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kernels

By Christopher HootonTV & FilmArts
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  • #23: The Last Jedi backlash - what the hell's happening?

    You know the drill. Critics publish scathing or just lukewarm reviews of blockbuster franchise films, fans go in droves to see them at cinemas anyway and end up fighting their corner. Not so with 'The Last Jedi', with reviewers loving the latest Star Wars movie but many fans loathing it, some even going so far as to sign a petition trying to get it struck it from the Star Wars canon.


    FIlm reporters Jack Shepherd and Jacob Stolworthy join Culture Editor Christopher Hooton to try and work out what happened, whether the criticisms are fair, and what this polarised feeling means for the future of the franchise.

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    32 min
  • #22: Charlie Brooker
    The Black Mirror creator discusses his sudden rise from columnist to award-winning screenwriter, how he owes everything he knows to Ross Kemp series Ultimate Force, and how nice it is not to have to tweet so much anymore.

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    24 min
  • #21: James and Dave Franco on The Disaster Artist
    The Disaster Artist, a Warner Bros film about a relatively obscure indie drama gone wrong had no right to work. And yet director James Franco has created not only a hilarious movie about how The Room was made and the auteur behind it, Tommy Wiseau, but a human one. Chris talks to James and his brother Dave (also the stars of the movie) about his own experience with Tommy, the "secret tapes" James got hold of to inform his performance, Seth Rogen struggling to keep his shit together on set, how one of the screenwriters turned in a script draft before he'd even seen The Room, and the complexity of shooting a film within a film.

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    19 min
  • #20: Mindhunter director Asif Kapadia on Ed Kemper and learning David Fincher's style
    Netflix's new original series Mindhunter has enrapt a legion of viewers with its smart, reserved style. Chris Hooton sits down with episodes 3 and 4 director Asif Kapadia to look at how it came together, how Brad Pitt's DVD of Senna led to his signing, directing an actor as serial killer Ed Kemper, learning from David Fincher on set, and how a season of TV's episodes are carved up for different directors.

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    34 min
  • #19: Willem Dafoe
    "I'm not supposed to be in this movie." A character actor with an extraordinary filmography, Willem Dafoe sits down to discuss why he's taken such a left turn so late in his career with new indie The Florida Project, which mostly stars non-actors.

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    39 min
  • #18: The mad brilliance of Blade Runner 2049 and the rise of Denis Villeneuve
    Blade Runner 2049 is an audacious proposition: a $185 million film that doesn't patronise the audience or feel made by consortium. The Independent's Christopher Hooton, Jacob Stolworthy and Jack Shepherd discuss the film's controlled insanity and submit that director Denis Villeneuve is going to be a household name in the same way Christopher Nolan is.

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    31 min
  • #17: Ethan Hawke
    An actor you'll never see in a cape, Ethan Hawke is more interested in humanist roles. He chats to Kernels' Jacob Stolworthy about the movies of his that people want to talk to him about, his special relationship with director Richard Linklater, how he earned his screenwriting credit in the Before trilogy and the future for protagonists Jesse and Céline.

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    26 min
  • #16: Steven Soderbergh
    The incredibly versatile and efficient director (Ocean's trilogy, Logan Lucky and more) talks to host Christopher Hooton about coming out of retirement, fucking with the studio system and the value of pseudonyms, before getting grilled on what he's been watching in 2017.

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    31 min
  • #15: Adam Driver
    In spite of Star Wars swallowing up most of his time, Adam Driver has still managed to fire out some great indies the past couple of years. He talks to Christopher Hooton about Paterson, While We're Young, his next Steven Soderbergh movie, Logan Lucky, his process and the importance of making a good meatloaf.

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    27 min
  • #14: David Lowery
    After completing Disney animation 'Pete's Dragon', director David Lowery took a real left turn, heading to Texas with friends Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck and making weird, avant garde, self-funded indie film 'A Ghost Story' in secret. Chris Hooton talks to him about this bold move, Casey acting under a bed sheet for most of the movie, finding motivation in the face of the futility of existence, and how great pie is.

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    28 min

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