21st Film

Chess Club Rebels

Films released twenty-one years earlier are rewatched and reappraised by Lorcan Mullan and a different guest every episode. From confirmed classics to box office flops, the benefit of hindsight, and the personal recollections of both Lorcan and his guests will hopefully allow a deeper conversation to build about evolving tastes of the public, the critical consensus, the culture, and the personal overjust over two decades of reflection

Episodes

21st Film (2000): #020 - What Women Want (with Alex Leam)

Mel Gibson is a sexist Neanderthal. Also, he starred in the movie 'What Women Want'.

Nov 30, 2021

1 hr 21 min

21st Film (2000): #019 - The Gleaners & I (with Lena Delaney)

Lorcan is joined by Lena Delaney of the ‘Adjust Your Tracking‘ podcast to talk about Agnès Varda‘s exploration of people who glean what they can from others‘ leftovers in order to live

Nov 16, 2021

1 hr 11 min

21st Film (2000): #018 - Shadow of the Vampire (with Nuri McBride)

A retelling of the original classic vampire film that wonders how a crew would deal with the most relentless director and the most method of actors.

Nov 2, 2021

1 hr 14 min

21st Film (2000): #017 - Dungeons & Dragons (with David Tsonos)

The last big fantasy flop before Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter changed everything a year later. Lorcan is joined this time by comedian and D&D player David Tsonos for expert insight.

Oct 19, 2021

1 hr 5 min

21st Film (2000): #016 - Rancid Aluminium (BOWOB special)

A cross-promotion as Lorcan provides an episode from his other film podcast, Best of Worst of British, which had previously discussed maybe the worst film to be realsed by anyone, British or not, in the entirity of 2000 with the Guy Ritchie knock-off Rancid Aluminium.

Sep 28, 2021

58 min

21st Film (2000): #015 - Hollow Man (with Adam Hawker)

Adam Hawker returns to discuss the final Hollywood film from renowned, subversive director Paul Verhoeven, as Kevin Bacon reveals the depravity of man when they don‘t have to look at themselves in the mirror and consider the consequences of their own actions.

Sep 21, 2021

1 hr 15 min

21st Film (2000): #014 - Bedazzled (with Tom Salinsky)

A Hollywood remake of the beloved British satire of all things religious, can Harold Ramis, Brendan Fraser, and Liz Hurley do justice to the biting wit of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore?

Sep 7, 2021

1 hr 3 min

21st Film (2000): #013 - Ready to Rumble (with Simon Cross)

Lorcan is joined by his 'Let Me Tell You Something' co-host Simon Cross to discuss the 2000 wrestling movie flop 'Ready to Rumble' starring future WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette. Yeah, that's right...

Aug 31, 2021

59 min

21st Film (2000): #012 - O Brother, Where Art Thou? (with Thom Hodkinson)

The first of two episodes where Lorcan is joined by a co-host from one of his other podcast. This week it's his BOWOB partner Thom Hodkinson who picked his favourite ever Coen brothers film for discussion.

Aug 24, 2021

1 hr 20 min

21st Film (2000): #011 - Chocolat (with Nuri McBride)

The first of the five Best Picture nominees of 2000's Oscars to be covered sees Lorcan joined by the academic and perfumer Nuri McBride to discuss this sensory-heavy example of the populist Weinstein-backed drama of this era.

Aug 17, 2021

1 hr 6 min