Podcast appearances and mentions of elena lazic

On this bumper episode for Wes Anderson's new film, our interviewers Lucy Fenwick Elliott, Lara Peters and Elena Lazic speak to the cast of The Phoenician Scheme: Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton and Richard Ayoade. The inimitable Wes Anderson returns with The Phoenician Scheme, a story of a family – and a family business.  Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) is a roguish millionaire businessman, survivor of six plane crashes and father of nine sons, and – crucially – one daughter, a nun called Liesel (Mia Threapleton). The two reunite when Liesel is, against all odds, named sole heir to his estate. But as Korda embarks on a new, ambitious enterprise, they quickly become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins. If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

In 1999, Steven Soderbergh pushed his formal experimentation even further, rendering a straightforward revenge tale into a modernist masterpiece. In the process, the Terence Stamp/Peter Fonda joint THE LIMEY examines memory, the legacy of the 60s, and inaugurates Sodie's obsession with Cockney rhyming slang. Film writer and podcaster and UK resident Elena Lazic joins us to get limey! Good ep! Further Reading: Getting Away With It by Steven Soderbergh Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis & Jon Wiener Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood "Steven Soderbergh on the 20th anniversary of The Limey" by David Fear Commentary track with Steven Soderbergh and Lem Dobbs Further Viewing: POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967) POOR COW (Loach, 1967) EASY RIDER (Hopper, 1969) GET CARTER (Hodges, 1971) VANISHING POINT (Sarafian, 1971) APRÈS MAI (Assayas, 2012)   Follow Elena: https://x.com/elazic https://linktr.ee/Animus_mag Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  

On Truth & Movies this week the LWLies team will be talking us through the latest from the Cannes Film Festival and we spoke to Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera about The Phoenician Scheme.Joining host Leila Latif are David Jenkins, Sophie Monks Kaufman and Elena Lazic.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comBlueSky and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film critic Elena Lazic

On Truth & Movies this week, another Mission proves Impossible in the franchise's 7th instalment, Dead Reckoning: Part 1. Squaring The Circle tells the story of the creative geniuses behind some of the most iconic album art of all time and we spoke to its director Anton Corbijn. And for Film Club we'll be taking a look at an earlier entry in the Tom Cruise oeuvre, The Colour Of Money.Joining host Leila Latif are film critics Elena Lazic and Al Horner.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film critic Elena Lazic speaks to director Brandon Cronenberg about his new film, Infinity Pool, in cinemas now! James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation on the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors. If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Proudly supported by Kia. Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

Hosted by Picturehouse's very own Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast is proudly supported by Kia. The show discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.  This month we're joined by guest film critics Maha Albadrawi and Henry Barnes to talk about new releases; Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans, James Cameron's box-office smash Avatar: The Way Of Water and Cate Blanchett's Oscar-tipped turn in Elena Lazic also talks to director Marc Forster about his new film, A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks.  If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Edited by Maddy Searle. Proudly supported by Kia. Listen to more from Sam Clements over at the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Festival Podcast.  Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

Sam Clements is curating a fictional film festival. He'll accept almost anything, but the movie must not be longer than 90 minutes. This is the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest podcast. In episode 92 Sam is joined by Elena Lazic, freelance film critic, and founder and editor of Animus magazine. Elena has chosen Silent Night, Deadly Night (85 mins). The 1984 psychological slasher was directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr., and stars Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, and Gilmer McCormick. Sam and Elena discuss the controversial marketing material, the elevated Santa slasher genre and how the film explores childhood trauma with a festive spin.  Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/90minfilm If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. We're an independent podcast and every recommendation helps - thank you!  You can also show your support for the podcast by buying us a coffee at our Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/90minfilmfest Website: 90minfilmfest.com Tweet: @90MinFilmFest  Instagram: @90MinFilmFest  We are a proud member of the Stripped Media Network. Hosted and produced by @sam_clements. Edited and produced by Louise Owen. Guest stars @elazic Additional editing and sound mixing by @lukemakestweets. Music by @martinaustwick. Artwork by @samgilbey.

