After an unscheduled week break (sorry!), the Film Stories podcast returns with the stories of two superb modern fantasy films.
Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning The Shape Of Water owes a debt to a 1950s horror, and an original idea that came to someone in their teenage years. When it came time to make the film? The budget was always going to be tight, but ... Show More
Apr 13
Wild Wild West (1999), plus how it affected The Matrix and The Iron Giant
The summer of 1999 brought with it some huge successes, and also the combination of Will Smith, Salma Hayek and Kevin Kline in Wild Wild West. Based on the TV show from the 1960s, this became a hugely expensive Warner Bros blockbuster, one that George Clooney saw the problem with ... Show More
44m 20s
Apr 10
In conversation with Paul Feig - The Housemaid, Bridesmaids at the Oscars, Ghostbusters and more
Paul Feig returns to the Film Stories podcast, to chat with Simon about a whole bunch of stuff. There's The Housemaid - with a clearly marked spoiler! - and The Housemaid 2. There's also Bridesmaids at the Oscars, an attempt get Spy 2 moving, the long-lost idea of a Play-doh movi ... Show More
1h 2m
Jan 2021
Terminator 2: Judgement Day with William Wisher
<p>It’s the final episode of Script Apart season one, and here to help us say “hasta la vista” is William "Bill" Wisher, co-writer of the timeless Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Released thirty years ago this summer, the film was the most expensive blockbuster in Hollywood history ... Show More
1h 24m
Dec 2021
Back To The Future with Bob Gale
Great Scott, it’s the end of season two so we're going out with a 88mph, 1.21 gigawatt bang. Joining us before we make like a tree and get out of here, as Biff Tannen might say, is none other than Bob Gale –writer of the iconic Back To The Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, thi ... Show More
1h 6m
Feb 2017
A Cure for Wellness (2017)
A.Ron and Jim saw A Cure for Wellness, the ambitious but ultimately flawed psychological horror film by Gore Verbinski. It's got a lot of things going for it; a spectacular and committed cast (Mia Goth, Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs), great visuals, disturbing imagery galore, yet man ... Show More
16m 42s
Mar 2022
Learn Directly From these 2021 Academy Award Filmmakers
The Oscar Special Edition Mashup Academy Awards Extravaganza featuring a plethora of ridiculously talented folks responsible for creating Dune, Nightmare Alley, Licorice Pizza, No Time Die, Belfast…
In this episode, we talk about…
Editing choices in Licorice Pizza and knowing w ... Show More
1h 8m