Couple Indemnity

For Izzy's latest choice, we have treated ourselves to the popular 1987 American Romantic Comedy starring Cher as a widowed Italian American woman who falls in love with her fiance's hot-tempered, estranged younger brother, played by Nicolas Cage.
Director: Norman Jewison

Hal has selected the next major Hitchcock movie this week with North by Northwest (1959), the iconic spy thriller starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. 
A New York City advertising executive (Grant) goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Izzy has this week selected the 1991 remake of the romantic comedy Father of the Bride, written by Nancy Meyers.
Steve Martin portrays George Banks, a businessman who becomes flustered while he and his family prepare for his daughter's marriage.
Director: Charles Shyer

For our latest episode, Hal has chosen the 2011 American crime comedy film Horrible Bosses, that follows three friends, played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis, who decide to murder their respective overbearing, abusive bosses, portrayed by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell.
Director: Seth Gordon

Izzy has gone highbrow this week and has selected the much-acclaimed 1959 French New Wave Romantic Drama Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).
A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) talks to her lover (Eiji Okada), a Japanese architect, about their past and shares her perspectives on the Hiroshima bombing before separating from him.
Director: Alain Resnais

We are back with another episode covering the Jeremy Brett Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series, this time discussing the fourth episode of the series, first aired in May 1984: The Solitary Cyclist. The plot follows a mysterious man on a bicycle who repeatedly trails a young music teacher as she cycles along a lonely country road in Surrey.
Director: Paul Annett

Today, we are joined again by Scott to review the wonderful British classic A Matter of Life Death (1945) set in England during WWII, where a British pilot (David Niven) who had cheated death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl (Kim Hunter).
Director: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
 

Izzy's latest choice is the 2007 highly acclaimed Neo Western Crime Thriller No Country for Old Men, that follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), a Vietnam war veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a hitman who is sent to recover the money, and Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a Sheriff investigating the crime. 
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen

For Hal's selection this week, we are covering our first Charlie Chaplin movie for the podcast, with The Gold Rush (1925), that we were fortunate enough to view at a London cinema screening in the presence of Paul Merton and Spencer Chaplin.
A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl (Georgia Hale) he sees in a dance hall.
Director: Charlie Chaplin

Izzy has returned to the musical genre this week and has selected the 2018 musical drama Wild Rose starring Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters.
Amidst several difficulties, a single mother of two (Buckley) and a former convict from Scotland, Rose-Lynn, tries to pursue her dream of becoming a country singer.
Director: Tom Harper