The podcast where film-fans Allen Turing and Sol Harris take a weekly journey to Development Hell to discuss a film, then pitch their ideas for the sequel.
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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To get everyone into the Easter spirit, we're celebrating by watching a Patreon-selected bit of religious propaganda. This time, we're going back to the God's Not Dead franchise for the third entry in the series.
Films covered in this episode:
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ½
Sol: ½
Overall score: 24%
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Sol is single again, so the sex anecdotes are plentiful. Oh, also, we talk about Showgirls because our Patreon supporters voted for it.
Films covered in this episode:
Showgirls
Allen: ½
Calvin: ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 27%
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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As is now Christmas tradition, we threw a selection of Christmas movies out to our Patreon subscribers and let them choose which one we should cover for what is now the fifth Christmas special of Diminishing Returns (that's almost as many as One Foot in the Grave). They chose Die Hard 2, so Calvin was furious - hear all about it, now!
Films covered in this episode:
Die Hard 2
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 67%
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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First up: vote for Sol's iHeart podcast pilot, Development Hell, at nextgreatpodcast.com
Now then... tying into the upcoming release of Pixar's Soul, we let Patreon select a Pixar film for us to cover on the show. They went with Monsters, Inc., so here we are.
Films covered in this episode:
Monsters, Inc.
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 77%
Monsters University
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 70%
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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After three weeks of zombie movies, SpongeBob and the worst James Bond movie ever made, it's about time Diminishing Returns got stuck into something a bit high-brow for a change.
That's why we gave our Patrons the option to select a film off the American Film Institute's list of greatest movies ever made. Thankfully, they chose Citizen Kane, which also ties into the upcoming release of David Fincher's Mank, so here we are!
Films covered in this episode:
Citizen Kane
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 97%
Guest: Judey Bignell
Films covered in this episode:
The Iron Giant
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Judey: ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 67%
In case you didn't know, we have a Patreon profile you can subscribe to and receive bonus content including full and mini episodes of the show for as little as $1 a month! One of the other things you can do is take part in our listener votes to decide the topic of future episodes of the show. We recently held a little tournament to select the topic of this episode and, to everyone's surprise, Brad Bird's 1999 classic, The Iron Giant, ran away with it. So here we are, talking about The Iron Giant.
Head to patreon.com/dimreturns to take part in our future episode polls!
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Films covered in this episode:
Back to the Future
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 87%
Back to the Future Part II
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 74%
Back to the Future Part III
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 80%
The long-awaited listener vote episode is finally here! Listen as we explore 1985 followed by 1955 followed by 1985, 2015, alternate 1985, 1955, 1885, then 1985 again (in that order) with this episode covering Back to the Future Parts I - III. As always, we pitch our own ideas for sequels to the trilogy and there's a Christopher Lloyd audio quiz, too. Great jigawatts[sic]!
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