An American Werewolf in London
[School of Movies 2026] My favourite werewolf film, and one I watched at far too young an age (So, I'm pretty messed up, but I love movies)....
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
TV & Film
School of Movies
Super in-depth analysis of movies (and occasionally TV, and video games). Hosted by veteran podcasters Alex & Sharon Shaw with different guests for round-table chats every week.
Episodes
20 of 528 episodes
TRAILER: Castle of the Moon
It brings me great pleasure to bring you my Castlevania-inspired Lady Dracula adaptation, completed at long last, and now, here with a trans...
Rocky V + Rocky Balboa
[School of Movies 2026] The original Rocky series comes to a close... twice. For the longest time, sixteen years in fact, fans of the first...
Rocky III + Rocky IV
[School of Movies 2026] This trio of double-bills are arranged across three distinct stages of Rocky's life. As a thirty-year-old Boy he was...
Rocky + Rocky II
[School of Movies 2026] Welcome to a saga of films spanning fifty years and being more about male vulnerability and the struggle for self-es...
Flash Gordon
[School of Movies 2026] This was a commissioned show for Sarah Montgomery, though it is a film we have promised to cover for years and neede...
10 Things I Hate About You
[School of Movies 2026] The final week of Shakestember brings us to a modern teen high school adaptation that far surpasses the dodgy origin...
Much Ado About Nothing
[School of Movies 2026] For the third week of Shakestember, we move away from tragedy to comedy... except we don't really. By and large, sch...
Romeo + Juliet
[School of Movies 2026] For the second week of Shakestember, now having talked about a dozen cinematic adaptations we look at his most widel...
William Shakespeare on Film
[School of Movies 2026] Possibly the greatest playwright the world will ever see, creator of countless clever words and idioms, '"Heart of g...
Mortal Kombat II
[School of Movies 2026] Back in 2021, after a surprising 24-year absence of Mortal Kombat live action movie adaptations while several really...
Own Your Stuff
[School of Everything Else 2026] This is one of the most significant shows we have ever recorded and took an immense amount of research, pre...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
[School of Movies 2026] After an extruciatingly long five years away from this version of Peter Parker we rejoin his sad, thrilling saga. Th...
Predator: Badlands
[School of Movies 2026] Dan Trachtenberg, director of 10 Cloverfield Lane has quietly, modestly, and with surety of purpose revolutionised t...
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
[School of Movies 2026] I did not expect to be proudest of this third show on the Pirates Trilogy. While the first was spent delving into th...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
[School of Movies 2026] The original trio of Gore Verbinski Pirates films have become sacred cows to millennial movie commentators on YouTub...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
[School of Movies 2025] NOTE: This episode was originally released in 2025, a year before we covered the sequels in 2026. An extremely long-...
EPIC: The Musical
[School of Everything Else 2026] This is a commissioned show for AJ. We recorded it several months ago, but banked it until the long-awaited...
Supergirl
[School of Movies 2026] Following on from the sunny and heartfelt success of James Gunn's 2025 Superman we have the scrappy follow-up by Cra...
Toy Story 5
[School of Movies 2026] After the 2022 failure ($226m on a $200m budget) of Lightyear to succesfully spin-off from the main Toy Story franch...