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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
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Platoon (1986) | The Cutting Room
Before a single scene was shot, Oliver Stone marched his cast into the jungle for two weeks of brutal military training. He wanted them exhausted, and as a…
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Titanic (1997) | The Cutting Room
One night during filming, someone laced the crew's clam chowder with PCP. Eighty people ended up in hospital, hallucinating. It's one of the strangest things…
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | The Cutting Room
What do you do when your best friend decides, out of nowhere, that he simply doesn't like you any more? On a small Irish island in 1923, the answer involves a…
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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002) | The Cutting Room
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. As romantic dialogue goes, it has not aged like fine wine. But there's more to Attack of the Clones…
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) | The Cutting Room
The first twenty-four minutes are still the most harrowing depiction of combat ever filmed. Veterans walked out of cinemas in 1998, not in protest, but because…
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Se7en (1995) | The Cutting Room
What's in the box? The studio never wanted you to find out. They pushed hard for a softer ending, and it took David Fincher and a stubborn Brad Pitt to protect…
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The Long Good Friday (1980) | The Cutting Room
Before he was James Bond, Pierce Brosnan made his film debut here without a word of dialogue, as an IRA hitman. Before she was a Dame, Helen Mirren was the…
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The Dark Knight (2008) | The Cutting Room
Heath Ledger shut himself in a hotel room for weeks, kept a diary in the Joker's voice, and built a performance so complete he won an Oscar he never saw…
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Psycho (1960) | The Cutting Room
Forty-seven minutes in, Alfred Hitchcock murders his leading lady in a shower and changes cinema forever. Audiences in 1960 had seen nothing like it, helped by…
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Airplane! (1980) | The Cutting Room
The masterstroke was casting deadly serious, square-jawed dramatic actors, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and having them deliver the silliest…
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) | The Cutting Room
Plenty of people left cinemas in 1999 genuinely believing they'd just watched three real students die. A fake documentary, a clever website and an IMDb page…
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) | The Cutting Room
No film in history arrived under heavier expectation. Sixteen years after Return of the Jedi, people queued round the block and bought tickets just to watch…
All The Right MoviesBoogie Nights (1997) | Ep. 17 - Part 2
The film pivots from disco euphoria to eighties dread, and that nightmarish drug-deal scene is where it all curdles. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story…
All The Right MoviesBoogie Nights (1997) | Ep. 17 - Part 1
Paul Thomas Anderson was twenty-six, on his second film, and somehow directing a cast of this size like a veteran. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of his…
All The Right MoviesThe Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Ep. 16 - Part 2
Lucas funded the film almost entirely himself to keep control, gambling everything on the sequel. It paid off spectacularly. John, Westy, and Matt continue the…
All The Right MoviesThe Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Ep. 16 - Part 1
The sequel nobody knew how to make better turned out to be the best of them all. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the darker, stranger second chapter…
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X (2022) | The Cutting Room
Look closely at the young starlet and the withered old woman hunting her, and it's the same performer under both. Mia Goth plays predator and prey in X (2022)…
All The Right MoviesFargo (1996) | Ep. 15 - Part 2
Frances McDormand doesn't appear until well into the film and still walked away with the Oscar. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as Marge…
All The Right MoviesFargo (1996) | Ep. 15 - Part 1
Oh ya, you betcha. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the Coen brothers' snowbound crime classic and the cheerfully pregnant police chief at the heart of…
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The Batman (2022) | The Cutting Room
When Robert Pattinson was announced as Batman, a corner of the internet lost the plot. Then the film landed, and the brooding, eyeliner-smudged detective at…
All The Right MoviesShaun Of The Dead (2004) | Ep. 14 - Part 2
Born out of a zombie episode of Pegg and Wright's sitcom Spaced, it turned a TV in-joke into a film George Romero himself adored. Luke, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesShaun Of The Dead (2004) | Ep. 14 - Part 1
A man so oblivious he doesn't notice the zombie apocalypse for half a morning. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the rom-com with zombies that launched…
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It's A Wonderful Life (1946) | The Cutting Room
It flopped on release. The FBI flagged it as possible communist propaganda. And it only became the most beloved Christmas film ever made because someone forgot…
All The Right MoviesCasino (1995) | Ep. 13 - Part 2
The famous cornfield scene was reportedly toned down because the truth was even worse. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as it all comes…
All The Right MoviesCasino (1995) | Ep. 13 - Part 1
This might be the most relentless film Martin Scorsese has ever made, and that's a high bar. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of his three-hour anatomy of…
