Published 11 February 2015 • 32 minutes, 30 seconds
Alan Turing was one of Britain’s greatest mathematicians, a war hero and the father of modern computing, but was driven to suicide by the government he served. The Imitation Game employs some fine actors to honour his story.
Published 9 February 2015 • 54 minutes, 45 seconds
Jelly has wanted to talk about Testflight for a while, and he finally gets his chance, comparing Apple’s beta distribution tool with the previous methods, like Ad Hoc and Enterprise distribution.
Published 4 February 2015 • 39 minutes, 33 seconds
Comeback character actor Michael Keaton stars in a movie about actors. Academy loses its shit.
Published 28 January 2015 • 44 minutes, 57 seconds
Foxcatcher is nominated for five Oscars. We disagree with the Academy. Vehemently.
Published 26 January 2015 • 1 hour, 17 minutes
Russell Ivanovic (@rustyshelf) joins the couch to discuss back-end services for mobile apps, the differences between software-as-a-service and building your own web service, and go into why you might choose one over the other.
Published 21 January 2015 • 33 minutes, 10 seconds
It’s a children’s movie, so Mel and Katie ask the important questions: is this meant to be the 70s? do bears s%#t in the woods? is marmalade still a thing? Paddington is charming and aggressively whimsical, and that’s probably a good thing.
Published 14 January 2015 • 42 minutes, 39 seconds
Disney and Rob Marshall adapt the dark Sondheim musical, with Chris Pine, Anna Kendrick and Meryl Streep and a talented cast. The Brothers Grimm fairy tales Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel intertwine with the story of a childless baker and his wife and the witch who cursed them.
Published 12 January 2015 • 1 hour, 4 minutes
The couch is back from holidays, so they take the opportunity to talk about things that they worked on over the short break, and what they like to do during downtime to keep themselves sharp.
Published 7 January 2015 • 48 minutes, 17 seconds
Katie and Mel do what they were born to: talk for nearly 50 minutes about the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. No distractions, no going off-topic, very little pausing for breath. Some pausing for wine.
Published 31 December 2014 • 1 hour, 12 minutes
A bumper final episode of the year, in which we look back over the movies we’ve reviewed (and seen) in 2014.