Latest Twin picks Podcast Episodes
34. Clue + Knives Out
Twin Picks - August 02, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week the Janssen siblings and Anthony take the BORED out of BOARD game, by looking at not only the witty ensemble comedy 'Clue' but also 'Knives Out', last year's whodunnit hit that acts as a loving homage of 'Clue' and other retro murder mysteries. Both movies feature a murderer's row (lite...
33. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters + Silence
Twin Picks - July 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's our second Marty Scorsese episode and our first ever look into the filmography of Paul Schrader, both New Yorky New Hollywood movie bros who collaborated on 'Taxi Driver' and have here made their own attempts at telling stories of religious agony and ecstasy in historical Japan. The only pro...
32. The Stanford Prison Experiment + Sky High (feat. Ivana Brehas)
Twin Picks - July 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFilm n culture genius Ivana Brehas brought us this pair of tenuously connected films, so we're all here together to break down their surprising similarities! Both the goofy family superhero 'Sky High' and 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' star Michael Angarano and Nicholas Braun, a real pair of 20...
31. Friends With Benefits + No Strings Attached
Twin Picks - July 12, 2020 00:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn one of the most prominent recent examples of a bizarre 'twin films' situation, 2011 saw the release of not one but TWO films about one half of the Mila Kunis/Ashton Kutcher power couple enjoying hot, sexy, meaningless sex - ooh yeah baby Shagadelic! But things get even weirder from there, sinc...
30. Seven Samurai + A Bug's Life
Twin Picks - July 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLook closely and u shall see that Pixar's 'A Bugs Life' and Akira Kurosawa's sweepingly influential 'Seven Samurai' kinda have the same plot; a band of skilled outsiders prepare to defend a village from being pillaged by sadistic attackers. We could've watched 'Seven Samurai' and 'The Magnificent...
29. Fatal Attraction + Basic Instinct (feat. Max Kronick)
Twin Picks - June 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingswe're back back back back back again!!! And we're so excited to discuss the two most influential erotic thrillers of the late eighties/early nineties with lovely American guest Max Kronick (https://twitter.com/MaxerOfDisguise), returning for another round of blockbuster comparisons. Noah has some...
28. The Lizzie McGuire Movie + Roman Holiday
Twin Picks - April 12, 2020 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn Memoriam of Meg's thwarted travel plans to Italy, we watched the celebrated 'Lizzie McGuire Movie' and a weird old timey ripoff off it starring Audrey Hepburn??? 'Roman Holiday' and 'The Lizzie McGuire Movie' both make audiences swoon with their stories of a young girl finding love and escapi...
27. Outbreak + Contagion (feat. Max Kronick)
Twin Picks - April 05, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsStop worrying about that pesky coronavirus and watch some fictional pandemics instead!!!! Noah, Meg and Anthony are joined by Eliza and writer/film buff Max Kronick over in da USA to discuss a pair of films which depict mass sickness and hysteria; the goofy, overblown 'Outbreak' starring the 'Ave...
26. Lost In Translation + Her (feat. Darcey Eagle)
Twin Picks - March 28, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsStay self-isolated with two of the MOST feely, introspective, romantic movies of the past few decades, both of which spend a lot of time in bedrooms - just like you rn !!!! The mega-talented Darcey Eagle gives us her own insight into appearing in a Japanese Suntory commercial just like Bill Murra...
25. The Big Sleep + The Big Lebowski
Twin Picks - March 21, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether you're a hard-boiled detective or just some Dude, Los Angeles is the perfect setting for iconic film noir mysteries, and we had a great time watching two of the very best! Howard Hawks' 'The Big Sleep' is disarmingly kinky and ambiguous, while the Coen's goofy noir hybrid 'The Big Lebowsk...
24. The Great Escape + Chicken Run (feat. Anthony Carr)
Twin Picks - March 14, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsClaymation versus true history of the Holocaust - it should seem like 'The Great Escape' is the obvious victor, right? Luckily we have Anthony Carr, our podcast's Sound Daddy and resident 'Chicken Run' expert on mic as a very special guest this episode! Together, the siblings and their sound eng...
23. Pumping Iron + Pain & Gain
Twin Picks - February 29, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week's episode is like normal Twin Picks on steroids....literally!!!!! We looked at the 1977 documentary that brought the then-niche world of bodybuilding to the mainstream, 'Pumping Iron', and a 2013 action-comedy about three knucklehead bodybuilders trying to pull off a murderous get-rich-...
22. In the Mood For Love + In the Mouth of Madness (feat. Hersh Nevgi)
Twin Picks - February 22, 2020 23:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFrom the woozy height of romance in 1960s Hong Kong, to the depths of demonic depravity in one of Sutter Kane's pulp horror stories, this episode will have you In The Mood For uhhhh movies!! We succumb to madness with special guest Hersh Nevgi who's been meaning to watch Wong Kar Wai's celebrated...
21. Breakfast at Tiffany's + The Breakfast Club
Twin Picks - February 15, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCOCK A DOODLE DOOOO it's breakfast time! Get dressed and sit down at the kitchen table for your choice of Meal A; 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', an airy retro confection powered by Audrey Hepburn's innate charisma, or Meal B; the passionate yet flawed 'The Breakfast Club', John Hughes' teen ensemble d...
