The Adamsons Versus

The Adamsons Versus

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Unimaginatively named father and son team James Adamson and James Adamson, bring you a podcast where we look at a topic from recent events and see where it takes us

09/04/2024

Check out https://letterboxd.com/doublereel/lists/ for information on the films we discussed in Issue 47 and much more besides.

08/04/2024

Out Now: Issue 47 of Double Reel concludes with the Big Conversation, and now we've all had a bit of time to digest we look back at the 2024 Oscars.
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-vjg9c-15c610c

05/04/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 47 of Double Reel concludes with the Big Conversation, and now the dust has settled we're looking at how the 2024 Oscars went down.

01/04/2024

Out Now: Issue 47 of Double Reel continues with the Features and an Asian cinema theme: Classic Audition; Hidden Gem Steel Rain; Wong Kar-Wai's cancelled The Lady From Shanghai; Remake Hatewatch - Spike Lee's Oldboy; & a remake we'd like to see of Revenge of the Ninja.

https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-stn8z-15c2272

31/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 47 of Double Reel continues on April 1st with the Features. We find out why Wong Kar-Wai's The Lady From Shanghai didn't pan out; ask who would be insane enough to remake Oldboy; and suggest a remake of Revenge of the Ninja.

30/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 47 of Double Reel continues on April 1st with Features focusing on East Asian Cinema. Our Classic is Takashi Miike's terrifying Audition, and our Hidden Gem is Korean cold war thriller Steel Rain.

Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas to receive a knighthood and damehood 29/03/2024

Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas to receive a knighthood and damehood The pair have worked on a string of films and are being honoured for services to their industry.

28/03/2024

Out Now: After a small technical error, the latest Penalty Shootout Film Quiz is available to download now. Sorry for the useless 3 minute version you previously got.

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hfbbs-15ae9aa

25/03/2024

Out Now: Issue 47 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd launches with Double Reel Monthly, including: reviews of The Zone of Interest, Dune Pt2, Madame Web and The Kitchen; our Women Directors feature Nomadland, and our latest in Year of the Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises.
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-d25i7-15ac9d5

23/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 47 kicks off with Double Reel Monthly, including reviews of The Zone of Interest, Dune Part 2, The Kitchen and Madame Web.

21/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 47 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off on March 25th with Double Reel Monthly, including the latest in our Women Directors project, Chloe Zhao's Oscar-winning Nomadland.

17/03/2024

Check out https://letterboxd.com/doublereel/lists/ for a look at some of the films we'll be discussing in our next Issue, and much more besides.

13/03/2024

We hope you enjoyed Issue 46. We're working on the next issue, including: Reviews of Dune Pt2 and Madame Web; latest in our Nolan and Women Directors projects; Classic Audition, Hidden Gem Steel Rain, Wong Kar-Wai's The Lady From Shanghai, the Oldboy Remake; Big Conversation on the 2024 Oscars.

11/03/2024

Check out https://letterboxd.com/DoubleReel/lists/ for the films we discussed in our latest podcast episodes and much more besides.

10/03/2024

Out Now: Issue 46 of Double Reel concludes with the Big Conversation, in which we discuss our favourite films of the 2010s.

https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-et4nj-1594699

08/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd concludes on March 10th with the Big Conversation, discussing our favourite films of the 2010s.

03/03/2024

Out Now: Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features: Classic Network, Hidden Gem Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Jacques Tati's unrealised project Confusion and Remake Hatewatch Bewitched.
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-953hp-158d2a6

02/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 46 of Double Reel continues with the Features on March 3rd, including a look at Jacques Tati's unrealised project Confusion and a Remake Hatewatch of Bewitched.

01/03/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 46 continues with the Features on March 3rd with a theme of films about the TV industry. Includes Classic Network and Hidden Gem Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

29/02/2024

Out Now: Issue 46 of Double Reel continues with the latest Penalty Shootout Film Quiz.
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-5cn46-158707b

25/02/2024

Out Now: Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd kicks off with Double Reel Monthly, including news, new releases, reviews of new films, our latest Women Directors feature and the start of a new Christopher Nolan project.
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-h777n-1581493

24/02/2024

Coming Soon: February's Double Reel monthly kicks off James's new Christopher Nolan project with not one but two films.

22/02/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 46 kicks off with the latest Double Reel Monthly on Feb 25th, including what we thought of new films American Fiction, Poor Things, The Boy and the Heron and (briefly) Aquaman 2.

21/02/2024

Coming Soon: Issue 46 of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd launches its first instalment on Feb 25th, including the last in our Women Directors project, Ava DuVernay's Selma.

19/02/2024

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 3rd Annual Double Reel Awards, as covered in Issue 45 of our monthly magazine podcast. While not as widely-respected as the mainstream ceremonies we feel bring something unique to awards season - not least because the winner of Best Visual Effects was selected by a cocker spaniel called Obi and a Labrador/Golden Retriever cross called Mac.

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer

Best Screenplay
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Original Score
Ludwig Goransson, Oppenheimer

Best Cinematography
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer

Best Actor
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Best Actress
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse

Best Visual Effects
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Pt1

Best Cameo
Kate McKinnon, Barbie

Worst Film
Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania

Biggest Disappointment
Napoleon

Worst Acting Performance
Bill Murray, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania

Worst Accent
Russell Crowe, The Pope's Exorcist

Best Director
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Picture
Oppenheimer

Special Award to Barbie for outstandindg achievements in:
Costume Design
Set Design
Art Direction
Choreography

Best Song in a Live Action Film
I'm Just Ken, from Barbie

Best Song in an Animated Film
Peaches, from The Super Mario Bros Movie

Worst Decision of 2023
Not releasing Mission Impossible sooner to avoid Barbenheimer

Films We Wish We’d Seen
Polite Society
Saltburn
Anatomy of a Fall

Best Film We Watched for the Podcast in 2023
The Duellists

One That Got Away We Wish Got Made
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon

16/02/2024

You can go to https://letterboxd.com/doublereel/lists/ for information on the films we'll be discussing in our next issue and much more besides.

14/02/2024

Our latest episode, The Adamsons Versus The Dog Poo Detectives, is out now.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TcrBkKoSyNOJSiD7FoxbU?si=TC-i4mMYTCewF_TyjVtsTw

13/02/2024

We hope you enjoyed Issue 45 of Double Reel. We're working on Issue 46 including: Ava Du Vernay's Selma; the start of our Nolan project for 2024; Poor Things and American Fiction; Network, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Jacques Tati's Confusion, Bewitched; Top Ten Films of the 2010s.