Originally released on November 26, 2020 as a YouTube exclusive, Kieran and Tom discuss 1982 "action" flick, MEGAFORCE!
So, zip up your gold jumpsuit and marvel along with us at the fashions, the stunts, the fashions, the dialogue, the fashions, the hair, the fashions and so much more...
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Come with us, a long way back in time, to go very slightly forward in time on this audio exclusive bonus episode: Timeslip (AKA The Atomic Man).
PLUS: The Two Ronnies, Thunderball, Tom Jones, driftwood, muscular thighs, Carry On, The Goons, Gary Oldman, David Bowie, Stella Street, S-VHS, Formula 1, Clive James, A Night To Remember, Stevenage, T’Pau, the history of X-rays, Kieran’s health, 50s technology, The Dam Busters, alchemy, The Bourne Identity and lame endings.
Tom's feature length documentary The Easy Bit is now included with Prime Video: http://bit.ly/theeasybit
One, two, three, FYRE!
Pack your tent, your rations, your selfie ringlight and your lawyer's phone number, and join Kieran & Tom as they tackle all the insanity, nonsense, controversy and outright fraud of Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened in the Have You Seen..? season 2 finale!
PLUS: American Movie, the Netflix acquisition process, Parks & Rec, Electric Boogaloo, The Imposter, Apple TV+, Isaac Asimov, Hulu, The Bahamas, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Steven Seagal, zero gravity, stupid names, Hanson, manbuns, Nirvana, waste water planning, wrangling the tipsy, the power of marketing, WWE continuity, rescuing kittens, defacing aircraft, pigs, the art of delegation and the things a man is prepared to do for mineral water.
Follow Kieran's Bell's palsy recovery via his video diaries: http://bit.ly/kieranbells
Rent Tom's feature length documentary The Easy Bit on Prime Video: http://bit.ly/theeasybit
It's KO's and K.O. as Kieran and Tom step in the ring with Rocky and Knives Out. A show punched and stabbed by a multitude of technical gremlins, which hopefully all got edited out (Kieran's mic is still running a bit hot).
WARNING: We spoil the hell out of Knives Out, BUT only in the second half of the show so you can still listen to the Rocky chat.
PLUS: Oscars, the mob, pet nutrition larceny, Smokey and The Bandit, Batman, Muhammed Ali, wrestling booking, Butch Cassidy, film editing, Ronda Rousey, MMA, subtitles, sequels, Mr. T, Dolph Lundgren, Hulk Hogan, statues, idiocy, movie soundtracks through the decades, boxing weight divisions, Star Wars, JJ Abrams, Blade Runner 2049, Columbo, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, Transformers, Poirot, Clue, accents, Kenneth Brannagh, Wild Wild West, James Bond, What We Do in the Shadows, Rope, and yet another alteration to the plan.
Follow Kieran's Bell's palsy progress via his video diaries: http://bit.ly/kieranbells
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Join two very sweaty men on an epic journey from the Far East to the Wild West as Tom & Kieran get to grips with Dragon Blade and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
PLUS: HEAT, flight paths, crap music, travel arrangements of the ancient Romans, elements of historical accuracy, Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, wandering accents, dubious eye makeup, "Wild Geese City", arrows, polygamy, Last of the Summer Wine, Nicolas Cage, Birdemic, Chinese Zodiac, Bleeding Steel, The Foreigner, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell, When Harry Met Sally, creepy introductory scenes, Westworld, bilingual bank robbery, absurd explosions, Towering Inferno, Mel Brooks and the martial art of getting out of the way.
Rent Tom's feature length documentary The Easy Bit on Prime Video: http://bit.ly/theeasybit
This week, it's mostly a true story as Tom & Kieran tackle Erin Brockovich and The French Connection.
PLUS: hotdogging and grandstanding, air conditioning in suits of armour, fighting with flat-packed furniture, Tom & Kieran's Red Carpet Memories, Tom Cruise, The Limey, Drive, Batman, On The Run, The Departed, dismantling automobiles, Santa Claus drug busts, straw hats, fetishes, 1970s airplane design, dangerous working practices, "the wrong bloke", Fat Thomas, Halloween, and taking one's chances with Gallic delicacies.
