Second Take Cinema

On the latest episode of Second Take Cinema we're taking a look at this Marilyn Monroe-led classic. Directed by Billy Wilder and based on a stage play, this movie features the iconic Marilyn Monroe white dress scene and became a part of pop culture, however the director had a lot of regret about the movie, feeling it had been held back by the restrictive Hayes Code at the time. Jamie and Rory look back at it and see how it plays in a modern age.

It's a controversial episode this week folks as the boys take a look at Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy. Whilst this film is widely likely and has a pretty good reputation, it didn't sit well with Jamie who is extra grumpy on this episode on account of being very unwell. The boys discuss the movie and try to articulate what they liked and didn't like about the movie and Jamie airs his beef with Will Ferrell.

On this edition of Second Take Cinema we take a look at one of Rory's favourite movies and the final movie directed by the legendary Richard Donner. Starring Bruce Willis as an alcoholic cop who has given up on life, this film charts the journey of an apathetic man who unexpectedly finds himself fighting for something for the first time in a long time. 

A franchise built on parodying existing franchises, 1996's Scream was a much needed shot in the arm for the very tired and essentially dead slasher genre when it released and it introduced the world to one of the most iconic slasher's in cinema history in Ghostface alongside one of its most iconic final girls with Neve Campbell's Sydney Prescott. But how does the original Scream hold up today, after all of these years (and sequels)? Jamie and Rory discuss it in this new episode of Second Take Cinema!

Widely recognised as having saved the Star Trek franchise from certain doom, The Wrath Of Khan finds its strength in being a film that strips back its budget and instead relies on tight scripting, iconic (if over-the-top) performances and escalating tension and winds up with a more successful outcome than its predecessor. How does it hold up all of these years later though?

Telling the true story of Jordan Belmont and the schemes that earned him the titular moniker, this is our first visit back to Martin Scorsese-land since we covered Goodfellas right back at the beginning of the show. Will this movie fare better with Rory than Goodfellas did? The boys discuss the film and the moral implications associated with telling this sort of story, which seems to thread through a lot of Scorsese's work.  

1994 remains perhaps the biggest year of Jim Carey's career, seeing the release of 3 of his biggest hits all in one year; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (see previous STC episode!), Dumb & Dumber and perhaps the most risky of the three ventures: The Mask. Based on a comic book and produced by New Line Cinema, the movie takes the source material in a more comedic direction and blends a weird sense of disturbing fantasy, real-life mundanity and cartoonish comedy under the guiding hand of director Chuck Russell (A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob). The question is, how does the movie hold up more than thirty years' later?

A huge Merry Christmas from Second Take Cinema and all of us here at Impala Films! We celebrate this week by reviewing a movie that holds a nostalgic place in Jamie's heart. Of the many screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that there has been, Jamie contests that this 1970 Albert Finney vehicle is the best of the bunch. Will Rory agree? Do you agree? Let us know!

Love Actually is usually regarded as one of the best Christmas and romantic movies ever but, in recent years opinion has been turning on the film with many acknowledging that the films idea of "love" is often misplaced. So who better to weigh in on this discussion than two fat guys?