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Disc 2 Movie Review

Rhian Evans and fellow movie fans compare old and new films in a chosen genre each week to see if the classics really can stand up against modern cinema, with film trivia and behind-the-scenes stories thrown in for good measure.

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Episodes

  • Disc 2: Better Late Than Never

    Thursday, 10 November 2022

    36 minutes

    Rhi, Lee, and Martyn are back after a short 2-year hiatus. Previous grievances have now been settled in court and brushed under the carpet. Picking up where we left off, in the latest episode we talk about horror films... again. Enjoy.

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  • Disc 2 with Rhi and Lew

    Friday, 29 January 2021

    33 minutes

    Rhian and Lewis talk about their guilty pleasures. The films that make them grimace and smile in equal measure. The ones they diss in front of their cool, Arthouse film pals but secretly think about fondly on a weirdly frequent basis. *Includes: Jurassic Park 3 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.*

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  • New Disc 2 with Rhi and Lew

    Friday, 1 January 2021

    44 minutes

    After a lengthy year off, that resembled every disaster film ever made, the new year begins with a new movie cohort; Lewis Foster. In the first episode of 2021, Rhian and Lew discuss what to watch and what not to watch to avoid sinking into a post-Christmas pit of despair and out of date mince pies.

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  • Winter Warmers

    Thursday, 16 January 2020

    32 minutes

    Rhian, Martyn, and Lee give you some lovely films to watch to help get you through the post-Christmas blues.

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  • Unconventional Christmas flicks

    Monday, 23 December 2019

    40 minutes

    Rhian, Martyn Cain and Lee Stevens chat about unconventional Christmas flicks and unpopular opinions on popular festive films in the lastest episode of Disc 2 Movie Review.

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  • Who did it better? Original vs Remake

    Tuesday, 1 October 2019

    43 minutes

    Which is better, the original or the remake? Rhian, Martyn and Lee compare the British 'Death at a Funeral' (Frank Oz, 2007) to its American remake (Neil LaBute, 2010), then turn our attention to the spine-tingling foreign horror, 'Rec' (Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza,2007), pegging it against John Erick Dowdle's US counterpart 'Quarentine' (2008).

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  • 2019: A Space Episode

    Thursday, 12 September 2019

    19 minutes

    Rhian Evans, Martyn Cain and Lee Stevens join forces once again, this time to talk sci-fi. In this episode, we look at Alex Garland's Netflix original 'Annihiliation' (2018) and Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) in between Rhian repeatedly mentioning she has a cold.

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  • Make 'em laugh

    Wednesday, 4 September 2019

    15 minutes

    In this week's film review, Rhian is joined by Lee Stevens and Martyn Cain to chat about the silver screen knee-slappers Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) and Harold and Maude (1971).

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  • There's no business like show business

    Sunday, 25 August 2019

    15 minutes

    In this episode, Rhian is joined by local thespian David Dawson to chat about Gene Kelly's musical masterpiece 'Singin' in the Rain' (1952) and the 2017 crowd-pleaser 'The Greatest Show' by Michael Gracey.

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  • The horror! The horror!

    Monday, 19 August 2019

    15 minutes

    Rhian is joined by Martyn Cain and Lee Stevens to chat about Nicolas Roeg's 1973 cult classic 'Don't Look Now' and Ari Aster's 'Hereditary' (2018).

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