18 - We're Back!

Rance and Steve get together to talk about this year's Oscar nominations because Rance actually likes films and because he has gathered a substantial dossier of kompromat on Steve. The others didn't even turn up. Maybe they're dead. Maybe Rance killed them.

After an undefined period of time, four of our favourite CUTS crew members have found their way back from the wilderness and into the mossy haven of Wazza's shed. The gentle tweets of the Blue Tits are cut through with the squawks of Crows from high up above in the bare overhanging branches of the ancient Elderflower tree. Sal wraps his giant arms around his friends and leads them into unchartered waters. They feel happy to be alive and to share their friendship and insights into film with you. It's been a busy Winter, kicking off with the fabulous Shocktober festival and massive surprises with Secret Santa. CUTS have defined what a cinema is all about and this roving team of film lovers take us on another journey into what it is like running Oxford's best cinema ever. Plus there's a sneak peak into the film choice for their next cinema night. Thank you for listening. 

"Keanu Reeves vehicle bombs" could describe a number of his early movies but it's also the plot of the film that put the BUS in Blockbuster (then ramped it off a bridge and into a plane full of explosives) - Jan de Bont's 1995 amphetamine fuelled action classic, Speed. Join Jimbo, Waz and Sal as they discuss the backdrop to another dynamite CUTS night.

Sal, Rance, Wazza, Joe, Jimbo and Steve are back! Except without Rance, Joe and Jimbo! The good ones turned up though and we talked about Steve's first choice for CUTS: the legendary 1987 sexy teen vampire black comedy horror music video, Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys. Join us as we try, with limited success, to remember what the night was like.

Shocktober 2021, Oxford's smash-hit horror festival draws to a close for another year. We'll be bringing you a full CUTS squad round up of the event shortly but as an appetiser, here's Rance talking to one of his favourite modern writers, Edward Parnell, author of The Listeners and Ghostland - In Search of a Haunted Country.   Find out more about Edward here: https://edwardparnell.com/

The first film of the new dawn of CUTS was Top Secret! Our beloved audience arrived, compelled by curiosity, filing in to the Tap Social, desperate to discover the identity of the mystery film. We could only repeat that it was Top Secret! Maddened by frustration, the crowd cried. "TELL US WHAT FILM IT IS!". "It's Top Secret!", we replied in earnest. Rioting broke out, chairs were thrown, people on fire dove through windows, pensioners with machine guns charged through the bar on horseback. Music by Tiger Mendoza

For months, we've been looking at each other through rectangles like that guy in Midnight Express when his girlfriend visits and Sal unbuttons his shirt and cries a bit while Steve gropes the glass and starts desperatBUT NOT ANYMORE! Finally, thanks to science, we're back. Bigger, balder and better than ever. Join us around the table as we luxuriate in each others' miasmas and get excited about the rebirth of the greatest cinema experience on this, or any other, planet. The check it out for yourself list: [REC] : https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/rec Nobody: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/nobody Psycho Goreman: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/pg-psycho-goreman Cannibal Ferox: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/cannibal-ferox Reanimator: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/re-animator My Octopus Teacher: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/my-octopus-teacher Donbass: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/donbass Kiss Me Deadly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 The Asphalt Jungle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042208/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 They Live by Night: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/they-live-by-night

Horsemouth: "I-man serve Selassie I continually. No matter what the weak heart say. And I know that I & I is like a tree, plant by the river of water, and not even the dog that piss against the wall of Babylon shall escape this judgment. For I & I know that all of the youth shall witness the day that Babylon shall fall!" Joe and Wazza trudge up a muddy hill to share their love of Rockers, the 1978 masterpiece directed by Ted Bafaloukos.

Rance has found himself at Her Majesty's pleasure after his sausage slinging scheme went south. Worse still, he's been subjected to a modern day version of the Ludovico Technique in a pointless attempt to prepare him for civil society. Let's listen in on his phone call to Sal and find out what four hours with Zack Snyder's Justice League can do to a man's mind.

Hello You! Because we just can't help ourselves, we've done another Lockdown Special. For this one Sal and new boy Steve are getting overexcited about one of their favourite films; a touching love story about a young policeman, his large automatic pistol and the heartless business men that try to keep them apart. Light a scented candle, run a hot bath and relax as CUTS takes you on a journey into the magical world of Old Detroit.