from a Leonard brother overdose while Steve in his role as podcast mediator struggles gamely to get through the heaping fistful of TV and Film reviews on the slate for this week. We reminisce the 80s with our review of Expendables 3, mourn lost youth in Boyhood, lament Sacha Baron Coen while we review TV show Almost Royal and wond...