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Welcome back to Morgan Hasn't Seen with Jeannine Brice & Morgan Robinson!!Step into springtime and revel in the Regency era this March on Morgan Hasn't Seen as Jeannine is introducing Morgan to the world of Jane Austen adaptations!This week, it's time for a much lighter rom-com that both hosts are far more familiar with in the form of Clueless (1995) as Austen's matchmaking heroine comes to realise she can't control everyone else's love life, and must focus on her blindness towards her own in EMMA (1996) starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette & Ewan McGregor!Our YouTube Channel for all our regular videos:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvACMX8jX1qQ5ClrGW53vowDonate:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ItsAWonderful1Join our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST STORE:https://www.teepublic.com/user/g9designSub to the feed and download now on all major podcast platforms and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!!Keep up with us on (X) Twitter:Podcast:https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1Morgan:https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDonJeannine:https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean_Keep being wonderful!!
Freud - Jenseits des Glaubens Originaltitel: Freud's Last Session Kinostart in Deutschland: 19.12.2024 Laufzeit: 1h 50m Produktion: Sony Pictures Classics, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, West End Films, 14 Sunset, Media Finance Capital, Golden Horde Entertainment, Global Screen Fund, Lipsync Productions, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Verleih: X-Verleih Regie: Matthew Brown Drehbuch: Mark St. Germain, Matthew Brown, Armand M. Nicholi Jr. Besetzung: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam, Orla Brady, Stephen Campbell Moore, David Shields, Anna Amalie Blomeyer Offizielle Webseite: X-Verleih Inhalt London, 3. September 1939. Soeben ist der Zweite Weltkrieg ausgebrochen. Sigmund Freud (ANTHONY HOPKINS) ist mit seiner Tochter Anna Freud (LIV LISA FRIES) vor dem Nazi-Regime aus Wien geflohen. Anna, selbst Psychoanalytikerin, unterstützt ihren Vater bedingungslos, kämpft aber auch um die Anerkennung ihrer eigenen Bedürfnisse. Wenige Tage vor seinem Tod stattet ein Gelehrter vom College der University of Oxford Freud einen Besuch ab: C.S. Lewis (MATTHEW GOODE), der später mit „Die Chroniken von Narnia“ Weltruhm erlangen wird. An diesem Tag liefern sich zwei große Denker des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts einen kontroversen Diskurs über Liebe, den Glauben, die Zukunft der Menschheit und die für sie alles entscheidende Frage: Gibt es einen Gott? Basierend auf einem fiktiven Treffen zweier großer Denker verwebt FREUD – JENSEITS DES GLAUBENS Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Fantasie und bricht aus der Enge von Freuds Arbeitszimmer auf zu einer dynamischen Reise mit Gesprächen über das Diesseits und das Jenseits. Aus dem historischen Moment des Films heraus spiegeln sich auch aktuelle Konflikte wider. Zwei berühmte Intellektuelle versuchen, den freien Willen, den Glauben und di Freud - Jenseits des Glaubens - ist ein fiktives Historiendrama, das auf dem Theaterstück "Freud's Last Session" basiert. Es zeigt ein imaginäres Gespräch zwischen Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) und C.S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) am 3. September 1939 in London. Die beiden diskutieren über Themen wie Liebe, Glauben und die Existenz Gottes, während Freud an Krebs leidet und Lewis den Krieg überwindet. Der Film konzentriert sich auf die intellektuellen Auseinandersetzungen und die schauspielerischen Leistungen der Hauptdarsteller. Kraven - The Hunter ist ein Action-Abenteuerfilm, der die Geschichte von Sergei Kravinoff erzählt, einem ehemaligen Jäger, der sich in die Welt der Superhelden und Superschurken verstrickt. Die Hauptrolle spielt Aaron Taylor-Johnson („Bullet Train“). An seiner Seite zu sehen sind Ariana DeBose („Argylle“), Fred Hechinger („The Woman in the Window“), Alessandro Nivola („The Many Saints of Newark“), Christopher Abbott („Poor Things“) und Russell Crowe („The Pope's Exorcist“) u.v.m. Carry-on ist ein Mystery-Thriller von Jaume Collet-Serra. Der Actionfilm mit Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson und Danielle Deadwyler in den Hauptrollen wurde Mitte Dezember 2024 in das Programm von Netflix aufgenommen. Für den Mitarbeiter der Flugsicherheit ist plötzlich alles anders, als ein mysteriöser Fremder ihn zu seiner Marionette machen und ihn dazu zwingen will, ein gefährliches Paket die Sicherheitskontrolle passieren zu lassen. Um seiner Forderung Nachdruck zu verleihen, droht der Unbekannte damit, seine Freundin zu ermorden, sollte Ethan nicht tun, was er ihm sagt. Ethan steht vor einem Dilemma: schreitet er nicht ein, werden viele Unschuldige sterben. Tut er nichts, wird Nora das Opfer des Attentäters werden. Außerdem sprechen wir über die wichtigsten Serien Neustarts der Woche und losen den/die Gewinner/in von unserem Gewinnspiel zum 2. Advent aus. Timecodes: 00:00:00 Einleitung 00:02:12 Freud - Jenseits des Glaubens 00:16:11 Tipps für die nächste Sneak 00:18:28 Kraven - The Hunter 00:29:38 Kinocharts und Neustarts 00:36:45 Carry-on 00:46:38 Serien Neustarts 00:48:21 Auslosung Gewinnspiel 2. Advent 00:51:03 Musiktipps
Welcome to your favorite spooky podcast about some of scariest cinematic bombs! On this week's thrilling episode, the gang bids a bittersweet farewell to the spookiest season of the year—yes, Spooktober is coming to a close. But hold on to your hats, folks, because this episode might have more tricks than treats! Our intrepid crew takes us deep into the realm of science fiction as they discuss the 2007 horror film The Invasion. Now, this motion picture marks the fourth cinematic adaptation of the 1955 novel “The Body Snatchers,” and stars none other than Nicole Kidman, alongside a pre-007 Daniel Craig, as they battle a world teeming with—you guessed it—body-snatching aliens! Joining the crew for this out-of-this-world discussion is Sammy from the GGTMC, and let me tell you, folks, things get wild fast. The conversation spirals into a chaotic frenzy—one so bizarre, it's been described as, and I quote, ‘like someone farting into your can of oatmeal.' Now, if that doesn't paint a picture, I don't know what will! So, dim the lights and prepare yourself for this light-hearted yet outlandish dive into The Invasion. It's all happening on the Not A Bomb Podcast—where absurdity reigns supreme, and the scares? Well, they're a little less than terrifying. Stay tuned! The Invasion is directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and stars Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, and Jeffery Wright. Not A Bomb just launched new designs in our Merch store! Head over to the Not A Bomb Tee Public store and check them out. Special thanks to Ted Blair for the amazing designs! We value your feedback and suggestions. If you have a cinematic flop, you'd like us to discuss, please reach out to us at NotABombPod@gmail.com or through our contact page. Your reviews and feedback are what keep us going. If you enjoy our content, consider leaving a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify. If you want to hear more of Sammy, subscribe to the Gentlemen's Guide to Midnite Cinema and leave them a review. Cast: Brad, Troy, Sammy
We review the 1997 del Toro bug horror flick starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, and Josh Brolon
If ARACHNOPHOBIA doesn't leave you feeling itchy, nothing much will! Preying on paranoia & psychological terror, this 1990 “thrillomedy” teetered between being a family-friendly horror/comedy or box office poison. Shake out the bedsheets because this episode is billowing over with spiders coming to take over your town! ///***Discussions include*** Where director Frank Marshall was coming from, useful production connections, plus studio intentions & hesitations; inspirations, story origin, script revision, uniqueness among spider movies & the comedy/thriller vision; working with & finding the perfect real-life spiders, plus animatronics; filming locations & cast discussion; music, marketing, reaction to the film, memorable scenes & lotsa personal spider stories. Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak & Julian Sands star in ARACHNOPHOBIA (1990) /// Directed by Frank Marshall. ///***Picks of the Week*** • Lindsay's Pick: TICKS (1993). Seth Green, Alfonso Ribeiro, Peter Scolari, Clint Howard /// Directed by Tony Randel. • Justin's Pick: MIMIC (1997). Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin /// Directed by Guillermo del Toro. . ///***MurrayMoment*** Billy & John Goodman go riding bikes together. ///***Final Thoughts on ARACHNOPHOBIA*** Coming in September: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) • Please rate, review & subscribe. • Follow on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube. • Hosts: Justin Johnson & Lindsay Reber // Music: Matt Pace // Announcer: Mary Timmel // Logo: Beau Shoulders. www.dontpushpausepodcast.com dontpushpausepodcast@gmail.com Be Kind & Rewatch // August 13, 2024
Continuing our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we're getting lost inside an abandoned Lower East Side subway tunnel to meet giant, genetically-engineered cockroaches in Guillermo Del Toro's MIMIC, starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, Josh Brolin, Alix Koromzay, Alexander Goodwin, and F. Murray Abraham. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts.Want to support the show and save 20% on Fangoria? Visit shop.fangoria.com/howimetyourmonster and enter PROMO CODE: HOWIMETYOURMONSTER at checkout!Looking for How I Met Your Monster merch? Check out TeePublic https://bit.ly/howimetyourmonstermerchQuestions and comments: howimetyourmonsterpodcast@gmail.com
