The Prestige
Join Rob & Sam, two life-long friends, one a veteran of the film industry, the other a Cambridge-educated writer on books, movies and graphic novels. Each week they talk about a film and some of the ideas it throws up.
Recent Episodes:
5.06 – EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (2015) & Madness - After something of a hiatus: we’re back! With the award-winning 2015 Colombian film EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT. 
Small Batch – Titane (2021) - Another Small Batch episode, looking at the the 2021 horror film, Titane. 
5.05 – MADEINUSA (2005) & Dislocation - The next stop on our journey through Latin America is 2005’s MADEINUSA. 
5.04 – CITY OF GOD (2002) & Corrupt Space - The title for this episode comes from something Rob says towards the end of this chat, which I think sums up this film brilliantly. 
5.03 – 25 WATTS (2001) & Futility - Our film this week is the slacker comedy/drama 25 WATTS, from Uruguay. 
5.02 – THE ACCUSED (2018) & Intensity - After something of a hiatus from the main feed, this week the band is back together with our look at (the most recent, Rob) THE ACCUSED. 
Small Batch – White House Down (2013) & Olympus Has Fallen (2013) - Die Hard In The White House...again? 
5.01 – EMA (2019) & Seeds - We launch into Season 5 (FIVE!!! madness, I tell you) and our ‘world tour’ with a film from the country at the southernmost tip of the Americas, Chile, and Pablo Larraín’s 2019 film EMA. 
200! – 300 (2007) & Fourteen Years - Some six years after our first episode — and fourteen years after the…’discussion’ that prompted us to start doing this podcast (eventually), we’re revisiting Zach Snyder’s 2007 epic 300