The HD Movie Podcast

Episode 47: Merry Podmas #2 - Jingle All The Way

Merry Podmas! Grab a mince pie and settle in for Episode 47 of the HD Movie Podcast as your hosts Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell continue to take a look at movies with a Christmas theme.
Back in the 1990s, even Arnie was getting on that Xmas bandwagon and leaning into his comedic side with JINGLE ALL THE WAY, playing a normal (well, normal for Arnie) guy who sets out on a quest to get his son the most sought after toy of the season: Turbo Man!
The HD Movie Podcast's music is written and performed by the composing genius that is Mitch Bain: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
It's Turbo Time!

Episode 46: Merry Podmas #1 - Christmas Land

Merry Podmas! Episode 46 of the HD Movie Podcast is here to bring you some festive cheer as Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell take a look at holiday movies over the next few weeks.
Up first, they're back into Hallmark-esque territory as they venture into CHRISTMAS LAND! An advertising exec inherits a faded winter wonderland and runs into a hunky rural lawyer. Will she sell or will she stay? It's Ambitious Women, Romantic Complications in a snowy setting! How will our hosts cope? Spoiler: Not especially well.
The HD Movie Podcast's music is written and performed by the maestro Mitch Bain: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Enjoy the episode!

Episode 45: Abertoir 2021 Part 2 - The Virtual Festival

Episode 45 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Once again, Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are your guides to movies of any genre, any year and any quality.
In the second of this Abertoir Horror Film Festival two-parter, Hayley and Darren take a look at a selection of films from the Virtual side of the festival. The online content featured is:
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED, KEEPING COMPANY, STRAIGHT TO VHS, WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR, SEE FOR ME, HOUSE OF SNAILS, FREAKMAKER aka THE MUTATIONS, A BANQUET and DON'T SAY ITS NAME!
The Abertoir 2021 sting music is by Dellamorte who can also be found on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/djdellamorte
The HD Movie Podcast theme is written and performed by Mitch Bain, who also composed the music for one of the films mentioned above. Find him at: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Enjoy the episode and we'll be back with the start of our Christmas movie season next time!

Episode 44: Abertoir 2021 Part 1 - The Physical Festival

Episode 44 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Once again, Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are your guides to movies of any genre, any year and any quality.
In the first of a two-parter, Hayley and Darren take a look at a selection of films from the recent Abertoir Horror Film Festival, held in Hayley's home town of Aberystwyth! This first part looks at the physical film festival (with the virtual festival to follow) and the movies covered are:
GWLEDD, WHEN I CONSUME YOU, THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN, BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES, BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION, FRANKENFISH, CENSOR and LAMB!
The Abertoir 2021 sting music is by Dellamorte who can also be found on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/djdellamorte
The HD Movie Podcast theme is written and performed by Mitch Bain, who also composed the music for one of the films mentioned above. Find him at: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Enjoy the episode and we'll be back talking about the Virtual Festival next time!

Episode 43: Listener‘s Request #1 - V/H/S/94

Episode 43 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell take a look, as always, at films of any genre, any year and any quality.
This week, it's the first Listener's Request episode! The one we picked at random out of the hat was V/H/S/94 which was suggested by Andrew Barron. Andrew - thanks for the suggestion and we hope you enjoy the discussion. To everyone else who sent suggestions in, don't worry, we'll be keeping them on the list for future Listener's Request episodes.
The HD Movie Podcast's music is written and performed by "When I Consume You" score maestro Mitch Bain: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Keep letting us know about the movies you think we should cover!

Episode 42: My Girl/Laserblast

Episode 42 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are your guides on a journey into filmed entertainment of any genre, any year and any quality.
It's Childhood Trauma week! Your hosts delve into the past to dig up those movies which left an indelible imprint on either themselves or those they love.
First up, Hayley takes the lead to talk about the scarring experience that was/is MY GIRL, starring Anna Chlumsky, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd and Macaulay Culkin, who was bumped up the cast list for the promotion of this movie and bumped off in the final act (apologies for the spoiler but come on, you must know by now that he doesn't make it to the end).
The B-feature on this episode is the B-feature that is LASERBLAST, a movie that somehow played alongside The Muppet Movie when Darren's wife went to see it as a kid. Expect lots of discussion about how this film, even with cuts, was ever deemed suitable for a family audience.
The music you hear on The HD Movie Podcast is written and performed by ridiculously talented Mitch Bain: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Don't have nightmares!

