The Unbreakable Movie Chain

Get ready for a twist! This week we’re covering our first M. Night Shyamalan movie: 2000’s real-world superhero flick, Unbreakable. All seems to be going well until Ed starts picking at the threads. Featuring shattered bones, shoddy parenting and vaguely-defined superpowers! “None of it makes a drop of sense.” - Ed “M. Night Shyamalan has got a gift when it comes to working with child actors.” - Gould “David Dunn might be the single dumbest protagonist I’ve ever encountered in anything.” - Ed Also Link: The Fast and The Furious 🔗 Unbreakable Directors who make cameos in their own films Trailers of the week: Monkey Man Love Lies Bleeding Immaculate Civil War Sex Lives of The Potato Men revisited CONTENT WARNING – No issues here SPOILER WARNING – All good Please do like, follow and review on your podcast platform of choice. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Threads - @unbreakablemoviechain Letterboxd - themoviechain

Brum brum brum. Fasten your seat belts, we’re off drag-racing around Southern California with one of the stupidest movies we’ve ever had the pleasure to absolutely rinse over a couple of pints. That’s right, it’s the The Fast and The Furious. Featuring: Cars, babes, and other things fourteen year old boys like to stare at. “Vin Diesel is this juvenile petrolhead Fagin with all these boring car nerd children.” - Gould “I didn’t expect to be as bored as I was.” - Ed “Surely they could have come up with a different name for the big race in the desert than Race Wars.” - Gould Also: Chaplin and the Marx Brothers Ashley Judd movies Ed attempts some maths, it doesn’t go well Link: Pleasantville 🔗 The Fast and The Furious Paul Walker performances Youtube Hole: Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Boxing Match Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times, Factory Scene Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush, Roll Dance Marx Brothers - Duck Soup, Mirror Scene Marx Brothers - A Night At The Opera, Contract Routine Classic Trailer Of The Week: The Dirty Dozen (1967) CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to worry about SPOILER WARNING – We’re getting better at this, no spoilers for other movies Please do like, follow and review on your podcast platform of choice. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Threads - @unbreakablemoviechain Letterboxd - themoviechain

Take the phone off the hook and the plastic off the couch! This week we’re opening up our cosy, black and white existence to the seductive danger of colour. That’s right, we’re covering one of Ed’s all time favourites… Pleasantville. Featuring: the warm greeting, proper nutrition and, of course, safe sex. Also: “Watching it through this time, I got really emotional.” - Gould “Joan Allen delivers arguably the greatest masturbation scene in cinema history.” - Ed “What is this organisation of small, old TV repairmen going round implanting modern teenagers into 1950s sitcoms?” - Gould Link: The Wizard of Oz 🔗Pleasantville The mixing of black & white and colour cinematography for storytelling purposes CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to see here SPOILER WARNING – Not a one Please do like, follow and review on your podcast platform of choice. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Threads - @unbreakablemoviechain Letterboxd - themoviechain

The Wizard of Oz (1939) I don’t think we’re in our cupboards anymore! This week, we’re strapping on our ruby slippers and hitting the yellow brick road to find out if there really is no place like home. That’s right, it’s time for a certified classic… we’re watching The Wizard of Oz! Featuring apple fights, homesickness, and “I want” songs! A word of warning. One of us quite strongly took against this film, while we wouldn’t normally warn you of this, we are aware of how important The Wizard of Oz may be to some of you, and we don’t want to cause any hurt. As ever, our opinions are just those of two idiots. Also: “I was surprised by how much I hated it.” - Gould “I think it’s a cold, cold heart that can’t be warmed by The Wizard of Oz” - Ed “I find the munchkins really upsetting to look at.” - Ed Link: The Bad and The Beautiful 🔗The Wizard of Oz Art Director (and serial Oscar winner) Cedric Gibbons Content Warning – Contains discussion of outdated language regarding little people. Spoiler Warning – A spoiler for Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Potentially a spoiler for One Life. Judy Garland and Ray Bolger reminisce Judy Garland and Ray Bolger singing If I Only Had A Brain Sir Nicholas Winton on That's Life Please do like, follow and review on your podcast platform of choice. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Threads - @unbreakablemoviechain Letterboxd - themoviechain

