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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast – “You don’t see Viggo Mortensen’s full penis”

11/02/201910/02/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Adam Robitel, Alfonso Cuarón, Anya Taylor-Joy, Awards Season 2019, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Dan Gilroy, David Fincher, Dean DeBlois, DGA Awards, Edgar Wright, Escape Room, Green Book, How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jay Baruchel, Last Night in Soho, Mahershala Ali, Marielle Heller, Melissa McCarthy, Peter Farrelly, Podcast, Richard E Grant, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Velvet Buzzsaw, Viggo Mortensen, World War Z, World War Z 2

Reviews of the week’s biggest film releases on The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, including How to Train Your Dragon 3 and Green Book.

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News Round-up – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer, Tarantino to take on Star Trek and more

10/12/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Baby Driver, Baby Driver 2, Batman, Ben Affleck, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, DC, Detective Pikachu, Dexter Fletcher, Edgar Wright, Jeff Goldblum, JJ Abrams, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jurassic World, Jurassic World 2, Kurt Russell, Matt Reeves, Netflix, News, News Round-up, Pokemon, Quentin Tarantino, Rami Malek, Rob Letterman, Ryan Reynolds, Star Trek, The Batman

DC might be on the verge of binning its Batman, DC has binned its director and a big T-Rex is binning everybody in this week’s news round-up.

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Analysis – Edgar Wright, Baby Driver and the use of music to create escapist fantasy

16/07/201718/07/2017 Tom Beasley 3 Comments Action, Analysis, Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver, Edgar Wright, Fantasy, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Musical

Baby Driver uses an eclectic musical soundtrack to illustrate its central character’s desire to escape from his life of crime and violence. It’s a masterful idea from Edgar Wright.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 63 – Has Edgar Wright created the first action-musical-romcom with Baby Driver?

13/07/201716/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Amy Poehler, Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver, Despicable Me 3, Edgar Wright, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Podcast, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, The House, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, Will Ferrell

Edgar Wright makes his triumphant return to the big screen with the precision-tooled vehicular energy of Baby Driver on this week’s episode of The Popcorn Muncher Podcast.

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News Round-up – Fantastic Beasts 2 plot details, Gosling as Wonka, Baby Driver sequel and more

09/07/201721/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ansel Elgort, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Baby Driver, Borg/McEnroe, David Yates, Eddie Redmayne, Edgar Wright, Evangeline Lilly, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Felicity Jones, Gene Wilder, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Luca Guadagnino, Marvel, News, News Round-up, Nicolas Pesce, Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Randall Park, Ryan Gosling, Shia LaBeouf, The Grudge

We’re back in the world of Harry Potter and, meanwhile, Ryan Gosling could get the keys to a chocolate factory in this week’s movie news.

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Review – Baby Driver

03/07/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2017, Action, Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver, Certificate: 15, CJ Jones, Comedy, Edgar Wright, Eiza González, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, June 2017, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Musical, Rating: Pop

Edgar Wright serves up a sensory feast of action, comedy and music in vehicular romp Baby Driver, which crackles with energy.

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The Popcorn Muncher Podcast: Episode 47 – Kong: Skull Island and podcast anniversary celebrations

23/03/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Baby Driver, Brie Larson, Catfight, Edgar Wright, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong: Skull Island, Podcast, The Matrix, The Popcorn Muncher Podcast, The Wachowskis, Tom Hiddleston

There’s a big ape on the loose and a big anniversary for The Popcorn Muncher Podcast.

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News Round-up – Thor gets a haircut, Baby Driver gets a trailer, Deadpool 2 and more

12/03/2017 Tom Beasley 0 Comment Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver, Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Danny DeVito, Deadpool 2, Dumbo, Edgar Wright, Eva Green, Ferrari, Hugh Jackman, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Spacey, Margot Robbie, Marian, Marvel, Meryl Streep, Michael Mann, News, News Round-up, Ryan Reynolds, Steven Spielberg, Taika Waititi, The Post, Thor: Ragnarok, Tim Burton, Tom Hanks, Zazie Beetz

This week, the internet mostly went crazy over Chris Hemsworth’s new hair style. Also, Jeff Goldblum is Jeff Goldblum.

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Review of 2013: 20 best films of the year

28/12/2013 Tom Beasley 7 Comments 2013, A Field in England, Alan Partridge, Alfonso Cuarón, Alpha Papa, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Wheatley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Blue Jasmine, Captain Phillips, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Disney, Django Unchained, Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Elysium, Frozen, Good Vibrations, Gravity, Idina Menzel, James Wan, Josh Gad, Joshua Oppenheimer, Juan Antonio Bayona, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Freeman, Matt Damon, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Moises Arias, Naomi Watts, Neill Blomkamp, Paddy Considine, Park Chan-wook, Paul Greengrass, Quentin Tarantino, Review of 2013, Richard Dormer, Ron Howard, Rooney Mara, Rush, Sandra Bullock, Sharlto Copley, Side Effects, Simon Pegg, Steve Coogan, Steven Soderbergh, Stoker, The Act of Killing, The Conjuring, The Fifth Estate, The Impossible, The Kings of Summer, The World's End, Tom Hanks, Top 20, Woody Allen, Wreck-It Ralph

The Popcorn Muncher’s Review of 2013 continues with the 20 best films of 2013, including a beautiful outer space masterpiece and Nick Frost wielding a bar stool.

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Top 5: British directors who are flying the flag for the UK

25/07/2013 Tom Beasley 2 Comments A Field in England, Ben Wheatley, British, Danny Boyle, Directors, Duncan Jones, Edgar Wright, Shane Meadows, The World's End, Top Five, Trance

List of five British directors who are making waves here and over on the other side of the Atlantic.

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Review: The World’s End

21/07/2013 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2013, Bill Nighy, Certificate: 15, Comedy, David Bradley, Eddie Marsan, Edgar Wright, Martin Freeman, Michael Smiley, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Rating: 10/10, Reece Shearsmith, Rosamund Pike, Sci-Fi, Simon Pegg, Steve Oram, The World's End, Three Flavours Cornetto

Review of 2013 comedy film The World’s End, which is the final entry in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. It is directed and co-written by Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg (also co-writing) and Nick Frost.

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