Ian and Dave explore new and old films, giving you their opinions on what’s good and what’s bad; what works and waht doesn’t; and their solutions to fix possible problems. Not sure what you thought of that movie? Let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you!
Hello, cinema savants! This week on The Fansplainers, Ian and Dave discuss director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis’ Yesterday. It’s about Dave’s worst nightmare – a world without The Beatles. What were The ‘Splainers feelings about this film? Did they enjoy this curious mix of high concept and rom-com? Well, let Ian and Dave […]
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On this episode, Ian and Dave take a look at the newest installment in the X-People franchise – namely, Dark Phoenix. Ian says it’s the X-Men story no one wanted; Dave feels the franchise hadn’t earned the emotional impact they wanted for this movie. One of them liked it, and one of them didn’t. Let
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Hello, film fans! Welcome to Episode 6 of The Fansplainers! This week Ian and Dave take a somewhat critical look at the third movie in the John Wick series, and celebrate, well, Dave anyway, Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart. Ian and Dave wonder if the John Wick series is starting to suffer from the dreaded
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Ciao, film fans! This week Ian and Dave sit down to talk about Jordan Peele’s Us, his first film after the hugely popular breakout hit, Get Out. Can lightning strike twice? Not entirely comfortable leaving the comic book movie out entirely, they also discuss Neil Marshall’s meat and potatoes take on Hellboy. Can he improve
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Hello, film aficionados! Welcome to Episode 4 of The Fansplainers, in which Ian and Dave discuss Avengers 4! (Geddit?) This episode is all about instant reactions rather than considered opinions, as Ian and Dave watched Avengers 4: Endgame on opening night and then hurried back to Sneaky Dragon headquarters to record their thoughts. In short:
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Hello, film fans! This week on The Fansplainers, Ian and David take a long, hard, appraising look at DC’s latest entry into the overstuffed superhero marketplace: Shazam! David is in favour of DC’s new shotgun approach to their movies – curious to see where more independent directions will take their movies. Ian prefers the more
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This film already won an Academy Award! What else is there to say about it? Well, maybe, why is it such a good film? Ian and Dave take a look at Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and explain why a film that – on paper – shouldn’t have worked is so successful. Not sure why you
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Hello, film fans, and welcome to the pilot episode of The Fansplainers Film Cast. Of course, since it is our pilot episode, it only makes sense for us to talk about Captain Marvel or, as she’s also known, jet fighter pilot (geddit?) Carol Danvers! Although Ian and David enjoyed Captain Marvel, they did have some
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