“If you dream, dream big”. This week we’re taking one last look at the studio system, this time it’s Vincente Minnelli’s multiple Oscar-winner The Bad and the Beautiful, from 1952 – a tale of Hollywood ambition and betrayal starring Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner. Featuring eavesdropped phone calls, drunken starlets and OSCARS!! Also: Festive comfort watches Bleak crime drama The Boy and the Heron “He’s a big success as a producer, and we know this because he’s grown a moustache.” - Ed “There’s something interesting in them as 1950s nepo-babies.” - Gould “It took me quite a while to realise Lana Turner was Lana Turner.” - Gould Link Barton Fink 🔗The Bad and the Beautiful Depictions of the Hollywood studio system CONTENT WARNING – The movie contains a suicide attempt, which we discuss SPOILER WARNING – Should be fine here Please do like, follow and review. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Threads - @unbreakablemoviechain Letterboxd - themoviechain

Ho ho ho! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Now that the festivities are out of the way, it’s time to pull the Movie Chain crystal ball out of the attic, and gaze upon the wonders that 2024 promises to inflict upon the movie-going public. Turns out there’s a lot to get excited for, including new offerings from Bong Joon-Ho, Jonathan Glazer and Yorgos Lanthimos. But first we have to cut a path through a thicket of sequels, prequels, reboots, spin-offs and other cash-ins from the Franchise Nightmare Universe. We do just that, so you know what to look out for in the new year! “I don’t think there’s a more try-hard actor in Hollywood than Ryan Reynolds.” - Ed “He’s somehow been allowed to make another feast of antisemitism… I have nothing but contempt for that movie.” - Ed “At least there was a handy child planted in the first film that they could use as a grown-up.” - Gould CONTENT WARNING – A lot of potentially controversial opinions in this episode. Including on Ryan Reynolds, Planet of the Apes, Mel Gibson and many others. Come at us. SPOILER WARNING – Here’s a spoiler… 2024 will feature a lot of films you’ve basically already seen. Please do like, follow and review. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Letterboxd - themoviechain

Checking in? This episode we're feeling the heat and peeling back the wallpaper to take a look at the Coen Brothers' early masterpiece, Barton Fink. What's in the box? It may look like a long one, but the last 15 minutes of this ep are dedicated to a spoilery Saltburn stand-off. Also: Napoleon, The Peasants and some tough truths about 2001: A Space Odyssey. "The Common Man is a choir of Fishmongers" - Gould "That's what his job is, is to suffer" - Ed "I'll just be a writer then. Rather than a WRITER" - Ed Link Mulholland Drive 🔗Barton Fink Nightmarish depictions of Hollywood CONTENT WARNING – Brief allusions to murder SPOILER WARNING – Potential spoilers for Se7en and The Sixth Sense, but it could be one of those "if you know, you know" things. Please do like, follow and review. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod Letterboxd - themoviechain

"Howdy!" We’ve cleaned off the Alabama mud from our last time out, and we’re heading to the bright lights of The City of Angels to take in David Lynch’s fevered Hollywood nightmare, Mulholland Drive. Armed with Lynch’s own clues/red herrings. Informed by the wild theories of internet obsessives. We do our very best to get to the bottom of this enigmatic puzzle box of a movie… one that placed 8th on the BFI’s greatest movies of all time. Featuring – ominous conversations, unexplained keys, crippling identity crises and a sinister cowboy. “Notice the coffee cup… which one? There are so many! Ashtrays! Ashtrays!!!” -Ed “It’s a bit of an escape room of a film.” - Gould “That’s Billy Ray Cyrus, yeah, whose acting is as authentic as his music.” - Ed Also Anatomy of a Fall, Dream Scenario, The Lost Daughter and A Clockwork Orange How long is too long for a film to be? Ed, unsurprisingly struggles with the synopsis, Gould cuts to the chase. Link My Cousin Vinny 🔗 Mulholland Drive Cinematographer Peter Deming CONTENT WARNING – Could be triggering for actors. Also brief references to suicide and sexual assault. SPOILER WARNING – We’re getting better at this, no big spoilers Please do like, follow and review. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Welcome to Alabama, land of guns, grits and the electric chair. Don’t accidentally confess to any murders while you’re here, or it’s death row for you... and if you don’t have a fast-talking New York lawyer for a cousin, you’re a goner. That’s the predicament we find ourselves in this week as we take a look at cult 90s courtroom comedy My Cousin Vinny. Featuring mud, inappropriate courtroom attire and Barry off Friends! Also: “What is a grit?” - Gould “Is it a punch? It doesn’t look like a punch. The sound effect is definitely a punch.” - Ed “The more we’re talking about it, the more I love this film.” - Gould Link Pet Sematary 🔗My Cousin Vinny Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall to Fred Gwynne as Judge Chamberlain Haller CONTENT WARNING – Should be fine here SPOILER WARNING – Don’t think we dropped any major clangers this week Please do like, follow and review. Also, we’d love to hear from you, get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Sometimes dead is better. For this week’s episode we’re continuing our dalliance with the undead as we peak from behind our hands (at least, the more squeamish of us did) at the 1989 version of Stephen King’s most horrifying novel… Pet Sematary. Featuring terrible parenting, inevitable roadkill and the most adorable zombie in cinema history. Also “The cat comes back with big yellow eyes, which means it’s evil now.” - Ed “The pet sematary looks like a Halloween display outside someone’s house.” - Gould “It’s basically anti-truck propaganda.” - Ed Link: Frankenstein 🔗 Pet Sematary The raising of the dead CONTENT WARNING – Can’t talk about this movie without talking about untimely death of all varieties, so we do. We try to keep it light, though. SPOILER WARNING – One of us drops a spoiler for The Da Vinci Code. The other has never seen it. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

