Screen Shrapnel: On The R(o)adio

screen shrapnel: on the r(o)adio

“Get your motor runnin’ / Head out on the highway”, the musical mantra to one of the most satisfying of film genres – the Road Movie. From the classic Hollywood of John Ford and Preston Sturges through to the european masters of Wim Wenders and Michelangelo Antonioni, the literal and metaphorical journeys of the Road Movie have provided some of the most cinematic and moving moments in film history. Does ‘Due Date’, the latest male bonding shenanigans from Todd ‘The Hangover’ Phillips, starring miss-matched traveling companions Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, meet the heights of ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ or ‘Midnight Run’, the two quintessential buddy comedy road trips? Well, maybe not, but Graham and Jamie are on hand to reveal what they consider the best of the best from cinema’s rich pickings of Kerouac-esque journeys of self-discovery.

Also on the show we discuss the latest comedy of manners from American director Lisa Cholodenko, ‘The Kids Are All Right’. A film that’s definitely more than alright, Cholodenko takes a sitcom premise – ‘My Two Moms’ is surely being pitch somewhere in Hollywoodland as I type – and creates a hilarious and poignant family drama. And any film containing the acting talent of the lesser spotted Annette Bening is to be cherished.

Join us on the road to enlightenment (or is it the road to Hell?) on this weeks Screen Shrapnel.

Posted at 14:01, 6th November 2010