Stinking Pause Podcast

Chatting about movies since 2013 - some good,some not so good. @scophi @pdoleary70 @THRIIIIKER

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Redemption, hallucinations, Terry Gilliam… and then, for reasons best left unexplained, Flesh Gordon.

This week on the Stinking Pause podcast: we tackle The Fisher King, salute the gloriously battered genius of Terry Gilliam, and end with a Celluloid Stinker involving a Sex Ray. Culture? Possibly. Good judgement? Absolutely not.

https://t.co/ePO9JF9u5U

#StinkingPause #TheFisherKing #TerryGilliam #RobinWilliams #JeffBridges #CultCinema #FilmPodcast #FleshGordon

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@Bitdead77 Cheers Ian...glad you enjoyed it mate 😀

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Redemption, hallucinations, Terry Gilliam… and then, for reasons best left unexplained, Flesh Gordon.
https://t.co/ePO9JF9u5U

This week on the Stinking Pause podcast: we tackle The Fisher King, salute the gloriously battered genius of Terry Gilliam, and end with a Celluloid Stinker involving a Sex Ray. Culture? Possibly. Good judgement? Absolutely not.

#StinkingPause #TheFisherKing #TerryGilliam #RobinWilliams #JeffBridges #CultCinema #FilmPodcast #FleshGordon

[Stinking Pause Podcast @StinkingPause]

🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT: The Sublime & The Ridiculous! 🎙️Heading your way later today.

https://t.co/ePO9JF9u5U

This week on the Stinking Pause podcast, we are hitting you with a cinematic double bill that absolutely no one asked for, but everyone desperately needs!

"From the search for the Holy Grail to a quest of epic... proportions."

Here is what is on the docket for our latest episode:

The Fisher King (1991): First up, we dive into Terry Gilliam's visionary masterpiece. Join us as we navigate the gritty streets of New York with Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams on a beautifully chaotic, emotional quest for redemption, sanity, and the Holy Grail. 🏰✨
Flesh Gordon (1974): Then... we pivot. Hard. Buckle up for our review of the infamous sci-fi spoof. We are trading the Holy Grail for Emperor Wang the Perverted and a spaceship that definitely defies all laws of aerodynamics and decency. 🚀😳

Expect deep, heartfelt character analysis followed immediately by uncontrollable juvenile giggling. It is the ultimate cinematic whiplash, and you are not going to want to miss it!

🎧 Grab your headphones and tune in now wherever you get your podcasts!

#StinkingPause #TheFisherKing #FleshGordon #MoviePodcast #FilmTwitter #PodernFamily #CinematicWhiplash #DoubleFeature #PodcastRecommendation

[Reel Britannia Podcast @rbritanniapod]

Love, laughs, and a musical about an elephant. What could possibly go wrong?
https://t.co/JQd9OG8yeZ

Before Four Weddings made him rom-com royalty, Richard Curtis gave us The Tall Guy, a gloriously daft 1989 comedy starring Jeff Goldblum as Dexter King, an American actor stuck playing straight man to Rowan Atkinson’s outrageously smug stage comic. Then along comes Emma Thompson as Kate, a no-nonsense nurse with a lethal stare and even better timing, and suddenly Dexter’s life becomes a lot more interesting.

Directed by Mel Smith, this is a wonderfully oddball British comedy full of theatrical disasters, romantic confusion, awkward passion, and one of cinema’s finest fake West End musicals: Elephant! It is silly, sharp, sweet, and just a little bit rude in all the right places. Goldblum is charmingly gangly, Thompson is absolutely terrific, and Atkinson appears to be enjoying himself far too much as the world’s most unbearable comedy star.

A cult gem with big laughs, big hair, and an even bigger elephant.

#TheTallGuy #JeffGoldblum #EmmaThompson #RowanAtkinson #RichardCurtis #BritishComedy #80sMovies #ReelBritannia

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

You’re only supposed to listen to the bloody podcast.

Next time on the podcast, we’re climbing into three very small cars and heading off on one of the biggest, cheekiest and most gloriously British capers ever put on screen.

Released in 1969, The Italian Job is the film where cool Britannia, criminal mischief and precision-planned chaos all collide in spectacular style. Michael Caine stars as Charlie Croker, freshly out of prison and immediately drawn into a plan so bold it feels less like a robbery and more like a national sporting event.

The target is Turin, the prize is a fortune in gold, and the method involves timing, nerve, traffic jams, computer sabotage and, of course, three unforgettable Minis in red, white and blue.

