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A podcast all about cinema from Tony Black (of The X-Cast) and Carl Sweeney (of The Movie Palace).
Motion Pictures is a relaxed, informal show all about film in which Tony & Carl talk about movies, new and old, and try to find a unique topic to discuss around a new release, while also throwing in special episodes along the way.
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- 22 - 22. The Cinematic Story of 2020
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, talk through the craziest year for cinema yet - the rollercoaster that was 2020.
What was cinema like before March? Did Disney+ signal the beginning of a new era for distribution? How did Tenet fare? And how does the Warner Bros decision effect 2021 and the unpredictable year to come? We ask these questions and many more.
Plus! We count down our five favourite films we did manage to see from 2020.
Host / Editor:
Tony Black
Co-Host
Carl Sweeney
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comSun, 20 Dec 2020 - 21 - 21. Fincher, Welles & the Auteur (Mank)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, this week celebrate the release of David Fincher's chronicle of 1930s Hollywood, MANK, by discussing the cinematic auteur, in a special crossover episode with The Movie Palace Podcast.
What is auteur theory? How does it relate to Fincher and Orson Welles, who directed the key film central to Mank, CITIZEN KANE? And who else can be classified under this unique moniker?
Host / Editor:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comSun, 13 Dec 2020 - 20 - 20. Cinematic Royalty (The Queen & The Crown)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, joined by special guest, author & fellow X-Cast podcaster Sarah Blair, are talking royalty with the return of prestige Netflix series THE CROWN.
They discuss the series in the context of films about royalty, such as Stephen Frears' THE QUEEN, and how The Crown is crossing the bridge between television and cinema...
Host:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host / Editor:
Tony Black
Guest:
Sarah Blair
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comFri, 27 Nov 2020 - 19 - 19. A Tribute to Sir Sean Connery
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, take a break from their traditional format to lament the passing of the late, great, Sir Sean Connery, who recently passed away at the age of 90.
We discuss his career at large, talking through the eras he was on screen from James Bond through to Allan Quatermain, and what made him such a powerful, immortal screen icon...
Host / Editor:
Tony Black
Co-Host:
Carl Sweeney
Tony on Sean Connery: https://culturalconversation.co.uk/2020/11/01/nobody-did-it-better-losing-sean-connery/
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comMon, 09 Nov 2020 - 18 - 18. Hitchcock & Wheatley (Rebecca)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, in a special crossover event with THE MOVIE PALACE podcast, focus in on Daphne du Maurier's legendary Gothic melodrama REBECCA.
We focus on Ben Wheatley's brand new adaptation, drawing comparisons and differences with Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1940 version, and discuss the new film's ins & outs. Does it do the novel justice, or Hitchcock's film? Does it track with Wheatley's previous output? And who, exactly, is this new version for?
Plus! We share our thoughts on BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM after the last episode, and discuss the intriguing possibility of NO TIME TO DIE premiering on a streaming service...
Host / Editor:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host:
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comMon, 02 Nov 2020 - 17 - 17. The Reality of Comedy (Borat)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, in this episode are discussing comedy on the eve of the release of BORAT: SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM.
We go back to 2006 to examine BORAT, the first movie from Sacha Baron Cohen featuring his Kazakh creation, as we try and get to the nub of Cohen's fearless mirth making. What is his comedy saying? Why is he saying it? And will he be able to repeat the trick?
Plus! We catch up a little on the events in the Covid-cinema world after our previous episode...
Host:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host / Editor
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comFri, 23 Oct 2020 - 16 - 16. Cineworld and the 'Death' of Cinema (The State of the Cinematic Nation III)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, in this episode respond to the recent seismic changes in the global cinema industry, chiefly the closure of over 500 Cineworld/Regal cinemas across the UK & the US.
We discuss how the delay of 007 film No Time to Die precipitated a change which some are decrying as 'the death of cinema', the knock on effect this will or might have going forward, and what the industry might look like on the other side of Covid-19...
Host / Editor:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on the Cineworld closure: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/10/05/new-article-there-is-only-one-bad-actor-in-cineworlds-closure-for-brwc/
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comSun, 11 Oct 2020 - 15 - 15. Social Media & the Discourse (The Social Dilemma)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, in this episode look at the recent Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, as part of a broader discussion about social media in our lives.
