Ribbon of Memes

It's been over a century and a quarter since the first moving picture was committed to celluloid - the "ribbon of dreams", as Orson Welles mellifluously intoned.

And so, welcome, one and all, to Ribbon of Memes, a new podcast in which Roger Bell_West and Nick Marsh supply grateful listeners hot takes about films considered masterpieces by critics or filmgoers in general.

The rules: we choose one "masterpiece" from every year from the earliest days of cinema to our dreadful modern dystopia. Do we agree these films are classics? Are we entertained? Did we even understand what the film was trying to say? The questions are endless!*

We start in 1973 (for reasons explained in the first podcast) and progress vaguely chronologically (unless we think of another film that makes an interesting comparison to the one we have just seen, or are otherwise distracted by shiny new things).

Yes, that's right, we decided that what the world really needed was two more uninformed middle-aged white guys telling the world about media largely produced by similar people. Find out whether we were right or not herein!

*Actually, no, that's most of them.

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Early Hammer 11 October 2025 - 3 comments

Nick and Roger look at the three films that made Hammer's reputation as a horror studio: The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Mummy.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 27 September 2025 - 1 comment

Roger and Nick become miracles of modern science in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Phibes-a-Thon 13 September 2025

Nick and Roger obsess over past wrongs and set up baroque murders with a glamorous assistant in The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, and Theatre of Blood.

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Glengarry Glen Ross 02 August 2025 - 3 comments

Roger and Nick get terribly macho ans sweary (we're role-players, we can handle it) with Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).

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Ocean's Eleven, Multiply 19 July 2025

Nick and Roger are old war buddies in the casino-robbing business in Ocean's Eleven (1960 and 2001), Twelve and Thirteen.

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Escape from New York (1981) 05 July 2025 - 2 comments

Roger and Nick return to the John Carpenter well, with the low-budget action piece Escape from New York (1981).

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Top Gun and Maverick 21 June 2025

Nick and Roger strap jet engines to our naughty bits and take a dangerous look at Top Gun (1986) and its rather belated sequel Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

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Werewolves III 07 June 2025

Roger and Nick conclude our werewolf mini-season (for now) by jumping forward another twenty years, to Ginger Snaps (200) and Dog Soldoers (2002).

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Werewolves II 24 May 2025

Nick and Roger continue our highly selective werewolf season with two films from 1981 noted for their transformation sequences: The Howling and An American Werewolf in London.

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Werewolves I 10 May 2025 - 2 comments

Werewolf films arguably began with 1935's Werewolf of London, but Roger and Nick choose to begin our werewolf mini-season a little later, with The Wolf Man (1941) and Cat People (1942).

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