Movies and Tea
129 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -It’s about film fans getting together and creating the audio experience of that post movie coffee and pie (or tea in our case) discussion as we work through the select filmographies of the directors whose work interests us with each season being dedicated to the work of a different director.
As such we look forward to you joining us and hopfully hearing your own thoughts on the movies we cover or even movies / directors you like to hear us discuss on future episode.
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After Hours - Past Lives
April 29, 2024 06:12 - 46 minutes - 52.9 MBKim and Elwood look at the Oscar nominated "Past Lives" and feature debut from Greta Lee following the relationship between childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung from meeting as children to reconnecting as adults as they question the relationship between them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - Resident Evil Animated Saga
April 19, 2024 16:55 - 55 minutes - 62.5 MBKim and Elwood look at the surprisingly numerous Resident Evil Animated films including the mini series Infinite Darkness while also questioning the weirdest zombie animals, how the films link to the games and questionable master plans plus more!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - Great White
February 25, 2024 12:33 - 31 minutes - 36.1 MBIt's Shark Week on the podcast and Kim and Elwood prepare once more to dive into the murky waters of shark movies. This time they look at 2021 film Great White as a group of tourists find themselves stranded on a raft when their seaplane crashes and sinks only to soon find themselves being stalked by sharks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #81 - The Wind Rise
February 09, 2024 22:32 - 48 minutes - 57.6 MBOur re-evaluation of Hayao Miyazaki's filmography comes to a close with the fictionalised biography of fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi. We also look back at the season as we reveal our favourites, hidden gems and worst films of Miyazaki's filmography. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #80 - Ponyo
January 27, 2024 21:21 - 37 minutes - 45.3 MBKim and Elwood's re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki comes to one of the more overlooked Studio Ghibli titles Ponyo in a which a young boy believing he has found a goldfish in a bottle he pulls from the ocean discovers she is in fact the daughter of an underwater wizard who is keen to find her while she longs to be a human girl. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Top 10 First Time Watches 2023
January 06, 2024 20:54 - 1 hour - 105 MBKim and Elwood rundown their favourite movie discoveries of 2023 as they reveal the films which left the biggest impact on them, the surprising discoveries and cinema shames they crossed off. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #79 - Howl's Moving Castle
December 07, 2023 16:22 - 34 minutes - 39.4 MBKim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki this time looks at Howl's Moving Castle a film which argued that there was still a place for hand drawn animation as a young girl is turned into an old woman by a jealous witch with her only hope of being turned back resting with the self-indulgent yet insecure wizard Howl. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #78 - Spirited Away
November 28, 2023 17:26 - 46 minutes - 53.7 MBKim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki reaches the Oscar winning Spirited Away and a film which arguably brought an intrest in Studio Ghibli to the mainstream. The film following ten-year-old Chihiro whose parents are turned into pigs when they stumble into an abandoned amusement park which at night becomes a resort for spirits. Now put to work in the bathhouse she must find a way to turn her parents back and escape the spirit realm. --- Send in a voice messa...
Movies and Tea #77 - Princess Mononoke
November 09, 2023 21:39 - 47 minutes - 56.7 MBThe battle between nature and industry is waged in Princess Mononoke a fantasy epic set in the 14th century as Ashitaka having had his arm infected after a demon attack soon finds himself caught up in the war between the ancient forest gods lead by San and the human forces of Lady Eboshi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #76 - Porco Rosso
October 02, 2023 18:29 - 40 minutes - 46.1 MBKim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki this time looks at arguably one of the hidden gems of his filmography Porco Rosso. Set in the aftermath of world war 1 were hotshot pilot Porco has been turned into a humanoid pig battling sky pirates only for an American ace to set his sights on taking down the flying pig. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #75 - Kiki's Delivery Service
September 13, 2023 20:39 - 36 minutes - 42.4 MBKim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki takes a look at another Studio Ghibli favourite with Kiki's Delivery Service as 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance for witches in training. But when she looses her powers she begins to question if they will ever come back. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #74 - My Neighbour Totoro
August 24, 2023 12:02 - 34 minutes - 39 MBKim and Elwood re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki arrives at My Neighbour Totoro as Miyazaki drew inspiration from his own childhood to craft a fantastical tale which would also introduce some of Studio Ghibli's most memorable creations including the gigantic forest sprite Totoro. 14/9 - audio issues corrected (Overlap) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #73 - Castle In The Sky
August 12, 2023 20:37 - 34 minutes - 40.3 MBKim and Elwood continue their re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki with Castle In The Sky in which Sheeta an orphan abducted by the government agent Muska might hold the key to finding Laputa the mythical castle in the sky as she teams up Pazu and a group of sky pirates to find it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #72 - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
July 30, 2023 21:17 - 37 minutes - 43.1 MBKim and Elwood continue their re-evaluation of the filmography of Hayao Miyazaki Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind based on his manga released the previous year. Set in a post apocalyptic future were the survivors of humanity live in scattered settlements while giant insects roam the desert landscape which the teenage princess Nausicaä has learned to communicate with. But when a rival kingdom plans to revive and ancient weapon she finds herself drawn into a quest to stop them. --- Se...
