Are You Movie Mad?

Smashing the windows and stealing plans for the podcast this week turns out that discussion topics would be The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The Drama, Jury Duty: Company Retreat, Last One Laughing UK series 2 and No Ordinary Heist with Eddie Marsan, before taking focus on Anthony Minghella’s final film that stars Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright, Martin Freeman, Vera Farmiga and Ray Winstone, all about London in transitional phases. Sounds like a cracking episode, best leave this on the desk and let them record it. Here, it’s done. Sorry for this lame premise of an episode description. It’s ok Andrew. Thanks Andrew. No problem Andrew, don’t mention it. I won’t, but I will write it in the description too Andrew. Oh no, now there’s a paper trail on the crime! Rats. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

As long as you’re seeing this the first 12 hours of release then April fools! But also not, because Johnny is taking over the show for real, for fun but for real, with a film about a Seal and a kid that he grew up on yet Andrew holds no knowledge of… until this episode. They also gab about Project Hail Mary, the recent Oscar ceremony, Louis Theroux Inside The Manosphere, Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come, How To Make A Killing, Colleen Hoover’s Reminders Of Him and The Magic Faraway Tree. We are an eclectic bunch. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Stepping up to the plate to watch a Bob Odenkirk film where Wills Arnett and Forte play weird brothers trying to make a baby by any means necessary, whether it’s the smart way to do it or smartless, but Andrew and Johnny find a little time to discuss the Netflix Peaky Blinders movie, Cold Storage and The Bride! THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Pick up the reports and sit in for the board meeting about AYMM, Inc as Andrew takes Johnny through John Wells’ filmography all the way up to The Pitt, they talk new Scrubs, watch Elvis’ EPIC movie, say Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die, deal with a Whistle and a Scream 7, jump on Pixar’s Hoppers, contemplate The Moment and hold onto the Dead Man’s Wire. All before Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Kevin Costner act up in a Deakins-shot drama nobody but Andrew remembers. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Our top story tonight, Andrew shows Johnny the George Clooney-directed drama about Ed Murrow and CBS News fighting Senator McCarthy’s witchhunts across America which seems to once more be very bloody relevant. In other news, Johnny watches every film in The Strangers franchise, Andrew learns Crime 101, the Fennell is Emerald for “Wuthering Heights”, The Muppet Show returns and Cliff Booth surprises in Superbowl teaser. Plus My Neighbour Totoro live on stage. All this and a link to Andrew’s epic western revenge saga THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS out now at just 99p/99c https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

We’re back together in time for Valentine’s Day and celebrating Ang Lee’s astonishing cinematic experience and Best Best Picture Loser the Oscars have ever known, Brokeback Mountain. Johnny fills in the cinematic blindspots of 28 Weeks Later: The Bone Temple, H Is For Hawk, The History Of Sound, Primate, Zootropolis 2, Is This Thing On?, Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein and Return To Silent Hill, plus how his recent rewatch of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy felt after so long away (a few years). Andrew dives into Shelter and Wonder Man before they both Send Help and pay respects on the passing of the icon, the Queen, the best of the best Ms. Catherine O’Hara. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

DISASTER: After a long recording session, it turns out the audio for one of us didn’t come through so we’re un-joined with Johnny for this look at the Matt Damon - Greg Kinnear - Cher comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, Andrew also checks out the 98th Oscar nominations, talk Hamnet, Rental Family, The Rip and Merrily We Roll Along before gathering live theatrical thoughts on new productions of Into The Woods and The Producers around London. All coming to a head in a thrilling game of conjoined film titles, trivial fun for a rough January. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

The new year kicks off in kung-fu cowboy style with the Jackie Chan-Owen Wilson two-hander from the year 2000, Andrew and Johnny try to find things to discuss after waffling on about the festive season’s watches that include Marty Supreme, Hamnet, The Housemaid, Anaconda, Song Sung Blue, Saipan, Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, Giant, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and live theatre shows The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Immersive, Oh, Mary! and Billy Crudup in (Shang)High Noon. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Well we’re ending a wild year of podcasting watching Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett and a starry ensemble spy about London in Soderbergh’s and Koepp’s best of 2025, and Andrew’s fave chill thriller comedy of the year Black Bag. There’s trivia and games and festive fun, plus talking memories of London life from an outsider and Brosnan chat because who could not? We start our commentary tracks 5 seconds into the feature film, and for this episode we hit play at 00:11:34 into the episode, if you wish to watch along. (Note, if watching on UK TV via Sky/Now you will end up being ahead of us a bunch because framerates so go ahead and pause every few minutes but please remember to click play as well) Now please, before this all goes in the Black Bag, go ahead and order a copy of THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/ Andrew co-wrote a fan film (many years ago) that is finally starting to pop up. 007 Endgame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iFs6XBgNw

