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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July 14, 2023 Pride and Glory
This week, we take a look at Pride and Glory, Colin's follow-up to the smash success of In Bruges. A New York City crime thriller about a family of cops tested when one of their own turns out to be corrupt, the film comes from journeyman legend Gavin O'Connor, in between his two sports classics Miracle and Warrior. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't live up to the heights promised by the premise and the director, and is mostly just a muddled, boring mess. We talk about Colin's underbaked performance, the complicated career of his co-star Edward Norton, place this movie in the lineage of NYC crime films, and discuss how the success of In Bruges ended up destroying this movie's prospects... but really we just want to talk about Warrior. Have you seen Warrior? Warrior's the best movie ever made. "Warrior but with cops" is the best pitch of all time, what even happened here? Connor pits John Klute against the Babadook. Cole explains the QAnon action movie that's the new Christian exploitation sensation.
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2h 23min
July 07, 2023 In Bruges
This week, the great Maya Dawit joins us for a freewheeling discussion of the defining film of Colin Farrell's career, In Bruges! A small, talky crime comedy from a first time director, the film would come out of nowhere and deliver Colin the best reviews of his career and major awards buzz, including a Golden Globe. We have a lot of praise to heap on his revelatory performance and why we think this is the one that made all the difference, and we have a lot of... mixed feelings about the movie at large and its blend of postmodern farce, existential dread, and very of the moment anti-PC shock humor. Along the way, we're gonna get into nepo babies, industry plants, Netflix originals, the Premiere League, and why 2008 is the year that broke Hollywood. Cole remembers when he went to Bruges. Connor hates all actresses under thirty. Maya has unsolicited career advice for Colin.
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3h 7min
June 30, 2023 Cassandra's Dream
In early 2008, after a stint in rehab and a year and a half off screens, Colin Farrell would return by pairing up with another titanic actor for a fatalistic, offbeat European crime film. But this isn't that one, this the other one, the one that fully doesn't exist - it's Cassandra's Dream! The third in Woody Allen's trilogy of London-set thrillers, this movie, about two brothers asked to commit a murder, sits so firmly in the shadow of Match Point that it never really had a chance, and mostly exists as an odd footnote in the lead-up to, well, what Colin's about to do. We get into the weird, inert, half-formed nature of this movie, but because it really isn't very interesting we mostly just touch on some Miami Vice stuff that we somehow didn't get to on that episode and take a look back at Colin's blockbuster era. Connor has basically never seen a Woody Allen film. Cole has a hot take about Matt Damon.
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2h 23min
June 23, 2023 Miami Vice
This week on Above the Title, it's the big one, it's the 2006 Michael Mann film Miami Vice. Frankly, we're both nervous to tackle it and probably don't have enough time in three hours to get out all our thoughts. But this is the hand we've been dealt at 11:47 o'clock on a Friday morning, so we're just gonna have to take it to the limit one more time. Cole wonders if he can pull of Crockett's look. Connor has some harsh words for Michael Bay.
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3h 3min
June 15, 2023 Ask the Dust
This week, we take a look at the 2006 drama Ask the Dust, a film we at varying points compare to Moulin Rouge, Calvin & Hobbes, and Sophie's Choice. The final directorial effort of acclaimed screenwriter Robert Towne, the film stars Colin as Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in 1930s Los Angeles who has a tempestuous relationship with a Mexican waitress (Salma Hayek). We debate the successes and failures of Colin's casting (and performance), wonder about the timelessness of his face, and begin to put an end to his bad boy era. Along the way we also wonder why Donald Sutherland doesn't have an Oscar nomination and just what Idina Menzel is doing in this dang movie. Connor sticks up for his Italian cousins. Cole is still in love with one particular shot from Jack Reacher.
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2h 40min
June 09, 2023 The New World
This week, the great Andrew Kinsella joins us to talk about Colin's return after a year long break from movies and Terrence Malick's return from an eight year break from movies, 2005's The New World! A dreamlike and mystical retelling of the Pocahontas story, the film finds Colin in full elemental force as a conflicted John Smith. Two of the people on this podcast adore this movie, the third is more conflicted, but amidst all the debate as we try to get our heads around this film's massive scope, beguiling structure, and (again), multiple versions, we still find time for a deep, deep dive into Christian Bale's career. Cole thinks The Artist gets a bad rap. Connor draws connections between Malick and the avant-garde. Andrew walks us through his favorite historical epics.
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3h 18min
June 01, 2023 Scrubs: "My Lucky Charm"
This week, the great Jeff Sweeney joins us to take a trip to Sacred Heart Hospital and discuss Colin's one-off appearance on Scrubs! The only real guest appearance in his career, Colin's role as the brother of a patient is primarily an excuse for warmed over Irish jokes, but we're mostly interested in the way it interrogates his tabloid bad-boy image in a way none of his movies ever did. Along the way, we salute New Jersey, debate John C. McGinley's legacy, and try to figure out why so many people find Zach Braff so annoying. Connor unveils his grand theory of television pacing. Cole pledges allegiance to Joey King. Jeff has watched six TV shows.

Note: Our apologies about the poor audio quality this week. The original recordings were unsalvageable and we were forced to rely on a low-quality, single track backup so as to have the episode come out at all. This has already been resolved for future recordings.
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1h 51min
May 25, 2023 Saturday Night Live: "Colin Farrell/Scissor Sisters"
This week, we make tenuous forays into covering television with the one and only episode of Saturday Night Live Colin ever hosted, fresh off the disaster that was Alexander and folks, it's a stinker. We delve into Colin's strengths and weaknesses as a sketch comedy performer, the running on fumes nature of the 2004 cast, the rampant sexism of the era, and run through each sketch to try to figure out what works (some diamonds in the rough) and what doesn't (pretty much everything). Cole is worried for the future of the Please Don't Destroy boys. Connor watched this three times for some reason.
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1h 32min
May 11, 2023 Alexander
It was supposed to be the culmination of the first few years of Colin Farrell's career: playing one of the most famous people of all time in a sweeping epic directed by one of the most acclaimed directors of the era. Yet rather than a smash hit that catapulted Colin towards Oscar glory, we are left with a six-time Razzie nominated disaster that almost completely killed his career as a leading man. That's right, this week we're talking Oliver Stone's Alexander, and we mostly have questions, such as: Does Colin manage to wrangle a good performance out of the material here? What's the deal with all the different cuts? Why is this movie so blasé about Alexander's homosexuality? What movie are Val Kilmer and Angelina Jolie in? Is Oliver Stone a great director or just someone who has made great movies? And most importantly, what is even the point of this movie? Connor is ride or die for Todd Haynes. Cole wonders if Eternals is secretly good.
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2h 18min
May 04, 2023 A Home at the End of the World
This week, we're starting our look into Colin's 2004 and his turn towards prestige dramas and spoiler alert: it's not gonna turn out well - it's A Home at the End of the World! The film debut of acclaimed Broadway director Michael Mayer and Michael Cunningham's follow-up to the major awards success The Hours, this film follows an ill-fated bisexual throuple over the course of several years in the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Does it work? Not really, but there's a lot of interesting ideas surrounding intimacy and the meaning we can find with other people batted about that we very are excited to dig into. Along the way we talk about a truly disastrous wig, the career of Robin Wright, and a notoriously excised Colin Farrell nude scene. Cole breaks down Jude Law's similarly rough 2004 slate. Connor gets into name dropping.
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2h 38min

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

The podcast currently has 71 episodes available.