Welcome back to another SPOOKY edition of the Woody Allen Retrospective Podcast   Last time, our favourite cohost with the Most: James, suggested that he would bring up a movie in the horror genre. A genre Woody Allen never quite made a feature film in   Hence James thought he would bring up an interesting title we imagine woody may have done in an alternate universe.. ALSO, our Ai assistant conjurers up a complete original(ish) horror movie idea, laid up with a full cast and plot   This was...

  A warm welcome back to all our lovely podcast listeners   We are back after we were unable to record last month, this was due to some personal stuff on Don's part. So as you can see from the title this is going to be a NOT WOODY ACTUALLY episode   As always with NWA we talk a bit outside the norm, giving updates on the podcast Monetization situation, other minor updates.. and then for the main event we have a double adjacent-ish discussion on 2 movies. The first being a patreon request from...

Welcome back everyone to the Woody Allen Retrospective podcast!    We are sorry to say that due to unexpected personal circumstances, the team won’t be able to release a podcast episode this month. That’s pretty obvious as we are at the end of the month, but for clarity, we thought we’d put out an official update so none of our lovely subscribers get concerned in lieu of this delay.   We’ll be back in September, probably late September, with another episode, and because of the delay, Don and...

Welcome back ladies and gents to another episode of Woody Adjacent!   Soo much is happening in the world of related entertainment and politics it seems we just had to address a portion of it as it relates to certain aspects of our podcast   So... starting with Alec Baldwins RUST court case which has now come to a sudden and eventful close. As Mr Baldwin is clearly one of Woody Allens biggest public supporters and listeners still want to hear our take on this eventful case closure   Moving on...

Welcome back ladies and gents to another episode of Woody Adjacent!   On this episode our co-host with the most James has chosen to discuss a very recent Oscar winning movie based off a somewhat popular novel from the early 2000’s. It was a great conversation to have even given the somewhat uncomfortable realities the movie satirizes and asks us as the viewer to confront   It’s actually quite refreshing to see the extremely positive reception to this movie and we definitely ponder how its...

Welcome back ladies and gents to another episode of Woody Adjacent!   On this episode Don is up for the movie choice and he has chosen 2023's Dream Scenario. Its another great conversation where this movie touches on some interesting social commentary giving us even more meat on the bone for our discussion   We also announce the podcast is in the process of introducing ads at the very start and end of the show - please consider supporting the show using the links below   Links mentioned /...

Welcome back ladies and gents to another episode of Woody Adjacent!   This time we come back to our Ai Companion's recommendation of the very well loved movie: Get Shorty (1995)   As well as talking about the original 1995 film adaptation, we also get into a discussion on the much HATED sequel 'Be Cool' (2005) and lastly the more recent fresh TV adaptation created in 2017   It's always interesting to see what the Ai comes up with after analysing Woody Allens Filmography and writing style......

The Woody Allen Retrospective Podcast is very excited to present our long awaited discussion for Woodys 2023 French Feature: Coup de Chance   During this episode we also had a great time reacting to a screening press conference for the movie where Woody answered many burning questions we had regarding the making of the movie - please find the link below for the conference in full and the many other things we reference in this episode!   ..and lastly, you can rest at ease as this is a mostly...

On this episode we are doing a supporter request from our ongoing patreon campign.   In truth, we get quite a few requests for Woody Allen Adjacent that don't quite fit the bill, but in this case we just could not ignore the ensemble cast and woody like setting - a worthy candidate for this project from the outset.....   How did we feel about it though?    >_>>  https://www.patreon.com/woodyretro OR  https://ko-fi.com/woodyretro   Thanks for listening as always - we would also LOVE a...

A very happy new year 2024 to all our fellow listeners and subscribers!   Today we are starting the year off with a bigger project from our co-host James, as it is his month of choice for the decided movie discussion. As such, James has chosen a British movie series that is a recut of an existing television series focusing on two comedians playing fictional versions of themselves. Its a fun one to start the year off with for sure... lets dig in!   In "The Trip" (2010), comedian Steve Coogan...

A very happy new year 2024 to all of you from all of us here at The Woody Allen Retrospective Podcast!   To start the year off.. and by popular demand mind you :) - James has finally given us a SOLO discussion for his top 10 Woody Allen Films!   If you want a refresher on what Don and Simon picked as their favs from a couple of years back - check out the previous discussion we had on that using the following link...

We are here at the very END of 2023 with our last Adjacent release!   If you have been keeping up with us in recent months we have been hinting at using Ai as a 3rd source of research in choosing our adjacent picks. We have 65 movies.. one for every year since 1969.    James randomly got a 10 from our adjacent list choice picker.. and that means today we are going to talk about.....   In 1978's California Suite, four suites witness the bittersweet joys and crushing anxieties of their...

