As the Southern hemisphere winter looms we're missing the upcoming thrill of NZIFF season, which has understandably been pushed back to Novemeber due to international COVID impacts. But never fear, our very own Doug Dillaman has thought up a way to fill this winter cinematic hole, with the 'Not The (NZ) International Film Festival' or 'NTIFF' challenge! In this episode we are joined by long time friend, cine-fiend, and NTIFF co-conspirator Steve Austin as we thrash out our personal NTIFF programmes. For more detail about the challenge search 'NTIFF' on letterboxd.com...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Doug and Jacob break their 13 month hiatus to do a special memorial episode for the NZIFF legend Bill Gosden who passed away earlier this month. Join us as we indulge our NZIFF nostalgia, share memories of Bill, the festival he worked so hard to develop, and his impact on our lives, cinematic and otherwise...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Remember Best Worst Podcast? It's been a long time between drinks, but Doug and Jacob are back from a profusion of European film festivals and a crazy time at work (respectively). They fill us in on their time away, share their picks from the NZIFF's 2019 instalment, and then duke it out over the top directors of the 2010s.

Doug and Jacob go through the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival programme and chat about their top picks and 'films to watch out for' in each section...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Jacob and Doug dig in the the nonfiction cinema that has made an impact on their lives...add scotch to taste, and enjoy. Documentaries covered include: Quick Mentions 00:02:16 THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer & Anonymous, 2012) KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, 2016) BEST WORST MOVIE (Michael Paul Stephenson, 2009) CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras, 2014) I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, 2016) STORIES WE TELL (Sarah Polley, 2012) Various Chris Marker films CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) QUEST (Jonathan Olshefski, 2017) DINA (Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles, 2017) NZ Documentaries 00:11:49 PATU! (Merata Mita, 1983) ON AN UNKNOWN BEACH (Adam Luxton & Summer Agnew, 2016) THE GROUND WE WON (Christopher Pryor, 2015) Various Florian Habicht films TICKLED (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve, 2016) OUT OF THE MIST (Tim Wong, 2015) CINEMA OF UNEASE (Sam Neill & Judy Rymer, 1995) Notable Directors 00:26:41 Errol Morris Les Blank Werner Herzog Agnès Varda Frederick Wiseman Top Tens 01:04:14 THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, 2002) HIGHWAY (Sergei Dvortsevoy, 1999) THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (Kazuo Hara, 1987) LOST IN LA MANCHA (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, 2002) CUADECUC, VAMPIR (Pere Portabella, 1971) MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (Jennifer Baichwal, 2006) THE SALT OF THE EARTH (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders, 2014) BLIND LOVES (Juraj Lehotsky, 2008) STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, 1984) DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER (Kurt Kuenne, 2008) F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, 1973) WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (Ondi Timoner, 2009) ALAMAR (Pedro González-Rubio, 2009) ONLY THE YOUNG (Elizabeth Mims & Jason Tippet, 2012) THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Lars von Trier & Jørgen Leth, 2003) ROOM 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012) 5 FILMS ABOUT CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE (Albert & David Maysles et al, 2004) LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2012) MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, 1929) / DISORDER (Weikai Huang, 2009) TAXI (Jafar Panahi, 2015) / MAIDAN (Sergei Loznitsa, 2014)

Doug and Jacob revisit the films in their lives that have had a significant impact, been a change point, or a developmental marker. From the silly, to the sentimental, to the sublime, these are some of the key films that have shaped them into the cinephiles they are today [Part 2 of 2]...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Doug and Jacob revisit the films in their lives that have had a significant impact, been a change point, or a developmental marker. From the silly, to the sentimental, to the sublime, these are some of the key films that have shaped them into the cinephiles they are today [Part 1 of 2]...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Trash, exploitation, rubber Japanese monster films, surreal Russian art-cinema, surreal arse-cinema, throwback children's movies, and more Bela Lugosi than you could throw a poorly accented stick at! Jacob and Doug tag-team dream Marathon line-ups in advance of Ant Timpson's 24hr Movie Marathon, 2017, including a liberal serving of picks from a number of other cine-fiend Marathon regulars...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Doug and Jacob dive the depths and range wide in cinematic seas of Steven Soderbergh: writer, director, producer, editor, actor, filmmaker, television showrunner, ex-retiree, auteur...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Jacob and Doug, joined again by cinephile friend David Larsen, give their run down of THE, absolute, no doubt, hands down, definitive 'best of' cinema to hit NZ screens in 2016. In this second part the trio run through standouts in a range of categories, including best scene, best performance, most underappreciated and overrated films, best unreleased film and more!...add scotch to taste, and enjoy

Jacob and Doug, joined again by cinephile friend David Larsen, give their run down of THE, absolute, no doubt, hands down, definitive 'best of' cinema to hit NZ screens in 2016. In this first part each member of the trio dive into their top five films for the year and outline the reasons they love them so. There is warm-hearted laughter, tears, digressions, and affirmative libatory swilling...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.