A Twin Peaks rewatch podcast, hosted by superfan Mike Muncer and newbie Stacie Ponder! Part of The Evolution of Horror Network.
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Twin Peaks The Return A Season Podcasts
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.
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A podcast about Twin Peaks, with Andy Hazel and some extremely special guests.
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Exploring the darkest corners of cinema, music, and subculture. Find us @nightshadecult on all social media platforms.
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A guide to Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu as they compete in the ongoing streaming wars and what it means for the stuff you actually watch.
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Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi talk to Tom Sutcliffe about directing Pixar's latest film Elio, about a lonely boy who wants to make contact with aliens. The film is then reviewed by film producer and critic Jason Solomons and art critic and writer Hettie Judah. Tom and guests also discuss a major retrospective of the work of painter Jenny Saville…
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Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live
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42:54On the opening night of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie performs from his forthcoming album The Shieling live in the Front Row studio. Writer and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen talks about his debut novel Muckle Flugga – a story of love and family set on a remote Scottish island – and reads from the p…
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The creators of RuPaul's Drag Race, plus pianist Alfred Brendel remembered
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43:09RuPaul's Drag Race creators Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato join Nick Ahad to talk about their career making making television and movies, ahead of being guests of honour at this year's Sheffield DocFest. Radio 3 presenter Tom Service discusses the life and legacy of Alfred Brendel who was a celebrated author, poet and pianist. Caroline Norbury, th…
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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later
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42:24Danny Boyle and Alex Garland tell Tom Sutcliffe about their new film, 28 Years Later; a whole new take on the story which stars Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. It's the follow up to their post-apocalyptic fast-paced, gory zombie movies 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. The Rage virus escaped a medical research laboratory and - …
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The end is near! This week Stacie and Mike discuss time travel, dreams and boss battles with Bob Blobs in the climactic Part 17 of Twin Peaks the Return! Hosted by Mike Muncer & Stacie Ponder Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer Part of the Evolution of Horror Network Email us! [email protected] Check out Stacie's website, finalgirl.rocks! Follo…
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44. 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002) True KVLT Cinema
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2:08:05Cultists, in 2002 director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland dropped 28 Days Later and inadvertently ignited a new Zombie craze that's arguably still ongoing. This month they're returning to that world they created so your Horror Hosts are going back to where the Rage Virus Infection first began. Please join us for the Dissection. Dissection Topi…
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The song. The hat. The…casual date rape?!!? In what should have been Amy Heckerling’s “blank check” after the success of Clueless, 2000’s Loser is a real LOSER. Filmmaker Chandler Levack joins us to chat about this technically-not-a-remake-of-The-Apartment “comedy” that gets college surprisingly wrong. Come for the Wheatus talk, stay for the in-dep…
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Professor John Mullan and writer Lucy O’Brien join Tom to review More, Pulp's first album in nearly 24 years. They also discuss exhibitions by the 20th century British artists Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun which are running in parallel at Tate Britain. Plus they give their verdict on Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, inspired by actual experiences o…
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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered.
