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Episodes
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Our individual picks of the best weird films since 2013. Let's just say there are some disagreements.
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Cross-class power struggles and drug-fuelled paranoia in 60s Chelsea, with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox bringing the gay subtext front and centre in Joseph Losey's unsettling masterpiece.
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Girls just wanna have.... everything.
We compare and contrast the get pissed-destroy punk attitude of 60s Czech women in Daisies, with the time-bending female detectives in Celine and Julie. Who run the world?
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Film nor couple (he likes guns, she's just crazy) go on honeymoon. Crime spree ensues. A huge influence on the French New Wave and an incredible film in its own right.
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
David Lynch's weird fest, a poison pen letter to Hollywood and an extraordinary Naomi Watts. Hear us rave.
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson are in love - sure, she's a computer operating system but nobody's perfect. A tender and erotic love story, a meditation on loneliness, and ScarJo's amazing voice. You can ask ChatGPT to write the perfect modern romance, but Spike Jonze has beaten you to it.
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
How do you like your Eastwood - the strong silent type or the sneaky coward? Get you a Clint that does both in this deep-dive into 70s cinematic masculinity and the crisis thereof.
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
What's wrong with setting up a fake audition to find yourself a new wife? Nothing if you can keep your feet on the ground. Time bending, mind bending Japanese horror from Takashi Miike.
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
Gotta dance, gotta dance....we're backstage at the ballet but fame costs and right here's where they start paying. Body horror hallucination meets compulsion and control in this Aranofsky/ Powell and Pressburger pas de deux.
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Saturday Mar 11, 2023
Passionate story of star-crossed lovers? Check. Searing indictment of suburban middle-class America? Check. Rock Hudson's shirts? Check.
Mamma jamma melodrama giving birth to both David Lynch and soap opera. It's a doozie.
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.