Movie The Needle

25/07/2025

New episode!

July retro looks back at Baby Driver, F1 and Sideways - so a drink driving theme!

We pick best scenes, quotes and characters and there’s a

Spotify https://tinyurl.com/s84kfsrd
Apple https://tinyurl.com/mn2ndk5f
YT https://tinyurl.com/3mb7u55s

20/07/2025

🍷🎬 MOVIE THE NEEDLE: FIRST SIP IMPRESSIONS 🎬🍷

🎙️We talk SIDEWAYS this week with our initial positions straight from the bottle before we try to Movie the Needle.

A joyous vintage, even with the bittersweet bouquet of Miles' midlife unravelling or something less floral?
🎥

19/07/2025

‼️Exciting news‼️

🗓️Starting in August we will have 4 differently themed episodes per month.

🎙️Still the same two amateurs talking crap, just slightly differently.

🎥 Looking for guests to join us on our Mashflix and Chill episodes! More to come on that.🎬

18/07/2025

This week two middle aged men have a mid life crisis and get drunk.

We also do a podcast about Sideways! 🎬🎥

What do you make of this 2004 dark buddy comedy, and more importantly, Merlot? 🍷

🎧Listen whenever, wherever with Apple, Spotify, Shakira etc.

17/07/2025

🎙️In a slight change to our scheduled broadcast we pivot to a MTN Date Night Special episode - where we see what Bradley Pittstop is like behind the wheel and share our experiences, and other nonsense, of our trip to see F1 (Colon The Movie) on the big screen

🔗https://buff.ly/4XmR3qz Listen wherever you like!

⚠️Warning - there be spoilers! ⚠️

Next week we promise to talk about a movie not based primarily in a car. 🏎️

04/07/2025

Season 4 kicks off in full throttle 🔥 Screeching tyres, banging tunes & choreographed chaos—yep, we’re talking Baby Driver. Whether you love it, loathe it, or land somewhere in between, we’ve got you covered.

🎧 New episode out now:
🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/3rbpz8h5
🔗 Apple: https://tinyurl.com/6t5h9v5n

29/06/2025

This year we’ve been trying to come up with movie hybrids - two movies mixed together which make another.

Some of them are ones we’ve covered in the pod, others are just as they come up.

Here’s our first attempt at visualising but we need help filling some gaps!

Which movies make Shoot ‘em up? Or any of the films on the first column?

Send us your thoughts

29/06/2025

Our June retro episode is available to listen to.

We chat movie news (Bond/Villeneuve).

We recap Moulin Rouge, The Big Short and Casablanca.

Top 3 Steve Carrell movies.

Tom Cruise blind ranking.

And induct more movies into our classics collection.

14/06/2025

We’ve been awful with the social posting recently, theres an episode released each and every week. If nothing else, we are consistent!

Recent episodes you may have missed:
2001: A space odyssey
Bullet Train
Sinners
Moulin Rouge
The Big Short

Plus this week we have Casablanca!

All available in our feed!

We are always looking to refine and improve and each month we cover feedback and questions from any of the films covered, so add a comment, message us or send a pigeon.

14/06/2025

Our latest episode is out, and we are in absolute classic territory with Casablanca.
It’s quotetastic, romantic and fantastic (or so Simon thinks)
Listen here:

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yeykb8sk
Apple: https://tinyurl.com/bdeubnvr
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/97hnhzfp



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16/05/2025

Just watched Fruitvale Station.
Wow. That hit hard. Feeling pretty dehydrated after that one! Powerful stuff.

If you like Coogler and Michael B Jordan, check out Sinners or…listen to our Sinners episode:

S: tinyurl.com/5n7u9e92
🍏 tinyurl.com/36bmf8uc
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CMbZ2YNnysnOYsXdREDyT

16/05/2025

Our third May episode is out today, and it’s a Date Night Special!

Check out our NEW Sinners episode:

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/5n7u9e92
Apple: https://tinyurl.com/36bmf8uc
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2f2fht6s

Recommend seeing this if you haven’t. And if you have, give it a listen!