15 | A Film Review Podcast

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Comedy charlatans Luke Oddie and Dan Wade try to convince you that their film reviews, formed after watching just the first 15 minutes, are as nuanced and perceptive as any less lazy critic's.

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Wonka, Saltburn and Theater Camp
09-02-2024
Wonka, Saltburn and Theater Camp
This time on 15, Luke and Dan rattle off their reviews for three recent films that they should have got round to critiquing sooner. Firstly, Luke gets frustrated by Wonka, the musical fantasy film directed by Paul King, who co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Farnaby. The picture tells the origins of Willy Wonka,  featuring his early days as a chocolatier. Starring Timothée Chalamet as the title character, and with an ensemble cast including Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant, it is the third live-action film based on Roald Dahl's novel. Next up is the film that grabbed everyone's attention, Saltburn. Emerald Fennel's second offering is black comedy psychological thriller featuring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant. The film focuses on a student at Oxford University who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic student who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.Then, after a handy tip off from Luke, the pair discuss Theater Camp, a 2023 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman. The movie follows the counsellors of an underfunded theatre-focused summer camp as they band together with the founder's son to keep the camp afloat. To wrap up the show, they agree to quickly review two extra films that the other has no interest in seeing. Dan shares his disappointment with Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Whereas Luke recommends Air, the film that's based on true events about the origin of Air Jordan, a basketball shoe-line. Click here to watch the podcast instead. Support the showObsessed with films too? See how your opinions match up against the boys'. Here's Luke's Letterboxd account and here's Dan's Letterboxd account.
Oppenheimer and Barbie
23-08-2023
Oppenheimer and Barbie
*Tumbleweed for seven months*"Is anyone still there?" Well, if you are, here's a new episode of the award-winning (technically, we haven't won any awards... yet) 15. True to their grasp of timing, Luke Oddie and Dan Wade are finally reviewing the biggest two films of the summer!They kick it off with Luke's front runner for the 'Film of the Year', Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan's epic centres around an inspired Cillian Murphy performance as the inventor of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Based on the 2005 biography, American Prometheus, the film chronicles Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his eventual fall from grace due to his 1954 security hearing. The film also stars Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. and Florence Pugh.Then, Luke and Dan bicker about the delightfully existential Barbie. Featuring a career-defining performance from Ryan Gosling, Greta Gerwig's fantasy comedy, which she wrote with her husband, Noah Baumbach, follows Margot Robbie as Barbie on a journey of self-discovery. It features an ensemble supporting cast, including America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Helen Mirren, Michael Cera and Will Ferrell.So, after a well-needed (and earned) sabbatical, the boys are back doing what we do best... talking over each other whilst reviewing mediocre films!Click here to watch the podcast instead. Support the showObsessed with films too? See how your opinions match up against the boys'. Here's Luke's Letterboxd account and here's Dan's Letterboxd account.