The Cinemile

The AJLT S3 trailer has just dropped. To help you prepare for the new season, we’re resharing our S2 review where Cathy was joined by author and podcaster Rosemary Mac Cabe to dissect every plotline and the MANY characters in And Just Like That S2. Full of spoilers throughout! For our regular TV reviews, plus retro movies, join our Patreon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from a family movie experience that our kids will never forget, and that we are struggling to remember. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we watched Adolescence on Netflix. Blood Red Sky written by Cathy’s sister Sara will be published at the end of 2025. Learn more about the book and the work Sara does here. Learn more about the smart phone free childhood movement and pact here (for the UK) and here (for Ireland). And some analysis of what kids think of knife crime and social media here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PLEASE PUT THIS EPISODE IN YOUR EARPHONES. YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY. We didn’t make it to the cinema this week so we’re sharing this episode from our patreon. Every month we watch a retro movie along with our patrons and it’s a blast. There are 66 more retro movie reviews over at our patreon channel The Cinemile High Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When I returned home yesterday, I found a cinema stub in our ensuite bin for a movie named "Black Bag". This morning I asked Cathy if she wanted to go to the movies tonight to see a movie, I'd heard "Black Bag" was good. She said "interesting, I've never heard of it." And now here we are. The game is afoot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home seventeen times from Bong Joon Ho's newest film, starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from the record-breaking Oscar winning movie Anora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked from one end of The Gorge to the other. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this bonus episode Cathy is joined by lifestyle and health journalist Emer Harrington. They discuss the Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, about the downfall of wellness scammer Belle Gibson. Head here to read Emer's journalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from the long-awaited sequel to Edward Norton's Incredible Hulk movie. Note: Before you all email in, yes I thought the character with the big brain was called Brainiac, but I now know that is a completely different DC character that is green and has a big brain. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from Bridget Jones' final diary entry on Valentine's Day. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from this surprisingly good horror-comedy-sci-fi-romantic-crime-caper, starring Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave walked home from September 5, a movie about the sports broadcast team that covered the hostage situation at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich. Subbing in for Cathy this week are Dave's friends Peter Tobin and Tom Fitzpatrick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from one of the most tedious cinema experiences we've had in a long time. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over on our patreon page The Cinemile High Club, we're going to be doing weekly recap episodes of Severance Season 2, the incredible Apple TV+ show created by Dan Erickson, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Christopher Walken and Tramell Tillman. Here's our first spoiler-filled discussion of S2E1 as a preview. If you'd like to join up for the rest of the weekly eps, just head over to our Patreon page and help support our show for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from this charming Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin movie, in which the real pain was the friends we made along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instead of a cinema trip this week, we decided to dig into Squid Game Season 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's our spoiler-free roundup of our year in TV for 2024. As always our lists are a secret until we start recording. We run through our top 5 best TV shows, honourable mentions, Best Binge, our Biggest Disappointments, and our Worst of the year. Plus loads of great recommendations from our Patrons. We cover a lot of shows here (good and bad), including The Penguin, Mr and Mrs Smith, Sweetpea, Fallout, House of the Dragon, The Boys and more... To support the podcast and hear dozens of extra movie and TV reviews, head over to patreon.com/thecinemile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you to all of our wonderful listeners for walking home from the movies with us this year. Here's our roundup of our year in movies, including each of our Top 5's, our Honourable Mentions, our Best Cinematic Experiences, our Most Disappointing and our Worst movies of the year. As always our lists are secret from each other and there are no spoilers for anything here. Some of the movies we chat about include Furiosa, Emilia Perez, Conclave, Kneecap, Challengers, Trap, Wicked, Dune Part Two, The Substance and more... Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave and his friend Joe Kiely walked, drove and trekked through Cork looking for any cinema that would show them this movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We took the kids to see Moana 2 and we all had very different reactions. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home with Cathy's mom Linda from this Cillian Murphy-fronted adaptation of the Claire Keegan novel. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked the yellow brick road home from Wicked: Part One. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We took a walk to the gates of hell and back again with Ridley Scott's sequel to Gladiator, starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had a nice family outing to the third Paddington movie, which is far better than most kids films, but unable to hit the high bar of the previous two. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked and talked about the fantastic papal thriller Conclave that we saw at the Opening Gala of the Cork International Film Festival. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We went for a walk and a talk about Anna Kendrick's directorial debut Woman of the Hour - based on the true story of a serial killer's apperance on popular 70s TV show The Dating Game. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from The Apprentice - an incredibly unsettling villain origin story starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of SA Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from a family trip to one of the best animated films of the year, The Wild Robot. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We could have walked home from any movie, but we chose this one. Uglies - a Netflix dystopian YA novel adaptation arriving 15 years after that trend ended, in which the world is divided between the "Uglies" and the "Pretties". Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's a spoiler-filled preview of one of our most recent patreon-exclusive episodes over at The Cinemile High Club. Join up to hear the full episode and to gain instant access to more than 60 retro movie episodes (most recently including This Is Spinal Tap, Bowfinger and Beverley Hills Cop), monthly spoiler-free roundups of what we're watching on TV and spoilery deep dives like the one you can hear on this preview. It costs €2.50 a month for the monthly retro movie club (that you get to vote on each month) or €4 a month for that plus all the TV stuff. You can also sign up for a seven day free trial and see how much of the back catalogue you can consume for free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had a very unhappy walk home from yet another Joker movie. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We were pretty stunned walking home from this body horror starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid and written/directed by Coralie Fargeat. The books that I mentioned at the end of this episode are Lucky's Woods, After Arrival and Two Bodies, by my friend Massimo Paradiso. You can buy them from his website here. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We set the juice loose in front of a live audience at the Cork Opera House as part of the 2024 Cork Podcast Festival. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We took the kids to go see a Star War. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave and his friend Lee Gant walk home from the newest Alien film, directed by Fede Álvarez. Here is the link to the short film that Lee wrote, called Two Man's Land. There are still tickets available for our live show at the Cork Podcast Festival on September 15th, we'd love to see you there, tickets available here. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from Ireland's official Oscar entry, Kneecap. Tickets for our live show at the Cork Podcast Festival are still available, we'd love to see you there - you can buy tickets here. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turns out WE were the ones trapped... by this movie. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had an appropriately windy walk home from this unlikely legasequel. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from the only MCU film to be released this year. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, and directed by Shawn Levy. On a separate note, we're doing our first live show in years at the Cork Opera House as part of the Cork Podcast Festival on September 15th at 5.30pm. We'd love to see you there, book tickets here. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're on holidays this week, so in honour of M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming movie Trap, we thought we'd re-release an Old episode. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon where we have dozens of bonus movie and TV reviews. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Follow us on Twitter Or Facebook Or Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We did a back-to-back double-bill of the original Beverly Hills Cop and the brand new one that just dropped on Netflix. Join our Patreon here to listen to our first-time watch of 1984's Beverly Hills Cop. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We quietly walk home from A Quiet Place: Day One, the latest entry in the quietest horror franchise around. Starring Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two cinema trips later, we walked home from Inside Out 2, the Disney/Pixar movie that's currently destroying the box office. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over on our Patreon page The Cinemile High Club we're going to be doing weekly recap episodes of HBO's House of the Dragon S2, so here's the first episode of that free of charge. We'd love if you could join our lovely community and support The Cinemile over at the page and let us know your thoughts on the new season. You'll also get access to over 50 retro movie reviews, including Unforgiven, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Robocop and more... And you get monthly TV roundups and spoiler specials, covering Baby Reindeer, The Boys S4, X-Men 97 and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our kids insisted we see The Garfield Movie, the latest step on the road to having Chris Pratt voice every animated character in existence. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We both had very different reactions to Richard Linklater's new "comedy" starring man-of-the-moment Glen Powell. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's a preview episode from our patreon page The Cinemile High Club, in which we discuss the Jennifer Lopez Netflix sci-fi thing, Atlas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the full immersive Mad Max experience, we chose to drive to this movie with very little petrol. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a prequel to George Miller's 2015 epic Fury Road, starring Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth. Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We walked home from the first big blockbuster of the summer, in which Ryan Gosling's stuntman must win over Emily Blunt's director, while finding the movie's missing star. Written by Drew Pearce and Glen A.Larson and directed by David Leitch. Don’t forget to check out our Patreon for TV reviews and retro movie reviews Subscribe to us on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts Subscribe to us on Youtube Follow us on Letterboxd Follow us on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices