2025 Battleship Potemkin centenary & Blu-ray release
Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 masterpiece is in cinemas in the UK and Ireland in late August, and through September and October 2025. UPDATE: Since this mini-episode was originally published, our intrepid...
24 Aug 20259min
Ally Pitts' Jane Austen 250th anniversary film season in 2025 at the UPP in Oxford
Host Ally Pitts shares some news about a season of films adapted from or inspired by the works of Jane Austen that he has co-curated with the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford. He also mentions Whit S...
29 Jun 20255min
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai; 1959)
Matthew Chadourne, stand-up comedian, executive producer and creative director of the Oxford Comedy Festival, and co-host of the Saint Misbehavin' podcast joins host Ally Pitts to discuss this underst...
8 Jun 20252h 19min
Ally Pitts introduces Tarkovsky’s Mirror in Oxford
Host Ally Pitts shares some news about a screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror that he'll be introducing on Sunday 25th May as part of the Dreamscapes classic season at Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxf...
17 Mai 20253min
2025: Come and See (Elem Klimov; 1985) 40th anniversary + Antifa on Screen season at the UPP in Oxford
Host Ally Pitts highlights the 40th anniversary of Come and See, directed by Elem Klimov, shares news about a season of films on the theme of anti-fascism at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, and...
27 Apr 20256min
WORLD SHAKESPEARE DAY BONUS: Boris Pasternak, Grand Theft Hamlet, Andrei Tarkovsky, Richard. E. Grant, the 'other' Stratford, and the Bard
Host Ally Pitts discusses the 2024 documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, shares how Hamlet became his favourite Shakespeare play, and explores its connection to and i...
23 Apr 202511min
INTERVIEW: Matthew Chadourne of the Oxford Comedy Festival
Matthew Chadourne, stand-up comedian, executive producer and creative director of the Oxford Comedy Festival, and co-host of the Saint Misbehavin' podcast joins host Ally Pitts to talk about his vario...
6 Apr 202547min
Latvian journalist Kristaps Andrejsons on hit animation Flow (Gints Zilbalodis; 2024) [FEED TAKEOVER]
Underdog story? No, this is an undercat story! At the 2025 Oscars the Latvian animation Flow won the best animation category, beating out contenders with much bigger budgets and star names attached. ...
30 Mar 202521min
