Don't let the trailers fool you, Companion is no light-hearted skip through the woods, it's a twisted take on toxic masculinity from writer and director Drew Hancock that pokes fun at romantic comedies while adding a fresh addition to the concept of AI gone rogue. The Palm Springs International Film Festival ‘Director to Watch’ joins Popcorn Podcast to discuss his sci-fi tweaked horror, starring Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Harvey Guillén, Megan Suri and Lukas Gage. In our chat, Hancock talks meet cutes, bad boyfriends and the relatable fear of facing your new lover’s judgy friends.

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Maria, Maria, let's review a film called Maria... Angelina Jolie embodies the OG diva, legendary opera singer Maria Callas, in Pablo Larraín's third instalment of his unofficial 'Iconic Women of the 20th Century' trilogy. We're talking Paris glow-ups, piano punishments and operatic tragedies in an unmissable episode of Popcorn Podcast.

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"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." We welcome Boyd Holbrook – who portrays Johnny Cash in Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown – to Popcorn Podcast. From writer and director James Mangold (Walk The Line), A Complete Unknown also stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, and tells the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history, Bob Dylan. Within that story is the surprising relationship between Cash and Dylan. Holbrook shares the important aspect he brought to his performance as Cash and what he discovered about the troubled musician through letters Cash wrote to Dylan, as well as why Holbrook calls Chalamet a "trained killer”.

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It's time for another season of Popcorn Podcast, and what better way to kick off number 14 with a review of romantic drama We Live In Time. We're talking undeniable chemistry between Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield (and that darn horse!) as well as sweet beginnings, bittersweet endings and the always ticking clock. Is a series of snapshots enough to do this rom-com-adjacent film justice?

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Move over, Leigh, there's another Leigh in town: original 'Movie Guy' and master of horror Leigh Whannell. The co-creator of the SAW phenomenon stops by Popcorn Podcast to discuss his new film, Wolf Man, starring Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner and Matilda Firth. In a wide-ranging chat, Whannell talks side-stepping lazy rules of horror, re-shaping genre filmmaking, the pitfalls of test screenings and the shelf-life of underappreciated classics. What does a wolf man see? – a horror renaissance!

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Revisit Popcorn Podcast's delicious review of dark comedy The Menu. The multi-course movie stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult as guests who travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive isolated restaurant where the reclusive, celebrated Chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish tasting menu with a few surprise twists. Listen as Leigh and Tim savour the secrets and shocks of The Menu in an unmissable episode.

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Revisit Popcorn Podcast's My Old Ass review, featuring bad boating, charming Chad, baby Maisy Stella, Nelly Furtado feels and queen Aubrey Plaza. Laugh and cry along with Leigh and Tim as they discuss Megan Park's sophomore feature film, My Old Ass (or is it arse?).

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Revisit Popcorn Podcast's return to the world of Pandora with Avatar: The Way of Water. As the long-awaited sequel to the highest grossing film of all-time, James Cameron's The Way Of Water has a lot to live up to, promising a visual and technical spectacle to blow the original out of the water. Does the acclaimed filmmaker deliver a record-breaking follow-up in its more than three-hour runtime? Dive into this bite-sized no-spoiler episode with Leigh and Tim to discover if The Way Of Water meets the hype.

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Leigh and Tim contemplate life and death discussing Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, The Room Next Door. Starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Torturro, it follows two old friends who, after years of being out of touch, meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. From Swinton and Moore's range as artists to the complex and profound dialogue, we explore the big thmes in Pedro's first English language feature and help you decide if it's worth a trip to the cinemas this Christmas.

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Join us for a review of Better Man, the surprising hit of 2024 about superstar Robbie Williams. You may think you know his story, but you've never seen the Angels singer and songwriter quite like this – as a monkey. Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) brings us a musical extravaganza set to Williams' most iconic tunes, and Popcorn Podcast comes undone as we break down what you need to know about this rollercoaster of a movie. Let us entertain you!

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