The film is an expose on the practices of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Big Tech in general which has raised some eyebrows amongst audiences.
But the question we’re wondering is whether or not what the documentary espouses, about the power of algorithms on our lives and the attempts to transform humans into economic output for multi billion dollar conglomerates, is anything new. Has cinema been warning us about this ever since David Fincher’s The Social Network, a decade old as of recording, told the story of Facebook’s creation?
Do we all have blinkers on about the online world?
Host / Editor:
Tony Black
Co-Host
Carl Sweeney
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on The Social Dilemma: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/09/17/the-social-dilemma-is-everyones-dilemma-whether-we-know-it-or-not/
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comSun, 04 Oct 2020 - 14 - 14. Legacyquels (Bill and Ted Face the Music)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, are today focusing on the 'Legacyquel', the idea proposed by Matt Singer in 2015 of what to call sequels which arrive years, sometimes decades, later - such as the recently released Bill and Ted Face the Music.
They look at many films which qualify for this bracket, including Star Wars, Star Trek and Terminator sequels, and wonder quite what their prevalence means for modern mainstream cinema...
Plus! They discuss recent (as of September 2020) happenings in the Covid-era for cinema releases.
Host / Editor:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Film Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/motionpicturesfilmclub
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Matt Singer's Legacyquel piece: https://screencrush.com/the-age-of-legacyquels/
Tony on Legacyquels: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/09/23/bill-ted-the-dark-fate-of-the-legacyquel/
Tony on Bill and Ted Face the Music: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/09/03/film-review-bill-ted-face-the-music/
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comSun, 27 Sep 2020 - 13 - 13. A Tribute to Chadwick Boseman
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, in a break from our scheduled programming, discuss the life and career of the late Chadwick Boseman, who passed away from colon cancer at 43 in late August.
They look at some of the films that turned him from TV player into leading man--films such as 42, Get On Up, Marshall etc...-and trace his journey to Black Panther and the role of T'Challa, King of Wakanda in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how he might have made a mark on black cinema & black Hollywood for a long time to come...
Host / Editor:
Tony Black
Co-Host
Carl Sweeney
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on Chadwick Boseman: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/08/31/chadwick-boseman-and-the-mourning-of-personal-icons/
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comFri, 11 Sep 2020 - 12 - 12. James Bond & Spectre - Five Years On
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, as they prepare for the return of 007 himself, James Bond, in the upcoming NO TIME TO DIE, this week choose to return to his last outing, 2015's SPECTRE.
Following the enormous critical and box office success of SKYFALL in 2012, Spectre was maligned by some critics (and loved by others) and received a mixed response from fans which has persisted over the last half a decade.
We look at why this might be, deconstructing particular criticisms about Spectre - from retconned narrative to poor character work - and analyse whether the film deserves reap-recitation with some distance, and quite how the film should now be contextualised within the Bond canon.
Host / Editor:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on Spectre: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/08/28/spectre-suggests-james-bonds-team-ethic-future/
Peter Suderman deconstructs the issues: https://www.vox.com/2015/11/6/9678580/spectre-james-bond-review
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comFri, 04 Sep 2020 - 11 - 11. The Evolution of Christopher Nolan (Insomnia)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, on the eve of Christopher Nolan's TENET arriving in cinemas, discuss one of the lesser remembered films in his canon - 2002's INSOMNIA.
Starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams as a troubled cop and serial killer respectively, Nolan's second feature is an interesting film - it has aspects of his technique and style but remains definitively unique as the only studio film he didn't create from the ground up.
Where does it sit in the Nolan canon? Is it an important film in the development of one of cinema's most divisive auteurs? And how did Nolan evolve beyond Insomnia over the two decades to the point Tenet is upon us?
Host / Editor:
Tony Black
Co-Host
Carl Sweeney
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on Christopher Nolan: https://ajblackwriter.com/2020/08/18/christopher-nolan-has-his-own-pledge-turn-and-prestige/
Matt Singer on the Nolan ranking: https://screencrush.com/every-christopher-nolan-movie-ranked-from-worst-to-best/
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comWed, 26 Aug 2020 - 10 - 10. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - One Year On
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your regular hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, are back to discuss one of the biggest critical success stories of 2019 - ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.
