Elwood and Stephen celebrate another 25 episodes by adding another 50 picks to their ever growing list of essential Asian Cinema Check out the full list - ‎Asian Cinema Film Club - Top 250 ⁠Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠https://ko-fi.com/acfilmclub⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠Yes Please Vintage…

Elwood and Stephen take an in-depth look at Park Chan Wook's Vengeance trilogy in this bumper length edition of the show featuring special guest hosts Kim Lo ( Movies and Tea / Game Warp ) on Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance Scott K ( The Church of Tarantino ) on Oldboy Nicholas Rehak on Lady Vengence ⁠Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠⁠ - https://ko…

Stephen and Elwood look at the quirky indie comedy Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Arriving in the states with their footlong quiffs and equally long winkle pickers the band come in search of fame and fortune. What they find instead is an opportunity to play a wedding in Mexico setting them on a unique road trip all the while being pursued by village…

Elwood and Stephen look at the Michelle Yeoh classic Royal Warriors which would also become the second film in the long running Line of Duty series. Here she plays a Hong Kong Police officer who has to team up with Hiroyuki Sanada's Japanese detective and Michael Wong's air marshal to stop a terrorist group out for revenge!! Buy us a coffee and sup…

Elwood and Stephen look at the 2010 remake of The Housemaid as they find out how it compares to the critically acclaimed original. Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yes Please Vintage

Elwood and Stephen look at Asif Kapadia's documentary Diego Maradona compiled from over 500 hours of footage from Maradona's personal archive as it charts the career of the legendary football player.

Kaiju Christmas come to the podcast once again and bringing with it the same chaotic energy of the last day of school as Elwood and Stephen are joined by Nick Rehak (Lyrical Innuendo) and the Rev. Scott Kraushaar (The Church of Tarantino) to look at Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah. The group also share their cultural high points as well as the low point…

Elwood and Stephen look at The Housemaid (1960) a favourite of both Martin Scorsese aswell as a key inspiration for Bong Joon Ho's Parasite as a Housemaid hired by a piano teacher and his seamstress wife soon turns out to be more of a problem that either could imagine. Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yes Please…

Elwood and Stephen look at the zany musical comedy The Legend of the Stardust Brothers as rival singers Kan and Shingo find themselves paired together by music producer Mimiami. But as their star rises can they hold onto the top spot especially with the arrival of a new pop sensation Kaoru. Plus is physical media really the best for film preservati…

Elwood and Stephen look at the fantastical world of Mexican wrestling movies with The Batwoman as when wrestlers are mysteriously turning up dead it's down to The Batwoman to investigate.

Elwood and Stephen tackle a double feature of Stephen Chow's "King of Comedy" while listener Marcus nominates "Killer Constable" for his Listener Roulette pick Plus - Stephen finally watches House, Elwood wraps up Asian Horror month and hint at what month is coming next plus more!! Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠Y…

Elwood and Stephen look at Persepolis the animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran as the film traces Satrapi's life and her own rebellion she lead against an oppressive regime.

Elwood goes over the week's horror viewing for Asian Horror Month including * The Snake Girl and The Silver Haired Witch * Horrors of Malformed Men * Tetsuo The Iron Man * Angel Dust * House * Tokyo Gore Police * Greatful Dead ⁠⁠Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠⁠Yes Please Vintage…

Elwood and Stephen are joined once again by Rashmi Menon to look at Hideo Nakata's "Dark Water" as single mother Yoshimi struggles to deal with her divorce moves into a rundown apartment building only to find their new home suffering a leak which continues to grow as Yoshimi begins to notice strange things happening around the building. We look at …

Elwood and Stephen look at Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives the first Thai film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in which Uncle Boonmee suffering from Kidney disease and believing he is going to die soon brings his relatives together in the countryside were he is soon visited by the ghosts of the family he has lost. Buy …

Elwood goes over the week's horror viewing for Asian Horror Month * Dumplings * Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters * Nuigulumar Z: Gothic Lolita Battle Bear * Digital Devil Saga: Megami Tensei * Vampire Hunter D * Goke Body Snatcher From Hell Plus Stephen picks a fight, the importance of media preservation and working actors plus more! ⁠Buy us a coffee a…

Elwood and Stephen look at the Dutch thriller The Vanishing in which Rex and Saskia a young couple holidaying in France find their vacation taking a nightmarish twist when Saskia disappears. Now three years later Rex is contacted by a man who knows what happened to her. We look at how the film suffered a disastrous American remake, talk about the m…