No better way to celebrate our 6th Anniversary than with the 1994 summer blockbuster, SPEED. This rollercoaster ride was never expected to have a massive impact, catapult careers or be anything more than a B-movie. Aging well with its precision & unrelenting tension, SPEED's realism has kept it in the top tier of solid action films of the last 30 years. They truly don't make ‘em like this anymore. ///***Discussions include*** Script evolution, revisions, structure, tonal changes & complete overhaul; studio struggle & hesitations, turnaround, more revisions; turning a renowned cinematographer into a first-time director; on-location shooting, action sequences, stunt work; miniatures, practical & optical effects; casting, main cast discussion & chemistry between the leads; pacing, editing & the film's aesthetic; music, sound & score; marketing, release, reception, awards & sequel. Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper & Jeff Daniels star in SPEED (1994) /// Directed by Jan de Bont. . ///***Picks of the Week*** • Lindsay's Pick: THE NET (1995). Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam & Dennis Miller /// Directed by Irwin Winkler. • Justin's Pick: OUT OF THE BLUE. (1980). Dennis Hopper, Linda Manz, Raymond Burr & Sharon Farrell /// Directed by Dennis Hopper. . ///***MurrayMoment*** Find out why Sweden has an alleged beef with Billy behind the wheel of a golf cart. ///***Final Thoughts on SPEED*** . Coming in July: MAJOR LEAGUE (1989) — Please rate, review & subscribe. — Follow on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & YouTube. — Hosts: Justin Johnson & Lindsay Reber // Music: Matt Pace // Announcer: Mary Timmel // Logo: Beau Shoulders. www.dontpushpausepodcast.com dontpushpausepodcast@gmail.com Be Kind & Rewatch // June 4, 2024
Its the final week of Hack The Planet Month with special guest Raul Delgado. We are talking about The Net (1995)! Please remember to like, comment, subscribe and click that notification bell for all our updates! It really helps us out! Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam & Dennis Miller Directed By: Irwin Winkler Synopsis: Computer programmer Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) starts a new freelance gig and, strangely, all her colleagues start dying. Does it have something to do with the mysterious disc she was given? Her suspicions are raised when, during a trip to Mexico, she's seduced by a handsome stranger (Jeremy Northam) intent on locating the same disc. Soon Angela is tangled up in a far-reaching conspiracy that leads to her identity being erased. Can she stop the same thing from happening to her life? Watch live at: https://www.twitch.tv/heydidyouseethisone every Thursday at 8 PM EST Audio version of the show: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heydidyouseethisone #thenet #thriller #drama #sandrabullock #90s #heydidyouseethisone #comedy #podcast #filmreview #movies #films #moviereviewpodcast #moviereview #filmreview #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #spotify #podcaster #podcasting #podcastlife #podcasts #youtube #youtuber #subscribe #youtubevideo #like #comment #entertainment #follow #media #live #funny #life #reality #podcasthost #podcastaddict #anchorfm #spotifypodcast #inspiration #podcastnetwork #podcastcommunity --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heydidyouseethisone/message
Want to see the video version of this podcast? Please visit Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvvyaZBrJI Support us on Patreon here - http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage. BUY THE BOOK - THE DESECRATED https://amzn.to/3Oj6eHn Brooklyn born John Gray is an award winning writer-director-producer of films and television, and the creator of the long running TV series, Ghost Whisperer. He has written and directed many feature films and movies for television, including White Irish Drinkers, starring Stephen Lang and Karen Allen; Martin And Lewis, starring Sean Hayes and Jeremy Northam; the Emmy® nominated A Place For Annie, with Sissy Spacek; the Emmy® nominated mini-series Haven with Natasha Richardson and Anne Bancroft; Helter Skelter, and many others. Gray has directed numerous episodes of broadcast and cable series, including multiple episodes of the NBC series GRIMM and was also the producing director of the CBS series RECKLESS. Gray's acclaimed short films have played and are currently playing in film festivals all over the world including FRENCH KISS, which has also notched 6.3 million views to date on YouTube. He is married to writer-filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier, and they make their home in New York and Cape Cod, MA. John's new novel The Desecrated follows Jennifer, a college dropout hoping to regroup, who joins the night shift at the NYC Morgue. MORE VIDEOS WITH JOHN GRAY https://bit.ly/3Wvk9j1 CONNECT WITH JOHN GRAY https://www.johngrayofficial.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336726 https://twitter.com/JThomasGray https://www.instagram.com/bayrdge VIEWERS ALSO WATCHED 10 Screenwriting Lessons To Help You Improve Your Craft - https://youtu.be/Urmvgntxuss 21 Ways To Structure A Screenplay [WRITING MASTERCLASS] - https://youtu.be/OPxxJ2wBNTA Inside The Craft Of Screenwriting - https://youtu.be/p6bAiU66Mvw Learning Screenplay Story Structure - https://youtu.be/iywvNIWKbPI Learning The Craft Of Screenwriting - David Wappel [FULL INTERVIEW] - https://youtu.be/ECGULitEm2A CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage https://www.instagram.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 SUPPORT FILM COURAGE BY BECOMING A MEMBER https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join SUPPORT FILM COURAGE BY BECOMING A PATRON https://www.patreon.com/filmcourage LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com (Affiliates) SAVE $15 ON YOUTUBE TV - LIMITED TIME OFFER https://tv.youtube.com/referral/r0847ysqgrrqgp ►WE USE THIS CAMERA (B&H) – https://buff.ly/3rWqrra ►WE USE THIS SOUND RECORDER (AMAZON) – http://amzn.to/2tbFlM9 Stuff we use: LENS - Most people ask us what camera we use, no one ever asks about the lens which filmmakers always tell us is more important. This lens was a big investment for us and one we wish we could have made sooner. Started using this lens at the end of 2013 - http://amzn.to/2tbtmOq AUDIO Rode VideoMic Pro - The Rode mic helps us capture our backup audio. It also helps us sync up our audio in post https://amzn.to/425k5rG Audio Recorder - If we had to do it all over again, this is probably the first item we would have bought - https://amzn.to/3WEuz0k LIGHTS - Although we like to use as much natural light as we can, we often enhance the lighting with this small portable light. We have two of them and they have saved us a number of times - http://amzn.to/2u5UnHv *These are affiliate links, by using them you can help support this channel.
Sandra Bullock stars as a talented computer analyst who has her identity erased after stumbling upon a top secret computer virus. Co-starring Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. Directed by Irwin Winkler.
Before James got bit by a dog (he's fine) he rather liked these furry animals. We take you to a recording pre-bite when he and the other hosts were 100% gung-ho on the beloved canines. Introducing Dean Spanley (2008)! Directed by Toa Fraser and starring Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill and Peter O'Toole! If you're a NZer you might vaguely recall this movie, if you're from elsewhere you probably don't have a clue! But what is this forgotten film all about? Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart. Is Dean a name or a title? Will Peter finally win his Oscar? (No. He was not even nominated for this) and what happens when national treasure Sam Neill sups on a particular wine?
Due to the ongoing refusal of the AMPTP to negotiate in good faith with the WGA or with our union brothers and sisters in SAG/AFTRA, we've decided to hit pause on discussing more current releases, since (in our own bizarro way) it could promote that work. Instead, we're using this opportunity to go back in time and discuss some silly releases from the past, starting out with some films 90's kids will remember. This week, we're discussing 1995's Sandra Bullock techno-thriller The Net, a movie about the horrors of the internet that seemed prescient and terrifying at the time, and now just seems kind of goofy, considering that the horrors of the internet were way different than those it imagines.Check out more info about our season of streaming shows, FLOP TV, and buy tickets!Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund here, to support those affected by the WGA strike.Wikipedia page for The NetRecommended in this episode:Camera Man, by Dana Stevens (a cultural biography of Buster Keaton)Dressed to Kill (1980)Sing and Like It (1934)Ever tried Microdosing? Visit Microdose.com and use FLOP for 30% off + Free Shipping.
In this week's episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John are joined by the Josie Duffy Rice of the Unreformed podcast to discuss “The Net,” a 1995 techno-thriller, directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The Net was one of several films in a mini-genre that you can describe as, “What if computer technology was used for evil?” Contemporaries include Hackers and Enemy of the State, both films we will eventually cover on this podcast. Here is a brief plot synopsis:Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down and make her the target of an assassination.The tagline for The Net is: “NO DRIVER'S LICENSE, NO CREDIT CARDS, NO PASSPORT, NO ACCESS TO HER BANK ACCOUNTS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY … SHE FINDS HER IDENTITY STOLEN.”The Net is available to rent on Amazon and iTunes.Our next episode will on the 1994 adaptation of the novel “Fatherland,” starring Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson. You can watch it on YouTube.Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.Contact us!Follow us on Twitter!John GanzJamelle BouieUnclearPodAnd join the Unclear and Present Patreon! For just $5 a month, patrons get access to a bonus show on the films of the Cold War, and much, much more. Our latest episode of the patreon is on the 1982 Costa-Gavras film “Missing.”