Film critic Elena Lazic talks to director James Gray about his new film, Armageddon Time - in cinemas now.  Queens, 1980. Aspiring artist Paul, the youngest son of the Graff family, is on the cusp of adolescence. Struggling to fit in at school, he finds solace in his close relationship with his beloved grandfather (Anthony Hopkins) and his budding friendship with Johnny, a sensitive, defiant Black boy. As he tries to find his way in the world, America, too, is going through a profound change with Ronald Reagan's landslide victory and the rise of a new economic era.  Featuring a stellar cast, James Gray's (The Lost City of Z, Ad Astra) latest is a deeply personal story of the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Proudly supported by Kia. Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.      

Hosted by Picturehouse's very own Felicity Beckett, The Love Of Cinema podcast is proudly supported by Kia. The show discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.  This month we're joined by guest film critics Anna Smith (Girls On Film Podcast) and Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian) to review some of the best new films, coming to Picturehouse Cinemas this October: The Woman King, Amsterdam, The Banshees of Inisherin and Decision To Leave.  We're also joined by directors Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King), and David O'Russell (Amsterdam) to talk about their new films. Our guests were  interviewed by critics Elena Lazic and Amon Warmann, respectively.  If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Proudly supported by Kia. Listen to more from Sam Clements over at the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Festival Podcast.  Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

Guest host Bill Ackerman invites writer Gianna D'Emilio to discuss the work of Mia Hansen-Løve, the acclaimed writer/director of films like THINGS TO COME, BERGMAN ISLAND, EDEN and GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE. In anticipation of her latest effort, ONE FINE MORNING, they take a close look at her first seven features. Read “Girlhood, Postfeminism and Contemporary Female Art-House Authorship: The “Nameless Trilogies” of Sofia Coppola and Mia Hansen-Løve” by Fiona Handyside https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue10/HTML/ArticleHandyside.html Read Mia Hansen-Løve in conversation with Elena Lazic on MAYA: https://elenalazic.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/my-films-are-portraits-i-try-to-make-my-characters-live-mia-hansen-love-on-maya/ Read “All Is Forgiven” by James King: https://animusmagazine.com/2021/11/26/all-is-forgiven/ Read “In Praise Of Mia Hansen-Løve's ‘Things To Come'” by Joanna Biggs: https://www.anothergaze.com/praise-mia-hansen-loves-things-come/ Read “The Cinema of Mia Hansen-Løve Candour and Vulnerability” by Kate Ince: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-cinema-of-mia-hansen-love.html Buy a Mia Hansen-Løve T-shirt: https://www.girlsontopstees.com/shop/mia-hansen-lve-t-shirt Watch the THINGS TO COME Press Conference with Isabelle Huppert & Mia Hansen-Løve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRO-DR-9V-c

Bill speaks to Animus Magazine founder/editor and film critic Elena Lazic. Topics include: Stéphane Delorme, PETRA, having a responsibility to cinema, The Prince Charles Cinema, STRAW DOGS, filmmaker intentionality, Another Gaze, The Relentless Picnic, the Oscars, Cahiers du Cinéma, the solitary nature of writing, TITANE, Reverse Shot, Vincent D'Onofrio and developing critical faculties through disappointment with INSPECTOR GADGET. Read Animus Magazine:https://animusmagazine.com Subscribe/Read Animus on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/animus_mag/posts Visit Elena Lazic's website:https://elenalazic.wordpress.com Read Elena Lazic's interview with Abel Ferrara: https://elenalazic.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/abel-ferrara-on-the-driller-killer/ Read Elena Lazic on WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED - A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR:https://animusmagazine.com/2021/08/23/a-man-who-would-come-here-of-his-own-free-will/ Read Elena Lazic on ONIBABA for The Criterion Collection:https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7556-onibaba-masks-and-faces Hear Manuela and Elena Lazic discuss THE PARENT TRAP on Blank Check: https://soundcloud.com/griffin-and-david-present/the-parent-trap-with-elena-lazic-and-mani-lazic Hear Elena Lazic on The Evolution Of Horror:https://www.evolutionofhorror.com/elenalazic Watch Manuela and Elena Lazic discuss the films of Robert Pattinson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2STc_wQ7k Watch Manuela and Elena Lazic discuss iconic cinema serial killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZnIt58bic&t=1009s Buy Indicator's limited edition Blu-Ray for Don Siegel's MADIGAN, with a new booklet essay by Elena Lazic: https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/madigan-le-indicator-uk-blu-ray-region-b/ Visit Another Gaze:https://www.anothergaze.com Read Daniel Bird on POSSESSION for Animus: https://animusmagazine.com/2021/12/31/everything-old-is-new-again-or-how-we-grew-to-stop-hating-and-love-possession/

