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All The Right Movies
The story of Hollywood one film at a time.
Four creatives. One shared passion: moviemaking magic. Insightful, interesting and very entertaining, John, Luke, Westy and Matt dive into cinema's greatest productions, revealing how it was done, whether it works and why it matters.
From golden age to modern classics, we discuss the creativity and analyse the artistry behind the most important films ever, each episode revealing a new layer of Hollywood's story.
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Episodes
All The Right MoviesRoad To Perdition (2002) | Ep. 64 - Part 1
Sam Mendes follows up American Beauty with a gangster tragedy soaked in rain and regret. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how Mendes turned a graphic…
All The Right MoviesAmadeus (1984) | Ep. 63 - Part 2
Back to Vienna for the second half. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Forman's period epic, turning to the people who built it and the requiem that…
All The Right MoviesAmadeus (1984) | Ep. 63 - Part 1
Mediocrity has a patron saint, and his name is Salieri. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Miloš Forman's lavish, Oscar-sweeping account of genius…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: David Morrell
On the latest episode of A Life In Movies, the movie interview podcast by All The Right Movies, we're talking to acclaimed novelist David Morrell. David is the…
All The Right MoviesGrosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ep. 62 - Part 2
Back to the reunion for the second half. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of the cult comedy, turning to the people who made it and the showdown that…
All The Right MoviesGrosse Pointe Blank (1997) | Ep. 62 - Part 1
A hitman walks into his ten-year high school reunion. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the cult black comedy that mixed contract killing, John Cusack…
All The Right MoviesBlade Runner 2049 (2017) | Ep. 61 - Part 2
Back into the wasteland for the second half. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Villeneuve's sequel, turning to the people who built it and the ending…
All The Right MoviesBlade Runner 2049 (2017) | Ep. 61 - Part 1
Thirty-five years on, somebody dared to make the sequel. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how Denis Villeneuve followed a sacred cow and made one of…
All The Right MoviesThe Fugitive (1993) | Ep. 60 - Part 2
Back on the chase for the second half. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of the relentless thriller, turning to the people who built it and the climax…
All The Right MoviesThe Fugitive (1993) | Ep. 60 - Part 1
A doctor wrongly accused, a marshal who doesn't care if he's innocent, and a train crash for the ages. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the action…
All The Right MoviesThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | Ep. 59 - Part 2
Back to the jungle for the second half. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Lean's epic, turning to the people who built it and the explosive finale…
All The Right MoviesThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | Ep. 59 - Part 1
Madness, madness. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of David Lean's sweeping war epic, the film that took the director from intimate British drama into the…
All The Right MoviesThe Best of ATRM: Jan-Jun 2025
We've done the hard work so you don't have to - sifting through the first six months of ATRM Classic in 2025 to bring you some of the best bits. This…
All The Right MoviesSicario (2015) | Ep. 58 - Part 2
Back across the border for the second half. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Villeneuve's thriller, turning to the people who built it and the…
All The Right MoviesSicario (2015) | Ep. 58 - Part 1
The border has its own rules, and Kate Macer is about to learn them. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Denis Villeneuve's tense, morally murky thriller…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Daniel Myrick
We’re talking to writer and director Daniel Myrick. Daniel started his career in the industry in the mid 90s, before being thrust into the limelight when he…
All The Right MoviesToy Story (1995) | Ep. 57 - Part 2
Back to Andy's room for the second half. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Pixar's groundbreaking debut, turning to the people who built it and the…
All The Right MoviesToy Story (1995) | Ep. 57 - Part 1
The first fully computer-animated feature film, and it almost fell apart more than once. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how Pixar changed cinema…
All The Right MoviesBehind the Mics: ATRM Patron Q&A (April 2025)
In this special podcast from All The Right Movies, we're opening our mailbag to answer questions from our patrons. Connect with ATRM: To support what we do…
All The Right MoviesJFK (1991) | Ep. 56 - Part 2
Back on the case for the second half. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Stone's epic, turning to the people who built it and the climactic courtroom…
All The Right MoviesJFK (1991) | Ep. 56 - Part 1
Back, and to the left. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Oliver Stone's sprawling, controversial, three-hour interrogation of the Kennedy assassination…
All The Right MoviesOnce Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) | Ep. 55 - Part 2
The whole film builds to a night everyone thinks they know, then rewrites it into something cathartic and bonkers in equal measure. John, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesOnce Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) | Ep. 55 - Part 1
A fading TV star and his stunt double drift through a Los Angeles that's slipping away from them. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Quentin Tarantino's…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Alex Zane
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All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Tim Webber
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All The Right MoviesBlue Velvet (1986) | Ep. 54 - Part 2
It was savaged and celebrated in equal measure on release, and the argument never really stopped. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up at the…
All The Right MoviesBlue Velvet (1986) | Ep. 54 - Part 1
A studio gave David Lynch final cut on the condition he took a pay cut and worked cheap. The result is one of the most disturbing films ever made by a major…
All The Right MoviesMary Poppins (1964) | Ep. 53 - Part 2
The technology that put Julie Andrews inside a cartoon was years ahead of its time, and it swept the technical Oscars. John, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesMary Poppins (1964) | Ep. 53 - Part 1