This week on the blog, a podcast interview with writer/director Nicholas Meyer about his work on the Adrian Brody “Houdini” mini-series, as well as thoughts on Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Time After Time and more.LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Behind the Page Nicholas Meyer Interview Part One: https://tinyurl.com/3f7mbzerBehind the Page Nicholas Meyer Interview Part Two: https://tinyurl.com/ms3tm45fNicholas Meyer website: https://www.nicholas-meyer.com/Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcast***Nicholas Meyer – TranscriptJohn Gaspard: Do you remember what it was that caused your dad to write that book? Nicholas Meyer: I know something about it. He was interested, the subjects that kind of absorbed his attention were the sons of passive or absent fathers. This was a topic which probably originated from his experiences with his own father, my grandfather, who was a very interesting man and a kind of a world beater, but who spent so much of his time doing what they said in The Wizard of Oz—being a philip, philip, philip, a good deed doer—that he didn't have enough time for fathering. He was not a bad man at all, quite a conscientious one. But the parenting was left to his wife and I think my father missed and was affected by not having an involved father. And I think that a colleague of my dad's said to him Houdini, that's the guy for you. And that's how he did it. I'm only sorry that he didn't live to see the two-night television series based on his book. Jim Cunningham: I enjoyed it immensely as a Houdini fan. It was fascinating and fun and Adrian Brody is terrific, as is the woman who plays Bess. I thought I knew a lot about Houdini and there was a lot in there that I did not know. And I really enjoyed the opening to it, which suggests that it's all fact and all fiction, and it's our job to figure out which is which. How did you come to being involved with the TV mini-series about your dad's book?Nicholas Meyer: I have been friends and worked for many years with a television producer named Jerry Abrams. I started working with Jerry in 1973 with the first teleplay that I wrote was for a television movie called Judge Dee in the Haunted Monastery. There was a—China apparently invented everything first, including detective stories—and a circuit court judge in the seventh century, Judge Dee Jen Jay, solved mysteries and people wrote detective stories about him and now there are movies about him. But back in 1972, or something like that, and I had just come to Hollywood and was looking for work and didn't know anybody. And I met Jerry Abrams and I met a director named Jeremy Kagan and I'm happy to say both of these gentlemen are alive and still my friends. They gave me a shot to write this Judge Dee in the Haunted Monastery because I think ABC thought they were going to get a Kung Fu movie out of it, which it wasn't. But it was a television movie with an all Asian cast. The monastery in question was the old Camelot castle on the Warner Brothers lot and that's where I met Jerry. And Jerry and I've been friends ever since. Jerry's son is JJ Abrams, who directs movies. Anyway, Jerry said to me a couple of years ago, let's do Houdini and I said, Oh, funny, you should say that because my dad wrote a very interesting book about Houdini. I would be interested if it were based on his book. I would only be interested and that's how it got made.John Gaspard: What was your process? Did you know it would be two nights going in? Did you know it's going to be that long? How did you get started and what other resources did you use, because I know there's stuff mentioned in the movie that I don't remember being in your dad's books. You must have had to dig a little bit.Nicholas Meyer: There's a lot of books about Houdini, that I read many, many books, because my dad's book is distinguished—if one could call it that—by being the only book of all the books about Houdini that attempts some inner explanation of his psychological process. The why? Why would you do this? Why do you feel the need to do this? Other books will tell you what Houdini did, and some will tell you how he did it. But my dad's book, as I say, it kind of explores the why of it. And so I read these other books to supplement the rest of the how and the why and I've amassed quite a large Houdini library. When I say large, probably compared to yours not so much, but I must have like 10 books about Houdini and flying aeroplanes and Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle and spiritualism and so forth. So, yes, I read all those to supplement what I was trying to condense. I don't remember whether at this point whether it was proposed as two nights or three nights or whatever. I also know that if it hadn't been for Adrian Brody agreeing to play Houdini, it never would have happened. They weren't going to do it without a star.Jim Cunningham: He's great.John Gaspard: I was telling Jim earlier, before you got on, that my wife was kind enough to sit down and watch it with me. She's always worried in things like this, that she's going see how something's done. She doesn't want to know how magic is done at all. And when we got to the end, she said, “Houdini seems so nice. He's such a likeable guy.” And I think that's really more Adrian Brody.Nicholas Meyer: Oh, yeah. The Adrian Brody. As I say, the movie would not have got made without Adrian. I'm not sure that he wasn't to a large degree cast against type. I think Houdini was a guy with ants in his pants, a kind of frenetic character. And I don't think when you read about him in any detail, that he was what you'd call nice. I think he was a person who had a lot of charm that he could switch on and off like a tap. And I think this is one of the things that my dad's book brings out, and we tried to bring it out in the movie: that Houdini's whose own father was a failure of flop and absent parent. So, I think Houdini spent a lot of his life looking for substitutes or alternative father figures. And I think the first one he probably stumbled on was the French magician Robert-Houdin, from whom he took his name. And I think Houdini's pattern, at least according to my dad's reading of it, was to find father figures and fall hard for them, only to ultimately become disenchanted and alienated and furious with them. Probably, because ultimately, they weren't his real father. But I think there was something like that going on. John Gaspard: Yes, it's pretty clear that's what happened with Doyle as well. Nicholas Meyer: Yes, but he had better reason than in some other cases to be disenchanted with Doyle because Doyle's Atlantic City séance with Lady Doyle, Houdini ultimately regarded as a real betrayal. Because he decided, probably correctly, that the contact with his mother via Lady Doyle doing spirit writing was fake. And by the way, it's not that Mrs. Doyle or Lady Doyle might not have believed what she was doing. It just didn't track for two reasons: Houdini experienced this contact with his mother, and he was as obsessed with her as he was with the fact of an absent father. And he was so overcome when she spoke to him via the spirit writing that it was a couple of days before he realized that his mother didn't speak a word of English. And she had communicated via lady Doyle in English, she only spoke Yiddish. Doyle got around this difficulty by explaining that the medium in this case, Lady Doyle, worked as a kind of simultaneous translator. And Houdini said, yeah, but—and this was the second item—it was his birthday. And she never mentioned it and she always sent him something on his birthday. And he then denounced Doyle and Lady Doyle, as quote, menaces to mankind.John Gaspard: So, were you involved in a day-to-day way with production? And I'm wondering why you didn't direct it?Nicholas Meyer: I was involved. The whole movie was shot in Budapest, everything and I was involved. I was not invited to direct. I have not directed really since the death of my wife in 1993. I had two small children to raise and by the time it was, like, possible for me to go back since they are now grown up and busy. I was sort of out of a game. John Gaspard: Oh, that's too bad. You're a terrific director.Nicholas Meyer: I'm not arguing with you.John Gaspard: So, once you were scripting it, and you were using other sources, how concerned were you about this is fact, this is fiction?Nicholas Meyer: That's a very good question and it doesn't just apply to Houdini. It applies largely to the whole issue of dramatizing the stories based on real events. And by the way, you could make the case in a way that there's no such thing as fiction; that all fiction ultimately can be traced back to something real. I'll give you two examples off the top of my head: one, Moby Dick was based on a real Whale called Mocha Dick because of his color; and, as Heinrich Schliemann proved, when he discovered Troy, most legends, most myths have their origins somewhere in the mists of time, in some kind of reality. It turns out there was a place called Troy. So, he was not far off the mark. It's a knotty question with a “k” how much we owe to fact and how much we get to mush around and dramatize? And the answer has to be inevitably elastic. The problem is that people are neither taught, nor do they read history anymore. We are not taught civics. We are not taught history. Nobody knows anything and so by default, movies and television are where we get our history, and that history is not always truthful. It is dramatized for example, in that Academy Award winning movie, The Deer Hunter, we learn that the North Vietnamese made American prisoners of war in Vietnam, play Russian roulette. There is no evidence, no historical evidence that they ever did any such thing. And yet, if you're getting your history from the movies, that's what you see and someone said that seeing is believing. In any case, you have to sort of always be looking over your own shoulder when you are dramatizing history and realizing that, yes, you can tell a story with scope, dates and characters. But what's the point where you cross a line and start inventing things out of whole cloth? I'll give you another example: was Richard the Third really the monster that Shakespeare portrays? Now, remember, Shakespeare is writing for the granddaughter of the man who killed Richard the Third and usurped his throne and called himself king. You could make a very different case that that guy was a scumbag and that Richard was not, but you know, Shakespeare was in business. The Globe Theatre was a money-making operation and Henry the Seventh's granddaughter was the Queen of England. So, there are a lot of variables here. When you sit down to dramatize, I've worked for the History Channel and I can tell you the history channel will not make a movie where Americans look bad. The History Channel will not make a movie that questions any point in our own history. Our right to the moral high ground. It's a point of view and they have a demographic and Americans don't want to be shown any of their own flaws or asked to think about them. Jim Cunningham; Well, who does? Can I ask questions about the espionage? Part of what I witnessed last night, although I had sort of a vague memory, that there is some espionage connection or perhaps connection? In the first episode that he was working for at least the American government and perhaps the English government as well. Is there evidence for that?Nicholas Meyer: Circumstantial evidence.Jim Cunningham: Yes, and I suppose that it could still be even at this late date protected in some way in terms of, I don't know them, not admitting, or maybe no real hard evidence exists anymore, right?Nicholas Meyer: I'm more inclined to think that no real hard evidence exists. Although we all know that somebody said, truth is the daughter of time. But a lot of evidence has for a lot of things, not merely in this country, but also England has been redacted and eliminated and buried. You know, how many of your listeners know the story of Alan Turing? Alan Turing may have shortened World War Two by as much as two years by inventing the computer that helped break the German Enigma code. Alan Turing signed the Official Secrets Act which meant that his wartime work could never be revealed. Alan Turing was gay. After the war was over, Alan Turing was arrested on a morals and decency charge and he could not tell the world who he was and so he was sentenced to some kind of chemical castration, I believe and he killed himself. And all of this remained a secret for the next 55 years before the world's, you know, learned and suddenly there was a play called Breaking the Code and then there was the Enigma novel by Robert Harris and then there was the movie, which is very inaccurate, and very troublesome to me, The Imitation Game. Because in The Imitation Game, the first thing he does when he's arrested, is tell the cop who he is. With a crushing irony, as well as inaccuracy, is it there's no way he was allowed to tell. That was the price you pay when you sign the Official Secrets Act. So that movie kind of bugged me. Whereas for example, Enigma, which I think is one of my favorite movies, doesn't bug me at all because it doesn't call him Alan Turing and therefore, he's not gay, and it's a different story entirely spun out of inspired by, but not pretending to be Alan Turing.Jim Cunningham: Well, now I'm gonna have to watch that movie because I don't think I've seen it. Nicholas Meyer: You never saw Enigma?Jim Cunningham: I don't believe I saw Enigma.Nicholas Meyer: It's the only movie produced by Mick Jagger and Lorne Michaels, written by Tom Stoppard. Kate Winslet, Dougray, Scott, Jeremy Northam. Anyway, it's