Culturefly On The Wall

Back to our usual selves this week, with everything from the strange things of Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp, to the Stranger Things streaming on Netflix.

Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of topics, this week including art, film, documentaries and television series.

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Only 40 minutes long, join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – In the Media: Netflix releasing 80 original films in 2018, Riz Ahmed as Hamlet, Donald Trump takes on Michael Moore and Sean Penn isn’t happy about his links with El Chapo

07:00 – Art: Dali / Duchamp (at the Royal Academy of Arts)

11:50 – Art: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (at Tate Modern)

15:15 – Film: The Snowman

20:00 – Film: Blade Runner 2049

25:25 – Documentary: George Michael: Freedom (on All4/Showtime)

30:56 – Television: Transparent Season 4 (on Amazon Prime)

34:20 – Television: Stranger Things Season 2 (on Netflix)

38:45 – Outro: Close Enough (Barbershop Quartet) and Jigsaw

Images: © facebook.com/royalacademy – Philippe Halsman Archive. Image rights of Salvador Dalí reserved / Netflix / Sony Pictures Releasing / Universal Pictures

The London Film Festival has ended for 2017! Sadly, Jo and Simon couldn’t watch every film at the festival but have picked out their favourite few to look out for in the future.

Every week, Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, but this week is a special edition focused just on the festival itself.

Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes

Just over 35 minutes long, join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

01:11 – In the Media: Eminem’s freestyle rap, Harvey Weinstein and James Corden, Kate Winslet in Titanic and Creed II with Stallon due to direct…

9:00 – London Film Festival introduction and the films we didn’t like (Life Guidance and Pickups)

11:55 – Film: Beauty and the Dogs

14:07 – Film: Abracadabra

16:15 – Film: Wajib

19:05 – Film: Most Beautiful Island

23:18 – Film: The Final Year

26:23 – Film: Last Flag Flying

28:17 – Film: Lucky

30:07 – Film: Lady Bird

33:35 – Film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

36:26 – Outro: Comedy Courses at The Bill Murray Pub – and Richard Denham

Images: © Fox Searchlight Pictures / A24 / Magnolia Pictures / Sony Pictures

It’s an exciting podcast this week in the lead up to the London Film Festival! From Meyerowitz to Mr Mercedes and Bojack to Basquiat, it’s all covered.

Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including games, TV, film and the latest art exhibitions.

Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes

Only 35 minutes long, join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – In the Media: Red Dead Redemption II trailer, Fast and Furious stage show at the O2, Christian Marclay’s The Clock at Tate Modern and Hugh Hefner’s body to be laid along side Marilyn Monroe.

8:05 – Film: Gerald’s Game (on Netflix)

13:53 – Film: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (on Netflix on October 13th)

18:00 – Television: Mr Mercedes (Screened at the BFI)

22:21 – Television: Bojack Horseman (on Netflix)

14:50 – Documentary: The Vietnam War (on BBC/PBS)

29:30 – Art: Basquiat: Boom for Real (at the Barbican)

34:02 – Outro: Jane Austen on the British £10 note

Images: © Netflix / Edo Bertoglio, courtesy of Maripol

Back in London Town and we’re talking Emmy’s, Broadway, books, theatre, TV, film and an upcoming film festival!

Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including books, theatre, TV, film and documentaries.

Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes

Only a 35 minute podcast, join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

01:04 – In the Media: Colin Treverrow replaced by JJ Abrams on Star Wars Episode IX, overview of the Emmy’s and Spongebob Squarepants, Mean Girls and Jagged Little Pill musicals

7:55 – Books: How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb

11:35 – Theatre: Oslo (at The National Theatre)

14:50 – Documentary: The Hot Docs Documentary Festival comes to London, with brief discussion on Let There Be Light, In The Name of All Canadians, Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World and Winnie

20:20 – TV: Philip K. Dick Electric Dreams (on Channel 4/All4)

23:01 – TV: Mitchell and Webb in  Channel 4 series Back

25:00 – Film: Una

28:27 – Classic Film: Pet Sematary

30:50 – Film: It (2017)

34:55 – Outro: TIFF and the Audience Award Winner, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Images: © Thunderbird Releasing / Canongate Books / Eye Steel Film / Channel 4

Back in London Town and we’re talking Emmy’s, Broadway, books, theatre, TV, film and an upcoming film festival! Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including books, theatre, TV, film and documentaries. Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes Only a 35 […]

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We’ve got Matisse and the Old Vic, Game of Thrones and Tom Cruise – something for everyone!

Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including art, theatre, TV, the film and TV adaptations of Stephen King and the latest cinema releases.

Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes

A tad over 40-minutes, join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

01:04 – In the Media: Ed Skrein and Chloe Bennet on Hollywood white-washing, Network and The Exorcist coming to the London stage, the launch of the London Film Festival 2017 and a hot take on Taylor Swift

13:50 – Theatre: Yerma (NT Live from The Old Vic, going international on September 21st)

17:57 – Art: Matisse In the Studio (at the Royal Academy until 12th November)

21:33 – Television: The finale of Games of Thrones series 7

24:43 – Television: Start of The Defenders (Netflix)

27:20 – Classic Cinema: Stephen King on Screen (BFI)

30:05 – Film: The Limehouse Golem

32:43 – Film: The Hitman’s Bodyguard

33:50 – Film: Stratton

35:33 – Film: Logan Lucky

37:48 – Film: American Made

41:03 – Outro: Girls On Tops: A T-Shirt Celebration Of Female Voices in Film

Images: © HBO / Johan Persson / Warner Bros. / Universal Pictures

It’s all the fun of the fest with this Edinburgh Festival special!

Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including comedy, theatre, art, comedy and cinema.

Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes

Squeezed into roughly 35 minutes, you are more than invited to join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

00:59 – In the Media : Emma Stone and Mark Wahlberg are announced the highest earners in Hollywood, Star Wars spin-offs and the Best Joke (won by Ken Cheung) at Edinburgh 2017

7:00 – Art: Paul Nash (at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts in Norwich and the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle)

10:55 – Documentary: An Inconvenient Sequel

15:25 – Edinburgh Fringe Festival:

Crosstentatious

Mark Watson

Amy Annette (And her What Women Want Show)

Lula del Ray by Manual Cinema

Half-Breed by Natasha Marshall (Twitter: @MarshallTash) – Details on her Edinburgh Show here.

Bibi and Bichu’s Circus Abyssina Ethiopian Dreams

Shakespeare for Breakfast

Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish’s ‘ Offside’

Spencer Jones 

Joseph Morpurgo

28:10 – Film: Atomic Blonde

31:18 – Film: Detroit

36:03 – Outro: Only Fools and Horses costume exhibition in Southend-On-Sea

Images: © Focus Features / Annapurna Pictures / PBJ Management / Paramount Pictures

Comedy dominates this pre-Edinburgh Fringe Festival Culturefly on the Wall podcast.

Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including television, comedy and cinema.

Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes

Squeezed into roughly 35 minutes, you are more than invited to join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – In the Media : Mahershala Ali appearing in True Detective, Michelle Terry taking over at The Globe and the rumours circulating regarding James Bond…

9:07 – Comedy: Edinburgh Fringe Festival Previews at Cutty Sark in Greenwich (Paul McCaffrey, Angela Barnes, Dan Antopolski and Mae Martin) and Comedy at Tommy Field Pub in Kennington (Phil Wang and Matt Ford)

15:05 – TV: Love (Netflix)

19:20 – Documentary: Hip Hop Evolution (Netflix)

22:00 – Film: Dunkirk

26:55 – Film: The Big Sick

38:08 – Outro: The end of The Handmaid’s Tale season one

Images: © edfringe.com / Netflix / Warner Bros. / Nicole Rivelli

Comedy dominates this pre-Edinburgh Fringe Festival Culturefly on the Wall podcast. Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, this week including television, comedy and cinema. Subscribe to the Culturefly on the Wall podcast via iTunes Squeezed into roughly 35 minutes, you are more than invited to join […]

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It’s summer and Game of Thrones is back! So, apart from discussing the new series, we are also chock full of discussion that includes Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, the third part, War for the Planet of the Apes, in the rebooted Apes trilogy and the BP National Portrait Awards.

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Jo Gudgeon and Simon Columb present the show and discuss a broad range of culture topics, including Netflix documentaries, mainstream cinema and the British born artist, Chris Ofili.

Squeezed into a little-shy-of 40 minutes, you are more than invited to join us each fortnight as a fly on the wall to our conversation.

Contact us by email at [email protected] or via Twitter @screeninsight and @jogudgeon30

This week’s podcast was recorded live from the Picturehouse Central, so apologies for any sound issues! 

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – In the Media: Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who, BBC pay dispute and steven Soderbergh returns with a secret iPhone film, Unsane

8:00 – TV: Game of Thrones

12:00 – Documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press

16:40 – Art: BP National Portrait Award 2017 (at The National Portrait Gallery)

20:56 – Art: Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic (in collaboration with The Dovecot Tapestry Studio)

23:05 – Film: War for the Planet of the Apes

28:55 – Film: Song to Song

33:40 – Film: The Beguiled

38:08 – Outro: Christopher Nolan and the problem with Netflix