Podcasts about Michael Leader

Hosted by Picturehouse's very own Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema. Listings for the all-night movie marathon that Michael and Elena mention can also be found here. This month we're joined by guest film critics Michael Leader and Elena Lazic to discuss some of the best films coming to Picturehosue Cinemas in June, including: Tornado, Lollipop and From Hilde, With Love.  Our very own Lucy Fenwick Elliott also talks to director Len Wiseman and actor Norman Reedus about their new film Ballerina.  The World's Biggest All-Nighter IV takes place at Picturehouse Central on 7 June. If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Rate and follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Listen to Sam Clements over at the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Festival Podcast. Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

Czy wy też zghiblizowaliście swoje zdjęcia w aplikacji ChatGPT? To niewątpliwie największy trend ostatnich dni. Tyle, że idący wbrew wartościom wyznawanym przez japońskie Studio Ghibli, założone przez legendarnego reżysera i rysownika Hayao Miyazakiego. Moda na ghiblizację tak bardzo się spodobała, że odbija się to czkawką samemu OpenAI. Sam Altman alarmował, że "palą im się procesory graficzne", więc tymczasowo trzeba będzie wprowadzić ograniczenia. OpenAI i tak jest największym wygranym tego trendu - dzięki ładnym filtrom dostępnym za darmo firma zdobyła tysiące zdjęć, w tym prywatnych - z wakacji, fotografii dzieci, miejsc pracy, wydarzeń publicznych. Ale tam, gdzie amerykański big tech zyskuje, amerykańska administracja traci. Najpierw przez USA przetoczyła się SignalGate, gdy okazało się, że wysocy rangą urzędnicy planują atak militarny na buntowników Huti w Jemenie w... komercyjnie dostępnym komunikatorze. Co więcej, do tajnego czatu, na którym omawiano szczegóły ataku, rodzaje broni i harmonogram, dodano dziennikarza, redaktora naczelnego magazynu "The Atlantic". To on ujawnił niefrasobliwe podejście administracji Trumpa do tajemnic państwowych. I fakt, że niektórzy z nich atak komentowali przez emoji. Do tego spadające notowania Elona Muska przebiły już poziom podłogi. Jego zaangażowanie w politykę jest oceniane negatywnie przez zdecydowaną większość mieszkańców USA. Przez Stany przetoczyła się zresztą kolejna fala protestów przeciwko miliarderowi i jego DOGE. Całą tę niechęć widać w wynikach biznesowych. Akcje Tesli są o połowę tańsze niż w grudniu, a jej salony są atakowane. Sam Musk wchodzi właśnie w spór z drugim najbogatszym Europejczykiem o ziemię kluczową do dalszego rozwoju biznesu. To właśnie tematy, które omawiamy w tym odcinku Techstorii Light. NA SKRÓTY: 02:00 Problemy Muska oraz jego Tesli 13:55 SignalGate 26:37 Ghiblizacja Chata GPT ŹRÓDŁA: O badaniu opinii na temat Muska: https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-approval-rating-polls-2049947 O protestach wobec Tesli: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/tesla-takedown-elon-musk-doge/index.html Elon Musk o przejęciu X przez xAI: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312 Komunikat o zablokowaniu Signala w Rosji: https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/09/08/2024/66b63e2b9a79473edea67c18 "Ghiblioteka. Nieoficjalny przewodnik po świecie filmów studia Ghibli", Michael Leader, Wydawnictwo WAB

Recorded at the British Film Institute, as part of the London Short Film Festival and the BFI's 'Cartoon Saloon at 25' season, studio founders Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore and Paul Young reflect on the history of the studio after watching 20+ years of Cartoon Saloon's short film work.This event was curated and hosted by our own Michael Leader. Find out more about the London Short Film Festival here and about the BFI's Cartoon Saloon season here.For their help with this event, thank you to Charlotte Ashcroft at the LSFF, Susan Brophy and the team at Cartoon Saloon, and Justin Johnson, Kimberly Sheehan, Josh Glenn and Richard Pickard at the BFI.Scroll back through our archive for a whole miniseries on the work of Cartoon Saloon - the Cartoon Salooniverse! As well as extra interviews with Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, Nora Twomey, Paul Young and Will Collins. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by Picturehouse's very own Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast is proudly supported by Kia. The show discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.  This month we're joined by guest film critics Michael Leader and Steph Watts, to discuss 4 key December releases at Picturehouse Cinemas: The Boy And The Heron, Fallen Leaves, Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget and Ferrari.  If you enjoy Michael and Steph's voices, we'd highly recommend checking them out over on the Ghibliotheque podcast, a show dedicated to works of Studio Ghibli. Perfectly timed listening with a new Hayao Miyazaki film on the horizon!  If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Proudly supported by Kia. Listen to Sam Clements over at the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Festival Podcast.  Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