Elwood takes on another 31 day challenge as this year he focuses on Horror as he sits down with Stephen to recap the good and the bad of the journey so far as they discuss * Bloody Chainsaw Girl * Zombie For Sale * Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Club Layla * Chainsaw Man (Season #1) * Battle Royale 2 * Devilman (OVA Trilogy) * Calamity of Snakes * Gen…

Elwood and Stephen look at Zhang Yimou's Shadow as a brilliant general devises an intricate plan involving his wife, a look-alike, and two kings. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

Elwood and Stephen look at the first film in the Whispering Corridors series a South Korean ghost story set in an all girls school as a series of unusual murders leads a group of girls to investigate the mysteries the school is hiding. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage…

Elwood and Stephen look at Miloš Forman's 1967 comedy following a small town's volunteer fire department attempting to put on their annual ball only for someone to start stealing the raffle prizes, the beauty contest has gone astray and no one is paying for their drinks!

Elwood and Stephen look at Summer Wars in which the world has become reliant on a digital realm called Oz which maths genius Kenji unwittingly unlocks for the A.I. Love Machine which soon sets about taking over Oz and bringing humanity to it's knees. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage…

Elwood and Stephen look at the Cinema Du Look movement with Luc Besson's Subway as a thief on the run from gangsters hides out in the Paris subway system only to soon discover a subterranean community living under the city streets.

Elwood and Stephen look at Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit's Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy based on 410 consecutive tweets by @marylony following Mary as she deals with her final year at school and the many problems it brings with it. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage…

Stephen and Elwood are joined by author Ramona Lee Soo-Jun to talk about her book Agent 00 Volume.1 ahead of it's English language release as she talks about the writing experience as well as her Asian cinema inspirations. Ramona also brings a great listener roulette pick to the show for us to discuss. Ramona Lee Soo-Jun Instagram Agent 00 Pre-orde…

Elwood and Stephen head to Spain for Pedro Almodovar's quirky comedy Volver as three generations of women in the same family attempt to deal with a body, running a restaurant as well as their ghost mom as Almodovar pays tribute to the region he was born La Mancha.

Elwood and Stephen look at the 1963 horror film Matango also known by the colourful title Attack of the Mushroom People as a group of friends find themselves shipwrecked on an island with an abundance of mushrooms, while slowly discovering the secrets the island hides. Directed by the legendary Ishiro Honda we look at how it differs from his usual …

Elwood and Stephen look at Hou Hsiao-Hsien's wuxia movie The Assassin as they attempt to dissect the plot from the arthouse direction in this unique tale of revenge set during the last years of the Tang dynasty Plus Godzilla '98 re-evaluated, The Independent Podcast Awards + Ran and Punk Samurai reviewed and more!!Buy us a coffee and support the sh…

Stephen and Elwood's world cinema travels this time take them to Denmark for Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt as kindergarten teacher Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) finds himself at the centre of a witch hunt when one of the children claims he sexually abused her and sending the small town into a state of mass hysteria as accusations are made and rumours begin…

Elwood and Stephen look at Kim Jee-Woon's unique thriller as secret agent Kim Soo-hyeon (Lee Byung-hun) sets out to find serial killer Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) who killed his fiancé and soon sets about carrying out a very unique revenge. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage…

Elwood and Stephen look at the Philippine action comedy Super Parental Guardians as a pair of mismatched guardians one a social media influencer the other a gang affiliated uncle are forced to look after the kids of their murdered friend / sister in this Netflix exclusive. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vinta…

Elwood and Stephen head to Mexico for this 2020 thriller set in a dystopian near future were the war between the social classes erupts in violence as a high society wedding is invaded by rioters while the military plan to regain control of both the country and government. Meanwhile Bride to be Marianne finds herself caught in the midst of the terri…

Elwood and Stephen look at the Stray Cat Rock series created by Nikkatsu to compete with Toei's Delinquent Boss series while initially designed as a showcase for Akiko Wada with her co-star Meiko Kaji headlining the further four films in the series combining outlaw bikers, tough girl gangs and some truly memorable chase sequences. Buy us a coffee a…

Elwood and Stephen look at Ringu not only a bonified horror classic which helped spark the J-Horror boom and respark the interest in Asian Cinema along side Battle Royale and Audition it would go on to spawn multiple remakes, sequels and spin offs which we also look at while also asking if it still holds up? Buy us a coffee and support the show Che…