All The Right MoviesGladiator (2000) | Ep. 12 - Part 2
Oliver Reed died partway through filming, and the solution to finishing his role was so technically bold it broke new ground. John, Westy, and Matt continue…
All The Right MoviesGladiator (2000) | Ep. 12 - Part 1
Are you not entertained? John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of how Ridley Scott single-handedly revived the Hollywood epic with sand, swords and Russell…
All The Right MoviesAn American Werewolf In London (1981) | Ep. 11 - Part 2
Rick Baker's transformation scene was so good it created the Academy Award that honoured it. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up at that…
All The Right MoviesAn American Werewolf In London (1981) | Ep. 11 - Part 1
John Landis wrote the script as a teenager and waited more than ten years for anyone to let him make something this strange. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the…
All The Right MoviesThe Thing (1982) | Ep. 10 - Part 2
Rob Bottin was so consumed by the creature effects that he reportedly ended up hospitalised from exhaustion, and the results are still jaw-dropping. John…
All The Right MoviesThe Thing (1982) | Ep. 10 - Part 1
It bombed on release, savaged by critics, and is now widely held up as one of the greatest horror films ever made. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of…
All The Right MoviesHigh Fidelity (2000) | Ep. 9 - Part 2
Cusack co-wrote the script and shaped the role so closely it's hard to imagine anyone else as Rob. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story, picking up as he…
All The Right MoviesHigh Fidelity (2000) | Ep. 9 - Part 1
Top five reasons to listen are coming, but first: how do you move a very British novel to Chicago without losing its soul? Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the…
All The Right MoviesAlien (1979) | Ep. 8 - Part 2
Still no one to hear you scream. John, Westy, and Matt continue the story of Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror, turning to the people who built it and Ripley's…
All The Right MoviesAlien (1979) | Ep. 8 - Part 1
On this podcast no one can hear you scream, and All The Right Movies are bleeding acid to talk Alien. Who knows what we’re gonna do when we’re dead. Episode…
All The Right MoviesReservoir Dogs (1992) | Ep. 7 - Part 2
Made for very little money, it became the calling card that made everything Tarantino did next possible. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue the story as loyalties…
All The Right MoviesReservoir Dogs (1992) | Ep. 7 - Part 1
A heist film that never shows you the heist. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the debut that announced Quentin Tarantino to the world on a shoestring…
All The Right MoviesGremlins (1984) | Ep. 6 - Part 2
The film's tonal whiplash, all cuddly one minute and carnage the next, was deliberate, and it drove some critics up the wall. Luke, Westy, and Matt continue…
All The Right MoviesGremlins (1984) | Ep. 6 - Part 1
This is a Christmas film so dark it helped invent a whole new film rating. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of Joe Dante's gleefully twisted creature…
All The Right MoviesThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | Ep. 5 - Part 2
The shoot was so gruelling, in punishing heat with a real animal carcass on set, that the cast have spoken about it with something close to trauma ever since…
All The Right MoviesThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | Ep. 5 - Part 1
The title promises a bloodbath, and the genius is how little blood it actually shows. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the grimy, ferocious horror that…
All The Right MoviesInception (2010) | Ep. 4 - Part 2
That rotating corridor fight was built inside a giant spinning set, with actors thrown around for real, and it's still one of the best practical effects of the…
All The Right MoviesInception (2010) | Ep. 4 - Part 1
You don't need us to tell you it's complicated. What's less known is how much of the dream-bending you see on screen Christopher Nolan insisted on doing for…
All The Right MoviesWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) | Ep. 3 - Part 2
The painstaking animation was layered over the live footage frame by frame, with shadows and lighting added so the toons felt physically present, and it swept…
All The Right MoviesWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) | Ep. 3 - Part 1
Getting cartoons and live actors to share the screen this convincingly had never been done at this scale, and it nearly didn't happen here. Luke, John, and…
All The Right MoviesThe Shining (1980) | Ep. 2 - Part 2
Shelley Duvall was reportedly pushed to breaking point to get her terrified performance, a now-notorious part of the film's making. Luke, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesThe Shining (1980) | Ep. 2 - Part 1
Stanley Kubrick reportedly demanded so many takes that the shoot dragged on for over a year. Luke, Westy, and Matt begin the story of one of the most analysed…
All The Right MoviesStar Wars (1977) | Ep. 1 - Part 2
Lucas was so convinced it would flop that he skipped the premiere and went on holiday. It became the highest-grossing film ever made. John, Westy, and Matt…
All The Right MoviesStar Wars (1977) | Ep. 1 - Part 1
Nearly everyone who worked on it thought it was going to be a disaster. John, Westy, and Matt begin the story of the troubled little space film that changed…
All The Right MoviesRanking Spielberg - Later Years
Life finds a way, and so will ATRM to talk about T. Rexs, pontificate about precogs, and converse about conmen as we rank the most magical moviemaker of them…
All The Right MoviesRanking Spielberg - Early Years
The Holy Grail of podcasts is here as All The Right Movies gabble about great whites, orate about archaeologists, and eulogise about UFOs as we talk the…
All The Right MoviesRanking Kubrick
Open the podcast doors, HAL. All The Right Movies are talking swords-n-sandals, psychos-n-psychics, and swingin' secret societies as we rank one of the world’s…