It's 20 years since perhaps the best year for Christmas movies, the 2003 binge that gave us Love Actually, Elf and Bad Santa. But it also gave us one other Christmas classic, less well-known but at least as good. Your host, Helen O'Hara (@HelenLOHara), sits down with Jake Cunningham and Michael Leader of @Ghiblioteque to discuss Satoshi Kon's extraordinary Tokyo Godfathers and how it fits into that extraordinary year. To see Tokyo Godfathers on the big screen, presented by Ghibliotheque, head down to the BFI Imax on December 14. Tickets are available here: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/imax/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=tokyogodfathersimaxintro The other three big Christmas films of 2003, and indeed Tokyo Godfathers itself, will be available on streaming as well as on cinema screens around the country. If you've enjoyed listening to “BAH HUMBUG”, please take a moment to give us a lovely 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts Or Spotify. It really helps other people to find the show. If you haven't done so already, please subscribe to this podcast so you auto-magically get the next episodes for free and do tell all your friends and family about it too. If you want to read or hear more from Helen, you can order her book "Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film" which is out now in The UK and comes out on 16th December in the USA and Canada. Helen O'Hara is also on the Empire podcast every week and hosts the Podcast "His Darker Materials" to coincide with the BBC/HBO TV drama "His Dark Materials". You can find Helen on Twitter @HelenLOHara This pod was edited by Ben Williams and produced by Helen O'Hara and Stripped Media. If you want to know more about this podcast and others produced by Stripped Media, please visit www.Stripped.media to find out more or email producers@Stripped.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A world of sprites and spirits encountered by childhood sisters in the 1988 animated feature film by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) and Studio Ghibli has become a hit stage adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The original composer Joe Hisaishi worked with playwright Tom Morton-Smith and Director Phelim McDermott and the production returns to the Barbican this autumn. Chris Harding and guests look at how this story of Totoro relates to Japanese beliefs about ghosts and nature, and how Miyazaki used ideas of childhood innocence to critique post-War Japanese society. Chris Harding is joined by the playwright Tom Morton-Smith, Michael Leader from the podcast Ghiblioteque, Dr Shiro Yoshioka, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Newcastle, and Dr Xine Yao, co-director of qUCL at University College London, and a Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker. My Neighbour Totoro from the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV runs at the Barbican Theatre in London from 23 November Music from Studio Ghibli films is included in a BBC Prom concert being performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra on Monday August 28th and then available on BBC Sounds. You can find a collection of programmes exploring different facets of Japanese culture on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0657spq Producer: Luke Mulhall

The beloved films of Studio Ghibli have mesmerized audiences for their visual artistry, coming of age narratives, and deep thematic resonances, and a festival celebrating them is underway in theaters across the United States. Michael Leader, co-host of the Ghibliotheque podcast and co-author of a book by the same name, and Chance Huskey, director of distribution at GKIDS, the organization behind Studio Ghibli Fest, discuss what makes the films so special to so many people. Plus, listeners call in to share their favorite Ghibli films.

When former Pennsylvania Governor George Leader group in a rural area, he saw people caring for older adults in the home. He knew then that more could be done to offer care and support for older Pennsylvanians. He not only created what is now called the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, but also he started Country Meadows Retirement Communities. George Leader's son, Michael Leader, carried on the family tradition as CEO of Country Meadows. In this episode, Michael Leader explains how independent living, personal care, assisted living, and memory care have evolved, what they offer, and what people should consider when researching communities as a residential option in the later years of life.

