The Arts Hole
A long stare into the pop culture abyss as one award winning script writer and one unemployed drunk try to take films, TV shows and books apart and work out what‘s gone wrong.
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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Ralph Fiennes was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as the outrageous, homicidal chef in this new horror comedy but is it a potboiler or just a load of old ham?
Plus we're back! - to say we're going again, but just for a bit...
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Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Join us and Disco the Podcast Puppy for 2022's New Year round up episode in a new awards format we're calling 'The Holeys'! Does it work? You be the judge of that as we judge the film and TV of 2022.
SHOW NOTES:
All the titles we talked about in the order I can remember them in as I type this, plus where to find them.
TV:
Peacemaker - Sky
Minx - Paramount Plus
Inside Job - Netflix
Invincible - Amazon Prime
Severance - Apple TV
Succession - Sky
The Boys - Amazon Prime
Blackbird - Apple TV
Barry - Sky
Girls5Eva - Sky
She Hulk: Attorney at Law - Disney Plus
Everything I Know About Love - BBC
The English - BBC
Only Murders In The Building - Disney Plus
MOVIES:
The Banshees of Inisherin - Disney Plus
Glass Onion - Netflix
The Lost City - Amazon
Bullet Train - Amazon
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Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Perhaps inevitably, we have reached the point where we had to acknowledge the existence of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Jingle All The Way' Some of you asked for this. You sadists. You unhinged, coal-hearted monsters.
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Back Door Santa if you think the song title's spicy wait till you hear the lyrics...
Our Free Christmas Movie Bingo
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Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Back for more punishment, we return to regular programming with critical punching bag 'Falling For Christmas' Expect meaningful baubles, magic Santas and sexual chemistry like two genitaless snowmen. Ho-ho-oh-no-Lohan.
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Our Free Christmas Movie Bingo
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Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
An update and a round up of what we've been watching, where we've been and what we think of Wednesday and the Wonder. That's what, where, Wednesday and Wonder.
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Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Under pressure from Amazon Prime recommendations and our peers, we grit our teeth through Moonfall, a film which imagines (wrongly) what would happen if the moon... fell.
It's the most distressing space-based project shown to a global audience since the Challenger disaster.
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Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Olivia Wilde took "difficult second project" to new heights with a movie that has generated FAR more publicity for its director's behind-the-scenes behaviour than anything else.
We checked to see if the film itself was actually any good. Which it wasn't. Which is why it's on our show.
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Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
A roundup of everything Halloween-y for the hallowed weenies who listen to our show.
TV, film and a couple of books for our Amish listeners, who presumably have the show transcribed onto slates and delivered to them by hand. It's an entirely separate Patreon tier...
All recommendations from the last couple of years but if you're looking for our classic horror picks then have a scroll to find our Halloween Recommendations 2021 episode! #JusticeForAnnieWilkes
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Run! Don't walk from...THE BLOB! Advice that really only applies to 1988's 'The Blob' which really shifts it unlike 1958's 'The Blob' which, well, keeps blob-blob-blobbing along.
In this Halloween edition of our Masters & Disasters series we have a rare remake which tops the original despite the fact it stars Kevin Dillon (or does it?)
SHOW NOTES:
Watch 1988's The Blob for free on Youtube.
You can also watch the 1958 The Blob free on Youtube.
That original theme tune ear worm - listen at your peril...
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Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
In typically iconoclastic fashion, John Carpenter's 1988 movie 'They Live' manages to be both iconic and largely ignored. We dive into an almost-great film in which wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper learns that the world is run by inhuman parasites and all advertising is objectively evil. He's basically a very buff, thirty-five year old man with the brain of most of the guys from your first year of university.
Incidentally, we recorded this ahead of the Tory leadership vote in the UK, with no idea how much of a clown show that would have become by the time we released it...
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