Movies and Tea #71 - The Castle of Cagliostro
July 22, 2023 08:19 - 38 minutes - 44.3 MBKim and Elwood kick off their season long look at the films of Studio Ghibli co-founder and legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki starting with his directorial debut The Castle of Cagliostro The second movie adaptation of the long running Lupin the 3rd series as the legendary thief finds himself caught up in a counterfeiting plot while attempting to rescue the kidnapped princess Clarisse and finally discover the hidden treasure of Cagliostro. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters....
After Hours - Glass Onion
July 02, 2023 07:48 - 50 minutes - 60.2 MBKim and Elwood look at the second of the Knives Out mysteries Glass Onion as master detective Benoit Blanc is invited to the private island of Tech billionaire Miles Bron. But when the murder mystery weekend becomes real Blanc has to uncover whose playing for real. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - Knives Out
June 22, 2023 20:48 - 33 minutes - 39.3 MBElwood and Kim don their best deer stalker hats to look at Knives Out the first of Rian Johnson's Benoit Blanc mysteries as he attempts to undercover who is responsible for the death of a crime novelist and the suspects are plentiful. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - Virus
June 08, 2023 21:25 - 28 minutes - 33.6 MBKim and Elwood look at the sci-fi horror Virus in which a tugboat crew escaping a storm discover a seemingly abandoned Russian communication ship only to soon discover that the ship has been taken over by an alien presence which plans to us the crew for spare parts. Regarded by Jamie Lee Curtis as the worst movie she ever made, we find out if it's as bad as she claims while looking at it's production from Dark Horse comic to the questionable acting choices of some of the cast and more! ---...
After Hours - Jaws
June 04, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBShark Week returns to the podcast as Elwood and Kim finally sit down to talk about Jaws which not only created the summer blockbuster but also spawned hundreds of imitators in it's wake. We look at what make this film stand out compared to it's counterparts, draw comparisons to the book and why this film still makes us question if it's safe to go back into the water. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #70 - Crawl
May 27, 2023 06:05 - 43 minutes - 49.6 MBOur Evolution of the Creature Feature season comes to a close with Alexandre Aja's Crawl which see's a category 5 hurricane heading towards Florida as college swimmer Hailey attempts to find her missing father only for the pair to soon be battling the rising flood waters and the ravenous local alligators. We also run down our best, worst and hidden gems of the season --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #69 - The Bay
May 17, 2023 21:50 - 24 minutes - 28.9 MBContinuing their look at the Evolution of the Creature Feature Kim and Elwood look at the 2012 found footage horror The Bay as a coastal town finds itself being devastated over the 4th of July celebrations when the water supply becomes infected with mutated parasites, which soon begin infecting the townsfolk. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #68 - Piranha 3D
May 09, 2023 21:56 - 51 minutes - 58.2 MBContinuing our season long look at the evolution of the creature we have a film which is equal parts a remake as it is a sequel as Alexandre Aja adds another memorable remake of a horror classic to his filmography as a tremor unleashes a horde of prehistoric piranha just in time for the spring break celebrations. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #67 - Deep Rising
April 25, 2023 21:10 - 41 minutes - 47.3 MBIt's full scream ahead as Kim and Elwood's look at the evolution of the creature feature arrives at the aquatic horror Deep Rising as a group of hijackers targeting a luxury cruise ship discover that the ship is empty and soon find themselves being hunted by the monster which has taken over the ship. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #66 - Arachnophobia
April 18, 2023 20:49 - 34 minutes - 38.7 MBThe season long look at the evolution of the creature feature arrives at the 90's and the Steven Spielberg produced Arachnophobia which sets out to do for spiders what Jaws did for sharks as a small town finds itself under siege from killer spiders and a doctor terrified of spiders has to find the source before they wipe out the town. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #65 - Wild Beasts
March 29, 2023 09:07 - 36 minutes - 39.5 MBOur season long look at the Evolution of the Creature Feature on this episode goes international as we look at the Italian film Wild Beasts in which PCP gets into the water supply for the zoo sending the animals on a violent rampage in a film packed with memorable set pieces as well as a host of equally wacky sequences as crazy as the behind the scenes tales of making the film. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #64 - Alligator
March 11, 2023 17:40 - 33 minutes - 38.5 MBKim and Elwood's season long look at the evolution of the Creature Feature enters the 80's with Alligator which playing off the urban legend of sewer gators as a pet alligator grows to gigantic proportions when it starts feeding on the carcases of discarded test animals and soon start moving up the food chain. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #63 - Kingdom Of The Spiders
