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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 MoviesStarship Troopers (1997) | Ep. 40 - Part 2
Verhoeven, who grew up under Nazi occupation, made a film about fascism so straight-faced that critics at the time accused it of the very thing it was mocking…
All The Right MoviesStarship Troopers (1997) | Ep. 40 - Part 1
Would you like to know more? John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the bug-blasting blockbuster that a lot of people completely misread, and the satire…
All The Right MoviesCarlito's Way (1993) | Ep. 39 - Part 2
That station chase is one of the great set pieces De Palma ever staged, and the film's been quietly climbing the ranks of his work ever since. Luke, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesCarlito's Way (1993) | Ep. 39 - Part 1
A reformed gangster just wants out, and the world won't let him go. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Brian De Palma and Al Pacino's elegiac crime…
All The Right MoviesMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) | Ep. 38 - Part 2
The film won Oscars for its sound and cinematography precisely because Weir's obsession with authenticity put you on the deck in the middle of the storm. John…
All The Right MoviesMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) | Ep. 38 - Part 1
Peter Weir built a working replica of a 19th-century warship and put his cast to sea on it, because half-measures were never going to cut it. John, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesSpeed (1994) | Ep. 37 - Part 2
That bus jump over the unfinished overpass was a real stunt, ramp and all, and it became one of the defining action images of the nineties. Luke, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesSpeed (1994) | Ep. 37 - Part 1
The pitch is almost stupidly simple: a bus that explodes if it drops below 50mph. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the lean, mean action machine that…
All The Right MoviesEx Machina (2014) | Ep. 36 - Part 2
The film won an Oscar for visual effects while spending almost nothing, beating the year's biggest spectacles. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story…
All The Right MoviesEx Machina (2014) | Ep. 36 - Part 1
Alex Garland's directing debut cost a fraction of most blockbusters and is smarter than nearly all of them. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of his…
All The Right MoviesHot Fuzz (2007) | Ep. 35 - Part 2
The third act turns a quiet English village into a full-blown action movie, and the gun fu was choreographed with total seriousness. Luke, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesHot Fuzz (2007) | Ep. 35 - Part 1
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg watched a frankly absurd number of action films as research, and you can feel every one of them in the result. Luke, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesInglourious Basterds (2009) | Ep. 34 - Part 2
Waltz's performance was so good Tarantino said it saved a film he'd nearly given up on, and it won him an Oscar. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story…
All The Right MoviesInglourious Basterds (2009) | Ep. 34 - Part 1
Quentin Tarantino sat on this script for years, convinced he couldn't crack it, before rewriting history entirely. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of his…
All The Right MoviesIn Bruges | Ep. 33 - Part 2
This was McDonagh's first feature, made by a celebrated playwright with no film behind him, and it announced a major screen voice instantly. Luke, Westy, and…
All The Right MoviesIn Bruges | Ep. 33 - Part 1
It's a fairy-tale town, and two hitmen are stuck there hating every minute of it. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Martin McDonagh's pitch-black comedy…
All The Right MoviesDie Hard (1988) | Ep. 32 - Part 2
Alan Rickman's terrified fall was filmed by genuinely dropping him a beat earlier than he expected, and the reaction is real. John, Westy, and Luke continue…
All The Right MoviesDie Hard (1988) | Ep. 32 - Part 1
Welcome to the party, pal. John, Westy, and Luke begin the story of how a film starring the guy from Moonlighting accidentally rewrote the rulebook for the…
All The Right MoviesDrive (2011) | Ep. 31 - Part 2
The film was sold as an action movie and got someone so annoyed they sued, which tells you exactly how it subverts expectations. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue…
All The Right MoviesDrive (2011) | Ep. 31 - Part 1
A stuntman moonlights as a getaway driver, says almost nothing, and becomes one of the coolest characters of the decade. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story…
All The Right MoviesCasino Royale (2006) | Ep. 30 - Part 2
A Bond film ends not with an explosion but with a broken heart and a famous final line, and it reset the whole franchise. John, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesCasino Royale (2006) | Ep. 30 - Part 1
How do you reboot the most famous character in cinema when half the audience has already decided your new lead is wrong for the part? John, Westy, and Matt…
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | The Cutting Room
Every spaceship, every space station, every convincing bit of weightlessness in cinema owes something to a film made before the technology to do any of it…
All The Right MoviesA Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) | Ep. 29 - Part 2
One, two, Freddy's coming for the second half. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Craven's nightmare, turning to the people who built it and that…
All The Right MoviesA Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) | Ep. 29 - Part 1
Whatever you do, don't fall asleep. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how Wes Craven took a real-life news story and turned it into one of horror's most…
All The Right MoviesTotal Recall (1990) | Ep. 28 - Part 2
The film was one of the most expensive ever made at the time, and its Oscar-winning effects were the cutting edge of what was possible. John, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesTotal Recall (1990) | Ep. 28 - Part 1
Get your ass to Mars. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger's gloriously violent, reality-bending sci-fi…
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The Truman Show (1998) | The Cutting Room
Imagine learning that your entire life, every friend, every sunrise, every ordinary day at work, has been a television show beamed to millions. One man is…
All The Right Movies28 Days Later (2002) | Ep. 27 - Part 2
The rage hasn't burned out yet. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Boyle's apocalyptic horror, turning to the people who built it and the brutal final…
All The Right Movies28 Days Later (2002) | Ep. 27 - Part 1
Waking up in hospital, bike messenger Jim enters the eerily empty streets of London, not knowing what has happened in the last 28 days. Finding the only humans…
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Jaws (1975) | The Cutting Room
