Cinema Bing Bong

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Buenos días á los freaks, perverts, travestis y mums and welcome to a new episode on the films of Spain's premier John Waters-type: Pedro Almodóvar!Colours. Women. Gazpacho. Big silicone tits. Big telephones. Kidnappings. Punk bands. The three cities of the world (Barcelona, Madrid and Estockholm). Antonio Banderas as a sex criminal. Amelia reads to us from an autobiography. What more could you want in a Film Podcast? Well, there is more and it's a mambo taxi. Oh, and a game to play at home.Pepi, Luci, Bom and the Other Girls on the Heap (1980), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (1989), All About My Mother (1999), Talk Tuah (2002), The Skin I Live In (2011), Julieta (2016), Parallel Mothers (2021), Strange Way of Life (2023), The Room Next Door (2024)Follow Cinema Bing Bong on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cinemabingbong/

NEWSFLASH it's a regular episode recapping films recently released in cinemá. Amelia has an update about medieval scrolls or something. We hear about Disney and Broadway producer Marc Platt and his large adult sons, one of whom Amelia refers to as Jared which is not his name. Rebecca compares The Room Next Door and Severance not realising it's the same actor in both. Amelia is writing an article about vintage NZ cooking shows so that comes up a lot. WARNING: Partially committed East London accent impersonations. GUEST HOST: Maggie B (cat).Hard Truths (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), Mickey 17 (2025), Babygirl (2024), Bird (2024), The Last Showgirl (2024), Queer (2024)

Olá e bem-vindo ao Cinema do Binge Bong – It's the night before the Oscars and Rebecca is crying because I'M STILL HERE has a predicted 2% chance of winning Best Picture. Amelia has finally woken up to the South American continent like a reverse Paddington. The gals had a rough week so there is a stark reckoning on the state of New Zealand cinema.I'm Still Here (2024), The Invisible Life of Euridíce Gusmão (2019), Central Station (1998), Black God White Devil (1964), Limite (1931), Fake Blonde (2007), Hard Paint (2018), Araby (2017), also mentioned City of God (2002) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Cinema Bing Bong is back for a new year with all the latest celeb news (as of 31/01). The Oscar nominations are out and everyone's gone racist. Yucko: we talk about the sociolinguistic limitations of AI as a catch-all term. We continue to watch films about people who are not that famous where we come from. Can there be spoilers for real stuff that really happened? What was the worst part of Emilia Peréz? Amelia is the world's biggest Pete Seeger defender. We go through songs that are way more popular in New Zealand than anywhere else.Listen right to the end for an important PSAnora (2024), The Brutalist (2024), Conclave (2024), A Complete Unknown (2024), Emilia Peréz (2024), Better Man (2024), A Real Pain (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), Memoir of a Snail (2024), In Fabric (2018), Hard Truths (2024)