Follow Kieran's Bell's palsy progress via his video diaries: http://bit.ly/kieranbells Rent Tom's feature length documentary The Easy Bit on Prime Video: http://bit.ly/theeasybit
Kieran and Tom are back with your two-a-week… a week late. Sorry. Let's talk Aliens and Bill!
PLUS: Kieran's crap fortnight, ageing, meat products, What We Do In The Shadows (the movie), What We Do In The Shadows (the TV show), Horrible Histories, Take That, The Cockernee Players of Bow, crossdressing, accents, all-day breakfast, fish & chips, beards, vegetables, Francis Walsingham, Ralph Fiennes, bending of history, Geoffrey Rush, plurals, how xenomorph reproduction works, a hostile crew, The Princess Bride, cinematography, Ian Holm, android amnesia, The Terminator, Brian Dennehy, advances in animatronics, Doug Jones, motion capture, Joss Whedon, David Fincher, Prometheus, studio interference, the power loader, T2, True Lies, Titanic, Avatar, shoddy airlock design, Spy Time/Anacleto and a lot of on-air Googling.
Follow Kieran's Bell's palsy progress via his video diaries: http://bit.ly/kieranbells
Rent Tom's feature length documentary The Easy Bit on Prime Video: http://bit.ly/theeasybit
It's fugitive week as Sylvester Stallone heads for the hills in First Blood, and Yuen Biao goes On The Run.
PLUS: wrestling, Bonjela, Diet Coke, hamster bottles, 2020 shite, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Wah, John Woo, The Prodigal Son, Knockabout, odd noises, a quick history of popular sub-genres in Hong Kong cinema, iffy stunt doubles, Dragons Forever, Eastern Condors, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, the Hui Brothers, Aces Go Places, the bleakness of Yuen Biao's weekend, toddlers in wheelbarrows, Kill Bill, machetes, VHS, a good first draft, the process of editing a movie, Predator, About Time, Oscar noms, war, Commando, cheesy editing, PTSD, body count, filing cabinets, Cobra, Tango and Cash, Rocky, Money Heist, Cocoon, In the Heat of the Night, Sidney Poitier, Smokey and the Bandit (again), prejudice, Denzel Washington, Transformers, Pete Hammond, Ratatouille, synesthesia, political commentary and Kieran's terrifying face.
Follow Kieran's progress via his video diaries: http://bit.ly/kieranbells
Is it silky or is it a selkie? A joke we liked so much, we used it twice. Join us as we review The Man in the White Suit and Song of the Sea!
PLUS: tautology, personal development, Batman, Stephen Mangan, Alfred Hitchcock, surpise northerners, fancy lighters, Jackie Chan, feminine wiles, The Third Man, built-in redundancy, Spirited Away, Sarah and Duck, The Gruffalo, "giving out" and reading recommendations from a 3-year-old.
Assume crash positions and dance! Or fight! Or both! It's Airport 1975 and Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films!
PLUS: new technology, Spider-Man, Shep Gordon, VHS arson, UZIs, chainsaws, ninjas, breakdancing, the Lambada, oneupmanship, Peppa Pig, Juan of the Dead, Lazer Team, the Cannes Film Market, cable TV, big money ideas, Ikorodu Bois, wheelbarrows for cars, alternative episode titles, Airplane!, big swords, gaping holes, CHiPs, 747 rental rates in the 70s, the history of the helicopter, Airport 1990(?), The Incredible Hulk, haunted musical instruments and the sex appeal of monkeys.
Clearly we hadn't had enough time and bandits after last week, so here's About Time and Smokey and the Bandit!
PLUS: things you can’t say today, wheelbarrows of money, Alabama local news, Dukes of Hazzard, country music, fake Bandits, elephants, nuns, chemistry, The Fall Guy, Scott Adkins, CB radio, Kieran’s family’s criminal history, lanky gingers, Dark, a five word review, poshness and tangerines.
