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Two rapscallions shawshbuckling their way through the open oceans of cinema. That is to say... we rate and review films.
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The 10th greatest film ever made - Back to the Future (1985) | The Mate Night Film Deep Dive (opens the original)
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Is Back to the Future (1985) a genuinely perfect film, or just the one we're all too fond of to mark down honestly? Welcome back to the booth at Mate Night, where we're re-ranking the IMDb Top 250 A to Z until someone finally invites us to Cannes. Fred went 9.1 and refused to blink — it's Back to the Future, stick the landing. Jambo came in at 8.4, docked partly because rewatching Parts II and III soured it: Zemeckis never wanted to film the future, made a caricature of it instead, and Part II i
We found the worst decade in cinema history | Batman Begins (2005) | Mate Night Podcast (opens the original)
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Is Batman Begins (2005) the best comic book film ever made, or is it just really goofy? Back in the booth, one film into B, on current projections about 25 years from finishing the Top 250. Fred gave it 7.8 and spent most of it cataloguing goof: the way Batman stabs the switchboard on the train, and an entire Katie Holmes performance delivered by someone who appears not to have read the scene. Jambo gave it 7.7 and argued it's the rare origin story that actually shows its working — Bruce has to
Thanos had omnipotence and chose murder — Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | Mate Night Podcast (opens the original)
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Is Avengers: Infinity War (2018) the peak of the biggest film series ever made, or three hours of highlights with no film underneath? We're in the booth, working through the IMDb Top 250 alphabetically, and we are not close on this one. Fred came out at 6.6 — six point mix — after watching it a second time and hearing every scripted pause where the cinema audience was meant to laugh. Jambo landed on 7.69, admitted his gut reaction was north of 8, and confessed to full Godfather effect: went in e
Forced to agree on the ultimate Nolan full filmography ranking | Mate Night Podcast (opens the original)
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Nobody agrees on Christopher Nolan. Fred watched a stack of ranking videos and found less consistency than for any other director — Dunkirk in someone's top three, dead last for the next person. So we're settling it. No Machine, no scores. Thirteen films, worst to best, and neither of us moves on until we both agree. The first fight arrives immediately. Fred wants Batman Begins at the bottom — it's goofy, it doesn't feel like a film by the most serious filmmaker alive, and it's the worst Nolan h
No phones, no Uggs, no emotion - The Odyssey (2026) | Mate Night Film Deep Dive (opens the original)
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Is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026) the event film of the year, or a beautifully built three hours you feel nothing during? On this one, we're 1.3 points apart. Fred came in at 8.6 on the critical score — top marks for visuals, sound and impact — while admitting his actual enjoyment was mid-sevens, same as Jambo's 7.3. By the end of the episode he'd talked himself down. The Machine settled it at 7.95: the 27th greatest film of all time , just ahead of 2001: A Space Odyssey and just behind
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