Elwood and Stephen kick off a new bonus show expanding the cinematic buffet while also getting to provide an introduction to world cinema starting with Werner Herzog's Aguirre The Wrath of God as Klaus Kinski provides another memorable performance as the spanish conquistador Don Lope de Aguirre following his misguided expedition as they trek throug…

Elwood and Stephen look at the 1992 sport comedy Sumo Do, Sumo Don't which recently was adapted into a TV series for Disney+. The film following a rag tag band of misfits who much find a way to work together to help resurrect their school sumo club. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage…

Elwood and Stephen look at Mamoru Hosoda's 2006 anime adaptation of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time which see's a high school girl discovering that she has the ability to leap backwards through time. However while initially using this new found power for her own means, she soon discovers that such power comes at a cost. Buy us a coffee and support …

It's a co-host crossover special as Kim (Movies and Tea) joins Elwood and Stephen to look at the latest film from Park Chan Wook Decision to Leave which sees a detective investigating the mysterious death of an immigration officer in the mountains, only to soon find himself increasingly drawn to the dead man's mysterious wife who might also be a ke…

Elwood and Stephen look at Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress a film best known for being a key inspiration for George Lucas when he created Star Wars but how much did he actually take from the film? We find out on this episode as a pair of Peasants find themselves recruited to help to help a rogue general and a princess on the run while trying t…

Scott (The Church of Tarantino) joins Elwood and Stephen to look at the deliriously bonkers slice of Kung-fu weird that is Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky which sees the superhuman fighter Ricky having to battle through a corrupt prison complete with a sadistic warden and four martial arts masters all keen to take him out in this cult favourite. Buy us…

It's a double feature episode as Elwood and Stephen look at Wong Kai Wai's Mean Streets influenced As Tears Go By as Andy Lau plays Wah a triad enforcer who spends all his time getting his best friend and triad brother Fly (Jackie Cheung) out of trouble while finding his life only getting more complex when he fall for his cousin Ngor (Maggie Cheung…

Elwood and Stephen go back to were it all began as they look at Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence the sequel to the legendary anime as Section 9's Batou and Togusa are assigned to investigate a string of gruesome murders when gynoids start murdering thier owners and a cryptic message points towards something much darker. Apologies for the drop in aud…

Elwood and Stephen celebrate another 25 episodes by adding 50 more titles to their list of favourite Asian Cinema. Check out the full list here Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

Stephen and Elwood celebrate this milestone episode with the original Godzilla looking at the legacy and impact the film has had since it's release while also looking back at their favourite episodes on the road to #100! Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

As we draw ever closer to Episode #100 Stephen has a pretty stellar pick for #99 as we look at Bong Joon Ho's Memories of Murder loosely based on the true story of Korea's first ever serial killer as two small town detectives attempt to solve a brutal murder while being assisted on the case by Seoul detective Seo Tae-yoon. But facing conflicting ap…

Elwood and Stephen look at the "Saving Private Ryan" beater "Tae Guk Gi: Brotherhood of War" as two brothers find themselves drafted into South Korean army leaving the older brother doing everything he can to get his younger brother out....but at what cost. Buy us a coffee and support the show Check out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage…

Kaiju Christmas is here once again as Elwood and Stephen welcome Nick Rehak and Rashmi Melon back to the show to look at Godzilla Vs. Biollante as Godzilla cells are blended by a scientist trying to resurrect the spirit of his daughter in turn creating the monster plant Biollante.We also look at the Sight and Sound poll, reveal the films we are mos…

As an extra stocking stuffer for this years Kaiju Christmas we have dug this episode out of the MBDS Showcase archives (Elwood's original cult cinema podcast) in which Elwood sits down with Kaiju expert and author August Ragone who having spent over three decades writing about Godzilla and Kaiju movies its safe to say knows a thing or two about God…

Elwood and Stephen look at the Jackie Chan classic Wheels on Meals as he once more teams up with Yuen Biao as friends operating a food fan in Barcelona only to find themselves mixed up with a profession thief Sylvia while being assisted by Sammo Hung's private detective Moby as the trio soon find themselves pitted against a ruthless gang. We also l…

Elwood and Stephen check out the legendry CAT III action thriller Naked Killer in which Hong Kong cop Tinam (Simon Yam) is assigned two series of murders to investigate. One has been carried out by lesbian hitwoman Princess (Carrie Ng) and her sidekick, Baby (Madoka Sugawara), while the other takes the form of revenge killings by Kitty (Chingamy Ya…