Silver Screen Queens

The Fast & Furious franchise gives its two biggest stars their own spin-off, and finally teams The Rock with Jason Statham (ably assisted by Idris Elba and Vanessa Kirby). The explosions are as big as the muscles as car nerdery gives way to more generic, physics-denying stunts, exotic locations and showy cameos as Universal wrings every last dollar out of their superhero franchise.

• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) - IMDb
• Tango & Cash (1989) - IMDb
• Jason Statham and The Rock 'refuse to lose fights against one another' | Film | The Guardian
• Former CIA Operative Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED - YouTube
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - IMDb

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Disney’s nostalgia goldmine continues to deliver with a live-action (CGI-action?) remake of everyone’s childhood favourite The Lion King, directed by friend of the pod Jon Favreau. How long will they keep making these? Are we part of the problem for giving them attention? Did Mel really take her two-week old to a screening? the answers are: until it becomes unprofitable, maybe, and yes.

• The Lion King (2019) - IMDb
• Jon Favreau Breaks Down The Lion King's Opening Scene | Vanity Fair - YouTube
• Can you feel the love tonight - Pentatonix - YouTube
• The Lion King (musical) - Wikipedia
• The Jungle Book (2016) - IMDb
• Squash banana (vine) - YouTube

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We missed this highly-regarded film from Korean director Park Chan-Wook (director of one of our oft-overlooked favourites, Stoker) because it missed out on an Australian release back in 2016. Based on an English novel, it tells the story of two women brought together in unusual circumstances in Japanese-ruled Korea in the 1930s. We finally caught it on Netflix in 2018.

• The Handmaiden (2016) - IMDb
• Why no Oscar nomination for ‘Handmaiden’? - SFChronicle.com
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man takes Europe, and helps Marvel audiences recover from the Endgame! We were a little late in getting this episode out, due to the small matter of the arrival of a new human.

• Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) - IMDb
• 'My Cousin Vinny' 25th Anniversary: The Scene That Won Marisa Tomei Her Oscar
• Marisa Tomei: ‘I’m a leading actress caught in a supporting actress vortex' | Film | The Guardian
• October Sky (1999) - IMDb
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• Booksmart (2019) - IMDb
• Parasite (2019) - IMDb
• (79) The Jam - Town Called Malice - YouTube
• Marvel's Spider-Man Game | PS4 - PlayStation

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This reboot of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS arrived with little fanfare, but the involvement of Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson meant we were all over it!

• The Hustle (2019) - IMDb
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - IMDb

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Fresh off winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest film from Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-Ho hits cinemas. It’s less supernatural than his other work, but no less intense. We get into it.

• Parasite (2019) - IMDb
• Snowpiercer (2013) - IMDb
• The Handmaiden (2016) - IMDb
• Roma (2018) - IMDb
• Us (2019) - IMDb
• The Host (2006) - IMDb

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A few weeks ago, while we watched the trailer for TOY STORY 4 in a busy cinema, a small child asked loudly “why are they making a Toy Story 4?”. This week, we explore that pertinent question.

• Toy Story 4 (2019) - IMDb

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After their successful team-up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth join forces in an attempt to revitalise the Men In Black franchise.

• Men in Black: International (2019) - IMDb
• What is a wonk? | Wonkhe | People
• (79) Les Twins: World Of Dance The Qualifiers 2017 [HQ] - YouTube

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It’s the X-Men movie you forgot was happening! The younger generation of mutants re-tell the story of Jean Grey’s metamorphosis into Dark Phoenix. Sophie Turner, aka Sansa Stark, is in the title role, but the franchise also features the not-insignificant talents of James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Jessica Chastain and Jennifer “I would like for my contract to be done now” Lawrence. It sure is another film in the X-men franchise!

• X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) - IMDb
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) - IMDb
• Shazam! (2019) - IMDb
• Elizabeth Sherman | Hellboy Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
• Acting Patrick Stewart GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

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Hot on the heels of the mega-hit Bohemian Rhapsody, Elton John gets the movie musical treatment from uncredited Rhapsody (co-)director Dexter Fletcher and hot Welsh double threat Taron Egerton. Unlike that film, Rocketman takes a more fantastical approach, crafting a good old fashioned musical from Elton’s wonderful back catalogue. Unusually for a biopic, it also benefits from the involvement of its subject, who is not afraid to share the less filmic aspects of his life.

• Rocketman (2019) - IMDb
• Press Gang (TV Series 1989–1993) - IMDb
• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - IMDb
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) - IMDb
• Elton John's Real-Life Costume Designers Talk
• 'Rocketman': Elton John's outrageous outfits are the shining stars
• Meet the costume designer behind the outrageous looks in 'Rocketman'
• Be More Chill (musical) - Wikipedia
• Sing (2016) - IMDb
• Elton John: 'They wanted to tone down the sex and drugs. But I haven’t led a PG-13 life' | Global | The Guardian

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