A year on from the release of Quentin Tarantino's laconic epic, portraying the sunset of the 1960's through the life and times of fictional and non-fictional Hollywood residents, we re-examine the place of Tarantino's much-loved hit.
How does it fare after a year of huge social and cultural change following the Covid-19 pandemic? Are the various controversies in the film, covering racism and sexism amongst others, still valid? And does the film capture the sense of change in 2019 in the manner it portrays such change in 1969?
Host / Editor:
Carl Sweeney
Co-Host
Tony Black
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: https://ajblackwriter.com/2019/08/16/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-tarantinos-goodbye-to-all-that/
Emily van der Werff on the film's controversies: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/15/20759084/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-controversy-bruce-lee-sharon-tate-women-explained-tarantino
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
wemadethispod.comFri, 14 Aug 2020 - 9 - 9. Mulan, Masks & Distribution (The State of the Cinematic Nation II)
Welcome back to the MOTION PICTURES podcast...
Your hosts, Tony Black and Carl Sweeney, return for a shorter addendum episode following their previous examination of the state of cinema in 2020.
They look at the recent AMC/Universal window that has shortened distribution windows, look at the effect of legally wearing a mask in the cinema in the UK, and discuss the recent news about Mulan being released in September on Disney+ for an additional fee.
EDITOR'S NOTE: since recording this episode, Cineworld have since released information stating that patrons will need to wear masks on the premises, but can remove them to eat food and drink.
Host / Editor
Tony Black
Co-Host
Carl Sweeney
00:00-3:16 - Intro
3:17-14:51 - The Universal/AMC Distribution Deal
14:52-19:29 - Compulsory Masks and Will You Wear One?
19:30-38:54 - Mulan, Disney+ & Will You Pay For It?
38:55 - Outro
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FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
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Title music 'Car Songs' (c) Epocha via Epidemic SoundSat, 08 Aug 2020 - 8 - 8. 20/20 Vision (The State of the Cinematic Nation)
Welcome back to the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your hosts, Tony Black and Carl Sweeney, return after a sizeable hiatus to discuss 2020 so far, and how the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted and changed the cinematic landscape.
How has this affected cinema, beyond the obvious closures? What changes do we imagine might stick thanks to Covid? And what do we expect the landscape to look like as we enter this decade?
EDITOR'S NOTE: since recording this episode, AMC & Universal struck a deal which immediately dates some of what we discuss on this podcast. How very dare they. More details here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amc-theatres-universal-collapsing-theatrical-window-17-days-unprecedented-pact-1304759
Host / Editor
Tony Black
Co-Host
Carl Sweeney
0:00-4:21 - Intro
4:22-17:31 - Lockdown Watching Habits
17:32-30:02 - Non-Cinema Premieres
30:03-36:17- Distribution Battles
36:18-45:48 - Will the Cinema venue survive?
45:49-56:31 - Is It Safe?
56:32-01:14:20 - Problematic Cinema
01:14:21-01:32:20 - Tenet, Bond & Where Does This All Go?
01:32:21 - Outro
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod / www.wemadethispod.com
Title music 'Car Songs' (c) Epocha via Epidemic SoundThu, 30 Jul 2020 - 7 - 7. The Heroes Journey (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your regular hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, are back to discuss the biggest cinematic release of 2019 - STAR WARS EPISODE IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER.
With the recent release of the concluding chapter, George Lucas’ original story of the Skywalker family comes to an end after 42 years of twists and turns, prequels and sequels, and a complete transformation of Hollywood and cinema around it.
We talk about the saga, our own experiences with it growing up in the wake of the original trilogy, and how The Rise of Skywalker brings it all to an end, but we’re also going to look at the myth-making behind Star Wars as a whole and how much the Campbellian ‘heroes journey’ has influenced fiction as a whole.
Plus! In our 'What We've Watched' section, we pick through some recommendations of cinema new and old, including MARRIAGE STORY & IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK &, plus a couple to avoid along the way...
