FilmBookCast

FilmBookCast Ep.  126

FilmBookCast is the official podcast of FilmBook. FilmBookCast is an entertainment news podcast on the latest movie and television show news. Each week, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks discusses that breaking Hollywood headlines.

In FilmBookCast Ep. 126, Chris looks at movie previews including Crises, starring Gary Oldman. The TV trailer of Young Rock and Palmer scores the highest ratings ever for Apple TV+.

Among this week’s headlines, Chris looks at the tragic losses of the week in entertainment and in news, the 2020 SAG Award Nominees, movie studios being hopeful about a return to theaters, and more.

Chris wraps up every episode of FilmBookCast with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep. 126, he analyzes and reacts to Our Friend, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.

Our Friend’s plot synopsis: based on the true story of writer by Matthew Teague, “Our Friend tells the inspiring and extraordinary true story of the Teague family — journalist Matt (Casey Affleck), his vibrant wife Nicole (Dakota Johnson), and their two young daughters — and how their lives are upended by Nicole’s heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt’s responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple’s best friend Dane Faucheux (Jason Segel) offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined.”

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

TV Show Trailers :50

Movie Trailers 2:38

TV Show News 3:20

Movie News 6:55

FEATURED REVIEW

Our Friend 11:33

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FilmBookCast Ep. 126

The Complete Works Ep. 93

The Complete Works is a review and in-depth analysis podcast. FilmBook contributor Doug Hess is going to take a look at every film in the filmography of Christopher Nolan, scene-by-scene in each episode. This week, Doug discusses Christopher Nolan’s 1998 film Following.

Following stars Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Dick Bradsell, Gillian El-Kadi, Jennifer Angel, Nicolas Carlotti, Darren Ormandy, among others. Following was written by Christopher Nolan.

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The Complete Works Ep. 93

FilmBookCast Ep. 125

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Chris Banks discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. In FilmBookCast Ep. 125, Chris looks at movie previews including I Care a Lot starring Rosamund Pike, and Brothers By Blood starring Matthias Schoenaerts. TV trailers include a preview of a new series about The Rock Young Rock on NBC, as well as For All Mankind starring Joel Kinnaman.

Chris wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep. 125, he spotlights Promising Young Woman, starring Carrie Mulligan and directed by Emerald Fenning.

Promising Young Woman’s plot synopsis: "Nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be -- she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past."

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

Film News 0:48

TV Shows News 1:25

TV Show Trailers 4:10

Movie Trailers 5:37

FEATURED REVIEW

Promising Young Woman 7:28

Credits and contact

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FilmBookCast Ep. 125

FilmBookCast Ep. 124

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Chris Banks discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. In FilmBookCast Ep. 124, Chris looks at movie previews including Cherry starring Tom Holland, and Malcom & Marie starring Zendaya. TV trailers include a preview of the reboot of Gossip Girl

Chris wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep. 124, he spotlights News Of The World, directed by Paul Greengrass.

News Of The World’s plot synopsis: "based on the novel by Paulette Jiles, the film “follows a widowed newsreader (Tom Hanks) in the aftermath of the Civil War who travels throughout Texas announcing the news of the world to the local population. He is hired to help transport an orphan girl (Helena Zengel) whose parents were killed by a Native American tribe that then took her in and raised her to San Antonio to her surviving relatives. As they make the trek through dangerous territories, they form a close bond that the man finds will make it difficult to relinquish her to her relatives, who have no desire to take her and have abusive plans for her."

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

TV Show News 0:49

Film News 2:50

TV Show Trailers 4:24

Film Trailers 5:42

FEATURED REVIEW

News Of The World 7:50

Credits and contact

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FilmBookCast Ep. 124

FilmBookCast Ep. 123

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry news podcast about the latest movie and television show news. During each episode, FilmBook contributor Chris Banks also reviews a new movie that has recently been released. During this episode, Chris is reviewing Darius Marder's Sound of Metal.

Sound of Metal's plot synopsis: "A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing."

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

TV Show News 0:57

Movie News 4:13

Trailers 5:39

FEATURED REVIEW

Sound Of Metal 7:25

Credits and contact

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FilmBookCast Ep. 123

FilmBookCast Ep. 122

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Justin Drew and CJ Browne discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. Justin wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep.122, they spotlight I'm Thinking of Ending Things, directed by Charlie Kaufman.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things' plot synopsis: "Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself."

