What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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Freaky films and why we freakin’ love ’em, by Linsay McCulloch and Garry Mulholland

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#64
Monday · 47 min
Stardust (1974)
The sudden rise and terrible fall of pop star Jim Maclaine (real life teen heartthrob David Essex) via fame, drugs and rock opera in one of several British 1970s films portraying pop stardom as the worst thing that can happen. Rock on at your peril. And if manager Mike (Adam Faith) asks you to the pub, don't go.
#63
October 23 · 50 min
Pig (2021)
Rob (Nicolas Cage) lives in the Oregon wilderness with his companion/co-worker pig, an expert truffle hunter, which allows Rob the most basic of livelihoods. When the animal is stolen, surely Rob is going to go full Cage on someone's ass? Nope, it's all about loss and loneliness and memory and the power of connection, however porcine that is. With added fight club.
#62
August 2 · 47 min
Cabaret
Willkommen, bienvenue and welcome to the Kit Kat Club, home of outsiders in 1930s Berlin - if you're queer, Jewish or Liza Minelli on the cusp of superstardom, it's the place to be. Especially, old chum, if you want to ignore the rising brutality of the Nazis, or who tomorrow might belong to. A masterpiece of editing, distraction and distortion.
#61
July 21 · 48 min
Sick of Myself
“Are you that much of a narcissist?” asks Signe’s boyfriend Thomas, and he doesn’t know the half of it. Threatened by Thomas’s growing reputation as an artist, Signe becomes ever more desperate for attention.... Bleak and hilarious, which is another way of saying it's a Scandinavian comedy.
#60
June 25 · 52 min
60 Shades of Weird
For 59 episodes, we've discussed weirdly wonderful films. For episode 60, we finally answer the question: what the hell do we mean by weird? How does a film earn the What's Wrong with this Picture stamp of approval? What's the weirdest film we've talked about? What's the film that seemed weird at the time but is now oddly (and sadly) normal? Learn all of this and more as we pull back the curtain on What's Wrong with This Picture: Behind the Music.
#59
June 11 · 46 min
Touch of Evil
Orson Welles' 1959 noir masterpiece sees his racist cop Hank Quinlan dispense his own kind of justice in a one-horse border town. But there's a new type of policeman in Charlton Heston's Vargas, a straight-shooter who's not going to stand for frame-ups and rough handling. Top-notch script, non-stop brilliant camera work and added Marlene Dietrich. Unbeatable.
#58
May 25 · 44 min
Marie Antoinette
Sex and cake and rock'n'roll in Sofia Coppola's post-punk take on the pleasures and perils of being a queen in18th century France. Gorgeous to look at, and another of Kirsten Dunst's masterful performances, ably supported by almost everyone you can think of. Head off to watch this immediately.
#57
May 11 · 42 min
Bug (2006)
What's bugging them? Mostly alone in a desert motel room, Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon fall headlong into madness and paranoia. Are they under surveillance? Are insects living under their skin? Is any of it real? And where did that microscope come from? A true one-off from director William Friedkin.
#56
April 20 · 44 min
The Appointment
A ripe slice of British 80s horror - daddies, daughters, dogs, driving and a date with destiny. Don't miss it.
#55
April 6 · 36 min
Riders of Justice
Mads Mikkelsen (army guy, taciturn and traumatised) meets three socially-awkward nerds (equally traumatised but far from taciturn) who persuade him they can help him get revenge for the death of his wife. Action/comedy/all the feels ensue.
#54
March 30 · 43 min
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
"The bleakest film ever made" according to one critic. And he wasn't wrong. Wrongly accused of robbery, Jim Allen (Paul Muni) endures degradation and violence on a depression-era Southern chain gang. Escape offers brief hope but it can't last... Made in 1932 and still packing an enormous and brutal punch to the gut almost 100 years later.
#53
Sep 21, 2025 · 40 min
Sisters (1973)
Director Brian de Palma is known for his understated pastoral films, evoking emotion through silence and the quiet passing of time ....ha ha, just kidding, his films are crazy and this one's even more bonkers than the rest. Margot Kidder brings her usual greatness playing twins Dominique and Danielle, and everyone else is fab too. There's copious nods to Hitchcock, maybe the best use of split-screen anywhere in cinema and lashings of 1970s movie splatter. One for all the family.
#52
Sep 21, 2025 · 46 min
Suddenly Last Summer
It's got Elizabeth Taylor at her luminous best! It's got Katherine Hepburn being all hysterical! Montgomery Clift referees, while providing cutting-edge mental health treatment (aka lobotomy) from the worst mental hospital in the world. Add in the New Orleans lush sweatiness, and the secret of what exactly happened to Katherine's son Sebastian last summer (this is one of those films where actors say the title A LOT), and you have this ripe but delicious slice of Southern gothic. This one is a winner all year round.
#51
Sep 21, 2025 · 41 min
A Question of Silence
Three women, strangers to each other, wordlessly agree to murder a man. Are they insane, or is a silent refusal to explain a rational response when no-one is listening anyway? Marleen Gorris's 1982 Dutch feminist classic is a truly wonderful film. Pass it on.
#50
Sep 21, 2025 · 42 min
The Act of Killing
What would happen if filmmakers gave the gangsters who carried out state-sponsored murder in Indonesia's dark history the chance to re-enact their crimes? The result is this jaw-dropping documentary by Joshua Oppenheimer (and Indonesian filmmakers, anonymous for their own safety). Unbearable stories with incredible images, shocking brutality with unforgettable surreal beauty. Watch it and weep.
#49
Sep 3, 2025 · 52 min
Terrifying sci-fi tales!
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN vs X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES - two fantastic films about what it means to be a man and being careful what you wish for. What happens when powers aren't super?
#48
Aug 25, 2025 · 43 min
The Wages of Fear
It's a man's world in 1950s South America, when Yves Montand is tasked with transporting dangerously explosive nitro-glycerine across rough terrain. It's a job that only the poor and desperate will take on, and not everyone will make it. This is a thrill-a-minute intense journey, with Montand in a vest and neckerchief making this like riding the queerest roller-coaster French cinema can provide. Sacre bleu - this is a blast.
#47
Jun 1, 2025 · 47 min
The Lady Eve
Conwoman meets a chump, and they fall in love, not once but twice, because everything's bigger and better in this dynamite screwball comedy. Barbara Stanwyck pretends to be someone else, but looks exactly the same. Henry Fonda falls over every bit of furniture. They're both smoking hot and funny as hell. All the cast are brilliant. There's a bit with a horse. Honestly, why are you still here? Just watch it already.
#46
May 11, 2025 · 36 min
Aguirre Wrath of God
Herzog's epic-feeling but actually pretty spare take on one man's mad quest to travel downriver and find the fabled city of gold El Dorado in 16th century South America. And if you're looking for the one man with the maddest mad quest credentials, there is only Klaus Kinski, at his insane best here both on- and off-screen. Come for the history, stay for Kinski as King of the Monkeys. The wildest fo wild rides.
#45
May 11, 2025 · 46 min
Wake in Fright
The worst Christmas holiday ever. Teacher John Grant is travelling from his no-horse outback town to Sydney to meet his girlfriend, but drunkenness, gambling and the worst of macho humanity conspire to stop him. A horror movie where Australia is the monster.

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