This week… Claire Rushbrook (7:34) speaks to Hanna about finding love in a lonely place with Adeel Ahktar in Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava (20:06); Amy Poehler’s documentary Lucy & Desi (40:36) gives us the real story behind two of comedy’s greatest icons and Amon speaks to Matt Reeves (57:52) about The Batman before we dive into our spoiler-free (1:12:55) and spoiler-filled HOT TAKES (1:37:00) about the latest outing for the Caped Crusader.

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This week… Clarisse speaks with Cyrano writer Erica Schmidt about adapting her stage show for the screen (08:57), and the pod team discuss the latest iteration of the literary classic (27:09); Jim Broadbent gets caught up in an art heist in The Duke (50:58); And we take a look inside a Swiss care home with La Mif (01:07:00). Plus, in this week’s Hot Take (01:19:28), we weigh in on the Oscars ceremony after a new criteria limits the number of televised awards.

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This week, Channing Tatum is a doggone American hero in his directorial debut, Dog (07:40). We find out what happens when a smart speaker is the only witness to a violent crime in Steven Soderbergh’s Kimi (15:52). A new documentary hopes to answer the question: who was The Real Charlie Chaplin? (29:43). And Andrea Riseborough catches a case of creepy horror child in Stacey Gregg’s debut Here Before (44:34). Plus, in this week’s ‘Hot Take’ (52:55), we breakdown the biggest trailers of this year’s Super Bowl.

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This week, Hanna has a chat with Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen (10:44) about his animated journey down memory lane for one former refugee from Afghanistan, and then the team discusses the Oscar-nominated film (23:22). Owen Wilson accidentally pops the question to Jennifer Lopez in Marry Me (34:02), Kenneth Branagh returns with colonial pizzazz as Hercule Poirot in the grimly anticipated Death on the Nile (50:14), and Tom Holland is searching for his brother and lost treasure in video game adaptation Uncharted (01:09:14). Also, ‘Hot Take’ returns this week (01:35:18) with our Boba Fett finale conclusions and 2022 Oscar nomination musings.

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In episode 48 of the Fade to Black podcast, the pod team look into The Eyes of Tammy Faye (10:43), tackle the ludicrousness of Moonfall (24:29); declare Jackass Forever (33:00), and revisit Joanna Hogg’s world of toxic relationships and film school dreams in The Souvenir: Part II  (47:48).

Plus, we introduce a new feature called “Be Kind Rewind” (1:02:06), where we revisit some of the releases from the past year as they hit home entertainment - and ask ourselves whether the gift of hindsight has maybe changed how we feel about them. Our first pick is Edgar Wright’s retro-nightmare Last Night in Soho, and Amon spoke to one of its stars, Michael Ajao.

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In episode 47 of the Fade to Black podcast, Hanna speaks to Sing 2 director Garth Jennings (12:12) and the pod team grab their mics to discuss the animated sequel (25:18); we chat Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar, and Parallel Mothers (39:53); and Clarisse speaks with Amulet director Romola Garai (55:03) before the team discuss her spooky debut (01:09:59). 

Plus, in this week’s ‘Hot Take’ (01:21:43), we ask: how much should the personal views of Hollywood types impact their careers?

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In episode 46 of the Fade to Black podcast, Amon has a brief chat with Denzel Washington, Dana Canedy, and Michael B. Jordan about A Journal For Jordan (16:29).

Then the pod team get their freak on with Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley (23:05), grieving parents come together after a school shooting in Mass (40:50), Kenneth Branagh takes us back to his Troubles’ youth in Belfast (49:44), and a mother and daughter connect through teen diaries in Memory Box (01:04:15).

Plus, in this week’s ‘Hot Take’ (01:15:37), in the wake of Matt Reeves’ The Batman being confirmed to be nearly three hours long, we talk about movie run times: is there a perfect length?

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In episode 45 of the Fade to Black podcast, critics Hanna Flint, Amon Warmann and Clarisse Loughrey talk the ever-bloody and metatextual Scream (08:16), the bovine tête-à-tête that is Andrea Arnold’s new documentary Cow (26:00), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest, Memoria (37:50).

Plus in this week’s ‘Hot Take’ (57:40), we ask whether it’s time for critics and audiences to reevaluate how we talk about the cinematic experience.

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In episode 44 of the Fade to Black podcast, critics Hanna Flint, Amon Warmann and Clarisse Loughrey talk Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza (9:45), espionage romp The 355 (26:47), one-shot wonder Boiling Point (38:51), and the cat-tastic The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (53:41).

Plus in this week’s Hot Take (1:10:20), we come together for our round-up of the year, sharing some of our favourite memories and movies.

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In episode 43 of the Fade to Black podcast, critics Hanna Flint, Amon Warmann and Clarisse Loughrey talk Matthew Vaughn’s WWI-set prequel The King’s Man (08:41), satire Don’t Look Up (19:26), Julia Ducornau’s latest horror Titane (32:24), Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (47:42), and rebooted franchises with The Matrix Resurrections (01:06:28).

Plus in this week’s Hot Take (01:28:16), we dive right into The Matrix Resurrections spoilers and chat about those big, big reveals. Is it a self-aware take on franchises and nostalgia, or just more of the same?

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