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This week, Hanna chats to director Emily Atef about her film MORE THAN EVER (07:25), a drama about love and death set against the Norwegian mountains, while we review the film (29:24). Plus, we dive into BABYLON (37:07), Damien Chazelle’s grand ode to Hollywood’s silent era; domestic violence drama ALICE, DARLING (01:08:24), with Anna Kendrick; and HOLY SPIDER (01:22:06), while tells the story of one of Iran’s most infamous serial killers.

Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (01:36:21), we start Fade to Black’s official awards season coverage by picking apart this week’s Bafta nominations.

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This week, Clarisse chats to costume designer Mary Zophres about her Silent-era costumes in Babylon (07:00). We put on our dancing shoes for M3GAN (27:00), dissect some toxic workplace culture in Tár with Cate Blanchett (46:00) and decide whether The Old Way is the right way in Nicolas Cages’ latest (1:13:00). 

Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (1:29:00), we discuss the comeback of the divisive Golden Globes. 

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We’re back! Our first episode of 2023 has Amon speaking to Mamie Till-Mobley herself, Danielle Deadwyler (10:03), while the pod team discusses Chinonye Chukwu’s portrait of a mother’s love and resilience in historical drama TILL (27:44). Tom Hanks gets grumpy in A MAN CALLED OTTO (44:22), Sam Mendes pens his love letter to cinema in EMPIRE OF LIGHT (58:39), and a teenage girl finds the unlikeliest of allies in Spanish horror PIGGY (01:14:10). Clarisse also speaks to THE PALE BLUE EYE star Harry Melling about playing literature’s ultimate goth, Edgar Allan Poe (01:30:47).

Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (01:49:47), we share our most anticipated films of 2023.

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Hi listeners! With Christmas on the horizon, we thought we'd leave you with one last present in the form of an interview special with the great Charlie Cox! Amon caught up with him to chat about his new show, Treason - which is streaming on Netflix now - and Cox also shared his thoughts about the past and future of Daredevil. It's a fun one!

All that's left for the Fade To Black team to say is to wish you Happy Holidays! We hope you all have a spectacular end to 2022. Catch ya on the flipside. 

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This week, after 13 long years, we return to Pandora with AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (29:52), while Amon talks to Colonel Miles Quaritch himself, Stephen Lang (14:12). We lace up with historical drama CORSAGE (56:00), find the doughnut hole in the doughnut's hole with Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (1:15:11), and get existential with BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (1:59:56), as Hanna talks to the man behind it all, the one and only Alejandro González Iñárritu (1:39:39).

And, since this is our last episode of the year – we’re taking a well-earned (we think) break for the holidays – we’ll be delivering our official Fade to Black 2022 Wrapped as our HOT TAKE (2:15:55), revisiting the very best moments on film this year.

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This week, Amon has been on an interview spree! He chats to Brian Tyree Henry about drama CAUSEWAY (11:00), Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson about PINOCCHIO (49:00) and director Antoine Fuqua about EMANCIPATION (1:31:00). We review the stop-motion endeavour (30:00) and historical slave drama (1:50:00) as well THE SILENT TWINS (1:11:00).

Plus, we give our hot takes about WONDER WOMAN 3 after DC cancelled it (2:03:00). 

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This week, Amon talks to Rebecca Hall about horror RESURRECTION (04:34); He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, David Harbour’s Santa Claus is coming to town in VIOLENT NIGHT (30:03); Noah Baumbach faces the apocalypse in his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s WHITE NOISE (42:11); We click our heels together three times and enter the world of LYNCH/OZ (53:42); It’s YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE? (01:04:19) with Asa Butterfield and Cora Kirk; And Amon has a chat with Margaret Brown and Joycelyn Davis about their documentary, DESCENDANT (01:12:31).

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:30:39), we break down all the trailers that premiered at Brazil’s CCXP convention – Indiana Jones! Guardians of the Galaxy! Ant-Man and the Wasp! Transformers! And a little Cocaine Bear, too.

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This week, Clarisse speaks to STRANGE WORLD co-directors Don Hall and Qui Nguyen (11:56), and the pod team discuss Disney’s latest animated adventure (33:58). We devour Luca Guadagnino’s new film, BONES AND ALL (47:28), and tackle Maria Schrader’s take on the New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s crimes in SHE SAID (58:34). Then Amon speaks to MATILDA THE MUSICAL star Andrea Riseborough (01:20:07), and we give our own revolting review of the latest Roald Dahl adaptation (01:34:18).

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:47:06), we welcome in the holiday season with THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL, to see what it might tell us about the intergalactic crew’s final outing in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

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This week, Amon journeys through James Gray’s childhood memories as the pair chat ARMAGEDDON TIME (09:06). Meanwhile, the pod team make a wish on Disney+ sequel DISENCHANTED (27:00); take a break with Charlotte Wells’ debut AFTERSUN (42:14); test their faith with Netflix’s THE WONDER (56:48); and find Letitia Wright stuck between a rock and a hard place in immigration drama AISHA (01:11:54). Then Amon speaks to critic Elvis Mitchell about his sweeping film essay portrait of Black cinema in IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!? (01:25:21).

And, in our HOT TAKE (01:52:30), would the death of Twitter also see the death of film criticism as we know it?

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This week, Hanna speaks to director Sally El Hosaini about the remarkable true story behind her drama THE SWIMMERS (08:40), we meet MY FATHER’S DRAGON (27:58), thanks to Cartoon Saloon’s latest, and we go all out on BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (44:12), as Hanna meets Namor himself, Tenoch Huerta (01:15:46).

And, in our HOT take, we’ll be sounding the spoiler klaxon on WAKANDA FOREVER (01:25:18) and talking the future of Black Panther.

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