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by Alex & Sharon Shaw

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An American Werewolf in London

October 30, 2026 · 1 hr 60 min

[School of Movies 2026] My favourite werewolf film, and one I watched at far too young an age (So, I'm pretty messed up, but I love movies). Just in time for Halloween we have this frightening, sometimes shocking yet consistently, darkly…
TRAILER: Castle of the Moon

October 27, 2026 · 3 min

It brings me great pleasure to bring you my Castlevania-inspired Lady Dracula adaptation, completed at long last, and now, here with a transportive and intensely evocative trailer. You can officially pick this story up in various forms…
Rocky V + Rocky Balboa

October 23, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min

[School of Movies 2026] The original Rocky series comes to a close... twice. For the longest time, sixteen years in fact, fans of the first entries in the saga of this good-natured fighter were disappointed by the fifth film. It took…
Rocky III + Rocky IV

October 16, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min

[School of Movies 2026] This trio of double-bills are arranged across three distinct stages of Rocky's life. As a thirty-year-old Boy he was fighting to prove he could go the distance. Now, as the Man of the hour he has ascended way…
Rocky + Rocky II

October 9, 2026 · 2 hr 17 min

[School of Movies 2026] Welcome to a saga of films spanning fifty years and being more about male vulnerability and the struggle for self-esteem than they actually are about boxing. They skirt the line between super-marketable…

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Flash Gordon

October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

[School of Movies 2026] This was a commissioned show for Sarah Montgomery, though it is a film we have promised to cover for years and needed the right time. Turns out sandwiching it between Shakespeare and the Rocky Saga is appropriately…
10 Things I Hate About You

September 25, 2026 · 2 hr 4 min

[School of Movies 2026] The final week of Shakestember brings us to a modern teen high school adaptation that far surpasses the dodgy original by an as-yet-unseasoned William, blushingly groping for a satirical take on misogyny in the…
Much Ado About Nothing

September 18, 2026 · 2 hr 20 min

[School of Movies 2026] For the third week of Shakestember, we move away from tragedy to comedy... except we don't really. By and large, scholars agree that the tragedies are actually funnier than the comedies, in principle, because the…
Romeo + Juliet

September 11, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min

[School of Movies 2026] For the second week of Shakestember, now having talked about a dozen cinematic adaptations we look at his most widely-recognised gateway movie for teenagers. Thirty years old this year, Baz Luhrman's hyperkinetic…
William Shakespeare on Film

September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

[School of Movies 2026] Possibly the greatest playwright the world will ever see, creator of countless clever words and idioms, '"Heart of gold", "Wild goose chase", "Good riddance!" all gifts to the English language. He was also a man…
Mortal Kombat II

August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 54 min

[School of Movies 2026] Back in 2021, after a surprising 24-year absence of Mortal Kombat live action movie adaptations while several really great cinematic story modes played out on the past four entries of the video game series, a movie…
Own Your Stuff

August 21, 2026 · 2 hr 58 min

[School of Everything Else 2026] This is one of the most significant shows we have ever recorded and took an immense amount of research, preparation and editing. It has been a very long time coming, as the landscape of how we watch, play…

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Super in-depth analysis of movies (and occasionally TV, and video games). Hosted by veteran podcasters Alex & Sharon Shaw with different guests for round-table chats every week.