083 - Chinatown

In the last episode of this season we close off the Toy Story trilogy. Logline: Before Andy leaves for college, his toys are mistakenly delivered to a day care centre. Woody convinces the other toys that they were not dumped and leads them on an expedition back home.

We are skipping Alphadog and going straight to Toy Story 2 released in 1999 starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack. Logline: When Woody is kidnapped by a greedy toy collector and is nowhere to be found, Buzz and his friends set out to rescue him. However, Woody gets tempted by the idea of becoming immortal in a museum.

We god damn near loose our noose on this weeks episode - and we like it, we like smelling with it. Tune into our review of Roman Polanski's Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Logline: Mrs Mulwray hires Detective Jake, who specializes in matrimonial cases, to spy on her husband, the builder of the city's water system. He finds himself in a web of deceit when Mr Mulwray dies.

M. Fortnight Shyamalan continues! Part 2: Signs starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix and Rory Culkin. Logline: Father Graham Hess and his family migrate to a farmhouse that later becomes the site of strange crop circles that suggest the existence of alien life.

We've been to the pictures again! We embrace our full inner dads in Christopher Nolans 2023 historical drama/thriller "Oppenheimer" starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Emiliy Blunt and Matt Damon. Logline: During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.

We embark on our first Fincher film of the podcast. Logline: Ellen Ripley's escape pod crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a penal colony planet terrorised by an alien. She rallies the inmates into killing it but realises that she is carrying an alien embryo herself.

We return to LV-426 in James Cameron's 1986 hit film "Aliens" Logline: Ellen Ripley is sent back to the planet LV-426 to establish contact with a terraforming colony. Once there, she encounters the Alien Queen and her offspring and has to fight them to survive.

Remember the leaked audio clip of Tom Cruise yelling at his crew for breaking protocol, while he is single handedly trying to save the film industry? Well, the saving grace has been released. Today we discuss Christopher McQuarrie's 2023 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. Logline: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission -- not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Final report of the commercial starship "Semi-Professionals"... Join us on an adventure on LV-426 as we pick apart Ridley Scotts 1979 sci fi masterpiece Alien. Logline: The crew of a spacecraft, Nostromo, intercept a distress signal from a planet and set out to investigate it. However, to their horror, they are attacked by an alien which later invades their ship.

Another classic “Matt’s reading the book" episode. Logline: In order to escape the prison labour, McMurphy, a prisoner, fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for the mentally unstable. In this ward, he must rise up against a cruel nurse, Ratched.