Mick Jagger and James Fox face off as the surreal British gangster classic Performance finally arrives on DVD, while there's all sorts of sleazy goings-on in the exploitation-art oddity Singapore Sling. We also continue our Jack Hill festival with his women-in-prison duo The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage.
There's incest, fratricide, corsets, ninjas and mass slaughter this week as we take a look at Zhang Zimou's spectacular martial arts melodrama Curse Of The Golden Flower, while the '70s midnight movie scene is explored in the documentary Midnight Movies: From The Margin To The Mainstream. We also kick off our Jack Hill festival with his one-of-a-kind horror comedy Spider Baby
As we reach our 50th show, we celebrate with a look at David Lynch's latest weirdfest Inland Empire, and a trio of trashy favourites from Italian gore-maestro Lucio Fulci - The Beyond, Contraband and Conquest. Plus Movie War, listener feedback and a new competition
The French horror hit Them provides the scares this week, while the US censorship system comes under fire in This Film Is Not Yet Rated and Robert Altman brings the stories of Raymond Carver to the screen in his ensemble masterpiece Short Cut
This week we peer into the dark future world of Children Of Men, laugh our way through cinema's greatest gymnastic action movie Gymkata, and in the fourth part of our Robert Altman festival, enter the scary mind of Richard Nixon in Secret Honor
The dark world of Terry Gilliam’s Tideland is explored this week, together with the new special edition DVD of Bernado Bertolucci’s arthouse classic The Conformist and in the third part of our Robert Altman festival, the bizarre sci-fi drama Quintet
On this week’s show Mel Gibson embarks on his bloody jungle adventure Apocalypto and in the second part of our Robert Altman festival, we celebrate A Wedding. Plus Ben tells us about his high-definition experiences at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and we tackle a bumper batch of listener feedback
On the first show of 2007 Dan and Ben review the Korean monster movie The Host, take a look at their most anticipated films of the year and kick off the Robert Altman festival with his 1974 gambling drama California Split
In a special seasonal show Ben and Dan take a look at a trio of twisted Christmas favourites – the classic 70s slasher Black Christmas, Tim Burton and Henry Selick's animated fantasy The Nightmare Before Christmas and the little-seen cult gem Christmas Evil. Plus listener feedback, movie war, present swapping... and Ben singing Elfman!
The animated French sci-fi thriller Renaissance leads this week's bumper bag of cult movie fun, along with the Japanese prison revenge yarn Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, listener feedback and the latest Movie War face-off.
