It was almost a TV movie, but then director John Duigan said "nah mate" and fancied it up. This episode covers the 1987 Australian coming of age drama "The Year My Voice Broke".Prepubescent Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) has fallen in love with his best friend Freya (Loene Carmen), but she's already had the change and become a woman. He keeps pulling creep moves on her, but then Trevor (Ben Mendehlson), and older kid at their school, starts to fancy her. What will happen in this love triangle???Jason loved this as a teenager, Jules had never heard of it. It's absolutely an Australian classic and manages to tell a deeper, more personal feeling tale than you would expect. Tune in and find out all about undies stealing, strange men who are friends with children, perpetual trouble making and more.Please do rate and subscribe. Leave us a written review on a podcast platform and mention a movie in that review you want us to cover and we'll make an episode.#benmendelsohn #johnduigan #australiancinema #dannyembling #noahtaylor #podcast #moviepodcast #moviereviewpodcast

We've got our debut Ben Mendelsohn film. After a few years of being in TV shows, he graduates to this film, "The Still Point" from 1986.An Australian teenager (Nadine Garner) with limited hearing spends some time at her grandfather's home and slowly falls in with a group of kids who hang out at the beach nearby. She navigates a series of firsts in this made for TV Australian film. Tune in and find out if this girl is as rude as the synopsis you find on google says she is, or if Benny Mends has got the juice this early on. If you enjoy it, check out the other episodes and if you write us a review on a podcasting platform like Apple, include the name of a movie you want us to cover and we'll make one of these on it.#podcast #filmography #BenMendelsohn #australiantv #tvmovie #australia #thestillpoint #nadinegarner #AlexMenglet #SteveBastoni #BarbaraBoyd-Anderson

When a local musician stoner picks up another local musician stoner, the two set out on a mission to find some grass and maybe jam a little. The two end up passengers on the Universe’s wild ride, ultimately culminating in a battle of the bands. But when When life begins to be one long and dangerous road you can always take a toke and have all your cares go Up In Smoke.We take closer look at the king of all stoner comedies, 1978's "Up In Smoke", and try to figure out why this movie succeeds in ways no other pot comedy seems to be able to. Join us as we marvel at blend of real life and raw ridiculousness, geek out over a young Tom Skerritt going hard in a minor role, and wonder why that ladies brain didn't leak out of her nose within 30 seconds of the Ajax hitting it.If you enjoy the episode, please rate and subscribe and maybe fire off a review on apple podcasts or wherever you can type one. Leave the name of a movie you want us to cover in that review, and we'll make an episode on it.#cheech #upinsmoke #cheechandchong #cheechchong #tommychong #cheechmarin #stonermovie #weedcomedy #420 #baked #tomskerritt #staceykeach #comedy #moviereview #stoned #stonercomedy