275: The Best of Michael Owen’s Movie Club (Pt 1)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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🎞 This Week’s Episode
We’re cracking open the Patreon vault and bringing you the very best bits from Michael Owen’s Movie Club – our long-running, occasionally sports-adjacent, always entertaining spin-off series.
For 58 glorious episodes (and counting), Mike, Elis and Steff have watched and dissected everything from underdog sports dramas to baffling action blockbusters — all launched from Michael Owen’s now-legendary claim that he’s only ever seen 8 films and didn’t like them… because they weren’t real.
“It’s supposed to be a sports film podcast… but really, it’s just three blokes with questionable taste in movies.”
From Cool Runnings to JFK, The Karate Kid to Field of Dreams, this is your guided tour through the madness, genius, and deep cinematic trauma that is Michael Owen’s Movie Club.
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| 0:25.6 | ...the... Hello, welcome to this week's socially distant sports spa. |
| 0:49.5 | This is part one of this week's episode, as you will have seen from the title. |
| 0:54.9 | This is the best of Michael Owens Movie Club, which will raise some questions with those |
| 1:01.0 | of you who don't know what Michael Owen's movie club is. |
| 1:03.7 | It's our spin-off podcast. |
| 1:05.2 | It's one of the spin-off podcasts that we do on our Patreon, which is patreon.com slash distant pod. |
| 1:11.7 | Every month for people who pay the £8 or the £10 layer of the Patreon, |
| 1:17.1 | we publish an episode about a movie for Michael Owen, |
| 1:22.0 | because Michael Owen famously has watched a handful of movies. |
| 1:25.9 | So we thought, what better idea for a podcast, a spin-off podcast from Distant Pod, than pulling together some movies for Michael to watch? |
| 1:36.5 | We started doing this spin-off pod in 2020. We've done 57, maybe 58 episodes we've done so far. |
| 1:45.2 | And we thought now was the perfect time to find some little highlights from those 58 episodes |
| 1:51.6 | and let you guys know what you're missing out on by not being over on our Patreon. |
| 1:56.9 | We have watched, oh, what have we watched? |
| 1:59.5 | We've watched terrible films like Shaolin Soccer. |
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