The Better With Booze Film Club Podcast

The Better With Booze Film Club

Cameron, Glenn and Sarah are the Better With Booze Film Club. Our mission is to watch movies and talk about them so you don’t have to. Or something. Definitely something.

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Special Episode 001: Warlock (1959) (OG BWBFC Podcast Episode 15)

Special Episode 001: Warlock (1959) (OG BWBFC Podcast Episode 15)

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week. But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast! Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the original cohosts! She joined us officially on Episode 15 of the original show, which we are sharing with you now as a special treat! Or perhaps as a device of torture! Depends on your view on Sarah and the rest of us. Have fun and see you next week!

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Special Episode 001: Warlock (1959) (OG BWBFC Podcast Episode 15)

Special Episode 001: Warlock (1959) (OG BWBFC Podcast Episode 15)

Due to an illness in the Better With Booze Film Club Podcast, we were unable to record a new episode for this week. But as a treat for all of you, we have a throwback episode to the early days of the original BWBFC Podcast! Some of you may not know that when we started the podcast (the first generation of it), our beloved Sarah was not one of the original cohosts! She joined us officially on Episode 15 of the original show, which we are sharing with you now as a special treat! Or perhaps as a device of torture! Depends on your view on Sarah and the rest of us. Have fun and see you next week!

Episode 036: The Court Martial Of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Episode 036: The Court Martial Of Billy Mitchell (1955)

Excitement meanders across the screen as a seemingly geriatric Gary Cooper wanders around trying to fight a court martial with varying degrees of confusion and self-righteousness.Recommendations:Glenn: Death At A Funeral (2007 film)Sarah: Hacksaw Ridge (2016 film)Cameron: Waterloo (1970 film)

Episode 035: The Scapegoat (1958)

Episode 035: The Scapegoat (1958)

If you really like Alec Guinness, then this film is for you. Two Alec Guinness for the price of one. Throw in a deranged Bette Davis, and you have yourself a deal!Recommendations:Glenn: Aliens directors cut (1986 film)Sarah: The Da Vinci Code (2006 film)Cameron: Feud: Betty and Joan (2017 television series)

Episode 034: Biggles: Adventures In Time (1986)

Episode 034: Biggles: Adventures In Time (1986)

If you thought the title was questionable, when until you find out that the plot involves a celebrity tv dinner entrepreneur who travels back to WWI to stop a secret German sonic superweapon. Titles not so bad now, is it?Recommendations:Glenn: Cinema Paradiso (1988 film)Sarah: Lovely, Dark and Deep (2023 film)Cameron: The Prisoner (1967 television series)

Episode 033: Coalition (2015)

Episode 033: Coalition (2015)

If you think the United States has a sometimes messy political system, this movie reminds us that others can suffer from the same problems, albeit in this case in a more stiff upper lip, British sort of way.Recommendations:Glenn: The Wrecking Crew (2008 film)Sarah: Arrival (2016 film)Cameron: Staged (2020 television series)

Episode 032: Reckless Disregard (1985)

Episode 032: Reckless Disregard (1985)

Leslie Nielsen as the baddy. Sort of. But not really. A searing depiction of the harm reckless journalism can have on an innocent man. Sort of. But not really.Recommendations:Glenn: The God's Must Be Crazy (1980 film)Sarah: Focused (2015 film)Cameron: Jojo Rabbit (2019 film)

Episode 031: Hands Of A Stranger (1962)

Episode 031: Hands Of A Stranger (1962)

It's that old cliche: classical pianists loses hands in a cab accident and needs to have the hands of a potential criminal attached to him and it somehow it turns him into a revenge filled serial killer. Yawn.Recommendations:Glenn: Moonstruck (1987)Sarah: Knives Out (2019)Cameron: The Insider (1999)

Episode 030: The Million Pound Note (1954)

Episode 030: The Million Pound Note (1954)

So what would you do if you were given a million pound note and told that if you held on to it for one month and returned it intact, you could have some sort of job? Cash the note and take the million pounds? Well that's the obvious answer, but turns out Gregory Peck decided on a slightly different route. Recommendations:Glenn: Bullets Over Broadway (1994 film)Sarah: Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993 film)Cameron: JFK (1991 film)

Episode 029: Compulsion (1959)

Episode 029: Compulsion (1959)

Orson Welles stars in the film Compulsion. And by "stars" I mean he shows up about 2/3rds of the way through the film. So obviously we're using "stars" in a sort of abstract sort of way. Better to use the word "saves". Tune in to hear our review!Recommendations:Glenn: The Castle (1997 film)Sarah: Saltburn (2023 film)Cameron: Ordinary People (1980 film)

Episode 028: The Dock Brief aka Trial and Error (1962)

Episode 028: The Dock Brief aka Trial and Error (1962)