a fantastic movie, but you have to watch it like five times in order to understand everything that's going on because Tom Stoppard is not going to make it easy.John Gaspard: Just a quick side note here. I remember reading somewhere that Mick Jagger was a possible first choice for Time After Time Nicholas Meyer: Yeah, for Jack the Ripper. John Gaspard: Okay, interesting. I prefer the choice you came up with.Nicholas Meyer: Well, when they—Warner Brothers—were trying to sort of figure out how to make this movie, quote, commercial (they were so surprised when it was a hit), they suggested Mick Jagger as Jack the Ripper. And he was in LA at the time touring and I really didn't understand the politics of not just filmmaking, but you know, sort of office politics generally. And my first reply was no, you know, you might believe him as the Ripper, but you'd never believe him—or I didn't think you would believe him—as a Harley Street surgeon. And they said, You mean you won't even meet him? And that's when I said, oh, okay, I get it. I have to agree to meet. So I met him and then I said, fellas, I still don't, you know, think this can work. And so we went on to David Warner.Jim Cunningham: I think that was the first film I became aware of David Warner and of course, it colored my opinion of David Warner for everything I've seen him in since, including him as Bob Cratchit in a version of A Christmas Carol. I kept thinking to myself, don't turn your back on him. He's a killer. He's a stone-cold killer, because of Time After Time, which is still one of my favorite movies.Nicholas Meyer: Oh, thank you so much.John Gaspard: We promised not to geek out too much. But I have to tell you that the hotel room scene between him and McDowell, I still pull up once or twice a year to look at the writing and the acting in that scene. “You're literally the last person on Earth expected to see.” They're both so good in that scene.Nicholas Meyer: They are that, they are.John Gaspard: I think you mentioned in your memoir in passing that when you did The 7% Solutionthere was some back and forth with the Doyle estate. We—Jim and I—have a friend, Jeff Hatcher, who wrote the screenplay for Mr. Holmes, which is based on a book. Once the movie came out, it did run into some issues with the Doyle estate, because the writer had taken some characteristics of Holmes from the later books …Nicholas Meyer: It's all bullshit. All that is bullshit. The Doyle estate, which was once the richest literary estate in the world, was run into the ground by his descendants and their in laws and they don't care anything about Sherlock Holmes. All they care about is money. And what they try to do is to stick up movie companies and book companies and say you've got to pay. And back when Holmes legitimately fell into copyright, which is when I wrote The 7% Solution, yes, I had to pay and I understood that. I mean, I didn't understand it when I wrote the book because I was a kid. But I understood it when it was explained to me. What since happened is they continue, even though he's out of copyright, to try to pretend that he is or that one or two stories are etc. My friend, Les Clinger, who is a business manager but also happens to be a lawyer and a Holmes' enthusiast, took the estate to court and won. He broke that bullshit stranglehold that they were trying to exercise on anybody who wanted to write or create or make a movie about Holmes. Now, it's also true that big companies like Warner Brothers, or Paramount or something, if they make a Sherlock Holmes movie, and the Doyle estate comes sniffling to their door, find it cheaper to say, here's $10,000, Go away, than it is to bother to do what Les did, which was take them to court. It's just, it's blackmail, you've all seen the Godfather, you know, give me a little something to wet my beak is what this is all about. I have nothing good to say about them and what they did with Mr. Holmes, your friend's movie, was they waited until the movie was about to come out before they hit him.John Gaspard: Jim, I should mention, you probably don't know this, that and this is the truth, the man we're talking to is the man for whom the thing at the beginning of a DVD that says the opinions expressed here are not those of this company. He's the reason that's on DVDs. Jim Cunningham: Is that right?Nicholas Meyer: Yes, I will explain because I'm very proud of it. I've made a couple of contributions to civilization. One of them is the movie The Day After, it's my nuclear war movie. And the other is this little sign. And it happened when they were preparing the DVD release of Star Trek Two: the Wrath of Khan. I was interviewed and asked to explain my contributions to the making the movie, the script, the directing, etc. So, I told the story about how I came to write the script. And the DVD lady who subsequently became a very good friend of mine said, “Gee, the lawyers say we can't use any of what you told us.” And I said, “And why is that?” And she said, Paramount was worried about getting in trouble with the Writers Guild, because you are not credited as the author and you wrote this sort of under the table, the script. And I said, Well, why don't you just take me out of the whole DVD? Because if I can't tell the truth about it, I don't want to be in it.And she said, “That's what I hoped you would say. Now, I've got some ammo.” So, she went back and she came back and she said, okay, here's the deal. And the deal now applies to every studio. “The opinions expressed in this interview, are not those of Paramount Pictures, its employees or affiliates.” What this does is it stops those interviews from being bullshit puff pieces and allows them to become oral histories. Now, different people may have different oral histories of the same thing. You put them all on the DVD, but suddenly, you've opened up a whole world to telling things that really happened or that the tellers think really happened, or are their opinions without the studio, worried that they're going to be sued, because of that little disclaimer. And they all have that now and that's my contribution.Jim Cunningham: It's great. Now, I promised John before this interview that I would not talk Star Trekwith you, but since you've opened the door a little bit here. Now, that you say that you wrote Wrath of Khan under the table, can you just flesh that out for me? It might not ever be in the podcast, but I'm an incredible Star Trek fan. So, I'm interested in this story.Nicholas Meyer: Well, very quickly, I knew nothing about Star Trek when I met Harve Bennett, the producer of what was going to be the second Star Trek movie. He showed me the first movie. He showed me some of the episodes and I got kind of a jones to make an outer space, a space opera. And I realized once I started to familiarize myself with Captain Kirk that he reminded me of Captain Hornblower, which were the books by CS Forester that I read when I was a kid, about a captain in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, who had adventures and a girl in every port, which sounded good to me. I was 12. I think it was 13 or something and so I thought, “Oh, this is Hornblower and outer space. This is destroyers. This is submarines.” So, I made a deal with Paramount and Harve Bennett to direct a Star Trek movie for them, which was going to be their second movie. And Harve said, draft five of the script is coming in. So, I went home and waited for draft five. And, you know, I looked up and it was three or four weeks later and wondered whatever happened, because I was starting to think about spaceships and stuff like that. And he said, “Oh, I can't send you the script. It's not good. I can't.” I said, “Well, what about draft four, draft three, whatever?” And he said, “You don't understand. All these different drafts are simply separate attempts to get another Star Trek movie. They're unrelated.”And I said, “Well send them all to me. I want to read them.” And he said, “Really?” I said, “Yeah.”And in those days, you didn't hit Send. A truck, drove up, a van, and it had a lot of scripts. And I'm a very slow reader and I started. I read all these scripts and then I said, “Why don't you and your producing partner, Robert Salem, come up to my house and let's have a chat about this because I have an idea.” And so they showed up, and I had my ubiquitous legal pad and I said, “Why don't we make a list of everything we like in these five scripts? It could be a major plot. It could be a subplot. It could be a sequence. It could be a scene. It could be a character, it could be a line of dialogue, I don't care. Let's just make the list and then I'll try to write a new screenplay that incorporates as many of these elements as we pick.” And they didn't look happy and I thought, I don't get a lot of ideas. This was my idea and I said, “What's wrong? What's wrong with that?”And they said, “Well, the problem is that if we don't have a screenplay within 12 days, Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects house for the movie, say they can't deliver the shots in time for the June opening.” And I said, “What June opening? “And I only directed one movie in my life, and these guys had booked the theatres for a movie that didn't exist. And I said, “Well, okay, I'll try to do this in 12 days, but we got to pick the stuff now.” And they still weren't happy. And I said, “So, what is it? What's the problem?” And they said, “Well, you know, let's be honest, we couldn't even make your deal in 12 days.” And at this point, I was like, foaming at the mouth. I said, “Look, guys, forget the deal. Forget the money. Forget the credit. I'm not talking about directing. We've already got that signed, sealed and delivered. But if we don't do this, now, there's gonna be no movie, yes or no?” And I was an idiot, because I at that point gave away you know, what turned out to be significant. So, I didn't invent Kirk meets his son. I didn't invent Khan. I didn't invent Savak. I didn't invent the Genesis Planet. I didn't invent any of those things. I just took them and played with them like a Rubik's Cube and poured my, essentially it's all my dialogue, Harve wrote a few lines, but I wrote most of it.John Gaspard: Well, it certainly worked.Jim Cunningham: Oh, boy. Yeah, absolutely. And I will not bring up The Undiscovered Countrybecause I promised John I wouldn't. The 7% Solution is very interesting. You took one thing, and you extrapolated out from that an entire kind of reality about Holmes that had not been explored. And it's similar to kind of what your father did with Houdini. And did that ever occur to you that there was there's a similarity there somehow?Nicholas Meyer: Well, I did 7% before he did Houdini.Jim Cunningham: He owes you then.Nicholas Meyer: Oh, yeah. He does. It's interesting. I was not the first person to put together Holmes and Freud. In fact, Freud knew that he'd been compared to Holmes. Freud loved to read Sherlock Holmes stories. That was his bedtime reading and at some point, he even wrote in one of his case histories, “I follow the labyrinth of her mind, Sherlock Holmes-like until it led me to…” So he knew about this comparison. And there was a doctor at Yale, a famous psychiatrist/drug expert, who wrote a paper that my father gave me to read about Holmes, Freud and the cocaine connection. Because Holmes is a cocaine user and for a time, so was Freud. And when my book came out and was the number one best-selling novel in the United States for 40 weeks, I got sued by this doctor at Yale for plagiarism. This is like the first successful thing I'd ever done in my life and this guy was saying I ripped him off. Because he was probably walking across campus and people were saying, “Hey, doc, hey, professor, that guy in the New York Times you ripped you off.”So, I got sued. This is how you know you're hot is when you get sued. But it was devastating to me. It was devastating and it was expensive, because I had to defend myself. I had a lawyer and the lawyer said, “They have no case. We will ask for something called summary judgment.” And I said, “Does that mean we have to wait till July?” And he goes, no, no, no, it's not about that x couldn't resist summary judgment. Yeah, that happened in the summertime.Summary judgment turns out to mean that the facts of the case are not in dispute. No one can dispute that I read his essay. I put it in my acknowledgments. I thanked him. I read it. The question is, what is the definition of plagiarism? It turns out, you cannot copyright an idea. You can only copyright the expression of an idea. The words. I hadn't used his words. I haven't used any of his. I didn't write an academic paper. I wrote a novel. I wrote a story. So, I won and then he appealed and I won again, end of story. So, it didn't originate with me, nothing originates with me. Moby Dick was based on another whale. Emma Bovary was a real person, on and on and on. If you read the history or a biography, you understand that in good faith, efforts have been made to lay out the facts. But when you read a historical novel, you understand that the facts have been mushed around and dramatized, that the author has assumed the dramatist's privilege, his prerogative, to help things along. There's an Italian phrase, se non è vero, è ben trovato. If it didn't happen that way, it should have. I'll give you another example: Queen Elizabeth the first and her cousin and rival Mary Queen of Scots, whom Elizabeth subsequently had beheaded, never met in real life. They'd never met. But of all the 4,622 movies, plays, operas, novellas, ballets, whatever that are, they always meet. Because it ain't cool if they don't meet. John Gaspard: It's a better story.Nicholas Meyer: It's a better story.
