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Cinema Bing BongHOT FREAKS – THE JO SEAGER AND ALISON HOLST STORY: April Film UpdatesNEWSFLASH it's a regular episode recapping films recently released in cinemá. Amelia has an update about medieval scrolls or something. We hear about Disney and Broadway producer Marc Platt and his large adult sons, one of whom Amelia refers to as Jared which is not his name. Rebecca compares The Room Next Door and Severance not realising it's the same actor in both. Amelia is writing an article about vintage NZ cooking shows so that comes up a lot. WARNING: Partially committed East London accent impersonations. GUEST HOST: Maggie B (cat).Hard Truths (2024), The Room Next Door (2024), M...2025-04-051h 54Cinema Bing BongI'M STILL CRYING: Brazilian Film SpecialOlá e bem-vindo ao Cinema do Binge Bong – It's the night before the Oscars and Rebecca is crying because I'M STILL HERE has a predicted 2% chance of winning Best Picture. Amelia has finally woken up to the South American continent like a reverse Paddington. The gals had a rough week so there is a stark reckoning on the state of New Zealand cinema.I'm Still Here (2024), The Invisible Life of Euridíce Gusmão (2019), Central Station (1998), Black God White Devil (1964), Limite (1931), Fake Blonde (2007), Hard Paint (2018), Araby (2017), also mentioned City of God (2002) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)2025-03-061h 34Cinema Bing BongI'VE SEEN BORAT, I'VE BEEN TO MEXICO CITY: Oscar Nominations and Gossip SpecialCinema Bing Bong is back for a new year with all the latest celeb news (as of 31/01). The Oscar nominations are out and everyone's gone racist. Yucko: we talk about the sociolinguistic limitations of AI as a catch-all term. We continue to watch films about people who are not that famous where we come from. Can there be spoilers for real stuff that really happened? What was the worst part of Emilia Peréz? Amelia is the world's biggest Pete Seeger defender. We go through songs that are way more popular in New Zealand than anywhere else.L...2025-02-021h 48Cinema Bing BongCHRISTMAS SPECIAL: EYES WIDE OPEN THE WHOLE TIME* A Bonus Christmas Episode about the best and worst of Christmas cinema *The only podcast celebrating Jesus Christ, the leader of the Christian faith (Berry, 2024). We strayed from God's light and now we're back with a Christmas special. Amelia does not know how to pronounce Will Ferrell or Zooey Deschanel. Shirley MacLaine saw a UFO and Rebecca talks about Christmas as if she were an alien. Amelia claims the Bing Bong listeners love campy bullshit and are afraid of horses. There are too many Todds. Amelia compares immigrating to Australia to being Buddy the Elf. The guys...2024-12-211h 51Cinema Bing BongDEFYING HARD SOLO: THE MUSICAL EPISODE ft WICKED + GLADIATOR 2 + THE PEOPLE'S JOKERLIVE from Australia: It's the musical episode! And Cinema Bing Bong has been enjoying a refreshing lemon taste with an alcoholic kick. Amelia spends forty minutes pandering to Wicked fans. We learn about the racist musical Amelia was in about 25 years ago. Rebecca needs the listeners to know how dedicated she was to work as a 12 year old. Warning: there's singing.Wicked (2024)The People's Joker (2022)Gladiator II (2024)The Boyfriend (1971)Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)West Side Story (1961)The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)Phantom of the...2024-12-051h 44Cinema Bing BongA24 RANKING SPECIAL: I SAW HALF OF 'GHOST' ON THE TVA24 is a US film production and distribution company named after an Italian motorway and it's time to rank the movies they've produced and distributed. Are they known more for their touching family dramas or their shouty dick movies? When you hear Franco do you think first of the dictator or the disgraced actor James Franco? Are the irony poisoned youth ruining tiered rankings? Is there a movie about an evil phone or did Amelia just make that up? Rebecca recounts a heartbreaking story about not being Pynchonesque after all. Amelia tries to make up a name for Peter...2024-11-011h 39Cinema Bing BongJOKEREEN PHOENIX: Joker 2, The Substance, More MegalopolisTrapMaxxxineLonglegsKinds of KindnessChimeBeetlejuice BeetlejuiceAlien ROMULUS sorry it's Romulus not Resurrection Julio Torresbong, Japanese pharmacy, the fourth dimension, what are the most spiritually evil films2024-10-101h 56Cinema Bing BongBetter Off Looking at Screenshots? THE SHROUDS, MEGALOPOLIS, JANET PLANET, A DIFFERENT MAN + MOREThe Film Festivals are over and what have you done? Besides Google 'so this is christmas lyrics'. Amelia and Rebecca