Cine-Lit

Cine-Lit tackles the biggest leading man in cinema history as Adam and Darrell take a look at the legacy of King Kong!

Following on from the podcast on RKO earlier last year, they look at the sequels, spin offs, Japanese Kaiju Kong films, the remakes and the new Kong films in Legendary's Monsterverse cinematic shared universe.

Taking the new publication "Giant Monsters Of Filmland" (co-edited by a certain Cine-Lit podcaster) as a launching point, this jaunt through the history of Kong coincides nicely with with the upcoming release Godzilla Vs King Kong.

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Normally at this time of year, Adam, Darrell and Rebekah would be discussing the Oscar nominations - the films that (deservedly or otherwise) were nominated and those that were overlooked. But because 2020 was… well, 2020, the Oscars for this year have been postponed.

So this month the team are looking back to the year which produced arguably the strongest ever line-up of Best Picture nominees - 1976.

Rocky, Taxi Driver, Network, Bound For Glory and All The President's Men - any of these films would have been a worthy winner.

The team discuss the films in turn, how they relate to each other, how they were all commenting on US society and politics of the time, and how they stand up today.

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Adam, Darrell and Rebekah bring the Christmas feels for this loose free form chat about their favourite (and not so favourite ) Christmas Movies.

Expect all the yuletide faves as the team chat Home Alone, Muppets Christmas Carol, It's A Wonderful Life as well as some lesser known seasonal films like Cash On Demand, Don't Open Until Christmas and.... Silver Linings Playbook?

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As Paracinema barrells towards it's conclusion, Adam and Darrell catch up with Michael Fausti, director of Exit.

Exit bowled over the Paracinema selection committee with its style, confidence and mesmerising performances. An erotic horror thriller that leaves you with as many questions after you've watched it as you have going in, it impressed Darrell so much that he compared it favourably with David Lynch.

Exit screens at the Paracinema Film Festival website until midnight on Thursday and is also available on special edition Blu-ray directly from the Fausti Films website.

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Cine-Lit goes festival crazy this episode as we celebrate the long-delayed return of Paracinema Film Festival and Derby Film Festival this November.

We catch up with the director of Day Of The Stranger, Tom Lee Rutter, to talk about the film, it's troubled, unorthodox shoot and what possessed him to make an acid western in Kidderminster!

See Day Of The Stranger on the Paracinema Film Festival website.

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The Cine-Lit team take a look at the filmmaking career of Steve McQueen, tracing the line from his art career and winning the Turner Prize, through to his film-making debut with the IRA Hunger Strike biopic Hunger, his follow up with Shame, then onto his Oscar winning triumph in 12 Years A Slave and Widows.

Just ahead of his new anthology series debuting on the BBC iPlayer in November, this is the perfect time to get up to speed.

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Adam and Darrell welcome back Rebekah for a special Halloween edition of Cine-Lit where the team delve into the pair of Blaxploitation horror films.

Made during the height of the Blaxploitation boom in US filmmaking, a touch of vampiric class is brought to the funky streets of LA as Blacula stalks his victims. While Blaxploitation legend Pam Grier arrives for the sequel as Voodoo raises its head and, indeed, the dead in Scream, Blacula, Scream.

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The nights are drawing in and thoughts turn to horror as Halloween fast approaches. This episode of Cine-Lit looks at the work of the Italian maestro of horror Dario Argento.

From his early films - including his Animal Trilogy (Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Cat O' Nine Tails, Four Flies On Grey Velvet) which established the key characteristic of the giallo subgenre - to his Three Mothers films (Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother Of Tears) and everything inbetween. An auteur of horror, an incredible influence on cinema, Dario will go down in history as one of the key figures in horror cinema.

Adam and Darrell are joined by John Martin, co-founder of the influential British fanzine Samhain before editing and publishing his own Giallo Pages, devoted to spaghetti exploitation cinema. He is also the author of The Seduction of the Gullible: The Curious History of the British "Video Nasties" Phenomenon and remains the longest serving contributor to The Dark Side, the world's longest running and bestselling horror film magazine.

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Adam and Darrell are joined by film director and proud Derby lad, Dominic Burns, to explore an area of cinema that Dom is very passionate about. The 80s!

As the world reels from the shockwaves of Lockdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever we need the power of a good comedy. The discussion here takes in 5 great films from the 1980s that may have escaped your notice.

We look at Ruthless People (1986) with Danny DeVito and Bette Midler, Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions (1985), John Candy and Dan Ackroyd in The Great Outdoors (1988), Richard Dreyfuss in Let It Ride (1989) and Joe Dante's The Burbs (1989).

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Adam and Darrell delve into the career of one of Hollywood's more enigmatic stars on the eve of his 70th Birthday. Bill Murray has been delighting audiences, wrongfooting Hollywood and forging filmmaking partnerships for over 40 years now.

Cine-Lit explores his career, looking at the late 70s / early 80s, the mega pop culture hit Ghostbusters, Murray's sole directorial effort and his partnerships with some of the most exciting talents in the world of film like Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola and Jim Jarmusch.

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