All The Right Movies

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1. Jaws (1975) | The Cutting Room

   15 Sep 2023 · 54 min

   The mechanical shark barely worked. Steven Spielberg's fix, keeping it hidden for most of the film, accidentally invented the modern blockbuster and frightened a generation out of the sea. Jaws (1975) was the runaway,…

2. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) | Ep. 26 - Part 2

   15 Sep 2023 · 1 h 12 min

   Kirk Douglas owned the rights for years and could never get it made, then handed it to his son Michael, who finally did. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story, building to its devastating conclusion. We dig into…

3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) | Ep. 26 - Part 1

   15 Sep 2023 · 1 h 04 min · S1 E82 · Explicit

   It's one of only three films in history to sweep all five major Academy Awards. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how a passion project decades in the making finally reached the screen.In Part 1 we cover the…

4. Ghostbusters (1984) | Ep. 25 - Part 2

   1 Sep 2023 · 53 min

   The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was a stuntman in a suit waddling through a miniature Manhattan, and it's still glorious. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up at the rooftop showdown.We dig into the crew…

5. Ghostbusters (1984) | Ep. 25 - Part 1

   1 Sep 2023 · 1 h 07 min · S1 E81 · Explicit

   It began as a Dan Aykroyd script so vast and strange it would have been impossible to film. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how it became one of the great comedies.In Part 1 we cover the film's opening,…

6. O Brother, where art thou? (2000) | The Cutting Room

   25 Aug 2023 · 48 min

   How do you turn Homer's Odyssey into a Depression-era prison-break comedy with a chart-topping bluegrass soundtrack? Only the Coen brothers would attempt it, and somehow they made it sing. Their freewheeling musical…

7. The Prestige (2006) | Ep. 24 - Part 2

   18 Aug 2023 · 55 min

   David Bowie plays Nikola Tesla, and the casting is so perfect it's become one of the film's most beloved details. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story as both magicians chase the ultimate illusion.We dig into the…

8. The Prestige (2006) | Ep. 24 - Part 1

   18 Aug 2023 · 1 h 09 min · S1 E80 · Explicit

   Are you watching closely? John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Christopher Nolan's twisty tale of two rival magicians and the obsession that consumes them both.In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director…

9. Back to the Future (1985) | The Cutting Room

   4 Aug 2023 · 51 min

   Five weeks into filming, the studio looked at the footage, panicked, and fired their leading man. Eric Stoltz was out, Michael J. Fox was in, and he ended up shooting a hit sitcom by day and a classic by night. That…

10. Fight Club (1999) | Ep. 23 - Part 2

    4 Aug 2023 · 49 min

    A film that flopped on release became one of the defining cult movies of its generation almost the moment it hit DVD. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as the ground shifts beneath the narrator.We…

11. Fight Club (1999) | Ep. 23 - Part 1

    4 Aug 2023 · 1 h 07 min · S1 E79 · Explicit

    The first rule is well known. The fact that the studio marketing it had almost no idea how to sell it is less so. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of David Fincher's anarchic adaptation.In Part 1 we cover the…

12. The Godfather Part II (1974) | Ep. 22 - Part 2

    21 Jul 2023 · 1 h 04 min

    De Niro won an Oscar playing a younger version of a character Brando had also won an Oscar for, the only time that's ever happened. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story as Michael's empire and family fracture. We…

13. The Godfather Part II (1974) | Ep. 22 - Part 1

    21 Jul 2023 · 59 min · S1 E78 · Explicit

    A sequel that's also a prequel, telling two stories at once and somehow surpassing a masterpiece. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Coppola's towering follow-up. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director…

14. The Blues Brothers (1980) | The Cutting Room

    19 Jul 2023 · 48 min

    A mission from God, supposedly. Also the most cars ever wrecked in a single film at the time it was made, a record it kept for years. John Landis's gleefully chaotic musical comedy The Blues Brothers (1980) grew out…

15. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) | The Cutting Room

    14 Jul 2023 · 52 min

    Always be closing. Coffee is for closers. Put that coffee down. Alec Baldwin's seven-minute evisceration of a room full of desperate salesmen wasn't even in David Mamet's original play. It was written for the film, and…

16. All The President's Men (1976) | Ep. 21 - Part 2

    7 Jul 2023 · 47 min

    A film about an unfinished investigation ends not with a bang but a teletype, and it's perfect. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Pakula's thriller. We dig into the crew behind the film — William Goldman's…

