Movie Matters Podcast

Movie Matters Podcast


Latest Episodes

Movie Matters #44: Top 10 of 2016 - Part Two
April 02, 2017

In Part 2 of our annual Top 10 Films of the Year bonanza, co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie continue the countdown and discussion of their favourite movies released in 2016. If you haven't already, be sure to seek out and listen to Part 1 (coverin

Movie Matters #43: Top 10 of 2016 - Part One
March 05, 2017

The 2017 film awards season has now been and gone, and whether you enjoyed the glitz and glamour or despaired at the lack of representation of your personal favourite movies of the year, Movie Matters belatedly kicks off another year of film appreciation

Movie Matters [Music] Vol. 7 - Guess the Giallo Grooves
December 29, 2016

With 2016 finally drawing to a close we would like to wish each and every one of our loyal listeners a very Happy New Year! Recorded earlier this year and saved for this celebratory occasion we invite you to enjoy the return of Movie Matters [Music]: our

Movie Matters #42 - Christmas Special VI
December 23, 2016

Greetings, listeners! A smorgasbord of seasonal spooktacular scintillations awaits you as co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie tackle two distinctly different but nonetheless thematically linked festive horror treats. First up is KRAMPUS, Michael Dou

Movie Matters [Music] Vol. 6 - Scores of Horror
November 27, 2016

Welcome to a long lost instalment of Movie Matters [Music]: our spin-off series where soaring, bombastic, introspective and timeless film scores reverberate. Originally recorded for Halloween (circa 2014), join Lee and Michael for an all-horror themed six

Movie Matters #41 - Halloween Special VII
October 31, 2016

It’s that special time of the year once again as the Movie Matters Podcast rises from the coffin for its seventh annual Halloween special. Lee Howard, Michael Mackenzie and guest host Daniel Sardella (of the Media Meltdown network’s Focus on Film podc

Movie Matters #40 - Mimsy Farmer Double Bill
June 12, 2016

Today’s instalment of the Movie Matters Podcast sees co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie taking a look at a pair of thrillers from the heyday of Italian cult cinema, both starring distinctive American actress Mimsy Farmer. First up, we begin by di

Movie Matters #39 - Luciano Ercoli/Nieves Navarro Special
April 12, 2016

Death walks onto Movie Matters this month as we indulge in some fun and frivolity in this Luciano Ercoli and Nieves Navarro aka Susan Scott giallo triple-bill. Join us as we ogle THE FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION (1970), shimmy and simmer whe

Movie Matters Mini #8 - Wake Up and Kill
March 08, 2016

The latest instalment of the Movie Matters Podcast sees us adopting a "smash and grab" approach, so to speak, as we take an impromptu look at director Carlo Lizzani's proto-poliziotteso thriller WAKE UP AND KILL, a 1966 adaptation of the travails of real-

Movie Matters #38 - Top 10 of 2015
February 21, 2016

The dust has now settled on another year in film, the Oscars are imminent and in our unashamedly delayed fashion we bring you our first Movie Matters recording of the New Year, dedicated to our subjective perspectives on the films of 2015. Between us, we'