Dangerous Animals & The Salt Path

🎙️ Popcorn Pundits – Week 84: Dangerous Animals & The Salt Path

This week, it’s survival of the fittest — emotionally and literally. Peter and James tackle two very different cinematic hikes: one full of snakes, secrets, and sketchy blokes; the other full of cliffs, grief, and Gillian Anderson in a waterproof.

🕷️ Dangerous Animals (Preview Screening at the Odeon)
Peter and James braved an early look at this Australian slow-burn thriller — and let’s just say, the only thing more poisonous than the local wildlife is the relationship at the film’s centre.

An anxious romantic getaway turns full-blown nightmare when a young couple’s “off-grid” honeymoon ends up somewhere between Wolf Creek and a relationship therapy session in hell. There’s toxic masculinity, literal toxicity (spiders, snakes, probably a bad kebab), and a twist that had half the Odeon clutching their popcorn like it was a life vest.

Think: The Beach with more fangs. Or Crawl, but instead of alligators and hurricanes, it’s red flags and one really suspicious Aussie dude in a bucket hat.

Peter said it reminded him of Killing Ground meets You’re Next — except with less gore and more gaslighting. James said he needed a stiff drink afterwards. We’re pretty sure one couple in the audience broke up on the way out.

🌊 The Salt Path
Meanwhile, James took a quiet solo pilgrimage through heartbreak, hiking boots, and heavenly seascapes. The Salt Path adapts Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir and stars Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson as a couple walking 630 miles of Britain’s South West Coast Path after losing their home and getting hit with a terminal diagnosis.

It’s beautiful, it’s meditative, and it’s very British — featuring long silences, meaningful glances at sea spray, and an unspoken competition about who can make it to Land’s End without crying.

James called it A Walk in the Woods if it were written by Raymond Briggs. The cinematography is basically a National Trust postcard come to life, and Anderson is fantastic — like if The Crown’s Margaret put on waterproofs and got deeply philosophical about clifftops.

🌀 Nikky’s Sequel
Nikky dusts off the archives and rewinds to a film we reviewed this time last year. Did it age like fine wine or curdle like cinema nacho cheese? She’ll tell us — complete with receipts.

🎧 New episode drops Thursday – Come for the reviews, stay for the awkward metaphors.

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💬 Let us know in the comments:
Would you rather be stuck in the outback with a pathological liar, or walk 600 miles knowing what’s waiting at the end? (Bonus points if you pack snacks.)

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