Silver Screen Queens
334 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsMelissa Savage and Katie Molloy met in film class, and haven’t been able to stop talking movies ever since. Each week they watch a movie and review it, stopping to make plenty of nerdy references along the way.
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Episodes
34: Saving Mr Banks
January 15, 2014 07:34 - 45 minutes - 21.3 MBThe story of the curmudgeonly Australian-born author of Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers and the two-decade struggle by Walt Disney to secure the rights to her story.
33: Holiday Special
January 08, 2014 07:48 - 1 hour - 39.1 MBOver the Christmas break, Katie and Mel saw a bunch of movies and decided to review them in one episode. In the grand tradition of the Star Wars Holiday Special, they present a feature-packed episode talking Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, American Hustle, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Frozen.
32: Die Hard
December 18, 2013 07:34 - 36 minutes - 18.2 MB‘Tis the season. For our inaugural Christmas episode, we watch the ultimate Christmas movie.
31: War Games
December 11, 2013 07:47 - 36 minutes - 18.7 MBA young computer whiz kid (Matthew Broderick with boy band hair) accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3.
30: Only Lovers Left Alive
December 04, 2013 07:29 - 32 minutes - 16.8 MBThe peaceful undeath of long-lived vampire lovers Adam and Eve is interrupted by Adam’s bout of depression and the interruption of Eve’s sister Ava. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton make living forever look mighty appealing.
29: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
November 27, 2013 07:15 - 37 minutes - 19.2 MBAfter surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen just wants to lead a normal life, but the President has other ideas for her as a revolution begins around the country.
28: The Goonies
November 20, 2013 08:35 - 36 minutes - 28.3 MBIt’s Katie’s birthday, so we watched her favourite movie on the big screen. The Goonies tells the story of the adventures of a group of kids hunting for pirate treasure and trying to save their town from developers.
27: Kill Your Darlings
November 13, 2013 18:54 - 32 minutes - 16 MBA formative story of love, obsession, murder and the Beat Generation. Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg as he heads off to Columbia University in 1944 and meets the friends who will change his life.
26: Thor: The Dark World
November 06, 2013 18:06 - 35 minutes - 25.2 MBLoki’s back! And, er, his brother. This week Mel and Katie have an argument about Marvel’s latest trip to Asgard.
25: The Evil Dead
October 30, 2013 17:59 - 33 minutes - 22 MBIt’s Halloween, so Mel swallows her distaste of horror movies to watch Sam Raimi’s 1981 indie cabin-in-the-woods classic The Evil Dead.
24: Labyrinth
October 23, 2013 18:27 - 33 minutes - 18.1 MBWhiny teen Jennifer Connelly learns to be responsible with the help of some Jim Henson creatures. David Bowie prances about wearing some fabulous makeup and an infamous codpiece. It’s time to enjoy the cult classic Labyrinth.
23: Gravity
October 16, 2013 18:37 - 31 minutes - 23.1 MBA doctor on her first space voyage and a veteran astronaut are left floating in space after a catastrophic accident. Melissa and Katie worry that it’s going to be like 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s not.
22: Rush
October 09, 2013 18:34 - 36 minutes - 19.1 MBRush tells the true story of the 1976 Formula One racing season, and the rivalry between British driver James Hunt and Austrian Niki Lauda, who was horrifically injured part way through the season but made an astonishing comeback.
21: I Am a Girl
October 02, 2013 17:10 - 32 minutes - 22.9 MBIn a break from the usual format, the girls interview director Rebecca Barry about her new film I Am A Girl, a documentary which tells the stories of the lives, loves and struggles of six teenage girls living very different lives around the world.
20: The Empire Strikes Back
September 25, 2013 17:21 - 31 minutes - 17 MBThe second episode in our ‘Mel learns some culture’ series takes us to the ice planet Hoth, with the Tauntaun sleeping bag and AT-ATs. We also meet Yoda in the swamp, Han Solo is encased in carbonite and Luke and his dad do some bonding.
19: Predator
September 18, 2013 17:24 - 32 minutes - 25.9 MBIt’s time for some classic Arnold Schwarzenegger in Silver Screen Queens-land this week, with the oft-quoted Predator. Ahnuld and his enormous biceps lead an intrepid team of commandos through the central American jungle, where they soon discover that their enemy is not guerrilla fighters but something far more dangerous.
18: Rear Window
September 11, 2013 17:14 - 27 minutes - 22.9 MBMel and Katie caught a rare big screen showing of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic (and Mel’s all-time favourite movie) on the weekend. They talk about why it’s considered a classic and gain a real appreciation of the talent and work that went into being Grace Kelly.
17: Stoker
September 04, 2013 17:43 - 33 minutes - 32.2 MBAfter India Stoker’s father dies on her 18th birthday, a mysterious uncle, Charlie, appears in her life. As India and her mother learn to cope with one another and their grief, the family’s dark secrets come to the surface.