But The Italian Job is much more than a heist movie. It is a time capsule of late-sixties Britain, full of sharp suits, dry humour, swaggering confidence and a wonderfully lopsided sense of adventure. It has Noël Coward dispensing criminal wisdom from behind bars, Benny Hill causing mayhem with improbable enthusiasm, Quincy Jones giving the whole thing a fabulous musical kick, and Michael Caine delivering one of the most famous lines in British cinema history.

The film moves from London plotting to Italian chaos with the confidence of a movie that knows exactly how much fun it is having. The Mini chase through Turin remains one of cinema’s great set pieces: nimble, inventive, and still thrilling more than fifty years later.

So join us as we celebrate The Italian Job, a film packed with charm, style, speed, cheek and just the right amount of patriotic nonsense. It is the story of a plan, a getaway, a cliffhanger, and three little cars that somehow became movie legends.
https://t.co/N7o6C7trPV

[Reel Britannia Podcast @rbritanniapod]

This time on Reel Britannia, we’re heading to 1989 for a gloriously awkward, sharply funny romantic comedy with The Tall Guy. https://t.co/JQd9OG8yeZ

Jeff Goldblum stars as Dexter King, an American actor stuck in London, earning a living as the long-suffering straight man to Rowan Atkinson’s magnificently monstrous stage comedian. It is a life of bad jokes, worse rehearsals, theatrical humiliation and the slow, grinding realisation that showbusiness may not be quite as glamorous as advertised.

Then along comes Emma Thompson as Kate, a nurse with brains, warmth, bite, and absolutely no interest in putting up with nonsense. What follows is a wonderfully oddball love story, full of Richard Curtis wit, late-eighties London charm, backstage chaos, romantic mishaps, and one of the most gloriously daft musical parodies British cinema has ever dared to unleash.

Join us as we revisit The Tall Guy, a film of lanky Americans, impossible egos, hospital corridors, theatrical disasters and romance conducted at full comic stretch. Funny, scruffy, sweet, and just a little bit rude in all the right places.

Reel Britannia, a very British podcast about very British movies... with just a hint of professionalism.

#ReelBritannia #TheTallGuy #JeffGoldblum #EmmaThompson #RowanAtkinson #RichardCurtis #MelSmith #BritishComedy #BritishCinema #FilmPodcast

[Reel Britannia Podcast @rbritanniapod]

This time on Reel Britannia, we’re heading to 1989 for a gloriously awkward, sharply funny romantic comedy with The Tall Guy.

https://t.co/JQd9OG8yeZ

Jeff Goldblum stars as Dexter King, an American actor stuck in London, earning a living as the long-suffering straight man to Rowan Atkinson’s magnificently monstrous stage comedian. It is a life of bad jokes, worse rehearsals, theatrical humiliation and the slow, grinding realisation that showbusiness may not be quite as glamorous as advertised.

Then along comes Emma Thompson as Kate, a nurse with brains, warmth, bite, and absolutely no interest in putting up with nonsense. What follows is a wonderfully oddball love story, full of Richard Curtis wit, late-eighties London charm, backstage chaos, romantic mishaps, and one of the most gloriously daft musical parodies British cinema has ever dared to unleash.

Join us as we revisit The Tall Guy, a film of lanky Americans, impossible egos, hospital corridors, theatrical disasters and romance conducted at full comic stretch.

Funny, scruffy, sweet, and just a little bit rude in all the right places.

Reel Britannia, a very British podcast about very British movies... with just a hint of professionalism.

#ReelBritannia #TheTallGuy #JeffGoldblum #EmmaThompson #RowanAtkinson #RichardCurtis #MelSmith #BritishComedy #BritishCinema #FilmPodcast

[Reel Britannia Podcast @rbritanniapod]

https://t.co/pnw750nHBE School for Scoundrels is one of those gloriously polished British comedies where bad behaviour comes wrapped in a bowler hat, a raised eyebrow, and just enough charm to make you forgive almost everything.

Released in 1960, the film stars Ian Carmichael as Henry Palfrey, a perfectly decent, painfully polite young man who seems to have been put on this earth purely so other people can walk all over him. He is outclassed at sport, patronised in business, humiliated in romance, and thoroughly flattened by the effortless arrogance of Raymond Delauney, played with magnificent smarm by Terry-Thomas. Delauney has the car, the confidence, the moustache, and the sort of social ease that makes Henry look as if he has wandered into his own life by mistake.

