52 Week Film Project
52 Week Film Project
Jake Leonard and Will Paxton
Jake and Will are two recent graduates who do not shut-up about movies. Having just moved apart, they hatched a plan to stay in touch by embarking on a quest to review a new film each week, for a year. This journey will be the ultimate test of friendship, sanity and the state of cinema! What could go wrong...
Week 42 Vol.2 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The time has come! Tarantino's latest installment takes place in 1969 and spans 2.5 days in the life of Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) as they cross paths with the nefarious Manson family cult. Join us for an in-depth review including spoilers.
Aug 20, 2019
48 min
Week 42 Vol.1 - Tarantino: A Brief History...
On this weeks episode of the #52WFP Will and Jake trace Quentin Tarantino's filmography, from 1992's Reservoir Dogs all the way up to the production of his 9th feature, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood! Tune in for on set secrets, anecdotes and the perfect warm-up to the latest installment.
Aug 19, 2019
1 hr 5 min
Week 41 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix
We are back and can hardly contain our ✖️-citement! 🎉 This week on the podcast we take a deep dive into the box office disaster that is X-Men: Dark Phoenix. We discuss our personal investment in the series, the alien-ating subplot and reminisce on the true finale to the X-Men franchise, Logan. 😢 All this plus an impromptu quick-fire review of Aladdin! 🧞‍♂️ Oh, and Will compares the film to its predecessor X-Men Apocalypse that he watched just before recording. I'm not sure if you can tell, he barely mentioned it... maybe once or twice... Beats provided by Lakey Inspired
Jun 25, 2019
1 hr 7 min
Week 40 - Detective Pikachu
Ryan Reynolds takes on a completely different form within which to wise-crack in 'Detective Pikachu'. We discuss...
May 18, 2019
1 hr 6 min
Week 39 - Avengers Endgame
The end is here. You already know what this is! First half SPOILER-FREE, second half SPOILER-FULL! Enjoy...
Apr 27, 2019
1 hr 31 min
Week 38.5 - Fighting with my Family (w/ special guest Tom Thornhill)
On a very special wrestling focused bonus episode, Will dives into Stephen Merchant's Fighting With My Family. Tagging in for Jake this week we welcome the wrestling  aficionado, friend of the pod and all around great guy Tom Thornhill. 🎉🎉  We discuss My Maths, the cinematic aspects of wrestling, the confusion of Paige's many names/alter-egos, the acting chemistry between Nick Frost and Lena Headey and the overuse of The Rock in every WWE marketing campaign. All whilst trying to slip in as many wrestling puns as humanly possible! 💪  Beats provided by Lakey Inspired.  🎧
Mar 21, 2019
51 min
Week 38 - Captain Marvel
Better late than ever! The Kiwi Series continues with a review of the latest and (greatest?) from Marvel Studios - Captain Marvel! The review would not be complete without the insights of our special guest host, Olivia Radcliffe, who offers the incredibly useful opinion of a viewer who could not care less about the inner workings of the MCU! Tune in for a cracking conversation on all things super from three wanna-be heroes.
Mar 17, 2019
1 hr 5 min
Week 37 - Paddleton
Week 37 is now live, and we begin our Kiwi series. Even though we are 13 hours apart we are connected in spirit, film, news and most importantly, via a webcam. 📹  This week we review the dry tragic bromance that is Paddleton. We discuss the film-making of the Duplass Brothers, if we love Raymond as much as everyone else does and rank Paddleton as a game against Sabac and most importantly, Will's Superhero Boardgame. 🃏  We also bring you new trailer news for Tolkien and the final trailer for the final series of Game of Thrones. Finally!   Beats provided by Lakey Inspired. 
Mar 9, 2019
1 hr 8 min
Week 36 - Oscars 2019 and Cold Pursuit
Week 36 is now live 🎉🎉  This week, we cover the end of the award season with our Oscars 2019 roundup. We talk about Rami Malek's big fall, Spike Lee's purple suits, The pros and cons of no host, the optics of Green Book's Best Picture win, and the surreal yet heart warming winning speach by our very own Olivia Colman. Long live the Queen 👑  After this, we bring you a review of the Fargo evoking, scandinavian inspired comedy/thriller Cold Pursuit. We discuss the films failed marketing strategy, the acting credits of Domenick Lombardozzi, and the best use of the breakup letter trope EVER! ✉️  1:49: Oscars Roundup, 37:13: Cold Pursuit
Feb 28, 2019
1 hr 12 min
Week 35 - Lego Movie 2 & Alita: Battle Angel
Week 35 is now live! 🎉🎉 This week Jake and Will have an 'Odeon Trial Seperation' where we seperetly went out and watched films with terrific tag lines; Alita: Battle Angel and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Tune in for a discussion of Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade's double act in The Mighty Boosh, Big Fat Quiz of the Year, and now as the unlikely pairing of a teenage ice vampire DJ and an ice cream cone in the Lego Movie 2.🍦 We also talk about the influence of the spy kids films on Alita, the manga authentic references used by Cameron and Rodriguez, and our favourite Gotham City Guy, Will Arnett's Batman 🦇 We also bring you our Oscars predictions, where we discuss the afrocentric design of Black Panther, our betting system on the night itself and the joy of Episode 1 favourite 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' being nominated for best visual effects. May the force be with you Solo. Always. 🔫 Oscar Nominations: 2:00, Lego Movie 2: 35:21, Alita: 52:58
Feb 21, 2019
1 hr 23 min
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