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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, talk through the craziest year for cinema yet - the rollercoaster that was 2020.

What was cinema like before March? Did Disney+ signal the beginning of a new era for distribution? How did Tenet fare? And how does the Warner Bros decision effect 2021 and the unpredictable year to come? We ask these questions and many more.

Plus! We count down our five favourite films we did manage to see from 2020.

Host / Editor:

Tony Black

Co-Host

Carl Sweeney

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, this week celebrate the release of David Fincher's chronicle of 1930s Hollywood, MANK, by discussing the cinematic auteur, in a special crossover episode with The Movie Palace Podcast.

What is auteur theory? How does it relate to Fincher and Orson Welles, who directed the key film central to Mank, CITIZEN KANE? And who else can be classified under this unique moniker?

Host / Editor:

Carl Sweeney

Co-Host

Tony Black

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, joined by special guest, author & fellow X-Cast podcaster Sarah Blair, are talking royalty with the return of prestige Netflix series THE CROWN.

They discuss the series in the context of films about royalty, such as Stephen Frears' THE QUEEN, and how The Crown is crossing the bridge between television and cinema...

Host:

Carl Sweeney

Co-Host / Editor:

Tony Black

Guest:

Sarah Blair

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, take a break from their traditional format to lament the passing of the late, great, Sir Sean Connery, who recently passed away at the age of 90.

We discuss his career at large, talking through the eras he was on screen from James Bond through to Allan Quatermain, and what made him such a powerful, immortal screen icon...

Host / Editor:

Tony Black

Co-Host:

Carl Sweeney

Tony on Sean Connery: https://culturalconversation.co.uk/2020/11/01/nobody-did-it-better-losing-sean-connery/

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, in a special crossover event with THE MOVIE PALACE podcast, focus in on Daphne du Maurier's legendary Gothic melodrama REBECCA.

We focus on Ben Wheatley's brand new adaptation, drawing comparisons and differences with Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1940 version, and discuss the new film's ins & outs. Does it do the novel justice, or Hitchcock's film? Does it track with Wheatley's previous output? And who, exactly, is this new version for?

Plus! We share our thoughts on BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM after the last episode, and discuss the intriguing possibility of NO TIME TO DIE premiering on a streaming service...

Host / Editor:

Carl Sweeney

Co-Host:

Tony Black

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, in this episode are discussing comedy on the eve of the release of BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM.

We go back to 2006 to examine BORAT, the first movie from Sacha Baron Cohen featuring his Kazakh creation, as we try and get to the nub of Cohen's fearless mirth making. What is his comedy saying? Why is he saying it? And will he be able to repeat the trick?

Plus! We catch up a little on the events in the Covid-cinema world after our previous episode...

Host:

Carl Sweeney

Co-Host / Editor

Tony Black

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, in this episode respond to the recent seismic changes in the global cinema industry, chiefly the closure of over 500 Cineworld/Regal cinemas across the UK & the US.

We discuss how the delay of 007 film No Time to Die precipitated a change which some are decrying as 'the death of cinema', the knock on effect this will or might have going forward, and what the industry might look like on the other side of Covid-19...

Host / Editor:

Carl Sweeney

Co-Host

Tony Black

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Tony on the Cineworld closure: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/10/05/new-article-there-is-only-one-bad-actor-in-cineworlds-closure-for-brwc/

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, in this episode look at the recent Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, as part of a broader discussion about social media in our lives.

The film is an expose on the practices of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Big Tech in general which has raised some eyebrows amongst audiences.

But the question we’re wondering is whether or not what the documentary espouses, about the power of algorithms on our lives and the attempts to transform humans into economic output for multi billion dollar conglomerates, is anything new. Has cinema been warning us about this ever since David Fincher’s The Social Network, a decade old as of recording, told the story of Facebook’s creation?

Do we all have blinkers on about the online world?

Host / Editor:

Tony Black

Co-Host

Carl Sweeney

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TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod

Tony on The Social Dilemma: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/09/17/the-social-dilemma-is-everyones-dilemma-whether-we-know-it-or-not/

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, are today focusing on the 'Legacyquel', the idea proposed by Matt Singer in 2015 of what to call sequels which arrive years, sometimes decades, later - such as the recently released Bill and Ted Face the Music.

They look at many films which qualify for this bracket, including Star Wars, Star Trek and Terminator sequels, and wonder quite what their prevalence means for modern mainstream cinema...

Plus! They discuss recent (as of September 2020) happenings in the Covid-era for cinema releases.

Host / Editor:

Carl Sweeney

Co-Host

Tony Black

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TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod

Matt Singer's Legacyquel piece: https://screencrush.com/the-age-of-legacyquels/

Tony on Legacyquels: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/09/23/bill-ted-the-dark-fate-of-the-legacyquel/

Tony on Bill and Ted Face the Music: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/09/03/film-review-bill-ted-face-the-music/

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Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.

Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, in a break from our scheduled programming, discuss the life and career of the late Chadwick Boseman, who passed away from colon cancer at 43 in late August.

They look at some of the films that turned him from TV player into leading man--films such as 42, Get On Up, Marshall etc...-and trace his journey to Black Panther and the role of T'Challa, King of Wakanda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how he might have made a mark on black cinema & black Hollywood for a long time to come...

Host / Editor:

Tony Black

Co-Host

Carl Sweeney

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Tony on Chadwick Boseman: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/08/31/chadwick-boseman-and-the-mourning-of-personal-icons/

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