16: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
August 28, 2013 17:37 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBTwilight clone, Harry Potter rip-off, glorified fan fiction… The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones has had some bad press thrown its way. Mel and Katie went to investigate.
15: Kick-Ass 2
August 21, 2013 17:37 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBKick-Ass and Hit Girl are back to deal with the consequences of their last outing. Katie and Mel deal with the consequences of watching all this violence and vengeance and wonder about the point of it all.
14: Star Wars
August 14, 2013 17:44 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBMel has never been big on the Star Wars franchise. Katie loves the original movies and doesn’t understand such heresy. They go back to basics by watching (the 1997 re-released version of) the original 1977 Star Wars.
13: The World’s End
August 07, 2013 17:32 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBOver the weekend, Mel and Katie binge-watched Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz in preparation for the finale of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s Cornetto trilogy. In The World’s End, five blokes on the cusp of 40 try to recapture their youth with a legendary pub crawl called the Golden Mile. They return to their small, sleepy home town, where things seem a little too smooth, maybe even…robotic.
12: The Wolverine
July 31, 2013 18:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBAfter the showdown of X-Men: The Last Stand (A.K.A X-Men 3), Wolverine is all messed up about Jean Grey and stuff. It’s emotional you guys, so when a man he saved in Nagasaki during World War II invites him to Japan to say goodbye, he’s happy for the distraction provided by a wealthy family mob war and a viperous mutant villain. With an awesome lady sidekick and an insipid heiress by his side, Logan fights his demons living, dead and something in between.
11: The Fountain
July 24, 2013 17:39 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBDarren Aronofsky spent more than five years trying to get this film made, a personal meditation on life, death, nature and religion. It stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz playing multiple characters in three different timelines. So is it a work of art or pretentious prettiness?
10: Pacific Rim
July 17, 2013 18:09 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBGiant alien creatures emerge from a rift in the floor of the Pacific Ocean and overwhelm humans living in surrounding countries. Humans fight back by inventing giant robots so powerful they need to be operated by at least two people. As the alien attacks intensify, humanity must marshall their resources to cancel the apocalypse.
9: Lara Croft Tomb Raider Series
July 10, 2013 17:40 - 37 minutes - 35.3 MBKatie and Mel lead such exciting lives that they spent their Saturday night watching the Tomb Raider movies. To their own surprise as much as anything, they found them to be good fun action movies that don’t take themselves too seriously. Here’s the story of how Mel and Katie became Angelina Jolie fans…
8: Man of Steel
July 03, 2013 17:16 - 34 minutes - 33.4 MBSuperman has been rebooted once more, this time in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. It’s big, long, loud, bombastic, action-packed and a very different and ambitious take on Superman. Does it pull off a Dark Knight? Or is it more of an Amazing Spider-man?
7: Monsters University
June 26, 2013 17:37 - 30 minutes - 30.8 MBThis week, the girls talk about Monsters University, in which Pixar mines one of its old properties for a prequel. The film tells the story of the beginning of Mike and Sully’s friendship in their college days. Thrown together with a team of ragtag misfits, the boys fight to keep their places in the prestigious scare program, and their dream of working at Monsters, Inc alive.
6: Much Ado About Nothing
June 19, 2013 17:19 - 36 minutes - 38.2 MBThis week, Mel and Katie caught a preview screening of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing. Unlike ordinary folk, when Joss Whedon takes a holiday (during a break in the production of a small comic book flick about some superheroes), he makes a film. The result is this lighthearted romp through a classic Shakespeare play starring some familiar faces from the Joss Whedon Repertory Society.
5: The Great Gatsby
June 12, 2013 17:52 - 38 minutes - 38.4 MBA new(ish) release this week as the girls take a look at Baz Luhrmann’s glitter-filled adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. They talk up the virtues of 3D, discuss the sorry state of the Australian film industry, and Mel contemplates life as the host of a podcast about diamonds.
4: The Visitation
June 05, 2013 17:41 - 30 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week Katie and Melissa talk about Christian horror film The Visitation. In a small town in rural Texas, Pastor Travis has lost his wife, his faith and his dog. All around him people are being healed, and a charismatic young man appears, giving hope to townspeople who had lost their way. But all is not as it seems…
3: Big Trouble in Little China
May 29, 2013 17:16 - 30 minutes - 30.5 MBContinuing on their eclectic podcasting journey, this week Katie and Mel take on a cult classic. Directed by John Carpenter and released in 1986, Big Trouble In Little China stars Kurt Russell, his mullet, Kim Cattrall and Dennis Dun. It’s a fun, silly, smart supernatural action romp through the underside of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
2: Some Like It Hot
May 22, 2013 17:44 - 32 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week the girls go way back to look at one of their favourite movies, Some Like It Hot, released in 1959, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe.
1: Star Trek Into Darkness
May 15, 2013 17:37 - 39 minutes - 22 MBThis week we boldly go into darkness by reviewing the most recent Star Trek film. Spoilers abound as we talk about Chris Pine’s blue eyes, misleading trailers and decide that Shatner is definitely a verb.