The mechanical shark barely worked. Steven Spielberg's fix, keeping it hidden for most of the film, accidentally invented the modern blockbuster and frightened…
All The Right MoviesOne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) | Ep. 26 - Part 2
Kirk Douglas owned the rights for years and could never get it made, then handed it to his son Michael, who finally did. John, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesOne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) | Ep. 26 - Part 1
It's one of only three films in history to sweep all five major Academy Awards. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how a passion project decades in the…
All The Right MoviesGhostbusters (1984) | Ep. 25 - Part 2
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was a stuntman in a suit waddling through a miniature Manhattan, and it's still glorious. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesGhostbusters (1984) | Ep. 25 - Part 1
It began as a Dan Aykroyd script so vast and strange it would have been impossible to film. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how it became one of the…
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O Brother, where art thou? (2000) | The Cutting Room
How do you turn Homer's Odyssey into a Depression-era prison-break comedy with a chart-topping bluegrass soundtrack? Only the Coen brothers would attempt it…
All The Right MoviesThe Prestige (2006) | Ep. 24 - Part 2
David Bowie plays Nikola Tesla, and the casting is so perfect it's become one of the film's most beloved details. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story as…
All The Right MoviesThe Prestige (2006) | Ep. 24 - Part 1
Are you watching closely? John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Christopher Nolan's twisty tale of two rival magicians and the obsession that consumes them…
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Back to the Future (1985) | The Cutting Room
Five weeks into filming, the studio looked at the footage, panicked, and fired their leading man. Eric Stoltz was out, Michael J. Fox was in, and he ended up…
All The Right MoviesFight Club (1999) | Ep. 23 - Part 2
A film that flopped on release became one of the defining cult movies of its generation almost the moment it hit DVD. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story…
All The Right MoviesFight Club (1999) | Ep. 23 - Part 1
The first rule is well known. The fact that the studio marketing it had almost no idea how to sell it is less so. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of…
All The Right MoviesThe Godfather Part II (1974) | Ep. 22 - Part 2
De Niro won an Oscar playing a younger version of a character Brando had also won an Oscar for, the only time that's ever happened. John, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesThe Godfather Part II (1974) | Ep. 22 - Part 1
A sequel that's also a prequel, telling two stories at once and somehow surpassing a masterpiece. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Coppola's towering…
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The Blues Brothers (1980) | The Cutting Room
A mission from God, supposedly. Also the most cars ever wrecked in a single film at the time it was made, a record it kept for years. John Landis's gleefully…
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) | The Cutting Room
Always be closing. Coffee is for closers. Put that coffee down. Alec Baldwin's seven-minute evisceration of a room full of desperate salesmen wasn't even in…
All The Right MoviesAll The President's Men (1976) | Ep. 21 - Part 2
A film about an unfinished investigation ends not with a bang but a teletype, and it's perfect. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Pakula's thriller…
All The Right MoviesAll The President's Men (1976) | Ep. 21 - Part 1
The film recreated the Washington Post newsroom so precisely that it had real Post rubbish shipped across the country to fill the bins. Luke, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesReturn Of The Jedi (1983) | Ep. 20 - Part 2
The Ewoks divided fans for decades, but the puppetry and creature work that brought Jabba and the rest to life was state of the art. John, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesReturn Of The Jedi (1983) | Ep. 20 - Part 1
How do you end the most beloved trilogy in cinema? John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the film that had to stick the landing for a generation. In Part 1…
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) | The Cutting Room
Thirty years in development. Six months in the Namibian desert. And almost every insane stunt you see happening for real, because a director in his seventies…
All The Right MoviesThere Will Be Blood (2007) | Ep. 19 - Part 2
Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead wrote the eerie, dissonant score, and it's now considered one of the finest of the century. John, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesThere Will Be Blood (2007) | Ep. 19 - Part 1
I drink your milkshake. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Paul Thomas Anderson's monumental study of greed, oil and a man hollowing himself out. In Part…
All The Right MoviesGet Out (2017) | Ep. 18 - Part 2
Peele shot an alternate, far bleaker ending and changed it in response to the world outside the film. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as…
All The Right MoviesGet Out (2017) | Ep. 18 - Part 1
Who lets a comedian best known for sketch shows direct a horror film? Jordan Peele did exactly that, and walked away with an Oscar for it. Luke, Westy, and…
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The Thing (1982) | The Cutting Room
Savaged on release. Buried by a friendlier alien playing two screens over. Now? Widely held to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. John Carpenter's…
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Pulp Fiction (1994) | The Cutting Room
What's in the briefcase? Quentin Tarantino has never told a soul, and thirty years on, the glowing contents remain cinema's favourite unsolved mystery. His…
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Goodfellas (1990) | The Cutting Room
Real mobsters worked as extras on this one. They handed the studio fake Social Security numbers, and to this day nobody knows how they got paid. That's the…
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Almost Famous (2000) | The Cutting Room
What happens when a film critic turns the most formative year of his own life into a movie? Cameron Crowe found out, and won an Oscar for the screenplay in the…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | The Cutting Room
How do you film a battle that runs the best part of an hour, almost entirely at night, in the rain? You shoot for months, you wear out everyone involved, and…
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Aliens (1986) | The Cutting Room
The marines wake from hypersleep in twelve chambers. The production could only afford four. The other eight? Mirrors. That kind of make-do genius runs right…