Couple Indemnity

Hal has chosen an iconic Hollywood Classic comedy film Some Like it Hot about two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) during the prohibition era who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder. 
Director: Billy Wilder
"And where did you get that phoney accent? Nobody talks loike that!"

Izzy has gone big for her next choice with Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic period drama starring Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Hal has selected another of his British comedy favourites from the 1950's with Too Many Crooks, a highly amusing spoof on crime films, portraying four would-be criminals who manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter. What can go wrong?
Director: Mario Zampi

For Izzy's choice this week, she's selected the brand-new release of the Gothic Horror remake Nosferatu, a story we are very familiar with having recently watched the silent 1920's Classic in the cinema and recorded for our Halloween episode. The film stars Bill Skarsgard as the vampire Nosferatu and Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp as the married Hutter couple, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles. 
Director: Robert Eggers

Hal has selected an absolute corker for this week's episode by choosing Boogie Nights (1997) a crazy Hollywood drama set in 1970's San Fernando Valley and focus on a young nightclub dishwasher (Mark Wahlberg) who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn in the latter part of the decade into the wild excesses of the 1980's. 
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Izzy is kicking off the New Year of 2025 with one of her favourites from recent years that is the latest adaptation of Little Women, the classic story set in the years after the Civil War:
Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg (Emma Watson), is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.
Director: Greta Gerwig

For the final podcast of the year, Hal has selected one of his British comedy favourites of the 1950's The Green Man, starring Alastair Sim playing a professional contract killer who, with his assistant, plan the murder of a prominent businessman (Raymond Huntley). The murder is scheduled to take place during the businessman's stay at a seaside hotel. However a salesman (George Cole) and his new female partner ((Jill Adams) have learned of the devious plans, and they are actively trying to prevent the murder.
Director: Robert Day

Izzy has selected one of Hal's all-time favourite films in the festive classic It's a Wonderful Life where an angel (Henry Travers) is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman (James Stewart) by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. 
Director: Frank Capra

Hal has gone very left-field for his first festive film choice as he has selected the much-maligned Home Alone 3, and why it is a sequel that should carry a far superior reputation than it does. 
In the third installment in the film franchise, with an all-new cast of actors, Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off four international criminals who are seeking a top-secret microchip in his toy car. 
Director: Raja Gosnell

It's the beginning of our festive film season and for Izzy's first Christmas choice she has gone for award-winning The Holdovers (2023), a 70's tale of a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker (Dominic Sessa), and with the school's head cook (Da'Vine Joy Randolph), a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.