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School of Movies

by Alex & Sharon Shaw

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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…
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…

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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…
Spider-Man: Brand New Day

August 14, 2026 · 2 hr 14 min

[School of Movies 2026] After an extruciatingly long five years away from this version of Peter Parker we rejoin his sad, thrilling saga. This is in fact his seventh appearance in the MCU, and it is one of the best of that entire series…
Predator: Badlands

August 7, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

[School of Movies 2026] Dan Trachtenberg, director of 10 Cloverfield Lane has quietly, modestly, and with surety of purpose revolutionised the Predator franchise. Back when Disney bought Fox there were many folks cheering about the X-Men…
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

July 31, 2026 · 2 hr 13 min

[School of Movies 2026] I did not expect to be proudest of this third show on the Pirates Trilogy. While the first was spent delving into the rich details of the many factors that made it a classic as well as an instant success (the two…
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

July 24, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min

[School of Movies 2026] The original trio of Gore Verbinski Pirates films have become sacred cows to millennial movie commentators on YouTube, spoken of in hushed tones alongside the likes of The Prequel Trilogy and Shrek. Back when I was…

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About the show

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.