We review Mimic (1997) on The Atomic Cinema Experiment. This is a sci fi movie podcast. Mimic is directed by Guillermo del Toro and stars Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mildfuzztv twitter: https://twitter.com/Mild_Fuzz discord: https://discord.gg/8fbyCehMTy TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/mildfuzztv Email: mftvquestions@gmail.com Audio version: https://the-ace-atomic-cinema-experime.pinecast.co UK Merch store: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/mild-fuzz-tv/ US Merch store: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/mild-fuzz-tv-us Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfE6iWzdHzDn8_MF-n9Pxtg/join scifi #mimic #sciencefiction #sciencefictionmovies
This week the crew breakdown the 1995 classic, The Net, starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, and Diane Baker. Junior gets into why there is no way this technology can do everything it claims. Andi explains why there can be to many chase scenes. Jesse on the other hands was on the edge of his seat from beginning to end. Where to find the crew: @MAKEITACOMBO on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok Jesse @LordLenix on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok Junior @a.jr.combo on Instagram and @ajrcombo on Twitter Andi @am.i.a.slut_podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok All Our Podcasts on Make it a Combo Productions: Am I a Slut @am.i.a.slut_podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok The Minorities Report @minoritiesreportpodcast on Instagram and @minoritiesreport on TikTok
This week on the program Banky sits down with Lady Jarvis to discuss one of her favorite flicks to watch, 1995's The Net starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, and Dennis Miller. A cautionary tale of the internet and identity theft as well as a demonstation of being able to work 100% remote nearly 25 years before so many folks would be forced into it. Directed by Irwin Winkler (Life as a House) and written by writting duo John Brancato and Michael Ferris (Terminator 3; The Game; and Surrogates).
When my friend Richard suggested I read the book The Desecrated, I was a little hesitant because it had a supernatural bent and I'm a pure detective fan. But when he told me it was written by John Gray – I knew I had to open it up! John Gray – the creator of the hit series The Ghost Whisperer. The director of Martin and Lewis with Sean Hayes and Jeremy Northam. The director of a ton of Grimm and Reckless episodes... Yeah, THAT John Gray. And I'm glad I did! I raced through the book that was set in a morgue and got caught up in all the twists and turns and quirky characters. I recoiled at some of the descriptions and laughed at some of the situations. All in all – I got caught up in the book that made me start thinking “this sounds like a great movie!” In our chat with John we find out why he delves into the supernatural, how he scared himself on a morgue set, and where he came up with some of his characters. Plus - we learn about the ghosts in his OWN home, how he turned the negative of the pandemic into a creative idea for a film, and what to expect from him next. Bonus pearl of wisdom – why it's so important to ask yourself: “Am I leading my career, or is my career leading me?”
For our INFINITY triple bill we watched: Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity (1987). Directed by Ken Dixon. Starring Elizabeth Kaitan, Cindy Beal, Don Scribner and Brinke Stevens. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015). Directed by Matt Brown. Starring Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Shazad Latif and Toby Jones. Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Directed by The Russo Brothers. Starring everyone in the world... ever! We also rank the movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Please review us over on Apple Podcasts. Got comments or suggestions for new episodes? Email: sddpod@gmail.com. Seek us out via Twitter and Instagram @ sddfilmpodcast Support our Patreon for $3 a month and get access to our exclusive show, Sudden Double Deep Cuts where we talk about our favourite movie soundtracks, scores and theme songs. We also have t-shirts available via our TeePublic store!
Will Smith's Oscar fiasco is first up on this week's episode. We talk about the hilarity of the whole situation while also wondering who was running this show. We each give our respective takes as we process what happened. Second up, we talk about Guillermo Del Toro's 1997 movie "Mimic" starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, and Charles Dutton. This movie is baked in 1990s nostalgia and is such a gem on HBO Max. Join the family and support the pod here patreon.com/filmsinblackandwhite
Welcome back to purgatory!!! This week on another note I bring back my bud Johnnie for another side note but the first trilogy on a side note!!! We talk the first Mimic Directed by Guillermo Del Toro from 1997, staring Mira Survino, F. Murray Abraham, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin, Jeremy Northam and Alix Koromzay Mimic 2from 2001 is directed by Jean De Segonzac and it stars Alix Koromzay, Jon Polito, Gaven E. Lucas, Bruno Campos, Will Estes and Jim O'Heir Mimic 3: Sentinel from 2003 is directed by J.T. Petty and staring Karl Geary, Akexis Dziena, Rebecca Mader, Amanda Plummer and Lance Henricksen Thanks for checking us out, if you'd like to leave any feed back please do it here at pcppodcast666@gmail.com Look for our back catalogue on Podbean.com Outro song "The Bug" by Dire Straits https://youtu.be/GG5ghP8XLW8
This week we're recasting The Net starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. If you like what you hear please tell your friends! If you LOVE what you hear give us a 5-star rating and review wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to follow us on Twitter/Instagram (@rebootedpod) for more fun stuff!
This former literary snob confesses that — at least right now — I prefer watching Austen to reading Austen. I need streamlined, quick banter, a snappy pace. Luckily, there are a ton of adaptations, retellings and inspired by Austen books and films to last quite a while. Vanessa King, author of A Certain Appeal, the Pride and Prejudice-inspired story set at a New York burlesque club, stops by to talk about why she decided to modernize Austen. And listener Mariah joins me to explore the 2005 Pride and Prejudice with its subtle updates to the classic story. Grab a cozy throw and pull up a chair. How do you take your tea? https://www.confessionsofaclosetromantic.comThe performance of the audiobook of A Certain Appeal by Julia Whelan brings this bright, modern Pride and Prejudice reset to life. Darcy is the hottest, sexiest thing ever here--as good a lover as we'd always hoped he'd be. The final sequence of the 2005 Pride and Prejudice is pitch perfect in every way: the pacing, the dialogue, the editing, the performances, the music. Darcy striding toward Elizabeth, frock coat flapping, across that misty field at dawn! How close they stand in this modern adaptation! And the casual, young-love intimacy of that final shot, with them in various stages of undress, is exactly what a modern audience wants to see for this favorite Austen couple.I realize I say this about nearly every kiss or proposal in an Austen adaptation, but the proposal in the 1996 Emma performed by Jeremy Northam and Gwyneth Paltrow is just about the most beautiful ever filmed. The whole movie is a delight, modern, fun and fresh, but in this sequence, writer/director Douglas McGrath constructed the ultimate culmination of their friends to lovers journey. The gorgeous score by Rachel Portman doesn't hurt, either.That final kiss sequence in the 2007 Persuasion just thrills me to my bones. It's such a perfect metaphor for their second chance/last chance relationship. Sally Hawkins' performance in this movie was a revelation, and she is now one of my most favorite Anne Elliots ever. You can watch the whole movie, broken into two parts, here.Clueless, based on Emma, may have been made in 1995 but it still feels fresh and modern today — fully capturing the spirit of that centuries-old story.And for some bonkers, post-modern fun, you can't beat the delightful time-travel story Lost in Austen or the immersive amusement park that is Austenland.
This is a bonus episode, that you can listen to in full on our Patreon for the low price of $5 a month!. Subscribe for more great bonus content / reviews of bad 90s movies at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. -------- Welcome to the 10kposts Film Club, a series where we watch movies that tried to predict what internet culture would be like, and how much they got right or wrong. Joining us this week are Rob and Jamie from @PodcastingisPraxis. This is the second part of our review of THE NET, a 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam, in which the world's most incurious hacker is chased by Britain's worst assassin, in an extremely long film about viruses, floppy disks and, of course "the mainframe". In this part, we talk about the second part of the film, where Angela discovers more about a shady surveillance tech company's sinister plot to control the world's utilities through a Trojan Horse anti-virus software - thanks to the help of an extremely creepy therapist, overfamiliar friends in AOL chatrooms, and a unique understanding of how to hide in office cubicles. It's bizarre, stupid and we were all very thankful when the movie finished! You can listen to Part 1 of the review here: https://tenthousandposts.podbean.com/e/10k-posts-film-club-the-net-1995-ftpodcasting-is-praxis-part-1/ You can listen and subscribe to Podcasting is Praxis here: https://www.patreon.com/praxiscast
Join Disney's Ike Eisenmann, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they take a look back in another edition of Forgotten Films. This time, they watch the 1999 comedy, Happy, Texas, starring Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy, Ally Walker, & Illeana Douglas!
Join Disney's Ike Eisenmann, and author, Jonathan Rosen, as they take a look back in another edition of Forgotten Films. This time, they watch the 1999 comedy, Happy, Texas, starring Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy, Ally Walker, & Illeana Douglas!
Welcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts Film Club! -------- This week, we're joined by Rob (@CountRthe) and Jamie (@anxietycowboy) to talk about the 1995 film "The Net", starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The film - which oscillates from mundane to truly chaotic - centres around a computer hacker and video game tester (Bullock), an original e-girl, who has one computer for hacking and another entirely dedicated to ordering pizza. After finding out one of her colleagues died in a 'mysterious' plane crash after sending her a weird disk, she completely brushes it off, goes on holiday and meets a weird british guy with a yacht. Of course, being the most incurious hacker in the world, she joins him, despite his very obvious statements that he is gaslighting her. -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).
