Fade To Black

This week, Hanna chats to the debut filmmaker behind British period romp MR MALCOLM’S List Emma Holly Jones (9:36). We check out Netflix’s latest Brit social thriller I CAME BY (42:38) starring George McKay and Kelly McDonald. Esther is back in the horror prequel ORPHAN: FIRST KILL (58:53) and plus, in our HOT TAKE (1:15:19), we discuss the arrival of She-Hulk - the latest Disney+ series

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… Jordan Peele is back and you’ll never look up at the sky the same way again with his latest horror, NOPE (6:30); Romain Duris builds a monument for future generations and future Instagram users in EIFFEL (25:22); and Ari Folman’s reimagines the story of Anne Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty in WHERE IS ANNE FRANK (38:31).

Plus, in our “HOT TAKE” (50:23), we ask: should critics be more empathetic towards how hard it is to make a film?

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here

You can also pre-order Hanna's book STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER here!

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This week… we make a special announcement about our first live podcast next month! Then Amon chats to Dan Trachtenberg about his latest directorial effort, PREY (12:20), and the pod team review the new Disney+ (grumble) thriller (32:07); then it’s all aboard David Leitch’s BULLET TRAIN (46:48) – next stop, murder and mayhem in this all-star action vehicle; and a 15-year friendship carries a Palestinian refugee’s dreams of seeing her homeland again in documentary FADIA’S TREE (01:06:42).

Plus, in our “HOT TAKE” (01:16:56), we try our best to figure out what the hell is going on at Warner Bros. right now.

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, Ron Howard takes a deep-dive into the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in THIRTEEN LIVES (12:37); Panah Panahi takes us on the trip of a lifetime to Iran’s border in his debut HIT THE ROAD (29:26); And documentarian Sara Dosa captures a romance between two daring volcanologists in FIRE OF LOVE (45:12).

Plus, in our ‘HOT TAKE’ (01:00:10), we talk about the dire state of the VFX industry and how studios, most especially Marvel, continue to exploit artists. What’s the real cost of a good time at the movies?

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…Ryan Gosling is back and feeling the kenergy in Netflix’s THE GRAY MAN (08:20); we go WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (33:22) - whatever a crawdad is – in Olivia Newman’s adaptation of an all-time bestseller; and filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud revisits the dramatic events of April 15, 2019, in NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE (49:59).

… and in our ‘Hot Take’ (01:08:50), we ask the question: is Marvel’s Phase Four doing its heroines dirty? Or has the MCU finally gotten female superheroes right?

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…Taika Waititi returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (4:40), Austen meets Fleabag in Netflix’s PERSUASION (28:21), robots are a man’s best friend in BRIAN AND CHARLES (41:50), and ITHAKA turns the spotlight back on Julian Assange (49:53).

… and in our ‘Hot Take’ (1:01:21), we find out if THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER is truly worthy in our spoilerific section.

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…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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