On Truth & Movies this week, archival documentary Riotsville, USA tells the strange and disturbing story of the increased militarisation of the American police force in the 1960s, and the building of “Riotsvilles” to train police officers to violently suppress civil disorder, and director Sierra Pentegill talks to us about her film. We then review the animated Haruki Murakami adaptation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, before turning our attention to his earlier adaptation, Norwegian Wood, in Film Club.Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies Editorial assistant Marian Ashioti and writer/broadcaster/programmer/former Truth & Movies host Michael Leader.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by Picturehouse's very own Felicity Beckett, The Love Of Cinema podcast is proudly supported by Kia. The show discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.  This month we're joined by guest film critics Michael Leader and Pamela Hutchinson, to talk about new film releases, Saint Omer, The Whale, Women Talking and Broker, all coming to Picturehouse Cinemas this February.  We're also joined by special guests Brendan Fraser and Samuel D Hunter to discuss working on Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, and director Joel Crawford stops by to talk about his new film, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish.  If you'd like to send us a voice memo for use in a future episode, please email podcast@picturehouses.co.uk. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Spotify. Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with @picturehouses. Find our latest cinema listings at picturehouses.com.  Produced by Stripped Media. Edited by Carrie Morrison. Proudly supported by Kia. Listen to more from Micheal Leader on the Ghibliotheque Podcast, and  Sam Clements over at the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Festival Podcast.  Thank you for listening. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe, rate, review and share with your friends. Vive le Cinema.

This week we glide smoothly and stylishly into the 2010s as Mike is joined by Michael Leader to discuss Jim Jarmusch's briliant Only Lovers Left Alive and then brand new guest Maha Albadrawi joins Mike to discuss A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.  Music by Jack Whitney.  Big thank you to Mary Wild for this week's 'Wild About Horror' segment! Sign up to Mary's Patreon! Follow Mary on Twitter to find out more about her upcoming courses and follow her podcast, PROJECTIONS PODCAST.  Visit our website www.evolutionofhorror.com  Keep an eye on all our UPCOMING EVENTS Buy tickets for our next upcoming EVOLUTION OF HORROR PRESENTS screening at the Genesis Cinema! www.evolutionofhorror.com/genesis You can now buy Evolution of Horror merch on our TeePublic store! www.evolutionofhorror.com/merchandise Subscribe and donate on PATREON for bonus monthly content and extra treats... www.patreon.com/evolutionofhorror  Email us!  Follow us on TWITTER Follow us on INSTAGRAM Like us on FACEBOOK Join the DISCUSSION GROUP Join the DISCORD Follow us on LETTERBOXD Mike Muncer is a producer, podcaster and film journalist and can be found on TWITTER

Michael Leader sits down with director Naoko Yamada to talk about her new short film Garden of Remembrance, what influences her wider work, and some surprising live-action obsessions.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - Steph Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week I'm talking to Jake Cunnigham and Michael Leader of Ghibliotheque about their new guide to Anime. There are a ton of film recommendations in here for the beginner and some great depth for the devoted fan. I've just launched a substack related to the podcast John Writes on Film: click here for the first post. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A world of sprites and spirits encountered by childhood sisters in the 1988 animated feature film by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) and Studio Ghibli has been adapted for stage by the original composer Joe Hisaishi working with playwright Tom Morton-Smith and Director Phelim McDermott. Chris Harding and guests look at how this story relates to Japanese beliefs about ghosts and nature, and how Miyazaki used ideas of childhood innocence to critique post-War Japanese society. Chris Harding is joined by Tom Morton-Smith, Michael Leader from the podcast Ghiblioteque, Dr Shiro Yoshioka, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Newcastle, and Dr Xine Yao, co-director of qUCL at University College London, and a Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker. My Neighbour Totoro from the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV runs at the Barbican Theatre in London from 8 Oct 2022—Sat 21 Jan 2023 Producer: Luke Mulhall