This week marks the physical release of one of the year's best and most visceral films, “The Northman.” Directed by Robert Eggers, the film follows Viking Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) on a lifelong journey of revenge against to man who killed his father, stole his mother, and threw his life into ruin. "The Northman," is a primal, visceral action movie, a meditative somber journey on the nature of revenge and a psychedelic art film all rolled up into one and it's easily one of the best movies of the year. In celebration of the Blu-ray/DVD release this week, we've decided to share our contributor, Elena Lazic's interviews with director Robert Eggers and Producer/Actor Alexander Skarsgård, who both worked tirelessly to make sure the film look and feels as realistic as possible. You can listen to both of our interviews with the two in this podcast conversation. Enjoy. Remember to check out more stories, news, reviews, interviews, and more at ThePlaylist.net, subscribe to our newsletter, and check out more of our Playlist Podcast interviews here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theplaylist/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theplaylist/support

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Film critic Elena Lazic talks to director Gaspar Noé about his new film Vortex, in cinemas now.  The latest feature from Gaspar Noé is a tender and undeniably powerful exploration of loneliness and love. Having debuted to widespread acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, it focuses on an elderly couple (played by Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento) who spend their days in a Paris apartment. Both love and care for each other, but are grappling with the early stages of dementia. Presented in split-screen, we follow the couple as they go about their daily routines both together and alone. As everyday tasks become more challenging, forgetfulness shifts to something more troubling and their son (Alex Lutz) struggles to care for them as they enter a vortex of mental and physical degeneration. Compelling and moving in equal measure, this is a departure for Noé – but in terms of scope and ambition, it is one of his finest works to date.

This week on Truth & Movies, Michael Leader is joined by film critics Elena Lazic and Sophie Monks Kaufman to talk Jacques Audiard's drama on French city life, Paris, 13th District. Plus, Hannah Strong interviews the director about the film. Then, Ti West's exploitation horror with cinematic homages aplenty, X. And in film club, the 1978 rape-revenge movie that remains controversial to this day, I Spit On Your Grave.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on Truth & Movies, Michael is joined by Lwlies' David Jenkins and film critic Elena Lazic to talk about Lin Manuel Miranda's Tick, Tick...Boom! Plus, new releases Cry Macho starring Clint Eastwood, and Amjad Abu Alala's Sudanese drama You Will Die at Twenty. And in film club, we're going back to '90s London for the rerelease of Mike Leigh's dark drama, Naked.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Film critic Elena Lazic returns on the show to talk about Robert Pattinson. From his noticeable turn in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE and, obviously, TWILIGHT, R Patz has continued to surprise audiences by playing with and against both his anxiety and his natural charm. Elena argues that his strength is in his desire to always plays weirdos and to work with visionary directors, such as Claire Denis in HIGH LIFE, or the Safdie brothers in GOOD TIME.

Mon Dieu! This week we explore the world of New French Extrmity. Mike is joined by Elena Lazic to discuss TROUBLE EVERY DAY (2001) and INSIDE (2007). Music by Jack Whitney.  Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Follow Mary on Twitter to find out more about her upcoming courses and follow her podcast, PROJECTIONS PODCAST.  Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror.com  You can now buy Evolution of Horror T-SHIRTS!  www.evolutionofhorror.com/shop Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/evolutionofhorror  Email us!  Follow us on TWITTER Follow us on INSTAGRAM Like us on FACEBOOK Join the DISCUSSION GROUP Follow us on LETTERBOXD Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER  

Spooky season means spooky special episode! For the first (but probably not the last) time, Manuela got her sister Elena to come on the show to discuss her specialty: serial killer movies. Elena, also a film critic, explains how horror film performances are truly worthy of more analysis, and how the serial killer genre is a particularly fun place whereon can find actors pushing their boundaries and challenging the spectators' sense of morality. To illustrate, the sisters discuss Peter Lorre's moving turn in Fritz Lang's 1931 film M, Anthony Perkins' career-making work in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 film PSYCHO, and Matt Dillon's hilarious and disturbing acting in Lars von Trier's 2018 masterpiece THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. Happy (and safe) Halloween!

