What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Freaky films and why we freakin’ love ’em, by Linsay McCulloch and Garry Mulholland
Episodes
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Holy Smoke
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Kate Winslet gets in with a cult, Harvey Keitel tries to get her out of it through the power of his personality and a fetching red frock. Jane Campion wrangles the not-inconsiderable sexual heat between them. Smokin'.
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Lady in a Cage
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Olivia de Havilland is trapped in the slowest elevator in the world - her cries for help are heard by a vicious young hoodlum in the shape of a very scary James Caan, in this 1960s apocalyptic home invasion.
Love doesn't lift them up where they belong.
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Ghost Dog is a spiritual hit man who's sworn to protect the Mafia goon who saved his life. His best friends are an ice-cream man who speaks no English, a bookish little girl and a flock of pigeons. Oh, and the Mafia like hip hop. Watch this and swoon.
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Society
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Bill's not like the rest of his family -he's not blonde, he doesn't want to massage his sister and he feels there's some secret he's not being told. But maybe a nice dinner together will bring them closer. Come hungry!
Monday Mar 18, 2024
The Man Who Would Be King
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Colonial misadventure as Michael Caine and Sean Connery give career-best performances in their search to become kings in Victorian-era Afghanistan. The very definition of be careful what you wish for.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Night of the Hunter
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Love and hate, light and dark, good and evil, innocence and guilt, all wrapped up in one of the most luminously beautiful films ever made. Actor Charles Laughton only got one chance to direct a film, and he didn't waste it. We've got LOVE tattooed on both knuckles for this one.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Gilda
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls - Gilda is film noir at its most deviant. Ignore the "plot" (there isn't much of one), and just enjoy the sexual power games of Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and the other guy.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Abel Ferrara double bill - Ms 45 and Bad Lieutenant
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Fear and loathing in NYC. Two visceral and gritty films from the king of Catholic guilt, Abel Ferrara, including a low-budget feminist thrill ride, and Harvey Keitel's best performance. They'll blow you away.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
American Psycho
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Then you'll love our take on American Psycho. We're really coming into our own, commercially and artistically.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
The Duke of Burgundy
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Tender love story, queer BDSM and lectures on butterflies - The Duke of Burgundy has something for all the family.
What's Wrong With This Picture?
Don't get us wrong, We love many a bland, formulaic and utterly predictable corporate popcorn seller. But, when it comes right down to it, Linsay McCulloch and Garry Mulholland like to be weirded out at the movies. The image that makes you go, 'WHAAAT?' The plot that discombulates. The snatch of dialogue that you can't stop repeating in inappropriate places while not having a clue what it means. This is what we celebrate in What's Wrong With This Picture? We sincerely hope you're one of us.
But what IS weird?
We're not gonna lie - it's a completely personal choice. You may disagree - if so, let us know.
From silent to CGI, from east to west, from big budget to cheap and cheerful, from Hollywood legends to talented obscurities, if it swims in weird waters, we dive right in (and try not to drown). So please do get on board, and save us from needlessly extended watery metaphors.
We cordially invite you to get your freak on.