This week on Truth & Movies we're cracking open new indie horror Hatching and pairing it up in film club with Mamoru Oshii's entirely unique animation Angel's Egg. Elsewhere we also take a look at Funny Pages, the directorial debut from Owen Kline, produced by Uncut Gems helmers the Safdie Brothers. Joining our host Leila Latif this week are Little White Lies editor David Jenkins and freelance writer (and former Truth & Movies host!) Michael Leader. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael, Jake and Steph round off the miniseries with a special episode looking back at Henry Selick's short films Moon Girl, Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions and Seepage, looking ahead to the films made (and not made!) by Henry Selick and Laika since we last heard from them, and looking inside the mailbag at some listener correspondence. Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the archive, here is Michael talking with Missing Link director and Laika veteran Chris Butler, originally recorded for Truth & Movies, a Little White Lies podcast, back in March 2019.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're off on an adventure this week for the final Laika film in our mini-series: Chris Butler's Missing Link.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you must blink... Do it now! This week, Michael, Jake and Steph clash swords with Travis Knight's directorial debut, the stop-motion samurai epic Kubo and the Two Strings.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael, Jake and Steph head into the depths of Cheesebridge for The Boxtrolls, Laika's very loose adaptation of Alan Snow's children's novel, Here Be Monsters.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've officially left the Selick-tionary behind and are delving into Laika's independent forays into stop motion in the second half of our series, The Laika-nography. This week, Chris Butler and Sam Fell's creepy delight, Paranorman.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, our miniseries collide with this crossover between the Selick-tionary and the Laika-nography, as Henry Selick teams up with the fledgling studio to create the stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's creepy kids' novella, Coraline.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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A nightmare world. An incredibly rude cartoon monkey. Brendan Fraser in leather trousers singing Brick House. That's right, in this episode of our Selick-tionary mini series, we're talking about Henry Selick's foray into live action, Monkeybone!Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For the second episode of our Selick-tionary miniseries, we dive into the world of Roald Dahl for Henry Selick's stop-motion adaptation of a children's classic, James and the Giant Peach.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a new Ghibliotheque miniseries! And this one's a two-parter; first up, we're entering the nightmare worlds of stop-motion animator Henry Selick in the Selick-tionary up to his time at Laika Studios. Then we're continuing on to follow Laika's advancement in stop-motion features in the Laika-nography. As always, expect historical context, reviews and film rankings, plus some extra discussions of other films of note over on our Patreon.For the first episode of our Selick-tionary miniseries, we're heading to Halloweentown for the Selick, Burton and Elfman collaboration that defined a generation of emo teenagers, The Nightmare Before Christmas.Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and show footnotes and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @ghibliotheque and Instagram @ghibliotheque.pod.@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

All aboard the Chatbus for the final stop on our route - to comedian, presenter and writer Bec Hill for tales of her first Ghibli watches, going to Tokyo alone on an unplanned trip, and why Totoro reminds her of a kiwifruit.More information on Bec's book, Horror Heights: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/bec-hill-2/horror-heights-now-livescreaming/9781444962345/Join us on Patreon for ad-free and bonus episodes, Discord access and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibliotheque@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on Truth & Movies, Michael Leader, David Jenkins and Hannah Strong discuss the Creepypasta horror drama, We're All Going To The World's Fair. And it's Michael's final time in the hosting chair, so we're letting him loose in Film Club to choose a double bill for the ages - David Cronenberg's Existenz and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.A huge thank you to Michael for all his time and expertise hosting Truth & Movies. You can still find him talking all things anime as a co-host of the Ghibliotheque podcast. From next week, Leila Latif takes up the reins as our resident host. See you then!Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

All aboard the Chatbus once more! Maisie Williams of Game of Thrones, The New Mutants, and host of the Frank Film Club podcast, talks about seeing Ponyo for the first time, her journey through the Ghibli catalogue, and her experiences of voice acting for animation. Join us on Patreon for bonus episodes, Discord access and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, host Michael Leader is joined by film critic Lillian Crawford and Lwlies' own Adam Woodward to discuss Audrey Diwan's Golden Lion-winning abortion drama, Happening. Plus, David Jenkins talks to Audrey about the making of the film in a special interview. Then, Nicolas Cage goes full Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and in Film Club, a Cage (and Kaufman) classic, Adaptation. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on our Chatbus miniseries, playwright and screenwriter Julia Cho joins us to talk about writing Turning Red with director (and former Ghibliotheque guest!) Domee Shi, plus how she got into Studio Ghibli movies, and visiting the Ghibli Museum.Join us on Patreon for bonus episodes, Discord access and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Warriors of film criticism Michael Leader, Charles Bramesco and Hannah Strong gather at the gates of Hel to discuss Robert Eggers' bloody revenge epic, The Northman. Plus, David Jenkins talks to Anya Taylor Joy about working with Eggers on the film. Then, Paul Verhoeven's long-awaited nunsploitation drama with a tender heart, Benedetta. And in Film Club, it's back to the '80s for the film that inspired Eggers on The Northman, Conan The Barbarian.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on our Chatbus interview miniseries, we talk to two people who worked on the Oscar nominated documentary, Flee: Background artist Jess Nicholls and Animation Director Kenneth Ladekjær.Join us on Patreon for bonus episodes, Discord access and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Please have your tickets ready for inspection - this week, host Michael Leader, Lwlies' David Jenkins and film critic Laura Venning pile into a carriage to discuss train-set Finnish drama Compartment No. 6, and in Film Club, the train theme keeps chugging along with David Lean's classic, Brief Encounter. Plus, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's Camera d'Or-winning debut, Murina.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