have seen some films and have been rewarded with not only depression and influenza, but also an awareness of the latest trends in cinemâ (Canada, interpretive dance and so on). Amelia reports live from a kebab shop. Warning for misophonia: she was still eating the kebab at the time of the report.The Shrouds (2024), Rumours (2024), Kneecap (2024), Megalopolis (2024), My Sunshine (2024), Janet Planet (2024), The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), All We Imagined As Light (2024), Problemista (2023), I Saw the TV Gl...2024-09-022h 01Cinema Bing BongFESTIVAL FILMS 2024: 56 Picks plus 14 OthersCinema Bing Bong returns a second time this month to go through the programme of the New Zealand International Film Festival, beginning with quite an extended discussion about what in Gosden's name is going on with the festival and finishing up with some motivational brain-drain content about what's showing at Melbourne International Film Festival. Featuring an interactive aspect where you can email in and say if you think Amelia was the asshole in two situations, the new phrase 'doing my coming to terms with myself', the innovative concept of not seeing movies if you can see the same stuff...2024-07-191h 59Cinema Bing BongFURIOSA LIVE: Hot Dogs and American Hot DogsA very special episode! As Cinema Bing Bong takes to the actual cinema and comes to you Live from Event Queen Street and a bench outside Atrium on Elliott. Then it's back to the studio where Amelia's bragging about how many films are screening in Melbourne and Rebecca can't remember the name of anything just which crimes were involved. Featuring a fun new time travel segment: favourite films age 13-16 aka 'teen movie kill amelia segment'.Furiosa (2024), The Beast (2023), Marjorie Prime (2017), The Fall Guy (2024), Shiva Baby (2020), Bring it On (2000), Fallen Leaves (2023), Eagle vs Shark (2006), A Mighty Wind (2003...2024-07-021h 59Cinema Bing BongLA CHIMERA & CHALLENGERS: Amelia's Boyfriends and Glossing Over the Time PeriodMay's Cinema Bing Bong is a treasure trove of delights: After seven years Amelia has finally listened to Rebecca about the films of Alice Rohrwacher and immediately turned bisexual looking at Josh O'Connor. The tables have turned and Rebecca has overthought how to pronounce Franz Rogowski so much she forgot it has a g in it. A damning report on the cinemagoers of Auckland's North Shore and a NEW game.Films referenced: La Chimera (2023) + Happy as Lazzaro (2018) + The Invisible Life of Euridíce Gusmão (2019) + Challengers (2024) + Evil Does Not Exist (2024) + The Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) + In th...2024-05-272h 00Cinema Bing BongHORROR 2024 and CIVIL WAR: Kick It Like BeckhamA thrilling new episode of Cinema Bing Bong, which includes two new games to play along with!Spooky scary! Amelia's been watching horror movies by herself, in April. Luckily for the listeners who are yet to see Immaculate (2024) or any of the other American Nun Movies, she's bleeped out the spoilers. Rebecca cried all the way through Civil War (2024), but the real thing to cry over is how Amelia takes on average four years to watch any of her recommendations. Discourse topics: is New Zealand just like Finland? Which director would you want to direct the film...2024-05-011h 38Cinema Bing BongMAESTRO, THE ZONE OF INTEREST and DUNE 2: Dr Hazelnut and the Banality of EvilBeware the Ides of March—awards season is over and no one in Australasia can agree on how to pronounce Dune. Amelia has become the nation's foremost Frank Herbert fanatic and can't stop filling her boots with geriatric spice. The only Sandra Hüller movie Rebecca saw in 2023 was the unpopular Sisi und Ich. This episode contains a dramatic reading of FRISCO, the script that might seem like it was plagiarised by The Holdovers to people who saw it between two plane seats after being awake for 36 hours. Amelia is inconsistently bothered by anachronisms but insists she's still fun. Reb...2024-03-281h 58Cinema Bing BongThe Anti-Oppenheimer: Oscars Special and 2023 in SurveyAmelia and Rebecca are back with a new podcast that's tenfold less niche. It's just about movies!In this episode, we find out what was good and what was a waste of 25 Australian dollars in 2023. We hear a summary of all the Best Picture nominees but for some reason only what Amelia thinks should win Best Animated Feature. Amelia refers to movies as the picture play. Rebecca says which films of 2023 were autistic. We ask the big questions like, 'What's the most racist film you've ever seen?' and whether at 30 you have to leave romanticising cannibalism...2024-02-291h 49