This week we watch the final movie in our Japan leg of Asian movies with “Hana-bi”, written, directed, edited, and starring Japanese film and comedy legend, and actor, producer, editor, director, author, game designer, poet, painter Takeshi Kitano. Does this movie bring in the rewards with the boys as it did at its foreign debut? Find out on this episode of the Midnight Filmclub. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura ...

For the fourth movie in our Japan leg of our tour of Asian movies, we watch a lesser known collection of three short films by famed animator and manga-ka Katsuhiro Otomo. Does this series of shorts live up to the same quality set by him earlier with Akira? Also, what does each episode bring to the table? Find out on this long awaited episode of the Midnight Filmclub. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jemuboura @zyrell  --- Send...

This week we dive into the absolutely messed up mind of Takeshi Miike, one of Japan’s weirdest and grossest filmmakers for a look at the movie Audition, a movie that has gained cult status for its absolutely different take on the horror genre. We don't really know what else to say with this one because this movie just kind of needs to be seen to be believed.  Contact us:   Email: [email protected] Instagrams:  @themidnightfilmclub   @jemusuboura   @zyrell --- Send in a voice...

This week we dive into a niche Japanese comedy from 2001, Waterboys, which is the story of a bunch of misfit students accidentally getting themselves stuck doing a synchronized swimming routine for their school culture festival. Wacky hi-jinx ensue as the boys with no experience have to race against time to become proficient performers before they have to hit the pool. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jemusuboura @zyrell --- Send in a...

This week we start our second season of the Midnight Filmclubs tour of Asia. Starting this week with a classic from Japan is the hit 2000 movie Battle Royale. Does this movie stand the test of time, or was it just a shock value flick from the past twenty years? This week we have brought on a very special guest, our friend Jordan to talk about this cult classic film. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Follow Jordan at @afroinjapan on Twitter and Instagram! Instagrams:...

Come on in the water is great! Well, maybe not as great as we remember. This week we get flushed through time so strap in, prepare your cassette players and put on those leg warmers as we take a look at the 2010 Steve Pink comedy Hot Tub Time Machine. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we take a break from school to join Ferris on his day off. We commit grand theft auto, watch a baseball game, and contemplate our entire lives while staring at a Georges Seurat. Hope into our Ferrari and come with us as we take a look at Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week our good friend Dan joins us to talk about the Jim Jarmusch movie Ghost Dog. Whip out the Hagakure, sharpen your katana, and feed your pigeons, as we dive into The Way of the Samurai. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we take an absolute decent into madness with Robert Eggers film The Lighthouse. Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson deliver amazing performances in this unique horror/masturbatory thriller that is sure to disturb and unnerve. Get your snacks and your turpentine ready and settle in as we review The Lighthouse. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message:...

This week we watch a movie about some fookin prawns and take a look at Neill Blomkamp's first big movie District 9. Body horror, action, aliens, this movie has it all wrapped up into a well put together science fiction package. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we watch an absolute anxiety rollercoaster in Uncut Gems. Adam Sandler delivers a great performance as an absolute irredeemable scumbag who falls further and further down a pit of misery of his own creation. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we talk about an Oscar winning movie that is essentially a hour long commercial for Suntory Whiskey and the Tokyo Park Hyatt. Jay tries valiantly to win David over into understanding why this movie is a great one.  Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

We didn't have much time during the holidays to watch a chosen movie but we definitely watched stuff. A lot of stuff. Come and listen as the boys shoot the shit about what they watched over the winter break. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we head to Detroit to see what the finest OCP has to offer. Roaring giant mechs, thousands of squibs, and one man stands against it all... Robocop. Your move creep. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we go straight to ludicrous speed right into Mel Brooks Spaceballs. Does the movie stand the test of time? Is it more relevant now than ever? Put on your dark helmet, open a can of Derri-air, use the Schwartz, and get ready to merchandise as we check out Spaceballs. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we travel to far far away and watch Shrek 2. A movie featuring Mike Myers playing green Fat Bastard with Eddie Murphy as an ass. Ogres, ostracization, and over the top parody in a tale as old as about 20 years ago. It's pretty alright. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

A week later than planned we swing into Spider-Man 3. With No Way Home on the horizon we take a meme filled look back at the original third Spider-Man movie to see just how bad it actually was. Tugboat Mcguire and a high as hell James Franco duke it out over the grave of Topher Grace’s acting career, also Sandman is there or something? We're not sure too much and nothing at all is going on in this movie. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: ...

This week we watch a movie featuring Jim Carrey as Truman, who leads a perfect idyllic life in a dystopian Big Brother hellscape before his reality breaks apart and becomes the worst trip ever. This movie brings up a bunch of questions about the morality of consumers, reality TV and how the audience are complete idiots. Strap in, and get ready to question your surroundings and the people you speak to, and Welcome to The Truman Show. Contact us: Email: [email protected] ...

This week we watch Scott Pilgrim, a movie that finally has more years between its release and now than Scott and his high school girlfriend and somehow still feels less gross. So strap up your bass guitar, go vegan, and punch a hole in the moon pretending its Scott's face while we blaze up in our Winnie.  Contact us:  Email: [email protected]  Instagrams:  @themidnightfilmclub  @jeiboura  @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we literally dive and shoot our way into the 1992 gun-fu epic Hard Boiled where John Woo jerks off basically every gun on planet earth for a solid two hours. So slap your drink, never reload your gun, and slide on into the morgue (literally) as the bullets tear up everybody within a 20 kilometer radius. This is peak Woo time. Contact us: Email: [email protected] Instagrams: @themidnightfilmclub @jeiboura @zyrell --- Send in a voice message:...

Chopping Mall is available on YouTube HERE  This week, as a live Halloween special we give you a commentary track that you can follow! Let's watch Chopping Mall, an 80s B-movie about killer security guard robots that rudely interrupt a very un-sexy six-some in an IKEA showroom. Cue lots of lasers, grippy arms and a ton of unpaid product placement. Stay tuned for a review of the movie at the end.  Movie YouTube link here too: https://youtu.be/HKyCSbaP_K8  Contact us:  Email:...

This week we dive into the dirty but beautiful backstreets of 80s Osaka, along with worthless gaijin a*****e Michael Douglas who is hellbent on smashing his way through Japan to apprehend the man he stupidly lost at the airport.  Contact us:  Email: [email protected] Instagrams:  @themidnightfilmclub  @jeiboura  @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we watch what is probably the most wholesome movie we have seen in a long time. Friends are the family that you choose, unless its some smartass prick kid, then you punch them straight in the face. Contact us:  Email: [email protected]  Instagrams:  @themidnightfilmclub  @jeiboura  @zyrell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themidnightfilmclub/message

This week we check out Hideaki Anno's first foray into live action film with Shin Godzilla and give a critique more effectively than the Japanese government. Warning: The profanity meter is high on this one. Instagram: @themidnightfilmclub Email: [email protected]