Episode 41: Candyman(1992)/Candyman (2021)

The HD Movie Podcast is back with Episode 41! Your hosts Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are here to take you on their usual trek through films of any genre, any year and any quality.
It's time for the Halloween episode and of course there's going to be a focus on horror. With the recent cinema release of Nia Da Costa's CANDYMAN, it's definitely time we talked about it. So which movie should we compare and contrast it with? Bernard Rose's CANDYMAN of course! So it's CANDYMAN vs CANDYMAN! I only mentioned him four times, right? That's okay then.
The music you hear on The HD Movie Podcast is written and performed by the soundtracking machine that is Mitch Bain: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Hope you enjoy the episode!

Episode 40: FORTY YEAR OLD MOVIES - The Burning/Heartbeeps

Episode 40 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Once again, your hosts Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are ready to take you on a journey through films of any genre, any year and any quality.
For the 40th episode, Hayley and Darren have picked movies celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, starting off with the notorious slasher movie THE BURNING! Not only did this launch the careers of some fairly notable acting talents, it caused something of a stir in the UK when it landed on the Video Nasties list.
Rounding off an eclectic double bill is HEARTBEEPS, starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as two robots who fall in love and escape from the facility in which they're being stored. Sounds odd? It is.
The music you hear on The HD Movie Podcast is written and performed by ridiculously talented Mitch Bain: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
The HD Movie Podcast is taking a few weeks off as Hayley enjoys being a new mum and Darren just tries to cope with everyday life. Enjoy the episode and we'll be back soon!

Episode 39: FACE OFF #4: Sandra Bullock - Speed/While You Were Sleeping

Episode 39 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell, as always, discuss movies of any year, any genre and any quality.
It's the second of two consecutive episodes in the FACE OFF arena and this time Hayley and Darren will be taking a look at two flicks featuring the lovely Sandra Bullock!
First up, Sandy is on the buses - well, just one bus which is wired to explode - in 1994's SPEED! Following that, she's on the trains - well, she's a token collector in a booth on a train station - in 1995's WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING! Two different movies, two different performances. Which wins? You decide! Er, no, Hayley and Darren decide in this episode but you can decide too.
The HD Movie Podcast's fab music is written and performed by Mitch Bain - yes, the Mitch Bain who also writes movie scores, that one, he writes music for us too: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
There must be loads of folks who deserve their FACE OFF! That's the episode, we won't be taking their face off. Let us know!
Enjoy the episode!

Episode 38: FACE OFF #3: Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing/Point Break

Episode 38 of The HD Movie Podcast is here! Your hosts Hayley Alice Roberts and Darren Gaskell are back to discuss movies of any year, any genre and any quality.
This episode, Hayley and Darren return to the FACE OFF arena. One performer, two movies, a whole host of difficult decisions as to which movie and performance wins.
The performer in question this week is the late, great Patrick Swayze and we've chosen two iconic roles of his. Firstly, we look at his role as Johnny Castle in the smash hit DIRTY DANCING and then move on to see how he fares as mystical surfer Bodhi in action juggernaut POINT BREAK! 
The music you hear on The HD Movie Podcast is written and performed by Mitch Bain, who just happens to score movies as well: @whoelsebutmitch on Twitter, evertheoptimitch on Instagram. 
You can follow and contact the Podcast on Twitter and Instagram by searching for "HDMoviePodcast".
You can find the hosts on Twitter and Instagram too!
Hayley: @HayleyARoberts on Twitter, hayleyaliceroberts on Instagram
Darren: @darren_gaskell on Twitter, darren_gaskell on Instagram
Which performer do you think deserves a FACE OFF episode? Don't be shy, let us know!
Hope you enjoy this one.