Thanks for checking out another edition of NWA (Not Woody Actually)   On this episode Don stumbles out an explanation of using Ai to help with more Adjacent content, we officially launch our Ko-fi page, James jumps on to answer a great question about the recently passed actor  Matthew Perry.. and thats pretty much it for this edition, a short one but i think we hit all the points we needed to on this one :)   Heres the link to our new one time donation / Tip Ko-Fi Page:   ...

Back with some more Woody Adjacent... and today we discuss a movie we are shocked we didn't even hear about given the talent involved - lets dig in!   In Maybe I Do (2023) a young couple's plans for marriage become upended when they discover that their parents have been secretly carrying on an affair. The couple must also come to terms with their own differing reflections on the prospect of marriage.   Starring: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, and...

On this episode of Woody Adjacent, James brings us what seemed like a great recommendation ..only to find not only disappointment but some unfortunate behind the scenes details that still lead to a great conversation regardless :)   Fools Paradise (2023) tells the story of a mute man recently released from a mental health facility. This man looks just like a famous method actor that refuses to leave his trailer on the production of a movie set. With the "help" of a down-on-his-luck...

On this episode of Woody Adjacent, we tackle a listener request for a movie released this very year and dare we say this one really brought some heavy Woody Allen vibes!   We also want to give a massive shoutout to our new patreon supporter PAUL STICKNEY! THANK YOU GOOD SIR...    You Hurt Our Feelings (2023) is a comedy-drama film about a novelist's marriage that is somewhat upended when she overhears her husband's honest reaction to her latest book.   The movie stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus,...

On this episode of Woody Adjacent, James has chosen another Steve Martin film which is often hailed as one of his greatest and we had an interesting conversation about it - sadly the technical issues persist with the audio as we now deal with a recent bug caused by an apple update which we are still striving to fix   Thanks for your patience and understanding - we really struggled to get this one out to be honest and we appreciate your support - please consider throwing us a tip via our...

Welcome back to another episode of Woody Allen Adjacent   Today we are talking about a Rom-Com that hits all the typical beats that was made in the turn of the century with Actors that have come a massively long way since this feature - maybe nobodys seen it but it's Don's choice of the month   So lets talk about 2000's - Love & Sex   On a side note - the video we referenced in that FRIENDS episode can be found here - unless youtube takes it down in...

We are BACK with another delightful conversation for Woody Adjacent   Apologies for the continued technical issues hitting us on this episode. Editing couldn't quite fix annoying microphone peaking, echoing and some artifacting from Zoom  >_

Thanks for checking out our first edition of NWA (Not Woody Actually)   We had an idea to do a show like this but this was kind of forced upon us due to technical issues with our normal adjacent recordings   Our Patreon Page   https://www.patreon.com/woodyretro     Coup de Chance Not At Cannes https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/4/hdf6j0c29c9r4b6sg7r0ewiusrb1sf   My Lie - The Story By Meredith...

Welcome back to another episode of Woody Allen Adjacent here on the Retrospective Podcast!   Today we are talking about another movie from the 90's.. a very very small movie with a hugely celebrated actor..   We have some fun suggestions on what Woody Allen Movies he could have done well in since his actual planned movie role with Woody Fell through in the mid 2000's which was quite unfortunate   This movie is a really great showcase of his talents though that many people seemed to have...

Welcome back to another episode of Woody Allen Adjacent!   We want to give a massive thank you to one of our wonderful listeners: PAUL STICKNEY who recommended we give the works of Edward Burns a look as a good match for future adjacent talks!   Edward Burns seems to be most celebrated for his first directorial movie: The Brothers McMullen but before we get to that one i thought lets take a side step and actually check up his follow up movie with a really cool cast   So.... let's talk about -...

Welcome back to another episode of Woody Allen Adjacent!   This month we are talking about one of the worlds most celebrated comedic actors who has some really interesting parallels to Woody Allen - this movie in particular seems to be a jokey-poke love letter to a city very close to his heart that, of course, we have a good ol' conversation about     So.. lets talk about 1991's L.A. Story - which has a few surprising cameos!     Thank you so much for listening - We are still hopeful in...

Wishing everybody a very happy new year 2023 to all our humble listeners / wonderful subscribers!   Woody Allen Adjacent is back for another year of great debate and discussion while we await another official woody release - starting the year off with a somewhat fantasy / slice of life romantic drama.. where we had to ask ourselves.. can ONE scene determine the flow of an entire movie? o_0   Lets find out.. as we discuss - 2012's Ruby Sparks   Thank you so much for listening - We are still...