February 18, 2023 21:49 - 37 minutes - 43.3 MBKim and Elwood's season long look at the evolution of the Creature Feature continues with Kingdom of the Spiders in which William Shatner plays the rural town vet who discovers that the town is being invaded by tarantula's which have moved on from feeding on the local livestock to feeding on the town. We also question the worst places to encounter a spider, the insane behind the scene production stories and ridiculous faces of death!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
Movies and Tea #62 - The Birds
February 08, 2023 21:35 - 45 minutes - 53.3 MBContinuing their season of films looking at the evolution of the creature feature Elwood and Kim look at the Alfred Hitchcock classic "The Birds" as a small coastal town finds itself under attack when the birds revolt against humanity --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #61 - Them
January 24, 2023 06:55 - 29 minutes - 33.8 MBKicking off our season long look at the evolution of the creature feature is the B-Movie classic Them as radioactive testing in the New Mexico desert has caused the ant population to grow to gigantic size wrecking havoc on the local population and their sugar supplies! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - City of Ember
January 12, 2023 15:26 - 29 minutes - 33.2 MBFor every Harry Potter or Hunger Games there is a best selling young adult series that never could carry across their success to the screen and on this episode we try to discover what it was about City of Ember that caused it be such a massive flop. Set in the post apocalyptic future were humanity now lives in an underground city, but when the generator starts to fail threatening to plunge the city into eternal night two teenagers set out to save the city and discover the secret of the mys...
Top 10 First Time Watches 2022
December 28, 2022 23:52 - 1 hour - 119 MBKim and Elwood countdown their top 10 first time watches of 2022 as they reveal their favourite movie discoveries for 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
December 06, 2022 21:53 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBKim and Elwood look at the first season of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities a horror anthology which brings together both his collaberators aswell as directors including Panos Cosmatos, Vincenzo Natali, Catherine Hardwicke and covering everything from elderly satanists, demons, giant rats and ghosts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours: Shark Night 3D
November 16, 2022 22:02 - 30 minutes - 36.8 MBShark Week comes to the podcast once more and this time Kim and Elwood check out "Shark Night 3D" as a group of students heading to thier friend Sara's lake house for the weekend find themselves battling killer sharks which have been added to the lake. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours: Favourite Scary Moments
October 24, 2022 20:56 - 58 minutes - 67.9 MBKim and Elwood celebrate the spooky season by revealing their favourite scary moments from the grotesque and shocking through to the downright chilling they reveal the moments in Horror cinema which had the biggest impact on them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #60 - Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood
September 14, 2022 05:08 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBBringing our re-evaluation of Quentin Tarantino's filmography to a close with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood another entry in Tarantino's alternative histories as Leonardo Dicaprio plays Rick a actor whose star is on the fall struggling to recapture fame and success in 1960s Los Angeles like his best friend and stunt double Cliff (Brad Pitt Meanwhile, living next door to Rick is Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski while in the hills the Manson family are gathering. We also reveal ou...
Movies and Tea #59 - The Hateful Eight
August 28, 2022 21:20 - 39 minutes - 49 MBOur re-evaluation of Quentin Tarantino's filmography sees Tarantino still continuing his obsession with westerns as a bounty hunter and his captive are forced to wait out a snowstorm with a group of strangers with questionable backgrounds and even more suspicious motives and with tensions running high it's only a question of time till blood will be spilt. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #58 - Django Unchained
July 30, 2022 20:30 - 40 minutes - 49.2 MBWith Tarantino having such love for spaghetti westerns it was really only a matter of time before he gave his own take on the genre paying homage to the Sergio Corbucci's 1966 orginal has he reimagines the wandering gunslinger as a former slave turned bounty hunter on a mission of revenge against the men who sold him and his wife into slavery. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #56 - Death Proof
July 06, 2022 22:47 - 49 minutes - 57.7 MBOriginally meant to be part of the double feature "Grindhouse" alongside Robert Rodriguez Planet Terror here Tarantino threw his hat into the world of car smash movies as the serial killer Stuntman Mike plots to kill his victims using his death proof car. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #56 - Inglorious Basterds
June 26, 2022 21:50 - 46 minutes - 57.3 MBA long mooted project for Tarantino Inglorious Basterds provides the first of Tarantino's alternative history films as this multi-plot tale follows the titular Basterds on their campaign of fear through occupied France while a Jewish woman plots her revenge on the German officer who killed her family.
