“I’m not a big fan of Christmas”: Hawkeye, Succession, VAL, House of Gucci, West Side Story

We're back with a bumper-sized catch up episode, filled with so much TV and film it's like Christmas Day has come early (but not for Elaine). 

For TV, we've been watching the latest MCU Disney+ TV Show, the Christmas-themed Hawkeye (4:49). We’re also still agog at the ending of Season 3 of Succession (15:14) – we indulge in a quick spoiler-free chat about the season as a whole.

For movies, Elaine has seen the much-awaited Kilmer documentary VAL (26:30), and Mark has seen Ridley Scott's 473rd film this year, House of Gucci (40:00).  Finally we dig DEEP into Stephen Spielberg’s first attempt at a musical with a remake of West Side Story (46:50).  As a word of warning, we talk about all the major plot points for West Side Story, but then the original film IS fifty years old, based on a show that's sixty years old, and on a play that's 400+ years old…

The podcast Mark mentions about West Side Story's box office is available here:

https://www.slashfilm.com/705956/daily-podcast-why-did-steven-spielbergs-west-side-story-underperform-at-the-box-office/

You can listen to The Movie Robcast’s Christmas Spectacular here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-134-its-the-supersized-bumper-movie-robcast/id1097546968?i=1000544669572

Enjoy!

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