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42:17Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered Turner Prize winning artist Rachel Whiteread talks about her retrospective exhibition at the brand new Goodwood Art Foundation in Sussex. We celebrate the centenary of the National Library of Scotland and hear about its plans to send important items from its collection to museums around the country - from N…
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Sarah Moss, the celebrated author of Ghost Wall, discusses her new novel Ripeness, which oscillates between tension-filled contemporary Ireland and a heady summer in 1960s Italy. Dylan Jones discusses his new book 1975: The Year The World Forgot and debates whether this was the best year for music with chief music critic of the Daily Telegraph, Nei…
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Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth
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42:24Ian Rankin pays tribute to the best-selling thriller author Frederick Forsyth, whose death was announced today. Samira talks to Twin Peaks' co-creator Mark Frost and podcaster Mike Munser about the show's enduring legacy 35 years on, as Twin Peaks is re-released and celebrated at the BFI Film on Film Festival. Playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti talks …
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It's the big one! This week, Stacie and Mike discuss Cooper waking up, Audrey waking up and Diane waking up in Part 16 of The Return... This episode is brought to you by MUBI! Starting June 13, watch TWIN PEAKS on MUBI. For a limited time, listeners can get a whole month free to watch TWIN PEAKS and so much more on MUBI. Redeem your special offer n…
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Okay, so you’re probably going, “Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?” But seriously, this is actually a way normal podcast about one of David Sims’ favorite movies! SNL’s Heidi Gardner (a total betty) joins us to talk about Amy Heckerling’s beloved Jane Austen adaptation, and we’re rolling with the homies. Join us for Alicia Silverstone and …
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Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl
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42:28Tom and guests review What it Feels Like for Girl, the BBC's coming-of-age drama based on the memoir of Paris Lees; Taylor Jenkins Reid's new novel, Atmosphere, set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program and new film, Lollipop, about a young woman released from prison battling to regain custody of her children, written and directed…
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Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser
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42:30Daisy Goodwin discusses her debut play, By Royal Appointment, which stars Anne Reid as Queen Elizabeth and Caroline Quentin as her dresser, and which opens this week at Theatre Royal, Bath. The life and legacy of Irish novelist playwright and poet Edna O'Brien is discussed by writer Jan Carson and the director of the documentary Blue Road: The Edna…
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Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation
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42:20Comedian Nick Mohammed on his stand-up show Mr Swallow, and Deep Cover, his action thriller about a group of comedy improvisers. Kate Wasserberg, Artistic Director of Theatr Clywd on the theatre's £50 million redevelopment, and opening the new auditorium with a production of the musical Tick Tick... Boom! Ulrich Birkmaier, senior conservator of pai…
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Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof with its star Adam Dannheisser and director Jordan Fein. Sarah Dunant talks about the women in the Renaissance who became art patrons, as she publishes her novel The Marchesa, about Isabella d'Este of Mantua. Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, whose films include Far From the …
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This week Stacie and MIke bid an emotional farewell to the Log Lady and try and figure out who on Earth JUDY is in Part 15 of The Return! Hosted by Mike Muncer & Stacie Ponder Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer Part of the Evolution of Horror Network Email us! [email protected] Check out Stacie's website, finalgirl.rocks! Follow Stacie on INST…
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43. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) The Gen X Moby Dick
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1:30:16Cultists, we hope you didn't think it'd be safe to go back in the water this summer. Because this year is the 50th anniversary of Jaws. This episode, we’re putting the film that catapulted the career of Steven Spielberg and changed everything about how movies are marketed and released on the Exam Table. Please join us for the Dissection of the orig…
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
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2:58:39Griffin, David, Ben, and Marie accepted the mission. They live and pod in the shadows, for those they hold close, and for those they never meet. They also have a few notes for Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie with regards to Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Join the crew as they break down all the problems of this latest (and final???) inst…
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Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession
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42:25Samira Ahmed and writers Dreda Mitchell and Mark Ravenhill review Imelda Staunton and her daughter, Bessie Carter, in Mrs Warren's Profession. They consider, too, theatre director Marianne Elliott's first foray into film, The Salt Path, based on a Raynor Winn's bestselling memoir of how she and her husband, after they have lost their house and farm…
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Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.