Movies and Tea #57 - Inglorious Basterds
June 26, 2022 21:50 - 46 minutes - 57.3 MBA long mooted project for Tarantino Inglorious Basterds provides the first of Tarantino's alternative history films as this multi-plot tale follows the titular Basterds on their campaign of fear through occupied France while a Jewish woman plots her revenge on the German officer who killed her family. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #55 - Kill Bill Vol. 1 + 2
June 17, 2022 15:33 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBHaving remoulded the crime movie genre with his first three films Tarantino followed it up with this rip roaring tale of revenge following "The Bride" a character created with his leading lady Uma Thurman on the set of Pulp Fiction. Spread across two films with Vol. 1 paying homage to his love of Eastern cinema drawing on inspiration from Shaw Bros. movies and Pop samurai cinema like Lady Snowblood and Lone Wolf and Cub. With Vol. 2 he transfered his vision into a modern western. We look at...
After Hours: Love Death and Robots Vol. 3
May 26, 2022 21:05 - 49 minutes - 62.5 MBElwood and Kim breakdown the latest season of David Fincher + Tim Millers anthology series which this time includes giant crabs, a rat uprisings, a cybernetically enhanced bear and the return of three robots amongst this new set of stories. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #54 - Jackie Brown
May 16, 2022 20:28 - 54 minutes - 62.2 MBHaving finally arrived with "Pulp Fiction" a film which not only marked him as director to watch but also firmly rooted him in the pop culture conscious. So it would be a surprising move that Tarantino would choose to follow it up with an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Rum Punch" only given a Tarantino twist. Here Pam Grier plays the titular Jackie Brown, an air hostess and courier who after being nabbed by the FBI who are keen to have her turn on her arms dealer boss. However Jackie has ...
Movies and Tea #53 - Pulp Fiction
April 30, 2022 12:33 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBElwood and Kim continue thier re-evaluation of Quentin Tarantino's filmography with "Pulp Fiction" in which four interweaved stories play out as a mysterious briefcase, a dinner date, a gold watch and the etiquette of the stick up all come together to create a film still ingrained in pop culture as when it was released. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Movies and Tea #52 - Reservoir Dogs
April 16, 2022 21:29 - 55 minutes - 68.6 MBElwood and Kim kick off Season #7 and the start of their season long re-evaluation of the Quentin Tarantino's filmography starting with Reservoir Dogs as a failed a group of crooks try to figure out who the rat is in their group when a jewery store heist gets astray. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - To All The Boys Always and Forever
March 16, 2022 22:39 - 41 minutes - 47.9 MBWrapping up our review of the "To All The Boys" Trilogy as Lana is now in her senior year and considering how college plans but how will Peter fit into her plans and will she sacrifice her dreams for her relationship? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours - To All The Boys I've Loved Before
March 07, 2022 23:18 - 58 minutes - 67.4 MBKim introduces Elwood to the first two films in the "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" trilogy staring Lana Condor as the shy high school junior Lara Jean Covey whose letters she wrote to her crushes accidently get mailed to her crushes sparking a series of romantic misadventures the first two of which we cover on this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours: Dumplin'
February 16, 2022 17:55 - 45 minutes - 53.8 MBElwood and Kim look at the world of beauty pagents with the Netflix exclusive Dumplin' in which the plus-size, teenage daughter of a former beauty queen signs up for her mom's pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow in her footsteps, --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
After Hours: The Reef
January 28, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes - 55.2 MBShark Week returns as this time Kim and Elwood check out the minimalist take on the genre with The Reef in which a group of friends find themselves being stalked by a great white shark when thier boat capsizes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message
Top 10 First Time Watches 2021
January 01, 2022 20:53 - 1 hour - 108 MBElwood and Kim round out another movie watching year by sharing thier top movie discoveries of 2021 from festival discoveries to classics and forgotten oddities they reveal the films which have caught thier intrest. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviesandtea/message