Happy New Year, listeners! Using the wonders of time travel, granted via the magic of editing and our characteristic sporadic podcast release schedule, we bring you back to Christmas of the very recent past with our nearly annual Movie Matters Christmas s

Hello again listeners! After a slight delay, we bring you our hotly anticipated Bond double bill, in which we discuss the recent UK box-office busting SPECTRE alongside the much loved albeit divisive ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE.We also outline the p

For this, the sixth annual Movie Matters Halloween special, Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie welcome back to the hosting chair Demented Danman aka Focus on Film's Daniel Sardella. On this occasion we give our autumnal 'frightivities' a twist of yellow as

Love him or loathe him, Steven Spielberg is arguably the most influential filmmaker working today. Who else commands such clout in Tinseltown, and what other director's very name serves as a guaranteed box office draw, even among non-cinephiles? We're pro

Ciao and welcome to another Italian genre cinema themed instalment of the Movie Matters Podcast. In this episode, join Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie as we champion the work of often overlooked 1960s/1970s filmmaker Luigi Bazzoni. First, we feast our ey

In the latest instalment of the Movie Matters Podcast, co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie jump behind the mic for an impromptu catch-up session, trading notes on their recent viewing choices. Covering everything from the heyday of Hammer Horror to

The listeners have spoken and we have listened! The Movie Matters Podcast is ramping up its coverage of all things giallo, starting with this double feature exploring the films of Lucio Fulci. Join Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie as they examine two of t

Today on the Movie Matters Podcast, co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie fill in a couple of glaring gaps in Lee’s film viewing and take a look at two unique and distinctly different animated directorial debuts from the late 90s/early 00s united by

In this, the 30th instalment of the Movie Matters Podcast, co-hosts Lee Howard and Michael Mackenzie return to a subject close to both their hearts -- that most distinctive of moments, the Italian giallo. Two radically different examples of the genre are

It’s that time again. A range of films have been watched and rewatched, tough decisions made and our selections finalised. So let’s kick-off the first Movie Matters recording of 2015 with our annual in-depth discussion of the past 12 months in film. J