The Good Robot Andys

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Baby Driver.

Another podcast from Glastonbury Street, just down by the wells. Andy Balaam once again thinks it’s a rollicking Disney adventure about a baby with a moustache, but Andy Cockerill raves about an amazing music-set action film that seems note perfect.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Hacksaw Ridge.

At the end of a long evening, Andy Balaam speculates that the film is about the redemptive journey of an unsympathetic ridge-hacker, but Andy Cockerill struggles through the heckling to explain it’s an inspiring and violent story of a man who refused to fight, but insisted on going to war.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Swiss Army Man.

Andy Balaam thinks it is a bleak, snowy film about a man who is lost, but Andy Cockerill explains that it is a light-hearted comedy about a man who is about to commit suicide when he meets a corpse who becomes a better friend than any he has had in his life.

(Includes bonus discussion of Wonder Woman.)

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Bonus discussion of Alien Covenant. Andy Cockerill has seen it, and recommends it to Andy Balaam, who raves a bit about Aliens.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Train to Busan.

Andy Balaam has seen it this week, but Andy Cockerill soldiers on and tells him about an incredibly fresh, gripping and heart-rending zombie fear-cry-fest from South Korea.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Kubo and the Two Strings.

Andy Balaam (who hasn’t seen it) thinks it’s a Studio Ghibli film about a boy who meets a talking guitar, and isn’t as far off as he usually is. Andy Cockerill explains that it’s a beautifully-crafted stop-motion film about a boy defeating evil with the help of the spirit of his mother who has inhabited a stone monkey.

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Andy Balaam expresses enjoyment and disappointment about John Wick: Chapter 2.

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A short tribute to Bill Paxton, including a quick discussion of Edge of Tomorrow.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Andy Balaam (who hasn’t seen it) thinks it might be a modern take on a fairy-tail taking place entirely inside a castle, with a man with a big beard, but Andy Cockerill patiently explains that it is a New Zealand comedy drama about the growth in trust between a foster father and son, with lots of humour, beautiful scenery and serious heart.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film The Girl with All the Gifts.

Andy Balaam, having heard nothing about the film except its title, suggests this is a short, earnest high-school drama ghost story with a strange final third, but Andy Cockerill clarifies that it is nothing of the sort – in fact being a medium-length zombie drama featuring a very worn-out looking post-apocalyptic-event London and some children who are also intelligent fox-like zombies.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film High Rise.

Andy Balaam heard a review so Andy Cockerill steams straight in explaining that it’s a surprisingly entertaining film that shows us how little has changed since the book on which it was based was published (in the ’70s), and provides biting sci-fi satire on the state of war between classes.

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Our tiny, slightly excitable, no-spoilers chat between recordings about Rogue One.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the 2016 film Arrival.

Andy Balaam (not having seen it) thinks it’s basically Species, but Andy Cockerill explains it’s a beautifully-made, exciting film that gives you hope in the human spirit.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) about the film Green Room.

Andy Balaam fake-guesses that Green Room is a quirky hospital comedy set during the Iraq War, and secretly really guesses that it is an actorly drama set in the green room of the Shakespeare theatre, but is pleased to be educated that Andy Cockerill that it is actually a very pure, exciting survival horror about a punk band trying to escape from some evil skinheads.

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Discussion (and lots of spoilers) of the film Midnight Special.

Without watching or finding anything out about the film, Andy Balaam decided it was a horror film about a train, with someone from 80’s TV in it. Andy Cockerill patiently puts him right – it’s a classic Sci-Fi story about a father and son that reminds him of Steven Spielberg’s best films.

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The good robot Andys dispatch Hateful Eight in 4 minutes of after-show chat.

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