17. All The President's Men (1976) | Ep. 21 - Part 1

    7 Jul 2023 · 1 h 06 min · S1 E77 · Explicit

    The film recreated the Washington Post newsroom so precisely that it had real Post rubbish shipped across the country to fill the bins. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening,…

18. Return Of The Jedi (1983) | Ep. 20 - Part 2

    16 Jun 2023 · 59 min

    The Ewoks divided fans for decades, but the puppetry and creature work that brought Jabba and the rest to life was state of the art. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story, building to the duel aboard the Death Star.…

19. Return Of The Jedi (1983) | Ep. 20 - Part 1

    16 Jun 2023 · 1 h 13 min · S1 E76 · Explicit

    How do you end the most beloved trilogy in cinema? John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the film that had to stick the landing for a generation. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Richard Marquand,…

20. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | The Cutting Room

    2 Jun 2023 · 49 min

    Thirty years in development. Six months in the Namibian desert. And almost every insane stunt you see happening for real, because a director in his seventies flatly refused to fake it. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is…

21. There Will Be Blood (2007) | Ep. 19 - Part 2

    2 Jun 2023 · 52 min

    Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead wrote the eerie, dissonant score, and it's now considered one of the finest of the century. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story as Plainview's empire and soul curdle. We dig into the…

22. There Will Be Blood (2007) | Ep. 19 - Part 1

    2 Jun 2023 · 1 h 05 min · S1 E75 · Explicit

    I drink your milkshake. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Paul Thomas Anderson's monumental study of greed, oil and a man hollowing himself out. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Paul Thomas…

23. Get Out (2017) | Ep. 18 - Part 2

    19 May 2023 · 47 min

    Peele shot an alternate, far bleaker ending and changed it in response to the world outside the film. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as the truth of the house comes out.We dig into the crew behind…

24. Get Out (2017) | Ep. 18 - Part 1

    19 May 2023 · 1 h 04 min · S1 E74 · Explicit

    Who lets a comedian best known for sketch shows direct a horror film? Jordan Peele did exactly that, and walked away with an Oscar for it. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story.In Part 1 we cover the film's opening,…

25. The Thing (1982) | The Cutting Room

    12 May 2023 · 55 min

    Savaged on release. Buried by a friendlier alien playing two screens over. Now? Widely held to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) stars Kurt Russell, features practical…

26. Pulp Fiction (1994) | The Cutting Room

    10 Mar 2023 · 1 h 01 min

    What's in the briefcase? Quentin Tarantino has never told a soul, and thirty years on, the glowing contents remain cinema's favourite unsolved mystery. His 1994 crime mosaic scrambled chronology, resurrected John…

27. Goodfellas (1990) | The Cutting Room

    24 Feb 2023 · 53 min

    Real mobsters worked as extras on this one. They handed the studio fake Social Security numbers, and to this day nobody knows how they got paid. That's the kind of authenticity stitched through Goodfellas (1990),…

28. Almost Famous (2000) | The Cutting Room

    17 Jan 2023 · 50 min

    What happens when a film critic turns the most formative year of his own life into a movie? Cameron Crowe found out, and won an Oscar for the screenplay in the process. Luke, Westy and Matt hit the road for Almost…

29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Cutting Room

    2 Dec 2022 · 59 min

    How do you film a battle that runs the best part of an hour, almost entirely at night, in the rain? You shoot for months, you wear out everyone involved, and you emerge with Helm's Deep. Peter Jackson's The Two Towers…

30. Aliens (1986) | The Cutting Room

    12 Nov 2022 · 56 min

    The marines wake from hypersleep in twelve chambers. The production could only afford four. The other eight? Mirrors. That kind of make-do genius runs right through Aliens (1986), James Cameron's ferocious follow-up to…

31. Platoon (1986) | The Cutting Room

    8 Nov 2022 · 51 min

    Before a single scene was shot, Oliver Stone marched his cast into the jungle for two weeks of brutal military training. He wanted them exhausted, and as a Vietnam veteran himself, he knew exactly what that felt like.…

32. Titanic (1997) | The Cutting Room

    22 Oct 2022 · 52 min

    One night during filming, someone laced the crew's clam chowder with PCP. Eighty people ended up in hospital, hallucinating. It's one of the strangest things ever to happen on a set, and it barely registered amid the…

33. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | The Cutting Room

    11 Oct 2022 · 51 min

    What do you do when your best friend decides, out of nowhere, that he simply doesn't like you any more? On a small Irish island in 1923, the answer involves a set of shears and several fingers. That grim, very funny…

34. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002) | The Cutting Room

    30 Sep 2022 · 51 min

    I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. As romantic dialogue goes, it has not aged like fine wine. But there's more to Attack of the Clones (2002) than its most mocked line. George Lucas shot almost…

