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Hello, film fanciers! We think that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (with Nia DaCosta) have created an amazing series of films that both revel in and transcend the horror genre. So this week, we celebrate the release of 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple with the first part of a long and involved conversation about […]

Hello, cinema sickos! Mary and Dave ring in the new year by not continuing their McQuarrying series but instead discussing Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet – the story of Agnes Hathaway’s courtship and marriage to William Shakespeare, and the movie all the old folks are flocking to theatres to see! Even if you don’t know what Metamucil […]

Our McQuarrying series will not be appearing this week because Dave and Mary went to see the new Safdie Brother film Marty Supreme – the usual Safdie chaos with a twist of Timothée Chalamet playing a young man who gets into a lot of trouble with his balls! Not sure what to think of Marty […]

Hello, film fanatics! McQuarrying has been postponed for the Christmas break. This week Mary and David have a spiritual tussle over Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man. Can this iteration of the Knives Out franchise possibly be as good as the first two instalments or will trilogy derangement syndrome take another victim? Let Mary and […]

Hello, movie maniacs! McQuarrying has been postponed again because David and Mary went to the theatres to see a couple of good old fashioned action flicks. They watched Dan Trachtenberg’s further extrapolations of the world of Predator with Predator: Badlands and Edgar Wright’s re-imagining of the “classic” 80’s Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Running Man. In […]

Hello, movie maniacs! McQuarrying has been postponed this week because David and Mary went to the theatres to see a couple of good old fashioned action flicks. They watched Dan Trachtenberg’s further extrapolations of the world of Predator with Predator: Badlands and Edgar Wright’s re-imagining of the “classic” 80’s Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Running Man. […]

Hello, cinema sickos! Guess what? No McQuarrying this week because Mary and Dave wanted to go to the movies! On this episode they discuss Lynne Ramsey’s alienated woman psychodrama Die My Love with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, as well as Guillermo Del Toro’s grand, gothic guiltfest Frankenstein with Oscar Isaac, Jacob Ilordi and Mia […]

Hello, movie maniacs! McQuarrying is on hiatus for another week as Mary and Dave take a deep dive into a frozen lake to discuss Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2. The Grabber returns to haunt Finney and Gwen as the supernatural becomes super real. Was this the movie of Mary and Dave’s dreams? Well, let them […]

Hello, reel ravers! This week, Mary and Dave take a pause on McQuarrying and talk about Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another in a discursive conversation that takes in conspiracy theories, the works of Thomas Pynchon, WWI political shenanigans, a spirited defense of Leonardo DiCaprio, a brief Beach Boys aside, a heartfelt […]

Hello, movie maniacs! Mary and David continue McQuarrying this week as Christopher McQuarrie is freed from director jail and given the reins of Paramount’s newest cash cow franchise Jack Reacher with a star hot off the hit film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He may not be as tall as the titular hero, but could […]

Hello, movie maniacs! McQuarrying is back, baby! And Mary and Dave prove it by discussing Valkyrie, the 2008 film directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise and a host of British goodies playing German baddies who turn out to be German goodies. How could a film with Tom Cruise out […]

Hello, film freaks! McQuarrying is being postponed another week – sorry Valkyrie fans! – as David and Mary discuss the first two films of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s “lesbian B-movie trilogy” Drive-Away Dolls and Honey Don’t. Hot lesbian babes, cool cars, spicy quips, steamy sex, graphic murder, inhuman depravity, genre exercises, and Henry James! […]

This week Mary and David explore more Cruise/McQuarrie films in their ongoing series McQuarrying and review the new War of the Worlds starring a heavily sedated Ice Cube. It's a film everybody's talking about... ...negatively so let Mary and David fansplain it for you.

This week Mary and Dave continue their new series McQuarrying with a review of Zach Creggers newest film Weapons. Instant classic or sophomore slump? Let Mary and Dave fansplain it for you!

This week Mary and Dave are taking a well-deserved break from their new series McQuarrying - after a whole two shows - to discuss James Gunn's newest iteration of Superman.