[Reel Britannia Podcast @rbritanniapod]

Episode 197 - The Tall Guy (1989)

“What in the name of Judas Iscariot's bumboy is going on?”

Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) is an awkward American actor stranded in London, suffering from severe hay fever and a chronic case of career stagnation. His day job consists of being repeatedly humiliated on stage as the hapless straight man to Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson), a spectacularly arrogant and insecure British comedian who wields his ego like a blunt instrument.

Dexter's miserable existence takes a sharp upward turn when a trip to the clinic for allergy shots introduces him to Kate (Emma Thompson), a brisk, hyper-pragmatic nurse with a devastatingly dry wit. Naturally, Dexter is immediately smitten. What follows is a courtship that culminates in one of cinema’s most gloriously destructive love scenes, where the sheer force of their pent-up, awkward passion obliterates an entire apartment, claiming a piano, a mattress, and several lamps as collateral damage.

However, the path to happily-ever-after is rarely smooth. After finally snapping and getting fired by the tyrannical Ron, Dexter desperately auditions for the only gig available: the title role in Elephant!, a West End musical adaptation of The Elephant Man. It is a masterpiece of terrible taste, featuring upbeat tap numbers, grotesque latex prosthetics, and lyrics that rhyme "freak" with "eek."

Just as Dexter is tap-dancing his way toward theatrical infamy, his newfound happiness with Kate is threatened by a misunderstanding and the predatory advances of his former boss, Ron. To win the girl back, Dexter must navigate the treacherous waters of opening night, outmaneuver a megalomaniac, and prove that underneath the giant, rubbery head of a Victorian medical curiosity beats the heart of a true romantic. It’s a quintessential British rom-com, laced with absurdity, sharp theatrical satire, and a deeply relatable desire to punch your terrible boss in the face.

#reelbritannia #podcast #movie #britmovie

#TheTallGuy #TheTallGuy1989 #JeffGoldblum #EmmaThompson #RowanAtkinson #BestSexSceneEver #ElephantTheMusical

[Reel Britannia Podcast @rbritanniapod]

Reel Britannia - A very British podcast about very British movies with just a hint of professionalism.

Coming soon, our next episode - The Tall Guy (1989)

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

Rainbow Valley, the podcast where your host @scophi takes a look at key events and personalities that shaped one the most influential, vibrant, tumultuous and swinging decades in history.

Join us as we celebrate the 1960’s with the stories surrounding the music and news events of the decade that shook the world.

All episodes available at: https://t.co/N7o6C7trPV

#1960s #60s #sixties #rainbowvalley #podcast

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

Rainbow Valley - the podcast that looks at the events, personalities and music that shaped the decade that shook the world-the 1960s.

All episodes available at: https://t.co/dHNYrrCm1J

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

This time on Rainbow Valley, we climb into one of the most famous little cars ever built and tell the story of how the Mini became so much more than four wheels and a cheeky grin.

https://t.co/N7o6C7trPV

Born not from glamour, but from crisis, the Mini arrived in the shadow of Suez, petrol rationing and a Britain trying to work out what sort of country it wanted to be after empire. What began as an urgent answer to fuel shortages soon became a triumph of imagination, as Alec Issigonis and his team at BMC took the rulebook of car design, gave it a firm shake, and produced something tiny, clever and utterly revolutionary.

But the Mini’s real magic came when the 1960s caught up with it. Suddenly, this practical little economy car looked perfectly at home in a world of pop music, fashion, photography and youthful reinvention. It belonged outside ordinary homes, fashionable London flats, royal residences and Beatles garages alike. Then, as if that were not enough, it became a motorsport giant-killer, conquering Monte Carlo and proving that brains, balance and British cheek could still beat brute force.

From Longbridge workshops to Carnaby Street cool, from Paddy Hopkirk’s rally triumph to those immortal red, white and blue Minis in The Italian Job, this is the story of a car that somehow managed to be practical, stylish, rebellious and deeply lovable all at once.

Join Rainbow Valley for the birth of the Mini: the tiny machine that helped define the decade that shook the world.

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

COMING SOON:

Next time on the podcast, we’re climbing into three very small cars and heading off on one of the biggest, cheekiest and most gloriously British capers ever put on screen.