Yes, this is indeed the launch of season 2 of Have You Seen..?!
All will be explained in the course of the episode, but essentially it turned out neither of us had ever seen Time Bandits, so why not watch it, chat about it, then foist that chat upon you, just like the old days?
PLUS: Monty Python, Tron, COVID-19 (sorry), lockdown (sorry) and what on Earth we've been up to for the past three years!
Better late than never! Only three years after it was originally supposed to be released, revel in the sweaty, muscle-bound glory of Hulk Hogan's debut as a leading man: No Holds Barred!
PLUS: a smell of chocolate, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Demolition, wrestling nerdery, axe hammers, Jesse Ventura's loud hair, pot plants, giant men and their small furniture, the world's worst limo driver, baby oil, the inner workings of Terry Bollea and Vince McMahon's minds, Hulk Hogan's mastery of the French language and his "sexy" face, ratings, poor names for combat sports events, Stan Hansen, "Klondyke Raymond", "Brock Jizzer", Frank Welker, grunting sounds, Street Fighter, a fundamental misunderstanding of how the television industry works, a random clown, laughing security cameras, Every Which Way But Loose, the cure for paralysis, Pink Floyd, Knight Rider and picking up women… by the face.
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
Definitely episode 134 (not 135; ignore foolish Kieran) and the boys are back, talking steroid documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster, minimalist thriller Hush and the reasons behind the large gaps in the release schedule.
PLUS: Incorrect numbering, technical hitches, whacking microphones, washing machines, TV advertising, burly Finnish lads, Netflix, Disturbed, Ben Affleck, drugged violinists, iMessage, Jason Bourne, The X-Files, the DVLA, The Hateful Eight and a shitload of mirrors.
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
A not-remotely-confusing episode in which Tom and Kieran compare and contrast Hong Kong cop thriller Infernal Affairs and its American remake The Departed.
PLUS: accidental and intentional racism, The Fast Show, The Rolling Stones, Sarah and Duck, Chinese endings, Heat, Starsky & Hutch, and some very rude words indeed.
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
Kieran & Tom tackle a real cinematic oddity: Walt Disney’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, a horror film for children!
PLUS: Tron, The Black Hole, Kurt Russell, Pete’s Dragon, out-of-focus visual effects, creepy ginger kids, Josh Widdecombe, Ghostbusters, The Imperial March, The Goonies, Paddington and the forcible dying of children’s hair.
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
It’s the Stranger in a Strange Land episode as Kieran & Tom talk about Jackie Chan taking on the Yakuza in The Shinjuku Incident and Terence Stamp vs. Hollywood in The Limey.
PLUS: Horrific chestnut accidents, age gaps, nonsensical money-making schemes, limb lopping, unexpected cameos, the Jackie Chan oeuvre, Bob Hoskins, accents, memories, “Louise Goodman”, Barry Norman and wet ladies.
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
Scream if you wanna… well, do anything really… The boys settle down with Lamb of God’s heavy metal courtroom documentary As The Palaces Burn.
PLUS: Tesco, Priuses, DragonForce, Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Taylor Swift, The Jonas Brothers, lottery numbers, buzzing phones, word amnesia, Saul Goodman, authenticity in documentary making, Formula 1, a spam update, Tokyo confusion and proper hash of a pitch.
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
The boys tackle a combination of films that defies description: Pain & Gain and Paddington.
PLUS: Bunny and The Bull, The Mighty Boosh, Martin Clunes, “John Wahlberg”, autocorrect, Andy Samberg and more…
Have You Seen..? The question to start all movie discussions.
Just the one, but it’s a doozie: prepare thyselves, mere mortals, for Tom & Kieran’s take on Hercules in New York!
PLUS: unruly phones, Cactus Jack, height, Rainbow Islands, wrestling, accents, Lewis Hamilton, bears, chunky knit sweaters, illicit gambling, listener correspondence and amazing film merchandise.