Film Versus Film

One film is the story of a sick kid in bed hearing a love story, and the other, a love sick kid in bed, erasing a love story. One, a comical swashbuckling romance, and the other a mystery un-love story that became the poster child for the genre known as ‘mind-benders’.

Join us as we wrap up the Oscars for 2024 as well as draft the seven best "Best Picture" winners from the year 2000 onward. Trivia, fun and academia.

With one week out from the Oscars, we talk through our predictions for the top awards and our favorite films of 2023. We've watched them so you don't have to!

Join us as we draft the 10 Worst "Best Picture Winners" from the Oscars from the past 23 years. Then, join us next week for our predictions for 2024, followed by our 'results card' and finally an episode where we draft the 10 Best from the new millennium. Normal episodes will resume shortly after.

We're taking take on two classics of the Holiday season. Both films have become iconic Christmas classics and both films are about a patriarch, on Christmas Eve dealing with family tensions, work tensions and that annoying wooden staircase railing. It's Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life Versus National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Listen as we further expand on growing up on Dharug land in Western Sydney. A space that has defined us as people and influenced our cultural and political perspectives for the better. Join us as we create a map of memories that are also strongly linked to our love of film!

After a slew of upsets on our “Worst 10” Draft, the team returns to rank the Ten Best films that we’ve covered over the first year on the Podcast. Join us for Trivia, strategy, betrayal and drama as we fight over the Top 10. With special guest - Poppy McKinnon.

Join us as we rank the 10 Worst Films that we've covered on the podcast so far in an exciting drafting game. Will Borat make the Top 10 Worst? Will the grubby assault storyline in Revenge of the Nerds push it to the bottom? Or will Ron Silver’s over-the-top performance place Blue Steel in last position? Listen as we battle it out!

Two of the most iconic films of all time! Films that reset the mold, caused decades of philosophical discussion and feature a protagonist who ventured into a world that is similar, yet different to our own. Join us for 1939’s The Wizard of Oz versus 1999’s The Matrix.

Two police stories set in the big city! One film stars Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie cop who is being gas-lit by a psychopath, and the other stars a slew of Hollywood leading men in a movie full of intrigue. This week we’re looking at Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.

Two fish-out-of-water comedies that took the world by storm, both of them broke box office records, both of them expanded the cultural lexicon and both films took their TV star lead actors all the way to the oscars. Today we’re talking about Crocodile Dundee and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

It's time for some maypoles and sacrifices! One film is about a very British police investigation on a small island, and the other is about American college kids visiting an overly friendly festival in Sweden. Today it’s Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man versus Ari Aster’s Midsommar.

We’re heading to the old west and looking at the portrayal of two very different cowboys. One is a pretty horrible brother-in-law grappling with his sexuality, and the other is an old widow who wants to give it all away. Today we’re discussing Jane Campion's Unforgiven and Clint Eastwood's The Power Of The Dog.

In this episode we look at two conspiratorial masterpieces that feature reluctant heroes who discover that the world around them is manufactured to control them. One film is directed by genre master John Carpenter and the other by a rising star of America's new black vanguard. Today we’re looking at 1988’s They Live versus 2023’s They Cloned Tyrone.

In this episode we are going behind the scenes with two incredible making-of-stories. One film charts the tumultuous production of one of the most famous films of the 1970’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, and the other charts the hopes and dreams of a filmmaker who inherited the dream created by Coppola, but not the audience, or privilege. Yes today we’re the Sundance Award winning American Movie to the well-regarded Hearts Of Darkness; A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.

In this episode we’re infiltrating the third reich with two WW2 epics made 40-years apart. One is a 1960’s blockbuster, the other is a knowing homage to genres. Today we’re talking about Brian Hutton’s Where Eagles Dare versus Quentin Tarintino’s Inglourious Basterds. We also talk about watching Goonies in Capetown.

A real tear-jerker, as we compare two of the most romantic films ever made! One is the story of two women who fall in love over the painting of a portrait, and the other a pair of neighboring cuckolds who refuse to commit the same act of love that has harmed them. Today we’re looking at Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love and Sceline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady In Fire

Today we’re looking at two ground-breaking horror films from the year 1960. Both films ushered in new eras of what was acceptable in the world of cinema, from morals and censorship, to form and the representation of serial killers, to the complicity of the audience. One film destroyed the director’s career, the other cemented the director as the greatest auteur of the 20th century.

Today we compare what many consider to be the best time travel film of all time to the Oscar-winning story of Aliens who teach a linguist how time doesn't work.

We're back for S02 with multiple multi-verses! A superhero 'cartoon', versus a bizarre sci-fi comedy that won 7 Oscars! What do these two films have in common? And what does the “multiverse” actually mean in a post-truth, post-science world?