A searing courtroom drama this is not. Peter Sellers and David Attenborough both play rather sad and lonely characters, one a murderer, one a barrister. We haven't really sold it that well here. Tune in and see if we do any better.Recommendations:Glenn: Talking Pictures (film podcast...traitor!)Sarah: Northern Exposure (1990 television series)Cameron: The Last Hurrah (1958 film)

Episode 027: Night Passage (1957)

Episode 027: Night Passage (1957)

In this week's episode, the beloved Jimmy Stewart plays the accordion-wielding hero we never knew we needed in our lives in a searing and quite heavily train-based Western, Night Passage. Recommendations:Glenn: Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981 film)Sarah: Godless (2017 Netflix series)Cameron: Women Talking (2022 film)

Episode 026: Prime Suspect (1982)

Episode 026: Prime Suspect (1982)

A searing depiction of the real life consequences of buying cookies from Girl Scouts. At least that's what we got from the film. But did we like it? Tune in and find out!Recommendations:Glenn: Sicario (again) (2015 film)Sarah: Anatomy Of A Fall (2023 film)Cameron: The Holdovers (2023 film)

Episode 025: Against the Wall (1994)

Episode 025: Against the Wall (1994)

So sometimes we end up watching a serious movie on the BWB Film Club podcast. On this week's episode, we will be taking a look at a film about the Attica Prison riot. I was going to make a pun about the cohosts rioting, but it seems a bit inappropriate given the subject matter, so you better just tune in and find out if we like the film!Recommendations:Glenn: Sicario (2015 film)Sarah: Nyad (2023 film)Cameron: The Eagle Has Landed (1976 film)

Episode 024: Account Rendered (1957)

Episode 024: Account Rendered (1957)

A British murder mystery that clocks in at less than an hour long? How bad could that be? If only there were a way to tune into something and find out...Recommendations:Glenn: Alien (1979 film)Sarah: Fighting With My Family (2019 film)Cameron: Once Upon A Time In the West (1968 film)

Episode 023: A Shot At Glory (2002)

Episode 023: A Shot At Glory (2002)

Robert Duvall plays a curmudgeonly Scottish football manager in this plucky sports film about a plucky sports team being plucky. But just how plucky was it? Tune in and find out!Recommendations:Glenn: Rocky (1976 film)Sarah: Eileen (2023 film)Cameron: Sunderland 'Til I Die (2018 series)

Episode 022: A Shock To the System (1990)

Episode 022: A Shock To the System (1990)

Michael Caine realizes he can kill people with the incredible wizard-like powers of being really lucky. Mild mannered chaos ensues. Do we like the shock that we got from watching A Shock To the System? Tune in a find out!Recommendations:Glenn: The Return Of the Pink Panther (1975 film)Sarah: The Stranger (2020 Netflix miniseries)Cameron: Godzilla Minus Zero (2023 film)

Episode 021: Madame Sin (1972)

Episode 021: Madame Sin (1972)

Meanwhile in a television development meeting..."Hey so we've got this idea for a reclusive archvillain that lives on a remote island in Scotland and experiments with deadly sound waves. Who do you think we should cast?""Sean Connery?""Oh and they have to be female.""Uh...I think Deborah Kerr is Scottish?""Oh and they need to be Chinese.""Bette Davis?""Perfect!"Recommendations:Glenn: Secondhand Lions (2003 film)Sarah: Brideshead Revisited (1981 television series or 2008 film)Cameron: Air (2023 film)

Episode 020: The Year End Special (2023)

Episode 020: The Year End Special (2023)

It's the end of the year and your favorite podcast cohosts are taking a moment to look back at the films we watched in 2023. Also we discuss some holiday classics and we become far too sentimental about spending time together! It's all in this week's special end of the year episode! Tune in!

Episode 019: Take Me Out To the Ball Game (1949)

Episode 019: Take Me Out To the Ball Game (1949)

You know those movies that people describe as "musicals for people who don't like musicals"? This film may be the opposite of that. It might be useful therapy for those who wish to ween themselves off of musicals. Despite some heavy hitting talent (pun intended), does this movie score a home run or is it out on first? Tune in and find out!Recommendations:Glenn: Casino Royale (2006 film)Sarah: The Great British Bake Off (2010 - television series)Cameron: Murder Among the Mormons (2021 Netflix documentary series)

Episode 018: The Trench (1999)

Episode 018: The Trench (1999)

Hey remember that time that James Bond and Paddington Bear teamed up to help the French beat back the Germans? No? Well let us remind you in our review of the 1999 British WWI film The Trench!Recommendations:Glenn: All the Light We Cannot See (2023 film)Sarah: Edge Of Tomorrow (2016 film)Cameron: Summer Of Soul (2021 film)