What’s your favourite movie monster? This week we’re shamelessly jumping on the Halloween bandwagon to bring you a special bonus episode… counting down our all time favourite movie monsters. Will we agree on what constitutes a monster? Gould can barely agree with herself! Also “I think you’ve set yourself some bonkers criteria.” - Ed “He is so charismatic… he’s very, very sexy!” - Gould “The thing that gets me most, is the noise.” - Ed CONTENT WARNING – Some scary monster noises… ooooh SPOILER WARNING – Ed dropped some Lord of the Rings spoilers, the damn fool. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

It’s alive!! This week we’re getting down and dirty with the resurrection men to retrieve bodies for reanimation, then sitting back to watch the horror unfold in James Whale’s 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein. We all know that Frankenstein’s the doctor and his creation’s the creature, right? But which one’s the monster? We try to untangle this conundrum while examining the film as an early example of queer cinema, before tackling the real burning question… why on earth did they rename him Henry??? Also Gould somehow found time in her Shocktober challenge to catch up with a comedy classic Saltburn, The Lesson and The Creator The relentless movie factory that was the studio system blows our minds “Even some of the most respected publications say Frankenstein and are referring to the monster” - Gould “It’s interesting how we’ve moved on, because I wouldn’t have a problem showing this movie to anyone over the age of about eight.” - Ed “It made me cry. And you know how I don’t like to feel my feelings.” - Gould Link: Jurassic Park 🔗 Frankenstein. John Hammond’s hubristic desire to play God to Henry Frankenstein’s identical hubris. CONTENT WARNING – The film deals with death and resurrection, including the death of a child. We also touch on director James Whale’s suicide. SPOILER WARNING – Bride of Frankenstein Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

What did you watch this summer? We’ve been on our holidays and we came back with so much to talk about that we decided to put our highlights (and lowlights) in a special bonus episode. Kicking off with a long overdue discussion of the summer’s biggest hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer, we then take a whistlestop tour of the best, the worst, and the weirdest films we watched over the summer. Featuring subway breakdowns, comedy familicide, shuttlecock football. “There was a brief period in the middle where I was quite cross with the film.” - Gould “It kind of revels and glorifies something really quite awful… what a thoroughly depressing movie.” - Ed “I cannot tell you how surprised I am to discover I loved this film as much as I did,” - Gould CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to worry about here. SPOILER WARNING – Spoilers for Barbie, Oppenheimer, Football Factory, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Hold onto your butts! This week we’re off on prehistoric safari through Jurassic Park – featuring Laura Dern’s lopsided running, Samuel L Jackson’s severed arm and Jeff Goldblum’s bare chest. Will we be consumed by our nostalgia for childhood dino-thrills? Only one way to find out! Also “I don’t know how to love something critically, I only know how to gush.” - Gould “Yul Brynner is a clever girl.” - Ed “Do you mean Muldoon, and how I want him to be my husband?” - Gould CONTENT WARNING – Nothing we can think of to warn you of. SPOILER WARNING – Some mild spoilers for the subsequent movies in the Jurassic Park franchise Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Another bonus episode for you, and this time we’re letting our imaginations go wild as we run through our all time favourite animated movies. These movies have everything: talking animals, dancing skeletons, soaring dragons… and Satan’s beautiful singing voice. “There are a lot of really wonderful, wonderful, wonderful films that are not on my list.” - Ed “With animation you’ve got the scope to tell the biggest stories in the world.” - Gould “There’s arguably not been a better Batman movie.” - Ed CONTENT WARNING – You’ll be fine here SPOILER WARNING – Some mild spoilers for the Lion King and The Nightmare Before Christmas Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.com Instagram - @unbreakablemoviechain Twitter / X - @moviechainpod Facebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Wait, what happens to Beth? In the latest episode we tackle Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel (or, more accurately, pair of novels) Little Women. Featuring marriage refusals, narrative whiplash and Beth’s Death. Also “It’s nice to know what I’ll be complaining about when I’m 50.” - Ed “That’s the thing everybody knows about Little Women.” - Gould “I wanted her to achieve Laurie.” - Ed CONTENT WARNING – This is a wholesome discussion of a wholesome movie. SPOILER WARNING – No significant spoilers for anything! Email - moviechain@outlook.comInstagram - @unbreakablemoviechainTwitter / X - @moviechainpodFacebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