20. 10 Things I Hate About You + How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (feat. Emily Cinnamon)
Twin Picks - February 08, 2020 23:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's Valentine's Day this week, and we're noticing tens tens tens across the board in both of our romantic-comedy classic picks. First, Noah challenges Heath Ledger's dreamy/clumsy performance in nineties teen Shakespeare remix '10 Things I Hate About You', then our special guest Emily SURNAME RE...
19. The Devil Wears Prada + Phantom Thread (feat. Marty Alix)
Twin Picks - February 01, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe family hits the runway with their very first special guest, musical theatre star Marty Alix (https://www.instagram.com/martyalixx/), and he’s brought two haute couture films with him! First we cast a withering, Streep-esque look at the feather-light but quotable chick flick ‘The Devil Wears P...
19. The Devil Wears Prada + Phantom Thread
Twin Picks - February 01, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWalk walk fashion baby work it move that Streep crazy
18. Dr. Strangelove + Fail Safe
Twin Picks - January 25, 2020 23:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsUS/USSR relations are getting strange, love, and the Janssens are here to probe behind the red curtain in their analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' and Sidney Lumet's 'Fail Safe', a pair of twin films from 1964 both based on a terrifying cold war 'what if'. The only problem is, one is ...
17. Cats + Cat People
Twin Picks - January 18, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPut your paws up for the CATFIGHT of the century: Tom Hooper's musical failure 'Cats', and Jacques Tourneur's horrifying tale of repressed desire 'Cat People'. Let's be real Jellicles, only one of these movies has a chance at winning the siblings' vote this episode, BUT! The value of 'Cats' deser...
16. Picking Apart 2019, Pt. 2
Twin Picks - January 11, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe got 2020 vision, and this year's lookin so bright we gotta wear shades. To wrap up the last year in film and life, though, we first need to count down our top 5 films of 2019, as well as singling out the year's worst and most forgotten movies and best performances. There's some very special ...
15. Picking Apart 2019 Pt. 1
Twin Picks - January 04, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTo ring in the new year, we made an EXHAUSTIVE list of the best, worst, and most notable movies of 2019 - and we're taking an indulgent two-or-so hours to get through it all! In this first of two installments, the team counts down from their top ten to their top sixth film of the year, while als...
14. The Irishman + Once Upon a Time in America
Twin Picks - December 28, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe got two Robert De Niro, time-traversing, auteuristic, upwards-of-three-hours-long gangster sagas here for ya, boss. Which one of them deserves to be crowned 'best sadboi mob epic', and which one is gonna be sleepin' with the fishes by the end of this episode? The gang's all here in this mildl...
13. White Christmas + Black Christmas
Twin Picks - December 21, 2019 23:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis year, Santa brought us TWO monochromatically-titled movies about the holidays, and it's up to three lil Janssen elves to decide which one jingled our bells more successfully!! We check out the timeless and surprisingly progressive 'White Christmas', a 1954 Bing Crosby musical, before taking ...
12. Bicycle Thieves + BMX Bandits
Twin Picks - December 14, 2019 23:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether you're a thief in post-war Rome or a bratty bandit in 1990s Sydney, there's only one way to travel in style - get on your bikes and ride in this whimsical, bi-pedal episode! Vittoria De Sica and Brian Trenchard-Smith have both directed movies about the innate freedom and power of the bicy...
11. Showgirls + Striptease
Twin Picks - December 07, 2019 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode tests the limits of how many times we can use the words 'volatile', 'vulgar', and 'Vaseline' in one hour. Noah, Meg, and Eliza disagree on whether Paul Verhoeven's 'Showgirls' is actually a genius satire of Hollywood ambition, or just a gross movie with too much sexual waterboarding....
10. Mean Girls + Good Boys
Twin Picks - November 30, 2019 23:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJambo! Noah, Meg, and Eliza compare the 'nasty, ubiquitous' Mean Girls to the more recent 'Superbad'-but-younger/'Booksmart'-but-boys flick Good Boys. Both movies are raunchy comedies for adults, set within the world of high school and elementary school, but one is an iconic movie that Meg saw wh...
09. Ready or Not + Game Night
Twin Picks - November 23, 2019 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt was Meg, in the Conservatory, with the Lead Pipe!!! This week, the team watched the Fincher-esque 2018 comedy 'Game Night', and 'Ready or Not', an eat-the-rich slasher currently in cinemas. Both movies follow loveable characters through a twisted maze of obstacles when a murder mystery night a...
08. Olympus Has Fallen + White House Down
Twin Picks - November 17, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe United States of this podcast are pretty divided this week, with Noah and Eliza forced to watch Antoine Fuqua's 'Olympus Has Fallen' and Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down'. The highly similar 'Die Hard but in the White House' films both came out in 2013, and both are super jingoistic and co...
07. Halloween + Freaky Friday
Twin Picks - November 09, 2019 23:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsKinda late but very great, it's Twin Picks’ first ever Halloween episode!!! Of course we watched Noah’s favourite movie of all time (John Carpenter’s 1978 proto-slasher 'Halloween'), but then we sweetened the deal with Mark Waters’ Disney body-swap teen classic 'Freaky Friday', an all-time classi...
06. Billy Madison + Billy Elliot
Twin Picks - October 26, 2019 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the words of Destiny's Child, this week is all about 'Bills Bills Bills' - 'Billy Madison' and 'Billy Elliot', that is !!! We rewatched the Adam Sandler vehicle and the British dance drama to figure out which Billy goes through a more compelling transformation from boy to man, through the powe...
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