All aboard the Chatbus! For the first episode of our new interview miniseries, we talk to the designer of the incredible open world game Sable, Gregorious Kythreotis, and musician Michelle Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, who composed the score, about their favourite Ghibli films and their influences on the game.Sable is nominated for Best British Game at this year's BAFTA Game Awards. Japanese Breakfast's latest album, Jubilee, is nominated for Best Alternative Album at this year's Grammy Awards.Join us on Patreon for bonus episodes, Discord access and more: Patreon.com/ghibliothequeEmail us: ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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

This week on Truth & Movies, Michael Leader, Hannah Strong and Rōgan Graham answer the call of the Bat Signal, don their suits and head out into Gotham to talk about Matt Reeves' The Batman, and in Film Club, Tim Burton's Batman Returns. Plus, Clio Barnard's tender love story between an unlikely couple in Ali & Ava, with an interview with Adeel Akhtar, who plays Ali.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Leader, David Jenkins and Adam Woodward return to a classic this week for the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. And there are new releases too: Fred Bailiff's family drama, La Mif, and the late Roger Michell's charming heist story, The Duke, starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Leader, Hannah Strong and David Jenkins hit the road this week as Channing Tatum travels across America with a four-legged friend in Dog, then it's off to South Carolina in Film Club for the 2015 stripping sensation Magic Mike XXL. And finally, the team heads to Europe for news of all the hot new films at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The final episode in our Hosodathon mini series is a bumper special, as Michael, Jake and Steph explore Mamoru Hosoda's early works, and read letters from listeners on their thoughts on Hosoda's films. Check out Hosoda's early works:Digimon: Our War GameOne Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret IslandOjamajo Doremi - Doremi and the Witch That Stopped Being a WitchSuperflat MonogramSamurai Champloo - opening credits sequenceThank you for listening along to the Hosodathon with us! Email us with suggestions of what to cover next - ghibli@littledotstudios.comFollow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Regular host Michael Leader is back this week with film critics Ella Kemp and Kambole Campbell to discuss the recently Oscar-nominated animated documentary Flee, and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, by Oscar-nominated director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. And in Film Club, the 2008 animated war documentary, Waltz With Bashir.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by Little Dot Studios See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this special episode of our Hosodathon mini series, Michael and Jake talk to the director himself, Mamoru Hosoda, all about the making of Belle.The interview has been edited in a style that lets you hear only the English translation, but if you want to hear the full conversation with Mamoru Hosoda's answers in Japanese, skip forward 25 minutes.Let us know what you think of Hosoda's works via email: ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Edited by Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on our Hosodathon miniseries, Michael, Jake and Steph put on their headsets and dive into the magical world of U to discuss Mamoru Hosoda's latest film, Belle, a modern reworking of Disney's Beauty and the Beast told via the director's unique point of view and storytelling methods.Belle is out now in UK cinemas. Let us know what you thought of the film, or any of Hosoda's works, via email: ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Edited by James Payne. Music by Anthony Ing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our Hosodathon miniseries continues this week with a time-bending tale of a boy whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a newborn sister. Mirai found director Mamoru Hosoda once again drawing inspiration from his family life, and remains a landmark entry in his filmography for, among other things, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and becoming the first Japanese animation not made by Studio Ghibli to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.Get in touch with Ghibliotheque at ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter:@ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Music by Anthony Ing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week in our Hosodathon miniseries, Mamoru Hosoda's biggest hit to date: The Boy and the Beast. Inspired by Hosoda becoming a dad, this is an ambitious story of a boy estranged from his family in real-life Tokyo, who finds an unlikely father-figure in the fantasy world filled with beasts and gods.Get in touch with Ghibliotheque at ghibli@littledotstudios.com or follow us on Twitter: @ghibliotheque@MichaelJLeader – Michael@jakehcunningham – Jake@_stephwatts - StephProduced by Michael Leader, Jake Cunningham, Harold McShiel and Steph Watts. Edited by James Payne. Music by Anthony Ing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Bleasdale talks to Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, hosts of the podcast Ghibliotheque, now a beautiful book. Ghibliotheque offers a well-balanced and highly informed critique of some of the greatest animated movies of all time, including Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Princess Mononoke.From Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to Earwig and the Witch, authors Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham review every Studio Ghibli feature film, providing insightful background information on how the films were made, and considered film-fan reactions to the works themselves. Beautifully illustrated with stills and posters, portraits of the creative team and the Studio itself, this is a comprehensive, engaging guide to the wonderfully complex, mysterious and entertaining worlds of the legendary, Oscar-winning animation company.The book is available here.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss the eternal charms of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro with Jake Cunningham and Michael Leader, the co-hosts of the famed Ghibliotheque podcast, who have a delightful new book out about the Studio Ghibli universe. Plus: thirsting for Bob Hoskins and being terrified by Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade a better sequel-prequel than The Godfather: Part II? Also: Soot sprite crafting tips; Totoro cream puffs; are Slim and Jake “basic boys”? And Bluey feature film when? Links: The list of films mentioned in this episode. Ghibliotheque: Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli. Ghibliotheque podcast on Spotify. Reviews of My Neighbor Totoro from Brendan, Aliyah, Willow and David Jenkins. Lists of Harrison Ford films ranked by how much he wants you to get off his plane; hit '80s movies that should be remake with all-female casts in order to f—k with cinebros, the cineRATic universe and Jake's Spielberg Ranked list. Credits: This episode recorded in London, Pennsylvania and Auckland. Edited by Slim. Facts: Jack. Booker: Linda Moulton. Theme music: ‘Vampiros Dancoteque' by film and television composing trio Moniker. Transcript by Sophie Shin.

