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The Commentary Booth is a weekly entertainment podcast where we watch, & you guessed it commentate on the week that was in movies & TV. Each week, Jamie & a rotating cast of colour commentators will review what they've been watching to help you find your next viewing treat.
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First Time Watching: Resident Evil (2002) (opens the original)
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Before Zach Cregger takes audiences back into the world of Resident Evil, The Commentary Booth ’s Jamie Apps and Corrina Mabey return to where the live-action movie franchise began with Paul W.S. Anderson's 2002 action-horror adaptation. Milla Jovovich stars as Alice, a mysterious operative caught in the middle of an outbreak at an Umbrella Corporation genetics laboratory, alongside Michelle Rodriguez ’s Rain Ocampo and a team of commandos fighting their way through zombies, mutant creatures and
The Whisper Man Review (SPOILERS) (opens the original)
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What happens when a film looks like one thing in the trailer, only to turn out to be something rather different once you actually press play? This week on The Commentary Booth , Jamie Apps is joined by Astrid Pizarro from the Killer Cuts Podcast to break down Netflix’s star-studded thriller, The Whisper Man . Based on Alex North ’s bestselling novel, The Whisper Man follows a widowed crime writer whose eight-year-old son is abducted, forcing him to turn to his estranged father, a retired police
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (opens the original)
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Our Star Wars 50th anniversary rewatch continues on The Commentary Booth , and this time Jamie Apps and Corrina Mabey are heading back to a galaxy far, far away for 2017's Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi . Written and directed by Rian Johnson , The Last Jedi sees Rey ( Daisy Ridley ) travel to the remote island where Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) has isolated himself, hoping the legendary Jedi Master can help her understand and control her growing connection to the Force. Meanwhile, the
Labyrinth 40th Anniversary Review (opens the original)
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Forty years after Jim Henson ’s Labyrinth first transported audiences into a strange, glitter-covered world of goblins, puppets, impossible staircases and one very memorable Goblin King, The Commentary Booth is heading back into the maze. This week, Jamie Apps and Corrina Mabey celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1986 fantasy classic starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly , and, unsurprisingly, they do not exactly agree on whether Labyrinth has aged into a timeless masterpiece or a bizarre
The X-Files: I Want To Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn Review (opens the original)
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The truth is out there... but apparently, it involves Frankenstein monsters, organ trafficking and a surprisingly small number of aliens. On this episode of The Commentary Booth , Jamie Apps and Corrina Mabey return to the world of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to review the new director’s cut of the 2008 sci-fi thriller The X-Files: I Want To Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn . Mulder and Scully are pulled back into an FBI investigation involving psychic visions, a kidnapped agent, Russian scientists,
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