This week we discuss two procedural thrills that take left turns into satanism and the occult…Mike is joined by Lou Thomas to discuss ANGEL HEART and then Elena Lazic returns to discuss THE EXORCIST III / LEGION. Music by Jack Whitney.  Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror.com  You can now buy Evolution of Horror T-SHIRTS!  www.evolutionofhorror.com/shop Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/evolutionofhorror  Email us!  Follow us on TWITTER Follow us on INSTAGRAM Like us on FACEBOOK Join the DISCUSSION GROUP Follow us on LETTERBOXD Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER

Did 2009's Zombieland really need a sequel ten years later? Does Olivier Assayas' new film, Non-Fiction, reveal all about the world of publishing and e-books? What does the inventor of the iPod have to say about life in Silicon Valley and the future of movies? The host with the most Michael Leader is joined in the studio by Elena Lazic and David Jenkins, with film club this week is Assayas' 90s classic, Irma Vep. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Film critic Elena Lazic talks to director Claire Denis about her new film High Life, in cinemas now. Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. The crew--death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives--has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole. A staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, High Life is a haunting, thrilling achievement from visionary director Claire Denis.

On the latest Truth & Movies we take a side-by-side look at a pair of Stephen King adaptations: Mary Lambert’s 1989 Pet Sematary and the 2019 reincarnation from co-directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. Host Michael Leader and guest critics Anton Bitel and Elena Lazic also check out Jacques Audiard’s side-splitting sibling western The Sisters Brothers, starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly. And we hear from Laika animation studios’ Chris Butler, whose latest stop-motion gem Missing Link is also in cinemas this week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Truth & Movies this week, Michael Leader, Elena Lazic and Hannah Woodhead preside over a pair of very different courtroom dramas. First in the dock is On the Basis of Sex, Mimi Leder’s Hollywood biopic of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, starring Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer, followed by Nadine Labaki’s Cannes-winning Capernaum, about a young Lebanese boy who sues his parents for neglect. In Film Club, Leder’s 1998 disaster movie Deep Impact – at the time the highest budget given to a female director – gets a long-overdue reappraisal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bill talks to film critic Manuela Lazic. They discuss her experiences in film culture, from reading Cahiers du Cinema with her sister in middle school to writing for publications like Little White Lies, The Ringer, Vague Visages, RogerEbert.com and Birth.Movies.Death. Topics include: Erotic thrillers, influential teachers, Christopher Nolan, writing about performance, podcasts, BLOW UP, drawing Freudian inspiration from Sasha Alexander's performance on NCIS, positivity and branding on social media. Visit Manuela Lazic’s official site: https://manilazic.com/ Read “The Wild Innocence Of Melanie Griffith”: https://vaguevisages.com/2018/08/08/you-gotta-act-the-wild-innocence-of-melanie-griffith/ Read Manuela Lazic on PERSONAL SHOPPER: https://lwlies.com/reviews/personal-shopper/  Read “Alma Matters: Modelling And Being in PHANTOM THREAD”: https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/alma-matters-modelling-and-being-in-phantom-thread Hear Manuela and Elena Lazic discuss THE PARENT TRAP on Blank Check: https://soundcloud.com/griffin-and-david-present/the-parent-trap-with-elena-lazic-and-mani-lazic Read Manuela and Elena Lazic on THE NEON DEMON: https://lwlies.com/articles/the-neon-demon-fashion-industry/ Read Manuela Lazic in Cinema Scope: http://cinema-scope.com/author/manuela-lazic/ Read Manuela Lazic in Little White Lies: https://lwlies.com/author/manuelal/ Follow Manuela Lazic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/manilazic

This week Blank Check begins our first ever “fans choice” mini series reviewing the filmography of director Nancy Meyers. Film critics, models and _IDENTICAL TWINS_ Elena and Mani Lazic join Griffin and David to discuss the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Together they discuss prank wars, Randy rosé and flying on the Concorde. This episode is sponsored by [ZipRecruiter](https://www.ziprecruiter.com/blank) and [Storm of Spoilers](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-storm-of-spoilers-a-pop-culture-podcast/id952917333?mt=2). Music Selection: “Swinging in the 7th” by [Dana Boulé](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dana_Boule/) Licensed under [Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

