The Arts Hole

Borderlands

Director Eli Roth is handed an easy project: adapt a successful video game franchise with a built-in story and pre-established sense of humour. How does he do?
Let's not feign suspense. Even non-gamers were aware of what a calamity this became. Join us on the deserted wastelands of the Planet Pandora as we explore the deserted wasteland of ideas that is Borderlands.
 
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Link to the first game's introduction scene, which is better than the entirety of this film.
Corridor Crew look at Megalopolis
 
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The Holey Awards 25

As awards season heats up, we look back at what we've enjoyed over the past twelve months. It's still an audio only-show, so you'll just have to believe us that all famous recipients turned up to collect their trophies, they were just too shy to be on the show. Thanks to Elton John for hosting the after-party.
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Nightbitch

 She is woman, hear her bark. And complain.  Mostly the complaining thing, actually.
 Amy Adams has a baby and finds herself turning into a dog, in a movie that rapidly goes astray until we're all ready to sit up and beg for a plot. It's pretty ruff. At least, according to this wag.
 ...kibble.
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Bonus episode: The Santa Clause

 There's white powder everywhere and Tim Allen is in a lot of trouble! What is this, an airport in the seventies?!
 No. It's a seemingly lightweight Christmas movie that neither of us had ever seen, which turns out to be more depressing than watching a reindeer choke on a lump of coal.
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Tim Allen was a drug smuggler: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tim-allen-arrested-smuggling-cocaine/

Red One

 Two hugely popular stars in a festive buddy romp?! How can this be anything less than "alright as something to stick on over Christmas," without ever exceeding that exact level of quality?!
 We take a look at 'Red One', a film that's... fine.
 
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Variety article that mentions how Sony weren't actually banned from using Spider-Man in their Spider-Man-less Spider-movies: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/kraven-sony-marvel-movies-not-dead-1236249221/

Madame Web / Hot Frosty

 As 'Hot Frosty' turned out to be a lot better than it had any right to be, we moved straight on to 'Madame Web.' How bad could it be?
 Bad enough that it taints everything even tangentially related to spiders. Ziggy Stardust is a worse album because this film exists. You will no longer want to see things on the web because this film exists. Dakota Johnson is... No, alright, she seems like she was always awful. 
 
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Saltburn

Get ready to feel the burn! ...Is absolutely not the tagline for this film. Although it should have been.  Divisive, weird and a clash of social classes, our podcast is all of those things this week as we look at Emerald Fennell's controversial, homoerotic, twisty, semi-satirical, possibly plagiarised film Saltburn. 
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Broey Deschanel's video essay 'The Untalented Mr Ripley' 
Robot mushrooms; be afraid 
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Joker: Folie à Deux, Heretic, The Substance & Updates

 An update on where we've been, what we've been watching, and our thoughts on a movie that has been called "horrible" and "the worst movie ever made" by the people who were in it. In a year where Dean Cain released six films, that CAN'T be true... 
 
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The Haunting

 Director Jan de Bont, having exhausted all his pacing directing "Speed," delivers a grindingly slow haunted house movie based off someone mostly remembering having once read the back cover of Shirley Jackson's novel. Catherine Zeta Jones looks fantastic, Owen Wilson looks confused, and everyone involved should look embarrassed. **Contains spoilers for The Haunting of Hill House novel**
 
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Just watch the 1963 movie
 
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The Blair Witch Project

 If you go down to the woods today, you'd better bring a tripod. Or at least someone who can hold a camera steady. Nobody told the three student film makers who were rumoured to have disappeared in the woods...
 Luke and Bea disagree - which might have been a better show title - on the merits of the iconic found footage horror film, rounding out our series on the films of 1999. SHOW NOTES: 
A couple of times we refer to 'Cinema vérité' but totally forget to explain it. Essentially it's the idea of 'fly on the wall' like the camera is just observing reality. Here's a proper explainer "What is Cinema Vérité?"
Some modern found footage horrors we love -
Cam
Unfriended
Late Night With the Devil 
Webcast
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows the most intensely 2000s thing ever
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