Small Things Like These and Warfare (Movie Squad Podcast #482)

War is hell… but Movie Squad is heaven.

This week, with Tristan Fidler away on special assignment, Laura Blundell joins Simon Miraudo and Breakfast host Pam Boland for two bleak and despairing films that send her into a self-admitted spiral.

First up, Laura reviews Small Things Like These, featuring Cillian Murphy in his first major role post Oscar-win for Oppenheimer. It sees him play an Irish coal merchant who witnesses the abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in 1980s Ireland.

Then, Simon reviews Warfare, director Alex Garland’s follow-up to 2024’s Civil War; an even more immersive frontline thriller set during a single campaign of the Iraq War in 2006, told from the ‘memory’ of co-director Ray Mendoza, and starring all the internet’s boyfriends.

Keep listening for a pod-exclusive chat about… Spice World?

Be sure to tune in to RTRFM every Friday at 7:30am to hear Movie Squad live on Breakfast with Pam!