Welcome to the Net! Will and Matt discuss carnivals, Reading Rainbow, and hiding in used car lots.DISCLAIMER: Language and Spoilers!THE NETdir. Irwin Winklerstarring: Sandra Bullock, Dennis Miller, Jeremy Northam
Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind. We've got Guillermo del Toro's American debut this week Mimic with Oscar wiiner Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, and Josh Brolin. ENJOY! Even though we don't say it in this episode, more NOW than ever before: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take care of yourselves and those around you. Be mindful of your surroundings. Karate in the Garage Linkages
Devynn MacLennan, Lexi Nilson, and Nicole Jacobsen (authors of "Jane Was Here" an illustrated guide to Jane Austen's England) join hosts Allie and Mia for Austen August! They discuss the 1996 adaptation of "Emma" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeremy Northam. They talk about what makes Knightely such a great love interest, they compare the 2020 version to 1996, and chat about times in their own lives that they've played matchmaker. __ SHOW INFORMATION Instagram: @P.S.ILoveRomComsPod Twitter: @P.S.ILoveRomComsPod Email: P.S.ILoveRomComsPod@gmail.com
When a disease starts striking down the children of New York, they decide to do something about their roach problem. A few years later the roaches decide to do something about their human problem and the Fried Squirms are here for it! Mimic was Guillermo del Toro's English language debut, and encountered various troubles on set, but does the finished product bug the boys? Support our Patreon! www.patreon.com/FriedSquirms Listen to more Fried Squirms at www.friedsquirms.com Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com Email us at squirmcast@gmail.com
Bought marmalade? Oh dear, Harlly, Jeaun and Lawson call that very feeble. ALSO DISCUSSED* 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)* Bernie (2011)* Bloody Sunday (2002)* Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)* Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved from Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine (2021)* June Again (2020)* Songbird (2020)* Super Troopers (2001)* Super Troopers 2 (2018)* The Time Machine (2002)
Join us as we review the 1995 action thriller The Net starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam. In this film, programmer Angela Bennett (played by Sandy) accidentally gets caught in a cyberterrorism plot and has to fight for her life and the truth. We hadn't heard of this movie, but we were pumped to find a fun 90's action movie with an action-packed plot we could follow. Lots of great 90's computer graphics will have you searching online for a floppy disk of Oregon Trail to re-live the glory days.Let us know what you think on Instagram at the link below! More about Girl Crush:Website: www.girlcrushpodcast.comSocial: https://www.instagram.com/girlcrush_pod/Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/girlcrushpodcast/
Our Focus Features miniseries continues with the first official Focus release, 2002′s Possession. Adapted by Neil LaBute from A.S. Byatt’s celebrated novel, the film follows Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart as poetry scholars who fall in love while unearthing a secret love affair between two Victorian poets, played by Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam. The … Continue reading "144 – Possession (Focus Features – Part Two)"
Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore, two actresses linked in our minds as the muses of Todd Haynes, have only shared scenes on screen in 1999’s An Ideal Husband. For this episode Murtada welcomes back Chris Feil, host of This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, to discuss the film, whether it retains the wit of its author Oscar Wilde and the performances of Cate, Julianne, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett and Jeremy Northam.Produced and Edited by Murtada Elfadl.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/sundayswithcate)
*Imprint Companion is the only podcast on the Australian Internet about "DVD Culture."* Hang onto your slipcases because Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) team up to unbox, unpack and unveil upcoming releases from Australia's brand new boutique Blu-Ray label *Imprint Films.* This episode we're talking Imprint 14 - HARD EIGHT (1997), Imprint 15 - THE WINSLOW BOY (1999) and Imprint 22 JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL (1973). *Blake Howard -* Twitter ( https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute ) & One Heat Minute Website ( https://oneheatminute.com/ ) *Alexei Toliopoulos -* Twitter ( https://twitter.com/ThisisAlexei ) & Total Reboot ( http://sanspantsradio.com/total-reboot ) ------------------------------------ *Imprint No. 14 - HARD EIGHT (1997)* ------------------------------------ *RELEASE DATE:* 28 October 2020 *NUMBER OF DISCS:* 1 *RUNTIME (IN MINUTES):* 102 *A WORLDWIDE FIRST ON BLU-RAY!* Before his commercial breakthrough with Boogie Nights (1997), writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson made this low-key drama. John (John C. Reilly), a half-bright loser stranded in Reno, is down to his last few bucks when Sydney (Phillip Baker Hall), taking pity on him, buys him breakfast and offers him a few tips on making money in the casinos. Two years later, John has become Sydney's partner, but his lack of common sense goes from problematic to dangerous when he falls in love with Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow), a cocktail waitress who isn't above turning a few tricks when she needs to make money — and isn't any brighter than John. *Special Features and Technical Specs:* * 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray * Audio commentary by director Paul Thomas Anderson and actor Philip Baker Hall * Audio commentary by director Paul Thomas Anderson, actor Philip Baker Hall, Michelle Satter (Sundance Film) and various crew members * Deleted scene: "The Kiss" * Sundance Institute Filmmaker Lab scenes. * English HOH Subtitles * Theatrical Trailer * Limited Edition slipcase on the first 1500 copies. ----------------------------------------- *Imprint No. 15 - THE WINSLOW BOY (1999)* ----------------------------------------- *NUMBER OF DISCS:* 1 *RUNTIME (IN MINUTES):* 104 *A WORLDWIDE FIRST ON BLU-RAY!* David Mamet's brilliant adaptation of The Winslow Boy is a rich and complex telling of the British classic brought to life by a superior ensemble of talent. The story follows the lives of the Winslows, a banker's family living in turn-of-the-century London, as they fight to prove the innocence of their youngest son accused of theft. *Special Features and Technical Specs:* * 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray * Audio commentary by director/screenwriter David Mamet and cast members, Jeremy Northam, Nigel Hawthorne and Rebecca Pidgeon * Making Of featurette * Production Notes * Theatrical Trailer * English HOH Subtitles * Limited Edition slipcase on the first 1500 copies. ---------------------------------------------------- *Imprint No 22 - JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL (1973)* ---------------------------------------------------- *NUMBER OF DISCS:* 1 *RUNTIME (IN MINUTES):* 99 *A WORLDWIDE FIRST ON BLU-RAY!* Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a visionary cinematic achievement of stunning beauty. Based on Richard Bach's bestselling novel, this timeless tale will open your heart to wonder and dare you to dream. Jonathan shows an intense and extraordinary passion for flight, learning everything he possibly can about flying. But his lofty goal–and an unwillingness to conform – results in his expulsion from his flock. Undeterred, he continues to soar onward in his quest–one that heads him to envision another world–one of love, understanding, achievement, hope and individuality. This film features music by the legendary Neil Diamond. *Special Features and Technical Specs:* * 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray * *NEW* 2020 audio commentary by Filmmaker Adam Zanzie * English HOH Subtitles NOTES ON AN AMERICAN FILM DIRECTOR AT WORK MARTIN SCORSESE Jonas Mekas ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5deGMZyOeg ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit imprintfilms.com.au
Hello! Welcome to the second episode of Rogue Commentary, the audio commentary podcast. This episode heralds a Triumph of British filmmaking as we delve into that rarest of subgenres – the British road movie – with "Soft Top Hard Shoulder" (1992), starring Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Jeremy Northam and Phyllis Logan. We're delighted to be joined on this occasion by director Stefan Schwartz – who has given us episodes of Luther, The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead and The Boys – and producer Richard Holmes (Eden Lake, Shooting Fish, The Ritual), for whom Soft Top Hard Shoulder marked their feature film debut. (They had previously collaborated on a short film, The Lake, also featuring Peter Capaldi and Frances Barber.) As always, you can listen as a podcast, or cue it up to a copy of the film – if you can find one. It's been notoriously difficult to track down, although all that's about to change, as it's being released for the first time on Blu-ray on October 26 – you can pre-order now by clicking here. Comments? Feedback? Suggestions? Email David@Rogue-Commentary.com We have lots of exciting episodes in the works, so if you like what you hear – or just the idea – please subscribe, and remember to rate us wherever you hear this podcast – it literally keeps us going. Oh, and follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on our forthcoming releases. Thanks for listening! Hosted by David Hughes. Produced by Sam Ibrahim. Music by Olli Oja. All content © 2020 Synchronicity II Ltd. All rights reserved.
Hosts: Emrys and Katie Guest: HarryIn our Twenty-Second episode we meet Harry, who hates scary movies but has serious Horror FOMO.We realise that we're not 22 anymore, we watch our first horror aged 4, we learn that nineties movies give away their plots, Harvey Weinstein spoils the party once again, we never know we're pregnant, we get bored in 90s New York and find bugs to sell, we learn that nothing could have survived down there except unfortunately Jeremy Northam, we debate if it is be-thor or af-thor, we do the office poll to end all office polls, we get impaled by a unicorn, we ponder if Curt even has a cousin, we make out with a moose and we discuss the movies Mimic and The Cabin In The Woods.MoviesMimic (2014) Time stamp: 23:24Directed by: Guillermo del ToroWritten by: Matthews RobbinsWhere to watch:US: Stream on DirectTVUK & US: Buy & Rent from Apple, YouTubeThe Cabin in the Woods (2011) Time Stamp: 44:07Directed by: Drew GoddardWritten by: Joss WhedonWhere to watch:US: Stream on Amazon Prime Video, hulu, DirectTV, EPiXUK: Stream on NetflixBuy & Rent from Apple, YouTubeSPOILER WARNING: We will discuss the plot of these movies in full, so if you haven't seen them, pause this podcast, watch them, then come right on back. We also discuss the following:MoviesThe Meg, Event Horizon, Hellraiser, Aliens, Color Out of Space, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Deep Blue Sea, Gremlins, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Beowulf, Finding Nemo, The Thing, Godzilla (1998), Evolution, Silence of the Lambs, Splice, The Fly 2, The Fly, Die Hard, Mimic 2, Mimic 3 Sentinel, Drag Me To Hell, King Kong (2005), Thor, This Is The End, Saw, It, It Chapter II.TVThe Walking Dead, House MD, Transformers, Rached, American Horror Story, Hollywood, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Strain, Doctor Who. Homeland.Instagram: @curatorsofhorror Email: curatorsofhorror@gmail.com Produced and Edited by: Emrys Recorded remotely using: SquadCast Opening Music: Tiffany Hern Closing Music: Spooky Scherzo by Sam Fonteyn
Vi hatet Jeremy Northam, plasserte mikken til Audun litt lengre unna og snakket mye om alternative badekarscener. Vi har sett Mimic fra 1997.
Sasha and Jess talk about the 1996 adaptation of Emma starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeremy Northam.
If you've always had the sneaking suspicion that the people watching movies at Sundance every year are assholes... well that's probably because some things never change. And HAPPY, TEXAS may be the most infamous example of a festival hit being an unmitigated disaster that nearly killed the career of Steve Zahn. Wait. According to Wikipedia this was his "breakout role." And was also a "box-office hit." A "cult classic?" If only our legion of fans would take up this cause to combat the fake news of yet another Jeremy Northam masterclass in suckdom. Alas, there are probably more important matters in these troubled times. Such as Ron Eldard playing quite the cocksmith in MYSTERY, ALASKA. That's rich! Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!
Your hosts have hacked into the mainframe. ;) We take a look at 1995's The Net, a film that asks: what would the society be like in a world where computers knew everything about us? ...Yes...sounds so bizarre...can't relate. We talk the cult of Sandra Bullock and her knack for the Shiterion, Mozart's Ghost, the impressive resume of Irwin Winkler, and living in the digital age—duh! Follow The Shiterion Collection! Instagram: @ShiterionCollection Twitter: @Shiterion_Pod Facebook: facebook.com/theshiterioncollection Email us theshiterioncollection@gmail.com. You can find Kate Santos online @ocleoo on Insta and @cryingingmoscow on Twitter. Stevie Anderson is rolling as @spaghetti_witch on IG and @spaghetti_witch on Twitter. Theme song by Honor Nezzo @nezzzie
Good morning and welcome to CherCast! This week we're reviewing Burlesque, starring Cher. And that's it. Just kidding, we're not reviewing a movie NEARLY as good as Burlesque. We're reviewing 1996's Emma, starring ol' Goopy McGoopface herself, Gwyneth Paltrow. As well as Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Jeremy Northam, and Ewan McGregor's outrageous hair. Tune in for all your pressing Cher needs!
025 - The year was 1995: the world was terrified of technology, but obsessed with Sandra Bullock - ipso facto, the cyber thriller 'The Net', was born. The Net is the ultimate tech-time-capsule that reminds us just how far technology, and Sandra Bullocks movie choices, have come in the last 24 years. We dive deep into the nostalgia of 90's internet and of course, deconstruct the number one cyber thriller of July, 1995.
Oscar Wilde surely was a quotable sonofabitch but sometimes a man just needs to sulk in solitude. Well, find another movie because AN IDEAL HUSBAND is a charming romcom who will flirt with you until you give in to its advances. This makes the entire film sound aggressive and somewhat criminal but if Rupert Everett, Minnie Driver, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett and THE MAN of 1999 Jeremy Northam are wrong then who the hell wants to be right? Just shut and click: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon Listen iTunes/Podbean Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @99from99 Follow your host @markasplayed on Letterboxd for sneak peaks at film criticism GENIUS!
Jack Finney's 1955 science-fiction novel 'The Body Snatchers' is maybe the only underlying intellectual property (aside from, like, the Bible or Shakespeare) to inspire FOUR feature film versions across 6 decades. So we start at the beginning with the fantastic Don Siegel (Escape From Alcatraz, Dirty Harry, Charlie Varrick) directed 1956 version, morph into uncanny likenesses of ourselves as we go deep 70's with Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Adams, and Jeff Goldblum, with appreciative asides for Abel Ferarra's 1990's version starring Gabrielle Anwar and less appreciative asides for a 2000's debacle starring Nicole Kidman and Jeremy Northam. ALSO: the least-believable nosebleed in movie history, the great Meg Tilly, and we're joined by Friend Of The Pod Paul Kaup to hear his amazing story of a diffident childhood cat and to dive into Tati v. James Charles, speaking of pod people. And In Defense Of Keanu might have to become a thing, b/c Paul and Jason are suitably moved by Keanu's excellent answer on Colbert while Chris remains stone-hearted.
This week we download the url to THE NET, the 1995 web-themed thriller starring Sandra Bullock as an 1337 hacker who uncovers a chilling cyber plot that threatens the information super-highway and loses her identity in the process. Also featuring Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller and Ray McKinnon, the net dials-up the tension, but does it have the bandwidth not to crash with today's hardware? Listen here and don't forget to subscribe and rate us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Also, follow us on Facebook or Twitter. And please consider supporting our Patreon campaign, or purchasing Rewatchability t-shirts at TeePublic!
Educator, director, scholar and costumer, Maria Hart, joins us this week to talk about Sir Thomas More in this 101 episode. Maria spent half a decade writing her thesis about this play, so we could not have asked for a better guest expert to round out our January of Sh*tty Plays. The Rhetorical Device of the week is auxesis; Maria's Burbage Break is all about early modern censorship and how Shakespeare and his contemporaries planned for and wrote around it; we discuss the many different "hands" that co-wrote this play and Maria gives future directors advice on how to cast the title role (*ahem* Jeremy Northam always and forever). All that and a bit of hot gossip and #DickBracket results, besides. Thanks, Maria!
AUGUST 9, 2018 - It's THE DAILY SHOW WEEKLY, hosted by Vic Shuttee (@VicShuttee) and Chandler Dean (@chandlerjdean)! Before you get too comfy, watch out for dangerous snack foods! After a chance encounter with a particularly prickly pretzel, President Bush is sporting a pretty noticeable shiner. Will this finally be the trick that wins Jon over to Dubya’s leadership style? Plus, a long time correspondent gets his chance to shine once King Carell takes a vacation with the also absent Nancy! The Daily Show Weekly is produced by Vic Shuttee, with album artwork designed by Felipe Flores Comics! #Moverload
This week, we're traveling back to the 90s, when the internet was relatively new and very slow and weird, for a dated thriller that feels oddly relevant today: The Net.In it, Sandra Bullock plays an isolated computer programmer and Jeremy Northam a leader of the evil hacking syndicate that's out to get her, via some particularly vicious and invasive identity theft. And since neither of us has seen it, we've brought in Emily Cureton to be our guide.Be sure to watch before listening, since as always, spoilers abound. You can watch free with ads on Crackle, or rent or buy from the usual suspects: Vudu, iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
País Reino Unido Dirección Susanna White Guion Hossein Amini (Novela: John le Carré) Música Marcelo Zarvos Fotografía Anthony Dod Mantle Reparto Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Alicia von Rittberg, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Jeremy Northam, Mark Gatiss, Mark Stanley, Pawel Szajda Sinopsis Una joven pareja británica se va de vacaciones a Marruecos. Allí conocen a un carismático millonario ruso que asegura pertenecer a la mafia rusa, donde es el mejor del mundo blanqueando dinero. El mafioso les invita a una fiesta donde les pide ayuda para solicitar asilo político en Inglaterra a cambio de contar todo lo que sabe, desenmascarando a todos los implicados, sus compañeros mafiosos, banqueros e incluso políticos británicos... Adaptación de la novela homónima de John le Carré.
País Reino Unido Director Gavin Hood Guion Guy Hibbert Música Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian Fotografía Haris Zambarloukos Reparto Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi, Iain Glen, Phoebe Fox, Carl Beukes, Richard McCabe, Tyrone Keogh, Babou Ceesay, James Alexander, Lex King, Daniel Fox, John Heffernan, Luke Tyler, Jeremy Northam, Gavin Hood Sinopsis La coronel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren), una oficial de la inteligencia militar británica, lidera una operación secreta para capturar a un grupo de terroristas en Nairobi, Kenia. Cuando se da cuenta que los terroristas están en una misión suicida, ella debe cambiar sus planes de 'capturar' por 'matar'. El piloto estadounidense de drones Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) recibe la orden de destruir el refugio donde se hallan los terroristas, pero una niña de nueve años ingresa en la zona donde podría ser herida.
Story: Als in New York eine von Kakerlaken übertragene Infektion serienweise Todesopfer unter Kindern fordert, setzt die junge Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Susan Tyler eine aggressive, neue Schabenart aus den Reagenzgläsern der Genlabors zur Ungezieferbekämpfung ein. Die Operation gelingt, die Kinder sind gerettet. Als jedoch ein paar Jahre später immer wieder auf rätselhafte Weise Menschen in der U-Bahn verschwinden, weiß Dr. Tyler, daß die Schlacht noch nicht gewonnen ist. DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 19.04.2012 (Studiocanal) Mimic Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction Land: USA 1997 Laufzeit: ca. 105 min. (Kinofassung) ca.111. (Director's Cut) FSK: 16 Regie: Guillermo del Toro Drehbuch: Guillermo del Toro Buch: Donald A. Wollheim Mit Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin, ... https://youtu.be/GqwY-ejYiCg
Story: Als in New York eine von Kakerlaken übertragene Infektion serienweise Todesopfer unter Kindern fordert, setzt die junge Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Susan Tyler eine aggressive, neue Schabenart aus den Reagenzgläsern der Genlabors zur Ungezieferbekämpfung ein. Die Operation gelingt, die Kinder sind gerettet. Als jedoch ein paar Jahre später immer wieder auf rätselhafte Weise Menschen in der U-Bahn verschwinden, weiß Dr. Tyler, daß die Schlacht noch nicht gewonnen ist. DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 19.04.2012 (Studiocanal) Mimic Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction Land: USA 1997 Laufzeit: ca. 105 min. (Kinofassung) ca.111. (Director's Cut) FSK: 16 Regie: Guillermo del Toro Drehbuch: Guillermo del Toro Buch: Donald A. Wollheim Mit Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin, ... https://youtu.be/GqwY-ejYiCg
País Estados Unidos Director Matt Brown Guion Matt Brown, Robert Kanigel (Novela: Robert Kanigel) Fotografía Larry Smith Reparto Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, Enzo Cilenti, Shazad Latif, Padraic Delaney, Nicholas Agnew, Devika Bhise, Alan Bentley Sinopsis Narra la historia de Srinivasa Ramanujan, un matemático indio que hizo importantes contribuciones al mundo de las matemáticas como la teoría de los números, las series y las fracciones continuas. Con su arduo trabajo, Srinivasa consiguió entrar en la Universidad de Cambridge durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, donde continuó trabajando en sus teorías con la ayuda del profesor británico G. H. Hardy, a pesar de todos los impedimentos que su origen indio suponían para los estándares sociales de aquella época.
