The Vietnam War of the 1970s was the first war to show real footage of terror on television. It's the war that shocked the World, which obviously intrigued legendary director Francis Ford Copolla as he created a movie about it only a matter of years later. Apocalypse Now met mixed reviews at opening (like it does with Verity and Shaun here), but has gone on to be hailed as one of the greatest movies of all-time. Establishing tropes that war movies still incorporate today, its impact is widespread. One noteable example is this year's Oscar-contending war movies of choice 1917 - released 40 years to the year after Copolla's movie - which works on a very similar level. But which do we prefer; which is better? And perhaps more importantly: how has cinema changed and evolved over the past 40 years?

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The video from Insider on 1917: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBnvz-dEXw

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In 1966, Planet Earth got to see the first ever set of photos from deep space, proving that our home is a sphere and making humans face their purpose in the Solar System for the first time. Three years later, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. But between these two events came Stanley Kubrick and his landmark cinematic event "2001: A Space Odyssey", a picture that would change cinema - and the World - forever. At the heart of the story is HAL9000, an early pre-cursor to artificial intelligence that we know to exist today. But as the story progresses, HAL becomes more than he initially seemed to be... This theme (of AI having a consience like you or I) has been explored in much media over the years, but the best recent example has to be Alex Garland's "Ex Machina". Today, we discuss them both.

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"Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece" by Michael Benson: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1501163930?pf_rd_p=f20e70b1-67f9-48d1-8c78-ba616030b420&pf_rd_r=MZJ3S2AGZ4D4RRQDG8KH

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Christopher Nolan turned the Batman franchise into serious awards fare with his Gotham trilogy 15 years ago, even helping helping Heath Ledger win a posthumous Oscar in 2009 for his performance as The Joker. But it was Todd Phillips in 2019 who managed to turn The Joker into something even more, with the serious potential for leading another actor to an Oscar for playing the villain: this time, Joaquin Phoenix. For many - especially Verity - Joker resonated, but for some - Shaun in particular - it did not. For Shaun, his pick of the year is Marriage Story, a tender tale of love and divorce, told beautifully by Noah Baumbach. Verity enjoyed this film too, so there's a heck of a lot to discuss in the first episode of 2020. Don't forget to stay to the end to hear Shaun and Verity's picks for their other favourite films of 2019.

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It's 5am, Verity and Shaun are about to pass out they're so tired, but they've just seen a midnight screening of Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker and they're here to chat it out and break it all down with you!

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When Verity gets severe tonsilitis over the Christmas period, what's Shaun meant to do? He ropes in his buddy Rukaya, of course! With Christmas under two weeks away, it's time to compare two of Shaun's festive favourites: Richard Curtis's "Love Actually" and Debbie Issit's "Nativity!" We aren't doing our normal scoring system this week, but we're still trying to figure out which is the better offering... which one will it be?

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Emma Thompson's "Movies That Made Me" with Ali Plumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb6jXyeWL98

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When Edgar Howard Wright was 21, he wrote a treatment for a film idea that came to him while listening to "Orange", an album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. With no producer attached, he started to work on other projects, including music videos where he road tested parts of this high-speed car chase concept. His work on these videos led to him creating Shaun of the Dead with Simon Pegg, and his work on that feature got him recognised by Hollywood, who attached him to the film adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim books by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It was at this point in his career that his treatment from 1995 started to get buzz and a team attached, with Wright finally developing the story and then the screenplay. Seven years after the release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the little treatment that could was finally released as a big-budget Hollywood motion picture. It was called Baby Driver.

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The original Forbes expose of Jordan Belfort - printed under the headline "Steaks, stocks - what's the difference?" by Roula Khalaf - sounds like the kind of thing that Shaun would offer as recommended reading at the end of an episode of NPMIAO, but it made its way to director Martin Scorsese first, acting as a piece of the puzzle that ended up becoming "The Wolf of Wall Street", the premier example of the financial crime biopic sub-genre. Flash-forward six years, the latest entry in the canon - Steven Soderbergh's "The Laundromat" - offers similar shades, making it ripe for comparison.

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"What Statistics Can and Can't Tell Us About Ourselves" by Hannah Fry, from The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/what-statistics-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-ourselves

"Bordeaux wine fired into space to test ageing" by Chris Mercer, from Decanter: https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/bordeaux-wine-space-experiment-427143/

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26 years ago, Bette Midler took a break from her busy music schedule to put a spell on us in Disney's "Hocus Pocus", a family Halloween classic that'd been in development for almost a decade. The focus? The Sanderson Sisters, a group of wickedly funny witches. Decades later, Robert Eggers made his feature film debut with "The Witch" and won Sundance's Best Director prize. The focus of that film? Witches, and the conspiracies that surround them. This Hallows' Eve, we thought we'd pit the two movies against one another to see how they hold up.

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"Is This Our Final Century?" TEDTalk: https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_rees_asks_is_this_our_final_century

"Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games?" by Ferris Jabr for the NYT Mag: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/magazine/can-you-really-be-addicted-to-video-games.html

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Benj Pasek and Justin Paul found initial success off-Broadway with their musical 'Dogfight', inspired by a film of the same name that tells a twisted story of love and devotion through the eyes of an American serviceman and a waitress. By the mid-2010s, they were finding success with stage musicals like 'Dear Evan Hansen', as well as two movie musicals: 'La La Land', for which they wrote lyrics to accompany Justin Hurwitz's score, and 'The Greatest Showman', an original score composed entirely by them. Between the two films, they were nominated for the Best Original Song Academy Award three times, winning once. But are either of these films as good as they're heralded as being?

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La La Land choreography video from Vanity Fair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GocPFyyPGLQ

La La Land movie references video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI5BPRrj554

The Greatest Showman YouTube video essay that Verity saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGackPzUqxk

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At the 82nd Academy Awards, James Cameron lost the Best Director prize to his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. The film he was nominated for? 'Avatar', the juggernaut box office success that sat at the top of the highest grossing worldwide list until a matter of weeks ago when it was overtaken by 'Avengers: Endgame'. Adjusted for inflation, it's still the second-highest grossing film of all-time, but the picture that sits leaps and bounds ahead of it? 'Gone With The Wind', a four-hour romantic epic, released in 1939 and winner of the 12th Best Picture prize. Today, in our first ever episode, we pit the two iconic movies head-to-head.

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LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Featurette video for Sam Mendes' '1917': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4t3f6LmDA&t=0s

The Tab British crisps quiz: https://thetab.com/uk/2018/05/01/can-you-guess-the-iconic-british-crisp-just-by-looking-at-its-shape-65004

"How Ryan Murphy Built a $300 Million Netflix Empire" by Sam Lansky for TIME: https://time.com/5667752/ryan-murphy-netflix/

"How Ryan Murphy Became The Most Powerful Man In TV" by Emily Nussbaum for The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/how-ryan-murphy-became-the-most-powerful-man-in-tv

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