276 - Diminishing Returns Are Dead (with Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis and more)

Guests: Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis, Calvin Dyson, Judey Bignell, Conor Murray, Grace Miller, Emily Slade, How Didn’t This Get Made? and Nicky Diss

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A seance brings a number of never-heard-before clips back from the dead, featuring Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis, Calvin Dyson, Judey Bignell, Conor Murray, Grace Miller, Emily Slade, Nicky Diss and Cubby R. Broccoli.

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217 - The Christopher Nolan Season (with Emily Slade)

Guest: Emily Slade

Films covered in this episode:
The Prestige
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%

The Dark Knight
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 88%

Inception
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 90%

Diminishing Returns continue their exploration of Christopher Nolan's filmography with the help of Emily Slade, on hand to guide them through The Prestige, The Dark Knight and Inception.

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215 - Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Live!) (with Calvin Dyson and Emily Slade)

Guests: Calvin Dyson and Emily Slade

Films covered in this episode:
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 63%

It's Diminishing Returns' second live show! Presented here for those of you who couldn't join us on the night (and those of you who'd like to listen again).

We needed to fill a week in the schedule at the last minute, so we thought we'd cover the new Netflix release Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

Calvin and Emily join us to defend, while Allen regales with tales of his time spent on the movie's set.

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206 - Diminishing Returns Live! (with Calvin Dyson and Emily Slade)

Guests: Calvin Dyson and Emily Slade

Film scores updated in this episode:

American Beauty
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Judey: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 88%

Fight Club
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Brear: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 90%

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Daryn: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 88%

Shaun of the Dead
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 94%

This Is England
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 84%

A special live episode of the podcast, originally broadcast exclusively to Patreon subscribers on the 28th of April, 2020! (Please forgive the shaky audio quality - we're normally much better than this, but we're also not normally live).

That's right, this whole corona virus lockdown pushed us to hold a special video stream event: a live episode of the podcast. Hopefully the first of many.

Listen to this - the edited audio version - or head over to our official YouTube page to watch the (mostly) unedited video version (there’s also an embed on this very page).

This episode features Sol, Allen and Calvin as well as Emily Slade from Why This Film? podcast, who was kind enough to compere the event for us. There's a James Bond quiz, Calvin is invited to add his own ratings to the films he missed in the currently in the Diminishing Returns top 10 list, the gang take various audience questions and more.

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205 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (with Emily Slade)

Guest: Emily Slade

Films covered in this episode:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Allen: ✰ ½
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 57%

Our epic trilogy comes to its conclusion with this: The Returns of the Diminishings (our third episode covering The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, this time, looking specifically at The Return of the King). Emily Slade is this week's Lord of the Ringer, ushered in to defend the franchise against haters, Allen and Sol.

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200 - The Bigger Diminishing Returns Quiz (with Calvin Dyson, Gareth Allen, Chris Hunter, Judey Bignell and Emily Slade)

Guests: Calvin Dyson, Gareth Allen, Chris Hunter, Judey Bignell and Emily Slade

To mark the show's 200th episode, we're putting on another big Diminishing Returns quiz! This time, Gareth steps in as Quiz Master, to emcee the proceedings and the gang are quizzed by past guests from Judey Bignell to Chris Hunter to Emily Slade. Even music-meister Tomo Fallows gets in on the action.

Here's to the next 200!

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197 - Mulan (with Emily Slade)

Guest: Emily Slade

Films covered in this episode:
Mulan
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 84%

Mulan II
Allen: n/s
Emily: ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 35%

What? Another live-action Disney remake already? Yeah, they're just pumping these out. It's Mulan, this time. Starring Eddie Murphy! (You know what that means...)

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188 - Bad Boys (with Emily Slade)

Guest: Emily Slade

Films covered in this episode:
Bad Boys
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 67%

Bad Boys II
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 64%

Bad boys, bad boys, whatyagonnado? 2020 kicks off in style (over substance) with a look at Will Smith/Martin Lawrence vehicles Bad Boys and Bad Boys II ahead of the upcoming Bad Boys for Life.

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183 - Cats (with Emily Slade)

Guest: Emily Slade

Filmed stage-performances covered in this episode:

Cats (1998)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 57%

In a Diminishing Returns first (sort of), we take a look at a theatrical production that'll be soon turned into a movie. (We use the filmed "movie" version of the stage show released in 1998 as our basis for the theatrical production but that's basically the same thing). Also, we're joined by Emily Slade again, so enjoy!

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180 - Charlie's Angels (with Emily Slade)

Guest: Emily Slade

Films covered in this episode:

Charlie’s Angels
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Emily: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Allen: ✰ ✰
Emily: ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ½
Overall score: 34%

This week we are joined by Emily Slade of the Why This Film? podcast to take a look at the turn of the century super spy action comedy Charlie's Angels along with its sequel and television series forebear. It's an episode full of nostalgia and sheer disbelief. It's a film that will take you straight back to the turn of the century and leave you wondering how we ever thought that was normal.

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