We are finally back! Today's episode is the first of our new roundtable series, which will center on topics related to all aspects of video essays. Will is joined today by Michael Leader of BBC's Inside Cinema, Adam Woodward of Little White Lies, and Joost Broeren of Filmkrant. We discuss what it's like to edit publications that publish videographic work, tips for freelance video essayists, what video essays bring to a publication, and more! Listeners are also assigned the penultimate videographic exercise homework: the voiceover.

Irish comedian Ardal O'Hanlon is best-known for roles in Father Ted, My Hero and currently Death in Paradise, but he started out as a stand-up comic in 80s Dublin. As he embarks on a nationwide solo tour, Samira talks to Ardal about the role of politics in his life and work and breaking free from being typecast.Novelist Tessa Hadley is praised for her psychological insight, her nuance, and her precision. In her new book Late in the Day she turns her sharp eye to the impact of the unexpected death of one man on his family and close friends. The Umbrella Academy, the new Netflix series about a family of superheroes, stars Ellen Page and Mary J Blige and is written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. Michael Leader from Film4 Online reviews.And to mark Valentine's Day we discuss favourite romantic works of art. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Timothy Prosser

A new musical, Everybody's talking about Jamie, is based on the story of a 16 year old boy determined to go to his prom in a dress and become a drag queen. Samira Ahmed went to rehearsals to meet Dan Gillespie Sells from band The Feeling, and screenwriter Tom MacRae who have created their first musical, as well as Jamie Campbell, now 21, on whom it is based. Vic James's debut novel, Gilded Cage, is set in a Britain where the magically-skilled aristocracy compels all commoners to serve them for ten years. Vic wrote it on Wattpad, an online storytelling website. It was read over a third of a million times and went on to win Wattpad's Talk of the Town award. She joins Samira, live. The Allure of Napoleon is the opening exhibition in the Bowes Museum's year-long celebration of its 125th anniversary. Dr Tom Stammers, lecturer in European Cultural History at the University of Durham, discusses this show which presents Napoleon as one of the first celebrity statesmen, who burnished his ascent from political outsider to national leader with the power of art.Hacksaw Ridge has six Oscar nominations; including Mel Gibson for Best Director. The film tells the true story of Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to earn the Congressional Medal of Honour for saving the lives of 75 soldiers in Okinawa, one of the bloodiest battles of WWII. It's been hailed as a new kind of war movie because it graphically exposes the effects of guns on the human body while celebrating a central character who refuses to pick one up. Michael Leader reviews.This evening is Burns Night when, all over the world, people celebrate the great Scottish makar, Robert Burns. Front Row has a reading his work from Scotland's current Makar, Jackie Kay. Producer: Julian May.