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Pre-order Myth-Building in Modern Media: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Myth-Building-Modern-Media-Black-author/dp/1476675635/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=myth-building+in+modern+media&qid=1577184704&sr=8-1
Tony on The Rise of Skywalker: https://ajblackwriter.com/2019/12/21/star-wars-episode-ix-the-rise-of-skywalker-the-expected-soulless-capstone-of-a-four-decade-saga/
Tony on Rey's heroes journey: https://ajblackwriter.com/2019/12/22/the-importance-of-being-rey-star-wars-exceptionalism-problem/
Tim Kreider on experiencing Star Wars: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/opinion/star-wars-movie.htmlWed, 25 Dec 2019 - 6 - 6. Scorsese & Marvel: Civil War (The Irishman)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your regular hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, are back to discuss director Martin Scorsese and his new film THE IRISHMAN, and ask a key question...
What exactly *is* cinema?
In the last few months, Scorsese and Marvel have, via Film Twitter, been at war, after Scorsese described the Marvel cinematic juggernaut as “not cinema”.
Is he right? Is he wrong? Does it matter? Is the answer less important than people’s reaction to it?
It seems to have triggered a debate over the direction of modern cinema. Blockbuster franchises vs smaller fare. Distribution models with Netflix bankrolling The Irishman when major studios wouldn’t.
Are we facing cinematic hegemony? Or is the market simply evolving & adapting?
And crucially, is there art or craft in Black Panther to the same degree as The Irishman or Goodfellas? Worlds apart in tone and texture, do they all apply as pure cinema?
Plus! In our 'What We've Watched' section, we pick through some recommendations of cinema new and old, including KNIVES OUT & DUCK, YOU SUCKER!, plus one to avoid in 60's screwball comedy WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT?...
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Martin Scorsese on Marvel to Empire Magazine: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/04/martin-scorsese-says-marvel-movies-are-not-cinema
Scorsese clarifying comments in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html
You can also find a Letterboxd list of Scorsese & Marvel films discussed in the podcast here - have you seen them all? https://letterboxd.com/blackster/list/motion-pictures-podcast-6-scorsese-marvel/Thu, 05 Dec 2019 - 5 - 5. The Disney Paradox (Frozen II)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your regular hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, join forces to discuss the monolith that is Disney in the wake of the release of FROZEN II...
After decades producing some of cinema’s most beloved and well known animation, the House of Mouse have over the last decade under CEO Bob Iger expanded their dominant reach across Hollywood - Pixar, LucasFilm, Marvel Studios and most recently 20th Century Fox all now fall under the Disney umbrella.
But what does that mean for cinema itself? Disney now control a significant proportion of the global box office for 2019. They have just launched their streaming service in the States, Disney+, releasing original movies such as their life-action remake of The Lady and the Tramp as an exclusive for the service. They are actively curtailing screenings of certain classic pictures they now own by independent cinema chains as control over lucrative IP tightens.
Is their corporate hegemony likely to finance bigger and better franchises, providing exciting and varied entertainment to the masses? Or is it part of a creeping cinematic dystopia? A corporate subsuming of original ideas, vibrant talent, and cinematic revolutions which led to some of the greatest film movement of the last 100 years?
Plus! In our 'What We've Watched' section, we pick through some recommendations of cinema new and old, including LE MANS '66 & DER GOLEM, plus one to avoid in the recent ROBIN HOOD...
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html
You can also find a Letterboxd list of Disney films mentioned in the podcast here - have you seen them all? https://letterboxd.com/blackster/list/motion-pictures-podcast-5-the-disney-paradox/Wed, 27 Nov 2019 - 4 - 4. Stephen King's America (Doctor Sleep)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your regular hosts, Carl Sweeney & Tony Black, join forces to discuss the work of Stephen King on the big and small screen as Mike Flanagan's DOCTOR SLEEP goes on general release...
We explore the enduring popularity of King as a writer of copious novels and short stories and how many of them convert successfully, or unsuccessfully, to celluloid - from Brian de Palma's CARRIE to Rob Reiner's MISERY to Andy Muschetti's two-part adaptation of IT, and beyond.
What makes the America that King returns again and again to? One of broken families, haunted children, and literal and figurative monsters? Why are we so hooked by his tales and how have they, and do they, influence the horror genre as a whole?
Plus! In our 'What We've Watched' section, we pick through some recommendations of cinema new and old, including DOLEMITE IS MY NAME and THE AERONAUTS, plus a few to avoid such as THE KING and (sing it) THE ADDAMS FAMILY...