And so Billy Bob Blanchettmas comes to its second and final film, the last ep of 2025 sees John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton as rival air traffic controllers seeking adrenaline rushes (and a side of cucking too). Ho ho ho? There’s time before lift-off to talk Zootropolis 2, Wicked: For Good, Wake Up Dead Man, Oh. What. Fun., the Fortnite Kill Bill short, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t and Blue Moon. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/ Andrew co-wrote a fan film (many years ago) that is finally starting to pop up. 007 Endgame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iFs6XBgNw

HAPPY BILLY BOB BLANCHETTMAS! It’s a month to celebrate 2 actors, together. Which this time means hey, we’re getting some Bruce too, robbing banks and exploring polyamory together. Throw in Andrew finally catching Johnny’s favourite film of 2025, Girls & Boys, plus more Pluribus talk, Jay Kelly chat, a look at Nuremberg and Keeper to boot. What a joy, what a wonderful time at the podcast house. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/ Andrew co-wrote a fan film (many years ago) that is finally starting to pop up. 007 Endgame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6iFs6XBgNw

It’s time to saddle up with the Griswold family once more before Thanksgiving (Wicked For Good release), this time headed to Vegas for the F1 race, and we’re chatting The Running Man, Predator: Badlands, Pluribus, Dragonfly and Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein as well let it ride and double down, bet the house and throw our craps. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

November, where nothing bad ever happened to a Kennedy, and we’re watching the strangely vast ensemble perform for Emilio Estevez in the build up to an event that would land us where we are now, I guess (among many many other things) and play a game of Casting Kennedys. Also, Johnny catches up on I Swear, there’s chatter about the Roofman, Bugonia, Shelby Oaks, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Mastermind and Johnny has specific thoughts, with slight spoilers, on the film Regretting You. What an ensemble we made ourselves, we are the Emilio Estevezes (Estevee?) of podcasting. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Shocktober comes to a wet and wild end with the Canadian-posing-as-American teen slasher-but-not-at-all film-barely-actually-feature-length-according-to-Academy-regulations Aquaslash. To pad out the episode’s runtime in theme to the movie we divert to discuss The Smashing Machine, Tron: Ares, Him, I Swear, A House Of Dynamite and Good Boy. Happy Slashoween or something! THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Johnny Birthday! Happy Johnny Birthday! Andrew found a Gerard Butler film on Johnny’s Letterboxd Like List and made that the film to celebrate with, building games of trivia and fun around Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Attacks On Washington and of course they CONSIDER Melissa Leo too. Sync up 5 seconds into the film at podcast runtime 00:16:32 THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Shocktober is here and it’s time to enter the town of Silent Hill with two folk who ain’t did never played a game before, really. But also talking about One Battle After Another, Hamilton on the big screen, The Simpsons Movie 2 announcement, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, The Lost Bus and Irish indie gem Girls & Boys.

Our 350th film covered! (If you include bonuses and commentaries, and you should, we still watched all of those) Fredtember ends with one of the most reviled, disgusted, discussed Razzie-winning films known to cinema. Tom Green’s creative-endeavour-to-career-ender Freddy Got Fingered, which includes a ‘fun’ Tom Green Quiz to drive Johnny insane, and Andrew offers multiple fun facts that melt Johnny’s poor brain. Plus discussion of Robert Redford’s passing, The Long Walk, Spinal Tap 2, Downton Abbey 3, The Conjuring 4, Roger Deakins In Person and The Paper. Hoo boy this one’s an epic, and very silly indeed. Dada-esque if you will, and you should not.

Fredtempber curses the cast with an imaginary friend making every situation worse, including Johnny and Andrew talking The Life Of Chuck, Eddington, Materialists, Nobody 2, Book Club: The Next Chapter, Long Story Short, the new Toxic Avenger and a Will Smith Concert! Plus trivia games, contemplations on Rik Mayall’s career and Carrie Fisher - A Legacy. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

Andrew runs his giant ego by making this month a celebration of his lineage, Jones Month, starting with the David Duchovny/Demi Moore capitalist satire, leading to talk of the old days of cinema, TV adaptations and product placement. Somehow there’s time to talk Dexter, Taskmaster New Zealand and the continuing adventures of Cliff Booth because like Chuck whose Life is told in a recent film, we contain multitudes. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/

August continues in that end-of-summer way as Andrew insists on making Jones Month a full-on thing, bringing a Gal Gadot-Jon Hamm Handsome Mann action comedy to the table to see if Johnny regrets not being born into the family Jones and not taking Andrew’s name when the podcast began like old traditions of yore. But before that finally the duo get down to talking the 2025 version of The Naked Gun, an unashamedly spoiler-heavy discussion of Zach Cregger’s Weapons, Freakier Friday and former-landlord Jim Broadbent’s horror icons - his mannequins. THE FERRYMAN UPON THE PLAINS - Andrew’s First Novel - Out Now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferryman-Upon-Plains-Andrew-Jones-ebook/dp/B0F39C3WM4/