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FilmBookCast Ep. 122

FilmBookCast Ep. 121

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Justin Drew and CJ Browne discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. Justin wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep.121, they spotlight The New Mutants, directed by Josh Boone.

The New Mutants' plot synopsis: "20th Century Fox in association with Marvel Entertainment presents "The New Mutants," an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive."

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FilmBookCast Ep. 121

FilmBookCast Ep. 120

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Justin Drew and CJ Browne discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. In FilmBookCast Ep.120, Justin looks at movie previews including The Batman, and Black Adam starring Dwayne Johnson. TV trailers include a preview of Raised by Wolves on HBO Max, as well as Zack Snyder's Justice League starring Ben Affleck on HBO Max.

Among this week's headlines: the death of Chadwick Boseman, Dune's first trailer, another Texas Chainsaw Massacre film in the works, The Suicide Squad footage reaction, and more.

Justin wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep.120, he spotlights Bill & Ted Face the Music, directed by Dean Parisot.

Bill & Ted Face the Music's plot synopsis: "The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Theodore “Ted” Logan. Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends – to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe."

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

Film News 3:28

Movie Trailer News 24:47

TV Show News 44:12

TV Trailers 1:07:42

FEATURED REVIEW

Bill & Ted Face the Music 1:20:26

Credits and contact

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Any and all feedback, compliments, topic discussions, even hate mail, can be sent directly to podcast[AT]film-book[DOT]com. Please list “FilmBookCast” in the title of your email. We would LOVE to hear from you! Thank you for listening to the show.

Listen below and leave your thoughts on this edition of FilmBookCast below in the comments section. Readers seeking more podcasts can visit our Podcast Page, our Podcast Twitter Page, our Podcast YouTube Page, and our Podcast Tumblr Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Flipboard.

FilmBookCast Ep. 120

FilmBookCast Ep. 119

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Kevin Allen discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. In FilmBookCast Ep.119, Kevin looks at movie previews including Halloween Kills starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Lost Girls and Love Hotels starring Alexandra Daddario. TV trailers include a preview of season  two of The Boys on Amazon Prime Video, as well as Away starring Hilary Swank on Netflix.

Among this week's headlines: Actress Naya Rivera is presumed dead after disappearing during a boating trip, ABC is rebooting The Wonder Years with a black family, and Batwoman has found a new actress to wear the cape and cowl.

Kevin wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep.119, he spotlights You Should Have Left, directed by David Koepp.

You Should Have Left’s plot synopsis: based on the novel by Daniel Kehlmann, “Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world in the Welsh countryside only to discover that secrets demand a reckoning and travel with them. Their marriage is shredding at the seams, frayed by her secretiveness, his jealousy, and the shadow of his past.

At first, their vacation with their six year old daughter seems like a perfect retreat, but distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s (Bacon) grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna (Seyfried) have revealed, even to each other.”

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

Film News 1:20

Movie Trailer News 4:05

TV Show News 6:37

TV Trailers 10:13

FEATURED REVIEW

You Should Have Left 12:52

Credits and contact

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FilmBookCast Ep. 119

FilmBookCast Ep. 118

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry podcast on the latest movie and television news.

Each week, Kevin Allen discusses entertainment news, including TV and film trailers. In FilmBookCast Ep.118, Kevin looks at movie previews including Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson, and Pixar's Soul starring Jamie Foxx. TV trailers include a preview of season four of Wynonna Earp on SyFy, as well as the upcoming video game adaption Cuphead from Netflix.

Among this week's headlines: A new settlement for some of the victims of convicted rapist & former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, a look back at the life of Hollywood legend Carl Reiner, and Beavis and Butthead are making another return to the small screen

Kevin wraps up every episode with a movie review. In FilmBookCast Ep.118, he spotlights The King Of Staten Island, directed by Judd Apatow.

The King of Staten Island’s plot synopsis:  "Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar (Ricky Velez), Igor (Moises Arias) and Richie (Lou Wilson) — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley).

But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray (Bill Burr) it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

The film also stars (Steve Buscemi) as Papa, a veteran firefighter who takes Scott under his wing, and Pamela Adlon as Ray’s ex-wife, Gina.”

Shownotes

MOVIE AND TV SHOW NEWS

Film News 1:20

Movie Trailer News 5:25

TV Show News 7:25

TV Trailers 10:05

FEATURED REVIEW

The King Of Staten Island 12:01

Credits and contact

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FilmBookCast Ep. 118