The Prestige

This week, we go back nearly 20 years (ugh), with GOOD WILL HUNTING: teacher-slash-mentor movies, film-making parallels, and what happens when the colour palette of a film really works.

This week, we turn our attention to the Hughes brothers’ 2010 film THE BOOK OF ELI. After a fairly detailed take on the plot, we step back to look at religious pilgrimage, opera, and sunglasses.

This week we take a look at a recent release, offering you our (complimentary? you decide) thoughts on Zack Snyder’s big 2016 blockbuster BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE.

This week, it’s another Mark Ruffalo film…and, indeed, another David Fincher vehicle…wait: are we getting too predictable?? ZODIAC (2007): movie references, digital filming, and Western-culture-related whimsy.

This week, Rob and Sam talk about the Wes Craven 1996 classic SCREAM: postmodernism, horror movie tropes, and occasions when Hollywood really got it wrong.

Sam redeems himself with this week’s choice: Bennett Miller’s 2014 film FOXCATCHER. After contrasting reviews, we delve into American history, choreography, and different kinds of nostalgia.

Rob brings some sanity to our film choices this week with the excellent BRICK — we talk about film noir, post-war Americana, and why writers create new languages.

This week, Sam and Rob get whimsical. Musings on the human need to preserve nature, to thoughts on what makes a space film ‘iconic’, to considerations of 9/11 film-making: we’ve got it all.

Join Rob and Sam for a discussion of the critically lauded WHIPLASH: abusive relationships, the creation of genius, the adaptation of music history, and film-editing facts galore (yes, that is two lots of trivia: we’re spoiling you, this week).