Our Kind of Traitor may well be the least confusing film adaptation of a John le Carré novel that we are ever going to see. If you enjoy political thrillers but don't exactly the have the head for real, convoluted espionage, Susanna White's film is sure to be the thing for you. Unlike the rather cold and brittle Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this story of a man about to inform on the Russian mafia has a much stronger human element, one that often even takes precedence over the political machinations, which are explored in unusually sparse detail. Dima (the always brilliant Stellan Skarsgard) wants to defect to Britain, using the central intelligence he has been privy to in order to gain safe passage from the British Secret service for himself, but also, more importantly, his family, whose lives have been threatened by the vengeful new mafia boss, "The Prince" (Grigoriy Dobrygin). MI6 won't officially go anywhere near Dima, but an agent named Hector (a perfectly British Damien Lewis) reaches out to him without official sanction and offers to get him sanctuary, provided the man can give him enough information to bargain with. Dima doesn't want to give the secret service everything he has, everything they need in order to take down The Prince and the treacherous Aubrey Longrigg (Jeremy Northam), only to be left for dead. Hector won't be able to put a strong enough case to the service unless Dima gives him everything he has. To get things past this standstill, Dima reaches out to the holidaying English couple Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), who he's only just met but who have already shown themselves to be trustworthy, principled people. He asks them to be present for all the negotiations, to put their safety on the line to ensure the safety of Dima's family. Dima's wife and children, and the thorny question of who should be responsible for their survival, is ultimately the heart of this story. The family themselves all look to Dima, who is not just the self-proclaimed patriarch but also the instigator of all this, to protect them all, and put him down whenever he looks to be failing to fulfil this duty. Dima, and indeed Hector, look to the secret service to fulfil their duty to those who are giving them information at great personal risk, to be better than the criminal organisations they are working to bring down and the oppressive political regimes that they fight against. On the other hand, the service, embodied here by the character of Billy Matlock (Mark Gatiss) is looking to Dima and Hector to give them enough to go on that will ensure that this operation doesn't ruin them. Meanwhile, all of these parties are looking to Perry and Gail to offer the independent assistance they so desperately need. At first the couple echoes the words of the service, that they are not the ones who put Dima's family in this dangerous situation and that it is not their responsiblity to get them out of it, until Hector shows them photos of The Prince's terrible handiwork and cunningly triggers their empathy. The lowly agent is certainly very well versed in the power of personal motivation. Much of his determination to finally bring down Longrigg is personal vendetta after his last attempt to expose the big shark saw his son imprisoned. At least in this adaptation, that particular element of backstory feels a little haphazardly thrown in to humanise his character at the last minute. It's talked about but never really felt. On the other hand, the conflict between Perry and Gail, while very clichéd, is evident visually as well as verbally. White places her two best directed scenes in the first ten minutes of the film. The first is of a grizzly, politically motivated murder by The Prince that perfectly sets up the impetus for the rest of the story, the terrible danger that Dima is fleeing from. The second is a painfully poetic scene of intimacy interrupted by an old wound that Gail is still healing from. It is later revealed that Perry slept with one of his students, and that this trip to Russia was meant to help repair their marriage. There's no denying that this is an overused plot line, but it works because, as with the cruelty of The Prince, we can see it as well as hear about it, and seeing is believing. Hector's grief might not have the space to be shown, but his rage is palpable, both politically and personally. His only scene with the nefarious Longrigg managed to do the most with the least, and his rant to his peers about the world's complacency in running on black market economies is the flm's great dialogue centrepiece. Fans of the more cerebral le Carré adaptations will probably be put off by this one's more emotional bent, but ultimately it makes for a stronger and more memorable cinematic experience. Review written by Christian TsoutsouvasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our Kind of Traitor may well be the least confusing film adaptation of a John le Carré novel that we are ever going to see. If you enjoy political thrillers but don't exactly the have the head for real, convoluted espionage, Susanna White's film is sure to be the thing for you. Unlike the rather cold and brittle Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this story of a man about to inform on the Russian mafia has a much stronger human element, one that often even takes precedence over the political machinations, which are explored in unusually sparse detail. Dima (the always brilliant Stellan Skarsgard) wants to defect to Britain, using the central intelligence he has been privy to in order to gain safe passage from the British Secret service for himself, but also, more importantly, his family, whose lives have been threatened by the vengeful new mafia boss, "The Prince" (Grigoriy Dobrygin). MI6 won't officially go anywhere near Dima, but an agent named Hector (a perfectly British Damien Lewis) reaches out to him without official sanction and offers to get him sanctuary, provided the man can give him enough information to bargain with. Dima doesn't want to give the secret service everything he has, everything they need in order to take down The Prince and the treacherous Aubrey Longrigg (Jeremy Northam), only to be left for dead. Hector won't be able to put a strong enough case to the service unless Dima gives him everything he has. To get things past this standstill, Dima reaches out to the holidaying English couple Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris), who he's only just met but who have already shown themselves to be trustworthy, principled people. He asks them to be present for all the negotiations, to put their safety on the line to ensure the safety of Dima's family. Dima's wife and children, and the thorny question of who should be responsible for their survival, is ultimately the heart of this story. The family themselves all look to Dima, who is not just the self-proclaimed patriarch but also the instigator of all this, to protect them all, and put him down whenever he looks to be failing to fulfil this duty. Dima, and indeed Hector, look to the secret service to fulfil their duty to those who are giving them information at great personal risk, to be better than the criminal organisations they are working to bring down and the oppressive political regimes that they fight against. On the other hand, the service, embodied here by the character of Billy Matlock (Mark Gatiss) is looking to Dima and Hector to give them enough to go on that will ensure that this operation doesn't ruin them. Meanwhile, all of these parties are looking to Perry and Gail to offer the independent assistance they so desperately need. At first the couple echoes the words of the service, that they are not the ones who put Dima's family in this dangerous situation and that it is not their responsiblity to get them out of it, until Hector shows them photos of The Prince's terrible handiwork and cunningly triggers their empathy. The lowly agent is certainly very well versed in the power of personal motivation. Much of his determination to finally bring down Longrigg is personal vendetta after his last attempt to expose the big shark saw his son imprisoned. At least in this adaptation, that particular element of backstory feels a little haphazardly thrown in to humanise his character at the last minute. It's talked about but never really felt. On the other hand, the conflict between Perry and Gail, while very clichéd, is evident visually as well as verbally. White places her two best directed scenes in the first ten minutes of the film. The first is of a grizzly, politically motivated murder by The Prince that perfectly sets up the impetus for the rest of the story, the terrible danger that Dima is fleeing from. The second is a painfully poetic scene of intimacy interrupted by an old wound that Gail is still healing from. It is later revealed that Perry slept with one of his students, and that this trip to Russia was meant to help repair their marriage. There's no denying that this is an overused plot line, but it works because, as with the cruelty of The Prince, we can see it as well as hear about it, and seeing is believing. Hector's grief might not have the space to be shown, but his rage is palpable, both politically and personally. His only scene with the nefarious Longrigg managed to do the most with the least, and his rant to his peers about the world's complacency in running on black market economies is the flm's great dialogue centrepiece. Fans of the more cerebral le Carré adaptations will probably be put off by this one's more emotional bent, but ultimately it makes for a stronger and more memorable cinematic experience. Review written by Christian Tsoutsouvas
País Estados Unidos Director Sidney Lumet Guión Steven Antin (Remake: John Cassavetes) Música Howard Shore Fotografía David Watkin Reparto Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Mike Starr, George C. Scott, Bonnie Bedelia, Barry McEvoy, Bobby Cannavale, Sarita Choudhury Sinopsis Gloria es una mujer fuerte y dura, que se ha movido siempre entre maleantes. Recién salida de la cárcel, vuelve con su banda de mafiosos, pero ciertas circunstancias la convierten en protectora de un niño al que sus colegas quieren matar. El padre del chico tenía en su poder información que podía llevar a la cárcel a todos los miembros de la banda.
[NEW FILE AVAILABLE - Dear listeners, we discovered and deployed some further audio fixes after releasing this episode, so if your episode auto-downloaded, we recommend deleting and re-downloading it to get the new version. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience!] Hello First Impressions fans! Everyone, we bespeak your indulgence: Episode 10 of the podcast is our experimental attempt to do a Rifftrax-style movie commentary on Douglas McGrath's adaptation of Emma (starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeremy Northam). This track is meant to be listened to while simultaneously watching the movie (we tell you when to press play!), however, if you're just doing data entry at work, Maggie tells me that it is still quite entertaining to listen to on its own. Two important notes! First, we pretty much talk over the whole movie, so, if you've never seen the movie before, you might want to give it a watch on its own first! Our verdict is that a delightful adaptation. Second, the audio quality improves greatly at minute 18, as we discovered and corrected a minor microphone issue. Better late than never, right? Thanks to all for indulging our experiment, and look for our next podcast on Lady Susan, including a movie review of Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, coming soon!
País Estados Unidos Director Irwin Winkler Guión John Brancato, Michael Ferris, Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowan, Richard Beebe Música Mark Isham Fotografía Jack N. Green Reparto Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker, Ken Howard, Ray McKinnon, Wendy Gazelle, Kristina Krofft, Robert Gossett Sinopsis El primer día de sus vacaciones, una programadora de ordenadores recibe un extraño disquete para que lo investigue. Se lo guarda y descubre que posee una clave para acceder al control de las bases de datos protegidas de Estados Unidos. A la vez ve cómo todos los datos de su vida que figuran en archivos informáticos son suprimidos o tergiversados.
País Estados Unidos Director Oliver Hirschbiegel Guión Dave Kajganich (Novela: Jack Finney) Música John Ottman Fotografía Rainer Klausmann Reparto Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright, Malin Akerman, Jeff Wincott, Susan Floyd, Alexis Raben, Roger Rees, Adam LeFevre Sinopsis Tras la catástrofe de un transbordador espacial que se estrella contra la Tierra, una misteriosa epidemia comienza a alterar el comportamiento de los seres humanos. Una psiquiatra de Washington Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), junto con varios científicos, descubren que el origen de la epidemia es extraterrestre, y que se está expandiéndose a toda prisa por todo el planeta, infectando a los humanos en una mutación de su ADN que hace que no muestren emociones.