Welcome to this fortnightly podcast hosted by Ben Rose, Ian Green and Anthon Ogundimu, three former university roommates - reviewing movies like you've never he...
It's an ugly planet, a bug planet!Remember your training and you will make it back alive! Zegama Beach! Come on you apes, you wanna live forever? Medic! Take a trip down washout lane! Someone made a big goddamn mistake! The only good bug is a dead bug! You trying to be a hero Sgt? Just trying to kill some bugs sir! Service Guarantees Citizenship. At least I got to have you. Everybody fights, no one quits. Welcome to the Roughnecks. Rico's Roughnecks! Yeah, this is going to be a geek fest of an episode. Monster Bugs. Space Travel. Sci Fi Weapons. Psychics. Love triangles. Defying Gravity. Fascist rhetoric propaganda. It's all here. What more could you want from a review of 1997's Starship Troopers?Would you like to know more?
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S03E03: 10 Things I Hate About You
Join us for another showdown with Ben, Ian and Anthon and a genre rarely dipped into on Back to the Pictures. With only Hitch & The Girl Next Door for company, this time round, the romcom arena gladly receives 10 Things I Hate About You. Yes, the 1999 teen classic straight from the reimagining of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. This episode, BTTP Alumnus, Heath Ledger returns and is lauded upon (as necessary) and timeless Larry Miller is shown the proper respect as well. In fact, this film is chock full of BTTP alumni including JGL & David Krumholtz. The latter, of which, plays the terrifying genius, Michael, to much aplomb. Other questions answered include, has Bianca always been this selfish? And if so, why? How much did it really cost to have Letters for Cleo up the top of the building for that final iconic shot? And most importantly, did Nigel actually come through with the Brie??!
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S03E02: Spiderman 3
Well, this one hurts. Benthonian return for episode 2 of Season 3 to review a movie that has haunted them for nearly 20 years. In this super-heroic session, the guys come out swinging with the deepest philosophical questions from a painfully abstract movie - what's with the Emo hair & eyeliner? Why does Peter act like a dick even before he meets the Symbiote?What was Harry's plan blackmailing Mary Jane, anyway? Why does Eddie Brock feel like he's a sitcom character spliced into a summer blockbuster? And what oh what did the fucking butler see? This one hurts more than a pumpkin bomb to the face...and one you don't recover from within mere hours. All this and more when the BTTP crew reevaluate 2007's Spiderman 3!
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S03E01: Shawshank Redemption
We're back, back from the future! Or the past...or days of futures past?Either way, Back to the Pictures returns for Season 3 to once more take a stroll down movie memory lane...Ben, Ian & Anthon buckle up for another round of movies they once watched together as clueless uni students between 2005 & 2009. And episode 1 starts off with a big bang. Metaphorically speaking, of course, as the Shawshank Redemption is probably the most prestigious and filmic movie reviewed yet on BTTP! This episode, the boys once again turn to the Almighty himself, Morgan Freedman and his dulcet tones to narrate a tale of injustice, corruption, hope and ultimately, salvation. And The Kurgan.
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S02 E11: The Godfather (1972) Part 2 of 2
We finally cover all the bases in the second and final part of our review of 1972's epic Mob Drama, The Godfather. In the final part of this instalment, the guys are ready for war on where this movie stands on their List of greatest movies. In the final episode of Season 2, we digest by just how far Sonny missed that punch to Carlo and continue our love letter to the Playstation 2 adaption of this very movie.Join us one last time, this season, for banter, Brando and of course, bollocks.
Welcome to this fortnightly podcast hosted by Ben Rose, Ian Green and Anthon Ogundimu, three former university roommates - reviewing movies like you've never heard before.This trio of student-loan, debt-ridden 30-somethings pledge to re-watch and re-evaluate the movies they once viewed together (usually over a Pot Noodle) during their student days. Follow them, as they discover whether their once treasured flicks still hold up against the standards of cynical life-experience and evolving tastes.Each episode, they travel BACK TO THE PICTURES, screening a movie first viewed during 2005-2009. Moreover, each week the audience are serenaded with film trivia, plot breakdowns and excruciating knit-picking guided by impossible standards. Discussions are glued together with fond memories, private jokes and aimless banter.From Ian's shoutouts to classic film characters such as 'Sausage Charlie' to his shrewd observation of supermarket trolly quantum mechanics, to Anthon's nigh eidetic attention to detail and Ben's nihilistic approach to filmic discourse, this podcast is a shout-out to the duped generation - Viva La Higher Education Act 2004!