This week’s Truth & Movies sees Tom Hardy climb back into the superhero movie saddle for Venom, quite possibly the strangest odd couple comedy of the year. Elsewhere Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga hit all the right notes in the melancholy musical drama A Star is Born. Adam Woodward, Elena Lazic and Hannah Woodhead offer their thoughts on all that before taking a dip into the murky CGI waters of 1997’s comic book folly, Spawn, for Film Club. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Film critic Elena Lazic interviews director Gaspar Noé about his new film, Climax. In cinemas now.  Dizzying, electric and wildly disturbing, provocateur Gaspar Noé’s dance-horror hybrid takes us on a trip like no other when a party takes a hellish turn. Gathered in a remote lodge for a three-day tour rehearsal, twenty urban dancers embark on a horror ride after somebody spikes the sangria bowl with LSD. A pleasure-fuelled evening descends into chaos as one by one the dancers begin to lose control. Things slip out of focus, neuroses and psychoses take hold, and primitive selves are let off the leash – all set to the electronic beats of Daft Punk, Erik Satie and Aphex Twin.

This week Mike is joined by critic and journalist Elena Lazic to discuss two controversial 70s classics, Straw Dogs and Deliverance, in spoilerific detail.  Music by Jack Whitney.  Email us!  Follow us on TWITTER Like us on FACEBOOK Join the DISCUSSION GROUP Follow us on LETTERBOXD Elena Lazic is a film writer and associate editor of Seventh Row. She can be found on TWITTER Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER

In an action-packed episode of Truth & Movies, Michael Leader, Elena Lazic and Adam Woodward salute an enduring and ever-durable Hollywoodicon, Tom Cruise, who’s back for his sixth run out as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Also this week, Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy offers a deeply personal and at times harrowing look inside a Jehovah’s Witnesses community. And in Film Club, the Ivory-Merchant romantic classic Maurice gets a welcome appraisal ahead of a 4K theatrical re-release. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There’s something spooky afoot in this week’s Truth & Movies, as Michael Leader, Hannah Woodhead and Elena Lazic brave Ari Aster’s much-hyped psychological horror movie Hereditary. Similarly shocking, but in ways not necessarily intended, is Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince, in which the English actor plays one of Ireland’s most iconic literary figures, Oscar Wilde. And for Film Club, the team revisits Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning The Piano just in time for its 25th anniversary re-release. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Truth & Movies this week, Micheal Leader, David Jenkins and Elena Lazic get psychoanalytical with a look at serial killer drama My Friend Dahmer. The gang also rejoice over romantic thriller Ismael’s Ghosts from renowned French fillmmaker Arnaud Desplechin, plus there’s still more murderous antics in cult sci-fi-comedy Killer Klowns from Outer Space, which gets the Film Club treatment ahead of its 30th anniversary. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, James Richardson is joined by Truth And Movies regulars, Hannah Woodhead and Elena Lazic. The films under scrutiny this week are The Rock fronted rollercoaster, Rampage and the intriguing German drama Western. And in tribute to Western, for Film Club, Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars is re-appraised, best known g Clint Eastwood's iconic turn as the man with no name and for Ennio Morricone's score. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest thrilling bumper instalment of the movie podcast, Jams Richardson, along with Elena Lazic and David Jenkins, chews over the week's film releases and news. Up for discussion is the Soviet spy thriller, Red Sparrow, starring Jennifer Lawrence. There's the much feted Chilean drama, A Fantastic Woman, and the Jason Bateman/Rachel Adams comedy thriller, Game Night. And for Film Club, the team reassess Abel Ferrara's gritty 1New York crime flick, King Of New York, starring Christopher Walker and Laurence Fishburne in defining and iconic roles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Richardson is joined by Elena Lazic and David Jenkins to discuss two of this week's releases - Goodbye Christopher Robin starring Margot Robbie and Domhnall Gleeson, and Daphne starring Emily Beecham. Plus, with the recent passing of actor Harry Dean Stanton, Film Club turns to the 1986 John Hughes film Pretty in Pink in which he starred. e: truthandmovies@tcolondon.com t: @LWLies lwlies.com about.7digital.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nick Duncalf, Elena Lazic, and David Jenkins discuss the latest Spider-Man iteration, along with Terrance Malick's new film Song to Song, starring Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling - and to prepare for Malick's latest release, this week we've all re-watched his Palme D'Or winning and Oscar nominated 2011 film The Tree of Life. e: truthandmovies@tcolondon.com t: @lwlies lwlies.com / about.7digital.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.