275: The Best of Michael Owen’s Movie Club (Pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
Nata Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 70 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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| 0:28.6 | ...the... Hello, welcome to part two of this week's socially distant sports bar podcast. |
| 0:52.4 | This is part two of the best of Michael Owens movie club. Michael Owen's |
| 0:58.3 | movie club is our spin-off podcast. One of our spin-off podcast. We do two. There's Huffy Pod, |
| 1:03.3 | and there is the Michael Owen Movie Club. They are both available over on our Patreon. Go and have |
| 1:08.9 | a look there. Patreon.com slash distant pod. |
| 1:12.2 | If you like what you listen to, you can buy individual episodes. So if there's one episode |
| 1:16.6 | that we talk about here and you go, I'd love to hear more of that. There's three quid each |
| 1:20.4 | to buy a download. Or you can subscribe on our eight pound a month or ten pound a month |
| 1:26.6 | layers where you get the movie club |
| 1:29.1 | as part of the deal. Basic concept of the movie club, if you haven't listened to part one of this |
| 1:34.8 | best of, the basic concept is that Michael Owen hasn't watched a lot of movies in his life and he's |
| 1:40.3 | not a big fan of this as an art form, so we thought we would choose some movies, |
| 1:44.7 | watch them, give them a little review, |
| 1:47.7 | and at the end of every podcast |
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