Released in 1969, The Italian Job is the film where cool Britannia, criminal mischief and precision-planned chaos all collide in spectacular style. Michael Caine stars as Charlie Croker, freshly out of prison and immediately drawn into a plan so bold it feels less like a robbery and more like a national sporting event. The target is Turin, the prize is a fortune in gold, and the method involves timing, nerve, traffic jams, computer sabotage and, of course, three unforgettable Minis in red, white and blue.

But The Italian Job is much more than a heist movie. It is a time capsule of late-sixties Britain, full of sharp suits, dry humour, swaggering confidence and a wonderfully lopsided sense of adventure. It has Noël Coward dispensing criminal wisdom from behind bars, Benny Hill causing mayhem with improbable enthusiasm, Quincy Jones giving the whole thing a fabulous musical kick, and Michael Caine delivering one of the most famous lines in British cinema history.

The film moves from London plotting to Italian chaos with the confidence of a movie that knows exactly how much fun it is having. The Mini chase through Turin remains one of cinema’s great set pieces: nimble, inventive, and still thrilling more than fifty years later.

So join us as we celebrate The Italian Job, a film packed with charm, style, speed, cheek and just the right amount of patriotic nonsense. It is the story of a plan, a getaway, a cliffhanger, and three little cars that somehow became movie legends.

You’re only supposed to listen to the bloody podcast.

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

This time on Rainbow Valley, we climb into one of the most famous little cars ever built and tell the story of how the Mini became so much more than four wheels and a cheeky grin.
https://t.co/N7o6C7trPV

Born not from glamour, but from crisis, the Mini arrived in the shadow of Suez, petrol rationing and a Britain trying to work out what sort of country it wanted to be after empire. What began as an urgent answer to fuel shortages soon became a triumph of imagination, as Alec Issigonis and his team at BMC took the rulebook of car design, gave it a firm shake, and produced something tiny, clever and utterly revolutionary.

But the Mini’s real magic came when the 1960s caught up with it. Suddenly, this practical little economy car looked perfectly at home in a world of pop music, fashion, photography and youthful reinvention. It belonged outside ordinary homes, fashionable London flats, royal residences and Beatles garages alike. Then, as if that were not enough, it became a motorsport giant-killer, conquering Monte Carlo and proving that brains, balance and British cheek could still beat brute force.

From Longbridge workshops to Carnaby Street cool, from Paddy Hopkirk’s rally triumph to those immortal red, white and blue Minis in The Italian Job, this is the story of a car that somehow managed to be practical, stylish, rebellious and deeply lovable all at once.

Join Rainbow Valley for the birth of the Mini: the tiny machine that helped define the decade that shook the world.

[Rainbow Valley @rv_podcast]

This time on Rainbow Valley, we climb into one of the most famous little cars ever built and tell the story of how the Mini became so much more than four wheels and a cheeky grin.

https://t.co/N7o6C7trPV

Born not from glamour, but from crisis, the Mini arrived in the shadow of Suez, petrol rationing and a Britain trying to work out what sort of country it wanted to be after empire. What began as an urgent answer to fuel shortages soon became a triumph of imagination, as Alec Issigonis and his team at BMC took the rulebook of car design, gave it a firm shake, and produced something tiny, clever and utterly revolutionary.

But the Mini’s real magic came when the 1960s caught up with it. Suddenly, this practical little economy car looked perfectly at home in a world of pop music, fashion, photography and youthful reinvention. It belonged outside ordinary homes, fashionable London flats, royal residences and Beatles garages alike. Then, as if that were not enough, it became a motorsport giant-killer, conquering Monte Carlo and proving that brains, balance and British cheek could still beat brute force.

From Longbridge workshops to Carnaby Street cool, from Paddy Hopkirk’s rally triumph to those immortal red, white and blue Minis in The Italian Job, this is the story of a car that somehow managed to be practical, stylish, rebellious and deeply lovable all at once.

Join Rainbow Valley for the birth of the Mini: the tiny machine that helped define the decade that shook the world.

[Sarah Morgan @sarahbabsmorgan]

I'm here too, getting enthusiastic about Quatermass.

[Sarah Morgan @sarahbabsmorgan]

I talk about it on the new-look @tptvpodcast https://t.co/lkOew7srSM

[VeryBritishFuturesPodcast @FuturesVery]

A brand new Talking Pictures TV podcast for May 2026. In a new roundtable format. I'll be talking about The Mummy (1959) amongst other films. @tptvpodcast #movie https://t.co/CpPjgGszbB