In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, an action favourite with a lot of writers, and a war movie hit that ended up criticised in UK Parliament.
The Rock (1996) utilised lots of writers, and its stars - Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris - all had significant input. Director Michael Bay meanwhile would do a bit of battle with Disney over the ... Show More
Nov 21
In conversation with Nathan Crowley - Wicked For Good, Coppola, Nolan, Spielberg, and monkeys
In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon is joined by Oscar-winning production designer Nathan Crowley. He won his Oscar for Wicked, and you can now see his work in Wicked For Good on the big screen.
This chat takes in those films, as well as Christopher Nolan's ... Show More
51m 36s
Nov 18
In conversation with Mark Kermode & Jenny Nelson | Recorded live in Birmingham
In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon brought Mark Kermode and Jenny Nelson to his home town of Birmingham in the UK. There, Mark and Jenny were on stage to talk about movie music, as they talked about their new book, Mark Kermode's Surround Sound.
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1h 26m
Nov 13
In conversation with Ruben Fleischer | Now You See Me Now You Don't, Gangster Squad, Venom and more
Director Ruben Fleischer's latest film is the third in the Now You See Me franchise, entitled Now You See Me Now You Don't. A movie stuck in development for a fair amount of time, it's now in cinemas. In this Film Stories special, Reuben tells the story of how he got involved in ... Show More
56m 25s
Apr 2023
CLOSE — Lukas Dhont's Quietly Powerful Coming-of-Age Movie
<p>In his Oscar-nominated CLOSE, filmmaker Lukas Dhont uses the sparest dialogue, the gentlest music, and the most pastoral of images...to tell a shattering story about the brutal ways society turns boys into men.<br/><br/>We're taking a mid-season break from our series on m ... Show More
18m 20s
Jun 2023
Jurassic Park with David Koepp
Life found a way – Script Apart is back! Season four begins with an episode 65 million years in the making, about a movie lauded as one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. Yes, today on the show, we're venturing into Jurassic Park, with the film’s brilliant screenwriter, Da ... Show More
1h 30m
Jun 2023
#570 — Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Bryan Cranston
Wes Anderson's new film, Asteroid City, has so many incredible actors in it that we were able to send John Nugent to the Cannes Film Festival recently, steal three of them away for interview purposes, and put them back before anyone even noticed. So, in this week's episode of the ... Show More
1h 37m
Jul 2020
Watchmen with David Hayter
<p>In 2009, David Hayter realised a decades-long dream: writing a movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel, Watchmen. Co-written by Alex Tse, Hayter’s Watchmen told the story of retired superheroes in an alternate 1980s America. It was a gripping, mo ... Show More
58m 45s
Sep 2020
BlacKkKlansman with Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz
<p>This week, we’re joined by David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel, writers of 2018’s incredible BlacKkKlansman. Directed by the one and only Spike Lee, the film told the true-life tale of Ron Stallworth – a Black police detective working in 1970s Colorado, who attempted to infil ... Show More
1h 5m