Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast

By Cole Bradley

A podcast on the career of Saoirse Ronan and the changing state of the movie star in the 21st century. Hosted by Cole & Connor.

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The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.

Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast episodes:

May 16, 2025 The Lovely Bones
This week, the great Morgan Garrity joins us to discuss Peter Jackson's boondoggle adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel The Lovely Bones, starring Soairse as the ghost of a girl murdered in the 1970s. We talk the film's lengthy production and the complicated history behind the novel, get into our thoughts on Jackson and this adaptation, but really we're all here to sort one thing out: is Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci good in this movie?
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2h 32min
May 11, 2025 City of Ember
This week, the great Charlie Schumann returns to chat about 9-1-1, the late career of Jennifer Lopez, and the relationship between the Mission: Impossible films and the tv show. Oh, and when we remember we also discuss Saoirse's first lead role City of Ember, a failed YA dystopian franchise starter about an underground city that definitely makes sense and definitely isn't boring.
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2h 6min
May 02, 2025 Death Defying Acts
This week, we're playing clean-up on the last of the movies rushed into release to capitalize on Saoirse's Oscar nomination with Gillian Armstrong's Death Defying Acts. An almost entirely fictionalized melodrama set in the last weeks of Harry Houdini's life, the film stars Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones at the very tail end of the star runs, and Saoirse Ronan as the latter's plucky con artist daughter. We talk the two leads' A-list careers twenty years on, fancast our own Harry Houdini biopics, argue over which de Havilland sister was better, and devote some time to talking about The Pitt. We mostly talk about The Pitt. How good is The Pitt y'all.
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2h 7min
April 26, 2025 Atonement
The year is 2007. Saoirse Ronan is thirteen years old and four years into her career and has just gotten her first Oscar nomination. This week, Mark Tilley returns to the podcast to discuss Atonement, Joe Wright's sweeping epic of forbidden love and overwhelming guilt. Listen as we heap praise on Wright, discuss the film's Oscar run, debate just how much of this movie is meant to be real, and perform some atonement of our own as we address this podcast's greatest shame.
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2h 12min
April 18, 2025 The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
not gonna lie gang this one broke us
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1h 53min
April 11, 2025 I Could Never Be Your Woman
This week, Above the Title celebrates Age Gap April with a look at Amy Heckerling's misbegotten May December romcom I Could Never Be Your Woman, starring Michelle Pfeiffer as an aging, divorced TV executive and Paul Rudd as the younger actor she falls for. We talk the film's lengthy and disastrous production, its poorly aged conception of feminism, and the ways both resonant and unsettling it seems to reflect Heckerling's biography. Plus: a young Saoirse Ronan in her first actual role, deep dives on both Pfeiffer and Rudd, and a lot of MCU talk. A weird amount of MCU talk. I actually cut a good portion of the MCU talk so just remember that when you're listening.
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2h 31min
April 04, 2025 The Clinic/Proof (Season 2)
This week, season 2 of Above the Title begins with a look at the early television work of our new subject, Saoirse Ronan. First, there's The Clinic, a long running gentle soap opera about the personal lives of healthcare workers. Then, there's the second season of Proof, a gritty and short lived drama about journalists uncovering corruption. Is Saoirse in either of these to any degree more than just being a kid who can pop into a few scenes? No, not really, but hey, it's a completionist podcast, that's what you signed up for.
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2h 1min
March 21, 2025 Colin Farrell: A Retrospective
After two long years, we've finally reached the end of Colin's filmography, and this week we're taking a moment to collect our thoughts on his career and where he's going from here. But first: we loop back around to cover 1999's The War Zone, Colin's first proper movie which fell outside our initial 21st century limitations. Then, we dive into everything he's done since, finally unveil the Colin Farrell Rushmore, and announce the subject of our next season. Thanks for the memories, kid.

Please note The War Zone deals with sexual assault and incest in extremely bracing and explicit terms and we discuss it with the bluntness it deserves. If you would prefer not to listen to that portion of the episode, the discussion begins at 13 minutes in and ends at 54 minutes and 20 seconds.
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2h 51min
March 14, 2025 The Penguin
This week, the great Jeff Sweeney returns to the show to put up a defense for the Reeves Batmanverse and talk HBO's The Penguin, the first time in Colin's career he's return to a role he's already played. Spoiler alert: two people on this episode thought this show was terrible and the third is just happy to be here. Topics include: live Golden Globes reactions, wildly out of date Oscar predictions, our frustrations with prestige TV storytelling, the show's disinterest in engaging with the larger Batman mythos, whether or not Colin should be winning awards for this, and our thoughts on Batman's rogues gallery.
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3h 30min
March 07, 2025 Sugar
We're back! This week, the great Sadie Rose Darwish joins us (for an episode definitely not recorded six months ago) to discuss Sugar, a streaming miniseries/maybe TV show in which Colin does a warmed over neo-noir routine while viewers wait patiently for the twist that is the show's entire raison d'être. We discuss that twist and we would have executed it, along with detours into the show's TCM fetishism, the scorpion jacket from Drive, mononymous stardom, and forgotten Jason Isaacs cop show Awake. Did you ever watch that? God it was good. We used to be a country, a proper country.

Apologies for the poor audio, we had technical issues with the recording and tried to salvage it as best we could.
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2h 16min

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How many episodes does Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 64 episodes available.