In this, our first ever bonus episode, we run through our top ten favourite screen performances. Including a crossdressing musician, a sweary scotsman and a mountainous magic man. “There’s the overblown romance of one of the relationships and this is the quiet, subtle romance that touches my heart” - Gould “If he doesn’t end up on my top 10 list when we do villains, then something’s gone wrong for a lot of other people in a lot of other movies.” - Ed “You almost make me want to go and watch it, but I can’t because it upsets me too much.” - Gould CONTENT WARNING – Nothing to see here. SPOILER WARNING – We’re so sorry, we couldn’t do this without spoiling a bunch of stuff: Spoilers for Batman Returns, The Godfather, The Green Mile and The Wicker Man. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.comInstagram - @unbreakablemoviechainTwitter / X - @moviechainpodFacebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Which character’s which? On this episode of The Unbreakable Movie Chain we get lost in Sofia Copolla’s hazy, dreamlike debut feature The Virgin Suicides. Featuring sack-like prom dresses, questionable parenting, and Josh Hartnett’s Lego hair. Also “To be perfectly frank, if the film doesn’t care about these boys, neither do I.” - Ed “There’s long hair, there’s short hair and there’s the other one.” - Gould “It’s a nonsense to refer to this as her breakthrough performance.” - Ed CONTENT WARNING – As the title suggests, suicide is key to the plot of this film so we do touch on it. SPOILER WARNING – Ed spoiled Zodiac, but it’s history so he says it doesn’t count. He also spoils an episode of classic 90s childrens horror series Eerie, Indiana. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.comInstagram - @unbreakablemoviechainTwitter / X - @moviechainpodFacebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

Here’s to you, dear listeners! On this week’s Unbreakable Movie Chain, Gould and Ed come of age chatting Mike Nichols’ The Graduate. Taking your date to a strip show while doing the dirty with her mum? We call that a summer well spent. Also: “My frustration was with my own rampant disorganisation.” - Ed “You wanna lick the screen.” - Gould “He’s a neurotic mess, he’s a complete weirdo… I relate hard.” - Ed CONTENT WARNING – If chat about marital infidelity is a problem for you, give this one a miss, otherwise you’ll be fine. SPOILER WARNING – We spoil the end of Titanic but, really, if you don’t know how Titanic ends by now go away and watch it immediately, before someone ruins it forever. It’ll only take three hours of your life. Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.comInstagram - @unbreakablemoviechainTwitter / X - @moviechainpodFacebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod

On this week’s episode, Gould and Ed head out on the campaign trail for Clinton era satire Primary Colors. Featuring sex scandals, apple fritters and John Travolta’s dad-dancing. Also: “He has an instinct to over-indulge on the smell of his own farts.” - Ed. “I just find John Travolta really creepy. He’s really creepy.” - Gould. “I think he's probably the person you don't want to end up sitting next to at dinner.” - Gould. CONTENT WARNING – Contains references to suicide SPOILER WARNING – No little accidents this week, well done us! Please do like, follow and get in touch via any of the following channels: Email - moviechain@outlook.comInstagram - @unbreakablemoviechainTwitter / X - @moviechainpodFacebook - The Unbreakable Movie Chain TikTok - @moviechainpod