This week…Facebook’s favourite meme fodder, the Minions, are back in Minions: The Rise of Gru (07:53), Justin Kurzel delivers an uncompromising vision of a true Australian tragedy in Nitram (17:39); and we ask the question: does Ed Perkins’s documentary The Princess have anything new to say about Diana? (30:46)

… and in our ‘Hot Take’ (40:51), we venture into the Upside Down for our full, spoilerific take on Stranger Things Season 4.

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

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This week…watch out for The Grabber! Ethan Hawke is back on Sinister form in The Black Phone and Hanna chats with writer-director Scott Derrickson all about it (14:02) before the pod team dissects the film (32:37). Elvis has entered the building in Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant biopic (50:27), and in our ‘Hot Take’, we breakdown the Obi-Wan Kenobi finale (01:15:10). 

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This week: Amon spoke to Good Luck To You Leo Grande stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack (07:54), and the pod team discuss the sex positive film (28:58); we go to infinity and beyond with Pixar’s Lightyear (42:00); get experimented on by Chris Hemsworth in Netflix’s Spiderhead (56:44), and seek Pleasure with Ninja Thyberg’s startling debut (01:09:39).

… and in our ‘Hot Take, we discuss Hollywood’s open letter urging Hollywood to reconsider how guns are depicted on screen (01:26:47).

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This week: were they so preoccupied with whether or not they could make Jurassic World Dominion, that they didn’t stop to think if they should? Clarisse talks to a new addition to the dino squad, DeWanda Wise (06:58), and we debate the latest sequel in the franchise (29:04). It’s a dark comedy made for the woefully insecure in Andrew Gaynord’s feature debut All My Friends Hate Me (45:13), and Adam Sandler takes to the court in Netflix sports drama Hustle (01:00:43). Plus – Udo Kier plays a hairdresser rediscovering his sparkle in indie drama Swan Song (01:20:03) and in our ‘Hot take’ (01:28:59), we take on the fandom queen herself, Ms Marvel, as the first episode of her new Disney+ show drops. 

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This week: ahhhhhhhhhhh! It’s Alex Garland’s surrealist horror MEN (04:50), director Rob Savage takes us on a wild ride in horror DASHCAM (25:25), Vicky Krieps takes a journey into the world of patriarchal filmmaking in Mia Hansen-Løve’s BERGMAN ISLAND (39:25), and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is given a modern-day, LGBTQ+ spin in romcom FIRE ISLAND (58:02) Plus, in our HOT take, we tackle racism in the Star Wars fandom, after Obi-Wan Kenobi star Moses Ingram opened up about her experiences on social media (01:07:40).

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This week: is Maverick’s ego still writing cheques his body can’t cash? We review the new Top Gun movie (07:23), Bob’s Burgers heads to the big screen in The Bob’s Burgers Movie (39:29), and we say hello there to Obi-Wan Kenobi in the new Star Wars series (54:44). Plus in our ‘Hot Take’ (01:25:30), we give our verdict on the new Mission: Impossible and Thor: Love and Thunder trailers.

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This week… Amon sits down with star RJ Cyler to break down Emergency (13:37), while the pod team discuss the satirical thriller (36:53), Terence Davies’s portrait of a poet Benediction (55:05), and Disney+’s reboot of Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (01:11:24).

Plus in our ‘Hot Take’ (01:28:56), we try to figure out why everyone’s getting so heated over sex scenes in cinema.

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This week… Amon caught up with writer-director duo the Daniels to chat about Everything Everywhere All At Once (06:30), and the pod team discuss the Michelle Yeoh multiverse movie (28:04). Then we enter the Vortex with Gasper Noe’s latest (50:43), and take a look at Michael Winterbottom’s new documentary effort Eleven Days In May (01:04:01).

Plus in our ‘Hot Take’ (01:17:02), we talk about PG-13/12A ratings: Is there too much violence?

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This week… we Scooby-Doo this shit and go in on Marvel’s big and small screen offerings! Amon talks to Benedict Wong about Wong and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (08:01) before we review the superhero sequel (21:38). Then we talk about that Moon Knight finale (53:31) and finish off with our spoilerific hot takes on Doctor Strange 2 (01:22:33).

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This week… we get our pinkies up for Downton Abbey: A New Era (10:20) as the popular franchise returns to screens for yet another victory lap; we get down to some Casablanca Beats (23:23), for Nabil Ayouch’s musical drama; and thanks to a new Netflix documentary, we try to solve The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (34:06).

Plus, in this week’s Hot Take (45:27), what’s the point of critics? We dive into the biggest question of them all.

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