35. Saving Private Ryan (1998) | The Cutting Room

    29 Sep 2022 · 50 min

    The first twenty-four minutes are still the most harrowing depiction of combat ever filmed. Veterans walked out of cinemas in 1998, not in protest, but because Steven Spielberg had marched them straight back onto Omaha…

36. Se7en (1995) | The Cutting Room

    22 Sep 2022 · 53 min

    What's in the box? The studio never wanted you to find out. They pushed hard for a softer ending, and it took David Fincher and a stubborn Brad Pitt to protect the one that makes Se7en (1995) unforgettable. Pitt,…

37. The Long Good Friday (1980) | The Cutting Room

    26 Aug 2022 · 48 min

    Before he was James Bond, Pierce Brosnan made his film debut here without a word of dialogue, as an IRA hitman. Before she was a Dame, Helen Mirren was the gangster's moll. And in the lead, Bob Hoskins gave the…

38. The Dark Knight (2008) | The Cutting Room

    19 Aug 2022 · 51 min

    Heath Ledger shut himself in a hotel room for weeks, kept a diary in the Joker's voice, and built a performance so complete he won an Oscar he never saw, having died before the film reached cinemas. The Dark Knight…

39. Psycho (1960) | The Cutting Room

    5 Aug 2022 · 43 min

    Forty-seven minutes in, Alfred Hitchcock murders his leading lady in a shower and changes cinema forever. Audiences in 1960 had seen nothing like it, helped by Hitchcock quietly buying up copies of the novel to keep…

40. Airplane! (1980) | The Cutting Room

    13 Jul 2022 · 52 min

    The masterstroke was casting deadly serious, square-jawed dramatic actors, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and having them deliver the silliest jokes ever written with total sincerity. It rebuilt Nielsen's…

41. The Blair Witch Project (1999) | The Cutting Room

    24 Jun 2022 · 49 min

    Plenty of people left cinemas in 1999 genuinely believing they'd just watched three real students die. A fake documentary, a clever website and an IMDb page listing the actors as missing, presumed dead, had done the…

42. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) | The Cutting Room

    23 Jun 2022 · 1 h 03 min

    No film in history arrived under heavier expectation. Sixteen years after Return of the Jedi, people queued round the block and bought tickets just to watch the trailer. Then the lights went down, and... well. You…

43. Boogie Nights (1997) | Ep. 17 - Part 2

    13 May 2022 · 54 min

    The film pivots from disco euphoria to eighties dread, and that nightmarish drug-deal scene is where it all curdles. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story. We dig into the crew behind the film — PTA's screenplay,…

44. Boogie Nights (1997) | Ep. 17 - Part 1

    13 May 2022 · 1 h 24 min · S1 E72 · Explicit

    Paul Thomas Anderson was twenty-six, on his second film, and somehow directing a cast of this size like a veteran. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of his breakout. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director…

45. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Ep. 16 - Part 2

    15 Apr 2022 · 59 min

    Lucas funded the film almost entirely himself to keep control, gambling everything on the sequel. It paid off spectacularly. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story, up to that line in Cloud City. We dig into the…

46. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Ep. 16 - Part 1

    15 Apr 2022 · 1 h 15 min · S1 E71 · Explicit

    The sequel nobody knew how to make better turned out to be the best of them all. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the darker, stranger second chapter. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, director Irvin…

47. X (2022) | The Cutting Room

    23 Mar 2022 · 1 h 01 min

    Look closely at the young starlet and the withered old woman hunting her, and it's the same performer under both. Mia Goth plays predator and prey in X (2022), and you'd be hard pushed to spot the join. Ti West drops…

48. Fargo (1996) | Ep. 15 - Part 2

    18 Mar 2022 · 54 min

    Frances McDormand doesn't appear until well into the film and still walked away with the Oscar. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as Marge closes in. We dig into the crew behind the film — the…

49. Fargo (1996) | Ep. 15 - Part 1

    18 Mar 2022 · 1 h 30 min · S1 E69 · Explicit

    Oh ya, you betcha. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the Coen brothers' snowbound crime classic and the cheerfully pregnant police chief at the heart of it. In Part 1 we cover the film's opening, directors Joel…

50. The Batman (2022) | The Cutting Room

    6 Mar 2022 · 1 h 02 min

    When Robert Pattinson was announced as Batman, a corner of the internet lost the plot. Then the film landed, and the brooding, eyeliner-smudged detective at its centre quietly won most of them over. The Batman (2022)…