Episodes

  • By Our Selves (2015) | "Friday Banana"
    Dec 23 2024

    A special guest joins Chris and Sam for this episode of the Midlife Film Catch-up focussing on the year 2015. Sam met Dr Carl Roberts in a pivotal year in his life and it was also the year Andrew Kottering released the film By Our Selves. In this edition we re-visit fruit, Chris's comic creation Top Joe, and friendship.


    Presented by Chris Jenkins and Sam Turner


    Music by Joe Booker

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Zivan Makes a Punk Festival (2014) | "Satsuma Season"
    Nov 13 2024

    We reach the year Chris and Sam first met and the year Ognjen Glavonic released Zivan Makes a Punk Festival. A documentary about the mercurial Zivan Pujic Jimmy, a dreamer and schemer who each year organses a punk festival in his Serbian village. There's more on the interdental brushes industry, the early days in White Rose house and geese.


    Music by Joe Booker


    Presented by Chris Jenkins and Sam Turner

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    54 mins
  • Computer Chess (2013) | "Hands in Bread"
    Nov 7 2024

    Hurtling into 2013 Chris and Sam explore Andrew Bujalski's idiosyncratic mockumentary Computer Chess. Our hosts discuss their lives in 2013 and Chris introduces another one of his bugbears.


    Presented by Sam Turner and Chris Jenkins


    Music by Joe Booker


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    59 mins
  • Alps (2012) | "Essence of Refreshment"
    Oct 30 2024

    Chris and Sam dissect an early film from Greek weird waver Yorgos Lanthimos. Did Alps (2012) capture the imagination of the middle-aged duo? Elsewhere, Smithdown Road is ringing in the changes, geese are attracting cignets and we learn about Chris and Sam's lives in various continents in 2012.


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    Music by Joe Booker


    Presented by Chris Jenkins and Sam Turner

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    58 mins
  • Silence In Paradise (2011) | "Time For Geckos"
    May 20 2024

    We enter the 29th chapter of the Film Catch-up project and Chris and Sam consider GSM, lizard consent and foreign confidence. It's 2011 and our duo are exploring the highly rated Colombian film Silence In Paradise and delving into their respective lives in the year 2011.


    Presented by Chris Jenkins and Sam Turner

    Music by Joe Booker

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (2010) | "Don't Open The Hedgehog's Eyes"
    May 6 2024

    There's been a lot of changes in the internal and external worlds of Sam and Chris; new outlooks, new perspectives, new kebab shops. In this episode we delve into Werner Herzog's exploration of the Chauvet Caves and their 32,000 year-old paintings. We also travel back to 2010 when Chris was settling into the paradise of Mauritius and Sam was inhabiting Chinatown.


    Music by Joe Booker

    Presented by Chris Jenkins and Sam Turner

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Daddy Longlegs (2009) | “Unicycling in a Graveyard”
    Jan 30 2024

    Chris and Sam discuss the Safdie Brothers' 2009 film 'Daddy Longlegs' before Sam heads off travelling. Also up for discussion are clowns, eye sizes and dilutants.


    Music by Joe Booker


    Presented by Sam Turner and Chris Jenkins

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Bonus Episode #2 Christmas Catchup
    Jan 1 2024

    A festive special. Sam and Chris review 'Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale' (2010) and reflect upon reaching the Film Catchup halfway point. They also talk hazard lights, Bonjela, decanting wine and workshop some of Sam's standup material.


    Presented by Sam Turner and Chris Jenkins


    Music by Joe Booker

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    1 hr and 9 mins