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on DOCTOR SLEEP: https://ajblackwriter.com/2019/10/31/doctor-sleep-a-kubrickian-xerox-with-soul-and-dark-beauty/
The Economist on the enduring appeal of King's work: https://www.economist.com/prospero/2017/09/07/why-stephen-kings-novels-still-resonate
Ross Douthat on King's place in American literary culture: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/02/stephen-kings-american-apocalypse
Joshua Rothman for The New Yorker on King's genre-bending ability: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-stephen-king-isnt
Robin Wasserman for The Atlantic on King's power to inspire young minds: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/stephen-king-saved-my-life/280781/
You can also find a Letterboxd list of Stephen King films here - have you seen them all? https://letterboxd.com/blackster/list/motion-pictures-podcast-4-stephen-king-films/Sat, 09 Nov 2019 - 3 - 3. Anti-Hero Ethics (Joker)
Welcome to the latest episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast.
Your regular hosts, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney, join forces to discuss Anti-Hero cinema and the ethics around such films, to coincide with the release of Todd Phillips' controversial JOKER...
We look at specifically the kind of damaged, anti-establishment figures we see not just Heath Ledger play as the Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT but also Robert de Niro (who is in Joker) in TAXI DRIVER or THE KING OF COMEDY, or Brad Pitt & Edward Norton in FIGHT CLUB.
Do these films glamorise or critique these troubled characters in dark, twisted, heavily psychological scenarios? Are they irresponsible in how they portray masculinity, often toxic masculinity, or are they commenting in a post-modern fashion on how they exist in our culture?
We also get into the debate surrounding Martin Scorsese's comment about Marvel and cinema, and whether Joker is breaking an established mould...
Plus! In our 'What We've Watched' section, we pick through some recommendations of cinema new and old, including WIDOWS, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (as part of a recounting of our trip to James Bond Day at London's BFI) and one to avoid in BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY...
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on JOKER: https://ajblackwriter.com/2019/10/07/joker-a-male-rage-manifesto-with-ugly-societal-truths/
Martin Scorsese on Marvel movies: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/04/martin-scorsese-says-marvel-movies-are-not-cinema
You can also find a Letterboxd list of Anti-Hero cinema here - have you seen them all? https://letterboxd.com/blackster/list/motion-pictures-podcast-3-anti-hero-ethics/Wed, 09 Oct 2019 - 2 - 2. Our Favourite 5 Movies
Our Favourite 5 Films
In the latest episode of Motion Pictures, your hosts Tony Black & Carl Sweeney pick through their favourite 5 movies from a range of genres, to give you a taste of the films they love the most.
Including conversation about GOODFELLAS, DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, among others!
What is your magic 5? What movies do you love the most? Let us know!
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
You can also find a Letterboxd list of our choices here - how many have you seen? https://letterboxd.com/blackster/list/motion-pictures-podcast-2-our-top-5-favourites/Tue, 01 Oct 2019 - 1 - 1. Geri-Action (Rambo: Last Blood)
Welcome to the first episode of the MOTION PICTURES podcast!
Your regular hosts, Carl Sweeney and Tony Black, join forces to discuss Geriatric Action Cinema (aka Geri-Action) to coincide with the release of RAMBO: LAST BLOOD.
What qualifies as a Geri-Action film? What stars fall under the bracket? Why do we remain enthralled by the legendary Stallone's & Arnie's & Statham's of cinema? And where might this sub-genre be heading?
Plus! In our 'What We've Watched' section, we pick through some recommendations of cinema new and old, including SUMMER HOLIDAY, HIGH NOON, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA & PAIN AND GLORY... plus a few movies to avoid along the way!
You can find us on social media so please join in the conversation:
FACEBOOK: Motion Pictures Podcast
TWITTER: @MotionPicsPod
Tony on Rambo: Last Blood: https://ajblackwriter.com/2019/09/20/rambo-last-blood-a-violent-hope-free-reflection-of-a-vengeful-america/
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian on Rambo: Last Blood: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/19/rambo-last-blood-review
John Squires on original Rambo V: https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3497671/rambo-v-originally-going-put-sylvester-stallone-inhuman-monster/
You can also find a Letterboxd list of Geri-Action cinema here - how many have you seen? https://letterboxd.com/blackster/list/motion-pictures-podcast-1-geri-action-movies/Sun, 22 Sep 2019
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