Culture Bucket

We're doing something a little different this week on Culture Bucket! Instead of the usual Top 5, Homework and Culture Catch Up Alex and George sat down to discuss Chloe Zhao's Oscar winning film Nomadland. We want to do a deep dive like this into an important or big pop culture release more regularly so please listen in and if you have any feedback let us know, we always appreciate hearing from you!

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This week on Culture Bucket we're entering the world of meet-cutes, public declarations of love and Keanu Reeves Cameos as we count down our favourite romantic comedies!

We also have a bumper packed culture catch up and a Childish Gambino centric MyTube to check out as well, we really spoil you!

Links to our letterboxd and a few other places can be found in our bio, check it out to see our various film lists, kept there for posterity. Catch you on the flippity flip.

Spoilers below

Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up: Squid - Bright Green Field, Weezer - Van Weezer, Returnal, Resident Evil Village, The Mitchells vs The Machines, Dead & Buried, Burn After Reading, Frailty, The Perfection, The Cat O' Nine Tails, Dissect, Childish Gambino - Because the Internet, Brockhampton - Ginger, Lost In Translation, The Kissing Booth 2

MyTube links:

Childish Gambino - Sweatpants

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What's that in the corner hiding just out of view in the shadows? Is it a person? An animal? Just a bundle of clothes? No, it's Culture Bucket! The world's premiere pop culture discussion podcast, you heard it here first.

This week we're counting down our top 5 thriller films. Get ready for chills, spills and maybe some thrills. We've also got the usual culture catch up and homework discussions so please join us!

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Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up:  Ru Paul's Drag Race, Attack On Titan, The Horne Section Podcast, Slowthai - Tyron, Dave - Psychodrama, Terra Firma - Tash Sultana, Queenie by Candice Carty Williams, The Block Island Sound, Dark Skies, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Banishing, Sputnik, Noroi: The Curse, Hotel Transylvania, Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!, The Smiths

MyTube links:

Jay-Z - Moonlight

Mike Wozniak's Farting Task Shock

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We're deep diving into filmography of some top tier film makers this week on Culture Bucket! Join us as we count down our top 5 Coen Brothers movies. Will we even get to the top 5, or will events spiral so wildly out of our control that all we can do is sit back and laugh at the impersonal cruelty of fate? You'll have to listen to find out!

We've also got a stellar culture catch up for you, the return of MyTube and the usual homework discussion. Make sure you listen!

Links to our letterboxd and a few other places can be found in our bio, check it out to see our various film lists, kept there for posterity. Catch you on the flippity flip.

Spoilers below

Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up:  A Way Out, It Takes Two, Run, Palm Springs, Saw, Brittany Runs A Marathon, Emma, One Child Nation, Harry Styles - Fine Line

MyTube links:

Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar live at the Grammys

Ashnikko - Daisy 2.0 Feat. Hatsune Miku

Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth (Live on Later)

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Our journey through the decade of synthesisers, John Hughes movies and neon lights continues this week with a look at music. Alex and George will be counting down their top 5 '80s bands.
As usual before the top 5 we have culture catch up and homework. Tune in to hear what George thought of Innerspace and whether Alex was a fan of The Thing.

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Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up:  Sweet Bean, Break Through!, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Violation, Bad Trip, Saw, Saw II, Godzilla vs. Kong, The Sopranos

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GUESS. WHO'S. BACK?

After a short break Alex and George are back at it this week with a brand new Culture Bucket, this week we are counting down our top 5 '80s movies! It's a real nostalgia festival with ghosts, bio-exorcists and alien invaders all up for discussion.

Before the top 5 discussion this week we have a very special bumper culture catch-up with a mega discussion of Zack Snyder's Justice League. (Fair warning, it's not an exclusively positive conversation.)

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Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up:  Zack Snyder's Justice League

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We've got an extremely exciting Culture Bucket for you to dive into this week! We're finally tackling Top 5 Final Shots in films, listing our favourite final moments from those films that give so much and then leave you wanting just a little bit more. It goes without saying that this episode unavoidably contains some spoilers but we've tried to make sure the films covered will still be worth watching if you listen and haven't seen them, but do use that skip ahead 30 seconds button if you're concerned.

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Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up:  Moxie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Bao, Justin Bieber - Justice, Oscar Scheller - Boys Cry, The Lure, A Warning to the Curious, The Ash Tree, The Empty Man, Back to Life, Dead By Daylight

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Prepare yourself for an amazing Culture Bucket this week! We're sitting down with our #keepcups to chat Music Videos, from the sublime to the bizarre we cover a wide range this week so get ready for stopmotion, single takes, auteurs and some kind of laser beam attack. (Keep Cups are available from all good reusable cup shops.)

Links to our letterboxd and a few other places can be found below, check it out to see our various film lists, kept there for posterity. Catch you on the flippity flip.

Spoilers below

Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up: Wolf Alice, Grave Encounters, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Calm, The Queen's Gambit, Attack on Titan, Unicorn Store, Haim - Women in Music Pt III, Radwimps - 2+0+2+1+3+1+1= 10 years 10 songs

George's Top 5

5. Stop-motion

4. Boy band surrealism

3. Rube Goldberg

2. One shot

1. Perfection

 

Alex's Top 5

5. Plane high jinks

4. Is that Frank Carter?

3. The One With The Dancing Milk Carton

2. TEN MINUTES?

1. EIGHTEEN HOURS?

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Prepare your taste buds for a flavour explosion this week on Culture Bucket! Alex and George are sitting down, putting their napkins on their laps, grabbing their cutlery and digging into some of the tastiest dishes ever to hit our screens.
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Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up: Raya and the Last Dragon, The Girl Next Door, Wrong Turn, Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist, Blackpink, 24, WandaVision, The Testaments

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Something a little different this week on Culture Bucket! George and Alex will be counting down their top 5 live music performances available on YouTube. 

Look below for links to all the videos listed by George and Alex in their top 5s.

Links to our letterboxd and a few other places can be found in our bio, check it out to see our various film lists, kept there for posterity. Catch you on the flippity flip.

Spoilers below

Culture discussed in this week's culture catch-up: Tammy & The T-Rex, Sator, The Rental (spoilers for this end at 17:55), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Dark & The Wicked, I Care A Lot, A Touch Of Frost, Spiritfarer, Julien Baker - Little Oblivions, Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist, The Farewell, A Long Goodbye, Wreck It Ralph, Alice In Borderland, Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams, D Smoke - Black Habits

George's Top 5

5. The Graham Norton Show

4. Watch the cymbals

3. David Letterman

2. Brits

1. Grammys Mash-Up

 

Alex's Top 5

5. Live Lounge

4. BET Awards

3. MAMA / Coachella

2. This is a vimeo, not a YouTube link. Sorry.

1. Brits

 

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