Walt Disney spent twenty years trying to convince a deeply reluctant author to let him make this film at all. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story. In Part 1…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Shea Serrano
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All The Right MoviesIndiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) | Ep. 52 - Part 2
The father-son double act was so good it rescued the entire film, and a lot of that was Connery and Ford riffing on the page. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue…
All The Right MoviesIndiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) | Ep. 52 - Part 1
After one beloved adventure and one notoriously darker sequel, the brief for the third was simple: send the series out on a high. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin…
All The Right MoviesArrival (2016) | Ep. 51 - Part 2
Everything the film is really about is hidden in plain sight until a single reveal rearranges it. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up at that…
All The Right MoviesArrival (2016) | Ep. 51 - Part 1
Most alien-invasion films reach for the missiles. This one reaches for a linguist and a whiteboard, and it's all the more gripping for it. John, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Greg Sestero
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All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: John Doe
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All The Right MoviesTrading Places (1983) | Ep. 50 - Part 2
The film's climactic commodities scene is so accurate that it's reportedly been used to teach finance, and even helped inspire a real piece of US trading law…
All The Right MoviesTrading Places (1983) | Ep. 50 - Part 1
Two heartless old men bet a single dollar on whether they can ruin one man's life and remake another's. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the sharpest…
All The Right MoviesThe Terminator (1984) | Ep. 49 - Part 2
Cameron sold the rights for a single dollar on the condition he got to direct it, betting everything on himself. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story…
All The Right MoviesThe Terminator (1984) | Ep. 49 - Part 1
James Cameron dreamed up an unstoppable metal killer while sick with a fever in Rome, and built a franchise out of it. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story…
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Braveheart (1995) | The Cutting Room
They may take our lives, but they'll never take the historical accuracy. Mainly because there wasn't a great deal of it to take. Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995)…
All The Right MoviesThe Great Escape (1963) | Ep. 48 - Part 2
The famous jump was actually performed by McQueen's friend and stunt double Bud Ekins, though McQueen did much of the rest of the riding himself. Luke, Westy…
All The Right MoviesThe Great Escape (1963) | Ep. 48 - Part 1
That motorcycle jump is one of the most famous stunts in film history, and Steve McQueen wanted to do it himself. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Pat Byrne
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All The Right MoviesApollo 13 (1995) | Ep. 47 - Part 2
The hardest part to dramatise was three men doing maths in a freezing metal box, and somehow it's unbearably tense. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story…
All The Right MoviesApollo 13 (1995) | Ep. 47 - Part 1
Rather than fake weightlessness, Ron Howard flew his cast and crew on a plane that free-falls toward the earth, over and over, to shoot it for real. John…
All The Right MoviesThe Blair Witch Project (1999) | Ep. 46 - Part 2
Shot for a tiny sum and sold via one of the first great internet marketing campaigns, it became one of the most profitable films ever made. Luke, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesThe Blair Witch Project (1999) | Ep. 46 - Part 1
The marketing was so convincing that some audiences genuinely believed the footage was real and the actors were dead. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of…
All The Right MoviesA Life In Movies: Michael Rapaport
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All The Right MoviesThe Warriors (1979) | Ep. 45 - Part 2
The film was so associated with real-life violence on release that the studio pulled its advertising, which only fuelled its legend. Luke, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesThe Warriors (1979) | Ep. 45 - Part 1
Warriors, come out to play. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the stylised gang odyssey that turned a long walk across New York into a cult classic.In…
All The Right MoviesJaws (1975) | Ep. 44 - Part 2
A broken shark turned out to be the best thing that could have happened, teaching a young director that what you don't see is scarier. John, Westy, Matt, and…
All The Right MoviesJaws (1975) | Ep. 44 - Part 1
The shark barely worked, the shoot ran wildly over, and the chaos accidentally made the film better. John, Westy, Matt, and Luke begin the story of the first…
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Th Usual Suspects (1996) | The Cutting Room
Who is Keyser Söze? Audiences spent 1995 arguing about it, and one famous closing shot has been keeping people guessing ever since. We won't spoil it here. The…
All The Right MoviesThe Wrestler (2008) | Ep. 43 - Part 2
Aronofsky shot it on a tiny budget with handheld cameras to give it a fly-on-the-wall rawness, a world away from his more stylised work. Luke, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesThe Wrestler (2008) | Ep. 43 - Part 1
It revived Mickey Rourke's career so completely that the line between actor and role all but vanished. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Darren…
All The Right MoviesThe Social Network (2010) | Ep. 42 - Part 2
The Winklevoss twins were played by one actor and a body double, seamlessly stitched together by effects so good you'd never notice. John, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesThe Social Network (2010) | Ep. 42 - Part 1
A film about people sitting at computers shouldn't be this gripping. David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin made sure it was. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story. In…
All The Right MoviesThe Sixth Sense (1999) | Ep. 41 - Part 2
The film was such a sleeper hit that word of mouth kept it at number one for weeks, almost unheard of for a horror drama. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesThe Sixth Sense (1999) | Ep. 41 - Part 1
It has one of the most famous twist endings in cinema, and we're going to be very careful here. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of M. Night Shyamalan's…