* And now for something completely different…

Fans of Monty Python will recognize John Cleese’s signature tagline. It applies here because an unlikely source from Great Britain offers a podcast review of Field of Dreams.

One of my favorite (or favourite, in this case) podcasts is “Movies You Should See,” a weekly offering by a group of 30-something Brits who obviously enjoy producing their program. They’re a funny, raucous, off-color (colour) group who often go off on tangents when discussing new and classic films. The fact they they are so relatively young is quite interesting when they review older movies such as Twelve Angry Men or Psycho.

Their latest contribution is FoD, which I found especially interesting simply because you wouldn’t expect them to know too much about baseball. In fact they do get a couple of things wrong, such as stating that Shoeless Joe Jackson is a totally fictional character (there’s really no excuse for this; a simple Google search would tell them he was indeed real). Aside from a couple of other minor points, they do quite a credible job in analyzing the movie, and the bond between fathers and sons.

‘ave a listen, then:

By the way, perhaps it’s because of the subject matter, but this isn’t one of their best shows. Troll around the site; I’m sure you’ll find a movie on which you’d like to hear their comments.