Unscripted The Film Show Podcast Episode 216 - Top Tens and Bottom Fives for 2022

The Unscripted trio each provide their ten highlights and five lowlights from the 2022 releases they watched during the year.

Here’s where you can watch the team’s top tens via Just Watch.

(Inclusion in the list was via Australian release dates.  Some international films may show as 2021.)

 

Lewis

01 The Batman

02 Avatar 2: The Way of the Water (Currently in cinemas)

03 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Currently in cinemas)

04 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

05 Bullet Train

06 Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

07 Prey

08 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

09 Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

10 Top Gun: Maverick

 

Cecilia

01 Good Luck to you, Leo Grande

02 The Menu (Currently in cinemas)

03 Elvis

04 The Forgiven

05 The Batman

06 The Black Phone

07 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

08 The Good Boss

09 A Hero

10 Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

 

Rachele

01 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

02 Don't Worry Darling

03 Violent Night (Currently in cinemas)

04 So Damn Easy Going

05 Lightyear

06 The Lost Daughter

07 Drive my Car

08 Happening

09 Don't Look Up

10 Turning Red

Unscripted The Film Show Podcast Episode 216 - Top Tens and Bottom Fives for 2022
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Unscripted - The Film Show Podcast Episode 207 - Howdy Howdy Howdy

Lewis catches Rachele up of Alan Moore’s opinion of the Watchmen series and offers a bit of an education on comic books and the politics of the comic book world. He then moves on to review the new DC movie Black Adam. They also chat about some new stuff streaming on Netflix - Unsolved Mysteries, The Watcher and the latest season of Nailed It. Also, stay tuned right till the end to learn about bananas. No, truely. It’s worth it.

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Unscripted - The Film Show Podcast Episode 204 - The Clean Soccer Bear

On this weeks agenda, Lewis gives us insight into Wrexham, detailing the unlikely friendship between actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney following their purchase of a Welsh soccer team. He also shares his thoughts on tv show, The Bear, starring Jeremy Allen White who plays a chef from the world of fine dining who comes home to his family’s sandwich following tragic circumstances. Meanwhile, Cecilia reviews Clean, a documentary about the life of Australian businesswoman, Sandra Pankhurst who started one of Australia’s most successful trauma cleaning services.

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Unscripted - The Film Show Podcast Episode 203 - Mixed Lollies

Rachele gets the show underway with the excitement of what the British Film Festival has to offer, before being joined by Cecilia and a flustered Lewis. They then get artsy with Bowie as they talk about the immersive film experience of Moonage Daydream. Cecilia and Lewis break down the not so scary horror, Bodies Bodies Bodies and the Roberts/Clooney comedy Ticket to Paradise. They all wrap up with some more from the Italian Film Festival - specifically Power of Rome - and two Crime heavy TV Series Candy and The Patient both featured on Disney +

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While we’re going to talk Bodies, Bodies, Bodies and Moonage Day Dream next show, we still bring the horror with Whinnie the Pooh, Willy’s Wonderland and some of the feels with Hate, Breaking Up in Rome and The Quiet Girl. Lewis and Cecilia also talked about Brendan Fraser’s return to cinema and tried to work out what’s up with Don’t Worry Darling.

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Rachele’s just celebrated her birthday, so she and Lewis talk about some of her resulting Lego projects and Lewis talks about his table travels before getting stuck into his musicals weekend of Cruel Intentions, Tick Tick Boom and Frozen. The two of them also talk a heap of things to watch out for on streaming.

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Lewis, Rachele and Cecilia take a look at the length of time they’ve been doing Unscripted (and before that, Funky Films). Lewis reckons there’s a good 1200 shows he’s done since 1998 (when Rachele was graduating high school), while Rachele jumped on board in 2006 and then they welcomed Cecilia into the team in 2012. Now they have 200 episodes up of the podcast! They also get stuck into: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Fire of Love before delving into some TV with The Resort, Blown Away, House of Dragons, She-Hulk and What We Do in the Shadows. It’s a BUMper show ;)

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