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42:13Paul Hartnoll of electronic music duo Orbital talks about the reissue of the band's Brown album which was originally released in 1993, with the addition of 23 extra tracks of rarities and previously unreleased material and about the intersection between dance music and politics. Frances Wilson, who has previously published acclaimed biographies of …
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Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career, from Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey. Laura Bates and Gwyneth Lewis discuss Arthurian Legends and The Mabinogion. Hisham Matar champions the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. And transatlantic husband and wife country duo Outpost Drive perform on stage. Presente…
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Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio
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42:23Stereophonic is a play about the creative process, power dynamics and fraught personal relationships of a 1970s rock band. It won a Tony and many other awards on Broadway. Now Stereophonic has come to the West End. Playwright David Adjmi and Will Butler, sometime of Arcade Fire, who has written the music, discuss their own artistic process as they …
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This week things get COSMIC as Stacie and Mike discuss Andy's trip to see The Fireman, Gordon Cole's Monica Belluci dream and whatever the hell is going on with Sarah Palmer in Part 14 of The Return! Hosted by Mike Muncer & Stacie Ponder Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer Part of the Evolution of Horror Network Email us! [email protected] Chec…
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Look Who's Talking Too with Max Minghella
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2:34:02The Ubriacco family are back and - can you believe it? - they’re still talking! Actor and filmmaker Max Minghella joins us to talk about Look Who’s Talking Too, the contractually-obligated, quickly produced sequel to Amy Heckerling’s surprise hit. We’re talking about Mr. Toilet Man (he eats your pee pee and poo poo), Elias Koteas’ Mr. Scary Uncle M…
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Benicio Del Toro talks about playing a business tycoon in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. This aesthetically stylised film, by the director who also made The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, is reviewed by Tom and critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Rachel Cooke. They also give their verdict on Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckon…
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Frontwoman of Garbage, Shirley Manson talks about the band's latest album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, which is inspired by contemporary events including the killing of George Floyd in Los Angeles, but which presents an optimistic perspective on a dystopian world. We hear from the winner of the International Booker Prize, which was announc…
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Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé
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42:26Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé. As a huge retrospective of the work of the artist Helen Chadwick opens at The Hepworth Wakefield, art critic Louisa Buck and the exhibition's curator, Laura Smith, discuss why Chadwick should be viewed as the godmother for a golden generation of British c…
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25 years after Joanne Harris introduced readers to the soothing delights of Chocolat, she's released her new book Vianne. It’s the prequel that explains how her heroine found her way into the world of high end French confectionery. A new exhibition at the British Museum sheds light on the provenance of popular images of the Hindu god Ganesha, the B…
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This week Stacie and Mike discuss the long awaited return of Ed Hurley and the live musical performance of the season (!) in part 13 of Twin Peaks The Return... Hosted by Mike Muncer & Stacie Ponder Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer Part of the Evolution of Horror Network Email us! [email protected] Check out Stacie's website, finalgirl.rocks…
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Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis
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2:25:34In perhaps the spermiest film we’ve ever covered, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley hang out with a baby voiced by Bruce Willis and Amy Heckerling gets revenge on Harold Ramis. As David Sims says early in this episode - Look Who’s Talking is a VERY RICH text. Vanity Fair’s Hillary Busis joins us to talk about this 1989 “forgotbuster,” a film that mad…
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Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director
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42:31David Benedict and Viv Groskop review Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, a surreal story of brunch and existential dread; French film about about grassroots music, The Marching Band and Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel, The Director, about a real life German filmmaker navigating the Third Reich. Presenter: Tom SutcliffeProducer: Simon Richar…
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42. Friday the 13th (Cunningham, 1980) Halloween+Meatballs=$$$
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1:29:01Cultists, what do you think of when someone mentions Friday the 13th? A hulking hockey masked machete wielding ghoul stalking teens around a summer camp? Well, in Sean S Cunningham’s original 1980 Summer Camp Slasher, very little of that iconography was in place yet. So for it's 45th anniversary your Horror Hosts are putting the original Friday The…
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Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera
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42:43Colin Bulfield, Executive Producer of the new film Ocean With Attenborough, talks about working with the celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough on his latest project, an exploration of the vital importance of healthy oceans to our planet which is in cinemas around the country now. Current exhibitions at V&A Dundee and the Briti…
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Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary
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42:22Novelist Elif Shafak, artist and writer Edmund de Waal and Professor Rachel Bowlby join Samira to discuss the centenary of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. As the Semi Finals of Eurovision start tonight in Basel, Switzerland, Paddy O'Connell talks about this year's contest. Four hundred leading British Artists such as Paul McCartney and Kate Bush hav…
