Celluloid Heroes

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In our Lockdown Sessions series finale, Thomas Clay, director of Fanny Lye Deliver’d joins us to chat about his new Puritan Western.

Jack reviews the film, as well as Joseph Gordon Levitt's highjacking thriller, 7500.

Plus we bring you our final round-up of all the latest movie news and trailers and talk about our favourite movie endings of all time.

Thanks so much for listening and to all those who appeared on this series.

Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight… for now.

Monica Dolan talks to us about lockdown hit, Days of the Bagnold Summer and Jack reviews Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods and Judd Apatow’s Pete Davidson-lead The King of Staten Island.

Please we chat about coming-of-age films and talk your through the latest movies news.

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We chat to The Vast of Night star Jake Horowitz (20:45) and Days of the Bagnold Summer’s Monica Dolan (51:43). Plus reviews of Simon Bird’s directorial debut, Amazon Prime’s Dating Amber (35:30) and rock doc, Echo in the Canyon (41:50).

All that plus the usual (spoiler free) movie news and film based waffle.

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Reviews of Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York (37:30), French thriller Only The Animals (51:00), and Andrew Patterson’s debut 50’s sci-fi flick, The Vast of Night (58:42).

Plus, a dialect coach joins us (14:00) to teach Ed to be a Texan and help with his longstanding pronunciation struggles.

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We chat to director Ena Sendijarević (13:00) about her superb debut feature, Take Me Somewhere Nice and hear her top 5 road movies, as well as some of yours

We also have reviews of Take Me Somewhere Nice (28:50), highly anticipated Netflix comedy, The Lovebirds (39:00) and not-so-highly anticipated Netflix Comedy The Wrong Missy (47:00).

Photo credit: Imke Panhuijzen

We talk romcoms with filmmaker, Elizabeth Sankey (17:30) and review Mark Cousins’ epic study of female directors Women Make Film (35:00) and wrestling documentary, Cassandra The Exotico!. (42:30) Plus we go through ours and your top 5 romantic comedies and keep you abreast of the week’s movie news.

We’re joined by director and comedian Joe Cornish to talk lockdown recommendations and go through his top 5 openings scenes in film (5:40).  Also, reviews of Romanian crime thriller The Whistler (24:30), the sublime Never Rarely Sometimes Always (27:13), and romcomdoc, Romantic Comedy (32:30).

Ed Westwick, star of Enemy Lines joins us to talk about his new WW2 action film, we review #MeToo drama, The Assistant, sport doc, Searching for Greatness, and Netflix’s gangland tale, All Day and a Night. We also countdown our top Disney flicks and discuss the latest movie news.