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Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham
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42:22Suzanne Vega has just released her first album of all-new material for nearly a decade. "Flying With Angels" continues her folk-influenced sound and introduces influences of soul as well as a song in tribute to Bob Dylan's "I Want You". She performs in the studio with guitarist Gerry Leonard. Sean Combs aka P Diddy is on trial in New York, charged …
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This week it's the long awaited return of Audrey Horne and Sarah Palmer's having a very bad day...as Stacie and Mike discuss Part 12 of Twin Peaks The Return! Hosted by Mike Muncer & Stacie Ponder Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer Part of the Evolution of Horror Network Email us! [email protected] Check out Stacie's website, finalgirl.rocks! …
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National Lampoon's European Vacation with Jon Gabrus
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2:46:30Congratulations! You’ve won an all-expenses-paid vacation with Griffin, David, Ben, and Jon Gabrus to Europe! Only downside is…well, you have to watch this movie. From the strange cultural stereotypes to the unfortunate lack of jokes, Amy Heckerling’s sequel to National Lampoon’s Vacation isn’t the smoothest trip. But, it certainly gives us an excu…
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Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air
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42:34Authors Matt Cain and Eimear McBride join Tom Sutcliffe to review a new remake of Ang Lee's 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet. They also discuss Isabel Allende's new novel My Name is Emilia del Valle and the play The Brightening Air, on at the Old Vic theatre in London. And the National Gallery is having a re-hang, we speak to Head of the Curatorial…
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Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli
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42:26Acclaimed German journalist and film producer Sandra Maischberger talks about her new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, which re-examines the life and career of the filmmaker and Nazi propagandist who was one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Art historian and curator Sandy Nairne, a member of the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Commi…
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Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis
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42:23In the wake of President Trump's proposed film tariffs, Jake Kanter, International Investigations Editor at Deadline, discusses what the impact could be for the British film industry. Last week Moorcroft became the latest heritage ceramic company to close its doors in Stoke-On-Trent. Emma Bridgewater, founder of the eponymous ceramics company, and …
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To mark the 80th anniversary this week, we explore British culture around VE Day in 1945, reflecting on the music, books, films and theatre that defined the moment and the complex emotional landscape that followed the war’s end. Songwriter and pianist Kate Garner joins us at the piano. Guests: Michael Billington, theatre critic; Ian Christie, film …
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"...He's dead!" This week Stacie and Mike discuss one of the most fun and action-packed episodes of The Return so far... Hosted by Mike Muncer & Stacie Ponder Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer Part of the Evolution of Horror Network Email us! [email protected] Check out Stacie's website, finalgirl.rocks! Follow Stacie on INSTAGRAM For more of…
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Johnny Dangerously with Josh Gondelman
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2:29:32He’s the nicest bad guy in town. His last name is an adverb. And he’s got some pretty wacky bits! Sweetie pie comedian Josh Gondelman joins us to talk about 1984’s Johnny Dangerously, Amy Heckerling’s loving homage to 1930’s gangster pictures. Things we attempt to understand in this episode: the cultural legacy of Joe Piscopo; the actual joke that’…
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Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US
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42:23US director Ryan Coogler on his supernatural horror film, Sinners. Anne Sebba discusses her new book, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, about the orchestra formed in 1943 among the female prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. And as a new report looking at so-called book banning in the United States is published, we talked to au…
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Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical
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41:51Critic Kate Maltby and Beatles author Ian Leslie join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss two documentaries about John Lennon remaking his life in New York - Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade and One to One: John & Yoko. They also discuss Tina Fey’s new series The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 film of the same name, which explores the relationships of thr…
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King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower
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41:59Jeff Pope on his new series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man who was killed by police on a London tube in 2005, which launches tonight on Disney+. James VI of Scotland & I of England is the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. We’re joined by the historical writers Lucy Hu…
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41. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) Zero Star Yelp Review
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1:38:19Cultists, your Horror Hosts are finally putting an Alfred Hitchcock film on the Exam Table: his Proto-Slasher Psycho. The boundary-pushing film is celebrating its 65th anniversary, and it continues to be influential to this day. Please join us for the Dissection. Dissection Topic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=ext_shr https://www.netfli…
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Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir
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41:53In 1975, at the height of their fame, British band Slade made a feature film, Slade in Flame. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but has built up a cult following over the years. Now it's being re-released in cinemas and on DVD. Frontman Noddy Holder and film director Richard Loncraine spoke to Samira Ahmed in studio. With …
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